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I've been thinking about maybe taking a more analytical approach to my personal album rankings. The way I figure, there's 2 factors at play: how much I enjoyed the album as a whole, and how many songs I'd listen to individually.

As a recent example, take Innervisions and The Colour and the Shape. Innervisions is much better as an album, but it has no songs I enjoyed more than Everlong and Monkey Wrench. That said, there's no way, for me, that my love for those 2 songs vaults Foo Fighter's album above Stevie's album. And that's just based on "feel"; if I used numbers, those should back that up. Ultimately, that's an easy example though. It's where albums are closer together, or where I'm just not sure, that having numbers could really help.

I'm thinking the album grade has 5 levels, in English terms: Great, Good, Fine, Didn't Like, Awful. It wouldn't be a a straight 5-4-3-2-1, maybe something like 20-12-6-2-0? Hmm...that still maybe doesn't seem quite right...

For songs, it's probably a straight 1 point per song, with really amazing songs getting an extra 1-2 points.

Combine those and I'd get an overall score. Something to play around with at least! I'd have to go back to listen to most albums again but I'm curious if this approach would differ greatly from my current "feel" rankings.

@FoolFantastic, I know you have numerical scores on your personal rankings. Is it just a feel based thing or do have a more mathematical approach to arriving at those numbers?