How many times should you listen to an album before rating it?

How many times should you listen to an album before rating it?

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zero

I think Trump would do it twice, so that's the amount you should do it.

three times if your cool

Rate it after listening to it the first time, but try to revisit it at least once regardless of score (unless it’s like the worst thing ever).

i'd say 3 to 4 times. over the span of like 2 weeks if you want it to marinate the best. people are too quick to make judgements on music. especially critics, because a brand new review of a brand new album will garner more clicks.

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just make shit up

'rating' albums is some bullshit

I rate it immediately but I update my score every time I revisit, and if I absolutely never feel like revisit then it's a 0.5 / 5

I don't get people who have 3.5-4 star albums they never listen to.

Real talk, why rate an album?

depends on your reason for not revisiting it
is it bad or are you just focusing your attention on other albums
if it's the latter then to me that's not a convincing enough rationale to consider a record deserving of 1/10 status

I rate it after the first listen but update it if I relisten/change my mind. Your taste grows overtime and your scores should reflect that

that's what I used to think but I don't think it makes much sense to rate like that.

If you enjoy an album you' want to listen to it, if you don't enjoy it then why is it rated 4 stars?

I came to this conclusion after looking at my RYM ratings from like 2013, 4 stars to Faust, but never played it again, 3.5 stars to some jazz album that I never listened to again.

I mean what's the point of that?

why didn't you just relisten to it and see if it was worth the rating?

some albums require more effort to love than others
some albums are unquestionably brilliant but it requires a different level of concentration or a specific mood to approach them
just because you don't want to listen to them every day doesn't mean their rating should go down
and if your estimation of that record should go down then it's only fair to listen to it before you change that rating

Scaruffi be like

I only rate an album if someone asks desu. I usually just think "hmm this is worse/better than i expected"

I don't want to, and that's the point.

I try to re-listen to everything but Faust, I really don't feel like playing it so it has to be shit.

I mean if I hear an album once and somehow in 6 years I can't find the stones to play it again then I obviously didn't like it and it's a 0.5 star album. Again with some ok albums, that aren't necessarily as abrassive as Faust, if you never feel like relistening then just rate 0.5 stars.

That's how I rate and I think it makes a lot of sense to me. I want to be able to go through my RYM ratings and fine great stuff to listen to, not stuff that I heard once and never played again.

I just like to remember which albums I've heard and what I thought of them
they aren't set in stone at all and are completely subject to change
why this is such a crime to some people I don't know

Basado

I'm the guy with the reddit spacing (allthough I don't visit reddit)

here's my distribution and system if anyone is interested.

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>I really don't feel like playing it so it has to be shit.
I don't really feel like listening to Destroy all monsters but I know it's not shit
it's just really fucking long
also how the fuck do you think you're taking in an entire record in one listen
this piece of art you're evaluating, which in all likelihood these musicians have slaved over in order to present their ideas in a specific and not necessarily transparent way and you think you're taking it all in by listening to it once
unless you can remember the entire record note for note and wish to denounce it as a 1/10 record without even listening to it again, I think you're committing some kind of incredibly feat of dishonesty

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Cool, I can't get along with 5 point system let alone a 10 one

the answer is that your 1 / 10 and my 1 / 10 means different things.

My 1 / 10 means I didn't like it and that's what I rate Faust, because I didn't like it.

Now, I don't expect to fully comprehend an album on first listen, but for me to want to listen again there has to be atleast something that pulls me back. One or two fine songs, one good player in a jazz combo, some cool riffs, something.

But if I don't ever want to listen again, then I didn't like it and it was indeed 1 /10. And it doesn't really matter how talented the musicans are or how well composed the record is, I rate according to my taste nothing else.

but what if the thing you're looking for in the record doesn't reveal itself to you on first listen
(this is how you broaden your tastes btw)
our concept of a 1/10 should not really differ. it should be a record we do not like because we know we don't like it
not one that we're too lazy to figure out whether we like it or not