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Sorry for the thread title being incredibly presumptuous, but this is at least what I hope to achieve. I did a search for "reference" and saw so many threads asking for reference albums, and just by reading all those threads, there are some obvious ones that are commonly mentioned. I was hoping that all of these albums could be compiled via some sort of hierarchy through the following method:
1) I'll post an initial list of albums that can be considered as reference records. Beside each album is a number, which denotes the number of people who concur with the album being a reference recording; obviously they all start at one. Here is the list:
[01] Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
[01] Massive Attack - Mezzanine
[01] Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
[01] Rush - Moving Pictures
[01] Eric Clapton - Unplugged
[01] Metallica - Metallica
2) The next poster copies the entire list and can do either of the following: a) add a new album with [01] as its "score"; b) add one point to an existing album; c) subtract one point from an existing album. So, for example, if the next poster agrees with DSotM, disagrees with Metallica's s/t and would like to add Rage Against The Machine's s/t, his updated list would look like this:
[02] Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (+1)
[01] Massive Attack - Mezzanine
[01] Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
[01] Rush - Moving Pictures
[01] Eric Clapton - Unplugged
[01] Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (new)
[00] Metallica - Metallica (-1)
NOTE #1: It would help noting how you updated the list like how I did in parenthesis for the example above. If you feel like re-ordering the list based on the updated number of "votes", feel free to do so.
NOTE #2: Do not delete albums when they reach [00]. For now, I think we could allow voting down an album already at zero, if only to emphasize how bad of a suggestion it was to begin with.
NOTE #3: I'm not going to be strict (yet) about this, but I'm not keen on people specifying the type of release such as "Dark Side of the Moon SACD" or "Kind of Blue remastered." You could mention it as a note or comment on your post outside of the list, but I think avoiding this kind of segregation would keep things simpler. Let's leave some work to be done in terms of letting other people research which issues sound the best and the like.
NOTE #4: Don't vote more than once for an album. You can post as much as you want as long as you are updating the list for an album that you haven't acted on yet.
That's all there is to it, really... I think it's a fairly simple method and if a lot of people participate, it might prevent the same thread from coming up over and over again by serving as a "quick reference." This thread could even get stickied, I guess.
So to get the ball rolling, here again is the initial list (make sure to read and understand the method above):
[01] Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
[01] Massive Attack - Mezzanine
[01] Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
[01] Rush - Moving Pictures
[01] Eric Clapton - Unplugged
[01] Metallica - Metallica
1) I'll post an initial list of albums that can be considered as reference records. Beside each album is a number, which denotes the number of people who concur with the album being a reference recording; obviously they all start at one. Here is the list:
[01] Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
[01] Massive Attack - Mezzanine
[01] Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
[01] Rush - Moving Pictures
[01] Eric Clapton - Unplugged
[01] Metallica - Metallica
2) The next poster copies the entire list and can do either of the following: a) add a new album with [01] as its "score"; b) add one point to an existing album; c) subtract one point from an existing album. So, for example, if the next poster agrees with DSotM, disagrees with Metallica's s/t and would like to add Rage Against The Machine's s/t, his updated list would look like this:
[02] Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (+1)
[01] Massive Attack - Mezzanine
[01] Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
[01] Rush - Moving Pictures
[01] Eric Clapton - Unplugged
[01] Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (new)
[00] Metallica - Metallica (-1)
NOTE #1: It would help noting how you updated the list like how I did in parenthesis for the example above. If you feel like re-ordering the list based on the updated number of "votes", feel free to do so.
NOTE #2: Do not delete albums when they reach [00]. For now, I think we could allow voting down an album already at zero, if only to emphasize how bad of a suggestion it was to begin with.
NOTE #3: I'm not going to be strict (yet) about this, but I'm not keen on people specifying the type of release such as "Dark Side of the Moon SACD" or "Kind of Blue remastered." You could mention it as a note or comment on your post outside of the list, but I think avoiding this kind of segregation would keep things simpler. Let's leave some work to be done in terms of letting other people research which issues sound the best and the like.
NOTE #4: Don't vote more than once for an album. You can post as much as you want as long as you are updating the list for an album that you haven't acted on yet.
That's all there is to it, really... I think it's a fairly simple method and if a lot of people participate, it might prevent the same thread from coming up over and over again by serving as a "quick reference." This thread could even get stickied, I guess.
So to get the ball rolling, here again is the initial list (make sure to read and understand the method above):
[01] Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
[01] Massive Attack - Mezzanine
[01] Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
[01] Rush - Moving Pictures
[01] Eric Clapton - Unplugged
[01] Metallica - Metallica
