A Thousand Suns has a 66 on Metacritic.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/a-thousand-suns

Now compare that to LP's other albums.

Now laugh.

For some reason though, HT isn't on there 0.o

 

Or Reanimation for that matter.

 

WHAT IS THIS. I DON'T EVEN.

Critics smoke crack.

 

It has only considered 10 professional critics.
I'm sure it would be higher/lower if it considered all professional critics

 

That's 'cuz it's OLD. Metacritic doesnt have anything before 2001 it seems (which is silly).

This is why critics are useless. Critics are just forum posters with a publisher.

 

66 upside down is a 99. Maybe it's part of the A Thousand Suns journey.

 

+1
Most of them don't even know what they are talking about. All in all, it's just another opinion (ie, it doesn't matter).

 

LOL, ATS really beat Meteora =)) in the eye of critics?
I have never thought about that.

 

I don't really think numbers are the important thing in terms of professional reviews - anyone can rate an album out of ten, professional reviews are payed to write reviews: and they always do it a lot better than any forum poster here...

 

Always? There's probably dozens of people that actively post here that can write better than a lot of the critics.

 

Well of course, it's not like these reviewers study film theory or music theory at quality schools for several years or anything... :-\

 

Always.

 

Challenge accepted.

 

I'm watching this thread.

 

66 is too high imo.

 

I now 100% will NEVER trust a music critics rating. I know its a load of bull.

 

You can tell how valid their opinions are just by seeing how well their article is written.

 

People should probably keep in mind that critics are reviewing the album from a music listener's point of view, rather than a fan's point of view. You'd probably know so much more, be able to relate to, understand and have some sort of connection to your favourite band, whereas a music reviewer is just listening to the music and giving an opinion. You probably shouldn't ever be reading a professional review of your favourite band anyway.

The role of a professional reviewer is to write something up - hopefully positive, so that the band will get some sort of hype, sell more records. This is the reason bands send their cds to reviewers - reviewers don't just download it off the interwebs and listen and write about it. A professional reviewer is more trustworthy, has a better reputation and less biased then any forum poster - this is why you don't see quotes taken from forum user reviews on posters/album stickers/promotional fliers/whatever.

The album probably is about a 66 or less anyway in my opinion.

Also Dean, it would have taken me like ten less minutes to write this post if I didn't end up staring at your signature every five seconds. Am going to have to adblock it if you don't remove it . Nah, I fucking love it too much haha.