If an album has say 10 tracks, than how many minimum tracks must be good for you to call it a 'good album'?

For me in a 10 track album, atleast 3 should be good.. 30%!!


Most of Ferry's album has 12-13 tracks but only one worth listening. Isnt it fair to call it a bad album if dosent reach the 30% mark?

No less than 90%

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A good album should have only one or two "forgivable" tracks. Otherwise, it's a shit album that has a couple of good tracks on it.

Track placement is a lot more important to me then the individual track when listening to a mix cd. I want to be taken on a journey. Just because the CD has 10 straight bombs doesn't mean it is going to be on repeat in my car for a year.

There have been countless times I went to buy a track that I heard in a mix and when I listened to it soley on it's own, I was unimpressed. The dj was just able to make it work in his set and that's that.

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Originally posted by Project-K No less than 90%

Hey common 90%??! Cut some slack.. everyone is not Vibrasphere, Banco de Gaia or Ulrich Schnauss!

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Originally posted by Ishad Hey common 90%??! Cut some slack.. everyone is not Vibrasphere, Banco de Gaia or Ulrich Schnauss!

or, especially, M83









EDIT: Or Sigur Ros, or Hammock, or Port-Royal, or Lights out Asia, or Caspian, or Explosions in the Sky, or Godspeed You Black Emperor!, or Arms and Sleepers, or Ef, or Maps, or This Will Destroy You, or...

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Originally posted by Ishad For me in a 10 track album, atleast 3 should be good.. 30%!!

Why would you call that a "good" album? Wouldn't it be more logical to call it a mediocre (or bad) album with a few good tracks?

I wouldn't call a painting "good" if only the bottom third was good and the rest was boring / crap.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Why would you call that a "good" album? Wouldn't it be more logical to call it a mediocre (or bad) album with a few good tracks?

Yep

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Originally posted by Ishad Hey common 90%??! Cut some slack.. everyone is not Vibrasphere, Banco de Gaia or Ulrich Schnauss!

There's more than enough decent music out there to have high standards. Unless you're lazy and you just want to hear shit music.

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Gotta agree with bojingles on this one. The whole is as good as the sum of its parts. If you make a milkshake with 2 parts delicious ice cream and 8 parts turd, it's still gonna be a crappy [ba-dum-bum] shake.

That's not the say the ice cream wouldn't taste great on its own!

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Originally posted by PETRAN ...or Godspeed You Black Emperor!...

Actually, it´s 'Godspeed You! Black Emperor'...they moved the exclamation point in 2002.

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