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Oct 26, 2011 - 9:44PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

John

Oct 24, 2011 - 7:02PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

We were talking about the same album Nicolas. It didn't rise that much from the last poll... and with their breakup their might be some nostalgia in that boost as well? Reckoning and Document are far better in my opinion but the AM community in general has always preferred that period REM.

Andre

Oct 24, 2011 - 7:42PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

BillAdama

Automatic rocks and I think I placed it pretty high, but I'd place few of REM's other albums higher. It doesn't have the same energy as their 80's stuff.

Correct, BillAdama. I could have written exactly the same lines.

John

Oct 24, 2011 - 7:49PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

I think Reckoning and Document would place higher in these polls if more people had heard them. Most (not all) people who have heard those albums and Automatic usually have the opinion that Automatic is the lesser album but still good. I could be wrong. But, Automatic just seems to be the album that everyone has heard due to it's mainstream success.

Chris K.

Oct 24, 2011 - 8:27PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

John

As a huge R.E.M. fan with a ridiculous love for the majority of their entire 80's and 90's run, I would disagree. Automatic is just special. It's the most haunting and somber album in their catalog, but it's also one of the most poignantly human. It's far more vulnerable than Reckoning or Document. It holds a special place for me, I'm thrilled to see it so high.

Toni

Oct 25, 2011 - 1:00AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Moonbeam

Big yawn from 11-15, with 2 albums I really dislike, one I'm mixed about and 2 more I have no desire to hear.

Moonbeam

Oct 25, 2011 - 1:18AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Toni

Moonbeam

Big yawn from 11-15, with 2 albums I really dislike, one I'm mixed about and 2 more I have no desire to hear.

At least I think I'll like 4 or 5 out of the top 10!

John

Oct 25, 2011 - 1:24AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Despite my high ranking of Sgt. Peppers it's universal acclaim as their best is surprising. A lot of critics credit the studio mastery which in my opinion is now dated especially the stereo techniques used. Plus, I think Revolver was the shining album that showcased Martin's and The Beatles studio work. In terms of songwriting, I think Rubber Soul wins by a landslide and when it comes to musicianship, Abbey Road. So, Sgt. Peppers is a great album but it didn't master anything. I think a lot of modern critics have realized that Revolver was their masterpiece though so that's good. Maybe another generation of critics will finally give Rubber Soul another look as the Beatles best.

Moonbeam

Oct 25, 2011 - 11:31PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

No Beatles in the top 3? Hallelujah!

Jonathon

Oct 26, 2011 - 2:52AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Well shit...Funeral beat my number 1,2, and 3 albums...

Oh well, at least it'll never beat them with critics.

Toni

Oct 26, 2011 - 4:54AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Couldn't have imagined worse for the White Album, but at least it still keeps in the top 10, higher than its AM rank.
People generally say it would be better if reduced to a simple disc, but I think exact the opposite. The expanse of that album is one of its best qualities. It's the only time you'll have the chance of hearing 30 awesome (well, 29, cause I don't like Julia) Beatles tracks in a row. I remember my first listening; I hadn't looked at how many tracks were there, although knowing it was a double album. Then there came one great little song after the other, all of them sounding so fresh and imediatly pleasant, so in all the tracks I kept wishing it wasn't the last one. By the end I already knew it was the best album I had ever heard. Some years have passed and I still like all those songs and the album keeps as my #1. Listening to the White Album is the vastest travel you can take in the Beatles world, and strangely the one that most keep you still wanting for more good music. It's the only one of their classics where they are not trying to create something influential or grand. They're just letting the music flow.

Otisredding

Oct 26, 2011 - 1:48PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Moonbeam

No Beatles in the top 3? Hallelujah!

5 Beatles in the top 17: too much

Henry

Oct 26, 2011 - 3:33PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Great job Jackson!!!

Fantastic comments from Nicolas throughout.

While I enjoy Radiohead, I am not one of their dedicated fans.

Nonetheless, I was relieved to see that VU did not climb to the top spot in this poll.

OK Computer has been at the top in our last three polls. That's pretty impressive staying power. I don't see it getting displaced for a few more polls unless there is significant change in the poll participants.

