Best Ever Albums

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:52:35 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/18/2017 04:52

I vote we nuke this, and do it in the style of how the year ones were done, but not restrict to the year.

I'd be happy to help manage it, but if I get hit by a bus, how can we perpetuate it? In other words, maybe a couple people help manage it? I remember that's a small reason why I liked the voting format... but that fizzled too. Who knows.

Sometimes I wish we could just share limited consciousness... that'd make this all a lot easier.

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Tue, 6 Sep 2016 23:43:11 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 09/07/2016 03:43

RockyRaccoon wrote:

Would people be interested in reviving the ALC but making it like this, i.e. any album is available, rather than making it 2016? Because I'd be more than happy to do that

Sho nuff!

Re: Album Discussion Party

RockyRaccoon — Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:09:11 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 09/07/2016 01:09

Would people be interested in reviving the ALC but making it like this, i.e. any album is available, rather than making it 2016? Because I'd be more than happy to do that

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Tue, 6 Sep 2016 01:30:16 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 09/06/2016 05:30

Quote:

sethmadsen wrote:
Skinny can have a life outside of this site

dividesbyzero wrote:

blasphemy

🤣 🤣 🤣

Re: Album Discussion Party

Anonymous — Mon, 5 Sep 2016 23:21:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/06/2016 03:21

sethmadsen wrote:

Skinny can have a life outside of this site

blasphemy

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Mon, 5 Sep 2016 23:19:53 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 09/06/2016 03:19

Yeah for sure... and Skinny can have a life outside of this site... hahaha. Hope he's ok...

Re: Album Discussion Party

Anonymous — Mon, 5 Sep 2016 22:17:18 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/06/2016 02:17

I still think it's an excellent idea in principle. Just needs a little reorganizing and for Skinny to post his damn thread (though he may be waiting for the Nilsson thread to have its run first)

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Mon, 5 Sep 2016 18:02:43 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 09/05/2016 22:02

I think so... there have been 2 album suggestions since the last go around (one of them being mine) and I still haven't seen Skinny's 1st post.

I'm still interested in discussing albums in detail, but like asking a girl out on a date who you later found out you don't connect with them, I don't think this is working out. And yes I just rocked a high school level analogy.

Re: Album Discussion Party

RockyRaccoon — Fri, 2 Sep 2016 08:33:55 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 09/02/2016 12:33

sethmadsen wrote:

Feel free to unsticky this.

Feel free to just start talking about albums you wish to discuss.

Feel free to create a new version of this that works like the ALC.

Soooooo are you giving up on this already?

Re: Album Discussion Party

AfterHours — Fri, 2 Sep 2016 02:10:42 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 09/02/2016 06:10

I've recently been blown away with Father Murphy's Croce (2015). It is an avant-folk-noise album. It feels like a haunting, otherworldly descent into the occult. It walks a line between religiously devotional/intensely focused/contemplative and apocalyptic/violent ritual/mindless submission. A bit reminiscent of The Residents at their peak, I feel it is among the very best albums of the 2010's (Rock or Jazz). Has any one around here heard it? What do you think?

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:33:35 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 08/28/2016 19:33

Feel free to unsticky this.

Feel free to just start talking about albums you wish to discuss.

Feel free to create a new version of this that works like the ALC.

Re: Album Discussion Party

CA Dreamin — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:23:46 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 08/26/2016 05:23

Rhett wrote:

It's maybe time for you to become a dictator.

For real. It's been over two weeks since the idea was posed. Just freakin' start one already.

sethmadsen wrote:

Here's a nomination for next week: (criminally ranked in the 500s):

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme by Simon And Garfunkel

Would totally be excited to discuss this one. Terrific album.

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 23:56:19 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 08/26/2016 03:56

Wow, I just read that and totally didn't mean I really don't care about people's opinion... I didn't care about the format.

Here's a nomination for next week: (criminally ranked in the 500s):

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme by Simon And Garfunkel

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:53:03 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 08/24/2016 23:53

Rhett wrote:

It's maybe time for you to become a dictator.

🤣

I force democracy!

🤣

I really don't care. You can't please em all.

Re: Album Discussion Party

Rhett — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:37:14 GMT

Author: Rhett

Posted: 08/24/2016 23:37

It's maybe time for you to become a dictator.

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:31:35 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 08/24/2016 23:31

Also how many people forget they nominated something because it is 2 months out?

Idk, there's pros and cons of both systems.

I suppose if I'm managing it I can do whatever the hell I wasn't and if people don't want to participate, then don't, or this thread can be deleted and start fresh with the nomination system and either someone else can manage that or something.

Nice thing about this system is anyone can start the voting thread really. It also gets discussion in forum...as good as stickied is to always be at top, sometimes I don't pay attention to them.

Re: Album Discussion Party

RoundTheBend — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:24:56 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 08/24/2016 23:24

So we got a mixed answer/on the fence answers from others.

Who makes the final call?

The voting system came from skinny, who like me basically says if it sticks and we don't like it we can always change the format. Some said they like voting, but nomination should have reason. And

Is there a way to vote and do ALC? The thing I like about voting is it represents the whole community/something whole community can have voice for and participate in weekly. If 3 albums in a row are boring to me I have to wait three weeks to see if anything is interesting. Voting allows for nomination anytime (which in turn is Hotspot for album discovery) and then weekly participation/effort to push for something your passionate about.

Skinny wrote:

If somebody were to set out an initial thread outlining what they thought were some interesting ideas about certain albums that are rarely mentioned elsewhere, I'm up for discussing any album. The problem with those top albums is that so many of our views have already been discussed in the past on BEA, or are otherwise (consciously or not) informed by mainstream publications that I don't exactly see a huge amount of scope for new discussion, but I could certainly be wrong. It depends on to what extent people are willing or able to say something fresh about those canonical classics. I'd just start a thread to take nominations, pick the first eight, and put them to a poll for a couple of days. The nominee would then be responsible for setting up the thread. (Or something along those lines.) If it doesn't work, we go back to drawing board.

Re: Album Discussion Party

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:11:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/24/2016 19:11

Rhett wrote:

A possible improvement would be to have the nominator say why the album is worthy of discussion.

I could get behind this, though ultimately I am still pretty much in agreeance with Rocky

Re: Album Discussion Party

Rhett — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:27:53 GMT

Author: Rhett

Posted: 08/24/2016 13:27

The way I figure it, people don't have to listen to each album to decide what to vote on. They can simply scan the bea pages for each album and see what they want to hear more about.

A possible improvement would be to have the nominator say why the album is worthy of discussion.

I think the voting idea is fine. If people vote randomly, that's fine, we'll still end up with an album to discuss.

Re: Album Discussion Party

mickilennial — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:11:28 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 08/24/2016 13:11

Quote:

Does everyone else feel the same as Rocky?

Yeah, I do. I feel the current way it is setup is insular and not engaging at all.