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Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

HoldenM — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:09:19 GMT

Author: HoldenM

Posted: 02/10/2015 06:09

MrFrogger wrote:

Last one's gonna be Benji for sure.

I want you to be right, but at the same time, I can imagine that it got enough backlash from other users that it didn't make it.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

babyBlueSedan — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:15:00 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 02/09/2015 23:15

Cool, I have this just outside my top 10 I think, but I still really enjoyed it. It has it's weak moments but overall it's the perfect combination of wacky and poppy. Hopefully Pinata will take its rightful place at #1

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:16:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/09/2015 21:16

Hey, pom pom made the cut! Very cool, I feel like I should give this another spin soon, I remember really liking it at the time, probably my favorite Ariel Pink release. Weird and psychy fun with sinister undertones. Mixed 60s psych pop nostalgia with modern concerns and inanities. Good album.

Almost 100% sure that Pinata will take the last spot, which I'm cool with, though I'm hoping Benji will somehow push through. At the very least I hope it won't be RTJ2.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:52:38 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/09/2015 20:52

19loveless91 wrote:

My bet is on Pinata. It's not exactly been a list of my personal favourites, but it's an interesting list nonetheless. Would love to see more about how people voted afterwards (particularly interested in how the negative points have been awarded)...

Hayden wrote:

Actually, yeah. Sp4cetiger, could you calculate who got the deepest into the negatives?

No worries, there's much more to come.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Hayden — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:52:32 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/09/2015 20:52

19loveless91 wrote:

(particularly interested in how the negative points have been awarded)...

Actually, yeah. Sp4cetiger, could you calculate who got the deepest into the negatives?

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

19loveless91 — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:50:00 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 02/09/2015 20:50

My bet is on Pinata. It's not exactly been a list of my personal favourites, but it's an interesting list nonetheless. Would love to see more about how people voted afterwards (particularly interested in how the negative points have been awarded)...

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

benpaco — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:47:10 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 02/09/2015 20:47

Sad to see none of the albums I voted for make it, but I'm not surprised. My only shot was hoping that Graeme, Secondsoul, and myself would push Twilight Sad's in at like 10.

Honestly, I'm betting this for number 1:

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Run The Jewels 2 by Run The Jewels

but I'm picking a bit of an underdog there, I know. That would keep the "albums I didn't hear or thought weren't great" theme going with one I've not heard, whereas I thought Pinata was very good. Rooting for pinata (or by some miracle Twilight Sad but there's NO way), but I'm thinking RTJ2 takes it.

Outside of RTJ2, these are the other albums I think, realistically, could get it:

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To Be Kind by Swans

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Piñata by Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

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St. Vincent by St. Vincent

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You're Dead! by Flying Lotus

Though I also think it wouldn't be too outlandish if Salad Days, Sun Structures, They Want My Soul, Here and Nowhere Else, or even Everyday Robots snuck in there. My guess is that all of those were top 25, at least, and some probably floating JUST outside of the top 10. This is exciting, though, I'm enjoying this even more than I thought I would!

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

SquishypuffDave — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:38:32 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 02/09/2015 20:38

This album is some dark shit. If anything it reminds me of Mr Bungle's 'California'. Very happy to see it at #2.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Norman Bates — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:08:40 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/09/2015 20:08

pom pom is really good. "Put Your Number..." etc is one of the best songs of the decade, so chill and effortlessly catchy.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:04:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/09/2015 20:04

goeie-oko wrote:

Wouldn't it be great if To Be Kind is #1

Fingers crossed [-o<

Hopefully not

Haha, let's go Black Metal!

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Skinny — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:40:41 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:40

goeie-oko wrote:

Wouldn't it be great if To Be Kind is #1

Not particularly, but that is a very good shout. Don't remember any real backlash, and it was very popular among a lot of people. Hadn't considered it previously, but wouldn't be massively surprised to see it come in at #1.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

craola — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:39:03 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:39

I'm betting on Pinata, if only because Benji is picking up some of the negative votes.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Anonymous — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:35:35 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:35

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Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

goeie-oko — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:11:36 GMT

Author: goeie-oko

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:11

Wouldn't it be great if To Be Kind is #1

Fingers crossed 🙏

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

RockyRaccoon — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:07:07 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:07

Gowienczyk wrote:

Lol, nice blatant fishing. I might be the one who likes that one the most out of everyone, but even I wouldn't put it at my year end top list, haha.

Now I feel all weird having it in my top-30 but whatevs

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

mickilennial — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:05:15 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:05

Skinny wrote:

tbh, it was just an absurd quip. Nothing more.

Yeah, most definitely. Not even upset or anything, I thought it was amusing.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

Skinny — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:01:34 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:01

Gowienczyk wrote:

Quote:

*awaits confirmation that Pharmakon is #1*

Lol, nice blatant fishing. I might be the one who likes that one the most out of everyone, but even I wouldn't put it at my year end top list, haha.

tbh, it was just an absurd quip. Nothing more.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

mickilennial — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:00:49 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 02/09/2015 19:00

Quote:

*awaits confirmation that Pharmakon is #1*

Lol, nice blatant fishing. I might be the one who likes that one the most out of everyone, but even I wouldn't put it at my year end top list, haha.

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

SuedeSwede — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:56:17 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 02/09/2015 18:56

goeie-oko wrote:

wow, didn't expect this to be #2

i'm glad though, it voted it as my #2 too

Exactly this

EDIT: There's also Salad Days, I mean I can dream

Re: BEA's Year-End List #2: Pom Pom

RockyRaccoon — Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:43:22 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 02/09/2015 18:43

Oh man, all this Pharmakon hate, ouch.

I'm hoping for You're Dead at #1, but we'll see....