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Post by snakelady on Apr 30, 2019 6:58:31 GMT
Popularity ranking
With the number of votes divided through the overall number of songs from each album, we get a result how popular or unpopular the albums are as a whole in consequence.
Note that with some albums, there are single outstandingly unpopular songs that bring down the ranking position considerably. E.g. If Tommy hadn't been included on RTYD the quota would've gone up from 3.9 to 2.9. (Similar with QPQ and ITAN 2010 or A1 and the hits) Sometimes a big difference is visible between A and B side/first and second half of an album. E.g. OTL isn't the most popular album, but its first side is the most popular half out of all Quo albums.
So here's the result with all songs taken into account:
01. Piledriver - 2.0 02. Blue For You - 2.1 03. Hello - 2.3 On The Level - 2.3 04. Whatever You Want - 2.6 05. The Frantic Four Reunion - 2.7 06. Ain't Complaining - 2.9 07. Dog Of Two Head - 3.0 Quo - 3.0 Bula Quo - 3.0 08. Just Supposin' - 3.4 09. Never Too Late - 3.5 10. Under The Influence - 3.6 Heavy Traffic - 3.6 11. Rock 'Til You Drop - 3.9 12. Rockin' All Over The World - 4.0 13. Quid Pro Quo 4.1 14. Aquostic (stripped bare) - 4.4 15. Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon - 4.9 16. Aquostic - That's A Fact - 5.2 17. The Party Ain't Over Yet - 5.7 18. In Search Of The Fourth Chord - 5.9 19. If You Can't Stand The Heat - 6.0 20. 1982 - 6.4 21. Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo - 6.5 In The Army Now - 6.5 22. Thirsty Work - 6.6 23. Back To Back - 7.1 Don't Stop - 7.1 24. Riffs - 7.3 25. Spare Parts - 7.5 26. Famous In The Last Century - 7.8 27. Perfect Remedy - 9.1
This is certainly more accurate than simply ranking the albums because of some diffuse like/dislike. And it includes some interesting and unexpected results IMO.
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Post by mortified on Apr 30, 2019 7:52:36 GMT
Interesting stuff. Who'd have thought Ain't Complaining would have figured so high up the list? I'm obviously not a proper Quo fan The bottom 9 are pretty much on the money though. I doubt that would change no matter how large a sample was used. Maybe just the order.
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Post by kursaal75 on Apr 30, 2019 9:19:04 GMT
Ain't Complaining above Quo & Dog Of Two Head, thats very surprising :oo: I generally agree with the rest of the list, with my worst 2 albums in the bottom 2 Thanks for your work SL in compiling this list
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Post by mortified on Apr 30, 2019 10:01:50 GMT
Ain't Complaining above Quo & Dog Of Two Head, thats very surprising I generally agree with the rest of the list, with my worst 2 albums in the bottom 2 Thanks for your work SL in compiling this list Absolutely And which person of absolutely no taste whatsoever skipped more tracks on the Dog and Quo than they did Ain't Complaining? They say there's no accounting for taste. Although that borders on the illegal
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Post by snakelady on Apr 30, 2019 15:22:33 GMT
Ain't Complaining above Quo & Dog Of Two Head, thats very surprising I generally agree with the rest of the list, with my worst 2 albums in the bottom 2 Thanks for your work SL in compiling this list Absolutely And which person of absolutely no taste whatsoever skipped more tracks on the Dog and Quo than they did Ain't Complaining? They say there's no accounting for taste. Although that borders on the illegal Me, for example .. For quite some time I didn't skip any track on AC .. as opposed to Dog and Quo
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Post by kursaal75 on Apr 30, 2019 15:51:16 GMT
Absolutely And which person of absolutely no taste whatsoever skipped more tracks on the Dog and Quo than they did Ain't Complaining? They say there's no accounting for taste. Although that borders on the illegal Me, for example .. For quite some time I didn't skip any track on AC .. as opposed to Dog and Quo
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Post by snakelady on Apr 30, 2019 15:54:50 GMT
Heat is my least favourite 70s album and by some margin, but second place goes to Dog. I'm one of those who very much prefers Ma Kelly's over Dog. Quo is merely saved by Slow Train and Fine Fine Fine
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Post by craydarr on May 1, 2019 5:58:13 GMT
I’m trying to get my head round that at the moment, but it is indeed interesting stuff.
Thankyou
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Post by viking55 on May 1, 2019 16:05:31 GMT
Heat is my least favourite 70s album and by some margin, but second place goes to Dog. I'm one of those who very much prefers Ma Kelly's over Dog. Quo is merely saved by Slow Train and Fine Fine Fine Yeah I agree regarding Ma Kelly’s over Dog. Think Kelly’s if played now still sounds much more relevant ( Modern Indie feel to it ) Than Dog !
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Post by snakelady on May 4, 2019 8:07:12 GMT
There's indeed a few interesting outcomes e.g. - that A1 and A2 nearly reached the same score, while going by general posting you'd think that A1 was the far more popular album. - that BFY reaches no2 in front of Hello and OTL. WHen we've done favourite albums polls, it has always ended up behind these two. Personally I only ever listen to four songs from it - Bula Quo as popular as Dog and Quo ? I like that. Personally I prefer it over these two, by far. Those who've given that album a chance know that it's a great little album that undeservedly suffers from the film's reputation. - JS and NTL higher ranked than the 00s albums ? I don't get that. The only explanation I can think of is the longer formate inevitably let to some fillers having been included which then got voted for and consequently dragged down the ranking position.
And there's more ..
