BEAMAs 2014

[19loveless91]

Yes, I'm 23. And yes, that's the best I could do.

YES! IT'S HERE, IT'S FINALLY HERE! The 4th Annual Besteveralbums Music Awards, or BEAMAs. We'd like to open the voting as soon as we can, but there's a lot of technicalities we need to discuss first.

First off.
SCHEDULE
I'm not sure how much time me and Jhereko will have around new year, but the plan is to open the voting until the end of the coming week, most likely next weekend, and then keep it open for at least 10 days (necessary as it's a big ballot). Then as soon as the votes get counted and the nominations for the second round are declared, we open up the final vote, where we decide the winners for all of the categories. I propose the following:

January 4th – January 16th.
FIRST ROUND OF VOTING (the nomination process)

January 18th-February 1st
FINAL VOTES (deciding the winners)

Mid-February
PRESENTATION

Let's aim for the weekend of February 15th-16th, so we don't crossover with the Oscars

Nothing is set in stone of course.

CATEGORIES
Before we create the polls, we have to agree on the categories we'll be voting in. This is what we had last year:
BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BEST SONG OF THE YEAR
BEST ALBUM ART OF THE YEAR
BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
BEST EP

WORST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
WORST SONG OF THE YEAR
BIGGEST LETDOWN
MOST OVERRATED
MOST UNDERRATED

GENRES:
RnB ALBUM/SONG
BLUES/JAZZ ALBUM/SONG
COUNTRY/FOLK ALBUM/SONG
AVANT-GARDE ALBUM/SONG
INDIE/ALTERNATIVE ALBUM/SONG
METAL ALBUM/SONG
ELECTRONIC ALBUM/SONG
POP ALBUM/SONG
HIP HOP ALBUM/SONG
ROCK ALBUM/SONG

BEST INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM/SONG
SOLO MALE ALBUM/SONG
SOLO FEMALE ALBUM/SONG
BEST ALBUM NOT IN ENGLISH
BEST USER CREATED ALBUM/SONG
BEST DEBUT ALBUM
*LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

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A few things to mention here:

- *Lifetime achievement award will be scrapped now, with benpaco doing the Hall of fame thing. Unless we merge the two or whatever. Ideas?

- There was also the question of doing a list of best albums of the year (sp4cetiger I think?), which is essentially the same thing we do in the first round. This is where we decide what to do with this idea.

- How do you feel about the negative categories, such as most overrated album, worst album/song? Do we need to continue with this?

- Should we keep the avant-garde category? It is kind of hard to define. Last year the winner was Virgins by Tim Hecker, who beat, um... Black Panties by R. Kelly among others.

- Some of the categories had very few votes last year, and even had to be scrapped. Is it sensible to keep the categories for: Best instrumental song, best jazz/blues song?

RULES
(i'll be copying some of these rules from last year. Please go ahead with your complaints and suggestions)

- You vote by listing your favourite albums/songs from the year. In most categories you rank your top 5, except in the album/song categories, where you list a maximum of 40 albums/songs (we had 50 last year but I think that was because of me fucking up the number when preparing the polls. Subject to change...).

- The points system we used so far has been to award the most points for #1, and then one point less for each next entry. For example, for all of the top 5s, this means 5-4-3-2-1. The number of entries doesn't affect the points awarded (like on BEA), so you don't have to use up all the spaces available.

- For the final vote, top 5 from each category are chosen, EXCEPT the best album and best song categories, where there are 10 nominees. If there's not enough votes in a category, the category might get scrapped or have less nominees for the final vote.

- In the final vote, you don't just pick your favourite among the nominees - you vote by ranking the nominees; Why? As we found out, it generally produces more interesting results, compells people to listen to more music in order to make an informed decision, and is more fair as a result. Few observations from last year.

ELIGIBILITY:
- Instrumental albums category: small amount of vocal sampling is okay, but for the most part it needs to be all music. Any genre is okay.
- Debut Album: Only an artists Debut studio album is eligible. Not debut mixtapes or ep's.
- Best User-Created Album: Albums, mixtapes and EP's are eligible.
- Best song of the year: any song released this year as a single or on an album (even if released as a single last year) is eligible

Important to note is that there are no eligibility lists for the genre categories, so nominate your favourites wherever you think they fit. But note that an album/song can only end up being nominated in ONE genre category for the final vote – the one where it gets most votes in.


"Hi I'm new, what is this?"

BEAMAs, or "BEA Music Awards" were born out of our disappointment following the announcement of the Grammy nominees back in 2011. They're run at the end of each year (and in the first few months of the year that follows), and their purpose is to show how much better and more fun our taste is to the rest of the internet and music world. BEAMAs were started and are to date still run by Jhereko, who was kind enough (read: eventually caved in after days of nagging) to let me in on the organizing/presentation side of things last year. Y'all will of course be involved as well.

"Durr but why do we even need this we have a chart?"

Well yes, we do. BUT, a) – it's more fun this way, b)-it compells people to listen and discover more albums they might have missed throughout the year. And c) it's probably a better representative of the BEA regulars' music taste.

"Who won in previous years?"

Winners of the best album and song award so far are (click on the links to see the rest of the presentation):

2011:
song: "Cruel" by St. Vincent
album: Kaputt by Destroyer

2012:
song: "Swimming Pools" by Kendrick Lamar
album: Good Kid m.A.A.d. City by Kendrick Lamar

2013:
song: "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk
album: m b v by My Bloody Valentine



Any questions? Suggestions? Ideas?

[sp4cetiger]

[alelsupreme]

I support keeping the negative categories.
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We're all fucked, lads.

[sp4cetiger]

[Goodsir]

[Precedent]

Kudos, friend. I can't wait to see what you have to do and what happens! bam!

[Norman Bates]

[Norman Bates]

Jokes aside, a few answers.

[RepoMan]

^^^

Blus/Jazz

I agree with Norman. Blues & Jazz should not be combined. They're completely different.

Country/Folk

same as above but less strong.

Negative categories

keep 'em.

[19loveless91]