Rules & Nominations - Best Album Not In The Top 2000 Ran - Tournaments

Defago · 2013-06-23T03:26:41-04:00

...also known as the 2KT for simplicity. Seeing as the Best New Music Album is postponed/on hiatus, I've decided to start the nomination phase to a little tournament. The matches themselves will begin later, probably mid July, as I have vacations for a month and can dedicate my whole existence to you, my loved BEAners. The idea is that each user nominates albums, I make a bracket, we do matches, stuff gets knocked out, and we get a winner. Hopefully we'll even get to finish this one, it's about time a tournament actually ended around here. Anyways, the rules: -Each user can nominate two (2) albums. This amount may change depending on the amount of users nominating. I'm aiming for 64 maximum albums, but we can work around this. -Said albums must not be present in BEA's top 2000 ranked albums at the moment of posting this. -Said albums must not have been made by a band in BEA's top 200 rated bands at the moment of posting this. -Said albums must not have been released after the moment of posting this. -Said albums must comply with BEA's database's rules. -I'll be working with a first come first serve basis. Aside from that, anything goes. I will have to ask you guys two things, though. 1) Please, try not to choose extremely long albums. So far I'm not going to enforce this, but please don't get 24 hour long albums. The idea of this contest is that everyone listens to every album nominated, and as they will tend to be unknown gems, we'll have much to listen to before long. 12 hour albums aren't really the most convenient. Try to keep it up to 2 hours, please. 2) Try to choose your albums not as a way to win, but as a way to get people to listen to the best, the most underrated music you know. The point isn't to win, but for us all to find new stuff. Mechanics: I will randomize all nominations into two brackets, and then it's a simple knockout style tournament. I will open 4 matches when the tournament starts, wait a few hours or until both captains post their promotions, open the polls, and depending how everything goes, close the matches between two to three days later. I will save my vote for the last moment before closing, so I can avoid complicated ties. In case my vote would bring the match to a tie, I won't vote that round. Anyone can promote any albums, but it's expected of each album's captain to take charge. It is not required, but will definitely affect votes. Dates (in theory): Nominations will open in a few hours, I will make a post announcing this on this same thread. They will close in a few days, after either we get enough albums or it becomes evident no more people will nominate. I'll post a complete bracket during the week, and then it's listening time. The first match will start on the 22nd of July, but this date may change with time. Once again, guys. This tournament's objective is for all to find new music they enjoy. If at least one person likes whatever I pick, I'm satisfied. If I find at least one new great album, I'm happy. Please do listen to as many of other people's nominations as you can, so as to make this more fun. Have fun! Also, this rules may change. Any questions and/or suggestions are appreciated.

Rules & Nominations - Best Album Not In The Top 2000 Ran

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Jasonconfused If We Make It We Can All Sit Back and Laugh Profile
California

No Parole From Rock 'n' Roll - Alcatrazz
Album Rank: 10,972
Band Rank: 5384
Album Year: 1983

Taken By Force - Scorpions
Album Rank: 8449
Band Rank: 346
Album Year: 1977
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videoheadcleaner formerly Harkan Profile

My nominations:

Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders - Hurtsville (2011)
Album rank: 8249
Artist rank: 4263 (or Jack Ladder collectively - 4141)

Lustmord - Heresy (1990)
Album rank: 18106
Artist rank: 3467

Facetious Profile
Somewhere you've never been

I want to nominate Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain by Dogbowl instead of Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15. It was released 20 years after Music to Eat which was released in 1971. Music to Eat is unranked currently, the Dogbowl album is ranked 6,662. I'd still recommend Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15 (ranked 19,186 🙁 ) to everybody though, listen to it if you get the time.

drakonium coucou Profile
More than one

My first nomination was The Undertones (#2290) by The Undertones (#1181)

Also, I'd like to change my second nomination (it was Octopus by Gentle Giant) for The Shape Of It (#19,293) by True Live (#8,784), because it seems like we need more hip hop.

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OK, here at last:

Gregory Isaacs - More Gregory

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Year: 1981
Album rank: 5,042
Band rank: 1,850

And I'm going to change my second nomination because there's barely any hip-hop in this tournament.

UGK - Super Tight

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Year: 1994
Album rank: 11,496
Band rank: 1,884

Sorry for drunkposts yesterday, hope those albums are OK (although if people want to listen to Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist as well I would certainly recommend doing so). I'm gonna upload the best quality versions of these I have, including the 2002 remaster of More Gregory in 320 or FLAC ripped from my own CD copy, so don't hesitate to PM me if you're struggling to find a copy of either.

Also, pretty hyped for listening to a lot of these noms. Didn't think there'd be so many albums I hadn't heard before.

alelsupreme Awful. Profile

The Carpenters - Close To You

Album Rank: 3072
Band Rank: 1,146
Album Year: 1970

Duke Ellington - Ellington At Newport

Album Rank: 2,058
Band Rank: 667
Album Year: 1956

pearljammer13 Young Pilgrim Profile
Massachusetts

I didn't realize we were supposed to put band and album ranking:

Los Campesinos!- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (2008)
band ranking: 816
album Ranking: 2,316

Nickel Creek- Why Should The Fire Die? (2005)
band ranking: 1,752
album ranking: 14,667

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pearljammer13 wrote:

I didn't realize we were supposed to put band and album ranking:

Los Campesinos!- We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
band ranking: 816
album Ranking: 2,316

Nickel Creek- Why Should The Fire Die?
band ranking: 1,752
album ranking: 14,667

It only matters where the album is ranked and not the band right?

Well, the band have be outside the Top 200 bands, but both yours are well outside that so no problem.

pearljammer13 Young Pilgrim Profile
Massachusetts

lethalnezzle wrote:

Well, the band have be outside the Top 200 bands, but both yours are well outside that so no problem.

ah great ok thanks.

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The Sea And The Bells (Album Rank: 6,139) by Rachel's (Band Rank: 2,573)

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What We Must (Album Rank: 5,315) by Jaga Jazzist (Band Rank: 1,806)

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