Best Ever Albums

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

cestuneblague — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:06:51 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 06/21/2026 02:06

It sure as schei-tsa wasn't easy, but Racing Mout Pleasent is our 2025 BEA best song tourney winner! Congrats to them and their Ponymaster who needs no BEA-troduction, Hayden (2-CA)

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

MadhattanJack — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:39:47 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 06/21/2026 01:39

Okay... saying this probably isn't going to make me very popular, but the way I personally see it, the only way you end up with these two tracks as the final choices for "song of the year" is if people are voting against songs they don't like, and not voting for songs they do like. (Which is not unlike US electoral politics in recent years, I might add.) People have to stop doing that!

Maybe the problem is that the phpBB polling functionality isn't sufficiently flexible to beat this tendency, or maybe it's that too many people who like albums (generally speaking) don't actually like traditional pop music anymore... or maybe they never did, for all I know. Regardless, I've got a list of 100 albums from last year in a fully-annotated chart, which probably represents over 1,000 individual tracks, and... I know people won't like this, but I'd personally prefer to listen to every single one of those tracks to these two, and it's not even all that close.

So if I'm the deciding vote, then... why am I the deciding vote? That's silly. I shouldn't be the deciding vote — I shouldn't even be voting! Hopefully someone will come along and tie it back up again.

But if I'm going to be the deciding vote, I have to go with the track that has some singing on it, some dynamics, some electric guitars... things like that. I like jazz well enough (probably more than "Windmill Scene" if I'm being honest), and the Mary Halvorson album is a good jazz album, but this isn't "jazz album of the year," it's "song of the year." So if I'm to pick between these two tracks that I really do not like all that much, which (again) is probably how we got to this choice in the first place... sorry, but I have to go with the other one.

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

cestuneblague — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:09:16 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 06/20/2026 03:09

If not we may have to keep sudden death open

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

cestuneblague — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:02:23 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 06/20/2026 03:02

Crap... Can anyone confirm who was the first vote?

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

travelful — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:55:10 GMT

Author: travelful

Posted: 06/19/2026 18:55

Racing Mount Pleasent 😈

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

cestuneblague — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:26:41 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 06/19/2026 18:26

The poll won't bite, BEAers

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

cestuneblague — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:13:24 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 06/18/2026 19:13

Next vote is the decider

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

Johnnyo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:40:04 GMT

Author: Johnnyo

Posted: 06/18/2026 18:40

Too tight to call.

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

CA Dreamin — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:22:44 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 06/18/2026 06:22

Of course the final would come down to two 7-minute songs. 7-minute songs are better than the rest, right?

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

cestuneblague — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:54:10 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 06/15/2026 02:54

Nothing against the quality of the songs, but there's a certain lack of Oompf to this final. Maybe it would've been better if only one of the songs upset since there would be greater contrast. Anyways going with Halvorson even if RMP works better as an individual track.

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

kokkinos — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:55:45 GMT

Author: kokkinos

Posted: 06/14/2026 22:55

Hayden wrote:

Going with my nom, and I'm baffled it's here—

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

Hayden — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:16:08 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 06/12/2026 09:16

Going with my nom, and I'm baffled it's here—

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

Johnnyo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:35:44 GMT

Author: Johnnyo

Posted: 06/12/2026 07:35

Soooooo tough to choose.

I love both tracks and very pleased, but surprised, that this is the final

I'm going for RMP

Re: CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

Repo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:25:11 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 06/11/2026 23:25

Mary for the V!!!

CLSDFINAL 2025 BST: Racing Mount Pleasent vs Mary Halvorson

cestuneblague — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:49:43 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 06/11/2026 17:49

RACING MOUNT PLEASENT- CALL IT EASY

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Ponymaster: Hayden

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MARY HALVORSON- FULL OF NEON

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Ponymaster: Kokkinos