Here are a few things I noticed on first looking at them:
1. Again, not much overlap. Certain artists do show up quite a bit, but often people have chosen different albums. Nick Cave is popular among us, but apparently we can't agree on one recording. Same for Dylan (but how do you choose one Dylan album?).
2. Some went for mostly new stuff, some for mostly classics. Some of us went for a mix. It will be interesting to see if newbies or classics win out in the end.
3. It seems like a quite a few of number one picks don't show up on any one else's lists. Weird, huh?
4. I will say that it feels a little bizarro to have Ladies and Gentlmen on MVB's list, (and not on mine) and Houses of the Holy on mine (and not on his).
Okay, I believe Karl is now going to figure out how to get the top 64 albums out of these lists.
WONDERFUL purple lightening "Music Death Match" image.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I did NOT realize Bruce had created the image. Wasn't just trying to celebrate his major achievement. Also, lightning.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I've made good progress on canonicalization -- mostly just optional "The"s, and some punctuation and special non Latin letters. To whet your appetite, here are the bands with 3 or more mentions:
ReplyDelete8 Spiritualized
6 Rolling Stones
6 Radiohead
6 Luna
6 Bob Dylan
5 Wilco
5 U2
5 Sufjan Stevens
5 Bjork
4 Yo La Tengo
4 Weakerthans
4 The Kinks
4 Sigur Ros
4 Broken Social Scene
4 Beck
3 White Stripes
3 Weezer
3 Tom Waits
3 The New Pornographers
3 The Band
3 Stone Roses
3 Smashing Pumpkins
3 Red House Painters
3 Portishead
3 Pink Floyd
3 Passion Pit
3 Nick Drake
3 Neko Case
3 Mercury Rev
3 Magnetic Fields
3 M.I.A.
3 Low
3 Led Zeppelin
3 His Name Is Alive
3 Flaming Lips
3 Explosions in the Sky
3 Cat Power
3 Beatles
3 Beach Boys
3 Air
Actually, I'm considering changing the ranking function to include the popularity of the band separately from the popularity of the album. If a prolific artist is mentioned many times, but each time a different album, it would be unfair if *none* of those albums made it to the tourney.
Not as sure I did a good job with combining these albums -- lots more variation. I'll re-check it . . . or rather, send it to Andy to re-check for me. But here's so far the list of all albums that got more than one mention:
ReplyDelete6 Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
4 You Forgot It In People
4 Penthouse
3 Stone Roses
3 Songs For a Blue Guitar
3 Siamese Dream
3 Pet Sounds
3 OK Computer
3 Kid A
3 Illinoise
3 I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
3 Elephant
3 Chunk of Change
3 Blue Album
3 69 Love Songs
2 Young Team
2 Walking Wounded
2 Time Out of Mind
2 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
2 The Band
2 Summerteeth
2 Stars on ESP
2 Silent Alarm
2 See You On The Other Side
2 Santogold
2 Rain Dogs
2 Post
2 Moon Safari
2 Moon Pix
2 Middle Cyclone
2 Left and Leaving
2 Kala
2 Is This It
2 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
2 If You're Feeling Sinister
2 I and Love and You
2 I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
2 Homogenic
2 Give Up
2 Funeral
2 For Emma, Forever Ago
2 Dummy
2 Disintegration
2 Challengers
2 Blood on the Tracks
2 Being There
2 Automatic for the People
2 And She Closed Her Eyes
2 Achtung Baby
2 1965
Another fun one: Everyone's top 3:
ReplyDeleterank, artist, album, voter
1 Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind AndyW
2 Bob Marley Legend Brian
3 Cat Power Moon Pix Kevin
1 Eluvium Copia Bruce
2 Grant Lee Buffalo Mighty Joe Moon Jeff
2 Guh We Are Sunburning Dwight
2 Laurie Anderson Big Science Karl
3 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Mark
2 Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Steve
2 Massive Attack Blue Lines Eric
2 Mountains Mountains Bruce
3 Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea AndyW
3 New Order Substance Eric
2 Nick Harper Light at the end of the kennel Mark
3 Nirvana Nevermind Brian
3 Passion Pit Chunk of Change Bruce
1 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Karl
1 Pixies Surfer Rosa Dwight
1 Radiohead Kid A Kevin
3 Radiohead Kid A Sarah
2 Red House Painters Songs for a Blue guitar Kevin
1 Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Sarah
1 Roy Harper Stormcock Mark
2 Sigur Ros Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust Jane
3 Spiritualized Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Steve
1 Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies Jeff
3 Sufjan Stevens Illinoise Jane
3 Sufjan Stevens Illinoise Jeff
3 The Band The Band AndyZ
1 The Clash London Calling AndyZ
1 The Cure Disintegration Steve
2 The Hold Steady Separation Sunday AndyZ
1 The Kinks Something Else by the Kinks Eric
2 The Kinks The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society AndyW
2 The New Pornographers Challengers Sarah
3 Tom Waits Rain Dogs Karl
1 U2 Joshua Tree Brian
1 Weakerthans Reconstruction Site Jane
3 Weezer Blue Album Dwight