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Post by mortified on May 4, 2019 9:35:23 GMT
There's indeed a few interesting outcomes e.g. - that A1 and A2 nearly reached the same score, while going by general posting you'd think that A1 was the far more popular album. - that BFY reaches no2 in front of Hello and OTL. WHen we've done favourite albums polls, it has always ended up behind these two. Personally I only ever listen to four songs from it - Bula Quo as popular as Dog and Quo ? I like that. Personally I prefer it over these two, by far. Those who've given that album a chance know that it's a great little album that undeservedly suffers from the film's reputation. - JS and NTL higher ranked than the 00s albums ? I don't get that. The only explanation I can think of is the longer formate inevitably let to some fillers having been included which then got voted for and consequently dragged down the ranking position. And there's more .. I'm not sure you can make that sort of assumption from this type of survey. Skipping tracks is an indication not of particularly liking a song but more sort of disliking others. And I know you're not keen on those two early 80's albums ( Just Supposin' and Never Too Late) but they are very highly thought of by Quo fans (me included) and led to the huge success of 1+9+8+2 which, over the years, isn't nearly as well respected despite probably selling more. But I agree about Bula Quo; it's a bit of an undiscovered (and therefore underrated) gem. But "better" than the Dog or Quo? These two are in the top 5 albums ever made - by anyone - on any list I'd compile. Just goes to show. Taste is an unpredictable and individual thing.
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Post by snakelady on May 4, 2019 13:18:04 GMT
There's indeed a few interesting outcomes e.g. - that A1 and A2 nearly reached the same score, while going by general posting you'd think that A1 was the far more popular album. - that BFY reaches no2 in front of Hello and OTL. WHen we've done favourite albums polls, it has always ended up behind these two. Personally I only ever listen to four songs from it - Bula Quo as popular as Dog and Quo ? I like that. Personally I prefer it over these two, by far. Those who've given that album a chance know that it's a great little album that undeservedly suffers from the film's reputation. - JS and NTL higher ranked than the 00s albums ? I don't get that. The only explanation I can think of is the longer formate inevitably let to some fillers having been included which then got voted for and consequently dragged down the ranking position. And there's more .. I'm not sure you can make that sort of assumption from this type of survey. Skipping tracks is an indication not of particularly liking a song but more sort of disliking others. And I know you're not keen on those two early 80's albums ( Just Supposin' and Never Too Late) but they are very highly thought of by Quo fans (me included) and led to the huge success of 1+9+8+2 which, over the years, isn't nearly as well respected despite probably selling more. But I agree about Bula Quo; it's a bit of an undiscovered (and therefore underrated) gem. But "better" than the Dog or Quo? These two are in the top 5 albums ever made - by anyone - on any list I'd compile. Just goes to show. Taste is an unpredictable and individual thing. Make that British Quo fans, but here it's a different story. If you look at the site that shows chart positions from various countries for the albums you'll notice that Quo had peaked with RAOTW in Germany and afterwards came a relatively steep decline till Army. My own story and Inna's too reflect that, as we both more or less left the band behind in the early 80s due to the poor quality of the albums. And 1982 definitely wasn't popular here - and deservedly so IMO. I never said any album was better than any other album for that reason exactly: You just can't classify taste. We like to do it, consider this superior to that, when in reality it's just we like one more than the other. So concerning overall popularity of Quo albums we can indeed say that on this particular mb these three albums are equally popular, though not necessarily among the same people. To sum it up - Britain and the world aren't quite the same, even if some Brits may think they are, as recently proved again by Francis' world tour.
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Post by mortified on May 5, 2019 7:39:16 GMT
Yeah, I guess you might be right. In the UK (and I'm only speaking from memory - which is a rapidly fading thing ), both Just Supposin' and Never too Late went straight into no.2 in the UK charts. 1+9+8+2 went straight in at no.1 on the strength of those and also with the help of the huge publicity it got. Even Back to Back, which to me was dreadful and probably remains their worst album ever, went in at no.3. Army not so swiftly followed and the bandwagon rolled on. So until Perfect Remedy at the very end, Quo performed very well in the UK charts during the 80's. Not a golden period artistically but they were still massively popular.
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Post by kursaal75 on May 5, 2019 7:44:52 GMT
Yeah, I guess you might be right. In the UK (and I'm only speaking from memory - which is a rapidly fading thing ), both Just Supposin' and Never too Late went straight into no.2 in the UK charts. 1+9+8+2 went straight in at no.1 on the strength of those and also with the help of the huge publicity it got. Even Back to Back, which to me was dreadful and probably remains their worst album ever, went in at no.3. Army not so swiftly followed and the bandwagon rolled on. So until Perfect Remedy at the very end, Quo performed very well in the UK charts during the 80's. Not a golden period artistically but they were still massively popular.
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Post by mortified on May 5, 2019 12:19:22 GMT
Yeah, I guess you might be right. In the UK (and I'm only speaking from memory - which is a rapidly fading thing ), both Just Supposin' and Never too Late went straight into no.2 in the UK charts. 1+9+8+2 went straight in at no.1 on the strength of those and also with the help of the huge publicity it got. Even Back to Back, which to me was dreadful and probably remains their worst album ever, went in at no.3. Army not so swiftly followed and the bandwagon rolled on. So until Perfect Remedy at the very end, Quo performed very well in the UK charts during the 80's. Not a golden period artistically but they were still massively popular. Cheers I was a little optimistic with a couple but the albums I was talking about were still successful, in the UK at least. Certainly top 10 placings.
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