2013 BEAMAs: FIRST ROUND NOMINATIONS thread - Games

19loveless91
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A reminder - you have until friday to complete your ballots! There's quite a few ballots "in progress" at the moment, hopefully you all intend to send them in. To repeat, you don't have to fill out all the fields (I just took the survey and I realized how long it takes), you can just do it to nominate your favourite few albums and songs - find the appropriate categories, fill them in and... Don't feel obligated to do all the categories, even if Jhereko said so.

Anyway, I finished mine, here are some of my votes:

Indie/alter album
Modern Vampires of the City
Loud City Song
m b v
Innocence is Kinky
Kveikur

Electronic album
Immunity
Settle
Psychic
Free Your Mind
Obsidian

Hip hop album
Acid Rap
Doris
Wolf
Tape Two
Kenny Dennis LP

Rock album
Is Survived By
Floating Coffin
Monomania
Fetch
New Moon

Pop album
Paramore
Pure Heroine
Nanda Collection
True Romance

RnB album
Overgrown
Woman
The Electric Lady
(also, I Heard by Young Fathers for best RnB song)

Folk/Country album
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Torres
Dream River
Wakin' On a Pretty Daze
The Double EP: Sea of Split Peas

Solo male album
Immunity
Acid Rap
Doris
Wolf
Overgrown

Solo female album
Loud City Song
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
Torres
Pure Heroine
Nanda Collection

Album not in english
Nanda Collection
Kveikur

Debut album
Settle
Torres
Pure Heroine
True Romance
Whenever If Ever

EP
EP2 - FKA Twigs
How to Carve a Carrot into a Rose - Courtney Barnett
The Love Club - Lorde

not sure i should write my nominations for BEA users music Anxious

Lifetime achievement
1. Mark Hollis
2. Wu-Tang Clan
3. The Beatles

Underrated albums (remember: if you took the ballot before we edited it and put in this category, you can still PM Jhereko (or me) and post your votes for it)
Wolf
Is Survived By
Free Your Mind
The Worse Things Get...
Torres

Overrated albums
We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
Random Access Memories
Yeezus
Sunbather

Best album art
Whenever, If Ever - The World is a Beautiful Place and I'm No Longer Afraid to Die
Excavation - The Haxan Cloak
Wolf - Tyler, The Creator (alternative version: http://2a56b976980e0793ddee-5cc5435fcbc.../wp-conten t/uploads/2013/02/tyler-wolf-cover.jpg)

and i reaaaally couldn't think of more atm. Didn't want to put Sky in because it would be just for boobs...

Best music video
Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark) - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Your Life is a Lie - MGMT
Girl Like Me - Slava
Sacrilege - YYY
My Kind of Woman - Mac DeMarco

Best songs (just the top 20 here, cba to copy the titles again)
Chum - Earl Sweatshirt
Hannah Hunt - Vampire Weekend
Ingenue - Atoms for Peace
Superlove - Charli XCX
This is a True Heart - Julia Holter
Will Calls (Marfa Demo) - Grizzly Bear
I Heard - Young Fathers
Everybody's Something - Chance The Rapper
Future - Paramore
Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark) - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Free Your Mind - Cut Copy
Only Tomorrow - My Bloody Valentine
Just Exist - Touche Amore
Defeated No More - Disclosure
Mephisto in the Water - Jenny Hval
The Fall - Rhye
Sun Harmonics - Jon Hopkins
Pensacola - Deerhunter
The Love Club - Lorde
Anonymous Club - Courtney Barnett

After this it gets messy anyway.. I tried to do the whole list one per artist, but started adding second songs for some when I couldn't think of songs by other artists that would be at least somewhat similar quality to them.

Best albums (just the top 10, you can see the rest on my chart)
Modern Vampires of the City
Loud City Song
Immunity
Acid Rap
m b v
Is Survived By
Settle
Psychic
Doris
Paramore

Patman360
Serenity Now

Gender: Male
Age: 31
Location: Cork, Ireland

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I think I just submitted mine before I'd finished the ballot... Brick wall

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19loveless91
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Patman360 wrote:

I think I just submitted mine before I'd finished the ballot... Brick wall

It hasn't been submitted yet, still shows as "in progress" here.. What happens if you click on the link to the ballot again?

Patman360
Serenity Now

Gender: Male
Age: 31
Location: Cork, Ireland

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It appears to bring me back to the very start where I input my username, whereas on previous occasions it brought me back to the page I'd stopped on. On my phone in uni awhile, but I'll see what happens when I enter my username once I'm home later.
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Fergenaprido

Gender: Male
Location: GTA

19loveless91 wrote:

A reminder - you have until friday to complete your ballots! There's quite a few ballots "in progress" at the moment, hopefully you all intend to send them in. To repeat, you don't have to fill out all the fields (I just took the survey and I realized how long it takes), you can just do it to nominate your favourite few albums and songs - find the appropriate categories, fill them in and... Don't feel obligated to do all the categories, even if Jhereko said so.