Jackson

Oct 26, 2011 - 9:45PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Zorg

Oct 26, 2011 - 10:48PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

[927] Blumfeld | L'etat et moi | 1994

Hah, funny seeing this at 927. Was this from my vote only, or is someone else lucky enough to have heard this album? (I highly recommend it by the way - an alternative rock album with Sonic Youth noise tendencies, but also really insightful lyrics if you care to check them out

Sing Sing

You Make Me)

And wonderful work Jackson. These all-time album polls are really the Oscars of the forum, and you have not let it down. Gold ribbon for you
!

Dan M

Oct 26, 2011 - 11:32PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Jackson

So close to the top 500!

Thanks Jackson! And yes, thanks for all the insightful comments everyone. It will be very useful for me to revisit this thread and read the comments again next time I spend time with all these classic albums.

Oct 27, 2011 - 12:48AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Jackson

[980] Annette Peacock | I Have No Feelings | 1986

massive gut drops... and good typewood, Vatos... i'll beam you onto my foxbite infested yacht as soon you feel the time and foggy scenery to colo/ur match the hilarious 20 chase sequences the studio insisted on.

Toni

Oct 27, 2011 - 3:50AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Great poll and great presentation, Jackson! Like I've already said, it was really nice the level of participation this time. Even though we complain about one result or another, the overall list shows what we all think as a comunity, and I'm pretty satisfied with what I see. Even Moonbeam and nicolas liked the top 3, hahah. Heck, even Henry liked the #1. This shows how good these albums really are. I join the ones who say these album and songs polls are the main event of our forum movimentation, like the world cup to soccer.
Cheers to all participants!

Gillingham

Oct 27, 2011 - 10:13AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Jackson

[520] Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right to Children | 1998

That's a pity, just out of the top 500. Well, at least Geogaddi was in.

Nassim

Oct 27, 2011 - 11:33AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Thanks Jackson for all the work !

The only album I don't like in the top 20 is Blood on Tracks, heck it is even probably the album I enjoy the less in the top 50. Is it a matter of lyrics ?
I am not allergic to Dylan, I have listened to his top 4 albums and I find Highway 61 Revisited great; even if I don't find them brilliant, Bringing it all Back Home and Blonde on Blonde are good enough for their presence in the top 50 not annoying me.

nicolas

Oct 27, 2011 - 1:02PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Toni

nicolas likes this

BillAdama

Oct 27, 2011 - 6:23PM

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New Amerykah not even in the top 1000? Was I the only one who voted for it?

Anyway, good list overall, though probably needs an overall higher melanin content, and more representation of albums not in either the 'classic rock' or 'indie' spheres.

Andre

Oct 27, 2011 - 6:47PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

The top 3 is in my top 5, so me very happy.

This might get boring because it repeats what many others already wrote, but ...:

Thanks Jackson for the great entertainment!

David M

Oct 29, 2011 - 11:53AM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

At least two votes for New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War. It was a recent find for me.

Honorio

Oct 30, 2011 - 8:13PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Great job, Jackson!
And great comments everyone (with a special mention to mon pote Nicolas).
So sad for not being able to see the results live.
It seems that many voters are dissapointed for "OK Computer" wining again for the 4th consecutive time, and even increasing the difference of points, with 10 points of difference in 2005, 298 in 2007, only 9 points in 2009 and... 511 in 2011 (!!). The total points were lower this time because a lower number of voters, with 6020 points instead the 6301 of 2009 (that was our particular peak, comparing with the 2303 points on 2007 and 1271 in 2005)
What can I say about it? This persistence of Radiohead's magnum opus at the top is obviously because we like it and (IMHO) because the album deserves it.

spiderpig

Oct 31, 2011 - 6:59PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Great work, congratulations!
And it would definitely be cool to have a spreadsheet of it, as nicolas mentioned. I regularly use my spreadsheet of the last poll...

Particle Analyst

Nov 8, 2011 - 2:33PM

Re: 2011 AMF All-Time Albums Poll Results Thread: The Top 20

Congratulations Jackson for this fantastic presentation and the results calculation! It really was an incredible journey.

If I have more time in the not so distant future I may well explain why the poll's #2 (whooooooohooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! ) is my personal all-time favorite album, how angry I am for "Funeral"'s placement or that "Pet Sounds", as exceptional as it is, can't hold a single candle to "Revolver", but let's leave this annoying stuff for some other time as I said before