PA Album of the Year Discussion thread

I think possibly one important rule has been forgotten as per Logan's OP :

Edited by richardh - January 10 2024 at 16:09

Sorry, I moved those to this thread. I was rushing to write that and spent ages moving posts to this new topic for discussion of issue and leaving the other topic for lists. That said, I think that message serves its purpose which arises from a concern that people may join up just to prop up an album. Maybe I should not have said active members, but it was meant as a general alert. By active members I also mean has not been suspended. Of course an account must be active to post a list, but if that person gets suspended then I don't think the list should count. And if that member has been suspended before and come here under another account, I don't think that person should be counted. I wanted to be a little ambiguous and leave us some space for action and it did not occur to me that could be seen as an issue by regulars. Anyway, I have not slept for two days so hard to think. Won't try to change the wording now, but that has no effect on most of us.

EDIT: I will edit out the word active from the opening post I wrote yesterday in the topic intended for lists.

Edited by Logan - January 10 2024 at 17:18

Logan wrote: Sorry, I moved those to this thread.

Lewian wrote: Logan wrote: Sorry, I moved those to this thread.

Yes, a cleaner list topic is much better. It did take a long time, but was worth the effort. Glad you recommended a change.

Wasn't hard, merely some rather tedious early morning housework, and would hardly be worth patting myself on the back about. You likely would whip up a code to make it easier at your site. Any hard or tedious work does not compare to what you've put into your part in this. And while, unlike me, you do deserve a pat on the back, you have a very awesome tool, I also will want to acknowledge the efforts of various people who have put so much effort into conducting these AOTY's over the years. It's all much appreciated. And of course thanks to all you are taking time to take part in this. It warms the cockles of this rather antisocial heart. While of course some put more time into this than others, I love the fact that this is as much of a communal effort as it is, with communal results. Now that's worthy of applaudation.

All of the noise takes me to the outside where there's all
Creations joining in celebrating happiness and joy
All around the world, on land and in the sea.

^ that is a weird property of rym … most great releases end up at 3.7. I have a different system at AP, I’m not using the average value of the ratings because it tends to, well, “average out” the more ratings there are.

Rick Wakeman - A Gallery Of The Imagination. This was a 2022 release and was voted for in the 2022 AOTY poll if you check out those results. I remember the CD and Vinyl were delayed but Rick made the MP3 available to anyone that had pre-ordered it in 2022. I purchased the deluxe package and have it on clear vinyl and on CD. It's a really nice album but it shouldn't be available for voting in 2023 poll imo.

If this is this done for past years as well, count me in. And I'd like to post my results in this forum and at your site's forum.

Yes, I have coded these polls in a way that makes it easy to support doing them for arbitrary years, months and many other possible queries. It does not work yet, but will be available shortly.

Added Mendoza Hoff Revels to my chart, they need the name correcting on AP as it's up as Ava Mendoza (Svet put it up incorrectly)