Artist Rating

Not sure that I do. 

Formentera Lady wrote: I do not know by which criteria. I think an artist rating would only reflect, how many fanboys (-girls) are here for a specific artist.

Doesn't that apply to album ratings also?

CarvinAbuser wrote: Formentera Lady wrote: I do not know by which criteria. I think an artist rating would only reflect, how many fanboys (-girls) are here for a specific artist.  Doesn't that apply to album ratings also?

Album rating means you have to connect up more than one part of the brain to make up your mind. Artists, like all other human beings, is firstly judged on first impression and then the opinions may be modified. That only happens in rare cases though.   

 

CarvinAbuser wrote: What about a popularity rating next to the artist name instead?

CarvinAbuser wrote: Formentera Lady wrote: I do not know by which criteria. I think an artist rating would only reflect, how many fanboys (-girls) are here for a specific artist.  Doesn't that apply to album ratings also?

At least there is one criteria for album rating: I have to listen to the full album from beginning to end before I rate it. Otherwise I would not rate it. But for artists I do not know the criteria when to rate: also after listening to at least one album? Or after 10 seconds?


Edited by Formentera Lady - January 20 2011 at 11:41

I think the only way an artist rating could make any sort of sense would be some sort of cumulative-album-rating (i.e. all ratings for all of artists' albums combined), but even that would potentially be nonsensical and worthless as a rating...

I don't see the point. It would just lead to another top list with all those artists that we all know already (Crimson, Floyd, Yes, Genesis, ELP,...)

I would rather invest a bit more brain-time in ways to make obscure or few-rated albums more visible.

No!


And here's why:

1. Some bands which are good to say the least, will get lower rating because they shifted towards pop at some stage in their career (for example Genesis). When you calculate the average you will get undeservedly low results.

2. It will cause more flame wars on forums by intellectually challenged participants. (this is not pointed towards you Carvin, but you'd be surprised to see how often dumb arguments are occurring here)

3. No merit. While there's a degree of useful information in looking at the album's ratings to check which album I should check first by a certain band, such a rating is absolutely useless for a whole band, unless there's a through review of an entire career, which basically yields to:

4. Knowing that average PA rating of King Crimson is 3.84 and of Dream Theater 4.11 won't make us any smarter.

CarvinAbuser wrote: I was thinking it would be helpful if PA users, in addition to rating albums, could rate artists and that rating would be displayed next to the artist name in the artist listings.  Anyone agree?

 

The T wrote: Hi,  No.  The T