How obscure is your taste in music, Sup Forums?
To calculate your obscurity score just go to the following site:
yellowjelly.github.io
After that, post your top 10 albums of all time and your obscurity score.
Feel free to post your obscurity score in this poll as well!
strawpoll.me
What does the obscurity score mean? It's roughly how obscure your taste in music is when compared to Sup Forums, so an obscurity score of 80% means your taste is more obscure than 80% of Sup Forums
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You just fucking remade this? Fuck off.
I got NaN%
What does that mean?
wena nido
Hey, this is pretty cool!
It means there was an error. No idea what it could have been though. Did you calculate it from the previous thread?
Because the previous thread had an error.
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I got NaN% too
your shit's broken buddy
I just tested it and it's working, even for artists that don't exist. Did you start to calculate your score from the previous thread?
Raw Obscurity Score: 4.14
Obscurity Score: 85.3%
>obscurity score
>Because the previous thread had an error.
These threads might as well be spam at this point.
Damn, nice user.
You forgot to paste your top 10 though.
And to vote in the poll!
captcha: 300m pottery
Nah, threads like these were pretty regular a few years ago with the last.fm's obscurity meter (now dead).
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Wow i have shit taste
>Esplendor Geometrico
huh, are you a fan of Pan Sonic's Kesto by any chance?
Raw Obscurity Score: 4.54
Obscurity Score: 77.9%
would be hard not to be lmao
Raw Obscurity Score: 5.44
Obscurity Score: 49%
Looks like I am not very obscure
Nice, do you have anything else similar to it?
How do the albums from Esplendor Geometrico compare? I don't remember much from them, but I remember they were considered to be Power Noise, so...
Feels bad man
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Esplendor Geometrico is the first power noise band, the first one to combine the old-school industrial concept of near-formless noise with dance beats. Although I love the genre, I have to admit that some sound too similar.
Try:
Other Pan Sonic releases
The Metri album by Mika Vainio, under the name O
Noisex - Over and Out
Emptyset - Recur
Imaginary Forces - Uppstigante
Fuck off
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>Henry Cow
>Koenjihyakkei
>World's End Girlfriend
>Venetian Snares
>The Books
nice
I have already tried almost the whole discography of Pan Sonic, but all of their other stuff has disappointed me (same for their solo stuff), except for some tracks from Gravitoni.
Emptyset's Demiurge was awesome, especially the first listens (it wears off later), but Recur and their other album wasn't very memorable.
I will try to check out your two other recs though, thanks!
Oh, and how would you say EG-1 compares to the first disc of Kesto?
10%?
Weird, your score should be much, much higher going by my intuition.
No its a terrible thread. Stop. Killyourself
>how would you say the two compare
The beats are muddier and less defined, and is definitely more lo-fi. That sort of adds to it's charm for me though. Not sure they'd translate well if you like Kesto and jumped right into EG-1 though.
I feel like MBV and Mount Kimbie drag down my percentage, maybe Dirty Projectors, but that album (Rise Above) doesn't get much attention as later stuff
This was a good exercise in weighing the albums I listen to frequently now, albums I always return to, and albums I listened to constantly when in formative music taste years
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What Dirty Projectors?
Not high but I love my Top 10 so it's chill
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>anime
>Brian Eno and etc
You should have submitted Brian Eno only. Read the instructions.
Cool taste anyways despite it being entry level as fuck.
>Entry level
Get off your high horse
fuck i posted the wrong list of 10 there
Raw Obscurity Score: 3.94
Obscurity Score: 87.9%
What raw Obscurity Score means?
Out of the way plebs
Highest score in the thread so far, what albums?
forgot the picture
Coheed and Cambria . . . Yes, you do.
>adding compilations to the list
Wouldn't that inflate the score
What compilation?
>What raw Obscurity Score means?
It's the average of the logarithm in base 10 of the artists of your top 10 albums. It's the data you use the make the formula to calculate the percentages, but it can differ from site to site (unlike the raw score which is always the same).
