Collaborators' Top Albums List - 2010

Nice, my top 3 made it to positions 11-13.
Next time I'll try to have at least one of my choices represented in the top 10.

SaltyJon wrote: Awesome list!  Glad to see Univers Zéro coming in first, great band...one problem though, the blurb under their album isn't from my review, it's from Rune2000's.

Damn it, I so much wanted to have the OP unedited for eternity!

zravkapt wrote: Great work Alex  How long did it take you to calculate all that?

One full day! Started from about 8 AM and ended at about 9 PM, with an hour or so of a break. It was probably the most painful non-physical task I've accomplished, not sure if I'm volunteering next year

Speaking of the task, many many thanks to the IT support team who helped me with Excel!

CCVP wrote: wow, excepting Haken's album, every other I mentioned or would mention would be 45th of below.

Well don't keep the goodies just for yourself, always keep some youtube links in your pocket, just in case!

Easy Livin wrote:   I'm surprised the Anathema album didn't do better, it's done very well elsewhere.

I used to think it's a so-so album, but while typing stuff over and over today I realized that it's in a lot of lists! They don't get much talked around here lately, but 11 out of 214 is exceptional, much more than I expected for them. And I listened to the album today and (surprisingly?) I found it much better than I recalled it.

And the top 10 is just a convention, we could easily have a top 15 with the nice cover pictures, the flattering quotes and all that.


Edited by harmonium.ro - February 22 2011 at 17:16

Starhammer wrote: Here's to 2011 which will, hopefully, be full of masterpieces!

We already have one IMO (Korekyojinn's Tundra).

Excellent work Alex. Very nice list, not least since Clivages and Coyote were my top two albums, and well chuffed that my review got quoted! I think its safe to say that 2010 is the year of Avant, jazz and black metal prog.

Only 65 voters? I think we had 90 last year, wheres every body gone?

SaltyJon wrote: Starhammer wrote: Here's to 2011 which will, hopefully, be full of masterpieces! We already have one IMO (Korekyojinn's Tundra).

I'm sure that will end up #1.  Not a doubt about it.

Great job with the list! I though Frogg Cafe had it though from reading the other thread! 

Cool list, only one of my top 10 made it to the final top, but well, it is great to see Univers Zero at the top!

CCVP wrote: the only real surprise on that list was Agalloch. That album isn't remotely near good. It is nothing but a shadow of the band's past releases, quality-wise. But you know what they say: hipsters gonna hipster, lol.

I don't mean to imply you have terrible taste in music, but Marrow of the Spirit is their best so far.



Also Dream Theater sucks

Triceratopsoil wrote: CCVP wrote: the only real surprise on that list was Agalloch. That album isn't remotely near good. It is nothing but a shadow of the band's past releases, quality-wise. But you know what they say: hipsters gonna hipster, lol. I don't mean to imply you have terrible taste in music, but Marrow of the Spirit is their best so far. Also Dream Theater sucks

As a matter of fact, I know you are one of the few (if not the only one) who thinks like that Cooling. Even Brian, who puts that guy on an ivory tower, kind of thinks like me.

LOL, stoney quote fail.


Edited by CCVP - February 22 2011 at 20:34

Finnforest wrote: Great work Alex, thanks for your efforts.  Lots of good stuff there.  The only surprise for me is that more people have not picked up on the Tea Club's "Rabbit."  It deserves so much more buzz than it has gotten here, truly wonderful music.

+1
Even though I admit I didn't put it in my top 10, I had like 20 albums competing for slots 5-10

Next year we should be able to send in a top 20!
Or maybe not, or Alex's head will explode if he needs to calculate that!