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| From | "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Rolling Stone top 500 vs. Audities top 500 |
| Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:41:14 -0500 |
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An interesting insight into the RS poll is to look at the page where they
show who voted and how they tallied the votes. I actually would be
interested in replicating the procedure on Audities but not so interested as
to make a federal case out of it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Rolling Stone top 500 vs. Audities top 500
> Not sure if we need to do such a poll, to confirm what we all know in our
> heart of hearts...that Jellyfish's two albums are the # 1 and # 2 albums
of
> all-time...
>
> OK, I'm just kidding (sort of). While I think that an Audities list top
500
> would shed light on a lot of great albums, it would be subject to about as
> many bias and bouts of tunnel vision as the RS list. No offense to all of
> us, since we're great, but the focus of this list (and, consequently, its
> members) is such that just as much worthy stuff might be left out.
>
> Beyond that, the other problem, from a realistic standpoint, is that if
> every single list member responded with, let's say, ten choices, while
there
> would be some that would garner a fair amount of tallies, due to the
> hardcore music loving types here, you'd get tons of albums that would get
> one or two mentions. Realistically, once you got past the first 100 or
so,
> you'd probably only have albums that got very few tallies.
>
> Oh...and someone would have to compile it -- I'll stick with the top 20...
>
> Mike Bennett
>
>
>
> Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: mike vancha <mvancha@sasktel.net>
> >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> >To: audities@smoe.org
> >Subject: Rolling Stone top 500 vs. Audities top 500
> >Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:18:22 -0600
> >
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I know it would be a lot of work but with the knowledgeable people on
this
> >list, I'd love to see a top 500 from our Audities people. That would be a
> >much better and accurate list, I would think.
> >
> >
> >Mike V.
> >
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