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1) I did not include the secret sets because they are far to visual in nature to be dissected by just through the recording. Just as there is no way one can do justice to the Tower set by listening to the recordings, I'm sure it's near-impossible to do the same with the Drive-thru set.
2) I did discount for bad play. If we were only talking highlights, Coventry would be #2 after Cypress. There's just too much meat in there. There is no exact science to this as everything is subjective and different things move different people. What I tried to get to is what recordings produce the most interesting music to hear -- just for the music and not simply to relive great memories.
Coventry is obviously controversial because of how bad so much of it is. But in the end, I thought so much of the music was so damn compelling that it deserved to be in tier 2.