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Journal leviramsey's Journal: [RUSH] The Results of the Rush Song Tournament 6

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I have embarked on an entirely scientific quest to determine the best Rush song. Herein, the results.

Procedure

The entire Rush catalog was loaded into Winamp. Sufficient deletions from the playlist were performed to whittle the playlist down to 96 candidates.

The playlist was then randomized.

In the first round, only 32 contests were conducted. The song at #1 in the playlist went against #96, #2 vs. #95, and so forth (#s 33 through 64 received byes). If the lower numbered song was defeated, the victor took its place. Losing songs were deleted.

The second round and all subsequent rounds were conducted analogously.

Rankings are based on round eliminated in, and on ranking of song lost to. Thus the order is winner, runner-up, loser in semifinals to the winner, loser in semis to runner-up.

Results

The biggest surprise was that "Tom Sawyer" failed to even make the top 32, having bested "Neurotica" in the first round before losing to "Limelight" in the second.

  1. Limelight
  2. 2112
  3. La Villa Strangiato
  4. Secret Touch
  5. Resist (got through a fairly weak bracket: bye, "Virtuality", "Grand Designs", and "Animate" before losing to "Limelight")
  6. Cut to the Chase
  7. Natural Science (the giant-slayer of the tournament, defeating "Ghost of a Chance", "YYZ", "The Speed of Love", and "The Stars Look Down" before falling to "La Villa Strangiato")
  8. Force Ten
  9. Nocturne
  10. Dreamline
  11. Earthshine
  12. By-Tor & the Snow Dog
  13. Animate
  14. The Big Money
  15. The Stars Look Down
  16. Time and Motion
  17. Working Man
  18. Territories
  19. Everyday Glory
  20. Mystic Rhythms
  21. Grand Designs
  22. Chain Lightning
  23. The Speed of Love
  24. Where's My Thing?
  25. Witch Hunt
  26. Roll the Bones
  27. One Little Victory
  28. Double Agent
  29. The Enemy Within
  30. The Trees
  31. Cinderella Man
  32. Time Stand Still

Yes, I'm a loser...

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  • methods (Score:2)

    by turg ( 19864 ) *
    This method doesn't work unless you start with a seeded list to create the original match-ups.

    Otherwise, for example, if the best song meets the second best song in the first round, the second best song doesn't make the list at all.

    • That is true. But if you seeded it coming in, what would be the point of the exercise.

      What I should do is re-run this using these results as the seedings....

      • Or better yet, use a method which doesn't involve elimination, allowing a song to "bubble up" (or down) the list throughout the entire process -- if this song A beats song B, then song B will be below song A in the rankings (rather than eliminated entirely). This would also reveal whether taste in songs is as logical as your system assumes (e.g. will you find that song A beats song B, song B beats song C, but song C beats song A?)

        or at least select the entire top 10/20/30/whatever before eliminating the r
  • I actually approve of your top five. Your top choice is the only correct answer imagineable. Where it falls down somewhat is the 5-15 range. Still, the analysis seems accurate.

  • The problem as I see it is that you would need to run 2 contests to get decent results.

    IMO there are 2 types of Rush Fans:

    1.) The standard "Radio" fans that know of only the songs played or heard on the radio

    2.) The "True" fan who has listened to every album and have favorites that may have never been played (on the radio).

    As a "True" fan, I consider "The Necromancer" and "The Fountain of Lamneth" to be at the top of my (very long) favorites list but how many "Radio" fans have ever heard those?

    Anyway,

    • "The Necromancer" is good. I'm not fond of "The Fountain of Lamneth" (or anything else really on Caress of Steel besides "The Necromancer")... everything but "The Necromancer" was taken off in the cutdown to 96.

      "Red Barchetta" finished in 58th place, having run into "Roll the Bones" in the second round. That one was a tough one to decide; I suspect that Roll the Bones was helped by the Rush In Rio rendition.

      "Red Sector A" finished in 70th place, being beaten by "Earthshine" in the first round.

      I didn

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