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FUCK THE POLICE
07-26-2006, 10:51 PM
OK, I want to do a poll tipey thingy for what this place thinks is the best song ever.

The first thing I'm going to do is take nominations from you guys.

The the next "round" I will pit all of the nominations against each other.

In the third round I will pit the top 4 vote grossers in head-on-head elections with another song in the top 4 the order will be picked randomly

In the fourth round I will take the two songs that won those head-on-head elections against each other... the song that wins this is the "best song ever".

Complicated, but who cares? It's go convenient multi-stage layering that makes things ever so excitin'.

So, give me your nominations now.

My nomination - "Hallejulah", by Leonard Cohen (although most people are probably more famialar with the version by Jeff Buckley, John Cale, or Rufus Wainright).

(you may post as many nominations as you want, I've just decided to only do one)


And, Damo, is there anyway you could lift the cap on the maximum amount of poll options we can place? Because I think there will be more than 10 nominations.

Beefy
07-26-2006, 11:15 PM
Battle Hymn of the Republic

Vince Gurauldi's "Peanuts"

"Lenny" - Stevie Ray Vaughan

"Desafinado" - Stan Getz

"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison

charver
07-27-2006, 02:39 AM
You realise you're playing with fire here, Water. Have the memories of nominations and votes "elsewhere" faded so soon? Is history destined to repeat itself once again?

But, if you want to cock-a-snook to Madam Fate, then you are to be commended on your adventurism.

Whenever these votes are held in Britain it is decreed by the Queen that the awful "Bohmian Rhapsody" wins, just because the band is named after her. This must not happen again.

David Bowie - 'Starman'

The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now'

The Specials - 'Ghost Town'

New Order - 'Blue Monday'

OrnotBitwise
07-27-2006, 09:50 AM
I'll second Watermark's nomination as I love that tune.

A few others, just for kicks:

Love Minus Zero: no Limit -- Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone -- see above
Honky Tonk Woman -- the Stones


And then my only serious nomination, Droogies:

Ode to Joy (9th Symphony, 4th movement) -- ol' Ludwig van

Cypress
07-27-2006, 09:58 AM
Back in Black - AC/DC

FUCK THE POLICE
07-27-2006, 11:34 AM
"The times, they are a'changing", Bob Dylan

"Boots of Spanish leather", Bob Dylan

Beefy
07-27-2006, 01:05 PM
The man Comes Around - Cash

Can I borrow a Feeling - Milhaus van Hauten's Dad

Immanuel
07-27-2006, 01:21 PM
My personal favorite is "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" - CDB

Immie

klaatu
07-27-2006, 03:25 PM
From any genre?

Year of the Cat -- Al Stewart

Sound of Silence-- Simon and Garfunkel

Nowhere Man - The Beatles

Season of the Witch -- Donovan

Just my Imagination -- Temptations


This is too tough ..... breaking it down into genres would be much easier ...

FUCK THE POLICE
07-27-2006, 10:51 PM
Imagine how many threads I'd need to make using my three round process in order to do that many genre's. I'd probably need like thirty.

Whitey
07-27-2006, 11:53 PM
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
The Beatles- Yesterday
Metallica- Fade To Black
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Guns'n'Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine
Don McLean- American Pie
Simon & Garfunkel- Mrs. Robinson
U2- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World

:clink: :cof1: :clink: :cof1:

klaatu
07-28-2006, 07:30 AM
Imagine how many threads I'd need to make using my three round process in order to do that many genre's. I'd probably need like thirty.


