Current rankings

Is it snowing that much in Nova Scotia that you can't go out and get bored, Loosey? [!--emo&:p--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]

Thanks for the updates though! [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
And once again, the ranking by albums (without b-sides)

A lot of changes and the return of 'The Golden Years'.

1 - Powerslave : 4,5 (+3 ; +0,23 )
2 - Piece of Mind : 4,35 (+4 ; +0,17)
3 - The Number of the Beast : 4,29 (+6 ; +0,18)
4 - Killers : 4,26 (+3 ; +0,12)
5 eq - The X Factor : 4,21 (-2 ; -0,08)
5 eq- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son : 4,21 (-4 ; -0,12)
7 - Iron Maiden : 4,19 (+1 ; +0,07)
8 - Somewhere in Time : 4,17 (-7 ; -0,16)
9 - Virual XI : 4,16 (+2 ; +0,24)
10 - Brave New World : 4,12 (-5 ; -0,14)
11 - Dance of Death : 3,84 (-1 ; -0,18)
12 - Fear of the Dark : 3,36 ( -- ; -0,33)
13 - No Prayer for the Dying : 3,35 ( -- ; -0,21)

Average Maiden's Albums rating = 4,08 (-0,01)
 
[!--QuoteBegin-Maverick+Mar 16 2005, 05:00 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Maverick @ Mar 16 2005, 05:00 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]I'm not clever enough with this kind of programming, and Real World's got enough on his plate. If a courageous volunteer wants to do it, then please feel free to contact me  [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
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I would if I had the time, but I don't (well maybe in a month or two ...).
 
Wow great work both of you, LC and Lib! you will run a corporation one day... one day [!--emo&:p--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
I've added the average albums ranking in my two posts.

Useless, silly... but interesting. [!--emo&^_^--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/happy.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'happy.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
The average song rating by album is very interesting.

It offers a very different perspective. Sometimes people can like an album, but have less to say about the inner songs (it's more a mood, a flow, that they like, but less a particular song).

Shows also that, maybe, some albums are usually defended on other grounds that the simple inner quality of the songs. People can have an attachement to an album for various reasons (the album that got them into Maiden, the year it was released meant something, etc.).

Thanks Lib for doing the maths !

Cheers
 
I dont understand... Be quick last, wickerman, futureal, lord of the flies at the end, i mean those are all popular and good songs, wich means that we need woting. every site has its own woting through albums, and here we have only ratings. [!--emo&:angry:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/mad.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'mad.gif\' /][!--endemo--] [!--emo&:eek:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/ohmy.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'ohmy.gif\' /][!--endemo--] [!--emo&:cussing:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/cussing[1].gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'cussing[1].gif\' /][!--endemo--] you should also add woting for our favorite songs, so the list could be a bit more real.
 
Rating = giving an appreciation of how much you like/dislike a song
Voting = giving rates only on songs that you like

I prefer the rating, in the way that everyone can give their subjective views of what they think of a particular song, the law of average indicating how much the majority appreciates a song.

Nothing more, nothing less. [!--emo&-_---][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/sleep.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'sleep.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Woting? [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--] [!--emo&:lol:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/lol[1].gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'lol[1].gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
hmmm.... ok then, ill go and vote (rate the songs). Ive been waiting so long for this...
btw: ive been on Toronto concert (3rd of aug) and it was great ! The fans dissapointed me, i was the loudest out there (im from croatia), and Irons sounded great ! The sound on Molson Theathre was AWESOME ! I dont like the fact they played only the first 4 albums [!--emo&:(--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/sad.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'sad.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
cos my fav. is Fear of the dark.... thats maybe cos im only 18 [!--emo&B)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/cool.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'cool.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
But I know all of their songs by heart, so it was no problem singing them [!--emo&:p--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
well, does anybody know if there will be pics or any videos from this show soon ?! Thx
UP THE IRONS ! [!--emo&:bow:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/bowdown.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'bowdown.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
I am once again working on this project, and adding in unpublished numbers from 2006 and 2008. It will be tracked on a Google doc as below:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... zWWc&hl=en

I would first like to apologize for an egregious error I made in the 2004 calculations. I didn't include the song The Number of the Beast. This threw off everything from 05, and I will be including that in the calcs.

I'm working on the doc now and if you want to stop by and say hello, I'm there.
 
Unreleased 2008 Rankings

Note: I have 2006 numbers. They are in the spreadsheet given above and you can go look if you'd like. However, they are extremely flimsy numbers. Anyone who knows statistics can look at them and see that they were either faked or gathered from a small percentage of people. I gathered them from polls that were created in 2006, which means a lot of data was lost in the Great Forum Crash of 2006. In interest of completeness, I have excluded them from the rankings, though the data is available for people who would like to take a look.

