Some stats about participation:
153 voters participated on the game. Here you can see how many voters had every album and how many albums ranked every voter.
First the albums ranked according to the number of voters
Number of voters | Name of the album
51 | Revolver
50 | The Velvet Underground & Nico
45 | OK Computer
44 | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
42 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
40 | Funeral, Pet Sounds, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
38 | Nevermind
37 | Kid A
36 | The Beatles (White Album), Doolittle
35 | The Queen Is Dead, Thriller
33 | Highway 61 Revisited
32 | London Calling, Automatic for the People, Remain in Light
31 | Purple Rain
30 | What's Going On, In Rainbows
29 | Channel Orange, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
28 | Exile on Main St.
27 | Born to Run, Grace, Rubber Soul, Who's Next, The Bends
26 | Kind of Blue, Blonde on Blonde, The Joshua Tree, Abbey Road, Marquee Moon, Led Zeppelin IV
25 | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, The Dark Side of the Moon, Sound of Silver, Innervisions
24 | Ten, Blackstar
23 | Is This It, Beggars Banquet, Rumours
22 | Sign 'O' the Times, Let It Bleed
21 | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Astral Weeks, The Doors, Hunky Dory
20 | Blue Lines, good kid m.A.A.d city, Horses, Closer, Dummy, Blood on the Tracks, Modern Vampires of the City, Achtung Baby
19 | Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, Illinois, The Stone Roses, Odessey and Oracle, Post
18 | Odelay, Loveless, Are You Experienced, The College Dropout
17 | Elephant, Endtroducing....., Daydream Nation, Murmur, A Rush of Blood to the Head, Born in the U.S.A., In Utero
16 | Let England Shake
15 | Elvis Presley, Back to Black, Ramones, Rain Dogs, Forever Changes, Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not, Disintegration
14 | Appetite for Destruction, Screamadelica, Graceland
13 | Here's Little Richard, Lost in the Dream, Untrue, The Low End Theory, To Pimp a Butterfly, Songs in the Key of Life
12 | Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Stankonia, Electric Ladyland, Mingus Ah Um, White Blood Cells
11 | Time Out
10 | In the Wee Small Hours, The Blueprint
9 | The Shape of Jazz to Come
And the participants ranked according to the number of albums ranked
Voter | Number of albums ranked
antonius, bonnielaurel, bootsy, Honorio, jamieW, mileswide, ordinaryperson | 100
Listyguy | 64
Romain | 62
DaveC, whuntva | 59
ArcadeFire, EmilienDelRey | 50
andyd1010 | 49
krendler, Nassim | 48
maverick470, SJner, stone37, Toni | 46
Live in Phoenix | 45
prosecutorgodot | 40
Bruno | 33
Elder, Henry | 31
Heylazaro, Rocky Raccoon | 25
Chris K., Krurze | 24
Moonbeam | 23
BleuPanda, Maschine_Man, Ulysses | 22
Nick | 21
IllumiThottie | 19
deadpacifist, fasbjd | 18
notbrianeno | 17
sonofsamiam | 16
GucciLittlePiggy | 14
chevisan, Matski | 13
Jackson, Lagunin, PlasticRam | 12
aalamar, Akhenaten, babydoll, Dexter, Pierre, talking | 11
luvulongTIM | 10
CupOfDreams, FrankLotion, Gillingham, Safetycat, Zombeels | 9
Arsalan, Dan, DocBrown, luney6, madzong, slick, Sunwoo1213 | 7
1969_ford_f100, Araluenian, Daniel, drg123, Jonathon, StevieFan13 | 6
dumbangel, Jap123, Mulholland, ratanx, ShepBranson, Wezzo | 5
Harold, jimm, Miguel, Mushroom Soup, Rob, sixfeetaboveme, Thomas, TimmyWing | 4
Hymie, Illiniq, jimmyj, Kingoftonga, ManPerson, , Sweepstakes Ron | 3
acroamor, Blanco, Clerefor Sede, Cold Butterfly, Edre Peraza, Fred, Henrik, hero, Jeff, JohnnyBGoode, JWinton, Kimijean, letmeintomyzone, Mr. David Ziggy, nedfla, Oscoface radiationvibe95, sickboy83, Smithers-Jones, starchman46, Ussername, tcaporale4, woodymac, Zorg | 2
