So I was listening to Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, and i was curious to see as to what DiS thought of it. To my suprise, it was rated/reviewed it was give 10/10. I like this album a lot, and maybe agree that it was worthy of its score, but this also made me think...
What other albums have DiS reviewed that have achieved the merited 10/10 score?
The Knife - Silent Shout
As close to a perfect album as I have ever heard.
^Agree.
^^
Agree
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Well deserved too.
That rating
to that album, is all you ever need to know about DiS.
both great albums, agreed.
volcano and jamie t got it
i really should have given frightened rabbit 10/10. fuck.
YES.
That and Bon Iver are my two favs of the year so far.
Relationship of Command
And actually every ATDI release that they have reviwed, I believe...I'm not sure they all are 10/10s, but Relationship of Command is the clearest 10/10 I would ever give.
Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
did this really happen?
...
http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/2543
that was just insane
whoa
like, thats crazy
It was reviewed by a user..
.
His status is user
but it was a DiS review.
You'd have to be fucking using to give it 10/10...
...that much is sure.
-
"Alien Ant Farm are the band to watch out for in the year 2001. Sit back and watch 'em go."
Hahaha! Yeah, watch 'em go... away!
radiohead- hail to the thief
i discovered this afternoon had been given 10. Kid A however had been given 4 and the review had been subsequently removed. eek!
I cant
believe they gave Alien Ant Farm 10, it made me lol.
lol @ thats Kid A review
'THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN DELETED. FOR SHAME. A REVIEW THAT REFLECTS THE OPINIONS OF NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS WILL BE ADDED SHORTLY.'
That's pretty shit really
Poor show.
I think
if you browse down the comments section on that article you can find the original review
Blur- Think Tank
Very surprising, but absolutely deserved.
there are loads and loads of albums i'd give 10/10
even though they aren't "perfect"
in my opinion,
10's should be used few and far between. A 10/10 album should be a masterpiece. If album after album is given high scores, then it loses its value and its hard to separate the shit from the amazing.....
maybe if you view music in a purely academic sense
where it's all about ticking the right boxes. Actual music appreciation relies on something more personal, a sense of the overall power of the album in question
So yeah, 10/10 is for how it makes you feel. And since i'm not giving a "buyer's guide" to anyone i can hand them out willy-nilly
each to his own.
i agree with what you say though. I have a lot of albums, that wouldn't ever be given a 10, but mean a 10 to me personally.
But, when it comes to reading reviews online, are you likely to even buy a album that is given a 5/6? as this could be a 10 to you but you'll never know if you don't buy it.
i bought the "They Came From The Stars I Saw Them" album
it got 4/10 on DiS and this was the only place i'd read about it.
Efterklang - Parades
wholly deserved in my opinion a beautiful record
all of these did:
*Muse - Absolution
*Muse - Origin of Symmetry
*Botch - We Are The Romans
*A Silver Mount Zion - Born Into Trouble..
*The Icarus Line - Penancee Soiree
*At The Drive-in - (all 3 albums)
*The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
*Godpeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O
*My Vitriol - Firelines
*Mogwai - Come On Die Young
*volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
*The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
there are more but i've forgotten them, i might post more later.
The Remote Part by Idlewild got 10/10
I personally agree with it, however I can understand why others don't
miss machine lawl
origin of symmetry though, that's an awesome album
i'd give
Miss Machine a 9.
interesting how many of these are
by great bands but not their greatest album...
e.g.
Dillinger Escape
Mars Volta
Godspeed
Mogwai
I wonder why this would be?
yeah, i noticed that.
although i haven't heard Miss Machine yet, it's the one i don't own.
It's quite suprising how
The Strokes - Is This It only got a 9/10 really. One album I would of for certain given a 10.
yeah, that was
one of the first albums i checked, and was suprised to see a 9.
I also checked to The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi, but there's no review.....
Why?
It's fucking awful!
i think awful is a bit much.
Well it's about as deserving of a 10 out of 10
as "Your new favourite band" by The Hives
^ now this was shit.
Except it pretty much changed and heavily influenced
the guitar scene of the US and UK for the next few years.
But I can't be bothered to argue as it's all down to opinions.
are we talking hives or the strokes?
Oh, do stop showing off...
Is This It wasn't, and never will be, shit.
Easyworld's first album proper did!
Unbelievable...
this thread is showing me bad things about dis
easyworld?!
'fraid so.
http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/2951
AWFUL.
Ha ha, awesome
I won't have a word said against Easyworld, they were great :-)
i honestly don't think i've heard a 10/10 record.
Even my absolute faves have slight flaws. I'd love to pick something rare but the Nirvana Unplugged LP is probably as near to flawless as i've heard. I'm not sure how that could've been better in any possible way.
