Determining the 3DD Community's Favorite DBT Songs Using Science

[Mundane Mayhem]

I've been playing with this for the past day or so for my own "rankings," but thought maybe this would be a spicy post while the band is off the road and post activity is a little slow in these parts. It's already made me make some damn near impossible choices.

Essentially, this tool starts from a big universe of options, puts two things head-to-head at a time, and then uses math I don't understand to determine which options are preferred. The more votes we have, the more interesting it is. Enjoy!

http://www.allourideas.org/3DimesDown

[Mundane Mayhem]

The universe of songs is as follows, in case you want to do your own rankings without other votes in there. I made some arbitrary choices to include or exclude certain covers (e.g., include Eddie Hinton and Warren Zevon, exclude Bob Dylan and Tom Petty) and live-only songs. I couldn't make up my mind on PWD. It's not here for now but can be added easily enough.

Wife Beater
Demonic Possession
The Tough Sell
The Living Bubba
Late for Church
Panties in Your Purse
Why Henry Drinks
18 Wheels of Love
Steve McQueen
Buttholeville
Sandwiches for the Road
Bulldozers and Dirt
Nine Bullets
Uncle Frank
Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
Box of Spiders
One of These Days
Margo and Harold
The Company I Keep
The President's Penis is Missing
Tales Facing Up
Love Like This
Mrs. Dubose
Zoloft
The Night GG Allin Came to Town
Days of Graduation
Ronnie and Neil
72 (This Highway's Mean)
Dead, Drunk, and Naked
Guitar Man Upstairs
Birmingham
The Southern Thing
The Three Great Alabama Icons
Wallace
Zip City
Moved
Let There Be Rock
Road Cases
Women Without Whiskey
Plastic Flowers on the Highway
Cassie's Brother
Life in the Factory
Shut Up and Get on the Plane
Greenville to Baton Rouge
Angels and Fuselage
The Deeper In
Sinkhole
Hell No, I Ain't Happy
Marry Me
My Sweet Annette
Outfit
Heathens
Sounds Better in the Song
(Something's Got to) Give Pretty Soon
Your Daddy Hates Me
Careless
When the Pin Hits the Shell
Do It Yourself
Decoration Day
Loaded Gun in the Closet
Where the Devil Don't Stay
Tornadoes
The Day John Henry Died
Puttin' People on the Moon
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Danko/Manuel
The Boys from Alabama
Cottonseed
The Buford Stick
Daddy's Cup
Never Gonna Change
Lookout Mountain
Goddamn Lonely Love
Feb. 14
Gravity's Gone
Easy on Yourself
Aftermath USA
Goodbye
Daylight
Wednesday
Little Bonnie
Space City
A Blessing and a Curse
A World of Hurt
Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
3 Dimes Down
The Righteous Path
I'm Sorry Huston
Perfect Timing
Daddy Needs a Drink
Self-Destructive Zones
Bob
Home Field Advantage
The Opening Act
Lisa's Birthday
That Man I Shot
The Purgatory Line
The Home Front
Checkout Time in Vegas
You and Your Crystal Meth
Goode's Field Road
A Ghost to Most
The Monument Valley
Daddy Learned to Fly
The Fourth Night of My Drinking
Birthday Boy
Drag the Lake Charlie
The Wig He Made Her Wear
You Got Another
This Fucking Job
Get Downtown
Girls Who Smoke
After the Scene Dies
(It's Gonna Be) I Told You So
Santa Fe
The Flying Wallendas
Eyes Like Glue
I Do Believe
Go-Go Boots
Dancin' Ricky
Cartoon Gold
Ray's Automatic Weapon
Everybody Needs Love
Assholes
The Weakest Man
Used To Be a Cop
The Fireplace Poker
Where's Eddie
The Thanksgiving Filter
Pulaski
Mercy Buckets
Shit Shots Count
When He's Gone
Primer Coat
Pauline Hawkins
Made Up English Oceans
The Part of Him
Hearing Jimmy Loud
Til He's Dead or Rises
Hanging On
Natural Light
When Walter Went Crazy
First Air of Autumn
Grand Canyon
Dragon Pants
Grandpa Rock City
Trying To Be The Boss (On a Beaver Brown Budget)
Rock Solid
Ramon Casiano
Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn
Surrender Under Protest
The Guns of Umpqua
Filthy and Fried
Sun Don't Shine
Kinky Hypocrite
Ever South
What It Means
Once They Banned Imagine
Baggage
Rosemary with a Bible and a Gun
Armageddon's Back in Town
Slow Ride Argument
Thoughts and Prayers
21st Century USA
Heroin Again
Babies in Cages
Grievance Merchants
Awaiting Resurrection
The New OK
Tough To Let Go
The Unraveling
The Perilous Night
Sarah's Flame
Sea Island Lonely
The Distance
Watching The Orange Clouds
The Driver
Maria's Awful Disclosures
Shake and Pine
We will never wake you up in the morning
Welcome 2 Club XIII
Forged In Hell And Heaven Sent
Every Single Storied Flameout
Billy Ringo In The Dark
Wilder Days
George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues
TVA
The Great Car Dealer War
When the Well Runs Dry
Mrs. Claus' Kimono
Play It All Night Long
Little Pony and the Great Big Horse
Your Woman Is a Livin' Thing
Just Maybe

[Zip City]

Cool idea, but I quit half way through

[Mundane Mayhem]

Cool idea, but I quit half way through

Well, there isn’t really a “halfway through,” insofar as you can just keep feeding it data forever. Feel free to revisit whenever you have a few minutes to kill

[Zip City]

Cool idea, but I quit half way through

Well, there isn’t really a “halfway through,” insofar as you can just keep feeding it data forever. Feel free to revisit whenever you have a few minutes to kill

It said it had 194 questions and I quit around 95

[Mundane Mayhem]

Cool idea, but I quit half way through

Well, there isn’t really a “halfway through,” insofar as you can just keep feeding it data forever. Feel free to revisit whenever you have a few minutes to kill

It said it had 194 questions and I quit around 95

There are 194 options in the pool ("ideas" in the parlance of the tool). Picking two at a time to "face off" gives something like 18,915 possible combinations, if an online permutations calculator is to be believed. I don't think this thing is totally random, but I have like 1,000 votes on the same 194 options in my personal rankings page.

[Mundane Mayhem]

Keep those votes coming! “Sandwiches for the Road” is my biggest departure from the consensus thus far. Also possible it just hasn’t had enough matchups. Every time I saw it today the other choice was like “Zip City” or some other Inner Circle HOF song.

I’m also much higher on “Mercy Buckets.” But I think we need a lot more votes before we’re close to equilibrium here.

[schlanky]

I tried it out for a few minutes. "You Got Another" came up as a choice numerous times. I often seemed to have either choices between some of my favorites (Road Cases vs Goode's Field Road) or songs that I don't think anyone would ever rank as a favorite (Mrs. Dubose vs Grandpa Rock City). Rarely got an easy choice of something like Road Cases vs. Grandpa Rock City.

ETA: Went back for a few minutes while waiting for a phone call and got some easier match-ups---easiest was Dancing Ricky vs. Women Without Whiskey

[brettac1]

This has been a fun activity while on the clock.

[305 Engine]

This is surprisingly fun. Thanks!

[Clams]

This is surprisingly fun. Thanks!

Same. Lots of tough choices!

And the results seem pretty accurate