People who keep up with us will have realized by now that we’ve pretty much migrated from this space to Facebook and Twitter (her, me).
But this is still a good place to put my “favorite music of 2008″ post. This year, I got used to using my iPod and iTunes to put ratings on songs. I rated each song 1 through 5, and I now present my top ten favorites according to their average scores.
Methodology: It’s nothing fancy, just a straight average of all tracks for an album after throwing out the lowest score (because even great albums usually have one bad track). I looked at using a harmonic or geometric mean rather than flat arithmetic means to account for different numbers of tracks, but the more complex calculations didn’t really affect the final list, so i kept it simple. Also, I realize this more math than science, but you’ll have to pardon the running Electric Pulp joke.
| 1 |
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid |
3.72 |
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| 2 |
Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious |
3.60 |
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| 3 |
Flobots - Fight With Tools |
3.54 |
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| 4 |
REM - Accelerate |
3.50 |
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| 5 |
Man Man - Rabbit Habits |
3.45 |
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| 6 |
Bob Mould - District Line |
3.22 |
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| 7 |
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive |
3.20 |
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| 8 |
Murder By Death - Red Of Tooth And Claw |
3.20 |
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| 9 |
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs |
3.09 |
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| 10 |
Portishead - Third |
2.90 |
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Just missing the list by .07 stars was Chad VanGaalen’s Soft Airplane. Hey, Chad, life is hard.
December 18th, 2008 - Posted in Music | |
