THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: mberan42 on 16 Mar 2009, 14:04
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Ok, decided to take it upon myself, (mostly 'cause I don't feel like going back to work). As per this thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,22765.0.html), we're rehashing the old game (can be found on the Quiki, link forthcoming). This time we're eliminating albums.
Rules
- You may nominate up to ten albums
- One album per band
- No multiple-nominations (e.g., no nominating Bat Out of Hell ten times)
- Please italicize the album names and leave the artist name plain (or bold)
- Keep the conversation to the other thread if at all possible. (Ha!)
- You have until 20:00 GMT on 23 March 2009 to get your nominations in. (Time may be adjusted based on whatever we arbitrarily decide upon.)
Rules may be modified also as per whatever we need to adjust them for.
Edit #1 - I probably should have mentioned these:
- At the end of the designated time, the sixty-four (64) albums with the most nominations will make up the bracket. Rules for the bracket placement will be determined at a later time (i.e., when I have time to figure it out and don't have to read 100+ pages for my ethics class, or when I can look up the rules for the old tournament. It probably has to do with something like the number of initial nominations it gets, etc.)
- If, at the end of the designated nomination time, there are not enough albums with multiple nominations, the bracket may be reduced to 32.
- If, in the event of a massive amount of tying (tie-ing?) albums (40 albums with 2 votes each) that puts the bracket over the designated 64-album bracket, a fair and decisive way of culling the list down will happen. I've not determined that yet. (Again, I'll look at the rules for the old tournament.)
- You MAY change your votes, but please EDIT your original post. Any extra posts in this thread will be ignored. This ain't Chicago.
Go!
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Joy Division - Closer
David Bowie - "Heroes"
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Boris - Akuma no Uta
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Electric Wizard - Come, My Fanatics...
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
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Oh god it is so hard to narrow it down to just ten.
My list is based purely on personal taste:
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (The Unicorns)
Tigermilk (Belle & Sebastian)
Her Majesty (The Decemberists)
Twin Cinema (The New Pornographers)
The Stage Names (Okkervil River)
Bringing it All Back Home (Bob Dylan)
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Of Montreal)
Lifted, or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Bright Eyes)
Libertine (Silkworm)
Heretic Pride (The Mountain Goats)
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Silkworm- Firewater
Jawbreaker- Bivouac
Husker Du- Zen Arcade
Fugazi- In On The Kill Taker
Mogwai- Mogwai Young Team
The Dismemberment Plan- Emergency and I
Mission of Burma- Vs.
Minor Threat- Complete Discography
Slint- Spiderland
Refused- The Shape of Punk to Come
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The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Tarkio - Sea Songs For Landlocked Sailors
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin'
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Buddy Holly and The Crickets - The Chirping Crickets
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
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Rules
- No multiple-nominations (e.g., no nominating Bat Out of Hell ten times)
Do you mean I can't nominate an album another post has already nominated?
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I think he means making all your nominations for the same album.
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That is what I figured, thanks though.
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The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sigur Rós - ()
Mono - You Are There
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Portishead - Dummy
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Bark Psychosis - Hex
The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day
Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine
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Woo, gettin' in on this:
The Weakerthans - Left & Leaving
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle: Music From the Unrealized Film Script
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Pavement - Wowee Zowee!
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
The Pixies - Doolittle
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
I think there are albums I like more than some of the albums I put on here, but these are the ones I think that stand out.
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Alright, it took a little debate on my part, but this is what I've come up with (in no particular order).