1. Hallowed Be Thy Name - 4.95 (+0.03, -)
2. Rime of the Ancient Mariner - 4.93 (+0.04, +3)
3. Phantom of the Opera - 4.91 (+0.01, -)
3. Powerslave - 4.91 (+0.04, +5)
5. Infinite Dreams - 4.90 (+0.01, -)
6. Children of the Damned - 4.89 (-0.01, -3)
7. Paschendale - 4.87 (-, +1)
8. Aces High - 4.86 (+0.06, +9)
8. The Trooper - 4.86 (+0.04, +6)
10. Revelations - 4.85 (-0.04, -5)
10. Killers - 4.85 (+0.02, +3)
12. Sign of the Cross - 4.84 (-0.07, -10)
13. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - 4.83 (-0.02, -2)
14. The Clansman - 4.81 (-, +1)
14. To Tame A Land - 4.81 (-0.05, -4)
16. Blood Brothers - 4.79 (+0.09, +13)
16. Murders in the Rue Morgue - 4.79 (-, +3)
18. For the Greater Good of God - 4.78
18. Still Life - 4.78 (+0.01, +5)
18. The Edge of Darkness - 4.78 (+0.01, -7)
21. 22, Acacia Avenue - 4.77 (-0.03, -4)
22. Dream of Mirrors - 4.76 (+0.04, +4)
22. Moonchild - 4.76 (-0.03, -3)
24. Transylvania - 4.75 (+0.01, -)
25. The Aftermath - 4.74 (+0.05, +6)
25. The Ides of March - 4.74 (+0.13, +8)
25. Where Eagles Dare - 4.74 (-0.05, -6)
28. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - 4.72
28. Genghis Khan - 4.72 (-0.09, -13)
30. 2 A.M. - 4.71 (-0.07, -8)
30. The Prisoner - 4.71 (+0.09, +2)
32. Run Silent, Run Deep - 4.68 (+0.04, -8)
32. The Educated Fool - 4.68 (-0.04, -6)
34. The Longest Day - 4.65
35. Fear of the Dark - 4.64 (+0.29, +12)
35. The Duelists - 4.64 (-0.06, -7)
37. The Nomad - 4.62 (-0.09, -9)
37. The Number of the Beast - 4.62 (+0.07, -2)
39. Alexander the Great - 4.60 (+0.21, +4)
40. The Legacy - 4.59
41. Afraid To Shoot Strangers - 4.56 (+0.29, +12)
42. The Wicker Man - 4.53 (+0.59, +34)
43. Strange World - 4.49 (+0.06, -2)
43. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - 4.49 (+0.09, -1)
45. Remember Tomorrow - 4.48 (-, -8)
46. Ghost of the Navigator - 4.47 (+0.03, -7)
47. Rainmaker - 4.45 (+0.13, +2)
48. Prodigal Son - 4.44 (-0.09, -12)
48. Sea of Madness - 4.44 (-0.13, -14)
50. Face in the Sand - 4.43 (+0.30, +8)
51. These Colours Don't Run - 4.42
52. Lightning Strikes Twice - 4.38 (+0.06, -3)
52. Twilight Zone - 4.38 (-0.08, -14)
54. Charlotte the Harlot - 4.36 (-0.02, -10)
54. Judas Be My Guide - 4.36 (+0.07, -2)
56. Back in the Village - 4.33 (-0.02, -9)
56. Caught Somewhere In Time - 4.33 (+0.17, -)
58. Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger - 4.32 (-0.12, -19)
59. Man on the Edge - 4.30 (-, -8)
60. Dance of Death - 4.29 (+0.04, -6)
61. Out of the Shadows - 4.28
61. Wasted Years - 4.28 (+0.20, -)
63. Run to the Hills - 4.27 (+0.30, +9)
64. Stranger in a Strange Land - 4.26 (+0.12, -7)
65. 2 Minutes to Midnight - 4.25 (+0.13, -6)
66. Flight of Icarus - 4.21 (+0.15, -4)
66. Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) - 4.21 (-0.17, -22)
68. Prowler - 4.20 (-0.04, -13)
69. Wrathchild - 4.19 (+0.35, +19)
70. Lord of Light - 4.18
71. Purgatory - 4.17 (+0.32, +16)
72. Brave New World - 4.16 (+0.13, -5)
73. The Prophecy - 4.15 (+0.12, -6)
74. No Prayer For the Dying - 4.14 (+0.22, +6)
75. Journeyman - 4.13 (+0.20, +5)
76. Futureal - 4.11 (+0.13, -5)
76. Running Free - 4.11 (+0.15, -)
78. Die With Your Boots On - 4.10 (+0.05, -14)
79. Como Estais Amigos - 4.09 (+0.04, -14)
80. Deja Vu - 4.08 (+0.06, -11)
81. Different World - 4.07
81. Fortunes of War - 4.07 (+0.18, +4)
81. Montsegur - 4.07 (+0.17, +2)
84. Flash of the Blade - 4.06 (+0.19, +2)
84. Mother Russia - 4.06 (+0.11, -10)
84. No More Lies - 4.06 (-0.05, -24)
87. The Pilgrim - 4.05
88. The Evil That Men Do - 4.04 (-, -23)
89. Childhood's End - 4.00 (+0.01, -19)
89. Drifter - 4.00 (+0.08, -8)
89. Judgement of Heaven - 4.00 (+0.05, -15)
89. The Assassin - 4.00 (-0.38, -55)
89. Wasting Love - 4.00 (+0.04, -16)
94. Blood on the World's Hands - 3.98 (-0.08, -32)
94. The Clairvoyant - 3.98 (+0.08, -11)
94. Total Eclipse - 3.98 (+0.04, -18)
97. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg - 3.97
98. Age of Innocence - 3.94 (+0.19, -8)
99. Only the Good Die Young - 3.88 (+0.07, -10)
100. Wildest Dreams - 3.86 (+0.41, +6)
101. Out of the Silent Planet - 3.84 (-0.08, -25)
102. Heaven Can Wait - 3.75 (+0.19, -5)
102. Can I Play With Madness - 3.75 (+0.35, +7)
104. The Thin Line Between Love and Hate - 3.72 (+0.02, -13)
105. Sanctuary - 3.70 (+0.20, -2)
106. Lord of the Flies - 3.69 (+0.11, -10)
107. Invaders - 3.68 (+0.15, -6)
107. The Fallen Angel - 3.68 (+0.09, -12)
109. The Mercenary - 3.63 (+0.14, -5)
110. When Two Worlds Collide - 3.62 (+0.06, -10)
111. Another Life - 3.61 (-0.03, -17)
111. Innocent Exile - 3.61 (+0.06, -12)
111. Sun and Steel - 3.61 (+0.09, -9)
114. Look For the Truth - 3.59 (-0.11, -23)
115. The Unbeliever - 3.57 (-0.05, -22)
116. The Fugitive - 3.53 (+0.07, -11)
117. Iron Maiden - 3.48 (+0.35, -6)
118. Gangland - 3.43 (+0.01, -11)
119. Weekend Warrior - 3.41 (-0.15, -22)
120. Quest For Fire - 3.39 (+0.03, -10)
121. The Angel and the Gambler - 3.29 (-0.13, -13)
122. Public Enema Number One - 3.23 (+0.26, -9)
123. Fates Warning - 3.14 (+0.12, -11)
124. Holy Smoke - 3.02 (+0.06, -10)
125. Tailgunner - 3.00 (+0.52, -5)
126. New Frontier - 2.84 (-, -10)
127. Fear is the Key - 2.65 (+0.16, -8)
128. Be Quick or Be Dead - 2.63 (+0.23, -5)
129. Bring Your Daughter... ...To the Slaughter - 2.52 (-0.10, -11)
130. Gates of Tomorrow - 2.50 (-0.22, -13)
131. The Apparition - 2.43 (-0.01, -10)
132. From Here to Eternity - 2.30 (+0.16, -8)
133. Hooks in You - 2.29 (-0.15, -12)
134. Chains of Misery - 2.27 (-0.68, -19)