Subtle
For Hero: For Fool
Super Furry Animals: Mwng
was a 10/10 i just found out.
as was Rings Around The World
which i agree with.
Also, another i would award it to that DiS agreed with was Misty's Big Adventure And Their Place In The Solar Hi Fi System.
wow
go dis
Why should 10 out of 10 be reserved for perfect?
Loads of movie reviews get 5 stars!
because thats the perfect score?
But 5 stars is also the perfect score
in terms of films. ie "outstanding". Why shouldn't 10 out of 10 mean "outstanding" when it comes to music reviews? No album can be perfect for everyone, obviously.
Well, DiS, used to award marks out of 5
Not sure if that system has just been applied to mean that all 5 rated albums are now 10/10, 4/5= 8/10 etc, or not... Can anyone clarify this? Anyhoo, I can't be arsed to find it, but a Field Music album got a 10 too. This post was utterly pointless. Damn hospitality nights out with their free booze and Indian food...
see below
Oops.sorry
As I said, blame the booze. Re Field Music, for the 3 people who are arsed, it was this 'un: http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/8764
The Field Music one
was written by a friend of the bands.
Figures
They're an enjoyable band, but way off 10/10.
I remember the Field Music reviewer
Didn't she just post a load of badly written reviews and got comments saying they were bad reviews, and her defence was 'Im sorry you dont have the same opinion as me'
Am I right or was that someone else?
...`
This thread is really making me lose my love for DiS.
10/10 for Alien Ant Farm?
It was a user review.
I can't believe no one has posted this yet.
Strawberry Jam
most recent i remember... best bet for the next is Deehunters new one.
or Conor Oberst?
Wives' Erect the Youth Problem
got an old-style 5/5 on DiS, so 10/10 since conversion... this does mean that many an old 5/5 are now 10s, even though they're more likely 9/10 records.
I dunno...let's ask the editor
heh. DiS's early reviews weren't to be trusted. (Although Wives isn't one of the examples I'm thinking of.)
and their later ones
ARE to be trusted? lolz indeed.
i concur
When I was writing for DiS I was giving stuff marks out of 5. This - to me - is a lot different than giving marks out of 10. Therefore I don't agree with many of my old review marks...
Here's a few more:
Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood
QOTSA - Rated R
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Marilyn Manson?
that's just sad.
both those qotsa albums are 10/10
and holy wood is good!
Jimmy Eat World "Jimmy Eat World"
these ones did
johnny foreigner - arcs across the city
dananananaykroyd - sissy hits
johnny foreigner got 10/10?
no-one can defend this
It was just the EP
It is a ridiculously good EP!
i will never accept this as fact
i DON'T GET IT! theyre sooo average
dananananackroyd though, they're awesome
Human beings in difference of opinion shock!
albums in history that are 10/10
OK Computer - Radiohead
Doolittle - Pixies
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr (more accurately, 8/8 for the first 8 songs)
No other albums qualify.
Pixies are one of the
most over-rated bands ever.
you are a fucking idiot
Predictable response
Not that I hate them or anything, but there were better bands around at the time.
you
are SO wrong about this.
You are so right!
And oral sex and ice-cream are over-rated too! I mean, what's the appeal?
-
oraL sex can be very overrated, depending on your perspective.
Not true
Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Here Are The Sonics - Sonics
For two.
Nuts
to this stupid thread layout - gets me everytime!!
the mighty
TOOL copped a ten for Lateralus.
Winnebago Deal - Flight Of The Raven
DFA 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Now
DFA deserved it I think. Great album.
KKKKKKKKK
fuck reviews...and if they were to be justified; everything in life would be rated with a 'K'
thats what kerrangs for
my brother lives by the kerrang music ratings
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
Thoroughly deserved in my opinion. Perfect album.
Yes ^
I believe the 'other' music site of note also gave this a 10.0.
if all of these albums got 10/10
then ok computer should of got 11/10 at least
you say that
but it was no ANThology was it?
anyone got a link to the kid a review?
Iron Maiden:
'Live After Death'.
^ This ^
Best live album EVER!
its posted in the comments
section....
http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/2419
The Delgados - The Great Eastern
Very very good album!
did Ys get a 10?
I would say it is pretty deserving, about the only one I can think of in the last few years (that is deserving)
indeed it did....
Massive Attack
Mezzanine
Essential album
Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Is a a deserved 10/10 imo.
Monday at the Hug & Pint
...by Arab Strap also got the full 10.
deservedly too, as it's pretty much the greatest thing ever.
Sugababes did.
http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/3051
Brilliant review too.
The Vines - Highly Evolved
Probably
james holden - the idiots are winning
got a 10, and rightly so :)