Lucero - Tennessee
the Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Modest Mouse - the Moon and Antarctica
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Ted Leo / Rx - the Tyranny of Distance
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
the Beatles - Abbey Road
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
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Ten that strike my fancy at the moment:
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - This Year's Model
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Live Seeds (are live albums allowed? If not, Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley)
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
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this is hard. i know that as soon as i post this i'm going to think of something really good that i forgot about.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Johnny Cash - Live At Fulsom Prison
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Misfits - Legacy of Brutality
Man Man - Six Demon Bag
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Alphabetical by band:
All the Pretty Little Horses by Current 93
This Nation's Saving Grace by The Fall
Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
mclusky do dallas by mclusky
The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
Remain in Light by Talking Heads
20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle
Pink Flag by Wire
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David Bowie - Low
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
The Stooges - Funhouse
Television - Marquee Moon
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
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Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses
Silkworm - Firewater
Low - Things We Lost In the Fire
Owls - Owls
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Stooges - Raw Power
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1. Björk - Vespertine
2. David Bowie - Station to Station
3. The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
4. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
5. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
6. Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
7. Pulp - This is Hardcore
8. Flipper - Album -- Generic Flipper
9. Kate Bush - Never For Ever
10. Boris - Feedbacker
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Pink Floyd The Wall
Black Flag Damaged
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Faith No More Angel Dust
The MC5 Kick Out The Jams
RadioheadIn Rainbows
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
Weezer Weezer, 1994
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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I've skewed mine slightly to bring a little more genre diversity to the list. However all of these albums are not only personal favourites but also, in my opinion, perfect or near-perfect musical statements. Two of them are live albums:
Louis Armstrong: Plays W.C. Handy
Same Cooke: One Night Stand - Live at the Harlem Square Club
The Miles Davis Quintet: 'Round About Midnight
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto (performed by Jacqueline du Pre, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
The Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debby
The Go-Betweens: Tallulah
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
Dolly Parton: The Grass is Blue
The Sundays: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
The Waterboys: Fisherman's Blues
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Okay fine
Silkworm - Libertine
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Pixies - Doolittle
Low - Things We Lost In the Fire
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
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Silkworm - Firewater
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Bedhead - Transaction De Novo
Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks
Neil Young - On the Beach
Owls - Owls
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
Fugazi - Red Medicine
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Edited my initial post to clarify some things just now. Please take another look at the first post!
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Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Life Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
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The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
John Mayer - Room for Squares
Lostprophets - Start Something
Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown
Third Eye Blind - s/t
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Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Agalloch - The Mantle
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses
Death in June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Sol Invictus - The Death of the West
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
EDIT: Swapped Ancient Rites out for Sol Invictus, tactical voting decision.
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The Beatles (The White Album) - The Beatles
London Calling - The Clash
Ramones - The Ramones
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Doolittle - The Pixies
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Ok Computer - Radiohead
On the Beach - Neil Young
Shit, no room for Public Enemy or Fugazi. Can't be helped I guess.
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Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Falling Through A Field
Colour Haze - All
Cynic - Focus
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyranny Of Distance
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Er, um....ok.
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Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Mogwai - Rock Action
Owls - Owls
Burzum - Filosofem
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Opeth - Morningrise
Django Reinhardt - Crazy Rhythm
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Boris - Akuma No Uta
The Clash - London Calling
Weezer - Pinkerton
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake The Sheets
The Proletariat - Soma Holiday
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold, Dead Place
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
The Queers - Don't Back Down
Teenage Bottlerocket - Total
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Hey thanks for doing this Matt!
Opeth-Blackwater Park
Fugazi-The Argument
LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver
Refused- Shape of Punk to Come
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime
Daft Punk- Alive 2007
The Stooges- Funhouse
Mclusky- The Difference Between You And Me is That I'm Not on Fire
Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
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Ministry - Dark Side of the Spoon
Pigface - Notes from Thee Underground
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Strapping Young Lad - City
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Buckethead - Crime Slunk Scene
KMFDM - Symbols
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in the order they came to me
The Pax Cecilia - Blessed are the Bonds
The Living End – Modern Artillery
The Nation Blue – Protest Songs
Wintersun - Wintersun
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues (i know i'm meant to do this as a double album but this half is about 10x better)
Miles Davis -Kind Of Blue
Boris - Pink
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
Aggaloch - The Mantle
*Edit* decided to add kind of blue and since neutral milk hotel is pretty much an auto in i'm dropping that because i can't decide other wise
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Surfer Rosa - The Pixies
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Fragile - Yes
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
s/t - Alice in Chains
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues
Have my baby?
