And the nominations are:
* 4 Stars, the longtime standard for movies and stuff. * 5 Stars, with or without half stars, like amg.com or AMG books, respectively. * 10 points, like nme.com. Also the universal system for rating chicks. * 10 points with tenth point increments, like Pitchfork. Also used by wonks who take chick ratings really seriously? * A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc., like school. * Thums Up or Thumbs Down, aka Classic or Dud or the binary system. Also widely used for decisions like whether or not to buy a record, see a movie, do a chick, vote for Ralph Nader, commit suicide.. * No ratings, cause music is subjective, man, and reducing it to numbers is trivializing..
― Curt, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
* 4 Stars, the longtime standard for movies and stuff.
* 5 Stars, with or without half stars, like amg.com or AMG books, respectively. * 10 points, like nme.com. Also the universal system for rating chicks.
* 10 points with tenth point increments, like Pitchfork. Also used by wonks who take chick ratings really seriously?
* A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc., like school.
* Thums Up or Thumbs Down, aka Classic or Dud or the binary system. Also widely used for decisions like whether or not to buy a record, see a movie, do a chick, vote for Ralph Nader, commit suicide..
* No ratings, cause music is subjective, man, and reducing it to numbers is trivializing..
― anthony, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ian White, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Likewise, I won't sleep w/ girls who rank lower than a 7.3
― tha chzza, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
In any case, I occasionally just skim the last paragraph of a review, just to get the gist of what the writer thinks, especially if it's an artist I'm not that interested in, but am curious to get an overview of what the papers think.
― Daniel, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― george, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dr. C, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Didn't Spin do that in the mid-'90s? I recall them rating Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker green.
― Andy, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link