I get different results if I look at albums as works in their own right, versus collections of songs.
Since it came out, I've considered Laurie Anderson's Strange Angels to be The One True Record Album. Occasionally, a new album will capture enough of my attention to make me wonder if it might be the new TOTRA. Probably the closest any came to supplanting Strange Angels was Cowboy Junkies' Lay It Down.
If I look at my iTunes library, though, and count how many songs on an album have star ratings, I got some different, and surprising, results.
I should mention that after I rip an album, I delete the songs I don't care for after a few listens. Just being in my iTunes collection means I think the song is worth listening to. My ratings range from three to five stars, and are applied to those that are well above that base threshold. I have some greatest hits albums that place in here, but I'm not counting them, since they skew the results a bit.
Looking at albums with the most star ratings gives:
The Phantom of the Opera (London Musical cast) soundtrack: 8 Great Big Sea's Something Beautiful: 5 Great Big Sea's The Hard and the Easy: 5 Eddie From Ohio's This Is Me: 5 Stan Roger's Fogarty's Cove: 4 Peter Gabriel's Shaking The Tree: 4 Indigo Girls' 4.5: 4
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Date: 2008-09-05 09:56 pm (UTC)Since it came out, I've considered Laurie Anderson's Strange Angels to be The One True Record Album. Occasionally, a new album will capture enough of my attention to make me wonder if it might be the new TOTRA. Probably the closest any came to supplanting Strange Angels was Cowboy Junkies' Lay It Down.
If I look at my iTunes library, though, and count how many songs on an album have star ratings, I got some different, and surprising, results.
I should mention that after I rip an album, I delete the songs I don't care for after a few listens. Just being in my iTunes collection means I think the song is worth listening to. My ratings range from three to five stars, and are applied to those that are well above that base threshold. I have some greatest hits albums that place in here, but I'm not counting them, since they skew the results a bit.
Looking at albums with the most star ratings gives:
The Phantom of the Opera (London Musical cast) soundtrack: 8
Great Big Sea's Something Beautiful: 5
Great Big Sea's The Hard and the Easy: 5
Eddie From Ohio's This Is Me: 5
Stan Roger's Fogarty's Cove: 4
Peter Gabriel's Shaking The Tree: 4
Indigo Girls' 4.5: 4