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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:33 pm

The Obscurometer ranks the obscurity of musicians based on user statistics. A score of 83.6% means that 83.6% of users have not listened to the Pogues (Troglodytes!) The average artist obscurity is 91.7% so the Pogues are less obscure than average. Apparently the least obscure band is Coldplay.

http://obscurometer.com/artist/Pogues
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Correction: The Pogues are only 48.6% obscure

Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:39 pm

CORRECTION: The Pogues are only 48.6% obscure. Pogues (without "the") are tracked separately, apparently.

http://obscurometer.com/artist/the%2Bpogues
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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:40 pm

kmurray105 wrote:The Obscurometer ranks the obscurity of musicians based on user statistics. A score of 83.6% means that 83.6% of users have not listened to the Pogues (Troglodytes!) The average artist obscurity is 91.7% so the Pogues are less obscure than average. Apparently the least obscure band is Coldplay.

http://obscurometer.com/artist/Pogues


Remarkably, David Bowie (15%) is less obscure than Elvis Presley (25%). As the guys say in Spinal Tap, as they pay tribute at the King's grave, "too much fucking perspective"
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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:29 pm

kmurray105 wrote:CORRECTION: The Pogues are only 48.6% obscure. Pogues (without "the") are tracked separately, apparently.

http://obscurometer.com/artist/the%2Bpogues


But then, combining "The Pogues" and "Pogues" you get another score entirely, yeah? Somewhere in the 60 percentile maybe?

So, ridiculous indeed.
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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:44 pm

Peter Frampton's overall obscurity level is...
57.3%

Do you...you, feel like I do?

Off topic, there's a video of Bowie and Frampton walking around Spain looking for a beer that is the worst thing on youtube. :wink:

Billy Idol is less obscure than Howard Jones who's less obscure than Frampton.
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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:51 pm

I read "according to ridiculous tool" in the header and assumed you were talking about a journalist. :oops:
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Post Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:06 pm

Brendan Shine 92.9% 8)

Fr. McGreer 0.0% Does this mean nobody's heard of me or everybody's heard of me :? :wink:

Soulfinger 97.7% 8)
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Post Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:04 am

Dee Dee Ramone's overall obscurity level is...
77.1%


Motherfuck.

Dee Dee King's overall obscurity level is...
90.0%



Nancy Sinatra's overall obscurity level is...
44.4%
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Post Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:22 am

Fr. McGreer wrote:Brendan Shine 92.9% 8)

Fr. McGreer 0.0% Does this mean nobody's heard of me or everybody's heard of me :? :wink:

Soulfinger 97.7% 8)


firehazard: 100% obscure. Yay! Do I win a prize?

I just obscurometered myself. Does that make me a very sad person?
Likes the warm feeling but is tired of all the dehydration.
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Post Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:00 pm

firehazard wrote:
Fr. McGreer wrote:Brendan Shine 92.9% 8)

Fr. McGreer 0.0% Does this mean nobody's heard of me or everybody's heard of me :? :wink:

Soulfinger 97.7% 8)


firehazard: 100% obscure. Yay! Do I win a prize?

I just obscurometered myself. Does that make me a very sad person?


No, it seems to have made you a very happy person :wink:

I'm a very sad person because you're a hundred perfeckincent, Soulfinger is ninety seven perfeckincent and i'm a big fat zero perfeckincent :lol:
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Post Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:16 am

Fr. McGreer wrote:I'm a very sad person because you're a hundred perfeckincent, Soulfinger is ninety seven perfeckincent and i'm a big fat zero perfeckincent :lol:


If my understanding of the thing is correct, that means that you are in fact the most famous person in the world. For which, congratulations are very much in order. 8)
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Post Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:10 am

Frances wrote: Dee Dee Ramone's overall obscurity level is...
77.1%


Motherfuck.

Dee Dee King's overall obscurity level is...
90.0%



And.......

Kiki Dee's obscurity level is...
82.8% :lol:

That bitch is breaking my heart :cry:
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