'Tis the season
The 2005 QHS 200 is out. Check out this year's albums list here. I'll try to get an introduction and some stats out tomorrow, but the list is here now. Merry Christmas!
posted by Bryan @ 12/15/2005 11:47:00 PM
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4 Comments:
on your ok computer listing (#1) you listed the release date as 1991. it is 1997.
I will sit out your pool b/c I don't think any of those should have finished higher. Except maybe Zooropa. The Zombies at #39 seems about right. By the way, my copy of that one is in Staunton but thanks to AMG I could confirm my hunch, the actual mis-spelling is Odessey & Oracle.
There isn't really a consensus on the Kinks as a group so I guess it's not surprising that the votes don't add up more for them. Arthur wasn't on my list.
How close were we to having two Belle & Sebastian albums in our top 10?
Aside from Patti Smith, and maybe Tigermilk, the Songs list didn't seem to have too much of a direct impact on this one. What do you think?
Thanks, Bones. I'm thoroughly embarrassed. Thanks, Pat, I'm thoroughly embarrassed.
Rob, Sgt. Pepper finished 45 spots ahead of Cosby, for what that's worth. Three of us didn't pick a Kinks album at all, and only Pat picked three, but as he notes above, Arthur was not among them.
As far as the songs list influencing the albums list, I thought Patti Smith and Neutral Milk Hotel were standouts, but Arthur, XO, Tigermilk, Grace, Pearl, and even Folsom Prison moved up, possibly thanks to songs in our top 50.
I bought Odessey & Oracle a few days after the summit, and it's good, but it didn't pose much of a threat to anything my top 100. The same goes for the best new albums I heard this year- Demon Days, Get Behind Me Satan, Extraordinary Machine. It seems like it's a lot harder for something new to crack the top 100 after this many years. Guess I'm getting stubbborn.
Well Bryan, by the advice on your introduction to the list, you've almost encouraged me to call up Jaron and mastermind a new voting bloc. Here's the number one we would agree on, after hours of deliberations and retard impressions:
1. spice girls, wannabe cassette single
it'll crack the top 50 next year.
The voting bloc thing made the song list good. And two people makes gettin off yer ass and listening to something new a little easier. I like the list. I think its great.
I'm glad there is a hesitance among voters to delve toward certain genres of new music. ryan adams, bright eyes, cat power, sufjan stevens, bonnie prince billy; these people get shafted. fantastic.
certain worthwhile 90s acts are consistently and unnecessarily overlooked for a plurality of albums from specific worthwhile 90s acts: stereolab, yo la tengo, modest mouse, tori, spoon, slint, guided by voices, eels, in favor of two or three belle / wilco / radiohead / bjork albums. i'm a little tired of the back to back three-peats, but what can i do?
no one (myself included) seems to be rallying much behind: polyphonic spree, broken social scene, lcd soundsystem, architecture in helsinki, franz ferdinand etc...
and the 70s resurgence seems centered around white noise; no funkadelic, parliament, weather report, jimmy cliff, fela kuti.
has anyone picked up that kanye disc? damn, son...
and who is gettin' down with kraftwerk? i tried, man, i tried...
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