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YATQ demoted to 3 1/2 Stars in All Music Guide
posted by davidt on Thursday June 17 2004, @08:00AM

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It seems like the folks at the All Music Guide changed their minds about YATQ after having it for a bit longer. It was previously given 4 stars, now it's at 3 1/2. I had suspected that AMG had been changing ratings, but I'm sure of it now.
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    Back to 4 stars again ? (Score:1)
    YATQ appears to have been upgraded [allmusic.com] back to four stars again. ILM had a thread [wh3rd.net] on these recently re-graded 3.5 star reviews, apparently all the albums that were down-graded are back to 4 stars again.
    Almodis <almodisNO@SPAMhotpress.com> -- Thursday June 17 2004, @08:50AM (#111179)
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      not in my book! (Score:1)
      i think that my estimation of the album grows over time.

      Camden is sneaking up on me despite my best efforts...
      suzanne <{suzsch} {at} {sbcglobal.net}> -- Thursday June 17 2004, @09:14AM (#111190)
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       I scare dead people.
        Maybe the pro-Bush Clear Channel had influence (Score:1, Interesting)
        Clear Channel controls pop music in America and they love Bush.
        Anonymous -- Thursday June 17 2004, @09:44AM (#111204)
          Grades (Score:1)
          Some of the downgraded albums (Meat is Murder) are still at 3 1/2 stars. This is because Allmusic have changed their system. They never used the 3 1/2 rating before, but they've started now. So some of the 4 star albums are now 3 1/2.
          Josef K -- Thursday June 17 2004, @09:58AM (#111206)
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          • Re:Grades by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday June 17 2004, @10:08AM
            Curiouser and Curios (Score:1)
            Up until recently, AllMusic and AllMovie dot com, didn't even have a 3 and a half star rating. They went from 3 right to 4. I looked all over for CD's with this rating but found none. Then, I confirmed this by looking at the file names for the star GIF files they used. Now, they've added (back?) that grade. ;)
            alainsane -- Thursday June 17 2004, @11:04AM (#111224)
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              juste checked... (Score:1)
              and it still said 4stars.
              chrisarclark <clarkinatorclark@hotmail.com> -- Thursday June 17 2004, @07:00PM (#111308)
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               "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."
                see for yourself. (Score:1)
                http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB020406172257001402&sql=Bx9n8b 5x4bsqf

                then we can all count them together.
                chrisarclark <clarkinatorclark@hotmail.com> -- Thursday June 17 2004, @07:02PM (#111310)
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                 "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."
                  Back to 4 (Score:0)
                  I submitted this story. Looks like it's back to 4. What's the deal?
                  Anonymous -- Thursday June 17 2004, @07:52PM (#111317)
                    Strange (Score:0)
                    I've even seen reviews of albums there taken down or edited shorter. I remember somebody totally trashed Coldplay's first album, before US release I think, then a couple of weeks later it was deleted and a much more positive review was put up. The downside of that site is that the reviews can be too fair and balanced, nothing really opinionated there.
                    Anonymous -- Friday June 18 2004, @06:25AM (#111365)

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