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Jedit:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Interesting. But utterly pointless, of course.
--- End quote ---


Nothing wrong with pointless, so long as it is interesting.

jcknbl:
Well I started scrolling through to find out how many artists I have in each letter grouping but it was taking to long. In any case I'm pretty sure I have more songs, artists, and albums at the top of the alphabet. The thing is, I'm pretty sure the letters at the front of the alphabet are just more common. In general. Someone might have to pull out the scrabble board to find out for sure- but I'm pretty sure this is just a function oh which letters are more popular.

Kai:
Middle of the alphabet. M, N, O, P, R, S, the like. Not Q though. Fuck Q.




This is speculation, of course. I'm far too lazy to figure it out.

Bunnyman:
Aesop Rock/Atmosphere/Autechre/Aphex Twin/Amon Tobin/Aceyalone/Antipop Consortium.  My A section is STACKED.

Miles Davis/MC Frontalot/Mogwai/Modest Mouse/Mouse on Mars.  Lots of tracks, not much diversity.  M is still pretty good.  Then again, Frontalot should be "F."

P is where it's really at, though.  Parliament/Pharcyde/Phenomenauts/Photek/Floyd/Plaid/Prefuse 73.  And lots of it.  Daaamn.  Oh, and Public Enemy.

R is tasty, too.  RZA/RJD2/Radiohead/Ra/Red Elvises.

S is good shit.  Squarepusher, Stereolab, Sneaker Pimps.  Not much diversity to speak of, though ("Snatch Soundtrack" is just bad id3 tags).

I suspect that the real reason for this clustering may simply be that there aren't a lot of cool band names that start with Q.  Additionally, band names tend to be made or derived from common words and common transliterations, so really the dispersion is really mirroring actual word dispersion,

nescience:
I find that S, B, and (surprisingly) J are the most frequent starting letters for me.  I hit the halfway point about halfway in-between K.

There's a slight edge in observed letter frequency favoring letters at the beginning of the alphabet, but this doesn't account for the statistically significant preferences shown by the posters in this thread.  Certainly the position of X, Q and Z (as well as, to a lesser extent, Y) at the second half of the alphabet helps illustrate this point, but I feel there's more there.  It probably also has something to do with our preference for buying or reading about items at the beginning of the alphabet because by the time we get to the end of the alphabet (say, at the record store rack or in the online magazine archives), we've already picked out stuff to buy or listen to.

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