Originally posted by RavingLunatic: Analogy: if a Major League Baseball team wins 70 percent of its games in April, would you expect their winning percentage to go up or down by the end of the season? There have been a lot of teams with winning percentages of 70 or higher after one month but very few who have finished the season with a winning percentage of 70.
While all of this discussion is interesting, there is a much simpler likely reason why Radiohead's 87 was above MIA's 87 that does not involve any conspiracy to make Radiohead succeed.
Radiohead's average was slightly higher than MIA's. Metacritic rounds down the averages. So, Radiohead probably had an average of 87.3 while MIA had an average of 87.2.
I watched the same thing happen with Les Savy Fav. One day, Les Savy Fav was on top of MIA. But, then, a slightly lower review came in (like an 85 or 83), which dropped Les Savy Fav's 87 below MIA's 87.
By they way, this discussion is now moot, since Radiohead's 87 is now an 88.
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It's too bad the #1 of the year will likely remain an album with only 14 reviews (The Field). I don't see many mentions of that album around here, and it's hard for me to imagine it being the most acclaimed. Maybe Radiohead can still catch them.
Analogy: if a Major League Baseball team wins 70 percent of its games in April, would you expect their winning percentage to go up or down by the end of the season? There have been a lot of teams with winning percentages of 70 or higher after one month but very few who have finished the season with a winning percentage of 70.
i agree with this. think about baseball batting averages. every year at the beginning of the season 1 or 2 months in there is always a few guys batting 400 or even over.
whens the last time somoone finished with a 400? ted williams right?
it is defintly easier to have a higher metascore with less votes than it is with more votes.
ites almost common sense.
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Analogy: if a Major League Baseball team wins 70 percent of its games in April, would you expect their winning percentage to go up or down by the end of the season? There have been a lot of teams with winning percentages of 70 or higher after one month but very few who have finished the season with a winning percentage of 70.
i agree with this. think about baseball batting averages. every year at the beginning of the season 1 or 2 months in there is always a few guys batting 400 or even over.
whens the last time somoone finished with a 400? ted williams right?
it is defintly easier to have a higher metascore with less votes than it is with more votes.
ites almost common sense.
Yes, those are all great points. A great example of that is when Alex Rodriguez hit all of those home runs for the Yankees this past April. Mathematically, he was on pace to hit 100+ home runs or something. But come on? Can anybody even do that, ever?
So yeah I do value an album that has a ton of reviews and still a very high Meta-score. It is a shame that at this point that that album by The Field could still be number one.
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So yeah I do value an album that has a ton of reviews and still a very high Meta-score. It is a shame that at this point that that album by The Field could still be number one.
Another way to look at it is, if an album has a low number of reviews, such as The Field album, it's probably because it's a niche album that does not have wide spread appeal. The magazines that review the album are probably specialized publications that cater to that particular genre.
If you look at The Field's reviews, there's no reviews from some of the more general publications, like Rolling Stone, All Music Guide, AV Club, or Billboard. Other than Pitchfork (which tends to favor avant garde acts anyways) and perhaps Stylus, the reviews for The Field are from minor publications.
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For anyone that has heard the The Field album, do you think it's worthy of the praise/score it has gotten in those reviews? I'm not very familiar with their work so it'd be interesting to hear about it
Originally posted by Nick85: For anyone that has heard the The Field album, do you think it's worthy of the praise/score it has gotten in those reviews? I'm not very familiar with their work so it'd be interesting to hear about it
as much as i like to comment, it would be better suited here
and nick, i like the album a lot but i don't think its the best album of the year.
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You are not going to believe this. I went to go pay my car insurance online today and my debit card was declined. I checked my account balance online and I had plenty of cash in my checking account, so I was like WTF? I called the bank, and they had placed a hold on the card because of an odd charge to www.skype.com that originated in the UK! Hmm. How would anyone in the UK have my card info? Oh, that's right, because I used it to buy In Rainbows.
Thom Yorke stole my identity!!!!!!
What a pain in the ass. I had to cancel the card, it's going to be several days to a week before I get a new one. All because I stupidly paid for Radiohead's new album on their goddamn scam of an online store. If anyone else paid for this album on the In Rainbows site, you should check your bank statements immediately for charges you didn't make. This is not a joke, by the way.
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You are not going to believe this. I went to go pay my car insurance online today and my debit card was declined. I checked my account balance online and I had plenty of cash in my checking account, so I was like WTF? I called the bank, and they had placed a hold on the card because of an odd charge to www.skype.com that originated in the UK! Hmm. How would anyone in the UK have my card info? Oh, that's right, because I used it to buy In Rainbows.
Thom Yorke stole my identity!!!!!!
What a pain in the ass. I had to cancel the card, it's going to be several days to a week before I get a new one. All because I stupidly paid for Radiohead's new album on their goddamn scam of an online store. If anyone else paid for this album on the In Rainbows site, you should check your bank statements immediately for charges you didn't make. This is not a joke, by the way.
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Yikes! That sux, dude. (Fake Plastic Cards?)
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Maybe, but the timing is quite strange. The fact that the charge originated in the UK a few days after I purchased In Rainbows is a pretty big coincidence.
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See how terrible this album is? Now it's running around charging people's debit cards so that it can use your computer as a telephone while you're sleeping!
I've Googled "Radiohead scam" and nothing's come up, so hopefully Eric was an isolated occurrence. That is REALLY bizarre.
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