Greetings, friends!
It’s that time once again for you to have your say: voting is now open for the Top 50 LPs of 2023 community feature!
As in years past, we will also be including EPs/Live Albums/Compilations in a separate category.
This will be the first year we’re going to try to pull this off without the forums, so thank you for your patience in learning to love Google forms (where you no longer have to follow that complicated underscore system!).
Ballots will be open for approximately two weeks (a projected cut-off date of Thursday, December 28th around 11:59PM ET).
LP Ballot Rules
If you would like to submit an LP ballot, please review the guidelines before submitting your ballot officially (it’s not a race!):
- Your ballot must have exactly 10 LPs on it (please note that the ballot asks for the album name first and not the artist!)
- You are allotted 100 points to divvy up across your 10 LPs
- Some users liked 10 albums equally, so they’ll assign 10 points to 10 LPs
- Some users choose to assign more points to their favorite LPs on the year
- The maximum number of points that can be assigned to any one LP is 30
- The minimum number of points that can be assigned to any one LP is 1
- These are whole-number votes, so do not worry about fractions or irrational numbers
- Where an album is ranked (e.g., Position 1 vs. Position 10) on an individual ballot matters in the final calculations
- The frequency in which an LP appears across the community ballots matters in the final calculations
- Please strive to enter artists and LPs as they are depicted in the database (e.g., including all of Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre instead of “Periphery 5” or “Periphery V”; ‘Tangled Thoughts of Leaving’ instead of TToL, etc.)
- This is especially important for artists that have ISO codes in their name due to our horrific cataloging system
- Sleepwalker (JPN) – Skopofoboexoskelett (correct) vs. Sleepwalker – Skopofoboexoskelett (incorrect)
- This is especially important for artists that have ISO codes in their name due to our horrific cataloging system
Example Ballot A
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day (10)
- Drake – For All the Dogs (10)
- Anne-Marie – Unhealthy (10)
- Corey Taylor – CMF2 (10)
- Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden (10)
- Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher (10)
- Pierce the Veil – Jaws of Life (10)
- Emarosa – Sting (10)
- PVRIS – Evergreen (10)
- Gorillaz – Cracker Island (10)
Example Ballot B
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day (30)
- Drake – For All the Dogs (17)
- Anne-Marie – Unhealthy (16)
- Corey Taylor – CMF2 (11)
- Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden (11)
- Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher (5)
- Pierce the Veil – Jaws of Life (4)
- Emarosa – Sting (3)
- PVRIS – Evergreen (2)
- Gorillaz – Cracker Island (1)
We will work to ensure we capture all ballots accurately (particularly those with accent marks or non-Roman characters; e.g,. Utiseta and Útiseta), but please note that ballots will be disqualified if:
- A ballot has fewer than 10 LPs on it
- More than 100 points are assigned across the ballot or the total points assigned do not add up to 100
- An LP from a year other than 2023 is placed on the ballot
- An EP, Live Album, or Compilation is placed on the ballot
- There are multiple ballots with the same username attached to it (BE NICE. Don’t impersonate users who are deceased. I can’t believe I’ve already had to write this 12 hours into this post being live). It’s fine with us if you need to change your ballot, but don’t submit multiple ballots unless you know that we will only look at whatever your most recent submission was.
- The ballot is unsalvageable because we cannot, in good faith, figure out what the heck the voter was trying to convey to us
The LP ballot is now closed.
EPs/Live Albums/Compilations Ballot Rules
- Same general ideas as above, but there is a 30-point allocation for exactly 3 EPs/Live Albums/Compilations
- The maximum number of points that can be assigned to any one EP/Live Album/Compilation is 21
- The minimum number of points that can be assigned to any one EP/Live Album/Compilation is 1
- We will work to ensure all ballots are captured properly unless the errors are too egregious to bring them into compliance
The EP/Live Album/Compilation ballot is now closed.
Links and Call for Writers
The contributing writers coordinate the year-end write-ups, and there is always demand for assistance. If you’d like to potentially pitch in to this effort, please navigate to the Request Form available [here].
To read previous community features (where the artwork is still intact before one of our many server crashes killed previous entries), please navigate below:
[2022], [2021], [2020], [2019]
Please feel free to campaign for your favorite records in the comments section below.
The 2023 LP ballot is now closed.
The 2023 EP/Live Album/Compilation ballot is now closed.
Sending you and yours best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season. Have fun! We’ll see you January 9th for the community’s 50-31 list.
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Was his account reinstated ? Nice
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I will hold out in the vague hope another beauty emerges in the next week or so, but this is destined to be a light year in terms of thoroughness and also, quality
either way there are a few albums I want to vote for and a decent 10 should be easily doable
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Of course! Who would be so foolish to confuse these two hahaha... aaaah..
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I got ya, Jesper!
