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Originally posted by Ebenezer Borachon:

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Originally posted by krugulitis:
this guy compiled a bunch of publications and website lists into a comprehensive top 100 albums list. pretty good actually.

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=112700&show=10&start=90

Wonder if he used the FKA-EG75 scoring method...

Pretty interesting list though. He's clearly got too much time on his hands... (oh the irony!)

Interesting. The scoring system used by this guy, however, favors lesser known albums. He says that he weighted the scores so that more popular albums, such as Neon Bible, received less points for being on a list. As a result, Neon Bible is at #51 (despite the fact that it is on most top 10 composite lists).

Now, this list looks familiar:

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OBNER Top 50 of 2007, voted for by members of the Obner music forums.

1 The National - Boxer
2 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3 Radiohead - In Rainbows
4 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
6 Andrew Bird - armchair apocrypha
7 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
8 Okkervil River - The Stage Names
9 Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
10 Of Montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
11 Modest Mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank
12 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
13 M.I.A. - Kala
14 Frank Black - Bluefinger
15 Josh Ritter - the historical conquests of josh ritter
16 The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
17 Feist - the reminder
18 Babyshambles - Shotters Nation
19 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
20 Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog

I wonder if the guy over at rateyourmusic.com used a straight-up point system, like the EG75-FKA method or the method used at Obner, would it produce a list that is similar to our list or the Obner list.

? for board.

When are Idolator and Village Voice lists due out?

I'm sure most of you have already seen the 2007 Pitchfork reader's poll , but for those who haven't, it's quite interesting:

Album of the Year

1. Radiohead: In Rainbows
2. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
3. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
4. The National: Boxer
5. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
6. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
7. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
9. M.I.A.: Kala
10. Battles: Mirrored
11. Feist: The Reminder
12. Okkervil River: The Stage Names
13. Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
14. Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
15. Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
16. Menomena: Friend and Foe
17. Justice: †
18. Burial: Untrue
19. Deerhunter: Cryptograms
20. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
21. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
22. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
22. Kanye West: Graduation
23. Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
24. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
25. Band of Horses: Cease to Begin

What's also interesting is the list of albums with the most #1 votes, which includes several albums omitted from the official Pitchfork top album list, (Sunset Rubdown [!], Dirty Projectors. . .):

1. Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
2. Radiohead: In Rainbows
3. Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
4. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
5. Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
6. El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead
7. Battles: Mirrored
8. Deerhunter: Cryptograms
9. Burial: Untrue
10. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

Well I guess that means that Dirty Projectors just need to rise above with their next album huh?

Ha!

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1. Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
3. Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
6. El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead

That is very interesting. Anybody know exactly what kind of voting system they use to come up with the Albums of the Year list?

The editors at Barnes & Noble have chosen their top albums of 2007, along with a few other specialty lists. Here is the link and here are their top five albums of the year (they only listed five):

1. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
2. Bruce Springsteen – Magic
3. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
4. Feist – The Reminder
5. Annie Lennox – Songs of Mass Destruction

I'm surprised we're not seeing Spoon at no. 1 on some lists. It wasn't my no. 1, but it could have been on a different day. One interesting thing this year is this shard of super-independent music critics coming up with off-the-wall lists consisting primarily of albums not even reviewed by Metacritic at all. It prompts me to move even furthur left of mainstream center when I see these.

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Originally posted by goathouse:
I'm surprised we're not seeing Spoon at no. 1 on some lists. It wasn't my no. 1, but it could have been on a different day. One interesting thing this year is this shard of super-independent music critics coming up with off-the-wall lists consisting primarily of albums not even reviewed by Metacritic at all. It prompts me to move even furthur left of mainstream center when I see these.

Maybe because it has a little for everyone but at the same time doesn't put all its eggs in one basket.

I't not wierd or obscure enough to be hip (panda bear) but not mainstream enough to saturate the market and get a number 1 by default (arctic monkeys).

It is just a really good album with a few forward thinking tracks.

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http://www.scissorkick.com/2008/01/scissorkicks-best-of...-dj-blish-1987-2008/

this is a solid, electronic heavy list.

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Originally posted by goathouse:
I'm surprised we're not seeing Spoon at no. 1 on some lists. It wasn't my no. 1, but it could have been on a different day.

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga isn't my #1 either, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it get #1 at CMG, and #2 at DoA.

I've culled together all of Music Emissions' writer's lists into one blog post.

http://www.musicemissions.com/users/dscanland/blog/Musi...op+10+albums+of+2007

Have a read. It seems no one could agree on their favorite.

The 2007 Pazz and Jop results are out. 577 critics surveyed and the top ten albums are:

1. "Sound of Silver" -- LCD Soundsystem (1662 points/141 votes)
2. "In Rainbows" -- Radiohead (1611/148)
3. "Kala" -- M.I.A. (1611/144)
4. "Back to Black" -- Amy Winehouse (1492/131)
5. "Neon Bible" -- Arcade Fire (1212/111)
6. "Graduation" -- Kanye West (913/91)
7. "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" -- Spoon (785/77)
8. "Raising Sand" -- Alison Krauss and Robert Plant(759/78)
9. "Magic" -- Bruce Springsteen (747/64)
10. "Boxer" -- The National (743/68)

The next ten: Feist, Wilco, Panda Bear, The White Stripes, Miranda Lambert, Lily Allen, Battles, Jay-Z, The Shins, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings.

Singles:

1. "Rehab" -- Amy Winehouse (97 votes)
2. "Umbrella" -- Rihanna (91)
3. "All My Friends" -- LCD Soundsystem (61)
4. "1234" -- Feist (58)
5. "D.A.N.C.E." -- Justice (53)
6. "Paper Planes" -- M.I.A. (50)
7. "Stronger" -- Kanye West (48)
8. "International Players Anthem" -- UGK feat. Outkast (47)
9. "Young Folks" -- Peter, Bjorn & John (42)
10. "Atlas" -- Battles (39)

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Originally posted by CoCoCo:

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Originally posted by goathouse:
I'm surprised we're not seeing Spoon at no. 1 on some lists. It wasn't my no. 1, but it could have been on a different day.

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga isn't my #1 either, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it get #1 at CMG, and #2 at DoA.

That's good to hear. I'm just astonished by the ease with which I've settled into Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga's bed of studio flourishes, and the simple pleasure of it. I think we all take some of this stuff for granted what with the unprecedented access to diverse and sometimes undeserving ear candy. If I could go back in time, I'd move Spoon up, and Radiohead down on my year-end list. I somehow morphed into a sheeple regarding the placement of the latter, and may have been too liberal with the former.

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2. "Umbrella" -- Rihanna (91)

I just don't get it.

This coming from the self proclaimed mainstream whore of Metacritic, no less.

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Originally posted by Dork:

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Originally posted by Peewee:
2. "Umbrella" -- Rihanna (91)

I just don't get it.

This coming from the self proclaimed mainstream whore of Metacritic, no less.

Me niether. I've listened to that song several times on Youtube and ... I ... just ... don't ... get it.

I have no problem with shallow, clever, disposable pop songs, but the fabulousness of this song totally passes me by.