Written by Guest on 10.02.2014 at 00:08

Wonder why no one thought to do the classic letter grade rating in the first place?

Written by Guest on 10.02.2014 at 00:08

Well, this is a list I can certainly appreciate. Wonder why no one thought to do the classic letter grade rating in the first place?

I also dig the image...

...Even if the Joker is the most overrated Batman villain of all time.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.02.2014 at 00:13

Because in most countries in the world that grading system isn't used and even where it is used the meaning of the grades can differ from country to country.

Oh and he's missing E

Written by deadone on 10.02.2014 at 00:31

I like this list a lot - very effective grading system.

The genres are also goods - I can tell by them that I would dislike most of the stuff being posted here - too much "Atmospheric," "Avant Gard" and "Progressive."

In Yugoslavia the rating system went from 1 to 5 with 1 being a failure and 5 being the equivalent of an A.

Written by Diverge on 11.02.2014 at 02:21

Nice grading system, man. I anticipate I will spend a lot of time with this list over the next few months.

Written by Coolingsrock on 14.02.2014 at 23:16

Nice list. very creative. the only thing i would do different would be to give each album at least 2 full spins before grading. I do realize you would be wasting alot of time on some bad albums instead of seeking out more gems. Anyway, it's not for me to say it's your list. Nice job.

Written by Erik M. on 14.02.2014 at 23:24

I would suggest ranking them according to their scores. Now it's annoying to find the good stuff because you ranked them alphabetically. Just a suggestion.

Written by tea[m]ster on 16.02.2014 at 13:50

I am still debating if I like that Dying Sun release. It's pretty original but I don't know if I like the production.

Written by Zap on 17.02.2014 at 03:57

I really, REALLY, dislike the grading system, but some great picks that I can agree on nonetheless.

Written by Chobo_jokeR on 17.02.2014 at 04:28

Written by Zap on 17.02.2014 at 03:57

I really, REALLY, dislike the grading system, but some great picks that I can agree on nonetheless.

Mind sharing what you dislike about the grading system? It's not much different than giving a numerical value to the album, just a different way of allocating a score.

Written by Zap on 17.02.2014 at 04:49

Well, first off, I'm not familiar with the grading system because they don't use it where I'm from so I end up scrolling up and down for every album. I know A+ is the highest and F- the lowest, but if you're not familiar with the system it's not as obvious as a simple number. For example, if I see D- I know it's on the negative side, but I have to scroll up to see it's between 40 and 44. Also, since you know how you'd rate these albums in such detail you might as well just put your rating there.
Secondly, if you know what scores you give all these album, I think it's pretty pointless ordering them alphabetically. I order something alphabetically when I don't want to go through the trouble of deciding what I like best and worst. Now it isn't really clear what's at the top and what's at the bottom, which is a pain in the butt seeing as I come to these kinds of lists to be recommended some stuff. It's easier to just see with one glimpse what's at the top and what's at the bottom than to look for the As and Fs. Sounds lazy, but I rarely stay on a list page for very long.
Just my two cents, it's your list I myself am very bad at rating between 1 and 10, let alone 1 and 100, so if I did have those ratings it'd make things easy to rank them accordingly.

Written by Chobo_jokeR on 17.02.2014 at 04:58

Thanks for taking the time to write back to my question. That's fair, I myself still have to scroll up to see what the ratings are from time to time when I'm placing some of the albums in the lower grades haha. I sort of addressed the alphabetical issue with my comment on E.Mols's post. Additionally to that comment, right now I'm just trying to listen to as much as possible rather than tinker with the list and what goes where on it. Of the albums I've selected as A's and A-'s I may have difficulty placing them in an exact order, I just know they're A and A- quality albums.

What I will do for convenience's sake is I will organize alphabetically but by the grading system?A's will be sorted at the top alphabetically, A-'s and so on all the way down.

Written by Zap on 17.02.2014 at 05:04


Okay, do it the way you think is best
I'm looking forward to following this list since it has some similarities to my own, which probably means I'll find some good stuff here.
Keep it up

Written by Chobo_jokeR on 17.02.2014 at 05:13

Thanks I've looked through your list as well, and yeah there are numerous similar releases that we have enjoyed.

I've now organized by letter grade but maintained the alphabetical classification just so I can maintain my sanity over what I think is truly the best, since it fluctuates on a daily basis (this early on in the year anyway).

Let me know what you think of the modification.

Written by R'Vannith on 17.02.2014 at 13:51

Do the movie sound clips have anything to do with the album title?

Written by R'Vannith on 17.02.2014 at 13:51

The way you had it ordered before was great to me, a nice personal touch with the well thought out approach to rating things. The way you have it now is more likely to be appreciated by readers though. As I've been told by folks in the past, people like to see what you would rate the highest up toward the top of the list, your "cream of the crop" as I recall Mechanist putting it.

I'll be giving The Vita Sound Project a try soon, it sounds intriguing. Do the movie sound clips have anything to do with the album title?

Written by neiluria on 19.02.2014 at 19:31

I like your scoring system, good list.
come see mine if you have time.

Written by Chobo_jokeR on 20.02.2014 at 02:31

Written by neiluria on 19.02.2014 at 19:31

I like your scoring system, good list.
come see mine if you have time.

Thanks!

Gave your list a thumbs up. Wasn't a big fan of Aenaon and I still haven't heard Major Parkinson, but thumbs up for Hail Spirit Noir, Behemoth and Hannes Grossmann.

Written by tea[m]ster on 23.02.2014 at 18:04

Recently discovered Mourning Dawn. Labeled "depressive", I am still a little fuzzy on the whole "depressive" tag. Sounds more like doom to me.

Written by Chobo_jokeR on 15.02.2014 at 00:23

I thought about this for quite some time before actually putting the list together. I may consider putting it in ranking order once there are more albums and it becomes difficult to locate things. Sometimes when you do that though, albums get forgotten at the bottom of the list that you may think, shit that was actually decent I should give it another spin. I know when I go to someone's list I usually look at the top, meanwhile there may be a gem down below that they didn't like, but I'd actually enjoy. With my current listing, readers can go line by line to see what is good and what isn't. Also, I don't really feel like spending time determine which of the A's I like the best, B+'s and so on. That can be up to the readers / listeners.

Written by Erik M. on 24.02.2014 at 00:08

I guess that makes sense. Because your list isn't overly huge (and I hope it stays that way), the rating system is pretty good (and unusual) as well as all albums having genre-tags, I gave you a +1. I rarely do thumb up year-lists, so you should feel special. But honestly, the biggest reason I +1'd your list is because you now have ordered all of them by grade and then alphabetically, exactly the way how I would do it as well when I'd use a rating system like this one. Like Zaphod says, it's much, much better this way.

Written by tea[m]ster on 07.03.2014 at 02:18

Thanks for the Bast suggestion, good stuff.

Written by Guest on 23.04.2014 at 17:41

I don't really know if you're into grind but this (awesome) release has enough eccentricity about it to be deemed a worthy venture here, methinks.