Any interest in a 'Top Songs of All Time' project dealie?

It's an interesting project but seems intimidating to come up with a list that long. I think listing nominations for top song is probably still ok, even for 300 songs. But to actually rank all 300 songs is a bit much. That said, I think a top 10, 15 or 20 ranked list is still manageable for me.

And come to think of it, the project sounds a bit like the old BSCs minus the voting and long lists. In the past, participants had to form a list of between 5 to 10 songs and rank them. Songs with a higher rank got more points. After the nom phase, the songs' points were tallied and you could see which songs were the most popular based on this point system.

The system was a pretty good indicator of how well songs could do in the subsequent voting rounds. But it was not a guarantee, as past BSCs showed.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm with Chuckster on this. A clash with the Clash is not a good idea. And some form of interactivity would be nice to get people more involved/engaged in the whole thing.

The trouble is trying to figure out what that is.

Perhaps nominators could justify their top picks/selected tracks (ie let the flamefest begin)?

Or group nominations by soundtrack/themes and ask participants to comment on the selection? They could also have the power to vote out tracks they feel should be taken off the top song list, as well as suggest replacement tracks. Have enough people concur with the replacement tracks and they would become eligible to take over kicked out songs.

Anyways, just my 2 cents.

Originally Posted by Ed Bellis

Elorin: The ranking system might be off-putting to some people, yeah. That's why I added that caveat about potential ways to get around it, like if somebody didn't want to rank a certain number of their songs and their points could be more evenly distributed. Do you think that would be a good idea?

You might run into people like me who don't mind ranking 20 songs but can't muster the time and energy to rank my other short-listed picks. So having those unranked tracks each get the same points sounds fine.

There's nowhere I can't reach.