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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #35 on: January 29, 2013, 03:24:37 AM »

If you would like to participate, please reply to this thread, and I will add you to the list.



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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #36 on: February 03, 2013, 05:45:37 AM »
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #37 on: February 03, 2013, 08:02:43 AM »
DoC, I had a thought.  Since we have quite a few members joining this Top 50 thread, I thought it would be a great idea to comprise a best of the best.  For example, we can tally up votes for each song based on its location in the list.  Number 50 would get 1 point and number 1 would get 50 points and so on.  Why you ask?  Because I have a unhealthy obsession with playing with numbers.  If this would be too time consuming for you to attempt, I wouldn't mind taking the task on myself.  Or, you can tell me to bugger off and I'll go back to doing my 16 times tables in my head.   :D

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #38 on: February 03, 2013, 09:09:23 AM »
DoC, I'm going on vacation tomorrow so please feel free to skip me if needed. I'll be gone for two weeks.

Okay. I'll keep that in mind in case we get to you in the next two weeks.




DoC, I had a thought.  Since we have quite a few members joining this Top 50 thread, I thought it would be a great idea to comprise a best of the best.  For example, we can tally up votes for each song based on its location in the list.  Number 50 would get 1 point and number 1 would get 50 points and so on.  Why you ask?  Because I have a unhealthy obsession with playing with numbers.  If this would be too time consuming for you to attempt, I wouldn't mind taking the task on myself.  Or, you can tell me to bugger off and I'll go back to doing my 16 times tables in my head.   :D

I think that it's a great idea. I was considering doing one where we would track each song's average position, but didn't know how to "score" songs that didn't make a given list (51? 2000? etc), but your method of reversing scoring makes more sense. So feel free to do it.

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #39 on: February 03, 2013, 09:31:54 AM »
DoC, I'm going on vacation tomorrow so please feel free to skip me if needed. I'll be gone for two weeks.

Okay. I'll keep that in mind in case we get to you in the next two weeks.




DoC, I had a thought.  Since we have quite a few members joining this Top 50 thread, I thought it would be a great idea to comprise a best of the best.  For example, we can tally up votes for each song based on its location in the list.  Number 50 would get 1 point and number 1 would get 50 points and so on.  Why you ask?  Because I have a unhealthy obsession with playing with numbers.  If this would be too time consuming for you to attempt, I wouldn't mind taking the task on myself.  Or, you can tell me to bugger off and I'll go back to doing my 16 times tables in my head.   :D

I think that it's a great idea. I was considering doing one where we would track each song's average position, but didn't know how to "score" songs that didn't make a given list (51? 2000? etc), but your method of reversing scoring makes more sense. So feel free to do it.

Great!   I'll start with the first three completed lists and if you don't mind, I'll keep the updates to the list in this thread.  Only because I figured it is better than having too many Top 50 threads floating around for people to refer to. 

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #40 on: February 03, 2013, 09:41:01 AM »
DoC, I'm going on vacation tomorrow so please feel free to skip me if needed. I'll be gone for two weeks.

Okay. I'll keep that in mind in case we get to you in the next two weeks.




DoC, I had a thought.  Since we have quite a few members joining this Top 50 thread, I thought it would be a great idea to comprise a best of the best.  For example, we can tally up votes for each song based on its location in the list.  Number 50 would get 1 point and number 1 would get 50 points and so on.  Why you ask?  Because I have a unhealthy obsession with playing with numbers.  If this would be too time consuming for you to attempt, I wouldn't mind taking the task on myself.  Or, you can tell me to bugger off and I'll go back to doing my 16 times tables in my head.   :D

I think that it's a great idea. I was considering doing one where we would track each song's average position, but didn't know how to "score" songs that didn't make a given list (51? 2000? etc), but your method of reversing scoring makes more sense. So feel free to do it.

Great!   I'll start with the first three completed lists and if you don't mind, I'll keep the updates to the list in this thread.  Only because I figured it is better than having too many Top 50 threads floating around for people to refer to.

Works for me.

If you want more data, feel free to use the older threads/lists as well.

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #41 on: February 03, 2013, 10:36:52 AM »
I have the first three tallied up and I'll put the results up later on or tomorrow.  I noticed there are quite a few lists in the old threads. I'll tackle them a little at a time and make sure I don't cover anyone's list twice. 

