LogFAQs > #947368572

People who requested to be notified when the topic went up:

@MetalmindStats
@Murphiroth
@rwlh

After two months of prep work, the third annual music topic is ready to roll!

INTRODUCTION POST:

First, a very large thank you to everyone who nominated. These topics are quite important to me and I couldnt do them without you. Theyre the one time of the year where I get to act as stupid and furry as I want to, and share my horrible opinions without any real care for how terrible they are. These topics are my happy place. <3

...I dont really know what you guys are getting out of it, but Im not going to ask any questions.

Either way, all songs are incredibly welcome. The songs I hate offer an opportunity to think about why I hate them and to experience music that I wouldnt normally hear, so while I may complaina lot more than I should, to be quite honestI do treasure all of the terribly ranked songs. Even the middle of the road songs that fail to inspire any reaction have their place, serving as a divider between things I liked & things I didnt.

Also, my opinion on songs fluctuates constantly. One song managed to rise 500 places from its original rankingso even if I say I hate a song now, its quite possible that I would learn to appreciate it at some point in the future. So please, know that no matter what I say, I do legitimately appreciate every nomination here and sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart.


Next, a quick overview of what a writeup might look like, using some made-up numbers. Its mostly self-explanatory, but I feel like wasting time anyway:

===============

600.IMAGINARY SONG:

Nominator: No one (2/2)
Source: No ones extra nominations (1/1)

Initial Score: 51.12 [#371]
Revised Score: 0 [#600]
Final Score: 0 [#600]

(First Thoughts: I dont know why, but I kinda like this.)

Changed mind, now I hate it.

[Final Thoughts: Yep, still hate it.]

===============

The bolded part gives the name of the song and what its final placement was.

Nominator tells you who nominated it, the numbers point out what ranking it gets compared exclusively to that persons other nominations. In this case, this nonexistent person nominated two songs and this was in last place of the two.

Source is a category added for Neutral Entrants (who nominated one album & some extra songs) & Order Entrants who nominated two different albums. It lets us follow where a song places compared to other songs from its album or playlist of songs.

(Chaos Entrants & Order Entrants with one giant album do not have a Source section because they all come from the same playlist or album)

...I already know Im going to wind up with a lot of errors in the numbering on Nominator & Source, so Im just going to apologize in advance.



The score section tells you exactly how many points the song got at each listen. Only the final score matters, but you can track how your favorite songs scores fluctuated over timeincluding exactly where they would have placed if I posted the rankings after only the first or second listens.

[Youll notice a lot of songs with the exact same ranking, particularly under the Initial Score section. Those songs were tied, though I didnt bother adding any symbol to note things that were officially tied on the first or second listens; ties on the final rankings will be pointed out, obviously.]

And then there are three spots for writeups, so I could add notes at each stage of the project. Keep your expectations low, most of these only contain one or two words and the longer ones tend to be... completely unrelated to anything.

(Also, I may start posting completely arbitrary songs instead of actual commentary whenever I hit a song I dont really wish to discuss. And by may do that, I mean definitely did that a lot of times and by arbitrary I mean so arbitrary, I do not recall which ones I posted, but I think music from three different pinball games will be featured for some reason??

Two of them are pinball tables which were recreated in the Pinball Arcade and one of them is from a pinball video game. I do not why Im telling you this, nor why it is hidden in a spoiler tag.]



Aaaanywho....

SCORING SYSTEM:

A ten point system is kinda boring and I wanted to have harsher standards for giving high scores this time, so Ive switched to a 101 point system! With decimal points to give even more numbers. The larger numbers made everything feel more substantial.

...I mean, its really not. You can just slide the decimal point over and pretend its a standard 10 point rating system and nothing would fundamentally change, but it changed how I felt about the scores.

Scoring Tiers

101: One of the top three songs! YAY!

100: Songs that I really loved and considered awarding first place to, even though they ultimately didnt end in the top three.

90.00~99.99: Songs that I love, but were never seriously considered for first place.

80.00~89.99: Songs that I really, really likepossibly even love a bitbut dont think are quite at that top tier level.

70.00~79.99: I highly enjoyed these songs.

60.00~69.99: I liked these songs.

50.01~59.99: I have more positive feelings towards the song than negative ones, but like feels like too strong of a word.

Exactly 50: I either felt absolutely nothing towards this song or the positive and negative aspects completely canceled each other out, leaving only an empty void.

40.00~49.99: I wasnt a fan of these songs, but I dont mind listening to them.

30.00~39.99: I didnt like these songs.

20.00~29.99: I actively disliked these songs.

10.00~10.99: Well, I didnt hate them...

0.01~0.99: Thanks, I hate it!

Absolute Zero: ...



So if the scores all seem too low for much of the project, then you can blame most of it on the harsher standards.

THE R NUMBERS [R#s for short]:

For reasons that have long been forgottenI woke up at 3 AM in the morning and made this decision months ago based on some half-remembered dream that is now completely forgottenthe list is divided into two. 599 Ordinary Numbers (the main list) & 32 R Numbers; the R#s are songs that I felt I knew so well before the ranking started that I could have easily tiered and scored them without listening to them again. (Obviously I did still listen to them the full three times)

There are some songs that probably should have been on the R# list that werent and 1 song that probably shouldnt have been on the R# list and is, but the R# list is what it is. Were going to start the topic by going through all 32 R#s first; its a chance for me to relax with the songs I know incredibly well and to start the topic off on a high note, with songs I (mostly) have positive things to say about and could effortlessly make decent-sized writeups.

Honestly, having a miniature 32 song list to experiment with formatting and practice on before diving into the main list was quite helpful.

SONG LIST

Trying to post 631 links in the opening posts would be silly. If you need to see the full list, it should be available here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18D9KhWpZYoHRYAKJFNTfrxYYI8v468xT_CW_LYg24gA/

Onward! To rankings!
---

Temporary Signature