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Sounds like a plan.
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Fugazi - The Argument
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Owls - Owls
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Colour Haze - All
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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
U2 - Achtung Baby
Joy Division - Closer
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
My name is Blu Ink, and I approve this message.
Now:
Beastie Boys- "ll Communication"
Broken Social Scene- "Feel Good Lost"
The Weakerthans- "Left And Leaving"
Souls Of Mischeif- "'93 Til Infinity"
Lauryn Hill- "Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"
Kanye West- "College Dropout"
Beck- "The Information"
Dizzy Gillespie- "Dizzy and Dizzier"
Sigur Rós- "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust"
Shabba Ranks- "As Raw As Ever"
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A good system would be that bands with more than one or two nominations (even different albums) qualify and then we have to vote on the best album of those nominated before having them face off against other albums by other artists.
For example, there's already several nominations for Silkworm, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Low.
Since this is about albums, not bands, surely we should be ignoring the bands all together? Every album nominated should go on, even if that means we end up with some bands with a couple of different albums on the list. After all, if we restrict it to one album per band then this is basically going to be exactly the same as the band elimination polls, since people will vote generally for the band they prefer in match-ups of different bands. If no one album by a band proves popular enough to go on the list, then too bad. However, I think increasingly tactical voting is not going to present much problem on this front.
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The Wrens - Meadowlands
Ali Farka Touré - Savane
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Sonic Youth - Sister
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Marnie Stern - This is it & I am it...
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Autechre - Amber
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Fugazi - 13 Songs (This was originally two EPs. If that doesn't count, I'll go with The Argument by Fugazi)
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
The Clash - London Calling
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
EDIT: Replaced Sonic Youth with Simon and Garfunkel. Hopefully no riots will ensue.
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Mogwai: Happy Songs for Happy People
Sigur Ros: Takk...
Explosions in the Sky: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Do Make Say Think: & Yet & Yet
Torche: Meanderthal
Between the Buried and Me: Colors
Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
Tortoise: TNT
Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing
Hooray albums!
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The Knife - Silent Shout
David Bowie - Low
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
Patti Smith - Horses
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
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Since this is about albums, not bands, surely we should be ignoring the bands all together? Every album nominated should go on, even if that means we end up with some bands with a couple of different albums on the list. After all, if we restrict it to one album per band then this is basically going to be exactly the same as the band elimination polls, since people will vote generally for the band they prefer in match-ups of different bands. If no one album by a band proves popular enough to go on the list, then too bad. However, I think increasingly tactical voting is not going to present much problem on this front.
I agree with this. IMO, if a band is good enough to record multiple great albums, they deserve multiple spots in the bracket.
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I also agree with Khar.
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Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
If this piece of shit makes the bracket, I'm boycotting western civilization entirely.
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Earth - Earth 2
mclusky - mclsuky do Dallas
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Circle takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Tocotronic - Digital ist Besser
No particular order.
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Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Opeth-Blackwater Park
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Rage Against The Machine-s/t
Metallica-Master of Puppets
(How could i have forgotten that last one?)
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Skeletal Lamping (Of Montreal)
Fabulous Muscles (Xiu xiu)
Kerplunk (Green Day)
The Red Tree (Moneen)
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (The Unicorns)
The Shape of Punks to Come (Refused)
Takk... (Sigur Ros)
Paul's Boutique (The Beastie Boys)
He Poos Clouds (Final Fantasy)
American Fotball (American Football)
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel
Blackwater Park- Opeth
Ashes Against the Grain- Agalloch
Funeral- Arcade Fire
Alive 2007- Daft Punk
Pink- Boris
Oceanic- Isis
The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place- Explosions in the Sky
Our Endless Numbered Days- Iron & Wine
Sound of Silver- LCD Soundsystem
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Radiohead - Kid A
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
At The Drive-in - Relationship of Command
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
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Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Clutch - Elephant Riders
Down - Over the Under
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Witchcraft - Witchcraft
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Sculptured - Embodiment
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
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The Allman Brothers Band - Live At Fillmore East
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Klmit 1918 - Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine I EDITED THIS ONE IN! Stupid alphabet.
