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There was a code going around during the Gamefaqs best videogame of all time voting competition: a simple ranking program where they give you a whole bunch of head-to-head choices from a given list, and based on your responses, calculates a ranking of your favourites in order.
Simply download the file, and open in any web browser. It will give you a whole bunch of choices of two songs; you can click on the one you like better, or "I feel the same way about both." (Click carefully, since there's no undo option!) At the end, it will generate a list of your favourite songs, in order.
1 Have One on Me 2 Baby Birch 3 Swansea 4 In California 5 Emily 6 Sadie 7 Sawdust & Diamonds 8 Cosmia 9 Only Skin 10 A Pin-Light Bent 11 Autumn 12 Monkey and Bear 13 En Gallop 14 Go Long 15 Occident
this is great!! it came out exactly as expected, I have a top 8 that I cannot rank and that's what showed up haha:
Only Skin 1 Have One on Me 1 In California 1 Go Long 1 Ribbon Bows 1 Sapokanikan 1 Divers 9 Emily 9 No Provenance 9 Kingfisher 12 Anecdotes 13 Good Intentions Paving Company 14 Cosmia 14 Easy
maybe next time I'll try to allow for no ties but eh.. it's kind of impossible
That was fun! It required 219 pairings for me, and towards the end I may have been a bit hasty with my clicking finger, but this is how my list came out:
1 Only Skin 2 En Gallop 3 Divers 4 Kingfisher 5 Baby Birch 6 Emily 7 Sawdust & Diamonds 8 Go Long 9 Soft as Chalk 10 Flying a Kite 11 In California 12 Cosmia 13 Have One on Me 14 Inflammatory Writ 15 Goose Eggs 16 Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie 17 Sadie 18 Bridges and Balloons 19 This Side of the Blue 20 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne
I can't fault the top 10. Now I am going to have a look to see how this list, and those from solfatara and madpawn, compare with those derived from far fewer pairings in my most recent posting on the JNST5 thread...
OK comparison done. It wasn't especially enlightening: for the three of us, the majority of the songs are in similar positions, but there are some major quirks.
Madpawn - Sawdust & Diamonds was way down in 29th position in my analysis, but 7th as per the sorter. Likewise, Go Long was in 25th / 14th.
Solfatara - Yours had the closest match, but Sapokanikan, No Provenance and Kingfisher were all shown rather too low in my analysis.
Steve - Mine had the worst correlation. Goose Eggs (15th / 29th) is explainable by the fact that I've comer to appreciate it more and more in the weeks since voting in JNST. In California and Inflammatory Writ were also misplaced in my analysis.
I think that the Sorter gives a much better picture for any individual, because the votes you cast feed back into its system, in order to generate pairings that help distinguish between songs, whereas the pairings in JNST are driven by the group, and not tailored to the individual.
1 Monkey and Bear 1 Only Skin 1 In California 1 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne 5 Emily 5 Have One on Me 5 Good Intentions Paving Company 5 Goose Eggs 5 Time, As a Symptom 10 Does Not Suffice 11 Kingfisher 11 Sapokanikan 13 Anecdotes 13 A Pin-Light Bent 15 Easy 16 Soft as Chalk 16 The Things I Say 18 Go Long 19 Cosmia 19 Baby Birch 19 Leaving the City 19 Divers 19 You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
Thank you for the comparative analysis, Steve, and I'm glad you enjoyed the exercise! The big discrepancy of the huge leap of Sawdust & Diamonds, I think, is largely attributable to my finally having seen her play it live last week in Tokyo for the first time—of all of her songs, it may be the most astonishing to see in person, so that made it rocket up my personal list.
My Top-15. Accurate as well. Nothing too shocking: 1 Peach, Plum, Pear 2 Good Intentions Paving Company 3 Time, As a Symptom 4 Monkey and Bear 4 Sapokanikan 6 Only Skin 7 On a Good Day 8 Goose Eggs 9 Leaving the City 10 Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie 11 Emily 12 In California 13 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne 14 Go Long 15 Anecdotes
Thank you for your comment, madpawn. I agree that S&D is an astonishing piece of wor . The fact that she can play it live, just voice and harp and fingers working overtime, and recreate it on stage is genius in my opinion. The first couple of times I heard it on Ys I didn't realise there was no other accompaniment, so full is the sound she produces. It's also a song overflowing with emotion on both a personal and a universal level.
