The case for open-ended logarithmic ratings
Really, how are you to rate Depeche Mode's albums? If Violator is a 100 and you rate in terms of percentage, A Broken Frame would be about a 25.
Well, but other bands've made albums as well. Let's say the self-titled The Doors album is a 100, Violator is then about a 12.5 and A Broken Frame a 3.125. And if The Prodigy Experience is a 100, The Doors is only about a 12.5 and A Broken Frame a 0.390625.
Differently put, if we gave 10 stars to Supertramp's Crime of the Century, we would give 5 stars to The Prodigy Experience, 2.5 stars to Breakfast in America, Even in the Quietest Moments, Crisis, What Crisis? and Indelibly Stamped, 1.25 stars to The Fat of the Land and that would be it, because we wouldn't have to give a single star to any album ever again.
So, what happens? You end up giving albums like Violator 9 stars, because you need room to differentiate A Broken Frame from Tears for Fears' The Hurting.
In order to escape this, we need a ladder of standards, each standard crushing the previous one by knocking it out of its park, just like for earthquakes measured in the Richter scale:
Well, but other bands've made albums as well. Let's say the self-titled The Doors album is a 100, Violator is then about a 12.5 and A Broken Frame a 3.125. And if The Prodigy Experience is a 100, The Doors is only about a 12.5 and A Broken Frame a 0.390625.
Differently put, if we gave 10 stars to Supertramp's Crime of the Century, we would give 5 stars to The Prodigy Experience, 2.5 stars to Breakfast in America, Even in the Quietest Moments, Crisis, What Crisis? and Indelibly Stamped, 1.25 stars to The Fat of the Land and that would be it, because we wouldn't have to give a single star to any album ever again.
So, what happens? You end up giving albums like Violator 9 stars, because you need room to differentiate A Broken Frame from Tears for Fears' The Hurting.
In order to escape this, we need a ladder of standards, each standard crushing the previous one by knocking it out of its park, just like for earthquakes measured in the Richter scale:
- Diverting. Depeche Mode A Broken Frame.
- Intriguing. Level 42 World Machine, Thompson Twins Into the Gap, John Farnham The Age of Reason, Tears for Fears The Hurting, Billy Idol Rebel Yell, Rick Wakeman Journey to the Center of the Earth.
- Masterful. Huey Lewis & The News Sports, Hubert Kah Goldene Zeiten, ZZ Top Eliminator, INXS Kick, Supertramp Brother Where You Bound, Depeche Mode Violator, Jefferson Starship Nuclear Furniture, ABBA Arrival.
- Signs of Genius. Cream Fresh Cream, The Who The Who Sell Out, Spooky Tooth It's All About, Supertramp Famous Last Words.
- Achieved Genius. Spooky Tooth Spooky Two, The Stone Roses The Stone Roses, Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music.
- Master of the Plane. The Doors The Doors, Santana Abraxas, Supertramp Supertramp.
- Breaking the Plane. The Prodigy The Fat of the Land.
- A World in Itself. Supertramp Indelibly Stamped, Crisis, What Crisis?, Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America.
- Manifest Grace. The Prodigy Experience.
- Active Grace. Supertramp Crime of the Century.
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