I'm not flipping doing it but...

[eyesaregonnaroll]

Does anyone (moderator) want to lock the Song vs. song head to head thread then somebody with alot of spare time want to trawl through the results and post them?

I.e. from descending order

Trani won its bout 40% of the time
Milk 35%
Taper Jean Girl 34%

Etc. etc. I like it but I think the thread is making the music part of the forum lazy as well lol. I knwo I'm just a young upstart but .

[eyesaregonnaroll]

In fact if it gets locked I will do it.

[newtonab]

keep it goin til' they break up !!!

[groupielove]

oh wow, that would definately be taking one for the team! it would take forever, but very good idea./ smart hehe

i was thinking of suggesting a Happyalone famine - see if its possible for us happy-aloners to stay away from the forum for like an entire week! yes, im so sad that this would be difficult task for me to stick with! im up for a challenge and have a shit load of homework - it would be a great way to stop procrastinating lol. yah, i have no self control

but great idea!

[eyesaregonnaroll]

Lol impossible!! I touwld take aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to do ay. Maybe let it get to 100 pages, by then you have a pretty large sample size...would be a quie accurate gauge of what diehard fans like and don'tl ike in the KOL songbook. The thread with those results posted would be filled with ferocious debate I bet hahahaha...

[youtometoyou]

Apr 17, 2008 9:40:48 GMT groupielove said:

oh wow, that would definately be taking one for the team! it would take forever, but very good idea./ smart hehe

i was thinking of suggesting a Happyalone famine - see if its possible for us happy-aloners to stay away from the forum for like an entire week! yes, im so sad that this would be difficult task for me to stick with! im up for a challenge and have a shit load of homework - it would be a great way to stop procrastinating lol. yah, i have no self control

but great idea!

Wow, I don't think that is possible! I could never stay away from here for a week. It's even hard for me to stay away for a day!

[Alice]

Hi everyone, I’ve tallied it up because basically, I was pretty bored this evening and really couldn’t think of anything better to do with my time

I wasn’t sure how to display the results but I just went through the thread and counted how many times each song was chosen. Of course there are reasons as to why it might be unfair like the fact that some people might not have heard certain songs etc, but whatever…

As of reply #1314, there have been 1265 songs chosen so here’s the order (Allowing for a few errors because I can’t be bothered to check most of it):

1. Milk = 55 = 4.35% of total songs chosen (rounded up)
2. Trani = 47 = 3.76 %
3. Red Morning Light = 46 = 3.65%
= 4. King of the Rodeo = 44 = 3.48%
= 4. Arizona = 44 = 3.48%
5. True Love Way = 40 = 3.16%
6. Spiral Staircase = 38
= 7. Knocked Up = 36
= 7. Charmer = 36
= 8. Holly Roller Novocaine = 35
= 8. Ragoo = 35
= 8. Razz = 35
= 9. Wasted Time = 34
= 9. Taper Jean Girl = 34
= 9. Four Kicks = 34
= 9. McFearless = 34
= 10. My Third House = 33
= 10. Slow Night, So Long = 33
= 10. California Waiting = 33
= 10. Fans = 33
11. Woo Hoo = 32
= 12. The Bucket = 31
= 12. Soft = 31
13. Molly’s Chambers = 29
14. The Runner = 26
= 15. Happy Alone = 24
= 15. On Call = 24
= 15. Black Thumbnail = 24
16. Pistol of Fire = 23
17. Camaro = 22
= 18. Head to Toe = 21
= 18. Where Nobody Knows = 21
= 18. Day Old Blues = 21
= 19. My Party = 20
= 19. Genius = 20
= 19. Wicker Chair = 20
20. Joe’s Head = 19
21. Molly’s Hangover = 17
22. Talihina Sky = 16
23. Velvet Snow = 15
= 24. Rememo = 14
= 24. Trunk = 14
25. Dusty = 12
26. California Waiting (Alternative Version) = 7
27. Wasted Time (Alternative Version) = 2
28. Talihina Sky (Alternative Version) = 1

And the alternative version of Dusty wasn’t even mentioned to I guess that comes in at number 29.

My very limited maths skills worked out that Aha Shake Heartbreak was the most popular album with 30.9% of the vote. Followed by Because of the Times with 30.67%. (So it could change any time). Youth and Young Manhood has 27.9% and all the B-sides and alternative versions come in with 10.5% - (However, there are only 12 tracks (including Talihina Sky) on YAYM, whilst there are 13 on ASH and BOTT, meaning that YAYM is at a disadvantage, but I don’t really know how to get around that)

It could have been done it more technically and more interestingly I’m sure, but to be honest I don’t really know how, so now we have the numbers maybe someone could do something else with them.