Amoux, amnt1882, Brad, ChelseaD, Craig, Depeche Mode, Duncan Thaw, essieyessie, floflo79, Georgie, interstate84, jbirt92, Jirin, John, jonatan, Knailsic, Luke JR68, LZ, mat.bez.lima, Megaf3, Michel, MookieBlaylock10, Neil, nicolas, Onno Pels, Rdwdbob, Red7, Red Ant, romanbarranjr, rumpdoll, saqm7, Schüttelbirne, Seanywack, smhoax, Styrofoam Boots, The_Claw, The Rug Rat, tieb, VanillaFire1000 | 1
The participation (as expected) declined with time, as you can see on the following graphic
The #1s ranked:
Here they are, the #1 songs ordered by consensus, the agreement on being the best song of their respective albums (the closer the #1 song gets to 1,00 points the more consensual is):
Position | Name | Points | Number of #1 votes:
01 | Gimme Shelter | 1,227272727 | 17
02 | Take Five | 1,363636364 | 8
03 | Teen Age Riot | 1,411764706 | 12
04 | I've Got You Under My Skin | 1,416666667 | 11
05 | Life on Mars? | 1,428571429 | 17
06 | Like a Rolling Stone | 1,484848485 | 23
07 | All Along the Watchtower | 1,5 | 10
08 | Once in a Lifetime | 1,5625 | 23
09 | Better Git It in Your Soul | 1,666666667 | 9
10 | Billie Jean | 1,685714286 | 20
11 | Baba O'Riley | 1,703703704 | 14
12 | Anarchy in the U.K. | 1,736842105 | 11
13 | Born to Run | 1,740740741 | 16
14 | Unfinished Sympathy | 1,75 | 15
15 | B.O.B. | 1,75 | 7
16 | Clocks | 1,764705882 | 8
17 | Hallelujah | 1,777777778 | 15
18 | Sweet Child o' Mine | 1,785714286 | 9
19 | Lazarus | 1,791666667 | 13
20 | What's Going On | 1,8 | 17
21 | Tangled Up in Blue | 1,8 | 10
22 | So What | 1,807692308 | 14
23 | Time | 1,84 | 13
24 | Alone Again Or | 1,866666667 | 10
25t | Radio Free Europe | 1,882352941 | 12
25t | Seven Nation Army | 1,882352941 | 12
27 | I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor | 1,933333333 | 10
28 | Smells Like Teen Spirit | 2 | 25
29 | Hyper-Ballad | 2 | 10
30 | Lonely Woman | 2 | 6
31 | Sympathy for the Devil | 2,043478261 | 14
32 | Pyramids | 2,068965517 | 19
33 | Marquee Moon | 2,076923077 | 13
34 | Tutti Frutti | 2,076923077 | 6
35 | Red Eyes | 2,076923077 | 5
36 | A Day in the Life | 2,095238095 | 28
37 | Heart-Shaped Box | 2,125 | 3
38 | One | 2,15 | 11
39 | When Doves Cry | 2,2 | 12
40 | Go Your Own Way | 2,217391304 | 13
41 | There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | 2,228571429 | 17
42 | Stairway to Heaven | 2,24 | 12
43 | Living for the City | 2,24 | 11
44 | Blitzkrieg Bop | 2,266666667 | 10
45 | God Only Knows | 2,275 | 19
46 | All My Friends | 2,28 | 12
47 | Blue Suede Shoes | 2,2 | 7
48 | Black | 2,291666667 | 7
49 | Ghost Hardware | 2,307692308 | 5
50 | London Calling | 2,322580645 | 18
51 | In My Life | 2,333333333 | 10
52 | Purple Haze | 2,333333333 | 4
53 | Where the Streets Have No Name | 2,346153846 | 10
54 | Wake Up | 2,35 | 17
55 | Fake Plastic Trees | 2,357142857 | 15
56 | Debaser | 2,388888889 | 14
57 | Glory Box | 2,4 | 8
58 | Back to Black | 2,4 | 6
59 | Fell in Love with a Girl | 2,583333333 | 3
60 | Break On Through (To the Other Side) | 2,619047619 | 6
61 | Heroin | 2,66 | 20
62 | Where It's At | 2,666666667 | 8
63 | Tumbling Dice | 2,678571429 | 8
64 | Gloria: In Excelsis Deo / Gloria (Version) | 2,7 | 9
65 | In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning | 2,7 | 6
66 | Jesus. etc. | 2,72 | 9
67 | Building Steam with a Grain of Salt | 2,764705882 | 7
68 | Time of the Season | 2,789473684 | 10
69 | Check the Rhime | 2,846153846 | 2
70 | Pictures of You | 2,866666667 | 6
71 | Runaway | 2,88372093 | 21
72 | Paranoid Android | 2,888888889 | 18
73 | Swimming Pools (Drank) | 2,9 | 7
74 | Bring the Noise | 2,952380952 | 8
75t | Sweet Thing | 3 | 8
75t | Chicago | 3 | 8
77 | Graceland | 3 | 3
78 | Starman | 3,025 | 12
79 | Sign 'O' the Times | 3,045454545 | 7
80 | Sir Duke | 3,076923077 | 5
81 | Everything in Its Right Place | 3,081081081 | 10
82 | Last Nite | 3,130434783 | 9