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2. Svalbard – The Weight of The Mask (20)
3. Hail the Sun – Divine Inner Tension (15)
4. There Will Be Fireworks – Summer Moon (15)
5. Hot Mulligan – Why Would I Watch (5)
6. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes (5)
7. All Get Out – All Get Out (5)
8. Fall Out Boy – So Much (For) Stardust (5)
9. Jeff Rosenstock – HELLMODE (5)
10. Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (5)
1. The Republic of Wolves – Why Would Anyone Want to Live this Long? (13)
2. Yellowcard – Childhood Eyes (13)
3. Manchester Orchestra – The Valley of Vision (4)
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2. Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1 (20)
3. Dispirited Spirits - The Redshift Blues (15)
4. Ben Howard - Is It? (5)
5. Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us (5)
6. TesseracT - War of Being (5)
7. DreamWeaver (JPN) - blue garden (5)
8. Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard (5)
9. King Creosote - I DES (5)
10. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! (5)
Don't fuck up the google forms on crappy touchscreen mobile phone Challenge: difficulty lvl Impossible
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2. Kostnateni - Úpal (23)
3. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium (15)
4. Jeromes Dream - The Gray In Between (8)
5. Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12 (6)
6. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (6)
7 .Andrea - Due In Color (4)
8. Weval - Remember (4)
9. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics (3)
10. Chepang - Swatta (3)
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1. Skalpel - Big Band Live (14)
2. Dream Dolphin - Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2023) (14)
3. Joliette - Luz de Bengala (2)
I was going to wait till last minute for this, but I do not fancy attempting this on mobile so needed to get it done before the Xmas break
12.20.23
Molecular Corporation - Millions of Dead Menposters (30 points)
The Exit Bags - Our Sun Will Clean Its Holy Wounds (30 points)
Ashnikko - WEEDKILLER (4 points)
Kylie Minogue - Tension (1 point)
Doja Cat - Scarlet (1 point)
Overmono - Good Lies (1 point)
Cory Hanson - Western Cum (1 point)
Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden (1 point)
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium (1 point)
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1. The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts (30)
2. END - The Sin of Human Frailty (15)
3. Polaris (AUS) - Fatalism (15)
4. Blue October – Spinning the Truth Around (Part II) (10)
5. Molecular Corporation - Millions of Dead Menposters (10)
6. Hail The Sun – Divine Inner Tension (5)
7. Johnny Booth– Moments Elsewhere(5)
8. Conquer Divide – Slow Burn (5)
9. Currents – The Death We Seek (4)
10. Veil Of Maya – [m]other (1)
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but yes, the form was not an enjoyable experience tbh
12.24.23
This is it:
PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying 4.5 (30 points)
Godcaster - Godcaster 4.0 (30 points)
Gazelle Twin - Black Dog 4.0 (10 points)
Goat - Medicine 4.0 (10 points)
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner 3.5 (7 points)
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics 3.5 (5 points)
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 3.5 (5 points)
Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed 3.0 (1 points)
Alien Tango - Kinda Happy, Kinda Sad 3.0 (1 points)
Geese - 3D Country 2.5 (1 points)
I only heard 11 2023 albums this year tbh, but vote for PJ Havey :D
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Model/Actriz – Dogsbody (10)
Kelela – Raven (10)
Yeule – Softscars (10)
George Clanton – Ooh Rap I Ya (10)
Anohni and the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (10)
Sampha – LAHAI (10)
Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume... (10)
Asia Menor - Enola Gay (5)
Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (5)
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George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya (10)
Jessie Ware - That! Feels! Good! (10)
Geese - 3D Country (10)
Ratboys - The Window (5)
Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1 (5)
Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (5)
Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But a Dream… (5)
Haken - Fauna (5)
Frost Children - SPEEDRUN (5)
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1. Slowdive – Everything is Alive (20)
2. END– The Sin of Human Frailty (15)
3. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (15)
4. George Clanton – Ooh Rap I Ya (10)
5. Avalon Emerson – & the Charm (10)
6. Silent Planet – Superbloom (10)
7. Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (5)
8. Squid – O Monolith (5)
9. Model/Actriz – Dogsbody (5)
10. Yeule – softscars (5)
1. Maruja – Knocknarea (15)
2. Legss – Fester (10)
3. Joliette – Luz de Bengala (5)
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Periphery - P5 (15)
Scaring the Hoes (15)
Yeule - softscars (10)
Jerome's Dream - The Gray In Between (10)
Olivia Rodrigo - guts (10)
Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (5)
George Clanton - Ooh I Rap Ya (5)
Phoxjaw - notverynicecreame (5)
Ostraca - Disaster (5)
not necessarily my top 10 of the year but the 10 albums i felt most compelled to vote for. that top 3 is pretty locked in though
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Ohhhhh I see, I am on my work laptop and couldn't open the link. Will do soon.
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Don't forget...unless you love Avenged Sevenfold or something
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The Tallest Man on Earth - Henry St. (50)
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Or at least Godcaster
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It will be very pretentious
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1. Rose City Band—Garden Party (20)
2. Deadly Carnage—Endless Blue (10)
3. Firienholt—White Frost and Elder Blood (10)
4. Health—Rat Wars (10)
5. The Chronicles of Father Robin—The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book I (10)
6. Dodheimsgard—Black Medium Current (10)
7. Helga (SWE)—Wrapped in Mist (10)
8. Abstract Void—Forever (10)
9. Pelegrin—Ways of Avicenna (5)
10. Carbon Based Lifeforms—Seeker (5)
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