A Peep Through A Spyglass: My Chart Building Diary - Music Diaries

Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

Sorry if I'm accidentally stealing someone's idea, like Dr. Seuss did with all of mine, but I came here to talk, make charts and kick ass. And I'm all out of asses.

This is just a read-it-if-you-want collection of my thoughts to help me with chart building. The lockdown has me bored as fuck and the forums could use some lessons in activity from a mortician, so I'm gonna find some way to put chart building and chatting together in a way that peoplr can enjoy.

I'm on the verge of gaining access to creating custom charts, and I want my first one to be about my top 100 power metal albums. I'm currently I'm doing this very carefully. I'm going through every power metal band I know for this one. I think it will help my year charts if I can focus on ordering albums of scenes and styles which will share years due to time periods, even though power metal is a broad style going back to the 80's.

I'm doing this all on a memo on my phone. I've gone through all the German, Amercan, Italian and Finnish bands, and I'm going to add English ones now.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

Not really a metal fan myself, but do really dig your chart. Keep up the button clicking mania to help deal with isolation. See I'm a true introvert, so this whole isolation thing is like a dream come true. You read my t-shirt for the day, that's enough social interaction please... hehe. Anyway, keep it up and yeah I love all the people who like to poo-poo other peoples comments but then have nothing really worthy to contribute themselves. Keep contributing even if the ... bastards grind you down (name that tune!)

Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

RoundTheBend wrote:

Not really a metal fan myself, but do really dig your chart. Keep up the button clicking mania to help deal with isolation. See I'm a true introvert, so this whole isolation thing is like a dream come true. You read my t-shirt for the day, that's enough social interaction please... hehe. Anyway, keep it up and yeah I love all the people who like to poo-poo other peoples comments but then have nothing really worthy to contribute themselves. Keep contributing even if the ... bastards grind you down (name that tune!)

Thanks. I'm a huge extrovert, so I'm glad you've got quite a bit to say.

Now that I have all the bands I think I need, I'm working on ordering the discographies. I've heard all the Helloween and Blind Gardian albums (except for that classical one Blund Guardian released last year) so that helps a bit.
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.

Location: Kansas

Let's make it happen cap'n.

Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

OKKK I don't know what happened. When I clicked on my score a few hours ago, it said I had over 5200 points, which meant I'd be able to do custom charts at the bext update. Now it says I only have 4550. The fuck!? What is that? Now I can't do that power metal chart tonight at all.
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.

Location: Kansas

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I don't know what to tell you. Sad

RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

Spyglass wrote:

OKKK I don't know what happened. When I clicked on my score a few hours ago, it said I had over 5200 points, which meant I'd be able to do custom charts at the bext update. Now it says I only have 4550. The fuck!? What is that? Now I can't do that power metal chart tonight at all.

Ask AlbumMaster in PM (click messages)?

https://www.besteveralbums.com/userstat...e=Spyglass

If you look here you can see where your points break down - if you noticed this before you'd know where you had points and then the points went away... sometimes points can be taken away if you put something in the database wrong, but spot check said you are doing amazing there, so... dunno.

baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts

Spyglass wrote:

OKKK I don't know what happened. When I clicked on my score a few hours ago, it said I had over 5200 points, which meant I'd be able to do custom charts at the bext update. Now it says I only have 4550. The fuck!? What is that? Now I can't do that power metal chart tonight at all.

Did you delete charts and/or make them private? That's my best guess.
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Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

baystateoftheart wrote:

Did you delete charts and/or make them private? That's my best guess.

You mean I don't get points for charts if they're private?
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Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

Alright. Since I don't want my diary to become anymore distracted than it already became due to the fluxuation, I'm going to keep the thread on topic by showing you my ranking of the Helloween catalogue.

1. Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part 2
2. The Dark Ride
3. Better Than Raw
4. Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part 1
5. Walls of Jericho
6. The Time of the Oath
7. Live in the UK
8. Helloween EP
9. Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy World Tour
10. Gambling with the Devil
11. 7 Sinners
12. Master of the Rings
13. Straight Out of Hell
14. My God-Given Right
15. Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
16. Pink Bubbles Go Ape
17. Chameleob
18. Rabbit Don't Come Easy
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