Hrm, it seems I was getting two different pages to load, so I'm not sure which one people are seeing. The one with the Beatles took me eleven attempts. The one with Billy Joel, fifteen.
The one with the beatles took me eleven.
But... why? Why do that?
12 on the Blondie one. But half of those weren't even fills!
17 on the Bad Company one. This game is stupid!
I probably should have titled the post "Millard Fillmore".
8 on the one with Billie Jean cuz yeah.
Still a stupid game.
eleven for the beatles one on that one the Sinead thing was five attempts, then things went fairly smoothly.
And 15 on the one with fucking Bright Eyes. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Billie Jean is the stock samples on an Oberheim DSX, by the way. SO OBVS.
I did the one with the Beatles in 16 tries and I didn't turn on the speakers.
10 with the Beatles. The Police and Smashing Pumpkins fills were the easiest for me to get, since I was going off my stereotype of those bands and not assuming familiarity with the albums. (I know Synchronicity better than the R.E.M. album, but worse that Sinead, Elton John, and Sgt P.)
The one with the Beatles took me eight attempts, and the Beatles song was the only one I had heard. The rest were complete guesses.
The Beatles one is particularly hard, because all the clips are not-Ringo. (Ooh, wicked burn!)
Billy Joel in 14. Bad system -- I made a couple of wrong guesses twice.
Billy Joel in 14. Bad system -- I made a couple of wrong guesses twice.
I'm beginning to think this might not be a good test of actual drumming/music knowledge or familiarity.
13 on Stevie Wonder (though I got that on in one) and 7 on Michael Jackson (turning up the volume helped distinguish the Van Halen drum solo from what, played softly, could plausibly be a jazzy Rickie Lee Jones fill)
The only one so far where I definitely knew the song right off the bat was the Decemberists one.
Stevie Wonder: 22; Michael Jackson: 9; Aja: 11.
Part of the problem I had with some of them was knowing the song immediately but not recognizing the album cover.
Stevie Wonder: 22
Only one worse than the worst possible score if you used a totally blind algorithm!
23: So people aren't rational? Or teo isn't, anyway.
... I know, read Kahneman. (actually I just put it on reserve at the library along with the Hoban thing nosflow mentioned).
Only one worse than the worst possible score if you used a totally blind algorithm!
Hah! Goes well with my weirdly low scores on the other ones.
a totally blind algorithm
That's insensitive.
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Discovery of the weekend: dark chocolate/bourbon cake and Stilton makes for a surprisingly delicious combination.
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For the one at the top: 7, and I've only heard two of the songs.
The one below that (Billy Joel): 7, and I've only heard two of the songs.
7 on the one with Michael Jackson too.
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At the intersection of teo and hipster. (Happened to hear it on the radio on the way in this AM.)
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The one with the Beatles took me 8 attempts, and the one with Billy Joel only took me 7. I am the greatest drum-fill-recognizing genius of all time. Nosflow is more machine than man at this point, so his scores don't count.
At the intersection of teo and hipster.
Shouldn't that also mention ogged?
Am I freakish for going 12/12 on the top two tests?
No, you are the greatest person alive today.
I was annoyed that there was no way to find out the albums beforehand - some of them have tiny type!
I was 6/6 for the one with Billie Jean. 9 or 10 for the rest.
I did worse when I thought it was just the drum track pulled out - I didn't expect the gift of sitar or overwrought keyboards in the background.
And 6/6 for Aja. I had no idea that was a Bright Eyes album, but I correctly guessed that Weezer's sound would be thinner than that.
7 attempts on the Sinead/REM/Beatles one. The others were hard.