Impy's Annual Best-of-the-Year Point Distribution Tally Nonsense - Please Participate

[u2popmofo]

Nice lists, IMP and JitB.

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

finally my list:

Ash Cities: 2008

Thanks for reminding me that I've been meaning to check out A Silver Mt. Zion.

 

[intedomine]

Pitchfork still reviews U2, Coldplay, etc., because it still falls under the realm of "alternative". You won't see them reviewing AC/DC, Nickelback, or the Dixie Chicks, stuff that's nowhere near the type of music they cover. But yet they will review Justin Timberlake because they think he's doing something interesting with music.

They also review alot of hip-hop, which isn't indie rock either, but still represents what they consider vital music being made.

The line is fuzzy, but once you know where it is, it makes sense.

I also doubt they get revenue from reviewing the big albums mentioned. That makes no sense. If they had banner ads, maybe.

They don't review Dixie's, Niceklback and Akka Dakka cause the fans of these artists aren't inclined to want to read or care what a critic has to say about the artist.

 

[Salome]

definite list:
1. Joe Jackson - Rain
2. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light
3. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
4. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
5. Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip
6. Portishead - Third
7. Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
8. AC/DC - Black Ice
9. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
10. R.E.M. - Accelerate

 

[Jack In The Box]

Nice lists, IMP and JitB.

thanks!
maybe too obscure?

Thanks for reminding me that I've been meaning to check out A Silver Mt. Zion.

do it! now!!

 

[impy13]

Last year, we had a thing where everyone was given 100 points to distribute among 15 albums, not to exceed 15 points per. We tallied all these up to come up with a comprehensive list of B&C's favorite albums of the year.

You can rate however many albums you want. Just use up your 100 points and don't give more than 15 to any one album. This is a fun thing to do and it yields interesting results. If you already have a best-of list, this will take no time at all.

I'd like to have the results in to Anu on the 30th, so I'm going to make the cutoff 8 PM GMT (3 PM EST, 2 PM CST, etc). PM me with your list and points, email me, or post them in this thread.


Thanks in advance, gang.



Short instructions:

1. Cut a hole in a box

2. Make a list of your top 15 favorite albums of the year.

3. You have 100 points to distribute as you see fit to your albums. You may give no album more than 15 points.

4. Send them to me via PM or posting in this thread.

5. ???

6. Profit!





NOTE: I know they are all separate releases, but for the sake of variation, don't include both Fleet Foxes and Sun Giant. Also the same for Viva La Vida and Prospekt's March. I'll be grouping them all together anyway.

 

[LMP]

Sent that shit in fierce, son.

 

[MMP]

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy # 9,5 points (if we're not supposed to use decimals, then it's an 10)

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R.E.M. - Accelerate # 9 points

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid # 8,5 points (if we're not supposed to use decimals, then it's an 8)

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul # 8,5 points (if we're not supposed to use decimals, then it's an 8)

Primal Scream - Beautiful Future # 8 points

James - Hey Ma # 7,5 points (if we're not supposed to use decimals, then it's an 8)

Kings of Leon - Only by the Night # 7 points

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (does this one counts as 2008?) # 6,5 points (if we're not suposed to use decimals, then it'a an 7)

Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends # 6,5 points (again, if decimals are not allowed, then it's a 6)

The Kills - Midnight Boom # 6 points

The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing # 6 points

The Verve - Forth # 5 points

AC/DC - Black Ice # 5 points

Kaiser Chiefs - Off with Their Heads # 4 points

Flogging Molly - Float # 3 points

 

[impy13]

You have both been tallied.


And for the record, no decimals. I don't trust them.

 

[the tourist]

(15) Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
(14) Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
(13) Starflyer 59: Dial M
(10) Ours: Mercy (Dancing For the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
(8) The Junipers: Cut Your Key
(8) Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul
(7) Coldplay: Viva la Vida
(6) Foxglove Hunt: Stop Heartbeat
(5) The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement
(4) M83: Saturdays=Youth
(3) The Dodos: Visiter
(3) Beck: Modern Guilt
(2) MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
(1) The Killers: Day And Age
(1) Keane: Perfect Symmetry

 

[intedomine]

Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends (14)

Travis - Ode To J Smith (12)

Josh Pyke - Chimney's Afire (12)

Keane - Perfect Symmetry (11)

Bloc Party - Intimacy (10)

The Verve - Forth (10)

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (9)

Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (8)

REM - Accelerate (7)

You Am I - Dilettentes (4)

Presets - Apolcalypso (2)

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (1)

 

[Anu]

Okey dokey, folksy wolksies: I collapsed my previous 'best of' thread into this one. Please note, though, that only new lists will get counted, which means all y'all previous posters are invited to 'revise and resubmit' (as we professorly types like to say) your lists in accordance with IMPY13's brilliant scoring system. List on!

Last year, we had a thing where everyone was given 100 points to distribute among 15 albums, not to exceed 15 points per. We tallied all these up to come up with a comprehensive list of B&C's favorite albums of the year.

You can rate however many albums you want. Just use up your 100 points and don't give more than 15 to any one album. This is a fun thing to do and it yields interesting results. If you already have a best-of list, this will take no time at all.

