Last month, I got 35 people to rank the 36 songs on The Clash's fourth Sandinista! and today I am publishing the results along with a THOROUGH write-up of every single track. This was a monumental undertaking and I can't believe I did it. PLEASE read it. joeydaniewicz.com/2025/03/24/s... - ThreadSky

joeydaniewicz.bsky.social • 53 days ago

Last month, I got 35 people to rank the 36 songs on The Clash's fourth Sandinista! and today I am publishing the results along with a THOROUGH write-up of every single track.

This was a monumental undertaking and I can't believe I did it. PLEASE read it. https://joeydaniewicz.com/2025/03/24/sandinista/

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clrksn.com•51 days ago

Thanks for this, it was a great read! With respect, I offer the list in its natural form: all the top ranked songs that would fit on a C90:

joeydaniewicz.bsky.social•53 days ago

I had some voters and folks who were interested from Bluesky, so tagging those people now: @chrissteller.bsky.social, @freealonzo.bsky.social, @cinatyte.bsky.social, @stevequick.bsky.social, @natepatrin.bsky.social, @willpunctuate.bsky.social, @wileymacgyver.bsky.social, @clrksn.com.

wileymacgyver.bsky.social•53 days ago

Lmao I was way off the average! Neat

chrissteller.bsky.social•53 days ago

"I threw myself into my numerous Clash books, diving deeper into Sandinista! than I’ve ever dived into anything, and have ended up with a highly researched piece that blows past 20,000 words. Oops." This is highly appropriate given Sandinista's unusual length. Cheers and thanks for tagging!

chrissteller.bsky.social•53 days ago

One suggestion, having skipped to the end secgion "Conclusions and Results" (saving the rest for reading later): Could you list the various playlists' contents in the text of the article, rather than only as Spotify embeds?

joeydaniewicz.bsky.social•53 days ago

This is a good suggestion, I'll do this at some point tonight.

chrissteller.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thanks!

joeydaniewicz.bsky.social•52 days ago

This is done!

cclancrete.bsky.social•25 days ago

I started working through the track-by-track write-ups shortly after this was posted a month ago. Just finished today (jumping around among 3 vinyl records takes time!). I have no major quarrels with the results - nice work!

cclancrete.bsky.social•25 days ago

I used the copy I bought in high school, the week it came out, from the Wax Museum in Richfield. I listened to it intently at the time, and it shaped my worldview big time. As I think it did for many.

raucousdukakis.bsky.social•53 days ago

Tyfys

jukebox65.bsky.social•53 days ago

📌

anhedonic.bsky.social•26 days ago

I am slogging through Sandinista right now in my super-slow method, and I just got to Mensforth Hill. I am here to report that it would *not* be my lowest ranked track, it's actually kind of cool.

freealonzo.bsky.social•52 days ago

Was interested in my 7.75 Std. Dev. So here is my top 10 versus group top 10:
1 - 1
2 - 3
3 - 6
4 - 4
5 - 23
6 - 29
7 - 5
8 - 15
9 - 9
10 - 10

At 23 point spread Crooked Beat is my widest gap from the group. Other outliers: #2 Magnificent 7 I rated 18. Version Pardner I rated 14 v. group 34

joeydaniewicz.bsky.social•52 days ago

Your big outliers are indeed The Crooked Beat and Version Pardner. I have a couple of columns that identifies one or two of people’s biggest outliers.

freealonzo.bsky.social•52 days ago

Also wondering if my 18 is the reason why The Magnificent Seven didn't get the top slot. If so, kudos to me as Police on my Back is the standout song on Sandinista!

joeydaniewicz.bsky.social•52 days ago

Nah, the gap is enough that it wasn’t just one voter.

freealonzo.bsky.social•53 days ago

Wow. Just Wow. I did a quick skim but will dive deeper tonight and this week. My standard deviation is 7.75, which is going to also cause me to look closely at my selections.

hunterfelt.bsky.social•53 days ago

Listening to "Sandinista!" again after reading that epic and, yep, I gotta say the number one spot feels unimpeachable. It's like the core of the album.

jessefuchs.bsky.social•53 days ago

I like how “five bucks” is the universally-agreed-upon “this is the minimum real sum of money to establish a binding contract between two chill guys”

jessefuchs.bsky.social•53 days ago

on the other hand

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