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| From | "Lee Elliott" <blelliott01@gmail.com> |
| Subject | 80's Poll Results |
| Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:40:01 -0600 |
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From: Hastie, John
Subject: Audities Ranks the 80's - The winner is...
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:09:20 -0800
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Well we had to reopen the voting booth to allow our fine fellow lister from
Florida to cast his vote and his vote mainly affirmed the previous voting
(although his vote did push Sam Phillips into the top 100!).
And the winner is...
But first, some information about the vote itself. Forty two people managed
to find time to submit a vote for their favorites - about 10% of the
Audities family (and a little less than the percentage that voted in the
recent national election). So take that factor into consideration.
Then consider that the 42 voters managed to submit votes on 494 DIFFERENT
recordings! Of this total, 362 had votes by ONE person, 71 had votes by TWO
people and 36 had votes by THREE people. Add that up and it's obvious that
464 of the 494 (93%) had very little support (not enough advertising I
suppose). SO that leaves us with roughly 30 albums that struck the fancy
10% or more of our admittedly small voting populous.
I just had to run some analyses on the data and found the following:
Many artists received votes on one or two recordings, but fourteen artists
had THREE recordings nominated (Smithereens, Van Halen, Richard Thompson,
Todd, Split Enz, Jam, X, Cheap Trick, M Crenshaw, Game Theory, Queen, Robyn
Hitchcock, Husker Du, and Paul Kelly!). Four groups placed FOUR recordings
on the list (Shoes, dbs, Replacements, Utopia). Two artists had FIVE
recordings on the list (Prince & the Smiths). Two artists had SIX
recordings nominated (Elvis Costello & XTC). And one group placed SEVEN on
the list (R.E.M.!).
Apparently the most popular label in the 80's was Warner Bros (they had 34
of the 494). A&M placed second with 32. Third place was a tie between
Geffen, Columbia, Elektra & Sire with 24 each!
And our voters spread their votes across the decade. No year had less than
40 nominations and the most was 56.
So, back to the point. The winner is...
1) XTC - Skylarking (Geffen, 1986) 100 points, 13 votes
2) Elvis Costello & Attractions - Imperial Bedroom (Columbia, 1982)
60.5 points, 9 votes
3) R.E.M. - Murmur (IRS, 1983) 53 points, 8 votes
4) Marshall Crenshaw - s/t (Warner Bros, 1982) 49 points, 8 votes
5) The Replacements - Let It Be (TwinTone, 1984) 46 points, 7 votes
6) The Smithereens - Especially for You (Enigma, 1986) 44 points, 8 votes
7) Tommy Keene - Songs from the Film (Geffen, 1986) 37 points, 5 votes
8) Roxy Music - Avalon (Reprise, 1982) 35 points, 6 votes
9) The Pretenders - s/t (Sire, 1980) 33 points, 6 votes
10) XTC - Oranges & Lemons (Geffen, 1989) 32 points, 5 votes
11) Crowded House - s/t (Capitol, 1986) 29 points, 4 votes
12) Squeeze - Argybargy (A&M, 1980) 29 points, 5 votes
13) R.E.M. - Reckoning (IRS, 1984) 28 points, 5 votes
14) The Connells - Boylan Heights (TVT, 1987) 28 points, 3 votes
15) Squeeze - East Side Story (A&M, 1980) 27.5 points, 6 votes
16) Elvis Costello & Attractions - Get Happy! (Columbia, 1980) 27
points, 3 votes
17) Peter Gabriel - 3 (Geffen, 1980) 27 points, 4 votes
18) The db's - Reprecussion (Albion/Line, 1982) 27 points, 5 votes
19) The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (A&M, 1980) 27 points, 4 votes
20) The Three O'Clock - 16 Tambourines (Frontier, 1983) 27 points, 5 votes
21) U2 - The Joshua Tree (Island, 1987) 26 points, 6 votes
22) Pixies - Doolittle (4AD, 1989) 25 points, 6 votes
23) The db's - Like This (Bearsville, 1985) 25 points, 3 votes
24) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (Sire, 1986) 25 points, 3 votes
25) Utopia - s/t (Network, 1982) 25 points, 4 votes
26) Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day (Warner Bros, 1983) 24 points, 4 votes
27) Crowded House - Temple of Low Men (Capitol, 1988) 23 points, 3 votes
28) Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos (Big Time, 1984) 23 points, 3 votes
29) The Bangles - All Over the Place (Columbia, 1984) 23 points, 4 votes
30) Prince - Sign O'the Times (Warner Bros, 1987) 22 points, 4 votes
Number 31 -40 includes db's - Stands for Decibels, Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers
Lane, Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once, TPOH - Love Junk, Vapors - New Clear
Days, Go Gos - Beauty & the Beat, Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me, U2 -
War, Graham Parker - Mona Lisa's Sister, and Shoes - Boomerang
After that it gets to the point where if two people really liked an album it
would rank in the 40's. However, if anyone is interested in these rankings
as well as the other 400+, send me an email and I will send the entire Excel
spreadsheet to you.
So anyway, that wraps up Audities Ranks the 80's. I would have liked a
little more participation, but I had enough trouble keeping up with the 42
votes I did receive!
--
Lee Elliott
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