True .. but take a look at the selections so far... everybody has something different.. how are you going to decide which songs move on to the next round? :eek:

klaatu
07-28-2006, 07:33 AM
[QUOTE=Whitey]Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
The Beatles- Yesterday
Metallica- Fade To Black
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Guns'n'Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine
Don McLean- American Pie
Simon & Garfunkel- Mrs. Robinson
U2- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World

QUOTE]


Aside from Metallica, musically.. we get along .... ;)

Damocles
07-28-2006, 07:34 AM
Godsmack - Serenity
Metallica - One
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop

FUCK THE POLICE
07-28-2006, 10:31 AM
True .. but take a look at the selections so far... everybody has something different.. how are you going to decide which songs move on to the next round? :eek:


All of them do. The next round will be a weeding out phase. I'll do an approval poll of all the songs, and the 4 most approved songs will move on. I could do the 8 most approved songs, however, since this list is getting so darn long. It'll take longer. Then all the other songs will be eliminated in head to head contests... which will yield something important to voting theory called a "condorcet winner", who would beat every any other candidate in a race if paired head-to-head with another candidate, but more importantly, I think it's just more interesting than doing a straight poll.

IHateGovernment
07-28-2006, 10:45 AM
The best Metallica song is clearly Sanitarium/Welcom Home seconded by disposable heroes.

Topspin
07-28-2006, 11:04 AM
or RainKing by Counting Crows

LadyT
07-28-2006, 11:05 AM
New Kids on the Block, "Hangin' Tough"

FUCK THE POLICE
07-28-2006, 06:36 PM
Tiana...

Are you serious?

Also, I've decided to change the weeding out phase...

Everyone will post a score of 0-10 for all the songs. Then I will personally add up all of the scores, and then apply a quota to them to make sure all of the songs aren't of the same genre, which should take me about 10 minutes with a calculator as long as too many ballots aren't submitted. I'll submit the winners and the way I arrived at them on the thread so that no one thinks I'm cheating them out.

The older method I was proposing had a rather large problem... it would most likely make all of the songs of the same genre that the largest group of people on this site happen to prefer, which would make the other rounds boring. I read up on this new method on Wikipedia, which ensures some sort of proportionality to it instead of simply sending off 8 very simialar songs to the next rounds.

Also, do you think I should pit songs against each other head-to-head based on whether or not they are of simialar genre, or simply randomly pit them against each other?

FUCK THE POLICE
07-29-2006, 11:37 AM
Is that the end of nominations?

I'll put another forth "Wild Horses" - the Rolling Stones

FUCK THE POLICE
07-29-2006, 11:38 AM
"I'm so lonesome I could cry" Hank williams, Sr

OrnotBitwise
07-29-2006, 11:47 AM
Is that the end of nominations?

I'll put another forth "Wild Horses" - the Rolling StonesDamn! That is a good one. Have you ever heard the version on the original "Old And In The Way" album? My favorite, by far. Dave Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Pete Rowan, Vassar Clements . . . it doesn't get much better than that.

FUCK THE POLICE
07-29-2006, 01:57 PM
Damn! That is a good one. Have you ever heard the version on the original "Old And In The Way" album? My favorite, by far. Dave Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Pete Rowan, Vassar Clements . . . it doesn't get much better than that.


I've only heard the Rolling Stones... was that a cover?

FUCK THE POLICE
07-29-2006, 01:58 PM
OK, I'm going to give you guys another day for nominations, then I'm going to do the next phase....

Think hard. We've got some crappy songs in this list.

OrnotBitwise
07-29-2006, 02:19 PM
I've only heard the Rolling Stones... was that a cover?
No, the OAITW track was a cover. Damned good one though. :)

I typed "original Old And In The Way album" because there were a few "sequels" as it were. The original was a concert recording of what was supposed to be a one time event in 1975. It turned out to be so popular that they brought the group (largely) back together much later.

If you've never heard it, look for it. Considering your taste in music, I think you'll love it. It was a truly inspired performance by some of the very best folk-rock and jazz musicians of the time.

