Interference's Top 100 Albums of All Time - Sign Up And Discussion Thread

LemonMelon · 10-28-2008, 01:41 AM

As you may or may not have observed, for every tournament that finishes, a new one has to be made to fill the void. With Desert Island V and the Radiohead survivor wrapping up, I figured it would be a great time to break out an old favorite; list-making. Except, of course, on a much larger scale.

The final goal is to put together a list of 100 albums, with the rankings based on the points they receive from their placement on the list you make. Your job is to make a list of 50 albums, with the genre being absolutely irrelevant.

The points will be distributed as follows:

#1 - 50 points
#2 - 49 points
#3 - 48 points

If you learned how to count at some point in your life, you know where I'm going with this.

You are allowed 3 albums per artist. This is to prevent a final list comprised solely of U2, Beatles, and Radiohead albums. It would be an accurate list, but minorities deserve a fair chance as well.

Because we still have a couple of tournaments going, and because it takes more than 24 hours to polish up a list of 50 albums, it will be a week before I start accepting any lists. If you wish to participate, please say so, and you will be notified when it has been a week. Usually, it's 7 days, but stuff happens, and people may forget. If it has been a week and you never signed up, you may still enter a list, but you won't be notified. The platinum package is saved for those who read B&C every single day and never miss a response. I will be accepting lists for two weeks, to accommodate those who signed up, and those who see this thread and may want to throw something together at the last minute.

To enter a list, please send it to me via PM. If you were to all post your lists in this thread, there would be no suspense, and the agonizingly long results thread would just be agonizing.

Let's get this magical mystery tour rolling. It's our only hope to keep B&C hopping in this awkward period between the end of Desert Island and the release of the new U2 album when I graduate........from med school.

COBL_04 · 10-28-2008, 01:49 AM

Oh fuck yes I am in.

Don't do what that bloke did in Ekyew either, where he posted the results one post by one bloody post.

What happened to the Bowie survivor?

Zootlesque · 10-28-2008, 01:51 AM

Holy shit!

Great idea, Mel! What a coincidence, cos I was thinking about this the other day as I browsed Rolling Stone's Top 100 albums of all-time from 2003 and thought about maybe giving it a go myself! So yeah... mindless list making? Count me in!

LemonMelon · 10-28-2008, 01:55 AM

I'm honestly surprised this hasn't already been done. If it has, I certainly never saw anything like it in my four years of trolling this place (in a manner of speaking).

Quote:

Originally Posted by COBL_04

What happened to the Bowie survivor?

It reached Tonight and Pfan did what many Bowie fans must have done around that time; quit.

COBL_04 · 10-28-2008, 01:57 AM

Well, there's been some attempts like it, I guess. There was that post-your-five-favourite-albums-and-we'll-have-a-100-best thing, and surely there'd be some threads asking posters to list their best.

Zootlesque · 10-28-2008, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LemonMelon

I'm honestly surprised this hasn't already been done. If it has, I certainly never saw anything like it in my four years of trolling this place (in a manner of speaking).

Yeah you'd think a topic like this would have already been covered! I've never seen it either.

Actually... yeah I think we've had Top 10 and Top 20 lists on this topic!

LemonMelon · 10-28-2008, 02:00 AM

I blatantly stole the idea from a Simpsons forum I frequent, but hey, very few of the albums we'll be crowning are truly original themselves, so it's only fair.

GirlsAloudFan · 10-28-2008, 02:02 AM

I'm down.

Zootlesque · 10-28-2008, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LemonMelon

very few of the albums we'll be crowning are truly original themselves

Are you saying Viva La Vida is not original music?

LemonMelon · 10-28-2008, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zootlesque

Are you saying Viva La Vida is not original music?

I'm saying.

Axver · 10-28-2008, 02:04 AM

I'm totally in on this.

Helps that last January, I made a top 50 albums list on my blog that I don't expect I will alter much.

COBL_04 · 10-28-2008, 02:04 AM

Here's to the list being original, which I think it shall. I certainly don't own all the albums that are considered the best, and the ones that I do (eg Sgt. Peppers) I don't think are as great as many consider.

LemonMelon · 10-28-2008, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Axver

I'm totally in on this.

Helps that last January, I made a top 50 albums list on my blog that I don't expect I will alter much.

Ha, yeah, I still have a top 50 lying around, but it will be altered considerably.

intedomine · 10-28-2008, 02:10 AM

I'm all for this. This will crack wonderfully.

the tourist · 10-28-2008, 02:12 AM

This is a great idea.

