The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

Whiteout75 said:
Yep, it is. But it also points to the futileness of rating art. What are we actually rating here? Quality? Historical significance? It all comes down to subjective thoughts, both in what we like/don't like and how we interpret what we actually rate.
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Potentially. But even bearing all that subjective stuff in mind it’s still a conclusion that is utterly bizarre.
 
It makes sense to me. Theoretically these are probably all five star records to someone.

Funeral is a solid, not perfect album. Many of you have written pretty much the same about Rubber Soul.

I don’t think Win’s sins are any worse than John’s, we just knew about them in real time.
 
Lee Newman said:
3/29/23

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The Beatles - Rubber Soul


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Rubber Soul by The Beatles released in 1965. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Besides Run For Your Life, You Won't See Me is one of my least favorite Beatles songs. But Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, and Think For Yourself, are some of the greatest. It's hard to think of this and not compare it to other Beatles albums, rather than music as a whole. Compared to other Beatles albums it scores about a 4 for me, but compared to music as a whole it's clearly a 5.
 
Lee Newman said:
It makes sense to me. Theoretically these are probably all five star records to someone.

Funeral is a solid, not perfect album. Many of you have written pretty much the same about Rubber Soul.

I don’t think Win’s sins are any worse than John’s, we just knew about them in real time.
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Honestly. I don’t see how it’s in the same stratosphere of quality music wise and parking the two bad lads.

It scrapes into the top 100 or 200 of the millennium as opposed to a critically acclaimed masterpiece of the genre.

I’m also absolutely not trying to say it’s bad, it’s clearly very good even if they’re a band that mostly doesn’t connect with me. There are scales of good though.

It could also be a hang up of a 5 point scale being way too restrictive.
 
I think the 5 star scale makes it difficult. Someone could think RS is a 4.5, and Funeral is a 3.5, and rate both a 4. And fwiw besteveralbums has Funeral as the #14 best of all time, and Rubber Soul as #28.

I didn't rank these yet, but for me I'd probably say a 4.5 for Rubber Soul as my 3rd or 4th favorite Beatles album, rounding closer to a 5, and Funeral as a solid 4.
 
Joe Mac said:
Honestly. I don’t see how it’s in the same stratosphere of quality music wise and parking the two bad lads.

It scrapes into the top 100 or 200 of the millennium as opposed to a critically acclaimed masterpiece of the genre.

I’m also absolutely not trying to say it’s bad, it’s clearly very good even if they’re a band that mostly doesn’t connect with me. There are scales of good though.

It could also be a hang up of a 5 point scale being way too restrictive.
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Honestly, it’s really not. I’d be okay with thumbs up/down and meh. It would certainly take less thought.
 
I’d struggle with albums that I like but don’t like as much as the ones I’d love. I’d end up down thumbing stuff that isn’t bad because it also isn’t great.

My way of internally thinking of these things has always been

10. All Time Great
9. One of the decades best that isn’t a 10
8. One of the years best that isn’t a 9 or 10
7. Top album in its year that isn’t an 8, 9 or 10
6. Really good solid album
5. Above average or average with 1 or 2 standout tracks.
4. Average
3. Below average
2. Poor
1. Deplorable
0. Dark Side of the Moon 😉

On that logic Funeral is a 5 and Rubber Soul 9 for me. I rounded to a 3 (or 6) because I can’t choose 2.5 (or 5).

I can see others might have Funeral higher but to the same level as Rubber Soul once it aggregates out, rather than for an individual which is ok, confounds me…
 
Lee Newman said:
Honestly, it’s really not. I’d be okay with thumbs up/down and meh. It would certainly take less thought.
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Hard agree. I think it's more interesting to discuss and write about the albums than rate them.

I found it near impossible to rate Rubber Soul. I mean, I should probably have given it a 5, just because it's a critically acclaimed Beatles album. But I actually think I've liked many other picks in this project a lot better so I settled on a 4. Part of it is probably because I sometimes have a hard time with the canonization of certain artists, but also partly because I just don't really feel that much for Rubber Soul (my favourite Beatles album is Abbey Road FWIW...). Come to think of it, it may even be a 3 for me personally, which is then the same as Funeral (which is kinda nuts, even for me).

But I get a lot of enjoyment and inspiration reading everybody's thoughts, stories and opinions about what we listen to. Even (or maybe even particularly) when I disagree with how you rate 'em.
 
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Lee Newman said:
3/30/23
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Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll



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Destroy Rock & Roll by Mylo released in 2004. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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I recognise 'Drop The Pressure'.

I recognise the sample from 'In My Arms' but I can't place the original.

This should be on the '1001 Albums You Must Put On In The Background And Completely Forget About' list, to be honest.

'Doctor Pressure' is a banger though.

Utterly forgettable.

2 / 5 stars.
 
Hemotep said:
Besides Run For Your Life, You Won't See Me is one of my least favorite Beatles songs. But Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, and Think For Yourself, are some of the greatest. It's hard to think of this and not compare it to other Beatles albums, rather than music as a whole. Compared to other Beatles albums it scores about a 4 for me, but compared to music as a whole it's clearly a 5.
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I have a soft spot for “You Won’t See Me” since my introduction to the song was via an early DMB cover. I think it was the first deep Beatles cut I was ever familiar with. Same applies to Dave’s cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Eyes Of The World”.
 
I had never heard of today's album before, although while listening to it a lot of the songs sounded familiar so maybe I've heard them before somewhere and just never knew who it was. I enjoyed it but it didn't stand out a lot to me, 3/5.

As to the rating system... I sometimes have trouble reconciling my personal enjoyment of an album with how it seems like it "should" be rated. There are some albums that I know are very historically significant that I really dislike (we've encountered a few... there will be more coming, lol), and some that don't have a personal significance to me like they do for many others but I feel like I should bump them. There are also a lot of albums I love on this list that I've seen people in reviews question why they are on there. Also it's hard for me to describe what makes something a 4 vs a 5 and I will almost never rate something a 1 unless it's so bad I can't finish it (I think the only 1 I've given so far was to that Divine Comedy album, though I know there's a Kid Rock album on this list).

That was probably a lot of words to say "I have questionable taste" but I've been having fun discovering new things and haven't really been paying too much attention to the ratings.

I also like hearing what everyone else has to say about them!
 
Lee Newman said:
3/30/23
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Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll



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Destroy Rock & Roll by Mylo released in 2004. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Don't reckon I even remotely heard of this one before yesterday. It was an enjoyable enough listen. I particularly enjoyed the gratuitous motherfuckers of "Drop the Pressure." All in all, though, it was somehow too weird AND not weird enough to be something I'd come back to very much. Not gonna be the least bit upset when it's time to listen to it again for my personal project, but doubtful I'd go out of my way otherwise. 3/5
 
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