My Rating System Explained

I just realized I never took a moment to explain what the numbers I assign to music on this blog mean. I've always thought about this, but just never wrote it down, so here I will explain what each rating out of 10 means to me.

10: Perfect, very important to me, I listen to it all the time.

9: Mostly perfect songs, also important to me.

8: Mostly great songs, very impressive.

7: Mostly good songs, very enjoyable throughout.

6: Mostly good songs, but no strong feelings about it.

5: Some good parts, but not really my thing.

4: Some decent parts, but overall disappointing.

3: Mostly bad songs, very little holding it up.

2: Mostly awful songs, nearly irredeemable.

1 or 0: Completely awful, stirs up negative feelings.

This is something I think about and change all the time. For example, I think about if I can consider an album a 10 on my first listen even if I think it's perfect, because I also want to reserve my 10s for the albums that are the most personally important to me. 

I think what I have settled on here is pretty good because I can better classify the music that I like; I rarely ever dislike any music, and on most albums, I enjoy every song to some extent. Because I practically enjoy everything, I can put albums I enjoy into more specific tiers relative to each other by making a score of 7 mean "very enjoyable". This is easier than having a score of 7 meaning "average" like some other reviewers do, because otherwise practically everything would have very high scores and I wouldn't know what's better than what.