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Originally Posted by White of High
5 years ago this forum had more active member than now. A few songs had 30-40 different votes.
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Perhaps there were more people who were prepared to award "marks out of 10" for individual songs? I recall a recent time when you did this exercise and you said the results were flawed because some (me included) gave everything 10 out of 10. There are some songs which resonate less strongly with me at times, but if I love listening to every song on an album why on earth would I rate any of them less than fully meeting my hopes and expectations? (There are only two things I'd ever skip on a Meat album .. and those are the Steinman monologues which have never appealed to me at all.)
Like Jenna, I never rate songs by a number because it can't convey the feelings a song provokes, different songs will resonate more strongly than others depending on one's mood, and to me it smacks of an expert teacher grading papers.
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And see arguing for example when WarioLoaf say that Masculine was the best and others say that you were mad. This thread is the chance to see usually the Meat fans which albums and songs like the most...
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But these are exactly the kind of arguments that asking people to rate songs out of 10 is likely to provoke. You rate what I consider a simply wonderful song 6, and I am likely to think you are mad, or incredibly critical. I don't have any great interest in trying to define what a handful of fans like most in terms of albums or individual songs. What does it mean when all is said and done?
If you went to the whole Meat fan-base you'd find I think that BOOH, AFL, Paradise, Took the Words, would be the top rated songs (plus Dead Ringer in the UK). These get the loudest roar of approval when Meat performs them, and to the majority of fans are the ones which probably resonate most strongly with them .. but what does that mean or say about Meat's work? Most of them would be likely to say his best album is BOOH, and if asked would say it rated 10 out of 10, because that's the one they know best and have lived with for years, but it says nothing about the quality of his other, or indeed his newest albums. I would find it invidious to even attempt to compare for eg BOOH, CHSIB, HCTB and HIAH. Each is of its time in his musical career. To me none is "better" than the other, each is a milestone on a journey that I continue to love 10 out of 10.
Caryl