Someone let me know if something like this exists without my knowledge, but I thought this would be an interesting idea of something to do here and I thought I'd take the initiative of running it.
What I want to do, basically, is try to get a general idea for how the DT side of the forum as a whole ranks the band's albums.
This is inspired partially by Destiny of Chaos's DT the League which achieves the same thing with songs (and is much more meticulous than this thread will be so props) and lonestar's top epics thread that he ran over in general music a while back (which inspired much of my format). It was ultimately inspired, though, by the realization in the overrated/underrated albums/songs threads that our understanding of where the forum stands on the particular DT albums is nebulous—we don't know too well at all.
What I'm asking you to do is simple. Rank the DT studio albums #1 through #12.
You're on DTF, so you should know how to rank things and even have a mysterious yet compelling urge to do so. However, I have to ask that you just stick to the 12 studio albums—we just won't include things like A Change of Seasons and Cleaning Out the Closet on this. I also have to ask that you stick to the original tracklistings of the albums. I know some of you have custom versions of the albums where you've mixed in the demo tracks to Images and Words and Falling Into Infinity, and I think that's great, but for this exercise you should rank those albums as though they are the official versions, not your custom versions. If you don't have an album, simply leave it off the list.
Basically, after an amount of time has passed and everybody who wants to has put in their rankings, I'll compile them to create a forum composite. It'll simply be a system where I award an album 12 points for being #1 on somebody's list, 11 points for being #2, 10 points for being #3, and so on down to 1 point for being #12, and then I'll rank the albums by the average number of points received (total number of points received divided by number of voters), which should hopefully give us a good idea of the general forum consensus ranking!
I will try and give people enough time on this to put some thought into their rankings and relisten to some albums if necessary, so don't feel like you have to rush. If you want to participate but don't have a ranking ready right now, just post in here saying that you're interested but need some time and then either post again or edit your original post when your list is ready. Hopefully y'all like this idea and a lot of people participate so we can get a solid idea of how the forum feels about DT's albums!
Topic: The Unofficial DTF Album Ranking Project (Read 9679 times)
