Album Rating: 4.0

This album is just as amazing as the other genre staple "significant other". And that's 2.5/5 amazing

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed nightbringer. I would be the first to admit this contains some over-the-top moments, cringeworthy lyrics, etc.; but it has so much nostalgia and so completely describes my teenage years that I cannot not 5 it. It's a classic for me, but for other reasons than Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis or Emperor's In The Nightside Eclipse for instance.

Album Rating: 2.5

Significant other is better than this and starfish is better than that

Yeah Trifolium, there are many ways to be a classic album. Some get there through raw quality. Others get there through personal or cultural salience, like Hybrid Theory.

Album Rating: 4.5

The other way around is possible too of course, when an album is undoubtedly very important for a genre, very innovative or influential, or even technically impressive or displaying a lot of virtuosity, but just doesn't do anything for a particular listener.

Yeah it is certainly possible to recognise an album as a classic for the reasons you cite but for it to lack any personal salience for you.

I also think that an album could be top tier quality and yet fail to be a classic. Imagine that an incredible album gets produced but suffers terrible distribution such that scarcely anyone hears it. Even if you are one of the few people who have heard it and love it, could you rightly call it a classic? My intuition is that you couldn't. Classic status, I think, is bound up with how an album is received - the influence of it etc. So that is another way in which classic status comes apart from quality. Top tier quality is neither a sufficient not necessary condition of being a classic.

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Album Rating: 4.5

Totally! Who would have thought finding such an analysis on an LP thread, haha! Happy holidays!

And to you too!

Album Rating: 4.5

This was the first CD I ever bought with my own money, back in sixth grade I think. I absolutely loved it, playing it multiple times a day for many months. I give it a listen every now and then and still enjoy it, simple songs but catchy and easy to sing along.

Album Rating: 4.5

Such an amazing album. I still bump it on the regular. RIP Chester. That one really hit me hard. One of my favorite singers.

Album Rating: 5.0

Papercut goes like an avalanche.

Album Rating: 4.5

One of their best. With You and A Place for my Head kill it too.

Album Rating: 4.5

''One of their best.'' [2]

One Step Closer is such a banger

Wasn't that fun? Let's try something else...else...else...

Album Rating: 3.0

Hahn not doing his own thing is a huge tragedy

Agreed hard, if he did some kind of turntablist/sound collage instrumental album during the peak of that genre it would have been soooooo good

Album Rating: 3.0

that shit needs to come back

You're reading my mind yet again. Same with big beat i.e. late 90s Crystal Method and Chemical Bros...although you might not agree with that lol