{"id":8878,"date":"2011-08-24T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2011-08-29T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T13:43:55","slug":"critical-ratings-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-ratings-downgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Ratings Downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept is rather simple. <em>Which critically acclaimed album is overvalued and therefore in need of a rating downgrade?<\/em> I ask for only <strong>1 album per Townsperson<\/strong>. In this case it will be for <strong>&#8217;70s rock<\/strong>. I plan to roll out other genres and variation in the future, such as &#8217;80s College, Dylan, etc. For this exercise you are free to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\">AllMusic.com<\/a>, Rolling Stone Album Guide, Trouser Press Record Guide, or whatever resource material in your library as long as it rates albums up to 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8872\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/critical-ratings-downgrade\/no-5star\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/no-5star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No easy targets. It would be too simple to pick on some band or artist that you don&#8217;t care for personally. Given the chance I could bore you all with personal dissection of why Steely Dan&#8217;s 5-star rating of Countdown to Ecstasy at AllMusic.com is jazz noodling nonsense. Too easy. The challenge is to pick an artist\/band you actually tolerate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept is rather simple. Which critically acclaimed album is overvalued and therefore in need of a rating downgrade? I ask for only 1 album per Townsperson. In this case it will be for &#8217;70s rock. I plan to roll out other genres and variation in the future, such as &#8217;80s College, Dylan, etc. For <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-ratings-downgrade\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}