83 | Eleanor Rigby | 3,137254902 | 17
84 | Don't Look Back in Anger | 3,137931034 | 8
85 | Heart of the City (Ain't No Love) | 3,2 | 3
86 | Twenty Four Hours | 3,2 | 2
87 | Soon | 3,222222222 | 6
88 | Reckoner | 3,233333333 | 6
89 | Step | 3,25 | 4
90 | Here Comes the Sun | 3,307692308 | 6
91 | The Words That Maketh Murder | 3,3125 | 2
92 | Visions of Johanna | 3,346153846 | 4
93 | Dancing in the Dark | 3,352941176 | 5
94 | Nightswimming | 3,4375 | 11
95 | Movin' On Up | 3,5 | 3
96 | I Wanna Be Adored | 3,526315789 | 3
97 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | 3,527777778 | 17
98 | Jesus Walks | 3,666666667 | 9
99 | Downtown Train | 3,8 | 7
100 | King Kunta | 4,846153846 | 3
And now only selecting the upper half of the albums (the ones with more voters):
01 | Gimme Shelter | 1,227272727 | 17
02 | Life on Mars? | 1,428571429 | 17
03 | Like a Rolling Stone | 1,484848485 | 23
04 | Once in a Lifetime | 1,5625 | 23
05 | Billie Jean | 1,685714286 | 20
06 | Baba O'Riley | 1,703703704 | 14
07 | Born to Run | 1,740740741 | 16
08 | Hallelujah | 1,777777778 | 15
09 | Lazarus | 1,791666667 | 13
10 | What's Going On | 1,8 | 17
11 | So What | 1,807692308 | 14
12 | Time | 1,84 | 13
13 | Smells Like Teen Spirit | 2 | 25
14 | Sympathy for the Devil | 2,043478261 | 14
15 | Pyramids | 2,068965517 | 19
16 | Marquee Moon | 2,076923077 | 13
17 | A Day in the Life | 2,095238095 | 28
18 | When Doves Cry | 2,2 | 12
19 | Go Your Own Way | 2,217391304 | 13
20 | There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | 2,228571429 | 17
21 | Stairway to Heaven | 2,24 | 12
22 | Living for the City | 2,24 | 11
23 | God Only Knows | 2,275 | 19
24 | All My Friends | 2,28 | 12
25 | Black | 2,291666667 | 7
26 | In My Life | 2,333333333 | 10
27 | Where the Streets Have No Name | 2,346153846 | 10
28 | Wake Up | 2,35 | 17
29 | Fake Plastic Trees | 2,357142857 | 15
30 | Debaser | 2,388888889 | 14
31 | Break On Through (To the Other Side) | 2,619047619 | 6
32 | Heroin | 2,66 | 20
33 | Tumbling Dice | 2,678571429 | 8
34 | London Calling | 2,71875 | 18
35 | Jesus. etc. | 2,72 | 9
36 | Runaway | 2,88372093 | 21
37 | Paranoid Android | 2,888888889 | 18
38 | Bring the Noise | 2,952380952 | 8
39 | Sweet Thing | 3 | 8
40 | Starman | 3,025 | 12
41 | Sign 'O' the Times | 3,045454545 | 7
42 | Everything in Its Right Place | 3,081081081 | 10
43 | Last Nite | 3,130434783 | 9
44 | Eleanor Rigby | 3,137254902 | 17
45 | Don't Look Back in Anger | 3,137931034 | 8
46 | Reckoner | 3,233333333 | 6
47 | Here Comes the Sun | 3,307692308 | 6
48 | Visions of Johanna | 3,346153846 | 4
49 | Nightswimming | 3,4375 | 11
50 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | 3,527777778 | 17
Correlation with critics
Comparing our lists with the critics' ones, on 28 albums we selected a different song as the best of the album. On the other hand on 10 albums we selected the same songs on the same order.
Non-coincidence at the top:
1. Revolver
2. Funeral
3. Kid A
4. Elvis Presley
5. Automatic for the People
6. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
7. The Joshua Tree
8. Closer
9. The Dark Side of the Moon
10. Astral Weeks
11. Endtroducing.....
12. Stankonia
13. Modern Vampires of the City
14. Abbey Road
15. The Stone Roses
16. The Blueprint
17. Screamadelica
18. Back to Black
19. The Doors
20. (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
21. Untrue
22. Who's Next
23. The Low End Theory
24. To Pimp a Butterfly
25. Mingus Ah Um
26. Ten
27. Born in the U.S.A.
28. In Utero
Exact correlation:
1. What's Going On
2. Born to Run
3. Horses
4. Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
5. Electric Ladyland
6. Time Out
7. Innervisions
8. A Rush of Blood to the Head
9. Graceland
10. The Shape of Jazz to Come
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