Album by average song rank:

1. Powerslave - 4.52 (+0.02, -)
2. A Matter of Life and Death - 4.37
2. Piece of Mind - 4.37 (+0.02, -)
2. The Number of the Beast - 4.37 (+0.08, +1)
5. Killers - 4.32 (+0.06, -1)
6. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - 4.29 (+0.08, -1)
7. Iron Maiden - 4.28 (+0.09, -)
7. Somewhere In Time - 4.28 (+0.11, +1)
9. Brave New World - 4.22 (+0.10, +1)
10. The X Factor - 4.21 (-, -5)
11. Virtual XI - 4.16 (-, -2)
12. Dance of Death - 3.95 (+0.11, -1)
13. No Prayer For the Dying - 3.41 (+0.06, -)
14. Fear of the Dark - 3.40 (+0.04, -2)

Average album rank: 4.15 (+0.07)
 
valacirca said:
Will the ongoing Daily Song project be the sole basis for the 2010 rankings?

Yes. The other numbers were lost. The service Mav used for his polls seems to no longer exist; we'll be starting afresh.
 
Jonszat said:
How many people were involved in the old samples?

Between 200-300 for 04 and 05 numbers; around 2000-3000 for the 08 numbers (Mav had them up on the IMC for awhile). However, I think that when we normalize the 2010 numbers following the current polls, we'll see the average album rankings drop.

Basically, opening up the polls to the general public didn't hurt the Blaze albums - it gave the Bruce albums a kick in the pants. In fact, on average, the X Factor and VXI had the same numeric rating on the Forum polls as the public polls.
 
LooseCannon said:
Between 200-300 for 04 and 05 numbers; around 2000-3000 for the 08 numbers
Whoa... that many? Are these the results from basicpoll?

Right now we only have around 20-30 votes going for each of the songs...
 
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