Who Loves The Sun - 3
Sweet Jane - 4
Rock & Roll - 3
Cool It Down - 3
New Age - 3
Head Held High - 3
Lonesome Cowboy Bill - 3
I Found A Reason - 3
Train Round The Bend - 3
Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - 3
Total - 31 stars / 10 tracks = 3.10 stars, normalized to 2.9 stars
There is no doubt in my mind that I am alone in this opinion. People love The Velvet Underground. I do not. I thought that
How does nine 3s and a 4 = 2.9? ...just wonderin' about your math, here...
ReplyDeleteThere's legitamite math here, although it's based on a few assumptions.
ReplyDelete1) That a 0.0-star album and a 5.0-star album actually exist, and
2) That since I have listened to over 300 albums critically, including many of those considered to be the best and worst ever, I have heard at least one 0.0-star and one 5.0-star album.
Therefore, the album I considered to be the worst (NSync's "NSync") scored 1.85 total stars based on what I thought of each song. The best album (Jeff Buckley's "Grace") scored 4.00.
So, to get a 1.85 to actually be a 0.0, and a 4.00 to actually be a 5.0, the formula is
x being the conventional album score
2.16 being the difference between 1.85 and 4.00
(x-1.84)/2.16*5
I realize the inherent flaw of this, that an album that contains only 3-star songs becomes a 2.7-star album, but really, if you're not going to even have one or two actually good single-type tracks on your album, do you really deserve that 3 anyway?
Doesn't explain why it ends mid-sentence :P. You couldn't even be bothered to finish your sentence! And it was all threes and a four, which might not be particularly brilliant but it's hardly a bad score.
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