Poptimists Album Science #2

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

This is about Proving By Science how good an album really is. The first album to be rated was Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and it scored 63.75 out of a possible 90 giving it a very respectable 71%. So we now know for sure, conclusively, without doubt, that 71% of 'Thriller' as an album is good, or 7 out of 10 if you will - and this seems about right (even tho the urge in the past may have to been to hail the album as a true classic, it transpires that is not quite the case and that it is a handful of particularly excellent singles that have afforded it this status). A satisfying moment for the Poptimists Science Team now follows...

Now, if you please, join me in rating the following tracks from the Pet Shop Boys' 'Please' album out of ten:

[Poll #852054]



If you've not heard the song before or need a reminder there are several ways you can remedy this. if you have iTunes you can search for the album on there and listen to the 30 second clips - or you can use Amazon and other sites in a similar way. If the song was released as a single you may well find the video on YouTube.

If you've not heard the song and can't hear it you could either not mark it (if you dislike the artist generally) or give it a 5 for balance if you do like the artist generally (seems fair to me all in all).

Don't worry too much about the position of the song in the tracklist and it's relation to what comes before and after it - unless you think that sort of thing affects your response to a track significantly (but I don't think this need happen).

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

there must be a story about why 2/0 was never released

[yuxonomei.livejournal.com]

Two Divided by Zero is a little weak for an opener, they should have opened with Suburbia or Tonight is forever. That said, Please is a cracking first album for the Eighties and coupled with Disco, is the soundtrack to the early Eighties. However, I'm biased.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I never heard the non-singles until now! 'Two Divided By Zero' appears to be the best one. 'Side 2' of the album seems a lot weaker than the first half but nonetheless I didn't mark any track lower than a 6.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Very is a much better album.

Surely a handful of great tracks is enough to make an album a classic (re Thriller)?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't have this album either!

[koganbot]

Have never heard this alb.

Albums evaluations in general: Great songs enriched by a whole bunch of other songs (whether good ones or not) surely beats a whole bunch of good songs. Album with a mood or character is better than album with no mood or character (provided that one likes the particular mood and character), even if latter has more high-rated songs.

Etc.

So methodology is rub.

But I can't think of another methodology that would produce poll fun, so methodology is not rub.

Issue definitively and for all time not decided on this old thread.