{"id":284,"date":"2005-04-12T00:27:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=284"},"modified":"2005-04-12T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T07:47:43","slug":"my-favorite-bands-a-scientific-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/my-favorite-bands-a-scientific-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Bands (A Scientific Approach)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discussion of favorites are very often dominated by fickle emotions and very little hard data. Well, earlier today, I decided I would figure out which bands were my favorite by a more scientific means. I took my carefully crafted “Favorites” playlist from foobar2000, my computer music player. Then I sorted based on the number of songs by each artist. Here are the results (top 15 only):<\/p>\n

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  1. Linkin Park – 61 songs<\/li>\n
  2. Evanescence – 22 songs<\/li>\n
  3. U2 – 15 songs<\/li>\n
  4. Nirvana – 13 songs<\/li>\n
  5. Pearl Jam – 12 Songs<\/li>\n
  6. Smashing Pumpkins – 12 songs<\/li>\n
  7. Silverchair – 11 songs<\/li>\n
  8. Metallica<\/li>\n
  9. Stone Temple Pilots – 9 songs<\/li>\n
  10. Screaming Trees – 8 songs<\/li>\n
  11. Alice In Chains<\/li>\n
  12. Collective Soul<\/li>\n
  13. Santana<\/li>\n
  14. Bush<\/li>\n
  15. Alanis Morissette – 7 songs<\/li>\n
  16. Eve 6<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was actually somewhat surprised U2 did so well. But they do have a lot of good older material, so that made sense in retrospect. I was also surprised that Collective Soul did so poorly – but really they only had one brilliant album – their breakout 1995 self-titled release. Nevertheless, I am confident that this will cause me to reevaluate some of their music, and perhaps add it to my list.<\/p>\n

    This post also premieres a new category – “Music.” YaY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Discussion of favorites are very often dominated by fickle emotions and very little hard data. Well, earlier today, I decided I would figure out which bands were my favorite by a more scientific means. I took my carefully crafted “Favorites” playlist from foobar2000, my computer music player. Then I sorted based on the number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}