The BEA 1001 albums to listen to before you die!

Anonymous · 2013-06-27T23:50:53-04:00

I got the idea for this from another thread and the idea of prioritising the albums we listen to before we die I thought it would be great for us BEA users to come up with our own personal list of albums that we think the deserve to be listened to before you die. How I thought this could work, is that forum users post a maximum of 10 album that means the most to them, adding a little description of why there is such a strong personal connection and why it should be added to the list. I definitely want this to be about our personal favourite albums - albums that mean something to the individual user in a deep and personal sense. Nominations Users can nominate a maximum of 12 albums each that they want to write about. Multiple nominations for a single album is ok, meaning that if an album has already been nominated you can still go ahead and nominate the same album. For editorial reasons, we will have to limit the number of nominations to 4 per album. So please check the links below to see what has been nominated before adding your own nominations. Its favourite albums so if you want to add a compilation, classical, jazz or even Scandinavian death metal twee classic - then go for your life! The first round of nominations close 31st July. Descriptions In terms of your descriptions, can you please stick to the following rules: Minimum 450 words... maximum 500 words if you are the only one writing about the album! Minimum 150 words... maximum 200 words if you are one of a few writing about the album! Please include in your descriptions Album Name Artist Label Producer Year up to 3 Favourite Songs from the Album up to 2 'if you like this album, you might like x' further recommendation... This is additional to the description word count. Descriptions are to be created in google docs (it's really easy!). You then need to share that doc and send the link through to purple (ppnw). All descriptions have to be submitted no later than 30th September or they won't be included If you are having trouble with google docs then PM me and I'll help sort it out for you! Editorial/Layout Team For this to work, we will need volunteers to help design, layout and edit the book. So far the following people have put their name forward to help: purple (Assistant Edior in Chief) Lethalnezzle NoWaxJim MrFrogger EyeKanFly Norman Bates AlexZangari (Designer in Chief!) Defago Junodog Nutso42 This is a huge undertaking, so we definitely need more volunteers. So if you have a bit of spare time and would like to get involved, please PM me or make a note in the thread. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone with some design or artistic flair to help with the graphic layout! I'll keep updating this as the ideas develop. Ten albums....so choose carefully! :lol: -------- To see a list of all the albums we have so far, please check out the links below. The spreadsheet was last updated 9:45am 15th August Kiwi Time (up to post 505) so if you aren't there it's cause I haven't got round to updating again yet. Sorted by Title https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54u5fz0julqc3hXU1FFUVNmZzg/edit?usp=sharing Sorted by Artist https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54u5fz0julqeU9fX05BdnBOekk/edit?usp=sharing Sorted by user https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54u5fz0julqQl9ySzhNS0tXeGs/edit?usp=sharing Please don't edit the spreadsheets - I am keeping a master copy so any changes you make on google docs will be deleted at the next update. If anything is incorrect please make a post in the thread and I will bring in the changes with the next update! Ta Muchly!

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CellarDoor wrote:

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Couldn't someone of the initial reviewers just standardize the different reviews into a Word format (1 page/review ; same layout artist ; album title ; track picks etc.. ), and then upload the whole thing in a google doc which people could print out as a booklet or personalize with say album covers and stuff if they wanted to ?

Just an idea to save this beautiful BEA project :wink:

Sounds like a great idea, I'd be happy to do this if others prefer this

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Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

Sounds like a great idea, I'd be happy to do this if others prefer this

Definitely better, yes!

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I think it's time to bring back this project, I still have my (two) reviews on my computer. I agree with Cellar Door's idea too.
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CellarDoor wrote:

That's actually a really good idea ... if this was done over Google Drive somehow (some of us are having problems installing word), we could even save any especially good formats as PDFs to share here. Then say I wanted the CellarDoor edition of the book and KKS wanted the HigherThanTheSun edition of the book, that could be a thing. Just an idea...
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benpaco wrote:

Surely easier if we pick the best format first and everyone makes sure their submissions fit that format? Not sure if anyone will have the time to edit 1001 entries after they've been submitted.

If we make sure everyone includes artwork with the reviews, and essential info about the album, and track picks and whatever else we want, in a standard format, then bundle them all into a pdf then this thing would still be pretty great I think.
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Just realised I pretty much repeated what Cellar said, although I think album artwork is pretty much essential.

Also, I guess if we already have a standard format, then subsequent editing shouldn't actually be too hard if anyone wanted to.
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CellarDoor wrote:

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This thing kinda went off the hinges after Manc deleted her account...
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