The qualifiers last round were:
Beck - Sea Change
The Beatles - Help!
Elliot Smith - XO
The Beatles - Let It Be

There was a 5th place tie between The Cure - Seventeen Seconds and Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, The E Street Shuffle. In addition to your ten favorite albums ranked 701-800, vote for one of those.

The scoring method proposed by Otisredding, 20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6 won out in a close vote 14-11.

I vote Seventeen Seconds, and here is my ballot:

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
My Morning Jacket - Z
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
The Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Beck - Mutations
Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love

SEVENTEEN SECONDS for the win!

1. Gorillaz- Demon Days
2. Morrissey- You Are the Quarry
3. N.E.R.D.- In Search of
4. Soft Cell- Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
5. The Cars- The Cars
6. Echo and the Bunnymen- Crocodiles
7. Japan- Tin Drum
8. David Bowie- Young Americans
9. Laurie Anderson- Big Science
10. U2- Boy

In the case of ties, wouldn't it make sense to have the tied song get at automatic bid to the wild-card slot? I don't know if for "seeding" the winners we'll need to have a tie breaker, but if we do I'll vote for Seventeen Seconds, since it's the album I've listened to.

1. The Cars - The Cars
2. Beck - Mutations
3. Board of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
4. Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
5. The KLF - The White Room
6. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
7. Horace Silver - Song For My Father
8. Devenandra Barnhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
9. System of a Down - Toxicity
10. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command

Only 10 albums in this range that I've heard all the way through.

1. The Blue Nile - Hats
2. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
3. Burial - Untrue
4. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
5. The Darkness - Permission to Land
6. Fleetwood Mac - s/t
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
8. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
9. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
10. Pet Shop Boys - Very

Springsteen

1. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
2. The Blue Nile - Hats
3. Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
4. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
5. System of a Down - Toxicity
6. R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
7. Neil Young - Zuma
8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
9. The Darkness - Permission to Land
10. Beck - Mutations

1. Beck- Mutations
2. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers- Moanin'
3. Snoop Doggy Dogg- Doggystyle
4. Kinks- Arthur
5. X-Ray Spex- Germ Free Adolescents
6. Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatourium
7. Pogues- If I Should Fall From Grace With God
8. Badly Drawn Boy- Hour of Bewilderbeast
9. Sleater Kinney- Dig Me Out
10. Yo La Tengo- And Then Nothing...

And I guess I'll go with The Cure

1. My Morning Jacket - Z
2. R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pagent (R.E.M.'s most underrated album)
3. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
4. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
5. Gorillaz - Demon Days
6. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
7. Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
8. Royksopp - Melody A.M.
9. Duran Duran - Rio

The other 91 are placed pretty well.

I vote for Bruce.

This one is going to be very jazz heavy for me.

1. Horace Silver - Song For My Father
2. The Cars - The Cars
3. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
4. Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
5. Miles Davis - Milestones
6. The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
7. Gorillaz - Demon Days
8. Duran Duran - Rio
9. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
10. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Giving an automatic wild card bid for tied albums could be a problem, because what if it happens in the 2901-3000 block, and that nudges more deserving albums out?

I haven't quite figured out the wild card system yet. Some ideas I've been tossing around:
-3 highest point getters that aren't in top five
-Top X (1-5) from each group have an additional voting round at the end
-Top X (10-50) point getters have additional voting round at the end
-I have been considering an automatic bid for Yo La Tengo, because it would have made it with the scoring system that won.

Bill ! As I told you few days ago Yo La Tengo should have made the cut with both systems but you counted Stephan's ballot twice.

1.- Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
2.- D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
3.- The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
4.- Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)
5.- Erykah Badu - Baduizm
6.- Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Blood and Chocolate
7.- The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
8.- Laurie Anderson - Big Science
9.- Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
10.- Burial - Untrue

1. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
2. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
3. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
4. The Blue Nile - Hats
5. Burial - Untrue
6. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
7. Cat Power - You Are Free
8. My Morning Jacket - Z
9. Beck - Mutations
10. Röyksopp - Melody A.M.

