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Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Necharsian — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:40:06 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 06/22/2013 21:40

Huh ever since I cried and complained about the forums there have been some cool things going on. Guess I should bitch out more often

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Jasonconfused — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:39:19 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 06/22/2013 17:39

drakonium wrote:

I don't listen to 2013 music that much, but I'd love to see you guys talk about recent releases. Why couldn't we even have a 2013 album of the day, in the same style as the ATOD and WAOTD?

I'm all for this. I also don't listen to much 2013 music and this would really push me to start listening to more recent music.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:38:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/22/2013 17:38

I suggest making it like a book club and having someone sticky it. Everyone who wants to participate throws their name in over a week and they're thrown into a randomizer to provide the presenting order; anyone who wants to join in later is thrown back. If we run out of users during the year, we re-randomize; if we reach the end of the year with too many users, the order of users that haven't presented is carried over to the next year. Perhaps every Thursday (to give people the weekend, and allow for time zones) the user planned presents the album with the title, cover, and perhaps a sentence or two on their thoughts about the album. There also needs to be at least a month's lag from year to year to allow decent releases to come out (e.g. January of 2014 would still be presenting 2013 albums).

I suggest this because it would avoid albums everyone has heard (or no one has heard but doesn't want to) from popping up. I've also never listened to an album I hadn't heard because of the album of the day threads; if a user offers up their pick personally (which they may only get once or twice a year), I am far more inclined to listen to it.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

19loveless91 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:36:39 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 06/22/2013 17:36

Yeah I like this idea - one a week, each week one user picks one, creates a thread, possibly a short write-up (?), then users listen and comment on it. By the end of the year and BEAMAs, everyone should have their own list of favourites.
Possible issues:
-how to decide which user gets to pick
-do we eliminate the most well known albums? Especially those that had their own thread (Yeezus, mbv, RAM)?
-maybe one week is too much, though we can always change the duration.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Defago — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:32:16 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 06/22/2013 17:32

DLGGLD wrote:

I was gonna do it so we have a different user picking the album each week, the whole point is to include everyone. I'm on my phone atm, but when I get home i'll elaborate.

This is why I love you.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

GeevyDallas — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:29:54 GMT

Author: GeevyDallas

Posted: 06/22/2013 17:29

I was gonna do it so we have a different user picking the album each week, the whole point is to include everyone. I'm on my phone atm, but when I get home i'll elaborate.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:19:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/22/2013 17:19

How about twice a week? I'm not exactly sure about the specifics, but if it's randomly chosen, I can see a lot of the top albums being chosen first, so twice a week seems to give people enough time to listen to it/comment as well as get through the albums we've all already listened to as well (I'm referring to the 2013 AOTD/AOTW)

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Defago — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:57:09 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 06/22/2013 16:57

tekin wrote:

Well I think AOTD is a lot, maybe album of the week.

I agree. If we make it once a day, I'll be buried in albums to listen to and end up listening to none. If it's one a week I can make sure I listen to them all enough to have an informed opinion.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

drakonium — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:08:34 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 06/22/2013 16:08

tekin wrote:

Well I think AOTD is a lot, maybe album of the week.

I'm not sure about that. Many people here listen to a lot of 2013 releases, and I'm pretty sure there will always be someone to say something about every 2013 AOTD.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:02:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/22/2013 16:02

Well I think AOTD is a lot, maybe album of the week.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

drakonium — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:56:38 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 06/22/2013 15:56

If we take the decision to have a 2013 AOTD set out, maybe albummaster could make it, to put it on the homepage like other things of the day. I don't know how much time it takes to do something like that, but it would be fantastic. Not that DLGGLD isn't made for the job, but I think it could be interesting enough to make it "official".

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:47:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/22/2013 15:47

That's an awesome idea. And realistically, as drakonium points out, there is enough for one a day. So if you need help don't hesitate to holler.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

drakonium — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:15:31 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 06/22/2013 15:15

I don't listen to 2013 music that much, but I'd love to see you guys talk about recent releases. Why couldn't we even have a 2013 album of the day, in the same style as the ATOD and WAOTD?

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Defago — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:57:35 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 06/22/2013 14:57

Sounds amazing

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:55:06 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/22/2013 14:55

Yep, def interested.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

GeevyDallas — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:35:05 GMT

Author: GeevyDallas

Posted: 06/22/2013 14:35

Defago wrote:

Anyways, I love you all. I don't think BEA's forums are in the gutters or anything, if anything we're better now than we were a couple of months ago. Old users go, new users come. I appreciate most users, and I appreciate the community as a whole. I appreciate all the new music I've found thanks to BEA the most. I do think people need to take things more lightly, though - this is the internet, after all. Maybe in contradiction, some people need to think more before they post as well.

This.

The only slight change i'd like to make is, more discussion on new releases. Yes Yeezus,Random Access Memories,etc. got a lot, but realistically not every album is on the same scale. Maybe something like a 2013 album of the week where we all listen and contribute our thoughts on a new album would freshen things up. That's all I want to see, I might try and organize it for the coming week. Is that something y'all would be interested in?

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

GeevyDallas — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:34:52 GMT

Author: GeevyDallas

Posted: 06/22/2013 14:34

Triple Post 😕

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

ptaylor1989 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:13:21 GMT

Author: ptaylor1989

Posted: 06/22/2013 10:13

Jhereko wrote:

So what do people want from the BEA forums? What is there not enough of? Don't focus on what there's too much of because you can't control what other people do (and besides if there's enough of something good the nasty shit will naturally fade away).

I'll post some suggestions in a while but any ideas anyone?

There's probably some tautology to what i'm about to say but... I'd like to hear more personal and descriptive ways of stating why users do or don't like something. A little bit of that type of effort would make the occasional "i like this/ hate that", "this is bad/ that is good" a bit more bearable.

Re: A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Defago — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:35:49 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 06/22/2013 04:35

I like it when we have pseudo-philosophical discussions about music itself, or topics relating to music, instead of specific bands or songs. The objective/subjective debate thing would be an example, except that one's been done to death. I'd appreciate more talk about making music and original BEA music and musical theory/music ideas as well, but we rarely get those.

A problem I see is that whenever we get threads about well known music, people complain because they've been done to death (which is true), but when we get new music threads there's an avalanche of recommendations and most get buried and unchecked. That's the main reason I'm planning my tournament for later in the year - make sure people's recommendations get listened to, while making sure these aren't cliche, already known stuff.

I also enjoy what many users condemn as "trolling". It's usually just friendly banter, and there's no need to get pissed or angry, just laugh and shrug it off if you don't want to play. Definitely makes things more interesting.

I'm not really bothered much by anything going on in the forums, I don't feel compelled to check every thread so if there's yet another thread about Radiohead I plain won't read it. It does get tiring to see threads for every little topic as if this were a chat room.

Anyways, I love you all. I don't think BEA's forums are in the gutters or anything, if anything we're better now than we were a couple of months ago. Old users go, new users come. I appreciate most users, and I appreciate the community as a whole. I appreciate all the new music I've found thanks to BEA the most. I do think people need to take things more lightly, though - this is the internet, after all. Maybe in contradiction, some people need to think more before they post as well.

A New Golden Age for the BEA forums?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:07:35 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/22/2013 04:07

So what do people want from the BEA forums? What is there not enough of? Don't focus on what there's too much of because you can't control what other people do (and besides if there's enough of something good the nasty shit will naturally fade away).

I'll post some suggestions in a while but any ideas anyone?