This week's poll has closed. Let's view the results, shall we?
Yes! Yes! Yes! (50%)
No! No! No! (50%)
As things start to wrap up here at Audio Overflow, I've become increasingly curious as to how helpful I've been as a writer. My Amazon.com ratings put me at about a 71% helpful rating, which I can live with. But this blog gets way less hits per day (a few hundred, generally), and most of those are from non-regulars. According to the weekly polls, my regulars are only about 10-15 people. Ouch. Anyhow, I'm interested to know how you regulars voted. Do you remember a specific album that I reviewed that led you to purchase it? Did the inclusion of the word "solely" in the poll question affect your voting? Let me know for old times' sake.
Due to - umm - circumstances, there won't be another poll this week or, you know, ever probably. Things will conclude tomorrow with a few last-minute posts.
Until then...
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Well, another week has passed and with it another poll. Here's what became of last week's poll question:
Showbiz (0%)
The Origin of Symmetry (11%)
Hullabaloo Soundtrack (0%)
Absolution (22%)
Black Holes and Revelations (66%)
I must say, I'm a bit surprised by the results to this week's poll. I'm one of the few people who voted for
Absolution, as I think it is a more technically impressive, well-rounded, and thematically coherent record. The critical consensus has always been in favor of
Black Holes and Revelations, but it had too many ups and downs for me to enjoy completely. "Assassin" and "Invincible" are the height of anthem cheese, "Soldier's Poem" is pretty, though a bit silly lyrically, and "Starlight" is Coldplay-lite. As an album, it was all over the place and
Absolution felt like a more solidly constructed piece of art.
I'm interested to hear why you voted the way you did. Let me know in the comment section, below.
There's a new poll up right now! Please answer honestly. Also,
Skeletal Lamping has leaked...you may want to check that out.
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Here are the results of this week's poll:
Awesome. One of my favorite artists. (7%)
A guilty pleasure. Fun to dance to. (21%)
Fun to look at, but I try not to listen. (28%)
Who? (42%)
So as was the case last week, I'm not too terribly surprised by these results. I asked the question because the media is leading me to believe that she's this giant megastar that everyon adores. While that may be true for the general non-thinking crowd, I wanted to know if my readers were into that shite as well. As it turns out, most of you either don't know who she is or wished that you didn't. Again, no real surprises, but I needed to be sure that this blog's audience was exactly what I thought it was.
Discuss the poll results below. How did you vote?
A new poll is up right now!
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Here are the results to last week's poll, "How Often Do You Illegally Download Music?"
"Every time I want to hear new music." (30%)
"Just when I want to preview something at my leisure before I buy it." (38%)
"Occasionally, for hard to find or out-of-print albums." (15%)
"Never. Piracy is wrong!" (15%)
I'm not really surprised by these results, and as I stated in my rant a few weeks back, piracy is a problem but it's currently one of the only viable options for people who want to experience and discover music for free. As it turns out, most of you tend to feel the same way.
Feel free to discuss these results in the comments section, below.
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Things have been getting pretty interesting over in the comments section of last week's rant about piracy. It's good to see people responding to articles and discussing some of the topics that are written about here at Audio Overflow. So in order to get a better idea of who is reading this blog, I've decided to add a "Poll of the Week" feature that will run (duh) every week. Each week, I'll place a new topic in the sidebar to the right of this post for you to weigh in on.
Naturally, this week's topic stems from that discussion that's going on right now in the piracy article. Sound off, people. Let me know what you think!
Poll closes at 11:59p on Saturday. If you have any ideas for polls, send them along.
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Go News Go! - The Weekly News Recap is one of the original weekly features that I started on Audio Overflow about a year ago. Since then, I've pretty much doubted its necessity on a weekly basis. On one hand, you get to read somewhat funny news headlines written by myself that don't tell you a thing about the article itself (i.e. "Places to Avoid 2007" = M.I.A. Tour Dates), but then again there's a constantly updating news headline feed directly to the right of this post that gives you the exact same stories and more!
So what do you think? Should I continue with Go News Go!, or should I discontinue the useless feature in favor of a new feature that will be decided upon at a future date? Choose wisely. The future of Go News Go! is in your hands...
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