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Re: Influence chart

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:14:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/29/2015 18:14

meccalecca wrote:

I think the general idea here has some potential.

How about this for an idea...

If the site could have a way of collecting recs on album pages.

So, say you were to go to the album page for Nick Cave's "Tender Prey", and that album page lists album recs based on user input.

Much like the genre tagging system of Rate Your Album, users on BEA would be able to add album recs, and vote up or down suggestions, so the ranking of suggested albums would be ranked by the votes received.

This could be super helpful for finding new records, and much more easy to navigate than Recommendation threads.

Naturally, Albumaster has a lot on his plate and this would be quite an undertaking, but I could see a lot of people benefitting from it.

All of this. I'd definitely try to help out with this if it ever happened as I really enjoy tracing the history of rock and hearing different scenes & sounds evolve.

Re: Influence chart

meccalecca — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:11:47 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 04/29/2015 17:11

I think the general idea here has some potential.

How about this for an idea...

If the site could have a way of collecting recs on album pages.

So, say you were to go to the album page for Nick Cave's "Tender Prey", and that album page lists album recs based on user input.

Much like the genre tagging system of Rate Your Album, users on BEA would be able to add album recs, and vote up or down suggestions, so the ranking of suggested albums would be ranked by the votes received.

This could be super helpful for finding new records, and much more easy to navigate than Recommendation threads.

Naturally, Albumaster has a lot on his plate and this would be quite an undertaking, but I could see a lot of people benefitting from it.

Re: Influence chart

SuedeSwede — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:53:51 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 04/29/2015 14:53

DarkSideOfTheComputer wrote:

at the bottom of the tree/chart would be the most recent artists. and it would go upwards and branch out relating to their influences.

No, I get what you're trying to suggest... but how would this tree actually work? Who would create it? Who dictates who influenced someone or not? This seems very difficult for something with little use.

Re: Influence chart

DarkSideOfTheComputer — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:21:53 GMT

Author: DarkSideOfTheComputer

Posted: 04/29/2015 14:21

SuedeSwede wrote:

How would that work

at the bottom of the tree/chart would be the most recent artists. and it would go upwards and branch out relating to their influences.

Re: Influence chart

DarkSideOfTheComputer — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:16:22 GMT

Author: DarkSideOfTheComputer

Posted: 04/29/2015 14:16

ok, that didn't display it how I wanted...

you get what I was trying to do

Re: Influence chart

SuedeSwede — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:10:41 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 04/29/2015 14:10

How would that work

Influence chart

DarkSideOfTheComputer — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:09:20 GMT

Author: DarkSideOfTheComputer

Posted: 04/29/2015 14:09

What I'd love to see on here is a chart/tree linking artists to artists relating to their influence. So, for example

Syd Barrett
|
David Bowie
/ \
Lady Gaga Freddie Mercury