PA Release Polls: Open to all PA members

Thanks! We'll see how it goes. What I can say at this point is that these lists, with the participation so far, have been really valuable and interesting for me. I'm looking forward to even more inspiration! 

moshkito wrote: Half of your listing, in my book ... is just you looking like you care for all the bands. And hoping that in a year's time, many of those bands will be sending you free copies of their material for your enjoyment and review. I don't see that you are into it for the art at all ... you are in it for the "styles" that fit ... invented by a number of folks out there somewhere. Popularity, is not an indication of the things I should listen to ... and sometimes, generally, I turn the other way intentionally!

^ you are mistaken if you think this is about numbers.

^ fine, goodbye. Not nice talking to you. Not going to read all that self-promoting, arrogant drivel either.

Btw: this is not about numbers, it is about people. Too bad that you can’t see beyond your prejudices.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - December 22 2023 at 08:17

^ case in point: You like Staraya Derevnya, but they are not in the archives (yet). You’ll soon be able to select their latest release for the November list. And you should - I would be glad to see which recent releases you really like, regardless of whether they are in the archives.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - December 22 2023 at 06:39

Hi,

Ok, I've just completed a big refactoring. The tool now lists non-pa releases as well, and the selection page is much faster. The non-pa releases cannot be selected yet, that will be next.

I have only listened to two and enjoy both. The second PoiL Ueda release for 2023 made my year end top 20 and the Gong album would be in a top 30 list. I don't know if it would be right to rank just two out of two, but here they are.


1. PoiL - Poil Ueda: Yosh*tsune {ap:65795}
2. Gong - Unending Ascending {ap:65673}

^ No sh*t!

^ I'm hopeful that various more innovative and quite unique albums will be added to PA not only for December, but November and the earlier months of 2023 before the AOTY nomination process is over. I guess despite having an official results date, if it does not prove problematic to you, people could keep amending their lists later and those results could be updated (need not be seen as such a static Album of the Year result, but I don't see it as a contest which might make some difference in perspective). Especially a debut might not get onto the radar until much later, and then if it is quite unique, at least for PA, it might be harder to find its way into the archives. I tend to like the derivative and innovative, the progressive and regressive, but it's those ones often that seem rather out of the what I think of as typical Prog (or Prog subgenre) boxes that can often interest me the most. I would like all months provided that they are not 12 different topics. I think putting it under one topic, or a few topics might be better actually, would work best. And I'm interested to see people's not in PA lists, so I might like to make one for the year for those not on your lists. It wouldn't work in the cool way yours does, of course.

Now, sh*tsureishimasu, excuse any spelling errors, I'm off to get a sh*tsu massage from my sh*tsu inu as soon as I finish this bowl of lovely sh*take mushrooms.

Edited by Logan - December 21 2023 at 12:47