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2013, 10:40:31 AM »
Cool. I'm looking forward to it.

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #43 on: February 03, 2013, 11:05:54 AM »
I have the first three tallied up and I'll put the results up later on or tomorrow.  I noticed there are quite a few lists in the old threads. I'll tackle them a little at a time and make sure I don't cover anyone's list twice.

Just remember that the lists in the first of the two big threads don't include ADTOE songs, so I don't know how you'd figure that into things.
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #44 on: February 03, 2013, 11:17:03 AM »
I have the first three tallied up and I'll put the results up later on or tomorrow.  I noticed there are quite a few lists in the old threads. I'll tackle them a little at a time and make sure I don't cover anyone's list twice.

Just remember that the lists in the first of the two big threads don't include ADTOE songs, so I don't know how you'd figure that into things.

Hmmm good point!  For now then, I'll keep the composite list of the older threads separate from the newer thread.

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #45 on: February 04, 2013, 09:16:18 AM »
How will you handle song groupings like Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu and Wait for Sleep/Learning to Live? And how about the lists that include individual sections of Six Degrees, for example Solitary Shell on Scorpion's list?

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #46 on: February 04, 2013, 09:20:18 AM »
I think each should count as a separate listing. So Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu is counted as a "song", and Overture 1928 and Strange Deja Vu individually are counted as separate unique songs for the tally.

I don't think it would be right to count a paired song as a vote for both songs, since they got their ranking by being together, and I don't think it would be right to count a vote for a section of a song as a vote for the whole song, since the whole song wasn't voted for.
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #47 on: February 04, 2013, 09:45:48 AM »
That sounds like a decent solution! :tup

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #48 on: February 04, 2013, 10:13:38 AM »
In contrast, I think if someone wanted both songs to be counted at that same position then each song deserves the points.  So far everyone seems to be listing 6DOIT as one song, but we'll see how that changes as more lists pop up.  Originally I had the different songs of 6DOIT as separate when I started putting together my Top 50 list, but changed that when I saw how everyone else approached theirs.  I'll keep a note on the side for everything that is especially special as far as counting points.  If no one else combines songs like what was done in SFAM, then it'll be irrelevant.  If it starts popping up more often, I'll make appropriate adjustments. 


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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #49 on: February 04, 2013, 10:15:57 AM »
My list will include a bunch of song combinations - I know it's debatable whether or not that's right, but it's my list.

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #50 on: February 04, 2013, 10:22:15 AM »
My list will include a bunch of song combinations - I know it's debatable whether or not that's right, but it's my list.

Agreed.  It's not like we're tallying votes for the presidential election which is more organized and...Oh wait...nevermind. 

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I understand what you are saying though.  I was debating combing The Mirror/Lie and putting A Mind Beside Itself...by itself.   :P

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #51 on: February 04, 2013, 03:58:29 PM »
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #52 on: February 04, 2013, 07:32:19 PM »
Can I start?

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #53 on: February 05, 2013, 09:55:22 AM »
Can I be added to the list?
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #54 on: February 05, 2013, 10:25:16 AM »
Sure.

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #55 on: February 06, 2013, 08:15:07 AM »
Me too please!  :)

I'm already working on it... the first ten tracks came easy, but wow, 10-25 is quite hard... then comes a bigger break making it a bit "easier"...
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #56 on: February 06, 2013, 09:43:48 PM »
After the first three lists, here are the points for each song.  Being that there are three lists, the highest amount of points any one song could have received was 150.

