Professional Music Reviewer: now, there’s an easy job, right? Well, maybe not? Now that I’ve got a couple of gigs of my music ripped, I’m starting to shuffle through it and I’m attempting to give a rating to each song that I listen to. It’s harder than I was expecting, becuase I know that I like certain songs more or less depending on when I listen to them. When I hear If I Had $100,000 as I work away in my office I like it less than I would if I was driving down the highway on a sunny day with the moonroof open singing it with friends. So, do I rate it as “good” or “excellent?” For your approval, and critique, I present my meager rating system with the sparse criteria that I use along with a song that received this rating…

★★★★★ Best of the Best: This song deserves to be on an essentials list somewhere. (Dire Straights, Money For Nothing)
★★★★ Excellent: I would pay money to own this song. (U2, Even Better than the Real Thing)
★★★ Good: This song is worth listening to, but I wouldn’t buy a CD just for it. (Barenaked Ladies, Alternative Girlfriend)
★★ Indifferent: It’s not like I don’t like this song, I just don’t like it. Skip it, but don’t delete it. (Beatles, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer)
★ Awful: This song is only here because the rest of the album is.
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