Should we make a PJ forums top 100 albums?

Drifting Away

As voted by us?

so we can have an "offical" PJ forum goers top 100 albums of all time

i think it would be sweet!

Drifting Away

i dunno maybe have like put in our top ten albums
anyone think it will work?

Echoes

to be honest I don't want to see it. Take every album ever released by a 90's "alternative" band, every album that has songs played regularily on classic rock radio, anything that anyone from seattle ever touched or knew someone who did, and there you have it.

reeferchief

Echoes wrote:

to be honest I don't want to see it. Take every album ever released by a 90's "alternative" band, every album that has songs played regularily on classic rock radio, anything that anyone from seattle ever touched or knew someone who did, and there you have it.

You know us so well, Echoes.:)
I think it would depend on who voted Echoes, if everyone who sticks mostly to the porch were to vote then yeah it would probably work out like that, but I think there is a reasonable amount of diversity in taste amongst the people who post regularly in here.

Here are some ideas I have on how this could work we set a deadline date for the votes to be in by, no best of's or live albums to be included, each person who chooses to take part ranks their 10 favourite albums 1 - 10, the number 1 album scores 10 points, then the score slides down 2nd place gets nine etc, etc to the tenth place album scoring 1 point, then come the deadline date the scores are added up and ranked accordingly.
What do you think?:)

Todd76

I guess i'll get the ball rolling

1) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2) the Cure - Disintegration
3) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4) Sebadoh - Bakesale
5) Pavement - Wowee Zowee
6) Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
7) Arcade Fire - Funeral
8) Eric's Trip - Love Tara
9) Hayden - Everything I Long For
10) Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

if we are doing 10 thats it....if not (since the rules don't seem to have been set)

11) Sloan - Twice Removed
12) the Rheostatics - Whale Music
13) the Dandy Warhols - Come Down
14) Slowdive - Souvlaki
15) Spiritualized - Pure Phase

intodeep

I hope we can vote for at least 10 maybe even 15 or 20 albums each. Just let me know how many and i'll make my list.

CM1847

Another MB I read does this yearly and it is very big and they have some rules. And some people running it who spend a ton of time compiling the results.

-Everybody list their top 25+ albums, anywhere up to 100, but no less than 25, no more than 100.
-Everybody's #1 album vote is worth 100 points, #2 99.....#100 1.
-Somebody(or somebodyS) would keep an ongoing count of the results so they didn't have to sit down at the end and count them all up
-It would last for a few weeks or something
-Peal Jam albums couldn't count. Almost everybody would put most of them in their top 50 or so albums list, even if not many people had them at #1, it would still add up to have a top 5 of all PJ

also, they have a thing where everybody has 25 extra points to give out. When you make your list you can give 25 extra points anyway you want, for example:

1. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
2. Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4 (+15)
3. Nelly - Country Grammer(+10)

So #2 would get 15 bonus points and #3 would get 10.

Oh, and decide from the start if compilations and live albums count or not.

It is an incredibly efficient system and the results are always interesting. If the people who want to run this poll had the time to do it in this format, I highly recommend it. Just throwing it out there if a few people are really into the idea of getting a top 100.

reeferchief

CM1847 wrote:

Another MB I read does this yearly and it is very big and they have some rules. And some people running it who spend a ton of time compiling the results.

-Everybody list their top 25+ albums, anywhere up to 100, but no less than 25, no more than 100.
-Everybody's #1 album vote is worth 100 points, #2 99.....#100 1.
-Somebody(or somebodyS) would keep an ongoing count of the results so they didn't have to sit down at the end and count them all up
-It would last for a few weeks or something
-Peal Jam albums couldn't count. Almost everybody would put most of them in their top 50 or so albums list, even if not many people had them at #1, it would still add up to have a top 5 of all PJ

also, they have a thing where everybody has 25 extra points to give out. When you make your list you can give 25 extra points anyway you want, for example:

1. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
2. Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4 (+15)
3. Nelly - Country Grammer(+10)

So #2 would get 15 bonus points and #3 would get 10.

Oh, and decide from the start if compilations and live albums count or not.

It is an incredibly efficient system and the results are always interesting. If the people who want to run this poll had the time to do it in this format, I highly recommend it. Just throwing it out there if a few people are really into the idea of getting a top 100.

100 you say, I'll participate but theres no way I'm tallying that mofo.:)

Todd76

Todd76 wrote:

I guess i'll get the ball rolling

1) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2) the Cure - Disintegration
3) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4) Sebadoh - Bakesale
5) Pavement - Wowee Zowee
6) Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
7) Arcade Fire - Funeral
8) Eric's Trip - Love Tara
9) Hayden - Everything I Long For
10) Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

if we are doing 10 thats it....if not (since the rules don't seem to have been set)

11) Sloan - Twice Removed
12) the Rheostatics - Whale Music
13) the Dandy Warhols - Come Down
14) Slowdive - Souvlaki
15) Spiritualized - Pure Phase

OK so 25 then...I can easily add 10 to my list

CM1847

reeferchief wrote:

100 you say, I'll participate but theres no way I'm tallying that mofo.:)

I'm not tallying them either. It was just a suggestion for the people(s) who ARE going to be running it. If you get 3-5 people, create a thread with the rules on the first post and the only other posts would be people's list, you could divide up the tallying duties by page between the 3-5 people working on it. It would be pretty simple that way, let people respond for, say, 2 weeks and then close the thread, have one person collect all of the data from the various tallyers and compile into one final list of however many albums received significant points.

intodeep

Pearl Jam- Ten
Pearl Jam-No code
Pearl Jam- Yield
Neil Young- On the Beach
Neil Young- Tonights the Night
Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West
Dinosaur Jr- You're Living All Over Me
Sonic Youth- DayDream Nation
Built to Spill- Perfect From Now On
Temple of the Dog- S/T
Mother Love Bone- The one that has all their songs on it
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Alice in Chains- Dirt
Soundgarden-Badmoterfinger
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Radiohead- Ok Computer
At the Drive in- Relationship of Command
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Flaming Lips- Soft Bulleten
Guns N Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
Tool- Anemia
Stone Temple Pilots- Core
Pink Floyd-Animals
Neutral Milk Hotel- In an Areoplane over the sea

Ok so there are 25 albums i love off the top of my head. Yeah i know no beatles, zep, who, or dylan. I am not saying these are the best albums ever made but these are albums i love and grew up with. So a little heavy on the 90's.

Todd76

New and improved top 25

1) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
2) the Cure - Disintegration
3) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4) Sebadoh - Bakesale
5) Pavement - Wowee Zowee
6) Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
7) Arcade Fire - Funeral
8) Eric's Trip - Love Tara
9) Hayden - Everything I Long For
10) Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
11) Sloan - Twice Removed
12) the Rheostatics - Whale Music
13) the Dandy Warhols - Come Down
14) Slowdive - Souvlaki
15) Spiritualized - Pure Phase
16) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
17) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
18) Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
19) Radiohead - OK Computer
20) Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
21) Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
22) Nirvana - Nevermind
23) Broken Social Scene - s/t
24) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
25) Mr Bungle - California

Pearl Jam and toast

That handful of losers who have this irrational hatred for Radiohead will skew the results.