1) The Beach Boys “The Beach Boys Today!”
2) Fleetwood Mac “Fleetwood Mac”
3) Jackson Browne “The Pretender”
4) Steely Dan “Katy Lied”
5) The Byrds “Fifth Dimension”
6) Frank Sinatra “Come Fly with Me”
7) Jackson Browne “Running on Empty”
8) ZZ Top “Eliminator”
9) R.E.M. “Life’s Rich Pageant”
10) N.E.R.D. “In Search Of”

Honorable mention:

Beck “Mutations”
Soft Cell “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret”

And my tiebreaker vote goes to The Cure SEVENTEEN SECONDS.

This was the "easiest" one for me so far since I only had 15 contenders to start with. Haven't heard a lot of the albums in this range yet.

Hmm…my choices aren’t doing so well so far.

From the last batch, I’ll stick with E Street Shuffle.

701-800:

1. R.E.M., Lifes Rich Pageant (there are days when I think this is their best album)
2. Laurie Anderson, Big Science
3. Marvin Gaye, Here My Dear
4. Midnight Oil, Diesel and Dust
5. Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers and Bastards
6. Bo Diddley, s/t
7. Wire, 154
8. Charles Mingus, Pithecanthropus Erectus
9. Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
10. The Jam, In the City

This is a tough group; after the top 4, there’s a whole mess of albums which I like but have a hard time ranking…I’m voting for the ones above, but could just as easily have gone with albums by the O’Jays, X-Ray Spex, Thelonious Monk, Stiff Little Fingers, Gorillaz, Bad Brains, Billy Bragg, U2, the Pogues, ZZ Top and Frank Sinatra.

Tie-breaker vote: The Boss.

701-800:
1. The Soft Boys, UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT
2. Steely Dan, KATY LIED
3. Guided by Voices, BEE THOUSAND
4. X-Ray Spex, GERM-FREE ADOLESCENTS
5. THE CARS
6. R.E.M., LIFES RICH PAGEANT
7. Sleater-Kinney, DIG ME OUT
8. Elvis Costello and the Attractions, BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
9. Tom Waits, ORPHANS: BRAWLERS, BAWLERS & BASTARDS
10. Beck, MUTATIONS

Tie-breaker: Springsteen

Votes:
1. Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
2. The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
3. U2 – Boy
4. Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
5. Cat Power – You Are Free
6. Gorillaz – Demon Days
7. My Morning Jacket – Z
8. Neil Young – Zuma
9. Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain
10. The Cars – The Cars

I thought that this was a pretty weak group. It's getting harder to find 10 albums that I even listen to, let alone like (I was unfamiliar with most of these albums)...

Nassim: What makes you think he counted my list twice? The two first places for Boxer are from BillAdama and myself.

Tie-breaker:
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
(a tie-break is a real insult for this classic album!)

701 - 800:

1 - R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
2 - Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
3 - Crowded House - Woodface
4 - The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
5 - U2 - Boy
6 - The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
7 - The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
8 - Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
9 - Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
10 - Japan - Tin Drum

Bubbling under = Wire - 154

Tie-break (if it is really a tie-break, see otisredding's comment in the other thread): Seventeen Seconds

1. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Revolution/African Herbsman
2. The KLF - The White Room
3. Erykah Badu - Baduizm
4. The Blue Nile - Hats
5. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)
6. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
7. Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
8. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
9. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
10. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust

What a great 100-stretch! The following albums really deserve points as well:
Burial - Untrue
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Beck - Mutations

1)Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
2)Wire - 154
3)Echo and the bunnymen - Crocodiles
4)Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
5)Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
6)Neil Young - Zuma
7)Beck - Mutations
8)Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
9)Minor Threat - Out of Step
10)Burial - Untrue

1. David Bowie - Young Americans
2. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
3. Gorillaz - Demon Days
4. U2 - Boy
5. Snoop Doggy Dog - Doggy Style
6. The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
7. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Soul Revolution/ African Herbsman
9. Beck - Mutations
9. R.E.M - Life's Rich Pageant
10. Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Lot's of good jazz albums this batch.

