RIP Music Bracket

[reldnahkram]

It's long past time to declare the music bracket dead. Stats and other info behind the cut.



I think the most interesting stats are seeing who agreed with who. The percentages are based on the responses made by the person on the left, so to compare how aryky and sildra felt about the options, find sildra's entry on the left (using aryky will artificially drive the percentage down because aryky responded more) and aryky's column, and see that they agreed on 68% of the choices. Or, perhaps more helpful, the person in the column agreed with the person in the row's answers at the given percentage rate. Let me know if you're still confused.

	# Resp.	ultranurd	sildra	uncleamos	think_too_much	kyree	aryky	eclectic_boy	jdh92	tirerim	sonatanator	showergrrl	baaaaaaaaaah
ultranurd	13	100	54	69	23	69	54	0	23	31	8	15	15
sildra	22	32	100	64	45	50	68	0	9	32	5	23	5
uncleamos	26	35	54	100	35	58	62	4	12	31	8	15	4
think_too_much	26	12	38	35	100	35	65	8	12	19	4	15	0
kyree	22	41	50	68	41	100	45	5	18	14	0	5	9
aryky	26	27	58	62	65	38	100	8	12	19	4	15	0
eclectic_boy	2	0	0	50	100	50	100	100	100	50	50	50	0
jdh92	6	50	33	50	50	67	50	33	100	50	17	50	50
tirerim	10	40	70	80	50	30	50	10	30	100	20	40	30
sonatanator	2	50	50	100	50	0	50	50	50	100	100	100	0
showergrrl	6	33	83	67	67	17	67	17	50	67	33	100	17
baaaaaaaaaah	4	50	25	25	0	50	0	0	75	75	0	25	100

The pairings (and results, where applicable):

CLASSICAL BRANCH:
Baroque Recorder Works:
Vivaldi 7, Handel 0 (don't have the exact works in front of me)
Telemann 3, Bach (Brandenburg IV) 0

Loud Brass Things:
Holst (2nd Suite for Military Band) 6, Copland (Fanfare for the Common Man) 4
Gabrieli v. Handel (Music for a Royal Firework)

String Works:
Bach (Sonatas & Partitas) 4, Corelli (Violin Sonatas) 1
Dvorak (Cello Concerto) v. Bach (Cello Suites)

What Now?
Wendy Carlos (Switched on Bach) 3, Hubert Laws (Debussy's Syrinx) 2
Bobby McFerrin & Chick Correa (Mozart) v. Bela Fleck (Beethoven)

JAZZ BRANCH:
Bebop:
Clifford Brown v. Oscar Peterson
Horace Silver (Sister Sadie) 3, Charlie Parker (Salt Peanuts) 2

Slower Stuff:
Miles Davis (So What) 8, John Coltrane (Acknowledgement) 2
Lee Morgan (Ceora) v. Tom Harrell (Darn that Dream)

Remixed etc.:
Jean Gabin (Doo Uap, Doo Uap, Doo Uap) 4, Us3 (Cantaloop) 2
St. Germain v. Action Figure Party

TRANSPORTATION BRANCH:
Trains:
Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues) 6, Rosanne Cash (Runaway Train) 4
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer (Hey Conductor) v. New Riders of the Purple Sage (Glendale Train)

Trafic:
Eddie from Ohio (Traffic Jam) v. Jack Johnson (Traffic in the Sky)
Cake (Long Line of Cars) v. Minibar (Sheer Volume of Traffic)

Other modes:
Amy Correia (Daydream Car) 3, Lyle Lovett (If I Had a Boat) 2
Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road) 6, Richard Thompson (1952 Vincent Black Lightning) 5

OTHER:
Animals:
Squeeze (Cool for Cats) 5, Dire Straits (The Bug) 2
Nickel Creek (The Fox) 4, Bruce Cockburn (Wondering Where the Lions Are) 1

Birds:
Erin McKeown (Blackbirds) v. Old 97's (Bird in a Cage)
Dolly Parton (Little Sparrow) 3, Eddie from Ohio (The Bird) 2

Leftist Country:
Rodney Crowell (Don't Get Me Started) 2, James McMurtry (Can't Make it Here) 1
John Prine (Some Humans Ain't Human) 3, Todd Snider (Conservative Christian...) 3

Genre Reworking:
Brad Meldhau (Paranoid Android) 3, Swingle Singers (Bach) 2
Dolly Parton (I Get a Kick Out of You) v. The Paperboys (The Cop, The Scot, the Gal, and her Neighbour)

Technology:
Fountains of Wayne (Little Red Light) 5, Chuck Prophet (Automatic Blues) 2
Old 97's (Coahuila) v. Spoon (I Turn My Camera On)

Superheroes etc.
Josh Joplin Group (Gravity) 4, Guy Clark (The Cape) 1
Crash Test Dummies (Superman's Song) 2, Laurie Anderson (O Superman) 1

Covers:
Eddie from Ohio (Schoolhouse Rock Medley) 5, Roger McGuinn (American Girl) 5
The Paperboys (I Just Saw a Face) v. Blue Man Group (White Rabbit)

Drugs:
Erin McKeown (Little Cowboy) 8, Old Crow Medicine Show (Tell it to Me) 2
Jolie Holland (Old Fashioned Morphine) v. Adrienne Young (Soldier's Joy)

Dave Mathews Cameo Appearances:
Blue Man Group (Sing Along) 5, Bela Fleck (Communication) 1
Emmylou Harris (My Antonia) 2, Mike Doughty (Tremendous Brunettes) 1

Throwaway Bits:
Alison Krauss (Broken Strings from New Favorite) 5, Mike Doughty (Firetruck) 2
Garcia, Grisman, and Rice (Chatter from the Pizza Tapes) v. Promise Loaf (Have You Seen My Kitty)

Remarks on correctly identified tracks later, sleep now.

Comments

[uncleamos]

Given the number of total possible votes, and the numbers that people were actually voting, this may well be a decent sample, or rather, as good a sample as you're likely to get.

Apparently I missed some?

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

No, I just can't type.