Did I explain myself well?
>Ocrilim
huh
Are you a fan of Orthrelm's 2nd 18/O4?
Which one is the compilation? Even then, it shouldn't. Album doesn't matter, only artist, and various artists compilations (and albums in general) shouldn't be used as explained in the instructions.
if you're actually doing this to improve music discussion here, wouldn't it make more sense to use numbers of listeners on Sup Forums instead of in general to get these scores? there exist excellent artists who are popular outside Sup Forums but rarely discussed inside.
This, Avant is a hack. He justs wants attention
>doing this to improve music discussion here
Heh, nice one
>wouldn't it make more sense to use numbers of listeners on Sup Forums instead of in general to get these scores?
I actually tried to do that at first, using RYM ratings for albums (because their taste is almost identical to Sup Forums's), but it didn't work because "outsiders" to Sup Forums would get a high score (for example, if you listen to Lady Gaga because she's very popular everywhere but has few ratings on RYM).
>excellent artists who are popular outside Sup Forums but rarely discussed inside.
Such as?
Fuck off.
Well, isn't it true? I mean, you can modify the thread to lead to better discussions, or recommendations, who knows?
>Are you a fan of Orthrelm's 2nd 18/O4?
Didn't listened to it yet, but will do it later.
I am actually download a bunch of mich barr projects right now
Trying, Oldest, Quix*O*Tic and Nondor Nevai / Mick Barr
Will download ocrilim and some other of his projects later
That's cool. I ask because that stuff is beyond my comprehension and wanted to see what the appeal of Orthrelm was (since I assume they are similar to Ocrilim).
Fuck off
Surprisingly great job you've done there, Avant-Math. You still using the formula from last time?
he's made it like 5+ times
it's kinda sad considering he just made it so he could jerk off to himself in a sense
of course he's going to reply to this and try to corner me into an argument though
then of course he'll get cornered by someone more knowledgeable of his autism than me and then continue acting like an autist anyway
i pray for the day that amg stops posting here
>outsiders to mu get a high score
yeah that's the point dingus. we're focusing on broadening Sup Forums's horizons.
>artists
stevie wonder, aretha franklin, ray charles, smoky robinson, johnny cash, marty robbins, etc. even lady gaga has some good stuff, she did an album of jazz standards with tony benett, you should check it out.
The guy is literally Autistic. I feel sorry for him, must be horrible. Probably has no friends or loved ones and is bitter and alone
gay thread
This
01.
Swans
Soundtracks For The Blind
02.
Bob Dylan
Blood On The Tracks
03.
Hella
Chirpin' Hard
04.
The Body Lovers
Number One Of Three
05.
Boards Of Canada
Geogaddi
06.
God's Pee
F#A Infinity
07.
Jarboe
Sacrifical Cake
08.
Herbie Hancock
Man-Child
09.
The Tuss
Rushup Edge
10.
Ween
Quebec
Raw Obscurity Score: 4.97
Obscurity Score: 66.7%
Not in order
Thread's been saged, welp.
Kind of. It's the same formula, but the formula wrong the last thread had a misstyped value (it assumed the max value was 6.33 instead of 6.63), so that's why everybody was getting lower scores.
I have remade this because each time there is an improvement over the previous one.
Fuck off, are you still mad at me because the only argument you have "won" against me was about the tape loop thing? lmao
>yeah that's the point dingus. we're focusing on broadening Sup Forums's horizons.
It depends. If this means more people listening to Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Pillows, etc, then I would argue we are going to do even worse than before.
>stevie wonder, aretha franklin, ray charles, smoky robinson, johnny cash, marty robbins, etc.
Those are not very popular at last.fm either.
>even lady gaga has some good stuff, she did an album of jazz standards with tony benett, you should check it out
Is it actually good? I mean, I will probably listen to it anyways because the idea sounds great, but you know.
