Ongoing Release Polls (Aotd, Aoty, Aotm)

Hi!

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 13 2025 at 07:43

Looks great. You might have something similar already, but I'd like to see one where we do our top track per album release for a sort of song of the year event. And then because I do see value in duplication, share the results in this forum too. I'm very keen on that idea partially as I have liked to make playlists and lists with one track per album. It doesn't mean that I don't care about listening to full albums, I do, but I see value in evaluating for and sharing a favourite track too. That exercise really made albums all the more special to me. Sometimes just choosing one is super hard... Or it could be not having to choose just one per album, but also that 20 points and down system.

For instance, my top ten albums of 2024 were

1. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown [AP Prog-Adj]
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead"
3. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
4. Tapir! - The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain [AP Prog]
5. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves [AP Non-Prog]
6. 김반월키 - 빈자리 (Binjari) [AP Prog]
7. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming [AP Prog]
8. The Smile - Cutouts
9. samlrc - A Lonely Sinner [AP Prog]
10. Tigran Hamasyan - The Bird Of A Thousand Voices

May top ten track list could be (in this case just using those albums and following that order).

1. "Floating on a Moment" off Beth Gibbons' Lives Outgrown
2. "Babys in a Thundercloud" off Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead"
3. "Bending Hectic" of The Smile's Wall of Eyes
4. "Mountain Song" off Tapir!'s The Pilgrim [...]
5. "Something in the Room She Moves" off Julia Holter's Something in the Room She Moves et cetera.

I actually would find it really hard to rank my favourite tracks commonly.

To me the lists work best when combined with forum topics (be they here or at your forum or both) because I like it when people actively share and compare their lists/favourites. Without a social component, commenting on each others choices to some extent, they matter less to me. And I hope more come up with topics where we share, compare and discuss each others choices.

Edited by Logan - February 13 2025 at 17:38

^ I'm sick as a skunk, find it hard to think, and trying to navigate that and learn the charts now. I would like to easily be able to see the top rated track (with one per album) per year of release. So far I just see the 2025 ones, and to be able to view by user... I would like that for releases much like we have for the polls, but I think I may be too much a minority for wanting that (maybe minority of one).

^ Sounds very good, thanks.

I've noticed that some releases in the AP database have the wrong year. Based on a comparison between PA, AP and RYM this is currently the case for about 1500 releases (that's about 2%, or in other words: 98% are entered correctly), and it is usually only a one year difference, but sometimes more significant (e.g. date of recording vs. date of release, or re-release).

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 17 2025 at 02:54

^ I want to limit editing as much as possible, because usually there's not much need for it in the database. I've granted you editing permissions, should be active once you log out and in again. 

^ It says "Forum user" because your official title here is "Prog Reviewer". Fixed. 

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 18 2025 at 00:32

^ Yes, I linked your accounts. 

Apparently we have the same issue for Oiapok - Oisolün. It's wrong in the PA database, should be moved from 2023 to 2022 (according to RYM and Musicbrainz it was released Dec 22, 2022).