It's probably the only way the Tracey Thorn album would win.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 3 February 2018 06:31 (six years ago) link
NV:
I think I don't listen voraciously to enough new albums to be a viable music-poll voter.
This is p much exactly how I feel, but I talked myself into submitting a 13-album ballot shortly before the deadline, and am glad I did.
I think it's pretty crucial that partial and unranked ballots are allowed. I decided I was comfortable with submitting a ballot that in effect says "here are a few albums from 2017 I enjoyed"; a ranked ballot would feel uncomfortably like stating "this is the actual very best album of 2017".
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 3 February 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
(nb that is just how it would feel to me, I don't look at the ranked ballots of others as necessarily making grandiose claims or anything)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 3 February 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm the same really. I tend to parasitically use the yearly polls to get recommendations of music to check out. I listened to the tracks Spotify playlist and there was quite a bit of stuff I wasn't aware of that I liked (e.g. I didn't even know Charlotte Gainsbourg was a musician) and downloaded some albums that looked intrsting from the albums poll.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 February 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
a friend of mine recently said he never heard anything from Stormzy that came close to the Shut Up freestyle, I was about to tell him he was wrong but then I couldn't really come up with as great a song from his catalogue
wonder if he'll ever top it
― niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
bummed i didn't vote for BALSAMS by Chuck Johnson.
― omar little, Monday, 5 February 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
what's the gif (by gr80?) that every was applauding?
― flopson, Monday, 5 February 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
the image for the reveal of #1 and #2. If it's not working, right click the image and open it in a new tab (that's how i saw it)
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 5 February 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
bummed i didn't vote for BALSAMS by Chuck Johnson.― omar little, Sunday, February 4, 2018 7:56 PM (yesterday)
― omar little, Sunday, February 4, 2018 7:56 PM (yesterday)
my number one!
― gr8080, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
what's the gif (by gr80?) that every was applauding?― flopson, Sunday, February 4, 2018 8:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flopson, Sunday, February 4, 2018 8:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
click this
― gr8080, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
xp my number 6!
works like a balm...
― niels, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
i probably read three whole books just to that album alone in 2017
― gr8080, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
fantastic stuff, I had no idea. glad you singled it out just now, right up my street.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
xps- woahhh
― flopson, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link