And as you can see, it’s very close so it would be interesting to update it in a couple of months or so to see if things have changed.

Live long and prosper,

Alice.

[groupielove]

oh wow Alice!

you deserve some hardcore karma. we must show this to the rest of the forum - but how! haha

we should start a new thread for it - for viewing the results purposes.

maybe in fao or site stuff.... or music forum lol

jebus, i dont know how u did it!
have some karma.

three (or 1000) cheers for Alice!~

[Natzz]

Apr 18, 2008 5:20:54 GMT @youtometoyou said:

Apr 17, 2008 9:40:48 GMT groupielove said:

oh wow, that would definately be taking one for the team! it would take forever, but very good idea./ smart hehe

i was thinking of suggesting a Happyalone famine - see if its possible for us happy-aloners to stay away from the forum for like an entire week! yes, im so sad that this would be difficult task for me to stick with! im up for a challenge and have a shit load of homework - it would be a great way to stop procrastinating lol. yah, i have no self control

but great idea!

if you want to experience real physical pain caused by KOL, try to go on a one week ban from KOL. I did that a few weeks ago because I felt like I was seriously too attached to kol's music...tried to branch out. NEVER AGAIN! I couldn't listen to kol for one whole week..I couldn't sleep the first few days cause I always listen to arizona to make me fall asleep. Horrible horrible.

[drippingbeards]

Haha, karma alice. And btw when it says, for example:= 24. Rememo – 14, does this mean 'negative 14' or 'hyphen 14'?
Cos i wasnt so sure, lolz.

[Alice]

Thanks for the karma everyone

Oh and it's a hyphen, I meant to put = but just got distracted and put -
I'll edit it to avoid confusion.

[Pex On Fire-]

Great work there..... however

The stats are actually a false representation of the popularity of the songs as there was no consistancy in the questions asked

I.E. Milk won with 55 votes whereas. Talihina Sky (Alternative Version) only got 1 vote... Maybe if it had the same amount of head to head opertunities it would have got the same amount of votes.... if you get what I mean.

It's kinda like the old statistic that more red cars crash on the road EVERY year than any other car. They are not more dangerous, theres just a hell of a lot mor of them to crash

Don't mind me im just being a pedant

[Scarlettrix]

Wow Alice, good work!

[appleshaker]

yeah thats work well done. must have taking quite a while. Thanks karma

[Alice]

You're right Pexbo, and I thought of that whilst I was doing it. But I figured that the fact they were even suggested would prove them to be more popular.
So Milk would have been suggested more than Dusty, but that proves that it was more popular, as more people suggested it. Would that be right?
Because it's only looking at one thing (popularity) and not looking at two different things (e.g crashes and colour of the car)
And even though it's not the most scientific of polls, but it's better to have an indication of the most popular songs than just a really long thread with not a lot of point.

[drippingbeards]

Yep. I understand. Fully.

[Pex On Fire-]

Apr 20, 2008 16:05:01 GMT Alice said:

You're right Pexbo, and I thought of that whilst I was doing it. But I figured that the fact they were even suggested would prove them to be more popular.
So Milk would have been suggested more than Dusty, but that proves that it was more popular, as more people suggested it. Would that be right?
Because it's only looking at one thing (popularity) and not looking at two different things (e.g crashes and colour of the car)
And even though it's not the most scientific of polls, but it's better to have an indication of the most popular songs than just a really long thread with not a lot of point.

Haha like I said I was only being pedantic

Great job though Karma for the all the effort

[eyesaregonnaroll]

I was intending it to be done as a personal average fr each song and the score and subsequent placing was a reflection of the % of showdowns won. It's a mint job by Alice but I was saying that for example, Red Morning Light won 50/100 showdowns lets say thus it has a 50% success rate. Dusty Alternate version perhaps got nominated 2ce and won once thus it also has 50% obviously. It's still not completely fai but ti eliminates most of the submission or lack thereof discrepancy u were talking about......and it'l take a long fuckin time lol.

SOoooooooo if someone wants to do it before me you need not just the amount of times each song wins but for each showdown you need to record, who won who lost and add those into a running tally for each song.

[killface]

karma! good to know some feedback

[therunner]

Apr 21, 2008 1:56:27 GMT killface said:

karma! good to know some feedback

Oh Merciful Christ