When I first got an iPod in December 2003 I found a cool feature. You can actually rate your songs as your listening to them. I thought this would be fun to do as I listened to music and I would eventually have all my songs rated. Well, here we are, 6 years later and I finally finished. I have rated all 4,457 of my iTunes songs, one by one on my iPod. I thought I would share some info on my ratings. First, I should point out that I am a tough rater. You have to earn those stars. I find I rate lower than my friends and wife. Here is my scale:
For the bored and interested, I have compiled some statistics about my ratings. 4,457 Songs Total 5-Star: 213 songs (4%) (Made up of 100 Artists) 4-Star: 598 songs (13%) 3-Star: 1245 songs (28%) 2-Star: 1629 songs (37%) 1-Star: 787 songs (18%) Most Played (and Highest Rated) Song: Mike Doughty - The King of Carrot Flowers (Neutral Milk Hotel Cover) Albums With the Most 5-Star Ratings: 1) Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic (7 tracks) 2) Neutral Milk Hotel - The Aeroplane Over the Sea (5 tracks) 3) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness 3) Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs 3) Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman Artists With the Most 5-star (and incidently, the most 4-star) Ratings: 1) Ben Folds (18 5-star tracks, 31 4-star tracks) 2) Mike Doughty (16 5-star tracks, 24 4-star tracks) Artists With the Most 3-star Ratings (thought this was interesting): 1) Ben Folds (59) 2) Green Day (54) 3) Mountain Goats (53) 4) Smashing Pumpkins (50) 5) Mike Doughty (41) 6) Decemberists (31) Most 1-Star Tracks on an Album: Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (19 of 20 are 1-star rated) [Disclaimer] Live - The Distance to Here (11 of 13 are 1-star rated) [Aaaand.. that's when I stopped buying Live's albums] Note: if you want to look at some more diverse music listening, check out my last.fm listening statistics page. Labels: music
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