10-28-2008, 01:57 AM	#5
COBL_04 is trying to suck a lemon Premium Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Put 'em Under Pressure, 2008 AFL Thread!! & Wezza Posts: 8,009 Local Time: 05:40 PM	Well, there's been some attempts like it, I guess. There was that post-your-five-favourite-albums-and-we'll-have-a-100-best thing, and surely there'd be some threads asking posters to list their best. __________________ Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

10-28-2008, 02:00 AM	#7
LemonMelon Pimp Trick Gangsta Click Premium Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Outer space, and I'm not coming down until I've taken a slice of the SPACE MOON. Posts: 26,563 Local Time: 01:40 AM	I blatantly stole the idea from a Simpsons forum I frequent, but hey, very few of the albums we'll be crowning are truly original themselves, so it's only fair. __________________ "We have hearsay and conjecture. Those are 'kinds' of evidence..."

10-28-2008, 02:04 AM	#11
Axver Assver, Setlist Antichrist Premium Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: A Melbourne tram departing Wellington Posts: 88,700 Local Time: 05:40 PM	I'm totally in on this. Helps that last January, I made a top 50 albums list on my blog that I don't expect I will alter much. __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard “Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat.” - Ian McCulloch U2gigs.com: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database on the web! Contradiction is balance: Axver's blog \| Axver's crappy photography

10-28-2008, 02:04 AM	#12
COBL_04 is trying to suck a lemon Premium Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Put 'em Under Pressure, 2008 AFL Thread!! & Wezza Posts: 8,009 Local Time: 05:40 PM	Here's to the list being original, which I think it shall. I certainly don't own all the albums that are considered the best, and the ones that I do (eg Sgt. Peppers) I don't think are as great as many consider. __________________ Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

10-28-2008, 02:12 AM	#15
the tourist I'm A Starflyer Premium Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: in the garage of Liam's cardboard box house in Axver's backyard. Posts: 18,255 Local Time: 10:40 PM	This is a great idea. __________________ Starflyer 59: "rocking your world since '93" get into it.

10-28-2008, 01:41 AM	#1
LemonMelon Pimp Trick Gangsta Click Premium Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Outer space, and I'm not coming down until I've taken a slice of the SPACE MOON. Posts: 26,563 Local Time: 01:40 AM	Interference's Top 100 Albums of All Time - Sign Up And Discussion Thread As you may or may not have observed, for every tournament that finishes, a new one has to be made to fill the void. With Desert Island V and the Radiohead survivor wrapping up, I figured it would be a great time to break out an old favorite; list-making. Except, of course, on a much larger scale. The final goal is to put together a list of 100 albums, with the rankings based on the points they receive from their placement on the list you make. Your job is to make a list of 50 albums, with the genre being absolutely irrelevant. The points will be distributed as follows: #1 - 50 points #2 - 49 points #3 - 48 points If you learned how to count at some point in your life, you know where I'm going with this. You are allowed 3 albums per artist. This is to prevent a final list comprised solely of U2, Beatles, and Radiohead albums. It would be an accurate list, but minorities deserve a fair chance as well. Because we still have a couple of tournaments going, and because it takes more than 24 hours to polish up a list of 50 albums, it will be a week before I start accepting any lists. If you wish to participate, please say so, and you will be notified when it has been a week. Usually, it's 7 days, but stuff happens, and people may forget. If it has been a week and you never signed up, you may still enter a list, but you won't be notified. The platinum package is saved for those who read B&C every single day and never miss a response. I will be accepting lists for two weeks, to accommodate those who signed up, and those who see this thread and may want to throw something together at the last minute. To enter a list, please send it to me via PM. If you were to all post your lists in this thread, there would be no suspense, and the agonizingly long results thread would just be agonizing. Let's get this magical mystery tour rolling. It's our only hope to keep B&C hopping in this awkward period between the end of Desert Island and the release of the new U2 album when I graduate........from med school. __________________ "We have hearsay and conjecture. Those are 'kinds' of evidence..."

10-28-2008, 01:49 AM	#2
COBL_04 is trying to suck a lemon Premium Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Put 'em Under Pressure, 2008 AFL Thread!! & Wezza Posts: 8,009 Local Time: 05:40 PM	Oh fuck yes I am in. Don't do what that bloke did in Ekyew either, where he posted the results one post by one bloody post. What happened to the Bowie survivor? __________________ Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

10-28-2008, 01:51 AM	#3
Zootlesque Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Uncool corner of Interference... overlooking Space Moon™ Posts: 35,549 Local Time: 01:40 AM Images: 65	Holy shit! Great idea, Mel! What a coincidence, cos I was thinking about this the other day as I browsed Rolling Stone's Top 100 albums of all-time from 2003 and thought about maybe giving it a go myself! So yeah... mindless list making? Count me in!

10-28-2008, 02:02 AM	#8
GirlsAloudFan Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 5,127 Local Time: 12:40 AM	I'm down.

10-28-2008, 02:10 AM	#14
intedomine Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: MELBOURNE's crazy!!! Posts: 3,990 Local Time: 05:40 PM	I'm all for this. This will crack wonderfully.

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