Rating system in a nutshell:

5.0 - perfection / massive personal importance
4.5 - highly fantastic, very high acclaim
4.0 - a great album, worth a lot of love
3.5 - a good album. Think of this as the standard positive rating
3.0 - alright, listenable/enjoyable even if flawed/nothing special
2.5 - flawed but not a disaster
2.0 - weak, unexciting, uninteresting, wonky
1.5 - bad, with maybe some teeny-tiny spots of light
1.0 - just straight-up bad. The lowest normal rating.
0.5 - reserved for albums of exceptional, rage-inducing badness



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Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
- Billy Corgan

Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
- Christopher Morley

The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren’t that many
people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music’s annoying, or at the
very least they don’t need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of
those people, they could sell a lot more records.
- T-Bone Burnett

I don't know anything about music.
In my line you don't have to.
- Elvis Presley

We find comfort among those who agree with us,
growth among those who don't.
- Frank A. Clark

We want to change the world, but not what holds us back.
- Bush (the band)

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde