Match-Cut Band/Performer Consensus - list and schedule

[D_Davis]

OK, so start naming bands and/or performers you'd like to see under MC scrutiny.

Personally, I think they should have at least 5 albums, but if others disagree that's totally fine.

I'll put together a list and schedule after about a week of nominations.

LIST and SCHEDULE (On going)


Band

dates
Total Score
Best Album
Worst Album


Radiohead (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?5689-Match-Cut-Band-Consensus-Radiohead)
11/03 - 11/09
7.6
OK Computer
Pablo Honey


U2 (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?5695-Match-Cut-Band-Consensus-U2)
11/10 - 11/16
7.1
Achtung Baby
How To Dismantle...


The Cure (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?5705-Match-Cut-Band-Consensus-The-Cure)
11/17 - 11/23
8.06
Disintegration
NA (not enough votes)


Brian Eno (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?5713-Match-Cut-Band-Consensus-Brian-Eno)

11/24 - 11/30
8.07

The Pearl

Another Green World (lol...this is so weird)



Beach Boys (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?5720-Match-Cut-Band-Consensus-The-Beach-Boys)

12/01 - 12/07
8.67

Pet Sounds

Surf's Up (LLLOOLL!!!) Only two albums had enough votes to count



Nine Inch Nails (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?5733-Match-Cut-Band-Consensus-Nine-Inch-Nails)

12/08 - 12/14
6.79

Downward Spiral

The Slip



TV On the Radio
12/15 - 12/21





Yeah Yeah Yeahs
12/22 - 12/28





Pink Floyd
12/29 - 01/04















Clutch
Metallica
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
Ben Folds (Five)
Talking Heads
Ween
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
The Cars
The Who
The Kinks
Tool
Grateful Dead
REM
Elvis Costello
Beastie Boys
Frank Zappa
Tom Waits
Regina Spektor
Queen
Elton John
Pearl Jam
Public Enemy
David Bowie
Michael Jackson
Stevie Wonder
Madonna
Sleater-Kinney
Duran Duran
New Order / Joy Division
Depeche Mode
Erasure
Echo & The Bunnymen
Kraftwerk
King Krimson
Can
The Clash
People Like Us
Twilight Circus
The Residents
Robyn Hitchcock
(early) Genesis
John Foxx / Ultravox
Bauhaus / Love and Rockets
The Buzzcocks
Pole
The Orb
Hawkwind
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Bad Religion
Sublime
NOFX
A Perfect Circle
Rancid
Dropkick Murphys
Street Dogs
Black Sabbath
Ozzy
White Zombie
Rob Zombie
Pennywise
Kanye West
Joanna Newsom
Jay Z
Nick Drake
Elliott Smith
Max Richter
Steve Reich
The Beatles
The Flaming Lips
The Microphones
Destroyer
The Roots
Weezer
Pixies/Frank Black
PJ Harvey
Bjork/Sugarcubes
Green Day
Kate Bush
Blur
Talking Heads/David Byrne
Prince
The White Stripes/Jack White
Weird Al Yankovic
The National
Liars
Portishead
My Bloody Valentine
Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade
The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed
The Clash
Animal Collective
Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd
Arcade Fire
Iggy Pop
Sonic Youth

[Dead & Messed Up]

Nine Inch Nails
TV On the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (4 albums, but a few EPs too)
Pink Floyd

[Skitch]

Clutch
Metallica
Nirvana
Foo Fighters


Rage Against The Machine only has 4 albums, so lets just concur they're all tens and move on. :D

[D_Davis]

I'm sure 4 albums is fine.

Just want to make sure there are enough to make it interesting and worthwhile.

[Thirdmango]

I was thinking about the album thing too when I first was thinking of doing this and couldn't quite decide. I'd almost say on a week where we have groups with only four we could do two in the same week. Like do Rage and Yeah Yeahs the same week. But that might also be too much.

Ben Folds (Five)
Talking Heads
Ween

As time goes on we can throw in a bunch of the usual bands.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
The Cars
The Who
The Kinks
Tool
Grateful Dead
REM
Elvis Costello
Beastie Boys
Frank Zappa
Tom Waits
Regina Spektor
Queen
Elton John
Pearl Jam
Public Enemy
David Bowie
Michael Jackson
Stevie Wonder
Madonna
Sleater-Kinney

[D_Davis]

Duran Duran
New Order
Depeche Mode
Erasure
Echo & The Bunnymen
Kraftwerk
King Krimson

[Winston*]

Beck might be interesting.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds too, if enough people are fans.

[Russ]

Can
The Clash
People Like Us
Twilight Circus
The Residents
Robyn Hitchcock
(early) Genesis
John Foxx / Ultravox
Bauhaus / Love and Rockets
The Buzzcocks
Pole
The Orb
Hawkwind

[Russ]

...if enough people are fans.

what Winston said...

[Dukefrukem]

Bad Religion
Sublime
NOFX
A Perfect Circle
Rancid
Dropkick Murphys
Street Dogs
Black Sabbath
Ozzy
White Zombie
Rob Zombie
Pennywise

[quido8_5]

Kanye West
Joanna Newsom
Jay Z
Nick Drake
Elliott Smith
Max Richter
Steve Reich
The Beatles (have they really not been named yet?)
The Flaming Lips
The Microphones
Destroyer

[EyesWideOpen]

The Roots
Weezer

[Spinal]

Pixies/Frank Black
PJ Harvey
Bjork/Sugarcubes
Green Day
Kate Bush
Blur
Talking Heads/David Byrne
Prince
The White Stripes/Jack White

[Dead & Messed Up]

Weird Al Yankovic

[D_Davis]

OK - I think we have enough bands/performers now to get started.

A couple of questions:

1. 1 week per to vote?
2. For bands like Sugar Cubes/Bork; Pixies/Frank Black - do together, or separate?
3. Should we keep the completed tally in this thread, and then each band/performer will have their own thread for voting/discussion?
4. Official releases - LPs and EPs only? How long is an EP? In the '90s, tons of European bands would release a single with 3 B-sides, thus making it an EP. Do these count?

For some special albums, we might exceptions. For instance - The Beach Boys, SMilE. Bootlegged for years, finally released and completed by Parks and Wilson. I'm going to include the 2004 Wilson release in the B-Boys voting, since it started as a B-Boys album.

What about famous bootlegs? No? Again, I'm thinking Beach Boys with albums liked Land Locked.

I think including famous Bootlegs might be a good idea.

As we get to the performers that I don't know as much about (and there are a lot), I'll leave these exceptions and lists up to the super fans.

Or, should we only go by official discography at something like All Music? That could get a little boring.

[D_Davis]

I've got the schedule up for the rest of 2014: Star with U2, ending with Pink Floyd. That's pretty cool - two of the biggest bands in the world for their time, both having new albums in 2014. Ending the year with Pink Floyd, after they release their final album (next week!) is awesome.

[D_Davis]

Also, what's the math for coming up with the band's total number?

[D_Davis]

Upcoming - U2. Albums to listen to if you want to prep.

Boy
October
War
Under a Blood Red Sky
Unforgettable Fire
Wide Awake in America
Joshua Tree
Rattle and Hum
Achtung Baby
Zooropa
Pop
All That You Can't Leave Behind
How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb
No Line on the Horizon
Songs of Innocence

w/ Brian Eno:
Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1

[Dukefrukem]

You're the music guru. Whatever you decide is good with me.

[Spinal]

2. For bands like Sugar Cubes/Bork; Pixies/Frank Black - do together, or separate?


I just thought it might be a way to flesh out certain threads and cover albums that might otherwise go untouched. But whatever you decide is fine by me.

[Thirdmango]

You know I think in the regards of bootlegs, EPs, Live albums and such we can vote for them, but it would be more based on if people actually listened. I'm sure there are some good beach boys bootlegs but will they actually get votes? So I'd say go for it.

Also agreed about some of the mixing things. Like putting Damon Albarn's new album with Blur and maybe Gorillaz as well unless they get their own week.

[Thirdmango]

I'll shut down Radiohead on the 9th. Davis if you wanna link Radiohead to the top of this thread that would be awesome.

Also looks like I should listen to my first U2 album today.

[EyesWideOpen]

I've never listened to a U2 album because every song of theirs I've heard has been pretty much the worst thing ever but I figured why not so I just checked and it looks like almost all their albums are on Amazon Prime Music.

[EyesWideOpen]

I've never listened to a U2 album because every song of theirs I've heard has been pretty much the worst thing ever but I figured why not so I just checked and it looks like almost all their albums are on Amazon Prime Music.

I made it 4 songs into Joshua Tree before I had to turn it off. Not for me.

[Spinal]

I made it 4 songs into Joshua Tree before I had to turn it off. Not for me.

I'm not a big U2 fan either. But I do enjoy "In God's Country" from that album.

[Winston*]

I've listened to at least 30 hours of a podcast about U2, but never listened to a full U2 album.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I've listened to and enjoyed three of their albums, but after three albums, I feel like I get it. Their style gets pretty samey.

[EyesWideOpen]

Out of this first batch the only two bands I'm interested in/listen to are The Cure and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Cure I've listened to very little but liked everything I've heard so I'll definitely check out more of them before their week. YYY's are one of my favorite bands so I've listened to all their stuff.

[Melville]

Joy Division (and New Order, if you want more albums)
The National
Liars
Portishead
My Bloody Valentine
Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade
The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed
The Clash
Animal Collective
Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd
Arcade Fire
Iggy Pop

[D_Davis]

I'll shut down Radiohead on the 9th. Davis if you wanna link Radiohead to the top of this thread that would be awesome.


Done.

Still not quite sure how to do that maths on these. If someone else could handle that, and then let me know, that'd be cool.

We want an overall total, a total for best album, and one for worst album.

[D_Davis]

Joy Division (and New Order, if you want more albums)


I listed New Order already, I'll add Joy Division to that week.

[D_Davis]

Up next - The Cure.

Discography (including officially released live albums, not including collections like Japanese Whispers and Mixed Up):

Three Imaginary Boys
Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography
Concert: The Cure Live
The Top
The Head on the Door
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Disintegration
Entreat (Live)
Wish
Show (Live)
Paris (Live)
Wild Mood Swings
Blood Flowers
The Cure
4:13 Dream

[Thirdmango]

Still not quite sure how to do that maths on these. If someone else could handle that, and then let me know, that'd be cool.

We want an overall total, a total for best album, and one for worst album.

So what I did is I did a vote total on each album (How many people voted) Then did each albums average. Then I took all the averages, added them together then averaged that to get the band's grand total.

So for Radiohead:

Band Rating: 8 albums - 19 voters: 7.6
Best Album: OK Computer - 18 Voters: 9.19
Worst Album: Pablo Honey - 13 Voters: 5.77

[D_Davis]

For bootlegs etc., if you want to include them in your rankings, go for it. We'll only tally up those albums that get 4 or more votes.

[Winston*]

Not that it really matters, but I would probably do a vote total of every score given then divide that by the number of ratings given for all albums.

That way if a band has an album that 4 people have listened to and hated it doesn't have an equal say in the rating as an album that 20 people loved. Would only bump up Radiohead by like .1 based on brief calculations, but could affect others more.

Happy to help with the tallying if you like.

[D_Davis]

Not that it really matters, but I would probably do a vote total of every score given then divide that by the number of ratings given for all albums.

That way if a band has an album that 4 people have listened to and hated it doesn't have an equal say in the rating as an album that 20 people loved. Would only bump up Radiohead by like .1 based on brief calculations, but could affect others more.

Happy to help with the tallying if you like.

I totally agree. That was something I was thinking about.

If you'd handle my tallying, I'd really appreciate it!

[Thirdmango]

Not that it really matters, but I would probably do a vote total of every score given then divide that by the number of ratings given for all albums.

That way if a band has an album that 4 people have listened to and hated it doesn't have an equal say in the rating as an album that 20 people loved. Would only bump up Radiohead by like .1 based on brief calculations, but could affect others more.

Happy to help with the tallying if you like.

Yeah I did that. That's why your brief calcs are so close. I added all the ratings and the divided by how many voters. So King of Limbs for instance only got 11 voters and so I divided by 11.

[Winston*]

I'm just talking about the overall band score. So if you had a band with two albums, one of which got 17 votes and the other which got 4 votes, you would add every individual vote together and then divide by 21.

[Thirdmango]

I'm just talking about the overall band score. So if you had a band with two albums, one of which got 17 votes and the other which got 4 votes, you would add every individual vote together and then divide by 21.

Ah gotcha.

[transmogrifier]

No Sonic Youth makes trans cry.

[D_Davis]

No Sonic Youth makes trans cry.

Added!

[D_Davis]

Happy to help with the tallying if you like.

Hey, Win - mind tallying up the U2 numbers sometime soon?

[Spinal]

Really enjoying these threads and the challenge to listen to more music. Thanks for doing this, team.

