NOUGHT BUT THE TRUTH: 2000-2009 albums & tracks VOTING (and campaigning) thread DEADLINE OCTOBER 11

sorry if i missed this but how many albums and tracks will be in the rollout, top 100, 77, etc?

the thought is 100

can't we have an extension to sunday morning? i have got the albums ready but the tracks i haven't started yet. in one of your previous posts you said sunday, imago. otherwise i can't do tracks.

voted, with the most hastily assembled ballots of my life. I will be deeply unhappy with them in, five, four, three...

i said sunday mistakenly then corrected myself a few seconds later

hmph

gonna vote for "only you" instead

― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 6:39 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if this had been the reggaeton mix it would have been high on my ballot.

ALSO, my instinct is to do albums first, then tracks second. anyone with any enormous objections?

Voted!

That was tough, could have easily done another ballot I'd be happy with with an entirely different set of nominations.

I haven't forgotten how Tim F introduced me to the Aeroplane ft. Kathy Diamond remix of "Whispers."

David Guetta ft. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over

can i just say that i love that this was nominated

everyone still has nearly a week anyway!

― imago, Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2019 23:00 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't generally like to nominate tracks because I don't have a good sense of what were actual singles, so I just would pick my favorite songs off the albums I nominate, but putting my tracks list together made me wish I had offered up some nominations because there were definitely some key tracks that should have been on there.

voted, both ballots mixed

The requisite singing along of compiling a ballot is what really takes it out of you.

voted

ALSO, my instinct is to do albums first, then tracks second. anyone with any enormous objections?

― imago, Friday, 11 October 2019 22:16 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I prefer albums* myself so would enjoy that rolling out first so no complaints from me.

* I never did get round to doing the lifetime of ilm metal tracks poll (did the albums one in 2016) so after this polls all done & dusted I might be able to run the heavy Rock,Noise & Metal tracks poll I promised 3 years ago get it over and done with before the EOY polls in January.

I vote tracks first. There's a likelihood of weirder variety, and listening along makes thread engagement fun and immediate, rather than just thinking your memories of an album. This spurs excitement that can carry on into and energise the albums rollout.

well, let's see which top 100 is weirder first!

lol my eyes glazed right over “whispers”.

imago would it be a major hassle for me to submit a modified ballot?

I left the house today and bought clear liquor with a genuine intention to do a tracks ballot, but i opened the doc and fuck you for this oppressively hard task, nah I'm closing this and walking away, also I looked at the albums ballot I submitted the other night and this is bafflingly wrong, I'll stand by it due to some In Vino Veritas bullshit but I'm apologising right now for not even noticing The Meadowlands on the list, what is on there is all in the wrong order, I've picked the wrong albums for the one-album-per-artist self-imposed nonsense, che vergogna. It's all good stuff though, nah fuckit this is my truth. Tracks would have been well different, just cos of different mode of consumption, but I'm not up to it and I'm ultimately responsible for the life choices that led me to this place

I miss people and cats from this period and some of these songs are Proustianly unhelpful

Otm re: missing cats. Hard alcohol is definitely what's missing for finishing this task. Cutting the last ten is an absolute killer.

no major hassle to resubmit!

have messaged seandalai asking about a one-day extension fyi mumble/mainhattan

the ne-yo track i voted for was "miss independent"

I also resubmitted my ballot because I accidentally voted for something twice on the tracks poll

Oh fuck no I ain't resubmitting nuthin, don't make me go back! Just as long as we all recognise that THE MEADOWLANDS by THE WRENS is A COLOSALL WORK OF ART, regardless if any particular fuckwit neglected to mention it. That fact is better shouted from rooftops than collated in polls anyrate

:)

Hey all, I've been out of the loop but now back on it. If you've submitted multiple tracks ballots or multiple albums ballots I'll just assume the last one is right. If I shouldn't be assuming this please post again itt.

thanks imago!

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed by Los Campesinos! came with two badges, "wab" and "wad". "wad" is still on my jacket cos yeah, I'm still wearing the same jacket, what of it? last time I saw "wab" it was getting on a train to London, who knows what became of it? I hope it is doing well and finally found the family it was looking for. The album is at number... six on my list, apparently. I would say it deserved more, it meant a lot to me, but the five above it are pretty fucken good, so lets just go with that. And that's the dilemma I have with every single album here, and why I amn't even considering any resubmission, too much heavy shit involved with every consideration, is that better that that? But then again, that was playing then, and, and... My former fiancee was born in Kortedala, but I remembered when we heard that Jens song for the first time, and that was from that Jens album... I take this shit seriously, and that's why I have to be drunkit to to do this, and that's why I can't do it at all, and btw I have so much love for all of you and your capacity to do better than me

I think I want to re-order my albums ballot but not tracks so I'll resubmit my albums ballot but not tracks (as i didnt take note of my tracks ballot) is that ok?

I tried that, you have to resubmit both again as far as I can see

maybe not

Voted

that was so hard and i even lost my first version of my albums poll, so i had to redo it. that was some work but glad i'm done.

Voted, didn’t do an album ballot in the end but that was haaard and there was nothing between some of my choices

voted!

Voted

Oh man, this is stressful, I haven't studied at all.

resubmitted again, sorry for the second revision, the tracks list is difficult, I keep rethinking what mattered the most to me that decade, ended up re-ordering my top 10

voted and gleefully discarded any self-imposed rules. forgot a few tracks. may drink and resubmit.

Albums done and submitted, pretty easy.
Tracks is a whole nother thing. Gonna be at this for a while.

Voted! There were a shitload of good songs in the 2000s. Holy mackerel

yep i did albums easy-ish also, tracks is tuff~

Done! I only repeated one artist (Missy) in tracks, no repeats in albums. Viva variety!

Resubmitted my albums (no changes, but I had to fix a typo on the last entry)

typo?

I copied my picks from the nominations list into a Word file, and from there into the voting form, but Word autocorrected one of the hyphens into a dash. So I just fixed that.

Ah, just wanted to make sure.

love the video for Lust for Life, it's the most SF thing ever

also the one for Hellhole Ratrace which should have been nominated

ugh the TRACKS god