Old and in the way, that's what I heard them say
They used to heed the words he said, but that was yesterday
Gold will turn to gray and youth will fade away
They'll never care about you, call you old and in the way

Once I hear tell, he was happy
He had his share of friends and good times
Now, those friends have all passed on
He don't have a place called home
Looking back to a better day, feeling old and in the way

BRUTALITOPS
07-29-2006, 03:11 PM
paranoid android - radiohead

FUCK THE POLICE
07-30-2006, 12:03 AM
Everybody's gotta learn sometime - Beck
Neighborhood #1 - The Arcade Fire

gonzojournals
07-31-2006, 09:54 AM
Teardrop-- Massive Attack

IHateGovernment
07-31-2006, 10:34 AM
I'm of the mind that their is no best song ever. I couldn't even name a top 10 for myself.

I've noticed some genres are not represented so I'll just throw in some for the hell of it.

Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Geto Boys - Mind playin tricks on me
NOFX - The Decline
Common - Retrospect for Life
KMFDM - Stray Bullet
Rakim - Casualties of War

DigitalDave
07-31-2006, 11:08 AM
Ricky Nelson - My bucket's got a hole in it
Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Paradise
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Darude - Sandstorm

evince
07-31-2006, 11:17 AM
under the bridge ,the red hot chili peppers

evince
07-31-2006, 11:21 AM
how can I miss you when you wont go away , Dan Hicks

evince
07-31-2006, 11:24 AM
God only knows ,the beach boys

evince
07-31-2006, 11:24 AM
I could go on all day

Dixie - In Memoriam
07-31-2006, 12:05 PM
Damn! That is a good one. Have you ever heard the version on the original "Old And In The Way" album? My favorite, by far. Dave Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Pete Rowan, Vassar Clements . . . it doesn't get much better than that.

The Flying Burrito Brother's did a version as well, the story has it, Gram Parsons rewrote Honky Tonk Woman in exchange for rewriting Wild Horses. I saw Vassar Clements a few years ago at a small acoustic music venue, he was absolutely awesome sounding, played a few songs with Sam Bush that were some of the best tunes I've heard live in a long time. Dave Grissman was at another festival I went to last year, and he was as great as he ever was.

Here are my nominations:

1. Yesterday- The Beatles
2. Love Me Tender- Elvis
3. Desolation Row- Bob Dylan
4. Hey Jude- The Beatles
5. Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

gonzojournals
07-31-2006, 12:16 PM
Not the best, but Californication deserves a mention....it's just fun.


Lateralus- Tool (replace Parabola with that)


Evenfall- Tristania
My Lost Lenore- Tristania
Lethean River- Tristania
Oops I Did It Again (cover)- Children of Bodom (not the best, but definitely the funniest)
Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd
Dazed and Confused- Led Zeppelin

Ever heard any Sonata Arctica? They are pretty good.

FUCK THE POLICE
07-31-2006, 01:55 PM
Nominations are over, guys.

FUCK THE POLICE
07-31-2006, 01:56 PM
I was assuming you could've realized this whenever I posted the next round. Why didn't you nominate whenever you had the chance?

gonzojournals
07-31-2006, 02:31 PM
I still have no idea how to vote.

FUCK THE POLICE
07-31-2006, 02:37 PM
You just rank the candidates. It's really simple.

FUCK THE POLICE
07-31-2006, 02:38 PM
If you're too stupid to know how to click on the buttons and assign a rank to a few of them, then don't vote. You'd be doing us a favor.

OrnotBitwise
07-31-2006, 02:44 PM
You just rank the candidates. It's really simple.
Simple, but kind of annoying. I did it, but stopped at #17 or so, I think.

gonzojournals
07-31-2006, 02:53 PM
If you're too stupid to know how to click on the buttons and assign a rank to a few of them, then don't vote. You'd be doing us a favor.
Hey smartass, I didn't realize where it was. I found the link.

FUCK THE POLICE
07-31-2006, 05:52 PM
Hey smartass, I didn't realize where it was. I found the link.

:)

FUCK THE POLICE
07-31-2006, 05:52 PM
Simple, but kind of annoying. I did it, but stopped at #17 or so, I think.

That's OK. I doubt that it will matter to the results if you rank anything beyond the tenth song, because we have so few voters.