theScrabbled rates an album
On facebook a couple of us were discussing the use of and how we rate songs using iTunes 1-5 star scale.
I thought it would be neat if we found one album most of us have and post our track by track rating.
So what album do most of us own? How do we figure that out? Should it be an old album or something really new?
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I have 45,000 songs on itunes and roughly 4,000 albums. I’m lucky if I listen to a fraction of those regularly enough to say “Hey, I should rate this album”. Besides most of what I have I listen to on my ipod or other devices.
I’ll be curious the results of this among everyone else though.
i like this idea, but i don’t know how to implement it.
The hard part will be finding albums we all own and have opinions on. I think you gotta go older to be certain. So I’ll go with one that I think should be in damn near everyone’s libraries with at least a few plays:
Led Zeppelin I
- Good Times Bad Times
- Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
- You Shook Me
- Dazed and Confused
- Your Time is Gonna Come
- Black Mountain Side
- Communication Breakdown
- I Can’t Quit You Baby
- How Many More Times
GO
I think Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” would be a good one. Anytime there is a “name your top 10 albums” on here, most people seem to include this. Or at least they should!
i have pretty much zero Led Zeppelin in my itunes – they never did much for me at all. i prefer The Who.
yeah i don’t have any zeppelin either, because i fucking hate them with an all consuming rage.
Yeah, I also have zero zeppelin in my iTunes. How about U2 – Joshua Tree?
maybe there should be a chosen “classic” album we all somehow acquire, listen to & rate? otherwise this will just become another long-winded debate that beats that bloody pulp of what used to be a horse & the original post will be lost in the massacre.
I hate U2 as much as stupid Ryan hates Led Zeppelin (really!? dear god why?!)
Aeroplane Over the Sea could work, except that it’d just be a bunch of people four and five starring songs.
two words. robert fucking plant. DIE!!!!! I hate U2, but not as much as LZ.
That’s why we should go with something really new, something that hasn’t already left an impression on everyone.
Matthew said:That’s why we should go with something really new, something that hasn’t already left an impression on everyone.
the new Chris Cornell.
NO I DON’T WANT TO.
There is a new Faint album and a new Sonic Youth album
What about Pearl Jam Vs? I think Ryan hates U2 because Joe T. used to like them a lot.
I hate everything Joe T. likes. That dude had the worst opinions. He thought Jimi Hendrix was a shitty guitar player! arg!
John said:depends if i feel like posting in that thread.
Aeroplane Over the Sea could work, except that it’d just be a bunch of people four and five starring songs.
Banned Bill said:you didn’t even recognize it when i was listening to it the other night, and if you ever say anything bad about it won’t talk to you for a week.John said:
Aeroplane Over the Sea could work, except that it’d just be a bunch of people four and five starring songs.
depends if i feel like posting in that thread.
John said:I hate U2 as much as stupid Ryan hates Led Zeppelin (really!? dear god why?!)
Aeroplane Over the Sea could work, except that it’d just be a bunch of people four and five starring songs.
You’ve admitted on these here pages to both not hating U2 and also liking the Joshua Tree.
Also, the problem is if it’s something we all agree on, then like John said won’t it just be us all 4 and 5 starring an album? I like the idea of picking one album (something that even if everyone doesn’t like at least can be agreed upon as a classic or important album) that we all discuss specifically and explain why we do or do not like individual songs.
Something like Nevermind would be good.
Matt, relatively speaking here. If I had to listen to a U2 album, it’d probably be Zooropa. Then Joshua Tree. But if I don’t have to listen to a U2 album, I probably wouldn’t play either. Definitely not Joshua Tree. Zooropa I do genuinely dig, but I just feel silly listening to Joshua Tree; it’s like PDA and I just feel embarrassed that someone might hear me listening to something so… earnest. I dunno. It’s weird.
Anyway, I’m with Kev. That’s what I was going for with Led Zepp, but it seems even they aren’t free from the cool hatred of The Scrabbled. What’s an album we all agree upon… tough question.
Nevermind could work. Though, in all honesty, I was never that into that album. I wasn’t a Nirvana fan until In Utero came out, and even when I went and got their back catalog, I sorta skipped over Nevermind. I think Butch Vig ruined it.
What about a supposed classic that not many of us are likely to have heard. Like, I dunno, Sam Cooke’s first album. Or Bitch’s Brew. Orrrrrr, I dunno, the first Nick Drake album. Just something classic but… maybe… a bit ignored. Thoughts?
John said:
Nevermind could work. Though, in all honesty, I was never that into that album. I wasn’t a Nirvana fan until In Utero came out, and even when I went and got their back catalog, I sorta skipped over Nevermind. I think Butch Vig ruined it.
This whole paragraph seems like what it would be like if someone were doing a parody of a John post.
Anything from this LIST
Let’s go with Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model He gets a ton of praise for his stuff from this era, but I haven’t heard a single second of it.
Weezer’s Blue Album would probably work.
I’d be down for Who’s Next. I’m not even a massive Who fan on the whole, but that is one of the greatest albums of all time with some amazing classic rock “singles”.
Velvet Underground and Nico?
Paris said:Weezer’s Blue Album would probably work.
No.
I am fine with Who’s Next.
Kevin said:John said:
Nevermind could work. Though, in all honesty, I was never that into that album. I wasn’t a Nirvana fan until In Utero came out, and even when I went and got their back catalog, I sorta skipped over Nevermind. I think Butch Vig ruined it.
This whole paragraph seems like what it would be like if someone were doing a parody of a John post.
Really? I figured I was losing fan cred by admitting that up until I saw the Heart Shaped Box video, my only real exposure to Nirvana was through Weird Al. Same thing with Pearl Jam — Vs. was my first album from them cause 103.3 played the hell out of Daughter. I never got into Ten.
I will give another vote for Who’s Next. VU and Nico is another great choice.
I’m wondering if this might be something better executed on mixtapeattack.com which is now up and in testing. Could be a cool feature on the site wherein the whole writing staff starts reviewing the same album. It doesn’t even have to be the track-by-track rating thing mentioned at the top of this thread… just a review.
Thoughts?
Na. And, I wasn’t expecting a full track by track break down, definitely a rating for each and maybe some thoughts on the standout/awful tracks of the album.
Also, can we just agree we’re going to talk about Who’s Next.
Who’s Next sounds good. we should just go one-by-one on that list and do them all. one per week, a year of reviews!