I'm not autistic lol
I do have friends and have even had a partner.
I'm not bitter nor lonely either, in fact, I would call myself a happy person.
>God's Pee
>F#A Infinity
What?
Your score seems to be higher than it should desu
what does that even mean
Fuck off, no one wants these dumb threads
I thought it had autosaged, actually.
>mistyped value lowers scores by about 10%
That explains it.
>the pillows
What's wrong with the pillows? They're a great band.
>What's wrong with the pillows?
You like them :^)
No, but seriously, it's because they are very popular because of a certain anime, while at the same time I don't believe they have any artistic value. There is nothing wrong with enjoying their music though.
>not popular on last.fm
bullshit i just checked, they're hella popular on last.fm and rarely discussed on Sup Forums. you should go back to using rym.
>is it good
lady gaga can actually sing unlike most pop stars
youtube.com
>>adding compilations to the list
>Wouldn't that inflate the score
>What compilation?
Saw the compilations, elder signs was a compilation and sounds of taige was one too
Changed albums and this decreased my score from 87.9% to 87.5%
Raw Obscurity Score: 3.98
Obscurity Score: 87.5%
forgot the albums list
Ridiculously obscure. The people listen to still post in the soundcloud thread.
They're quite popular in the west because of FLCL, yes, but they're very much popular in Japan even without FLCL; they are a considerably influential band there, which is why there are more than a handful of bands in Japan that cite them as influence.
I would argue they have artistic value, but each to their own.
honestly fuck this and op as well but here you go
i intentionally picked 10 of the most obscure records from my top 100 to get this btw
89.6%
>Fuck off, no one wants these dumb threads
I WANT
Johnny Hobo, Nice.
>they're hella popular on last.fm
Yeah, I guess you are right. But the score is still pretty close.
Thanks for the link by the way, listening to it right now.
>elder signs was a compilation and sounds of taige was one too
But they are not various artists compilations, so they are fine.
Hmm, I will reconsider The Pillows' music then, but I don't have much hopes for them anyways.
>i intentionally picked 10 of the most obscure records from my top 100
>only 89.6%
HA
Samuel Hobo > Johnny Hobo
No you want validation
Is that image from a hentai and if so can I get some sauce
>No you want validation
Yes because its so hard to find underground artists with this wonderfull technology called internet, that I should be really proud of myself if I listen to underground stuff.
At this day and age, with internet, feeling special because you listen to underground stuff, is equivalent of an adult person without mental problems, that has both hands and lives in a city feeling superior because he can write his own name.
Feeling superior at this situation is stupid because writing your name at this situatin is super easy, the same with finding underground bands at current era with internet
you really should also have people use the numbers for their favorite albums, not artists.
>I have remade this because each time there is an improvement over the previous one.
gee you've sure remade it a lot of times amg
>Fuck off, are you still mad at me because the only argument you have "won" against me was about the tape loop thing? lmao
>wow everyone who agrees i'm autistic is the same person
not me retard
sage
Ok kid
This, otherwise its only calculating your taste via fave artists not albums
en.wikipedia.org
Just a regular anime.
There pros and cons for both when it comes to the theory, but in practice there are too many cons when done with album listeners.
LastFM cataloging of albums is pure shit. Frank Zappa's Uncle Meat has like 40 different names. Artist names on the other hand are cataloged perfectly well, with few duplicate artists.
Yeah, and the improvements are pretty nice.
I also needed more data anyways to accurately tell the distribution of the obscurity taste of the users on here anyways.
>not me retard
You just use the same specific shticks than him that makes me think you are him.
Not really.
Favorite Artists =/= Artist who made your 10 favorite albums.
Going by favorite artists would be unfair to artists who don't have many albums.
I mean, I wouldn't consider The Pillows' music something with the same artistic value as the music of Slint, to cite a really obvious one. But their notability generally stands out if you consider Japan's music scene (especially their power pop) for just how much it stands out from the scene. They're just as influential to the Japanese alternative rock scene as Big Star is to the American alternative rock scene.
