[Tokyo Jihad]

This brings up an interesting conundrum. The first question that I raise is should these albums be on the same metric as The White Album. The White Album has been around for 44 years and there are chapters in books about it's creation, entire books devoted to it's appreciation, and the artists are some of the most well-chronicled figures in history. There are many-many stones unturned, whereas even as internet savvy as he may be, I know very very little about Frank Ocean and Channel Orange outside of the record. The next question is would I even consider The White Album, my reigning favorite album ever, a 100/100, and what does it even mean to be that? I might sooner consider Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 100/100's which doubly questions the metric.

When I would review Tokyo Jihen releases here I would always debate whether I should even have a grade/rank. They are a very useful shorthand, and I always look to them before I read/watch a review. The problem is that I have yet to land on a metric or scale I liked to describe my personal opinion. I hope to come to a conclusion soon, but it won't be tonight.

I am going to cop out and say I can't really grade these albums on that scale. At least yet. I can scale them against each other easily though and that's the list I have posted. The list is an adequate gauge of my feelings on these records. Though I do understand the preference to a gauge less relative, I can't yet provide one that I feel comfortable with. I hope that makes sense.