I've been trying to find and listen to albums before the deadline, and so far I'm doing better than last year. Hopefully I can listen to at least one album in each category, even the genres I don't usually enjoy. It seems that full albums are much easier to find these days on youtube that they used to be, so that's definitely a bonus.

And loveless, thanks for reminding me that Neko put out a new album this year, I'll have to add that to my list before the end of the week. I've managed to hear 20 full albums (and 2 EPs) from 2013 (I know it's a drop in the bucket for many of you, but it's a lot for me to hear/discover in the year it comes out), and hopefully I can manage to hear another 4 or 5 before the deadline.

Here's what I've listened to so far (alphabetically, asterisks for the likely top ten), so if you have a last desperate plea for your favourite, you can PM me and I'll try and listen to it in time.

Arcade Fire - Reflektor*
Bastille - Bad Blood*
Capital Cities - In a Tidal Wave of Mystery*
Chvrches - Recover (EP)
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Drake - Nothing Was the Same
Gold & Youth - Beyond Wilderness*
Gold Fields - Black Sun*
Justin Hines - How We Fly
Hurts - Exile
John Newman - Tribute
Lady Gaga - ARTPOP
Lorde - Pure Heroine*
The Neighbourhood - I Love You.
OneRepublic - Native*
Justin Rutledge - Valleyheart
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob*
Travis - Where You Stand*
Wake Owl - Wild Country (EP)
Walk Off the Earth - R.E.V.O.*
Wildlife - ...On the Heart

Still to go...
Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest
Phoenix - Bankrupt!
KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon
The Wanted - Word of Mouth
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get...
Lorde - The Love Club (EP)

Also, if anyone can find a place to hear the full KT Tunstall album Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon, I'd be much obliged; not all the songs are on youtube, and vk won't play any music for me right now (though I still have to check if it's a browser issue).

19loveless91
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Patman360 wrote:

It appears to bring me back to the very start where I input my username, whereas on previous occasions it brought me back to the page I'd stopped on. On my phone in uni awhile, but I'll see what happens when I enter my username once I'm home later.

Well, if you're on a different internet connection, then the system doesn't recognize you, and it's like taking the poll for the first time. Entering the username doesn't really make a difference. Still, I can see your survey that's still "in progress" - you seem to have filled out the fields until the metal category, then the BEA users music category, the lifetime award, and then the best albums award partially. Should there be more than that?

@Fergenaprido, I didn't really listen do any of Neko Case's music before this year, but this last album of hers is really great. Would be nice to see it get more votes.

Patman360
Serenity Now

Gender: Male
Age: 31
Location: Cork, Ireland

Moderator

19loveless91 wrote:

Well, if you're on a different internet connection, then the system doesn't recognize you, and it's like taking the poll for the first time. Entering the username doesn't really make a difference. Still, I can see your survey that's still "in progress" - you seem to have filled out the fields until the metal category, then the BEA users music category, the lifetime award, and then the best albums award partially. Should there be more than that?

Same internet connection, but basically after the metal (Which I did ages ago) I flicked through the remaining options, taking note of what the categories were so I could properly think what albums/songs went where whilst on my way to college, I partially filled in some areas I was certain of (Lifetime award and the others mentioned above) but after that I clicked the last arrow on best albums of 2013 page thinking there might be one last category when it appeared to then submit my choices so far...
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19loveless91
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Hm... There was a change in the survey after the first few days, where we added a message after the last category (best albums), so it's more clear when the survey ends. By the looks of it you still got the old survey, but I wonder if the reason the survey hasn't actually been sent in is because of that change we did.. But then other people should have the same problem Think

I don't know how to help, honestly... If you won't be able to continue with the old survey, you can take it again and skip the categories you already did.

Patman360
Serenity Now

Gender: Male
Age: 31
Location: Cork, Ireland

Moderator

19loveless91 wrote:

Hm... There was a change in the survey after the first few days, where we added a message after the last category (best albums), so it's more clear when the survey ends. By the looks of it you still got the old survey, but I wonder if the reason the survey hasn't actually been sent in is because of that change we did.. But then other people should have the same problem Think

I don't know how to help, honestly... If you won't be able to continue with the old survey, you can take it again and skip the categories you already did.

Hmm, that change is probably the problem so. Thanks for the help anyway, I'll fill it in again asap skipping the ones I've already done.
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lightmyway
Swimming into view

Gender: Female
Age: 43

Voted! Most of my nominees didn't make it last year, maybe I'll get lucky this time. Smile