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind (does it count if it hasn't actually been released yet? Because it'd better...)
Oh fuck I'm out of nominations but it'd be unfair to these albums to be cut because I did it by alphabetical order so I guess they stay. Sorry Neil Young (you were next with Live Rust
Shit, I keep hitting the quote button instead of the modify button. Oh well. Other post deleted, count this one.
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1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
3. Sigur Ros - ( )
4. Anathema - Judgement
5. Michio Kurihara - Sunset Notes
6. Boris - Pink
7. Radiohead - Kid A
8. Martin Grech - Open Heart Zoo
9. The Frames - Fitzcarraldo
10. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
(edit: italics)
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OK so to begin with I was dead against the "more than one album per band" thing but then I realised that there were going to be 64 albums in this competition so it shouldn't be such a big deal.
Although if the competition is dominated by a few bands then I reserve all right to bitch and say I told you so.
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Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics ...
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of ...
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing ...
Love - Forever Changes
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
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I just realised that nobody (including myself) has yet nominated Graceland by Paul Simon, so in a flagrant abuse of the rules of this thread I hereby present you with my 11th nomination:
Paul Simon - Graceland.
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Boris - Pink
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Fugazi - End Hits
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
The Replacements - Let It Be
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
Slint - Spiderland
Stan Getz and Jao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
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I just realised that nobody (including myself) has yet nominated Graceland by Paul Simon, so in a flagrant abuse of the rules of this thread I hereby present you with my 11th nomination:
Dogg if we were going to allow flagrant abuses of the rules I would've made ten more nominations.
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Yeah but it's Graceland.
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I'll nominate Graceland anyway.
Bother, that means I've got to think of nine more...
Paul Simon - Graceland
The Beatles - Let it be (patron saint of lost causes, me)
John Lennon - Walls and Bridges (I like it better than Imagine)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
NMH - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Slint - Spiderland
Prince - Purple Rain
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
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Yeah but it's Graceland.
That's WHY it wasn't nominated.
I've been crunching the numbers on this thread, and it seems to me that with a field of 64 entrants any albums going to need, at the moment, at least three nominations in order to qualify.
Interestingly, no Joy Division or Fugazi album currently meets this requirement.
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Not many albums seem to at the moment. NMH's "...Aeroplane..." does for sure but not a huge number seem to qualify just yet.
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I think Spiderland and Ashes Against the Grain have at least 3. I could be wrong, though.
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1. Bedhead - Transaction De Novo
2. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
3. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
5. Cap'n Jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports... more commonly referred to as Schmap'n Schmazz
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. Braid - Frame & Canvas
8. Owls - Owls
9. Fugazi - Red Medicine
10. Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
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Hey guys, it'd really help me if you format your picks like so: BAND-ALBUM, without a space between the dash. Excel's a bitch when it comes to spaces and sorting. Manually deleting spaces to get the sorting right is a pain in the ass.
No need to edit your post if you're above this message; I have everything captured thus far.
Thanks!
ALSO, just to give some initial numbers, there are 351 albums by 272 artist nominated. 88 of those albums have been nominated at least twice.
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Public Enemy-Fear Of A Black Planet
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Prince-Purple Rain
Neil Young-On the Beach
Beach Boys-Petsounds
Radiohead-OKcomputer
Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Marvin Gaye-What's Going On?
Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life
Parliament-Mothership Connection
Also, Nodaisho, did you mean Number of the Beast when you said Run to the Hills?
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No need to edit your post if you're above this message; I have everything captured thus far.
Question: have you been doing a running entry as we post our nominations, or did you just compile the list now?
