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Top Pop Rock
1. Bon Iver : Bon Iver, Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
2. St. Vincent : Strange Mercy (4AD)
3. Feist : Metals (Arts and Crafts)
4. M83 : Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)
5. Destroyer : Kaputt (Merge)
6. Braids : Native Speaker (Flemish Eye)
7. Austra : Feel it Break (Domino)
8. PJ Harvey : Let England Shake (Island)
9. Timber Timbre : Creep On Creepin' On (Arts & Crafts)
10. Sandro Perri : Impossible Spaces (Constellation)
11. Wild Flag (Merge)
12. Shotgun Jimmie : Transistor Sister (You've Changed)
13. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart : Belong (Slumberland)
14. Beirut : The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
15. Girls : Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
16. Bill Callahan : Apocalypse (Drag City)
17. Yuck (Fat Possum)
18. Rich Aucoin : We're All Dying To Live (Sonic)
19. Tom Waits : Bad As Me (Anti-)
20. Battles : Gloss Drop (Warp)
21. Ty Segall : Goodbye Bread (Drag City)
22. Lykke Li : Wounded Rhymes (LL)
23. Adele : 21 (Columbia)
24. Handsome Furs : Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
25. Cults (Columbia)
26. EMA : Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions)
27. Dog Day : Deformer (Fun Dog)
28. Kurt Vile : Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
29. Wilco The Whole Love (dbpm)
30. The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing (Paper Bag)
Top Metal
1. KEN : Mode Venerable (Profound Lore)
2. Mastodon : The Hunter (Reprise)
3. Fuck the Facts : Die Miserable (Relapse)
4. Wolves In The Throne : Room Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
5. Today is the Day : Pain is a Warning (Black Market Activities)
6. Liturgy : Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
7. Hammers of Misfortune : 17th Street (Metal Blade)
8. Opeth : Heritage (Roadrunner)
9. Imbroglio : Sleep Deprivation (The Path Less Traveled)
10. Brutal Truth : End Time (Relapse)
11. Graf Orlock : Doombox (Vitriol)
12. Black Tusk : Set the Dial (Relapse)
13. Helms Alee Weatherhead (Hydra Head)
14. Prurient : Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
15. The Atlas Moth An : Ache for the Distance (Profound Lore)
16. Flourishing : The Sum of All Fossils (The Path Less Traveled)
17. Retox : Ugly Animals (Ipecac)
18. Tombs : Path of Totality (Relapse)
Top Hip-Hop
1. Kanye West : My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella)
2. Jay-Z and Kanye West : Watch The Throne (Roc-A-Fella)
3. Shabazz Palaces : Black Up (Sub Pop)
4. D-Sisive Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye (Urbnet)
5. Big K.R.I.T. : Return of 4eva (mixtape)
6. Kendrick Lamar : Section 80 (Top Dawg Entertainment)
7. Danny Brown XXX (Fools Gold)
8. Tyler, the Creator: Goblin (XL)
9. Talib Kweli :Gutter Rainbows (Blacksmith)
10. Phonte : Charity Starts at Home (The Foreign Exchange)
11. Lil B : I'm Gay (I'm Happy) (mixtape)
12. Childish Gambino : EP (mixtape)
13. ASAP Rocky : LiveLoveA$AP (mixtape)
14. Nicki Minaj : Pink Friday (Cash Money/Universal)
15. Stalley : Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music)
16. G-Side The One…. Cohesive (mixtape)
Top Punk
1. Fucked Up : David Comes to Life (Matador)
2. OFF! : The First Four EPs (Vice)
3. Iceage : New Brigade (What's Your Rupture?)
4. Bomb The Music Industry! : Vacation (Quote Unquote)
5. Junior Battles : Idle Ages (Paper + Plastick)
6. B-Lines (Deranged)
7. Obits : Moody, Standard and Poor (Sub Pop)
8. The Wonder : Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing (No Sleep)
9. Cloud Nothings (Carpark)
10. Polar Bear Club : Clash Battle Guilt Pride (Bridge Nine)
11. Lemuria Pebble (Bridge Nine)
12. The Brains : Drunk Not Dead (Stomp)
13. Crusades : The Sun Is Down and the Night Is Riding In (It's Alive)