1.   A Change of Seasons   138
2.   Learning to Live   117
3.   Breaking All Illusions   110
4.   The Spirit Carries On   105
5.   Metropolis Part 1   96
6.   Lifting Shadows Off a Dream   94
7.   Bridges in the Sky   94
8.   Trial of Tears   92
9.   Beneath the Surface   89
10.   Take the Time   88
11.   Lines in the Sand   87
12.   Scarred   86
13.   Endless Sacrifice   86
14.   Octavarium   86
15.   Misunderstood   84
16.   Home   81
17.   6:00   79
18.   Caught in a Web   79
19.   Overture 1928   75
20.   Lie   74
21.   The Count of Tuscany   73
22.   Peruvian Skies   71
23.   Surrounded   70
24.   In the Name of God   70
25.   As I Am   69
26.   Fatal Tragedy   68
27.   Blind Faith   68
28.   Voices   67
29.   Lost Not Forgotten   66
30.   Pull Me Under   65
31.   Strange Deja Vu   62
32.   Space Dye-Vest   60
33.   Finally Free   59
34.   Beyond This Life   57
35.   The Mirror   54
36.   Under a Glass Moon   53
37.   Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence   49
38.   The Dance of Eternity   48
39.   Disappear   48
40.   Sacrificed Sons   45
41.   Stream of Consciousness   44
42.   Outcry   44
43.   On the Backs of Angels   42
44.   Another Day   41
45.   The Silent Man   38
46.   Take Away My Pain   35
47.   Through My Words   35
48.   The Killing Hand   34
49.   The Glass Prison   34
50.   The Great Debate   32
51.   Forsaken   32
52.   Innocence Faded   30
53.   Hell's Kitchen   28
54.   Only a Matter of Time   26
55.   Erotomania   26
56.   These Walls   24
57.   Panic Attack   23
58.   Wither   23
59.   Hollow Years   22
60.   Wait for Sleep   21
61.   New Millennium   21
62.   The Root of All Evil   20
63.   A Fortune in Lies   18
64.   Through Her Eyes   16
65.   Prophets of War   15
66.   Build Me, Break Me Down   14
67.   The Answer Lies Within   13
68.   Raise the Knife   13
69.   Anna Lee   12
70.   The Best of Times   12
71.   Repentance   11
72.   One Last Time   9
73.   I Walk Beside You   8
74.   This is the Life   5
75.   You Not Me   4
76.   Vacant   1
77.   A Nightmare to Remember   1


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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #57 on: February 06, 2013, 10:17:58 PM »
None of the top 3 would make my top 50. Actually, half of the top 10 would not make my top 50. The same statistic holds true for the top 20 too. :lol
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #58 on: February 07, 2013, 02:36:12 AM »
None of the top 3 would make my top 50. Actually, half of the top 10 would not make my top 50. The same statistic holds true for the top 20 too. :lol

Hmmm...curiosity killed the cat.   Luckily I have nine lives.   ;)

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« Reply #59 on: February 07, 2013, 06:47:47 AM »
It'd also be interesting to see the overall points for each album - I know they'd be quite uneven, as Scenes has twice as many tracks as BC&SL, but still. Or maybe an average score would solve that problem?

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« Reply #60 on: February 07, 2013, 06:50:31 AM »
It'd also be interesting to see the overall points for each album - I know they'd be quite uneven, as Scenes has twice as many tracks as BC&SL, but still. Or maybe an average score would solve that problem?

Well, then just divide the amount of points by the number of tracks of the album to have the mean density of points  :tup
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #61 on: February 07, 2013, 06:51:59 AM »
Well, I'll do that when I have time and I'm not too lazy... :lol

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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #62 on: February 07, 2013, 08:24:47 AM »
Well, I'll do that when I have time and I'm not too lazy... :lol

No need. I already have a formula worked out.   :D

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« Reply #63 on: February 16, 2013, 08:10:44 PM »
I would like to be in on this. Since I have quite a while, I'll go ahead and start my write ups now so when that time comes I can be ready.

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« Reply #64 on: February 17, 2013, 11:03:51 AM »
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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #65 on: February 20, 2013, 05:42:56 AM »
Since Scorp just finished can I go or do I need to wait for DoCs confirmation?
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« Reply #66 on: February 20, 2013, 02:07:46 PM »
Since Scorp just finished can I go or do I need to wait for DoCs confirmation?


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Re: The DT Top 50 Songs tracker thread
« Reply #67 on: February 22, 2013, 03:30:40 PM »
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« Reply #68 on: February 24, 2013, 06:56:54 PM »
Add me to the list please, I know I'll have a list that will probably shock people.
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« Reply #69 on: February 24, 2013, 08:12:43 PM »
I would also like to join! I already have a rough list and will listen to it* from 50-1 to finalize it and have write-ups ready for when my turn comes around.

* ~7 hours of DT music.