I ask 'cause I your rules say that we can edit our nominations, so I was under the impression the list wasn't going to be compiled until the 23rd. Subsequently, I altered some of my albums about 2 days after my initial post (posted on the 16th and edited on the 18th). So, if my nominations were entered on the 16th or 17th, they're not what I wanted my final nominations to be.
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1. Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
2. Joni Mitchell-Blue
3. Paul Simon-Graceland
4. The Band-Music from Big Pink
5. John Coltrane-Giant Steps
6. Janis Joplin-Pearl
7. The Pixies-Doolittle
8. Patti Smith-Horses
9. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention-We're Only in it for the Money
10. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones-Outbound
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1. Self Titled Album ( Mice Parade )
2. Pneuma ( Moving Mountains )
3. Do You Trust Your Friends? ( Stars )
4. Self Titled Album ( The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart )
5. The Life Pursuit ( Belle & Sebastian )
6. Hymns For A Dark Horse ( Bowerbirds )
7. Modal Soul ( Nujabes )
8. Transatlanticism ( Death Cab For Cutie )
9. The Ghosts Among Us ( Our Last Night )
10. Church Mouth ( Portugal. The Man )
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1. THE THERAMLS - Fuckin A'
2. BILLY BRAGG - Life's A Riot/Between The Wars
3. BOB DYLAN - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
4. STARS - Set Yourself On Fire
5. RYAN ADAMS - Demolition
6. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH! - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
7. THE CONSTANTINES - Tournament of Hearts
8. YES - Yessongs
9. METRIC - Grow Up And Blow Away
10. BOB DYLAN - Had Rain
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I'm going to go through my (relatively) limited library and pick out some of my personal favourites (in no particular order).
Graceland gets a special mention, as it is the album that I grew up with.
Paul Simon-Graceland
The Beatles-Abbey Road
Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Cat Stevens-Tea for the Tillerman
Explosions in the Sky-The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
Iron & Wine-Our Endless Numbered Days
Pearl Jam-Ten
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
The Who-Tommy
Crap, I'm at 12. The two I removed were Mogwai's "Mr Beast" and Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow".
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1.American Football-American Football
2.Frightened Rabbit-The Midnight Organ Fight
3.Thursday-Full Collapse
4.Benton Falls-Guilt Beats Hate
5.Fear Before the March of Flames-Odd How People Shake
6.Cursive-Domestica
7.Brand New-Deja Entendu
8.Moving Mountains-Pneuma
9.Dear & The Headlights-Small Steps, Heavy Hooves
10.At The Drive-In-Relationship of Command
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FYI: You have 3 hours left to nominate.
Question: have you been doing a running entry as we post our nominations, or did you just compile the list now?
I compiled the list then, so your edits were captured. If you've (the general you, not rynne specifically) edited your post AFTER mine on 20 March 2009, but it's ABOVE my post, PM me please.
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I suppose I should nominate 10 myself:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Otis Redding - Live in Europe
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
The National - Boxer
The Notwist - Neon Golden
The Wrens - Meadowlands
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
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Sorry for the triple-post, but here's the link to the old battle of the bands (http://quiki.net/wiki/Battle_of_teh_bands).
Since that one was done exclusively through the Quiki, I'm going to make my own rules as far as how albums get seeded. Here's what I have so far:
- There will be four "brackets", just as in any normal competition.
- The albums with the most nominations will be seeded #1 and be placed in each quadrant counter-clockwise, starting from the upper-left.
- Albums will continue to be seeded based on number of votes, moving counter-clockwise to fill in the bracket. In the event of a tie, I'll place them alphabetically.
- When I get further into the list, there's bound to be a number of albums with 3 or 2 votes each. In including those albums, I was thinking that the number of copies sold would determine that; however, I can't find any website that gives those statistics. (I looked at Wikipedia, All Music and RIAA.com) Any suggestions? If a band has multiple albums nominated, but one album multiple times, I'll pick that over an album that is nominated the same number of times but no other nominees from that band. Does that make sense?
