Surprise, surprise - idle chatter about TBM

Rounding might be commonplace, but it is not an automatic absolute. You cannot justify rounding up some decimal values, while leaving others as-is, just because of your personal preference.
In order to calculate the rankings from best {#1} to worst {14.800} or so, the decimal mean was ranked. That is another reason why values are not rounded upward. The songs at 6.966 are 6s in the book, not 7s. Rounding upward skews the results in the overall ranking list, and creates inaccurate vote tally results.
 
MopTopMike said:
Rounding might be commonplace, but it is not an automatic absolute. You cannot justify rounding up some decimal values, while leaving others as-is, just because of your personal preference.
In order to calculate the rankings from best {#1} to worst {14.800} or so, the decimal mean was ranked. That is another reason why values are not rounded upward. The songs at 6.966 are 6s in the book, not 7s. Rounding upward skews the results in the overall ranking list, and creates inaccurate vote tally results.
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Though without some bonus points, no record would have been rated a 10, right?
 
Just thought of another song that I find interesting, namely "Hallucinations" by Baker Knight & the Knightmares on Reprise. I've always thought of this as garage, although I don't know what most of Knight's other records of the period sound like.
 
MopTopMike said:
This might be a good time to have everyone submit 45s they believe should have been included in the A to Z sections. You can post them here, or send them to me direct:

[email protected]

I'm currently calculating the number of pages needed for the additional titles.
Thanks!
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I'm thinking maybe the two California Spectrum 45s should be included, and the WCPAEB 45 on Fifo. From what I gather, "Moustache In Your Face" by Pretty isn't included either, but it should be if things like Bedpost Oracle and Orange Wedge make it... IMO...
 
troggy said:
Just thought of another song that I find interesting, namely "Hallucinations" by Baker Knight & the Knightmares on Reprise. I've always thought of this as garage, although I don't know what most of Knight's other records of the period sound like.
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His other 45s aren't "in the TBM league" but Hallucinations" is surely worthy of an Honorable Mentions addition, due to it's relative obscurity. Thanks for the note.
Another 45 I completely overlooked is Leon Russell's first 45, recorded on the Dot label. Looking at the R Honorable Mentions, I see I would not have had room to place it.
Please, keep the MIA's coming. It is tuff enough to think of things missing on my own!
 
Nobody with sizable stock of yet unsold product will speak about an even better product in preparation, so I dont expect a reply. But I would find it great if you work the MIAs, corrections, appendices and new discoveries into a new edition of TBM in maybe 2 - 3 yrs. This is largely uncharted territory (at least when digging this deep) so nobody could get it right completely the 1st time around.
 
Well, I don't want to wait that long time-wise, but enough material has been piling up, even a year before TBM was completed, so there is substantial information / new discoveries, etc. already here, in addition to things I had no knowledge of until brought to my attention. What I really would like to include in the follow-up book are missing ratings for 45s listed already - things I could not attain for the archives, but had the opportunity to audition when I was doing my cross-country collector meet-ups.
This does not mean a new edition of TBM is in the works - the subsequent book will be a much smaller book, not a replacement for TBM itself.
 
MopTopMike said:
Well, I don't want to wait that long time-wise, but enough material has been piling up, even a year before TBM was completed, so there is substantial information / new discoveries, etc. already here, in addition to things I had no knowledge of until brought to my attention. What I really would like to include in the follow-up book are missing ratings for 45s listed already - things I could not attain for the archives, but had the opportunity to audition when I was doing my cross-country collector meet-ups.
This does not mean a new edition of TBM is in the works - the subsequent book will be a much smaller book, not a replacement for TBM itself.
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So at this stage, NO ONE has still heard the early version of "Sorrow In C Major"?
 
MopTopMike said:
This might be a good time to have everyone submit 45s they believe should have been included in the A to Z sections. You can post them here, or send them to me direct:

[email protected]

I'm currently calculating the number of pages needed for the additional titles.
Thanks!
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The only ones I have that might warrant an inclusion would be the Milan disc discussed here:
http://www.g45central.com/forum/index.php?threads/milan-high-voltage-on-flower.368/#post-4182

Also, in a similair musical territory to that very disc, The Hustlers on Tom-Cat Movers and shakers (of the world)

Plus the dead cool work out (literally) by Anthony & the Sophomores on Jamie
 
MTM: why did you sort the THEE-bands under "T"?

Also it's a bit of a shame that the 1st band-name under most letters is rendered unreadable by the 45-label.
 
gregk25 said:
MTM: why did you sort the THEE-bands under "T"?

Also it's a bit of a shame that the 1st band-name under most letters is rendered unreadable by the 45-label.
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I believe both issues are addressed in the book - the latter by the sheet taped to the front cover.
 
Yes, THEE was used to file all groups with that article, because it was somewhat unique to the era.Plus, there are not that many THEE xxxx groups.
And yes, the missing first group under the letter is noted on the errata sheet affixed to the front cover.
Let me know if you did not get one, I might have missed correcting a couple of books that have gone out.
 
troggy said:
I would assume a 9.6 would automatically rate a 10, since that would mean that over half the voters would have rated it a perfect 10.
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That assumption is incorrect.
As I stated before, no final mean / average results were rounded up. 9.9 is a 9, as is 9.6 and 9.4
The bonus point effect only came into play if two or more members voted a song as a "10" during the voting process. It was factored in during computation, not after.
to end this, noting the right 'thousandth' decimal was only necessary for me, and not the reader - to create the overall rankings from #1 to the lowest rated song.
 
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