Rank the Albums Again. This Time Weighted! #1: Vitalogy

[E.H. Ruddock]

1. Vitalogy / 17
2. No Code / 16
3. Yield / 15
4. Vs. / 14
5. Ten / 12
6. Lightning Bolt / 7
7. Binaural / 7
8. S/T / 5
9. Backspacer / 5
10. Riot Act / 2

You are supposed to PM 4/5 your rankings

[William Bloke]

You know I don't even think I have a specific favourite Pearl Jam album.

I am a bad fan.

[4/5]

So, there's an album that wasn't in the top half of a single person's list.

There's an album that is in the bottom three for all except for three people.

There are three albums that are in the top for five for all except 1-2 people.

There are six albums that received no last place votes, and three that received at least seven last place votes each.

No Pearl Jam album released in the last 15 years received a first place vote.

[hlniv]

29
48
11
0
22
44
12
19
234
1

I mean he gave a score of 234 to one of them. That right there is way more than 100, in and of itself!!

Oh, the laughter.

The sum of all his scores equals 420. That's 4.2x more than 100 and a code-term that refers to the consumption of cannabis!!

Oh, the laughter.

I wonder what special quality gave that last one a score of "1" as compared to the 4th album which was given a "0". Must have been something very meaningful.

[B]

1. Vitalogy / 17
2. No Code / 16
3. Yield / 15
4. Vs. / 14
5. Ten / 12
6. Lightning Bolt / 7
7. Binaural / 7
8. S/T / 5
9. Backspacer / 5
10. Riot Act / 2

You are supposed to PM 4/5 your rankings

I did. Was I supposed to keep it secret?

[Jorge]

Please PM your rankings to me. If you would like to share your rankings in this thread, I ask that you take away your weighted score so that we can do a countdown/reveal thing in a few weeks as responses have slowed down. (Obviously we already have an unweighted ranking thread, so that’s up to you.)

[CopperTom]

Classic B!

[BurtReynolds]

Classic B!

oh B.

[B]

I'd been on vacation. 4/5 had PM'd me b/c I didn't send anything.

I panicked and may not have read all of the directions.

[evenslow]

1. Vitalogy / 17
2. No Code / 16
3. Yield / 15
4. Vs. / 14
5. Ten / 12
6. Lightning Bolt / 7
7. Binaural / 7
8. S/T / 5
9. Backspacer / 5
10. Riot Act / 2

Spoiler: show

[@SkitchP]

I'd been on vacation. 4/5 had PM'd me b/c I didn't send anything.

I panicked and may not have read all of the directions.

So your response to a PM was to post the answer on the board?

[B]

I'd been on vacation. 4/5 had PM'd me b/c I didn't send anything.

I panicked and may not have read all of the directions.

So your response to a PM was to post the answer on the board?

I remembered something about sharing them .... I don't know. Maybe if I gave a shit about RM, I would have tried harder.

[Leatherhead]

I'd been on vacation. 4/5 had PM'd me b/c I didn't send anything.

I panicked and may not have read all of the directions.

So your response to a PM was to post the answer on the board?

I remembered something about sharing them .... I don't know. Maybe if I gave a shit about RM, I would have tried harder.

[B]

[4/5]

10.


In an extremely close race, Backspacer comes in last, with an average score of 3.30 points.

It received 12 points from two users, but otherwise the next highest value was 7 points, and the vast majority of participants gave it between 0 and 4 points.

The most common ranking it received was 9th, with half of all respondents putting it in the 9th slot. One user ranked it 4th overall, giving it the highest peak ranking of the final three albums.

91% of participants ranked it in the bottom three, including nearly 82% ranking it either last or next to last.

It did not however receive the most last place votes. That honor belongs to....

[4/5]

9.


Lightning Bolt managed to sneak into 9th place by a single vote, just edging out Backspacer with an average score of 3.33 points.

Lightning Bolt received 11 points from one participant, but otherwise failed to receive more than 8 points from any other user, and generally received between 0 and 4 points.

LB received the most last place votes, with about 42% of respondents ranking it last.

LB's peak ranking was 5.

85% of participants ranked it in the bottom three, including 79% in the bottom two.

While LB received the most last place votes, Backspacer was nearly three times as likely to have received a score of "0" than LB. It appears possible that more participants prefer BS to LB, but there is a group who completely dismisses BS more strongly than they do LB. Perhaps for people who dislike both albums, there is at least a song or two--something slightly redeeming about LB--that they find missing completely from BS.

[E.H. Ruddock]

10.
One user ranked it 4th overall, giving it the highest peak ranking of the final three albums.

Good lord, stip

[darth_vedder]

10.
One user ranked it 4th overall, giving it the highest peak ranking of the final three albums.

Good lord, stip

[Strat]

You can easily guess which poster is stip and what votes were placed by said poster.

[darth_vedder]

9.
Lightning Bolt managed to sneak into 9th place by a single vote, just edging out Backspacer with an average score of 3.33 points.

Lightning Bolt received 11 points from one participant, but otherwise failed to receive more than 8 points from any other user, and generally received between 0 and 4 points.

LB received the most last place votes, with about 42% of respondents ranking it last.

LB's peak ranking was 5.

85% of participants ranked it in the bottom three, including 79% in the bottom two.

While LB received the most last place votes, Backspacer was nearly three times as likely to have received a score of "0" than LB. It appears possible that more participants prefer BS to LB, but there is a group who completely dismisses BS more strongly than they do LB. Perhaps for people who dislike both albums, there is at least a song or two--something slightly redeeming about LB--that they find missing completely from BS.

Good stuff 4/5! I'm one that ranked LB last. BS at least feels like a more cohesive album to me, but the songs I like on LB, I tend to like more than the songs I like on BS.