I'd like to have the results in to Anu on the 30th, so I'm going to make the cutoff 8 PM GMT (3 PM EST, 2 PM CST, etc). PM me with your list and points, email me, or post them in this thread.


Thanks in advance, gang.



Short instructions:

1. Cut a hole in a box

2. Make a list of your top 15 favorite albums of the year.

3. You have 100 points to distribute as you see fit to your albums. You may give no album more than 15 points.

4. Send them to me via PM or posting in this thread.

5. ???

6. Profit!





NOTE: I know they are all separate releases, but for the sake of variation, don't include both Fleet Foxes and Sun Giant. Also the same for Viva La Vida and Prospekt's March. I'll be grouping them all together anyway.

 

[LemonMelon]

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (15)
TV On The Radio - Dear Science (14)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (14)
Deerhunter - Microcastle (12)
Beck - Modern Guilt (10)
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (9)
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (8)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (7)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (6)
Sun Kil Moon - April (5)

 

[phanan]

I'll get mine posted tonight or tomorrow.

 

[LJT]

oooh another listy task...I like I like...I'll have mine done for the morrow, playin too much Fallout 3 at the moment

 

[phillyfan26]

I will not participate simply because I was called a "folksie wolksy." That and I've only heard about three albums released this year.

 

[No spoken words]

I will not participate simply because I was called a "folksie wolksy." That and I've only heard about three albums released this year.

I was accused of being an indie music snob yesterday. I've never been so insulted while at the same time having the accusation be as far from the truth as possible in my life. Then again, I did not need to be a dick in the thread in the first place, so some retaliatory remark was certainly in order.

Anyway, the point is, Impy is a silly little person and I refuse to participate in his nonsense.

Space Moon.

 

[Saracene]

Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (13)
Portishead - Third (12)
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (10)
The Drones - Havilah (9)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (8)
The Breeders - Mountain Battles (8)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (7)
Ladytron - Velocifero (6)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt (6)
Santogold - Santogold (5)
The Kills - Midnight Boom (4)
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (4)
The Dø - A Mouthful (3)
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (3)
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones (2)

 

[Axver]

1. Russian Circles: Station (15)
2. Cynic: Traced In Air (13)
3. A Forest Of Stars: The Corpse Of Rebirth (13)
4. Steven Wilson: Insurgentes (11)
5. No-Man: Schoolyard Ghosts (8)
6. Sleepmakeswaves: In Today Already Walks Tomorrow (7)
7. God Is An Astronaut: God Is An Astronaut (7)
8. Agalloch: The White (7)
9. Opeth: Watershed (5)
10. M83: Saturdays = Youth (4)
11. Sculptured: Embodiment (4)
12. This Is Your Captain Speaking: Eternal Return (3)
13. The Verve: Forth (3)

 

[lazarus]

Can I use my 100 points and apply them negatively to Coldplay's total?

Just checking.

 

[phanan]

The American Dollar - A Memory Stream (15)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (14)
M83 - Saturdays=Youth (11)
God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut (11)
Bloc Party - Intimacy (10)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (9)
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (8)
Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying (7)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (5)
Russian Circles - Station (5)
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (3)
TV On The Radio - Dear Science (2)

 

[LJT]

Here's mine:

Why?- Alopecia (15)
TV On the Radio- Dear Science (12)
Shearwater- Rook (11)
Hercules and Love Affair- Self titled (10)
Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours (9)
Wild Beasts- Limbo, Panto (8)
Vampire Weekend- Self titled (7)
Fleet Foxes- Self titled and Sun Giant (6)
M83- Saturday= Youth (5)
Bloc Party- Intimacy (4)
Ginger- Market Harbour (3)
Okkervil River- The Stand Ins (3)
The Dodos- Visiter (3)
Lykke Li- Youth Novels (2)
The Maybes- Promise (2)

 

[impy13]

These are due in 24 hours or so. So please get them in.

Tallied thus far: myself, YLB, :MrMacPhisto:, tourist, intecrackingne, El Mel, Saracene, Axver, phanan

Eleven or so more entries would make the results a lot more interesting and positively impact the confidence interval.

 

[u2popmofo]

Can we please have until at least the 31st or first few days of the new year? If I'm going to do a list, I need another couple days.

 

[LJT]

^Last minute album listening?

 

[gump]

Ok, here is mine. I'm missing a few albums but I guess this will do.

1. Fleet Foxes - LP + EP (15)
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science (13)
3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth (11)
4. Calexico - Carried to Dust (10)
5. Vampire Weekend - S/T (9)
6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (9)
7. Portishead - Third (8)
8. Beck - Modern Guilt (7)
9. Deerhunter - Microcastle (6)
10. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (5)
11. Air France - No Way Down EP (4)
12. Coldplay - LP + EP (3)

 

[intedomine]

Can I use my 100 points and apply them negatively to Coldplay's total?

Just checking.

Did you ever bring yourself 'round to listening to VLVODAAHF at all?

 

[lazarus]

Got one!!

 

[LMP]

Got one!!

Can't sink him, even with both barrels!

 

[LemonMelon]

Got one!!

No fucking clue why I posted that just how, as it has absolutely nothing to do with anything. It's just awesome.