10s Can't Have Skips



But what’s a skip?

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49 thoughts on “10s Can't Have Skips”

  1. This whole argument is so weird to me, because my autistic music nerd ass does not do "playlists" and never has. I'm and elder millennial, so I grew up in a time before music streaming was a thing, back when Napster was in its heyday, and lots of my peers were making "mixtapes" from either downloaded or ripped mp3 files burned to CD, and I've just never been about that. The way that I have always personally listened to music is I throw entire CDs in my queue, and listen to them front to back and in order, and my "playlists" are CD1 -> CD3 -> CD2 -> CD58, and I very rarely do skips at all.

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  2. i think for the most part your right, but they're are definitely exceptions like with dsotm by pink floyd, on the run is a perfect example of a song that I'd never listen to in any scenario yet i still respect it as a piece of music and art. I feel like albums can catch a break when it comes to artistic experimental songs that convey a message or feeling with actual context to the album.

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  3. I agree with you. A score of 10 on an album should means all the songs are good and the album would be considered a masterpiece. If there is filler on an album or “skits” that are old after one listen then that would downgrade the album. Some albums have a couple great songs and the rest is ok or mediocre, those albums would get scored appropriately due to that.

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  4. i think your best takes are not related to specific works. you are spot on here and if you made this same level of spicy take about an album, people that like that album will have an emotional response.

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  5. I agree for almost all examples, but my one difference is with wild honey pie off of the white album, an album I hold at a 10/10. I do think the song somewhat helps the manic and all over the place atmosphere of the album, but I can’t deny I don’t like the song. I don’t really ever skip songs, but this is probably the equivalent of a skip that I’d still consider to be on a 10/10 album

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  6. all I can say is, my favorite albums have flaws, whereas there are albums I might not find any flaws in, but they just don't move me the same way my favorites do. flawlessness is overrated.

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  7. I will propose my case for why a 10/10 album can have skips. My pick here is Dark Side of The Moon. This album is a 10 for me, it changed my life like it has so many others, I'm certainly not unique in that opinion. HOWEVER, also in my opinion, it has 3 skips. Speak To Me, On The Run, and Any Colour You Like. Of course it isn't lost on me the importance and significance of these songs within the narrative and concept of the album at large, they DO add to the experience and I'd say the album is made better with them, but with that said I do skip them a lot 🤷‍♂️. They aren't the best songs Pink Floyd ever wrote, they aren't the best songs of their time, they aren't some of the best songs in general. They are good songs and they make the album complete, but they aren't what changed my life. Breathe, Time, Great Gig In The Sky, Us And Them – those are the songs that changed my life. Those songs alone could make the album a 10, the rest is just extra for me.

    TL;DR I think a 10 can have skips provided the best songs outweigh the worst ones to such a degree that they could be literal fart audio and yet the album still moves you and blows your mind every time you listen because the good songs are just THAT soul shatteringly good.

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  8. I get what you're saying but I think what you're saying is a gray area. To me ITAOTS and Toxicity are 10's, but there are songs on them that I always skip on both albums because I don't like them, but can see how they make the albums cohesive and "10-quality" because they're there. Because I don't think "The Fool" from ITAOTS is a good song doesn't negate from the fact that I think it's a perfect album.

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  9. Completely agree, skips mean it's not a 10.

    One thing that came to mind was that some of the best parts of an album can be skips when played on rotation in a playlist or a mix. Like, "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" is one of my favorite parts of Abbey Road, but it's part of a much larger thing going on, and if Spotify sends it my way in isolation while I'm on shuffle I'm probably skipping it — but it I had the album running as a whole it would definitely play.

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  10. My opinion 10 is perfect and a perfect album is one you can listen to the whole way through the only one I can think of off the top of my head is interstate185 by quinn

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  11. Yea I agree, calling a song a “skip” shouldn’t be ambiguous, that is either meaning you skip it sometimes or just think it’s bad. If it’s something you only skip sometimes what’s the point of declaring the song a “skip”? You listened to the song and you liked it, you just don’t listen to it every time why would you call that a skip? By that logic any song could be considered a skip on any given day just depending on whether or not you happen to be in the mood for it. If you think an album is 10/10 there shouldn’t be any song in it that you never like listening to, that would be a bad song, that would discount the album from being a perfect score.

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  12. To me the album is a whole that's greater than its parts, so I think an album with all 10/10 songs can fail to be a 10/10 album, and an album with all 9/10 songs can be a 10/10 album. But a 10 can't have a skip, which is to me a song that's bad, or at best, mid.

    Sometimes I might also think a song does a really good job at a certain thing, but not like or care for that thing itself. For example, in mario games there is often a water world with water levels, and those tend not to be the most fun levels to play. But at the same time if there weren't any water levels I would feel the experience of traversing a large world to be incomplete. For those types of games, part of the fun is conquering annoying tasks. It does a good job at something I might get annoyed at, but that doesn't make it bad. I think there can be a similar thing with music, but so long as I do deem it of good quality.

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  13. I think (like in college football) you can have one good loss (11-1) and that good loss can trump a team/record without a skip (12-0) if the wins (the unskippable tracks) are so good that you're basically dropping an album from 11/10 to a 10/10

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  14. I think it depends on the type of 10/10 record. Like for example: if I’m listening to Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, Animals or DSOTM, I’m not skipping any tracks. But, if I’m listening to George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, there may be a couple songs I skip even though I think that album is virtually perfect.

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  15. Hellmode I discovered this year and it’s a 10. Personally the song Like You Better isn’t my favorite and I end up skipping it a lot but it’s a well crafted and fun song. And I like the other songs so much that I’ve just decided it’s gotta be a 10 for me

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  16. I still don't see the point of most skits on Hip-Hop albums. Very few of them are funny and/or that interesting on multiple listens and just act as filler. It's not that I don't like interludes – I love a good one – I just think skits are normally a lot more sub-par or don't hold up on repeated playthroughs when compared to interludes. Outkast's "Stankonia" is a great example of that: killer songs, but WAYYYY too many skits. Hell, every second song there's a skit, so half the album winds up being filler.

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