Stop acting like Ke$ha isn't in the staff consensus top 10, Jom. Wish I could play

This sounds cool. Might do it.

sweet

hint: top 10 is all black metal

fck if its not kesha.. then who is?

It's totally gonna be Death Grips right Sowing? ;D

fuck there goes the last glimmer of chance I had.

be sure you guys spell Chthe'ilist - Amechth'ntaas'm'rriachth correctly

HOLY COW WHAT A COOL IDEA!

Kudos Jom

I lold jom, this sounds pretty good.

I feel like there are gonna be a lot of ties

Holy fuck, I can't even imagine girls on this site. But yeah, it's a good idea.

Sweet idea Jom, is this your brain child or did it come down from on-high?

Gonna do this, sweet

winner is going to be Dark Time Sunshine - ANX

1 (new) physical copy of the staff consensus #1 album (SPOILER: it's not Ke$ha).

Something tells me that fans of Converge will be highly rewarded, but that's just me predicting out of the blue.

Kudos for the whole idea Jom.

Manet Store Bread Hips Sput Staff AOTY 2k12

mod of the century

This sounds quite challenging. A lot of digging will be required to figure this out.

Good idea!

"If there's a tie, my bank account is going to be fucked."

lol

physical meaning a CD or vinyl?

"This sounds quite challenging. A lot of digging will be required to figure this out. "

not really, just go to best new music and compare it to what hasn't been listed in the staff picks already

"be sure you guys spell Chthe'ilist - Amechth'ntaas'm'rriachth correctly

lol

Just double checking before I finalize, EPs (Burial's "Kindred" for example) are NOT included on the staff top 50 list, correct?

"If it means I have to spend some money to get people to have a little fun, so be it."

mod of the century [2]

want a copy of the sleep of reason so bad

Very cool idea Jom.

my prediction is probably way off cos I have 4 hardcore/metal albums on it

how do you work out the winner?

"This sounds quite challenging. A lot of digging will be required to figure this out. "


or facebook.

best way to get more contests going is announce them like this, but never let the correct submission know they won. Or just ignore all entries altogether and just let the userbase think youd actually spend money on us.

ponton 4 mod

hey jom :/

sent


the money store #1 obvs

How long is it until Trey posts the top 10? I'm not sure how long the other entries have been up for

tomorrow I think

staff can play right : )

I literally went through shitloads of albums at ctrl+f'd "staff" on user ratings

wow you must really want a copy of gy!be's new album

it took like 5 minutes of my time. what else was I gonna do with it?

find the cure for cancer

I'm guessing taxidermist and sonic's votes didn't count either

I bet my #2 ends up being the #1

I think the top 5 are pretty obvious but I had it narrowed down to twelve and had a lot of trouble deciding which two of those were not only in the top ten, but not in the staff list at all. I probably fucked it up.

"If for whatever reason your e-mail is different, please let me know so I can try to figure out if you're Snoop telling the truth or Snoop Lion."

- That was funny. That and the Anthrax bit.

There's two or three that I just cut out of the top 10 but I woulda thought they'd be included in the overall fifty.

I wouldn't know what the hell was cool with shit music this year.

I'm guessing taxidermist and sonic's votes didn't count either

Wait, what? :-O

Oh, wait. I see, lol.

This is a really cool idea
Good work Jom!

I think I might have compiled a pretty good list. Will submit later.

cool idea

u can send me 2 peoples houses

Shit I should enter this.

Contribs can play. Am I right?

No, I don't. I'm so gonna win this.

I feel as if it's my civic duty to point out that Jom is using this "contest" as a cover to simply obtain some userbase addresses. I would like to think that he's only after them for soliciting purposes, but my gut tells me different. In other words..... happy hunting Jom!

Don't worry Jom us Brits will nuke your state in the next few weeks! We'll get you before you get us bitch!

I think the predictions I made are pretty solid albeit in the wrong order

If Coerce's Genome isn't on the list then they obviously have not heard it and it's a shame because alongside Departure Songs by Hammock it's my equal best release for 2012.

"hint: top 10 is all black metal"

I hope

"In other words..... happy hunting Jom!"

Is this the time we tell everyone that Jom's real name is Ian Watkins!?

Haha this rules

Oh man this was ridiculously hard because BATS and mewithoutYou and Frank Ocean didn't make it. I mean, there were some obvious ones but by God that ones that weren't obvious were NOT OBVIOUS.

I will buy and ship the CD of someone's choice if they get the exact order down no joke

I'd fly over and hand deliver it if that were the case....









Well probably not actually, but still.... that'd be impressive

I will buy and ship the CD of someone's choice if they get the exact order down no joke

what if i wanted the rarest and darkest of the kidz bops: kidz bop 13

except you academy you dirty cheater you

:P

although the track listing for that kidz bop record is pretty ace

the kidz bop kidz reach new ground on their rendition of "hey there delilah"

I liked Swans' album

could you please announce the winner, as well as his list? I'd love to see how close the winner got to the actual list.

#1 is Swans.

Sounds difficult.

i just sent in mine...
and i excluded all the albums i actually liked apart from 1, hoping id be right.

and i left out the money store.
FML.

were recently emeritus-ized former staffer's lists included in the count? (Robin Smith and redsky, for example)

Yes (if that helps the guessing process)

I hope so, thanks, though I feel like you might be lying to me for shits and giggles.

I can't say I blame you though, I definitely would fuck with people if I was in your position.

Wtf I wasn't expecting the top 10 to be this awful

cheaters x.x

lol I was nowhere near

Yeah me neither

I was guessing they'd include more than four good albums but apparently not

Didn't you give this same big sob act last year?

'Didn't you give this same big sob act last year?'

It's a beginning of the year tradition

:3

C'mon Ty don't be that Ty

I had 8 of the top 10 but only one in the right order fml

Who won?
WHO WON?

'C'mon Ty don't be that Ty'

Pfffffffffff

only because you asked

Let Jom sleep guys.

had 9 of the 10 right, only one in the right place though

I got 6 in, #1 being the only one I got in the right position. Several were close though

I only got 4 right and none of them in the right spot

I was really disappointed they didn't include Dark Time Sunshine

Never expected Handwritten to make the top 10

I completely forgot about handwritten and devotion. I put Dark Time Sunshine in there but I never would have had everyone else not been saying it would come up

As soon as I got the top 10 I was going to put in, I kind of just arbitrarily threw them in wherever. Putting Swans at 6 was a bit of an oversight though, in retrospect

"I put Dark Time Sunshine in there but I never would have had everyone else not been saying it would come up"

ditto

Haha. I'm pretty sure one of the staffers said DTS was not included in the list at some point.

Yeah. kingsoby1 precisely stated this in 11-30 list. Still, I had only 8/10, but Jessie Ware was easy to predict. I sort of eliminated it in the last moment.

I thought he meant
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/45143/Design-the-Skyline-Nevaeh/

i got 10 out of 10 and ur dumb

"Yeah. kingsoby1 precisely stated this in 11-30 list."

In fairness, that comment could have been misconstrued as sarcasm

or ironic, whatev

That comment made me include it, the sly beaver

sobhi singlehandedly scuppering half of the userbase's chances!

will swans win?

i got 10 out of 10 and ur dumb

I got 7/10 and had the order mostly right. I didn't think they'd include Gaslight Anthem though and I forgot about Jessie Ware.

Livin' up to the avatar, Jom. I'm not likely to participate, but I love that you're doing this.

did i win

i winned didn't i

Some of you folks did pretty good. Did anyone get every one correct?

Doubt it. Too many seemed to forget about JW.

What was the winning score?

EDIT. Dumb question really, I guess you can save that until you make the announcement.

lol wtf. Clowns.

LMFAOOOO

fucking love sputnik