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"The Music Rater"

Post your favourite bands and I'll try to rate all of them and give a reason for my rating

Pearl Jam - 10/10
Ten is one of my favourite albums ever and they far surpassed anything Nirvana did.

Smashing Pumpkins - 10/10
I have Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream and they're both great albums. My favourite song is Here Is NO Why at the moment.

Zwan - 6/10
I heard Honestly and Lyric and while they were nothing particularly bad, they lacked that 'je ne sais quoi' which made Smashing Pumpkins so special.

Elliott - 7/10
Not the best in their genre but quite good nontheless

Cursive - 3/10
I saw them support The Ataris in February and I didn't think too highly of them; God knows why they were supporting a Punk/Emo band

Mineral - 7/10
Very meh...

Chavez - 7/10
I'm beginning to spot a pattern...

Mars Volta - 9/10
I keep meaning to buy Deloused in the Comatorium but I don't have enough money; anyway, Televators and Inertiatic ESP are amazing

Rival Schools - 7/10
I haven't heard much of them but I quite liked what I heard; not a band I'd listen to from choice though

Quicksand - 8/10
I hadn't listened to them before but I might buy one of their albums

Mudhoney - 7/10
Good but nowhere near as good as their contemporaries (see below)

Soundgarden - 9/10
Yet another reason why I dislike Nirvana so much; together with Pearl Jam they were the best thing by far to come out of the Seattle scene

At The Drive In - 10/10
A truly amazing band who would have gone on to great things if they were still together; Relationship of Command's my 2nd favourite CD of all time

Sparta - 8/10
They're quite good but they're let down by the fact that The Mars Volta are so much better and it was the other half of At The Drive-In that made them so good

Dredgd - 7/10
(see Mineral)

Thrice - 7/10
Pretty good but fairly generic sounding band

You like your grunge then?

Here's a list, thanks to idle curiousity:

Counting Crows
Lifehouse
Elliott Smith
Josh Ritter
Four Star Mary
The Promise Ring
Idlewild
Matchbox 20
Nick Drake

Jeff Buckley 10/10

Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Zwan
Elliott
Cursive
Mineral
Chavez
Mars Volta
Rival Schools
Quicksand
Mudhoney
Soundgarden
At The Drive In
Sparta
Dredg
Thrice

Anything less than 7/10, you die.

Jeff Buckley - 6/10
I'd never heard of him but I just listened to one of his songs and it isn't at all bad

Bob Dylan - 4/10
I'm not a fan but I appreciate he's done a lot for music

Joss Stone - 0/10
Atrocious. I don't like The White Stripes anyway and her cover was just terrible.

Ryan Adams - 7/10
He's pretty good and has to get some points for the line: "Sentimental geek, shut up and go to sleep"

Joni Mitchell - 3/10
Not really my thing - too country for me

Flockhart wrote:

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> I think the voice 9/10 the album 7/10

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Muuuh. That's all I can bring myself to say.

Does anyone know about some computer program that can actually rate songs because i'd like to know more about it, any links would be welcome or just an acknowledgement that anyone knows what i'm talking about.

Stryke wrote:
> Joss Stone - 0/10.
>
> There, didn't take me long at all.

I think the voice 9/10 the album 7/10

Joss Stone - 0/10.

There, didn't take me long at all.

Not bands but nevermind, lets test your knowledge:)

Jeff Buckley
Bob Dylan
Joss Stone
Ryan Adams
Joni Mitchell

> Foo Fighters - 8/10
> Let down by One By One although Everlong and Breakout remain two of
> my favourite songs; also they have some of the best videos ever


Yeah - The video to Learn to Fly is hilarious! One of the best music videos around!