That said, it's mostly power pop, so their artistic value lies in how much you care about that genre.
This is a vehicle for a tripfag's "contribution" to Sup Forums
>hey this is pretty cool
You made this though
Shh dont question autists, it only triggers them
but if you're gonna go with rym why does shitty last.fm cataloging matter. also the album thing is quite important. i am a big fan of this hardcore punk throwback compilation album the beastie boys did called some old bullshit, it's pretty obscure yet the beasties are not.
I mean, I get that they are influential, but did they do anything innovative or original?
Did I really? :thinking:
?
Because of the reasons I explained above. Certain people were getting too high scores for listening to non obscure stuff (and it wasn't just good popular stuff). I have seen both scores for both methods, and this one is far more accurate.
Also, RYM doesn't have an API, so...
Regarding albums with few listeners but made by popular artists, I would still argue it's okay to not consider popularity of an album (only slightly), but again, this is the best alternative so far. I appreciate your suggestions a lot by the way.
Doing by albums is better, if you are using last.fm as data.
Some artists share the same name, by doing it by album, you avoid getting a lower obscurity score because there is a famous artist with the same name as the artist you like.
Also this is one of the ways last.fm should use to help to solve "two artists, same name" problem.
Instead of doing "You listen to many songs from artist named X, what are the artists that the users (that listen to many songs from X) listen alot?" they would do
"You listen to song X from artist Y, alot, what are the artists that the user (that listen to song X from artist Y alot) listen to"
This would fix the "same name, different artist problem, fix the "I like just one song from artist X, but listen to this song alot, lets receive artist recommendation based at the entire artist catalog", "artist sell out, and people receive recommendation based at his sell out era listeners, since more people will listen to their new sound"
Yes, yes you did make this thread. Stop it, admit youre autistic and anhero
>I mean, I get that they are influential, but did they do anything innovative or original?
Other than pretty much defining Japanese Alternative Rock, you can listen to Kool Spice and Living Field to figure it out. There's also some notability in their fusion of 60's English pop rock and 90's American alternative rock (they're definitely very influenced by Pixies).
>Expecting me to leak all my artists to the internet
Sorry plebs
Roughly the 10 most obscure records from my top 100
>95.8%
Nice.
>albums using last.fm data
It's a complete mess. Like I said, go check out Uncle Meat and you will see around 40 different names for the same album.
>Some artists share the same name
Correct, and that's an issue. I should add a rule that says to ignore artists that share the same name with another popular artist.
>Also this is one of the ways last.fm should use to help to solve "two artists, same name" problem.
Sure, but it's not that big of an issue.
>Instead of doing "You listen to many songs from artist named X, what are the artists that the users (that listen to many songs from X) listen alot?" they would do
"You listen to song X from artist Y, alot, what are the artists that the user (that listen to song X from artist Y alot) listen to"
Shit, sorry, this is too much of a tongue-twister for me.
What?
>This would fix the "same name, different artist problem, fix the "I like just one song from artist X, but listen to this song alot, lets receive artist recommendation based at the entire artist catalog", "artist sell out, and people receive recommendation based at his sell out era listeners, since more people will listen to their new sound"
I don't get this either. Sorry.
Are you sure about that? :|
Hmm, I'm not very convinced to be honest, sorry. I mean, why is japanese alternative rock innovative or original on the first place?
You could still post your score :^)
Shit, forgot image
btw an easier way altogether to get less of the same stuff discussed here is to encourage people to listen to country, soul, motown, folk, etc
Yes you autistic ugly tranny spic
>Pechiku
awesome taste, should try the same with the "most from the top 100" bit.
I agree. I wish people would post at the /groove/ generals more. I never can because it's always up in the morning when I'm busy at college.
Thanks.
Nice video.
>cLOUDDEAD
this guy knows