The dumb thing about the tracks approach is that it's entirely relative. If you were to take it to the extreme, you could say an album with only 1 good track and 14 bad ones was a good album.
Noone does that (I hope), but where would you draw the line? If you were serious about your opinions - say your job was to write album reviews - then I think it would be good to have firmer criteria than that for how you score albums.
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Originally Posted by Minstrel
I don't disagree with that. But "how good an album is" isn't a key issue to me. If an artist has released 50 of my favourite songs, but none of their "albums" are classics to me, I'd still consider that a great artist...an artist that has given me a lot of musical pleasure.
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I think it's an important consideration for anyone who are serious about communicating their opinions. I agree that for personal enjoyment, it doesn't really matter that much.