About a week ago, I started a thread that was exactly backwards of the way the typical "Rank 100 songs" threads work. Normally the host takes submissions, 5 from each person who wants to submit entries, and then listens to them for a while, ranks them, and then reports back with feedback. This thread was different. We turned the formula on its head. As host, I presented a list of 100 songs, and I gave 5 songs from it to anyone willing to rank those songs. Some people did one set. Some people did nearly all 100. And at the end, I found the composite rankings of all the songs.
This is the results of those rankings.
The 100 songs were chosen to be a broad mix. I made sure there were a couple total turds in the mix, and some really good songs, and the majority were things some would like and others wouldn't. Given my range of tastes, that wasn't really all that challenging. All the songs (except for #100) are songs that I like or have liked on some level, even if at times it was only because I was able to laugh at it.
After giving each song out twice, I split the songs into the top 25%, second quartile, third quartile, and the bottom. From there, the next two rounds were given only from within each of these subsets. After round four, I reranked them to reflect that some songs had risen and others had fallen. The final two rounds were given out with this in mind.
When a reviewer got their songs, they gave them a +5, +4, +3, +2 and +1 in whatever order they chose. Since each song was ranked six times, that means the highest possible score is 30 and the lowest is 6, with an average of 18.5. I did my best not to give the same song to the same person twice.
I also recorded all of the reviwers' comments, if they had any, to give you something to read for the songs' write-ups besides my own thoughts. In light of the way the thread was done, I figured it only appropriate I rank them myself as well, which I have done hastily.
A big thanks to everyone who participated in the rankings. This project would have been completely meaningless without you.