1. The Kinks – Arthur
2. Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams
3. Thelonious Monk – With John Coltrane
4. Charles Mingus – Blues & Roots
5. Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
6. Miles Davis – Miles Ahead
7. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Moanin’
8. The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today
9. Miles Davis - Milestones
10.The Cars – The Cars

1 - Marley, Bob and The Wailers - Soul Revolution/African Herbsman
2 - Gaye, Marvin - Here, My Dear
3 - Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
4 - Browne, Jackson - Running on Empty
5 - Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
6 - Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
7 - Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
8 - U2 - Boy
9 - Hendrix, Jimi - Band of Gypsys
10 - Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)

My tie-break vote goes to the cure

My tiebreak goes to Bruce

1. Mutations - Beck
2. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out - Yo La Tengo
3. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
4. When I Was Born for the 7th Time - Cornershop
5. Arthur - The Kinks
6. If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues
7. People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest
8. Boy - U2
9. Dig Me Out - Sleater Kinney
10. Life's Rich Pageant - R.E.M.

After seeing that it has only been on two lists, one of them mine, I think all of you should listen to Song For My Father again. One of the all time great jazz albums.

01. Dub Housing. Pere Ubu
02. Here, My Dear. Marvin Gaye
03. 154. Wire
04. Germ-Free Adolescents. X-Rax Spex
05. Change Of The Century. Ornette Coleman
06. Tin Drum. Japan
07. Blues & Roots. Charles Mingus
08. Sarah Vaughan (with Clifford Brown). Sarah Vaughan
09. Eli And The Thirteenth Confession. Laura Nyro
10. Le Mystère des voix Bulgares

Oh I forgot my tiebreaker, I vote for Springsteen.

Wow this is a very good segment, to me. I love all of these 10. The reason I took so long was just to narrow it down.

1. Pithecanthropus Erectus - Charles Mingus
2. Uncle Meat - Frank Zappa
3. Underwater Moonlight - Soft Boys
4. Dub Housing - Pere Ubu
5. 154 - Wire
6. Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada
7. You Are Free - Cat Power
8. Zuma - Neil Young
9. Rejoicing In The Hands - Devendra Banhart
10. Heavy Weather - Weather Report

And for the tie breaker, Springsteen.

1. R.E.M.: Life's Rich Pageant , 1986
2. The Beach Boys: The Beach Boys Today!, 1965
3. Neil Young: Zuma, 1975
4. The Byrds: Fifth Dimension, 1966
5. The Kinks: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), 1969
6. Them: (The Angry Young) Them/Here Comes the Night, 1965
7. Teenage Fanclub: Grand Prix,1995
8. Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac,1975
9. Crowded House: Woodface, 1991
10. Genesis: Selling England by the Pound, 1973


The Cure

Nassim: If you look down the 501-600 list, there are two albums I missed in the original ballot and added later, before counting up the scores. Boxer at #1, and Van Lear Rose at #3.

With the first 15 votes counted, there aren't as obvious frontrunners as there were in the first two lists. There are six albums between 62-72, and then a huge list of albums that would only need one or two high votes to get right back in the thick of things.

Heh, the current tiebreaker score: 8-8!

Oops, actually Otis is right. I somehow missed Jonah's and slush's ballots for the last round, and slush voted for Springsteen. So, Springsteen does just get through.

I wonder if I can get Otis to do all the ballot counting for me, he seems to be counting them all anyway.

I get the votes because it is fun for me, but I do not correct for BillAdama. If you are publishing the results and I have different outcomes, then send the message to my tally. Ok?

I thought The Cure had a chance.

There are only 15 albums that I really can list; the others : either I never heard them, or too long ago

1. Neil Young - Zuma
2. A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
3. Beck - Mutations
4. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
5. The Soft Machine - Third
6. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
7. The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
8. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
9. The Waterboys - This Is the Sea
10. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane

First 5 are in my top 200.
Zuma is very underrated.
Mutations is my favorite Beck. When he writes normal stuff, he's a master

oh, and you really need to know about the ties or do you guess ? Of course : Bruce Springsteen.
1the other one is also a fav to me though

1. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2. Gorillaz - Demon Days
3. System of a Down - Toxicity
4. N.E.R.D. - In Search of…
5. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
6. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
7. My Morning Jacket - Z
8. Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
9. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
10. The Gun Club - Fire of Love

4 albums in my top 100, even though 2 are quite close to the bottom of it. But Relationship of Command is an awesome album, almost the only decent successors to the Stooges trilogy.

A tough one for me -- I guess unsurprisingly, there is not much difference in this group from 3 to 17 or so...