14. Bridge and Tunnel : Rebuilding Year (No Idea)
Top Folk-Country
1. The Decemberists : The King Is Dead (Capitol)
2. Dan Mangan : Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)
3. Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know (Domino)
4. One Hundred Dollars : Songs of Man (Outside)
5. Snailhouse : Sentimental Gentleman (White Whale)
6. Gillian Welch : The Harrow & the Harvest (Acony)
7. Richard Buckner : Our Blood (Merge)
8. The Deep Dark Woods : The Place I Left Behind (Six Shooter)
9. Daniel Romano : Sleep Beneath the Willow (You've Changed)
10. The Barr Brothers (Secret City)
11. Sunparlour Players : Us Little Devils (Outside)
12. Nick Lowe : The Old Magic (Yep Roc)
13. Ryan Adams : Ashes & Fire (Pax-Am)
14. The Jayhawks : Mockingbird Time (Rounder)
15. Hayes Carll: KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) (Lost Highway)
16. Jenn Grant : Honeymoon Punch (Six Shooter)
Top World & Soul
1. The Weeknd : House of Balloons (OVO)
2. tUnE-yArDs : WhoKill (4AD)
3. Raphael Saadiq : Stone Rollin' (Columbia)
4. Frank Ocean : Nostalgia, ULTRA (Def Jam)
5. Charles Bradley : No Time For Dreaming (Dunham)
6. Toro Y Moi : Underneath the Pine (Carpark)
7. The Stepkids (Stones Throw)
8. Mayer Hawthorne : How Do You Do? (Universal Republic)
9. Cee Lo Green : The Lady Killer (Elektra)
10. Aline Morales : Flores Tambores E Amores (Independent)
11. Beyonce : 4 (Columbia)
12. Seun Kuti : From Africa with Fury: Rise (Knitting Factory)
13. Jill Scott : Light Of the Sun (Warner)
14. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX : We're New Here (XL)
15. Jazzy Jeff & Ayah : Back For More (Independent)
16. Jahdan Blakkamoore : Babylon Nightmare (Lustre Kings)
Top Dance & Electronic
1. James Blake (Atlas)
2. Nicolas Jaar : Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company)
3. SBTRKT (Young Turks)
4. Oneohtrix Point Never : Replica (Software)
5. Rustie : Glass Swords (Warp)
6. Amon Tobin : Isam (Ninja Tune)
7. The Field : Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
8. Little Dragon : Ritual Union (Peacefrog)
9. Gang Gang Dance : Eye Contact (4AD)
10. Africa Hitech : 93 Million Miles (Warp)
11. Katy B : On A Mission (Rinse)
12. Hudson Mohawke : Satin Panthers (Warp)
13. Junior Boys : It's All True (Domino)
14. Zomby : Dedication (4AD)
15. Babe Rainbow : Endless Path (Warp)
16. Ford & Lopatin : Channel Pressure (Software)
17. Jamie Woon : Mirrorwriting (Polydor)
18. Miracle Fortress : Was I The Wave? (Secret City)
19. Azari & III (Turbo)
20. Toddla T : Watch Me Dance (Ninja Tune)
Oy. OK, what should I do with all these? Seems like I should just include all of them, in separate columns - there's no all-encompassing list, and it wouldn't be fair not to include all these albums. On the other hand, these are all more or less single-genre lists, so I'm not sure how they should be weighted. I need a little guidance on this, Henrik. Thanks in advance, as always.
Henrik, please let me know how I should score these - a lot of albums stand to be affected by the inclusion of these lists, and I want to add them ASAP. Thanks!
The easiest would be to add them as they are, perhaps in the same column so they don't take up too much space. The +30
number should not be too high, something just above 30 probably.
number should not be too high, something just above 30 probably.
Thanks! There are exactly 120 albums on the lists altogether; if I'm putting all the lists in the same column, should the weighting number be 60 since no individual list has more than 30 entries?
number should not be too high, something just above 30 probably.
Thanks! There are exactly 120 albums on the lists altogether; if I'm putting all the lists in the same column, should the weighting number be 60 since no individual list has more than 30 entries?
31 it is. Thanks, Henrik!