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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 04/22/2018 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2686): London Calling by The Clash
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Today's album of the day
London Calling by The Clash (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1979.
Country: 
Overall rank: 15
Average rating: 87/100 (from 2378 votes).
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Tracks:
1. London Calling
2. Brand New Cadillac
3. Jimmy Jazz
4. Hateful
5. Rudie Can't Fail
6. Spanish Bombs
7. The Right Profile
8. Lost In The Supermarket
9. Clampdown
10. The Guns Of Brixton
11. Wrong 'Em Boyo
12. Death Or Glory
13. Koka Kola
14. The Card Cheat
15. Lover's Rock
16. Four Horsemen
17. I'm Not Down
18. Revolution Rock
19. Train In Vain
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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PaperVinnie
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: Pennsylvania 
- #2
- Posted: 04/22/2018 20:04
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I've never seen an album of the day that was this high up on the overall chart, interesting.
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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call
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Antonio-Pedro
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- #4
- Posted: 04/22/2018 22:20
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| PaperVinnie wrote: | | I've never seen an album of the day that was this high up on the overall chart, interesting. |
You must be new, normally they all come in bunch, don't be surprised if the bends is here tomorrow 
Also weird how much declined on the charts since I got here first. It was something between 8 or 9th, and now 15th, damn.
Obviously the title track rocks, but let's not forget that the masterpiece here (train in vain) was almost jumped by a lot of people because it was a hidden track
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Rhyner
soft silly music is meaningful magical
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Age: 37
Location: Utah
- #5
- Posted: 04/23/2018 00:37
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| Antonio-Pedro wrote: | | ...don't be surprised if the bends is here tomorrow |
I predict Feels by Animal Collective.
We won't see The Bends until December of 2019. But OK Computer should show up in September.
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PaperVinnie
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: Pennsylvania
- #6
- Posted: 04/23/2018 01:54
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| Rhyner wrote: | I predict Feels by Animal Collective.
We won't see The Bends until December of 2019. But OK Computer should show up in September. |
How do you figure? I mean are these guesses or have you found an algorithm?
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travelful
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Location: Knoxville, TN
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- Posted: 04/23/2018 02:46
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Great album. A bit of filler, but the highs are high.
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Rhyner
soft silly music is meaningful magical
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Location: Utah
- #8
- Posted: 04/23/2018 21:04
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| PaperVinnie wrote: | | How do you figure? I mean are these guesses or have you found an algorithm? |
I read this:
| albummaster wrote: | | About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here. |
...and wondered how long the "x day period" is, so I followed the provided link and clicked back through until I found the last time London Calling was album of the day. Turns out it was exactly three years ago, and the string of albums just before it happened to coincide with the albums we've had since clear back in October.
My guess is that highly ranked albums reliably show up "prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours", no matter what day it is, which means they'll be selected as album of the day as soon as the "x day period" (three years) has passed. So I just checked the next album of the day three years ago (04/23/2015) and it was Feels by Animal Collective. Hence my prediction, which turned out to be correct. Following on that, I'm betting we get Thriller tomorrow, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots a couple days after that, and so on.
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albummaster
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Gender: Male
Location: Spain
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- #9
- Posted: 04/24/2018 08:01
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| Rhyner wrote: | | My guess is that highly ranked albums reliably show up "prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours", no matter what day it is, which means they'll be selected as album of the day as soon as the "x day period" (three years) has passed. So I just checked the next album of the day three years ago (04/23/2015) and it was Feels by Animal Collective. Hence my prediction, which turned out to be correct. Following on that, I'm betting we get Thriller tomorrow, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots a couple days after that, and so on. |
I think you're mostly right and I hadn't realised it was getting that predictable... I originally thought three years would be a long enough time period for people to form new opinions, or the audience to change enough so that the albums could be presented to some new people. I still think presenting the top ranked albums now and again is a good thing for those people that haven't come across them before (& not necessarily this album in particular).
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PaperVinnie
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Location: Pennsylvania
- #10
- Posted: 04/24/2018 11:50
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| Rhyner wrote: | I read this:
...and wondered how long the "x day period" is, so I followed the provided link and clicked back through until I found the last time London Calling was album of the day. Turns out it was exactly three years ago, and the string of albums just before it happened to coincide with the albums we've had since clear back in October.
My guess is that highly ranked albums reliably show up "prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours", no matter what day it is, which means they'll be selected as album of the day as soon as the "x day period" (three years) has passed. So I just checked the next album of the day three years ago (04/23/2015) and it was Feels by Animal Collective. Hence my prediction, which turned out to be correct. Following on that, I'm betting we get Thriller tomorrow, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots a couple days after that, and so on. |
cool stuff, thanks for sharing.
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