Excuse the disturbing metaphor for now, but hear me out.
I recently visited the Commentary to see the lyrics of the new album (yes, I'm thinking about listening to it...not convinced yet, though).
I wanted to see which were the most popular songs so far, so I clicked on the "View results" link on the voting thing. I noticed something disturbing: every damn song has 4.5 or 5 stars. How the hell is that possible? Thinking it was just enthusiasm for a new album which has skewed the results, I began looking at other songs' ratings.
Surprize - they ALL have abnormally high ratings. What's the point of rating the songs if they all recieve basically the same rank? I'll admit, some songs to have 2-3 star ratings, but not nearly enough to properly balance the statistics properly. With 100+ songs, one would expect the ratings to at least begin to resemble a bell curve, right? I'm not saying any of Iron Maiden's songs are bad per se (except "Flight of Icarus" because of its retarded use of Neo-Nazi imagry), but surely we can all agree that there are some which are much, much, better than others.
If they all do, in fact, merit 5 stars, perhaps we should raise our levels of expectation a bit.
In other words, if I may be so blunt, stop sucking Nicko's drumsticks and try to be a bit more critical (in the "thinking" way, not the "I hate everything" way. I do hate everything, but that's not the issue at hand, you dumbass! )
I recently visited the Commentary to see the lyrics of the new album (yes, I'm thinking about listening to it...not convinced yet, though).
I wanted to see which were the most popular songs so far, so I clicked on the "View results" link on the voting thing. I noticed something disturbing: every damn song has 4.5 or 5 stars. How the hell is that possible? Thinking it was just enthusiasm for a new album which has skewed the results, I began looking at other songs' ratings.
Surprize - they ALL have abnormally high ratings. What's the point of rating the songs if they all recieve basically the same rank? I'll admit, some songs to have 2-3 star ratings, but not nearly enough to properly balance the statistics properly. With 100+ songs, one would expect the ratings to at least begin to resemble a bell curve, right? I'm not saying any of Iron Maiden's songs are bad per se (except "Flight of Icarus" because of its retarded use of Neo-Nazi imagry), but surely we can all agree that there are some which are much, much, better than others.
If they all do, in fact, merit 5 stars, perhaps we should raise our levels of expectation a bit.
In other words, if I may be so blunt, stop sucking Nicko's drumsticks and try to be a bit more critical (in the "thinking" way, not the "I hate everything" way. I do hate everything, but that's not the issue at hand, you dumbass! )