- When the bracket is complete, I'll post it here. The way voting will work is you'll vote for your favourite album in each match-up. So in Round 1, you'll give me 32 albums. I'll tally all those, determine the winners of each matchup, fill in the grid more, then round 2 will start. You'll give me 16 albums, and we'll do the whole thing over again until one album has won. I'm terrible at graphic-design, so I'm going to hand-write all this and scan it in.
I'll continue to update everyone on how this is going to work. Wooo! (2.5 hours left to nominate.)
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Death From Above 1979-You're a Woman I'm a Machine
Mono-You Are There
Black Moth Super Rainbow-Dandelion Gum
Boris-Pink
Deerhoof-Runners Four
Efterklang-Parades
Ghosts and Vodka-Addicts and Drunks
Mogwai-Mr. Beast
Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Big Black-Songs About Fucking
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- The albums with the most nominations will be seeded #1 and be placed in each quadrant counter-clockwise, starting from the upper-left.
- Albums will continue to be seeded based on number of votes, moving counter-clockwise to fill in the bracket. In the event of a tie, I'll place them alphabetically.
Shouldn't it be clockwise, so that the 1st and 2nd seed have the top two corners? This way, if the favored album wins every time, the final match up is #1 vs. #2.
- When I get further into the list, there's bound to be a number of albums with 3 or 2 votes each. In including those albums, I was thinking that the number of copies sold would determine that; however, I can't find any website that gives those statistics. (I looked at Wikipedia, All Music and RIAA.com) Any suggestions?
The only place where I can think of to find sales information of that kind is Billboard.com, but to get that level of detail on things not on the current charts, you would need a paid subscription.
If a band has multiple albums nominated, but one album multiple times, I'll pick that over an album that is nominated the same number of times but no other nominees from that band. Does that make sense?
This seems about as fair as any other tie-breaker would could come up with really. It does reward more prolific bands over bands that had one stand out hit, but I think we can live with this. If something only managed 2 nominations, that's hardly a mandate as one of the great masterpieces of our time. And given the choice, I'd rather see some recognition given to bands that have steadily put out good work. Also, this might counteract some of the affect of people trying to avoid nominating the same band more then once, even though more then one album by the same band might have otherwise made there lists.
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Good point on the clockwise; I didn't think about that. I also looked at Billboard, but it didn't give me what I wanted. (Also, I'm assuming it's just an American list. I'd've done world-wide sales if the statistic was there.)
Nominations are now closed.
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So by my count, everything with at least 3 nominations should make it, and there will be 16 albums in the contest that received only 2 nominations.
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I missed this by just a few hours? Damn.
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So we should discuss the votes here rather than in the vote thread?
Why on earth are you all voting for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? It's The Clash, dammit! o.O
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Maybe it's a better album
On a different note, I am surprised the jazz music is being represented rather well, considering that two of the choices are going against Bob Dylan
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Yeah, the two Dylan vs. Jazz people races are practically dead heats. I am surprised by this, to be honest. I would have predicted Dylan winning those pretty easily. I'm actually a bit surprised Public Enemy is creaming Black Moth Super Rainbow. I just posted all the current standings in the voting thread (will post it here if people want) and it's 18-8, which is pretty significant. I'm just surprised since I've seen a lot of praise for BMSR around here at various points. Lets see...I'm sad that MONO won't be moving on and I'm interested to see how the Mogwai vs. Wilco race turns out. I had a really tough time choosing between the two and it's very close at the moment. Beyond that I think a lot of the current standings are fairly predictable. The races that are close are not all that surprising (Unicorns vs. Iron and Wine, Silkworm vs. Pixies and so on) and the ones where one album is destroying the other are generally not too shocking either. I am a bit surprised Boris is a hair over Modest Mouse though. I mean, Boris is cool and all but TLCW is incredibly brilliant and an album I wouldn't mind winning the whole shebang (among others, of course).