01. Horace Silver | Song for My Father
02. The O'Jays | Back Stabbers
03. The Beach Boys | The Beach Boys Today!
04. Charles Mingus | Blues and Roots
05. Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown | Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
06. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | Moanin'
07. Laura Nyro | Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
08. The Soft Boys | Underwater Moonlight
09. X-Ray Spex | Germ-Free Adolescents
10. Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right to Children

11. Ornette Coleman | Change of the Century
12. Sleater-Kinney | Dig Me Out
13. The Gun Club | Fire of Love
14. Pere Ubu | Dub Housing
15. Pet Shop Boys | Very
16. N.E.R.D. | In Search of…
17. Bad Brains | I Against I
18. Wire | 154
19. Marvin Gaye | Here, My Dear
20. Laurie Anderson | Big Science

Oh, my bad, I'd also vote for Springsteen

1) Gorillaz - Demon Days
2) Neil Young - Zuma
3) U2 - Boy
4) R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
5) Burial - Untrue
6) My Morning Jacket - Z
7) Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
8) ZZ Top - Eliminator
9) The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
10) Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

And it seems like we don't need the tie-breaker anymore, but if we do.. Springsteen.

Sad to miss the previous thread, here’s my list:

1. AZTEC CAMERA “High Land Hard Rain” (#35 in my all-time list)
2. JAPAN “Tin Drum” (#36)
3. THE POGUES “If I Should Fall from Grace with God” (#78)
4. R.E.M. “Life’s Rich Pageant”
5. ERYKAH BADU “Baduizm”
6. MORRISSEY “You Are the Quarry”
7. THE BLUE NILE “Hats”
8. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS “The Good Son”
9. GENESIS “Selling England by the Pound”
10. LE MYSTÈRE DES VOIX BULGARES “Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares”

I’m glad that the tie-breaker is no longer necessary, the decision was too difficult.

With all the votes cast so far (I count 29), there are three albums that pretty much have it locked up, the 4th place album has 101 points, then the 5th through 10th have 87, 85, 81, 76, 71, 68.

It looks like Springsteen would have won the tiebreaker vote anyway. Seventeen Seconds is probably a heavy favorite for one of the wild card spots, judging by how well it did in the 80s poll.

The reason I started this game is because I feel I have most of the albums I'm going to want from 1-500, but I think there's probably a lot of hidden gems in the lower reaches of the list. I've already gotten some good ideas. (That's also why my original point scheme was to heavily weight the ones near the top, because I want to find the ones few have heard but all who've heard love.)

Looks like board-midnight has past, and nobody has pushed Z into the top 5.

Qualifiers:

1. REM - Life's Rich Pageant (143/11/3)
2. Beck - Mutations (124/11/2)
3. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear (118/7/1)
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days (101/7/2)
5. Neil Young - Zuma (87/7/1)

Runners up:

The Blue Nile - Hats (85/6/1)
My Morning Jacket - Z (81/7/1)
U2 - Boy (76/6/0)
The Cars - The Cars (71/6/1)
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (68/6/0)

Fun fact: Marvin Gaye didn't get a single vote lower than 3rd place.

I'm thinking now for the tie breaker, we take the top ten point getters that didn't qualify, and have a final vote between them where you only rank the top three.

Wildcard leaders:
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 105
Pulp - This Is Hardcore 102
Beck - Midnite Vultures 101
The Cure - Seventee Seconds 98
The Kinks - Face To Face 98
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica 94
Weezer - Pinkerton 90
Cocteau Twins - Treasure: 89
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin 88
The Blue Nile - Hats 85

My recount:

1 R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant/143/11/3
2 Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear/118/7/1
3 Beck - Mutations/117/10/2
4 Gorillaz - Demon Days 102/7/2
5 Neil Young - Zuma/87/7/1

6 U2 - Boy/76/7/0
7 My Morning Jacket - Z/73/6/1
8 The Blue Nile - Hats/72/5/1
9 The Cars - The Cars/71/6/1
10 Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac/70/6/0


NO MENTIONS IN 29 VOTERS:

Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
Bad Brains - I Against I
Blumfeld - L'Etat Et Moi
Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Gil Evans - Out of the Cool
John Prine - John Prine
Kiss - Destroyer
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
The Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants