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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)

Example Ballot A

  1. Thirty Seconds to Mars – It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day (10)
  2. Drake – For All the Dogs (10)
  3. Anne-Marie – Unhealthy (10)
  4. Corey Taylor – CMF2 (10)
  5. Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden (10)
  6. Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher (10)
  7. Pierce the Veil – Jaws of Life (10)
  8. Emarosa – Sting (10)
  9. PVRIS – Evergreen (10)
  10. Gorillaz – Cracker Island (10)

Example Ballot B

  1. Thirty Seconds to Mars – It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day (30)
  2. Drake – For All the Dogs (17)
  3. Anne-Marie – Unhealthy (16)
  4. Corey Taylor – CMF2 (11)
  5. Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden (11)
  6. Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher (5)
  7. Pierce the Veil – Jaws of Life (4)
  8. Emarosa – Sting (3)
  9. PVRIS – Evergreen (2)
  10. 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.





pizzamachine
12.14.23
Sorry Haterz is AOTY agreed

RogueNine
12.14.23
Lmao the flaming satellite.

ArsMoriendi
12.14.23
Commenting so I remember to do this later on. Might wait til like the 27th hmmm idk

ArsMoriendi
12.14.23
Also Jom posted this

Was his account reinstated ? Nice

evilford
12.14.23
I am weeping tears of joy for the return of Jom

evilford
12.14.23
Also, lmao the flaming satellite [2]

ToSmokMuzyki
12.14.23
huh what was good in 2023

evilford
12.14.23
Horrendous

ToSmokMuzyki
12.14.23
nah got my list that aint it

ToSmokMuzyki
12.14.23
someone else vote for YOURMOM to win EP of the year

Mort.
12.14.23
thank you mr joms

Trifolium
12.14.23
Yipppeee Jom yipppeeeee it's time to VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Demon of the Fall
12.14.23
Nice, this is always a fun time of year here!

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

Pikazilla
12.14.23
should've put sufjan stevens into the clown ballot examples

DoofDoof
12.14.23
The example ballot is exactly my real ballot what were the odds

DoofDoof
12.14.23
This year was by far and away the strongest of the 2020s so far

JesperL
12.14.23
can't believe you used my ballot for the examples :/

JohnnyoftheWell
12.14.23
haha jesper made a doof joke

DoofDoof
12.14.23
that is unfortunate

Flugmorph
12.14.23
i like the new logo

DoofDoof
12.14.23
It met the same fate as the Sigur Ros cover

JesperL
12.14.23
was sort of hoping for everyone to make the same joke but i failed

Dewinged
12.14.23
Sleepwalker (JPN) – Skopofoboexoskelett (correct) vs. Sleepwalker – Skopofoboexoskelett (incorrect)

Of course! Who would be so foolish to confuse these two hahaha... aaaah..

Demon of the Fall
12.14.23
this theoretical ballot messed up the easy bit, to be fair

Sunnyvale
12.14.23
Hey, me and Jom have the same favorites this year!

I got ya, Jesper!

DoofDoof
12.14.23
sad we are unable to see other users picks now

Sniff
12.14.23
Molucelar Corporation or whatever it's called

Sniff
12.14.23
sad we are unable to copy other users picks to save us the hassle with underscores and whatnot now*

SandwichBubble
12.14.23
@Jom I would be happy to help with art again, if necessary. Same email as always.

pizzamachine
12.14.23
Dang, aside from the crunkcore revival a super weak year

Feather
12.14.23
This is the fastest I have ever submitted one of these. Overall weak year, but still had some great albums.

Feather
12.14.23
1. Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But a Dream… (20)
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)

JesperL
12.14.23
sunny you are the trustiest of the trusted thank u

Willie
12.16.23
I love that you used the satellite photo.

SputnikSweetheart
12.17.23
can you make the form available to non-google users? I am asked to log in to complete the form - thanks1!

Demon of the Fall
12.17.23
cheers for re-posting the example again Feather

JohnnyoftheWell
12.17.23
*mushroom cloud emoji* *possum emoji*

Feather
12.17.23
I got you Demon

percyforward
12.19.23
1. Hail The Sun - Divine Inner Tension (30)
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

Feather
12.19.23
Need to spend more time with Night Verses

Demon of the Fall
12.20.23
1. Hinako Omori - stillness, softness​.​.​. (28)
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

Drifter
12.20.23
North Central - K9 Frequencies (30 points)
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)

bellovddd
12.20.23

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)


JohnnyoftheWell
12.20.23
"can someone vote for me i don’t know how [...] bruh you used to just be able to post it. i’m sorry but this is too much for me i think im going back to sleep" - drifter, 2023

bellovddd
12.20.23
took me a minute to figure it out but I am dumb.

Demon of the Fall
12.21.23
I did actually vote by the way, not just post my picks in here, lol...

but yes, the form was not an enjoyable experience tbh

ArsMoriendi
12.24.23
Just submitted my ballot

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

Sowing
12.27.23
Bumping this for visibility as we're nearing the cutoff.

AmericanFlagAsh
12.27.23
Sufjan Stevens – Javelin (20)
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)

AmericanFlagAsh
12.27.23
Not many votes this year! Don't we usually keep it open until after the holidays

DadKungFu
12.27.23
I will be here for this gimme a moment

Demon of the Fall
12.27.23
You have to fill in the form Ash. I am presuming a lot of people have done, but won’t have commented here

Odal
12.27.23
Empty Country - Empty Country II (40)
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)

JohnnyoftheWell
12.27.23
would lowkey love it if the only votes counted were those entered into the comments lmao

Faraudo
12.27.23
Submitted, here's mine

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)

Goodolboy
12.27.23
Suffocation hyms. Dying fetus make them beg. Tomb mold enduring

AlexKzillion
12.27.23
A7X - LIBAD (20)
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

AmericanFlagAsh
12.27.23
"You have to fill in the form Ash"

Ohhhhh I see, I am on my work laptop and couldn't open the link. Will do soon.

ArsMoriendi
12.28.23
Tomorrow is the last day for voting

Don't forget...unless you love Avenged Sevenfold or something

Colton
12.28.23
Geese - 3D Country (50)
The Tallest Man on Earth - Henry St. (50)

ArsMoriendi
12.28.23
If only the rules allowed for that Colton

Colton
12.28.23
jared i hope you are finding joy in life

ArsMoriendi
12.28.23
I would if PJ Harvey made the list

Or at least Godcaster

Colton
12.28.23
make your own list

ArsMoriendi
12.28.23
I will eventually

robertsona
12.28.23
Brandy Full Moon swoops in for another W on the year. Seven in a row

ArsMoriendi
12.28.23
I swear to god if the users vote Avenged Sevenfold as #1 I’m gonna make an angry judgmental list

It will be very pretentious

Feather
12.28.23
A7X deserves #1

trickert
12.28.23
Submitted:
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)


neekafat
12.28.23
hope i got it in on time!!

pizzamachine
12.28.23
Let’s hope so, Sput depends on it

RogueNine
12.28.23
Nay, the world.

Dylan620
12.29.23
noting for the record that I messed up the math in my first ballot and didn't realize until I'd already submitted it - the second is the only one that matters

Pheromone
12.30.23
can i submit pls

RogueNine
01.02.24
Bump. I take it this closed?

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