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Re: Band vs lame?

RoundTheBend — Sat, 5 Jan 2013 03:29:48 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/05/2013 08:29

hmmm... fail

Well, but what does it mean if you don't include anything but level 7 charts?

Re: Band vs lame?

Defago — Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:10:16 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 01/05/2013 04:10

It would be really cool for someone to create a forum-only chart... I think I might do that over the weekend, if anybody is interested. I'll make a thread later.

I foresee a really wacky and unusual chart.

Re: Band vs lame?

pearljammer13 — Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:48:42 GMT

Author: pearljammer13

Posted: 01/05/2013 00:48

HigherThanTheSun wrote:

Either that or there's something wrong with seth's custom chart, it's hard to believe that it's almost identical to the overall chart.

Yeah I believe there's something wrong with that link, because what I'm getting is identical to the overall chart. No way it would be even close to that.

Re: Band vs lame?

Anonymous — Fri, 4 Jan 2013 18:46:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/04/2013 23:46

HigherThanTheSun wrote:

There's no obvious grammatical errors so well done, you have a better grasp of the proper use of apostrophes than most native speakers I'd say 😁

I'd say that I agreed with your point until I saw the custom chart that seth posted. Maybe people do have controversial opinions on music on the forums but when we average things out the forum members' collective taste is roughly in line with the collective taste of all the people who've ever made a chart on this site.

Either that or there's something wrong with seth's custom chart, it's hard to believe that it's almost identical to the overall chart.

The chart is sorted by an album's rank score. Those are all the albums in level 7's charts in order of the overall chart. There is no way to combine all the charts by the rank positions on those specific charts. When customizing, it automatically defaults to "sort by rank score", which means rank score on the overall chart.

Re: Band vs lame?

HigherThanTheSun — Fri, 4 Jan 2013 18:40:25 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/04/2013 23:40

sethmadsen wrote:

Seeing that posts count for the most points, would it seem logical to just do, everyone above a 7 in the customization feature of the site. For example: http://www.besteveralbums.com/makechart...=RankScore

The first few pages are almost exactly the same as the main chart 🤔 Maybe the forum's tasted aren't so different after all.

drakonium wrote:

In fact the forum seems to have a musical culture which is way bigger than the site's, and more "controversial", or at least personal, opinions. Those reasons make the discussions more interesting than just Beatles or Radiohead arguments, and are probably what make people of the forum stay on the forum, and people with more "mainstream" tastes stay out of it.

So yes, even if the forum and the site have a common basis (particularly albums acclaimed on both, like ITAOTS, VU&N, Loveless, ...), they have very divergent tastes when it comes to most music.

This was very tough to write, I hope the grammatical mistakes won't make my point unclear :|

Re: Band vs lame?

drakonium — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 19:01:29 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 01/04/2013 00:01

In fact the forum seems to have a musical culture which is way bigger than the site's, and more "controversial", or at least personal, opinions. Those reasons make the discussions more interesting than just Beatles or Radiohead arguments, and are probably what make people of the forum stay on the forum, and people with more "mainstream" tastes stay out of it.

So yes, even if the forum and the site have a common basis (particularly albums acclaimed on both, like ITAOTS, VU&N, Loveless, ...), they have very divergent tastes when it comes to most music.

This was very tough to write, I hope the grammatical mistakes won't make my point unclear 😐

Re: Band vs lame?

RoundTheBend — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:59:00 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/03/2013 23:59

Seeing that posts count for the most points, would it seem logical to just do, everyone above a 7 in the customization feature of the site. For example: http://www.besteveralbums.com/makechart...=RankScore

Re: Band vs lame?

HigherThanTheSun — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:54:51 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/03/2013 23:54

If someone could be bothered, you could get everyone to list their top 20/50 albums or so and make a forum top 100. Would be pretty interesting I reckon. Anyone?

Re: Band vs lame?

RoundTheBend — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:40:49 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/03/2013 23:40

Borve Baunehoj wrote:

I did this once with the top rated charts in an attepmt to make a custom chart called 'BEA friendly', but got bored after having done 10 charts or so. Can't find where I had it (charts have also changed now so it's outdated), but I remember Loveless to be #1. Closer, Spiderland, Pink Moon, ITAOTS, Funeral, Tago Mago and Spirit of Eden were other albums in the top 10

Sounds about right.

Re: Band vs lame?

pearljammer13 — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:35:35 GMT

Author: pearljammer13

Posted: 01/03/2013 23:35

I'm sure there would be a lot of post punk, progressive, post rock etc. Never been a huge fan of those genres but they definitely seem to be big amongst forum contributors.

Re: Band vs lame?

Anonymous — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:18:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/03/2013 21:18

thejoj96 wrote:

It would be very interesting to see a chart made by combining all of the forum-users' charts. What album do you guys think would be #1?

Re: Band vs lame?

Jasonconfused — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:13:46 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 01/03/2013 21:13

thejoj96 wrote:

It would be very interesting to see a chart made by combining all of the forum-users' charts. What album do you guys think would be #1?

Hehe probably The Velvet Underground and Nico.

Re: Band vs lame?

Anonymous — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:07:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/03/2013 21:07

It would be very interesting to see a chart made by combining all of the forum-users' charts. What album do you guys think would be #1?

Re: Band vs lame?

Anonymous — Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:34:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/03/2013 14:34

The tastes of the forum users differs significantly from the tastes of the entire site, although the top-ranked charts now represent the forum's tastes almost completely.

Re: Band vs lame?

Jasonconfused — Wed, 2 Jan 2013 22:57:02 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 01/03/2013 03:57

vast*

Re: Band vs lame?

Anonymous — Wed, 2 Jan 2013 22:06:50 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/03/2013 03:06

Jasonconfused wrote:

Well obviously not "totally different" but I'm sure the fast majority of people on this site don't participate in the forums.

A very fast majority; in fact they won the 2013 olypmic race! Very fast people!

Re: Band vs lame?

Jasonconfused — Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:59:47 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 01/03/2013 02:59

sethmadsen wrote:

Are you saying the overall rankings or the BEA rankings- or both, meaning that the group that actually posts in the forums, vs the group that just rates stuff, are totally different?

Well obviously not "totally different" but I'm sure the fast majority of people on this site don't participate in the forums.

Re: Band vs lame?

Anonymous — Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:58:41 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/03/2013 02:58

sethmadsen wrote:

Are you saying the overall rankings or the BEA rankings- or both, meaning that the group that actually posts in the forums, vs the group that just rates stuff, are totally different?

i'd assume, and think that, both

Re: Band vs lame?

RoundTheBend — Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:57:58 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/03/2013 02:57

HigherThanTheSun wrote:

^^What I was about to say, and I don't think they do a lot of the time.

Are you saying the overall rankings or the BEA rankings- or both, meaning that the group that actually posts in the forums, vs the group that just rates stuff, are totally different?

Re: Band vs lame?

HigherThanTheSun — Wed, 2 Jan 2013 20:04:23 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/03/2013 01:04

Yourselfisntsteam wrote:

I guess the forum's opinions won't necessarily line up with the rest of the site.

^^What I was about to say, and I don't think they do a lot of the time.