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

ballots are gonna be wildly compromised and arbitrary no matter what, suck it up and kill yr darlings

Voted. Didn't manage a tracks ballot - too stressful by far.

extension though

i actually made an albums of the '00s list a few years ago, i just need this for the sweet sweet tracks

Does your album list of some years ago still hold up or did you make quite some changes? Just curious

for the most part it holds up. i am removing br*nd n*w but i think that's the only difference beyond some minor ranking adjustments

Yeah :/ I'm still struggling with them but they won't make my cut either.

On dis mammoth task again. I could have sworn someone (ArchCarrier?) nominated Johan's 'Pergola' album, but it's not in the document of nominations.

Ah my bad, checked it now, ArchCarrier nominated a single of that album, not the album itself. Fuck. Will have to leave off my favourite 'this will tip you over the edge if you are suicidal' album now (no really, I love it dearly).

I'm surprised no one has pointed this out as I know there are going to be a rush of people voting for it: for King Creosote's KC Rules OK, there's no - between the artist and the album name.

tbf i'm def voting for at least one chinaski nomination

[invisible ink]Six by Seven?[/invisible ink]

i am nothing if not predictable lol

All power to you - it's fucking fantastic.

The closer you geeeeeeeeeeet *guitaaaars*

*i

look it's been a long day ok

xxp "Tumble and Fall" is such a brilliant opener that I don't think I've even heard the rest of Pergola.

Gah, you totally should.

Will do!

I sent in a slightly shorter mixed ballot today--35 songs instead of 50--and made up my own point system so that everything averaged out to 53 points per song. I'm really annoying that way. If that doesn't work, just adjust as you see fit (or forget the mixed part and give every song 53 points).

The Closer You Get is up there with Mclusky Do Dallas as a pinnacle of guitar music for this decade and about as far from imago widdlywoo music as you could possibly get, do not let his enthusiasm discourage you winkyface

(was gunna vote but my coffee table and the general contents of my eyeline are putting me off, it's all too much and alcohol)

aw, you should vote. you should definitely vote if the closer you get is high in your ballot

everyone still has nearly a week anyway!

A week is a comfortable reassuring measure of time but then again alcohol, oh look Hood Cold House is in new answers, ok that's 3 albums right there, this is doable...

Vote Hood Cold House, then alcohol again, then all is "well" (but vote Hood Cold House)

Actually scanning the nominations list I will do this, midweek maybe wednesday around teatime

The ONLY WORTHWHILE CLEARLAKE ALBUM, fuckit I'll do the albums tonight in a drunkit haze, maybe work on the tracks (the more important aspect obv) in the week

Is there one place with all the album nominations? Because I don't see Blueberry Boat on the pastebin list

wait why is Blueberry Boat not in the pastebin link?

― sleeve, Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:35 PM (one week ago)

xp oh it's under "The Fiery Furnaces" along with Gallowsbird's Bark, carry on

― sleeve, Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:49 PM (one week ago)

Never mind I found it...there is some confusion with the "The" bands.

Had the same reaction and then found it under The Firery...

Haha delete post

Gallowsbird's Bark prolly gunna narrowly miss the cut, Blechberry Spit getting ranked where it belongs

Ok, done albums, if I haven't messed up the process. I put Six By Seven up there but not as high as Hood, is everyone happy?

The ONLY WORTHWHILE CLEARLAKE ALBUM

spoiler: this (Lido) is one of my favourite albums of all time

the other Clearlake albums are tbf good, Lido is lifechanging

Blueberry Boat is by 'The Fiery Furnaces' on the album cover, that's good enough for me. (Also lifechanging)

I'll remember 'Blechberry Spit' during the rollout though :P

I actually think like 3/4 of my ballot is your type of thing, to my eternal shame. Blueberry Boat can fuck right off tho

...into the top 100

fwiw I almost suggested a demerit system where you could take 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100 points away from a track or album of your choice, perhaps entitled the James Murphy Bonus Prize. fortunately thought better of it

Lido came along at just the right time for me, when I had just stopped doing drugs and was out of university with no degree and no job and was fried and sad and not sure what to do with my life, it felt like someone had captured my life and put it on cd, almost in a scary literal way.

Cedars is also very good. 'Almost The Same' might well be their best track.

my one-sentence review of Lido reads This album is a miracle coalescing from the Sussex sea air and capturing what all British indie ever was attempting to capture on their first goddamn try and really i don't have much to add, it is overwhelmingly resonant with the boredom and joy of being young, British and uncertain. I suppose I could add that the songwriting is exceptionally strong, but it's the mood above all that sustains it. i play it every xmas

I was kinda on board for a wee while after, but Lido was kinda sui generis from where I am sat. They gradually degenerated into trad zzzz
er that

Anyway I put FRIGHTENED RABBIT at 2, youse should all check that out, I'm not expecting a great deal of appreciation for it but that was pretty much my life in that period, I didn't get much Sussex sea air I suppose

almost suggested a demerit system where you could take 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100 points away from a track or album of your choice, perhaps entitled the James Murphy Bonus Prize. unfortunately thought better of it

753 points, 18 votes, 1 first place, 3 anti-votes, 2 worst place

^^^is this the future we wish for our descendents

(will check out frightened rabbit!)

I DID IT. Actually managed a weighted ballot for both albums and tracks. Only a small amount of handwringing over the fact that I am, at the end of the day, indie schmindie (although aside from Spoon in the top ten, I think I fall outside the most predictable quadrant of that cliche.)

Frightened Rabbit also very high on my ballot.