Top 10 classical on iTunes

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:22 am

Hilarious commentary from Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2149420/

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:52 pm

"Beethoven raged at the heavens for letting him lose his hearing, but then, he never heard Andrea Bocelli."

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:20 pm

Bocelli holds 3 of the 10?

Art is doomed, friends.

Might as well study up and become securities brokers, personal trainers or lawyers.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:21 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:Art is doomed, friends. Might as well study up and become securities brokers, personal trainers or lawyers.

... and this is JUST NOW occuring to you?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:29 pm

windshieldbug wrote:... and this is JUST NOW occuring to you?

What can I say? I've lead an isolated adulthood.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:24 pm

Chuck(G) wrote: Bocelli holds 3 of the 10?

Art is doomed, friends. Might as well study up and become securities brokers, personal trainers or lawyers.

I turned by PBS last night and Bocelli was singing -- so out of tune that it made me cringe. On the other hand, I suspect that AndrÃ© Rieu gets violently angry when one of the peons plays or sings out of tune. On the plus side, PBS still broadcasts the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:04 pm

Did you know that if you google for "Andre Rieu Cheese" you get 178,000 hits? OTOH, "Lorin Maazel Cheese" only gets 59,000 hits.

Make of it what you will

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:22 am

Chuck(G) wrote:Did you know that if you google for "Andre Rieu Cheese" you get 178,000 hits? OTOH, "Lorin Maazel Cheese" only gets 59,000 hits.

Make of it what you will

"Herbert von Karajan Cheese" yields 20,500 hits.

"George Solti Cheese" gives you 14,700.

"Eric Kunzel Cheese" gets 568.

I thought there was a pattern for a minute.

Doug "still not sure why you use 'cheese' although it is interesting"

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:40 pm

Doug@GT wrote:Doug "still not sure why you use 'cheese' although it is interesting"

It's a theory that I have--you can judge the popularity of someone on a Google search by combining the name with some unrelated food item--and you automatically screen out propoganda sites.

For example "Andre Rieu" "Peanut Butter" gets 3,940 hits. "Lorin Maazel" "Peanut Butter" gets 306 hits. "Gerard Schwartz" "Peanut Butter" gets 11 hits. Note that you have to treat the names of the person and the food as phrases, not as separate words.

"Andre Rieu" "Onion Rings" actually gets 13 hits. "Jennifer Aniston" "steamed broccoli" gets 163 hits.

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:11 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:
It's a theory that I have--you can judge the popularity of someone on a Google search by combining the name with some unrelated food item--and you automatically screen out propoganda sites.

Very cool. Sounds like a research paper in Economics waiting to happen.

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:34 pm

"twiggy" "big butt" = 517 hits (Yikes!).
Absolutely nothing in google images with safe mode turned off.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:35 pm

Chuck(G) wrote: Bocelli holds 3 of the 10?

Art is doomed, friends. Might as well study up and become securities brokers, personal trainers or lawyers.

I was worried, until I realized the thread was about iTunes.

Rick "suspecting that the intersection of iTunes users and classical music lovers is near null, which is a problem but a different one" Denney