Just remembered what game. Madden 06. I played alot of that one. Those menu songs stick in your head. I liked creating my own franchise and draft so I was on menus for a long time lol.
 

It was also in guitar hero 2, which was 2005 or 2006 as well. It's also in Rockband 3.

https://vgost.fandom.com/wiki/Ave...

Madden NFL 2004	Chapter Four	2003
NASCAR Thunder 2004	Chapter Four	2003
NHL 2004	Chapter Four	2003
Madden NFL 06	Bat Country	2005
NHL 06	Bat Country	2005
SSX on Tour	Bat Country	2005
Burnout Revenge	Beast and the Harlot	2005
Need for Speed: Most Wanted	Blinded in Chains	2005
Arena Football	Blinded in Chains	2006
Guitar Hero II	Beast and the Harlot	2006
Need for Speed: ProStreet	Almost Easy	2007
NHL 09	Afterlife	2008
Saints Row 2	Bat Country	2008
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock	Bat Country	2010
EA Sports MMA	Nightmare	2010
Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Carry On	2012
Rock Band Blitz	So Far Away	2012
Twisted Metal (2012)	Natural Born Killer	2012
Rocksmith 2014	Bat Country	2013
EA Sports UFC	Shepherd of Fire	2014
WWE 2K15	This Means War	2014
Rock Band 4	Hail to the King	2015
Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Jade Helm	2015
Guitar Hero Live	Shepherd of Fire (Live)	2015
Guitar Hero Live	Buried Alive (Live)	2015
Guitar Hero Live	Nightmare (Live)	2015

Among others.  Seems to cut off at 2015, and it's missing other stuff because I know for a fact some music game had Unholy Confessions.  Mostly because I forgot about it until I researched their music for this thread.

I mean, I assume so?  They are one of the biggest metal bands in the world and these are the singles that have large numbers of views and appear in their setlists.  Granted I am no A7X guy so I'm sure someone like Mr. Wunderful could educate us.

Weezer - 632K subscribers
Say It Ain't So - 83M views
Beverly Hills - 45M views
Buddy Holly - 44M views

A7X - 3.5M subscribers
So Far Away - 187M views (missed this one)
Nightmare - 139M views
Hail to the King - 120M views
Afterlife - 91M views

Obviously that's not a perfect system, and it probably favors newer stuff.  But that should give an idea of how "big" some bands are nowadays.

edit: Looks like the albums that most of those songs appear on all went platinum too

Unholy Confession, Bat Country, Hail to the king, Nightmare, and a few others are in Rockband as DLC. Beast and the Harlot is a disc song on RB3, unsure why it's not on that list. I can understand the DLC not being there tho.

ETA: Hail to the King is a disc song on RB4 - thought it was DLC. Had to double check Beast, though, and that's def an on disc RB3 song. It's an incomplete list for sure, but good enough to give an idea that these guys aren't just some rando group.

I'd prefer to have data with numbers.  If you abstain from voting it's the same thing.  So if someone gets 35 votes, we can assume many people are not familiar with them.  But this also gives them the option of listening to a few songs and throwing a vote down later if they choose.

I'll be in this boat next week with the (mega popular) rapper I have on deck.  I'll either not vote, stream his biggest albums and make a decision, or make a snap decision on the handful of hits that I do know.
 

It baffles me that people haven't heard of any of the bands that have had polls so far. They're all relatively popular acts, and even though the highest score I think I've given one so far is a 6, they're all acts that I've heard AT LEAST two songs by before the poll.

Also, if you haven't heard any of the songs, then listen to the ones Brock post lol. They've been pretty good indicators of the type of music each band. Why vote on a poll if you're not going to listen just to say you haven't heard of it when you can just hit view results instead?

But if you were more receptive to peoples thoughts on these topics and polls, you'd have better, more accurate numbers. Until then, you're gonna keep getting troll votes, especially since you can't actually see what people vote. My comment as "10" may not really be a "10" at all in the poll, so it's not like you can just remove my 10 and empires 0.

And what "data" are you expecting to collect? There's definitely not enough data to have any meaningful results with such a small sample size to go through.
 

The hilarious thing is, I wanted to do a metal band this week, and had like 6 candidate ready where I assumed most people would actually know who they were.  If people don't know A7X then I'm basically now down to Metallica and Slipknot lol

 

I know of A7X and never really was interested in their music. I'd take Metallica every day of the week over them personally. I think some of that has to with the fact of growing up hearing Metallica to be honest.

The problem with rock and metal - if you're not at least in your late 20's, you probably haven't been exposed to much rock/metal since it really hasn't been mainstream in nearly 15 years. (yes, there are exceptions, but after working with a handful of 26 and 27 year olds recently, if it's not Taylor Swift crying about something, they have no clue who it is)

The feedback I've gotten so far (besides praise for my ratings) is that some people want a "I don't know this band" option.  And I'm saying we already have that; an abstained vote.  Now if like 15 people say they want it, I'll relent.  I don't think it's a good thing, but I'm nothing if not flexible.

And I was joking about removing numbers.  If 3-4 people such as yourself want to troll vote 0s and 10s every week as some sort of protest (again what I cannot imagine) I guess that's their perogative.  Happens every week so it should all cancel itself out in the end.

Ew. 2/10 for A7X. What about heavily played radio rock like Shinedown, Three Days Grace, or Breaking Benjamin? Everyone has heard those bands before, and if not, are lying.

I'm not buying people not having heard of these bands/artists. Unless they just don't like music in general.:/

All three are on my radar, but I assume all three will get mostly negative receptions.  For now I'm aiming for more polarizing artists.
 

I'll throw my 2 cents in. I edited my post earlier to add this, but I don't see the point in adding a "I don't know this band" option. You post several videos for each act, so if people are actually interested in partaking in the poll and aren't aware of them beforehand, then they can listen to them and get a good idea. If you liked a couple of the songs, then maybe they'll check out more of the act and give them a higher rating. If you don't like 1 or 2 songs, you're probably not going to like the rest and can vote accordingly.

But if you don't know the band and aren't interested in hearing them, why would you even want to vote at all? You can still see the results by clicking "View Results". It makes sense in polls where you can't see results until you've voted, but that's not the case here. If you absolutely feel the need for it to be known that you haven't heard of them, you can still post it.

Also it's pretty dumb to troll vote things like this. Yeah, it's just a fun game thread so it's not really harming anyone. But personally I think it's kind of interesting to see where the musical tastes of the board are. It just skews results and makes things less fun for people who actually are interested in how the polls turn out.

I like a good chunk of their stuff. Easy 8 from me.

You can also just grade on a curve when it all shakes out. Prince may be a ~6 right now, but if no other artist scores 7 or more, you might as well put him as the highest rated artist in this experiment.

 

Yeah, that kinda how it's gonna go.  Though I do think we'll get a number of artists that crack the 7s.  Foo Fighters always go over well in this sort of thing for example.

Plus in a year from now I'll have done 60 of these things.

 

Not too sure on that one; even with your mainstream popular ones you're gonna have people that can't stand them.  Only ones I can see breaking a 7 average are groups like the Eagles and Journey.
 

I hate the Eagles.  

 

I really don't like Journey haha

Except for that sweet, sweet Separate Ways music video...


 

Meh. Dudes can play but it's not my thang. 4.

Whenever it comes to metal bands, you always get the guys where it's never heavy enough and anything even remotely main stream is trash to them. Unless it's some garbage chugging de-tuned to A# gargle crap like loxx used to listen to.

I believe they call it elitism.

I'm reminded of that clip from The Office where Micheal and Jim are co-managing and everyone is mad at them. Michael asks Jim how he's doing on a scale from 1 to 10, compared to his usual. Jim says he feels like a 4, but he's usually a 6. Michael says he's usually a 10, but feeling like a 0.

I get that people feel really strongly about popular music that they don't like, I myself would love to give Lorde a 0, but if she had never really hit that big, I'd give a more truthful 2 or 3. Same idea for a group that you love but isn't as popular. Many want to sway the final result more than give an honest opinion, and if some people are doing it, then the honest votes aren't worth as much, possibly encouraging more insincere votes. Because of this, it's going to be REALLY hard for any group to get higher than a 7 or less than a 3. So we're actually sort of ending up with a five-point scale that's still oddly fair since it's the same people doing all the voting.

Now if I didn't generally-ish agree with the current rankings, I'd definitely call out the system as rigged and useless and call everyone deaf garbage.

I knew a guy who used to listen to black and death metal primarily composed by guys in their basement. If it got to the point where they sold like, maybe, 1000 records, they were suddenly uncool.