Comments by "A.J. Hart" (@cobbler88) on "Top 10 Good Songs by Terrible Bands" video.

  1. Anyone get the idea that this is yet another Mojo vid in which someone had an idea, then had absolutely no idea how to put the list together? For most of the songs they just picked catchy popular songs that are fairly indistinguishable from most others that those bands did, and it seems possible that they included "Cat Scratch Fever" solely to include the juvenile line at the end about how forgettable he is.
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  2. Who told you that? They may be taking marketing info and interpreting it to fit their own purposes, but the public is not casting ballots on this stuff.
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  3. Rob S. Yes. And the sample size is so small that it's ridiculous to even pretend that the result is representative of any level of public consensus. I'm looking at a top 10 list of cheesiest one hit wonders of the 2010's and none of the songs on the list have even 30 votes, pro and con combined. Basically, about the first dozen songs put on the list are likely going to provide us with the final 10 songs. Then we get to methodology. Since they invariably stray from the claimed methodology within the first few selections, is it something they make up after they have the list, or do they make it up beforehand, provide the songs they want to populate the list, then open the floor for voting/amending? Even the juicier lists like "Worst X of All Time" are lucky if more than a few of the options have triple digits in votes. Mojo can certainly do whatever it wants - and it's not like any of these should have any significance in anyone's lives - but they're little more bona fide than a half dozen people sitting at a bar coming up with lists for the same themes. I guess I want them to be more of a reflection of what people as a whole actually think - not what a few dozen registered users think.
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  4. Rob S. Thank you for sharing that anecdote. I wouldn't be so quick to condescend, though, considering that using a sample size of 1 doesn't exactly make the case for something being the norm. Hmmm ... I wonder what THAT sounds like. Take care. 
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  5. The people putting the lists together must all be on the young side of the millennial scale (still thinking they will make careers out of growing beards, getting Samoan tribal tats, and making YT vids for Mojo), and as such the 90s and 2000s are now in their crosshairs as being ridiculous decades full of loser music, loser movies, and loser ... basically everything.
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