Hi ,

I just discovered this site ,really impresed.
I want to know in what are you based when you make year-end lists,and best of all time lists??
I can see Franz Ferdinand is placed at number 65 as the best album of all times(which is to high in my opinion),what calculations you made when you placed this album at 65?

Thanks

First of all, the Acclaimed Music list is based on critics lists. If you click on an album name you will see all the critics lists for that album and that should give you a feeling of how it has ended up at its current position.

(Maybe you have already understood this, but I just wanted to make sure.)

Over the years I have developed a very complicated formula to make the results as good as possible. There are three important factors I'm working with:
1. positions in critics lists
2. amount of information
3. the average standard of the music covered by the available critics lists

So, taking the example of the "Franz Ferdinand" album, it works like this:
1. The album was listed in (or near) the top of almost all end-of-2004 lists and has been listed in most of the best-of-00s and best-of-alltime lists that have come out since its release. This gives a very high score and all-time position.
2. The information (number of critics lists) is small compared to the amount of information of older albums (end-of-year lists are weighted much lower than all-time lists).
==> A few all-time positions down for FF.
3. From the information available (all-time critics lists, All Music ratings, etc.), 2004 and the other years from this millennium are not as acclaimed as most of the earlier years. Therefore, being in the top of an end-of-2004 list or a best-of-00s list gives a lower score than being in the top of say a best-of-the-70s list.
==> A few more all-time positions down.

Still, FF ends up at place 65. I hope this makes sense.

It doe's make sense
Thanks very much

I thought it would be interesting to see what the list would look like if I didn't take 2) and 3) above into account.

Presented here is the all-time list where the "amount of information" and "average standard" is not taken into account. Official AM position in brackets.

1 (1) Pet Sounds
2 (2) Revolver
3 (3) Nevermind
4 (4) VU & Nico
5 (6) Sgt. Pepper
6 (5) Exile on Main St
7 (7) Blonde on Blonde
8 (8) What's Going On
9 (9) Never Mind the Bollocks
10 (10) London Calling
11 (11) Highway 61 Revisited
12 (14) OK Computer
13 (12) Are You Experienced?
14 (13) Astral Weeks
15 (15) The Beatles
16 (16) Ziggy Stardust
17 (18) It Takes a Nation ...
18 (17) Born to Run
19 (19) The Dark Side of the Moon
20 (20) Electric Ladyland
21 (24) Sign 'O' the Times
22 (21) The Doors
23 (22) Horses
24 (23) Rubber Soul
25 (25) Blood on the Tracks
26 (26) Abbey Road
27 (27) Marquee Moon
28 (28) Let It Bleed
29 (31) Thriller
30 (29) Beggar's Banquet
31 (32) Blue Lines
32 (30) Led Zeppelin IV
33 (33) The Queen Is Dead
34 (34) Ramones
35 (35) Innervisions
36 (43) Live at the Apollo
37 (36) The Band
38 (40) The Joshua Tree
39 (65) Franz Ferdinand
40 (39) Remain in Light
41 (47) Odelay
42 (37) Who's Next
43 (41) Purple Rain
44 (44) Automatic for the People
45 (38) Blue
46 (42) Kind of Blue
47 (45) After the Goldrush
48 (46) Songs in the Key of Life
49 (82) Illinois
50 (50) Closer
51 (49) The Clash
52 (48) Sticky Fingers
53 (51) Forever Changes
54 (62) Is This It
55 (52) Rumours
56 (53) There's a Riot Goin' On
57 (55) The Stone Roses
58 (54) Plastic Ono Band
59 (58) Murmur
60 (57) Otis Blue
61 (56) Tapestry
62 (60) Appetite for Destruction
63 (114) Funeral
64 (59) Hunky Dory
65 (61) Trout Mask Replica
66 (69) Screamadelica
67 (64) Led Zeppelin II
68 (67) Graceland
69 (63) Layla and Other ...
70 (70) Doolittle
71 (108) Elephant
72 (68) Bringing It All Back Home
73 (71) 3 Feet High and Rising
74 (66) A Love Supreme
75 (73) Achtung, Baby
76 (75) Dummy
77 (149) Arular
78 (72) This Year's Model
79 (74) Music from Big Pink
80 (130) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
81 (76) Moondance
82 (77) Transformer
83 (78) Imagine
84 (79) My Aim Is True
85 (81) Loveless
86 (86) Morning Glory
87 (87) Daydream Nation
88 (83) Psychocandy
89 (80) Bridge Over Troubled Water
90 (84) Darkness on the Edge of Town
91 (98) The Bends
92 (88) Low
93 (85) Dusty in Memphis
94 (99) Definitely Maybe
95 (112) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
96 (89) Unknown Pleasures
97 (91) Fun House
98 (97) Surfer Rosa
99 (92) Hotel California
100 (90) Physical Graffiti
101 (202) I Am a Bird Now
102 (139) The Marshall Mathers LP
...and so on