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Old 11-03-2007, 01:06 AM
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Default Best Album... By Math!

So, I decided to really figure out what my favorite albums are by using the individual one to five star rating for every song found in the WMP/iTunes music libraries. I think this is the only way I can truly know what I really think about the album...

I rated each song from one to five stars, based on how I truly feel about that song. Then I took the scores and added them up and divided the total by the number of tracks on the album.

This is how I rated the songs...

5star - Classic that you never get sick of, when you think of the album you think of this song(s)
4star - Enjoyable song that makes the album flow, should be a single
3star - You can handle it but occasionally gets skipped, maybe a good song that you easily get sick of
2star - Only plays in it's entirety when you are listening to the album in the background, otherwise it's usually skipped
1star - You always take time to go into the player and skip this one, no matter what. Even after owning the album for a while, the play-count on your player still says 0 on this one.

To me this is as personal as it gets. I did this on every album except the solo ones and any compilations (CR, TLFR, Live, Box Set). The scores surprised me but were not too far off from what I've always considered to be my favorite albums... Also, I only included the US release tracks and no bonus ones (like on Crush and Bounce). So here is what I got.

BJ - 3.33
7800 - 3.33
SWW - 4.41
NJ - 4.33
KTF - 4.16
TD - 4.91
Crush - 3.33
Bounce - 3.33
HAND - 3.46
LH - 3.25

You might think it's not fair to do it this way cause BJ has 9 tracks while an album like HAND has 13, but I think it's OK, the band shouldn't have used so many fillers... And I broke the ties based on how many 5 star, then 4 star tracks each album has.

I'm gonna change my signature accordingly!
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BJ album rankings:
These Days, SWW, Jersey, KTF, Crush, HAND, Bounce, Circle, 7800F, Bon Jovi, THINFS, WAN, (then a million mile gap) LH;

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