[D_Davis]

Next up will be:

Brian Eno (not including his ambient installation albums, unless you want to)

Discography (Solo):

Here Come the Warm Jets
Taking Tiger Mountain
Another Green World
Discreet Music
Before and After Science
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Music for Films
Ambient 4: On Land
More Music for Films
Thursday Afternoon
Nerve Net
The Shutov Assmebly
Neroli
The Drop
Another Day on Earth
Lux

Collaborations:

No Pussyfooting
Evening Star
Custer & Eno
After the Hear
In a Land of Clear Colours
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Morror
Forth World Music, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
The Pearl
Wrong Way Up
When I Was a Boy
Spinner
Passengers: Original Soundtracks
Tracks and Traces
Music for Onmyo-Ji
Drawn from Life
The Equatorial Stars
Beyond Even
Everything that Happens Will Happen Today
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Drums Between the Bells
Panic of looking
Someday World
High Life



OK, start listening! LOL.

[D_Davis]

So after this first batch is done with, ending w/ Pink Floyd, maybe someone else can take the reigns on the project for a bit. It's going to be a long haul, so we might want to switch off every few months to avoid forum burn out.

[D_Davis]

Really enjoying these threads and the challenge to listen to more music. Thanks for doing this, team.

It always blows my mind just how much music is out there. I mean, I listen to music all the freaking time, and there are well-known performers on our master list that I've never listened to a whole album. Coming up is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I've only ever heard 1 song by them.

[Spinal]

It always blows my mind just how much music is out there. I mean, I listen to music all the freaking time, and there are well-known performers on our master list that I've never listened to a whole album. Coming up is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I've only ever heard 1 song by them.

"Maps" I assume? They're one of my favorite current bands. Show Your Bones is the tops, in my opinion.

[Winston*]

I don't think D_Davis will like Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

[D_Davis]

"Maps" I assume? They're one of my favorite current bands. Show Your Bones is the tops, in my opinion.

Yep - because of Rock Band.

[Spinal]

I don't think D_Davis will like Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Nor do I.

[D_Davis]

Maps was fun to play on Rock Band. :)

[Thirdmango]

I think what we should do when the new year comes up is see which of us want to be in charge of different weeks and depending on who all is in let's say four people. Then each person rotates in a 4 week period and the person in charge gets to choose the band. Then we can set up say a 12-16 week plan of what's upcoming and then as time goes on see who's still in and out and announce the next 4 week period 3 months early. Something like that.

[Thirdmango]

That way well burn out less and have a bit more different sounding bands representing. Otherwise I've been very much enjoying these weeks despite doing bands I haven't heard anything from (so I have a lot to listen to.)

[D_Davis]

How are you all listening to albums that you don't own? Spotify?

[Spinal]

How are you all listening to albums that you don't own? Spotify?

Youtube. Some from the library.

[Thirdmango]

Same as spinal. My library is huge. And it's a common occurrence for me to not have listened to something.

[Spinal]

Led Zeppelin
Guns n Roses
T. Rex

[MadMan]

I liked the album that Maps and Y Control was on.

[Spinal]

Well, we must have come to the end of Davis' bands. The schedule has been abandoned. :)

[D_Davis]

Oh shit!

Thanks for the reminder. Totally spaced on it yesterday.

[Thirdmango]

Yeah I was gonna send Davis a message or just take over for January.

[Melville]

Another name for the list: Johnny Cash

[D_Davis]

Swamped at work today. Will have the next thread up later tonight.

[Spinal]

Beck
St. Vincent

[Thirdmango]

So who we doing next week?

[D_Davis]

You taking over for a bit?

You could just go down the master list, or pick and choose.

Up to you.

[Thirdmango]

Oh yeah I was cool taking over you just never have me a confirmation til this message.

[Thirdmango]

Schedule up through end of March:

Rage Against the Machine 01/05 - 01/11

Nirvana 01/12 - 01/18

Talking Heads/David Bryne 01/19 - 01/25

Beastie Boys 01/26 - 02/01

The Beatles 02/02 - 02/08

Weezer 02/09 - 02/15

Elliot Smith 02/16 - 02/22

Michael Jackson 02/23 - 03/01

Foo Fighters 03/02 - 03/08

The Who 03/09 - 03/15

Metallica 03/16 - 03/22

Beck 03/23 - 03/30

Davis you still willing to edit the first post to add this?

[D_Davis]

Yeah - I'll maintain the first post.

[Thirdmango]

Thank you kindly sir

[DSNT]

This list needs more Shoegaze. Can we add Ride and Slowdive to the list?

[Thirdmango]

sorry for the delay, the next will be up soonish.