Setlist Survey
I created a survey to get updated fan favorite song data to determine setlists for future tours. You can access the survey by clicking the hamburger menu in the lower right corner of your navigation screen and selecting the survey option. The interface is real clumsy right now but the basic functionality works. You might want to do a few songs each day, or feel free to wait until I make it more powerful and user-friendly. The survey will always be up.
Demos
Just a reminder for everyone inquiring about demos being included in the survey: we can already see demo ratings in the SONG LIST spreadsheet. For example here are the top rated with more than 10 ratings:
- 08 Miss Sweeney 2
- I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams - SFTBH
- The Rules Of Life - v14
- Thrown It All Away
- Bless The Whole Wide World - v12
- 12 Pig 2
- Anonymous - v24
- The Purification of Water - Monterey Jack
- Since You Came Around - v15
- Everybody Needs Salvation - v14
- Surfer Girl - Don Slacks
So if I every wanted to perform a demo-only fan-favorite song, I'd pick one of those. That list is not a definitive best of demos list. It is just an example of how I can use your ratings to find the most in-demand songs. I will be more thoughtful if I actually do it.
Using the Survey
There are four tiers to rank songs, A, B, C, and D. Choose 10 songs in each tier except D (basically 90% will be D’s). A-tier songs are the songs you most want to hear, and will be worth more points in my formula.
For now there is no save button—it should auto save every change you make and it will always be there when you come back. You can keep rating for the rest of my career. They don't have to be final verdicts—you can keep updating the list according to what you want to see at the next show you attend.
To avoid bias, the songs are listed randomly instead of being sorted by album or era—and should always be a new random order. Demos aren’t listed because if I want to include a demo on a setlist I can look at the star ratings in the player here.
Results
This survey is mostly to determine setlists for solo shows. Most Weezer shows will not have room for anything other than greatest hits. We might have room for one or two fan favs in which case this sort of data would be very helpful. As I've said, the only data I have now is a decade old. The survey is live and I’m already feeding the results into my setlist spreadsheet. I haven’t finalized how the survey will aggregate and display results yet, but I think it will just be a 'fan_rating' column in my setlist spreadsheet.