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this is all inevitable, I guess, as we get more into post-punk era stuff-- everyone is off in their own little corners now, and there is less consensus. I'm not saying much different than corazon did in the lp thread, just lamenting the exclusion of different types of music that he did.
I don't understand this concept, though--if there's less consensus, shouldn't we get more weird stuff and less artists with six or seven singles/albums making the list?
I think the opposite happens because there's not just less consensus about what people like, but far, far less consensus about what people have heard in the first place, which arguably dilutes the whole thing. Basically, the pool of songs that are getting votes is so much wider, but most of the stuff on the final list is still gonna be things that everyone has heard-- except for a few wild cards (disco inferno, for one), you can basically chuck away anything that isn't fairly popular out of this poll because so much of the subgenre music is only gonna be picked by one or two people, right or wrong. What's left are still things everyone has heard, artists with loads of entries-- it might even be more biased to them because there are arguably fewer of them now.
I'd bet that, on average, it takes placing on a fewer % of the overall number of ballots to get into this poll than, say, the 55-64 or 65-74 ones. I'd also bet that a smaller % of the people who have heard, say, runaway train care about it vs. whatever placed in a similar spot on the 55- or 65- lists. This won't matter closer to the top of the poll, and it's just a hunch, but that's my guess in a way.