In short it is a song that richly deserves a place in my top three... along with about a dozen others!
Oddly, I was only thinking about S&D on a long coach journey home this evening: what a perfect song it would be for listening to on the road at night. I thought of a handful of others, by different artists, but the others all featured multi a instrumental accompaniment, and the one JN track I allowed myself was her alone.
1 Only Skin 1 Cosmia 1 Good Intentions Paving Company 1 No Provenance 1 Time, As a Symptom 6 Sadie 6 Peach, Plum, Pear 6 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne 9 Go Long 9 Anecdotes 9 Leaving the City 12 Easy 12 Have One on Me 12 '81 12 On a Good Day 12 You and Me, Bess 12 In California 12 Occident 12 Autumn 12 Kingfisher 12 Sapokanikan 12 The Things I Say 12 Divers 12 A Pin-Light Bent 12 Erin
This is my top 25 according to the sorting hat. I think I would personally move Sadie and Peach, Plum, Pear, and Waltz, Anecdotes and Leaving The City up one spot and perhaps mark down GIPC and No Provenance one notch, but on the whole these really are my most beloved Joanna songs.
I listened to Divers on repeat during a few particularly stressful days at work this week so my votes might have skewed towards songs from it more than usual, but anyway, here's my top 20:
1 Swansea 1 Sawdust & Diamonds 1 Anecdotes 1 You Will Not Take My Heart Alive 5 In California 6 Emily 7 En Gallop 8 Bridges and Balloons 8 A Pin-Light Bent 10 Only Skin 11 Cosmia 12 Leaving the City 13 Baby Birch 14 Sapokanikan 15 Go Long 16 Autumn 17 Goose Eggs 18 Cassiopeia 19 Monkey and Bear 20 No Provenance
It's too late to be grateful It's too late to be late again It's too late to be hateful
1 Only Skin 2 Emily 3 Cosmia 4 Does Not Suffice 5 Go Long 6 Sawdust & Diamonds 7 Divers 8 Time, As a Symptom 9 In California 10 Anecdotes 10 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne 12 Sapokanikan 13 Good Intentions Paving Company 13 Baby Birch 15 Have One on Me 16 Autumn 17 En Gallop 17 Easy 19 Kingfisher 19 Colleen
Poor Three Little Babes, No Provenance and You and Me, Bess got no votes from me!
1 Monkey and Bear 1 Have One on Me 1 Jackrabbits 1 Anecdotes 1 Sapokanikan 6 Only Skin 7 Good Intentions Paving Company 8 The Book of Right-On 8 Peach, Plum, Pear 10 Sprout and the Bean 10 Easy 10 On a Good Day 13 You and Me, Bess 14 Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie 15 Emily 16 Kingfisher 17 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne 18 Leaving the City 19 Sadie 20 Divers
Looks pretty right to me, except Sapokonikan probably above Anecdotes (but I think when the sorter paired them I went for the 'same as each other' option). Top three definitely right.
Good fun, thanks madpawn! Have you posted this on the Facebook site?
1 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne 2 Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie 2 In California 4 Sadie 5 En Gallop 5 Baby Birch 5 The Things I Say 5 Time, As a Symptom 9 Same Old Man 10 Esme 11 Emily 12 Swansea 13 Anecdotes 14 Peach, Plum, Pear 15 Cassiopeia 16 Sapokanikan 17 Bridges and Balloons 18 Jackrabbits 19 Does Not Suffice 20 On a Good Day
1 Monkey and Bear 1 Only Skin 1 Time, As a Symptom 4 Emily 4 Have One on Me 4 In California 4 Anecdotes 4 Goose Eggs 4 Waltz of the 101st Lightborne 10 Good Intentions Paving Company 10 Kingfisher 10 Does Not Suffice 10 You Will Not Take My Heart Alive 10 A Pin-Light Bent 15 Sapokanikan 16 Soft as Chalk 17 Cosmia 17 Easy 17 Go Long 17 Divers 17 Colleen