Worst Ratings on Allmusic
You know, I really like AllMusic. Their reviews are not as biased as on other music websites, and they give every genre a fair chance. However, sometimes their ratings are... strange. It's not too often the case, but sometimes this is beyond reasoning. And I'm not talking about giving 3.5 to an album you call one of your favorite, but ratings that don't remotely reflect the quality or significance of the music. Often accompanied by a mind insulting review. But thankfully, it doesn't happen too often.
I have no problem with the fact that they give the Paris Hilton album a positive review. I listened to it and it's not as bad as you'd expect. It's a mediocre radio pop album that has nothing original and Hilton is not a vocal talent, but the production is good and overall, it's okay to listen to. But really: when it comes to pop music you can NOT put her album in the same category as Christina Aguilera or Shakira! Pop albums should be able to get a really high rating when they are outstanding compared to other pop albums. "Stripped" and "Oral Fixation, Vol. 2" are. They were varied, balanced, perfectly composed, produced and performed, and written by the artists themselves. "Paris" definitely isn't. It is okay but nothing memorable.
Suggestion: 3 stars.
What in the hell.
I know that apparantly Nickelback is hated in the US, but this one is ridiculous, coming from a site that usually awards 2 stars for music they pan pretty bad. Also, none of their reviews of artists that get hate are actually biased and they always give a fair rating. Here, they call Nickelback a vulgar and misogynic band. They didn't have a problem with other artists being way more vulgar and misogynic though. Almost every hip hop album is more controversially sexual than this (not hating on hip hop at all, just pointing out how illogical this is).
Suggestion: 3 to 3.5 stars.
(I'd rate it higher because my rating are personal, but looking at it neutral, it is solid)
I know, 3 stars ain't bad, and I could live with the rating alone if the review accompanying it would not treat the band like a novelty act. For those who do not know, "Mutter" ranks among the most lyrically complex German albums ever, citing, referencing and re-interpreting classic European literature and folk tales like Tarantino does the same with movies, and singing interpretable lyrics full of metaphors, double meanings and symbols.
It takes very much intellect to understand the album and you have to dig very deep to find the essence. But AllMusic treats the band like they wouldn't take themselves seriously and delivered a few catchy songs.
PS: Okay, I see now the album was updated to 4 stars. That definitely was not the original rating. But the review is still the same...
This is easily one of my favorite albums of the early 2000s. 3 stars just shows the review was done by someone who knew nothing about German culture and just figured it was a nice heavy album.
I am already 100% sure these ratings aren't based on professional reviews by music critics. It's just a list of artists ordered by number of sold copies. Same for the ratings of the Rolling Stone magazine, VH1, and so on. Only an absolutely deaf and musically retarded person would rate Paris Hilton 4.5 stars, and this Deep Purple album 2 Stars.
One of their best albums only gets two stars proves how underrated this is
This makes me furious. It is one of the most important and influential albums in German music history.
It was in the 70s, probably the best decade for musical rebels (even though it was way before my time and the decade rarely reflects my personal taste), when Nina Hagen, a young woman from East Germany who migrated to West Germany, hit the stage with her band who would later become Spliff. What they recorded is a German punk/new wave album that does not shy away one moment from touchy subjects and is extremely direct about them: Hagen -shrieking, yodelling, screaming, and in between, singing - performs her rants supporting abortion and how she hates being expected to fulfill her "duties" as a woman (having a family and children), she shares her sexual adventures with a woman on a train station toilet with us, or her even more private adventures under the shower in heavy detail, sings about West German T.V. watched by stupid East German teens (not my opinion, just ...more
So one of the worst metal albums ever gets 4 stars and yet they gave Altars of Madness only 3 stars
This is widely considered Deaths best album and yet allmusic only gave it 3 stars when every other rating from other websites rate this pretty high
This is one of the most acclaimed soundtracks of all time, and won two Oscars. And rightfully so. The album includes all of the songs in their movie version, some in versions sung by Elton John and some of the score.
But AllMusic treats the musical songs like mere radio pop songs, and complains that there is not more of the score. They gave it 2 stars.
Suggestion: at least 4 stars. But actually, it deserves more than that.
Tuomas Holopainen is universally acclaimed as a great poet and composer, and his music has had a huge impact in several European countries and has influenced many artists. Sure, Wishmaster is not among their best works, but it is far from being mediocre and deserves at least 3.5 stars.
Is just so good as the first one and only had 3 stars, with songs like Dr Stein, Eagle Fly Free and I Want Out
Basically, this wonderfully composed 80s rock masterpiece which had impact at least in Europe, was criticized because the songs on it are too long. Wow.
Strange, because its predecessor rightfully received 4.5 stars and had everything this album has as well.
It may not be as influential as The Lion King, but the Pocahontas soundtrack still contains wonderfully composed music with a message, and was also winner of several awards. But AllMusic thinks the songs are a bore and not memorable. Deserves at least 3.5 stars.
Serously one of the best Death Metal Albums ever only gets 3 stars this should be 4.5 or 5 stars
So the album with "The Show Must Go On" the single greatest vocal preformance of all time (and keep in mind Freddie Mercury was dying when he sang that song) only gets 3 stars?
Does this need any explaining? One of the greatest singers of the 21st Century sings beautifully composed and performed songs that perfectly fit her wonderful voice, sometimes very mystical and soft, sometimes more rock-ish and cool. But AllMusic gave it one of the harshest reviews I ever read by them. You may think the songs are Nightwish rip-offs, you may even think they are boring and uninspired. But they certainly are not terrible beyond compare. They only have a handful of 1.5 star ratings, so this rating basically means "the worst", and sorry, this is beyond any logical reasoning.
Suggestion: Actually 4 stars. But at least 3. Pretty much everything higher than 1.5 would be more fitting.
Same case as Weezer's Raditude, the only difference is than Raditude at least is listenable, I give it 1 star
This Album is extremely underrated, it's by no means perfect, but I think 3.5 or 4 stars would have been fine
(I'll go with 4 stars)
This proves how overhated this album is and yet they gave Demolition 3 stars
Deserve less than 3.5 stars, is by far the worst Weezer album and it's kind of ilogical than Make Believe has less stars (3) than this one
Suicide Squad's soundtrack has been called one of the best of the last few years and a few of the songs can already even be called modern day classics. There is something for rock, indie and hip hop fans and it perfectly blends into the other. But AllMusic doesn't like it that much.
Suggestion: 3.5 stars.