Best Ever Albums

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Patman360 — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:32:10 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 03/16/2014 20:32

CellarDoor wrote:

:?:

This thing kinda went off the hinges after Manc deleted her account...

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

CellarDoor — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:51:51 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 03/16/2014 17:51

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Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

HigherThanTheSun — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:55:57 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/27/2014 01:55

Just realised I pretty much repeated what Cellar said, although I think album artwork is pretty much essential.

Also, I guess if we already have a standard format, then subsequent editing shouldn't actually be too hard if anyone wanted to.

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

HigherThanTheSun — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:53:36 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/27/2014 01:53

benpaco wrote:

That's actually a really good idea ... if this was done over Google Drive somehow (some of us are having problems installing word), we could even save any especially good formats as PDFs to share here. Then say I wanted the CellarDoor edition of the book and KKS wanted the HigherThanTheSun edition of the book, that could be a thing. Just an idea...

Surely easier if we pick the best format first and everyone makes sure their submissions fit that format? Not sure if anyone will have the time to edit 1001 entries after they've been submitted.

If we make sure everyone includes artwork with the reviews, and essential info about the album, and track picks and whatever else we want, in a standard format, then bundle them all into a pdf then this thing would still be pretty great I think.

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

benpaco — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:21:25 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 01/26/2014 22:21

CellarDoor wrote:

:(

Couldn't someone of the initial reviewers just standardize the different reviews into a Word format (1 page/review ; same layout artist ; album title ; track picks etc.. ), and then upload the whole thing in a google doc which people could print out as a booklet or personalize with say album covers and stuff if they wanted to ?

Just an idea to save this beautiful BEA project :wink:

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

SamuelPear — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:03:09 GMT

Author: SamuelPear

Posted: 01/26/2014 18:03

I think it's time to bring back this project, I still have my (two) reviews on my computer. I agree with Cellar Door's idea too.

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Norman Bates — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:44:56 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 01/26/2014 17:44

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

Sounds like a great idea, I'd be happy to do this if others prefer this

Definitely better, yes!

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:17:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/26/2014 17:17

CellarDoor wrote:

Sounds like a great idea, I'd be happy to do this if others prefer this

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

CellarDoor — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:15:12 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 01/26/2014 17:15

🙁

Couldn't someone of the initial reviewers just standardize the different reviews into a Word format (1 page/review ; same layout artist ; album title ; track picks etc.. ), and then upload the whole thing in a google doc which people could print out as a booklet or personalize with say album covers and stuff if they wanted to ?

Just an idea to save this beautiful BEA project 😉

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

HigherThanTheSun — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:03:57 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/24/2014 00:03

Just putting them in a thread doesn't seem good enough but if the book isn't happening I can't really think of any better ideas 😕

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:09:11 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/22/2014 17:09

Listmeister wrote:

Wait, what happened to ManC?

Account got deleted, tekin's gone too.

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Listmeister — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:07:11 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 01/22/2014 17:07

benpaco wrote:

So ... uh ... purple, is this still gonna happen without ManC?

Wait, what happened to ManC?

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:46:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/21/2014 14:46

oh dear. I suppose I could make a thread, put all of the reviews (unedited) into the OP, and then the remainder could be discussion/criticism/appreciation of those reviews. Anyone else have any thoughts? I'll be on sparingly this week since I have the flu or sth worse, so there's time for people to come up with something cooler.

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

benpaco — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:57:46 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 01/20/2014 07:57

So ... uh ... purple, is this still gonna happen without ManC?

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Facetious — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:35:01 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 01/14/2014 06:35

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

I think I understand you. How could something you love so dearly be perceived as you intend when you have such a poor control of language? However, we must try our best and we must realize perception is disparate among people; the best we can do is purvey our thoughts and hope they encourage others to fall in love with our favorite albums because of our passionate descriptions of them. The best we can do is the best we can do, and so just simply submit your reviews. Faulkner could not worry if the universal humanity in his novels transposed to European ideals, he just did as is soul guided him. And you, too, should just write your reviews, as your soul guides you. Just write your fuckin' reviews

You do understand me to an extent I guess 🤣 But I made a mistake back then, and I guess I'm going to submit fewer reviews than I originally intended.

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

HigherThanTheSun — Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:26:09 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/07/2014 03:26

Oh, that's cool. Yeah I'm struggling to make 450 for some of them I'll just have to leave them a bit short.

Now that I'm actually involved with this I'm suddenly really excited to see it, can everyone else please start doing their reviews too if they haven't yet 😁

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Anonymous — Mon, 6 Jan 2014 19:36:40 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/07/2014 00:36

what you've done is fine. I personally think a minimum of 450 is ridiculous; do whatever you can

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

HigherThanTheSun — Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:42:38 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/05/2014 23:42

I've started but it's hard. Mostly I haven't really written about the music at all, just rambled about why the albums mean so much to me, but there's probably more about me than there is the music 😕 I just pretty much cannot write about why one bit of music is better than another, is what I've done ok?

What about word count too, is it a strict minimum of 450?

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

HigherThanTheSun — Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:43:21 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 01/05/2014 00:43

I'm one of the people who has done absolutely nothing for this so far, sorry everyone, I'm terrible at doing these sorts of things so I've been putting it off forever but I'll get onto it soon I promise.

Re: The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

benpaco — Fri, 3 Jan 2014 02:46:08 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 01/03/2014 07:46

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

I like you, I think. We should plug.dj sometime

EDIT: http://plug.dj/best-ever-albums/

I'm on right meow, if you want

I might be able to stick around for a bit.

Also, if you were just to sum up everything I've said here, you could put it in "OK", "Sorry", and "Bon Iver", I think.