Moderately Acclaimed Albums 11 (2020) - Starts Next Week!
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:51 pm
I realize there's a lot going on here lately (too much?), but I just gotta squeeze this in here if we want to stay on schedule...
Let's gear up for Moderately Acclaimed Albums - 2020 style!
This will be year 11 and still going strong, with record attendance last year!
Here's the deal:
Best Moderately Acclaimed Albums is a voting game where only albums and EPs not ranked in the top 500 are eligible. This includes all "bubblers" and completely unacclaimed albums and EPs.
There will be a single elimination draw with 128 albums, and now it's time to pick them.
Send me an ordered list of ten nominations via pm. Please include the artist name and album name as they appear on AM, as well as the AM rank (AM rank is important! Please don't make me track all these down!).
You have until Sunday, February 16th to make nominations.
Same drill as in the past -
I will select nominations as follows:
First I will go through and pick all the first place albums
Then, I will go through and pick all the second place albums
Then, the third place albums, etc, until the draw fills up.
No more than 25 will be picked ranked 1000 or higher, no more than 50 ranked 1500 or higher, no more than 75 ranked 2000 or higher, and no more than 100 ranked 2500 or higher, so make sure you spread your picks out through the entire list.
I will then sort the selections into quadrants based on their rankings, and then create a bracket by randomly sorting each quadrant.
During the competition period (which will begin in early March), we will choose one match-up from each quadrant (starting at the top of each quadrant) in the field and square them off against each other in a week-long voting period. (For clarification, week 1 of the competition will include the top match-up from each quadrant; week 2 will include the second match-up from each quadrant, etc.).
Additional rules:
- No one person can nominate more than one album by the same artist.
- Albums that have previously won the tournament are not eligible.
- No albums that qualified for the 2019 Moderate game are eligible.
- No albums that qualified for the 2018 Moderate game are eligible, except those that were eliminated in Round 1.
- No albums that qualified for the 2017 Moderate game are eligible, except those that were eliminated in Round 1 or Round 2.
- From the 2016 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-3 are eligible.
- From the 2015 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-4 are eligible.
- From the 2014 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-5 are eligible.
- From the 2013 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-6 are eligible.
- No albums from 2019 are eligible (the eventual winner of the Moderately Acclaimed Album of 2019 will automatically be entered).
Don't get caught up in all these parameters - I've made it easy for you by including the list of non-eligible albums below!
The actual voting won't start until early March (a couple weeks after the bracket is published - exact date tbd).
Here's a list of the albums that are ineligible per the above stated restrictions (please check your picks!):
4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Agalloch - The Mantle
Aimee Mann - Music from the Motion Picture Magnolia
Alabama 3 - Exile On Coldharbour Lane
Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Anne Clark - Changing Places
Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Astor Piazzolla - LIbertango
Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Barbara - Barbara chante Barbara
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Bee Gees - Bee Gees' 1st
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem [London Symphony Orchestra / Benjamin Britten]
Beyoncé - 4
Billy Joel - Piano Man
blink-182 - Enema of the State
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Blur - 13
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Bob Dylan - Desire
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks
Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's My Way
C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell
Camel - Mirage
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Carl Perkins - The Dance Album of Carl Perkins
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clint Boon Experience - The Compact Guide To Pop Music and Space Travel
Coldplay - Parachutes
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges
Crowded House - Crowded House
Crowded House - Woodface
Cyndi Lauper - She's so Unusual
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
David Bowie - Lodger
David Bowie - The Next Day
David Bowie - Young Americans
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin)
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Masterpieces by Ellington
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West
Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Enya - Shepherd Moons
Erykah Badu - Baduism
Etta James - At Last!
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Fela Kuti – Original Sufferhead
Fela Kuti-Zombie
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Fiona Apple - Tidal
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
Fishmans - Long Season
Floatation Toy Warning - Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Francesco De Gregori - Rimmel
Fred Pallem - Le sacre du tympan (Le retour)
Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gemini Eye - The Is of Being
Gene Clark - No Other
George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
Global Communication - 76:14
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Gong-Flying Teapot - Radio Gnome Invisible
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Grimes - Art Angels
Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
Hedningarna - Hippjokk
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
Jacques Brel - Olympia 1964
Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel [Ces gens-là]
Janet Jackson - janet
Jean-Michel jarre - Oxygène
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress
Jimmy Cliff - Jimmy Cliff
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fôrdlandia
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
John Fahey - Volume II: Death Chants, Military Waltzes and Breakdowns
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
Jon Hassell and Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Jorge Ben - A Tábua de Esmeralda
Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music 1
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Kid Kudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Kimio Eto - Koto Music
King Crimson - Red
Kino - Kino (The Black Album)
La Femme - Mystère
Labradford - Mi Media Najanja
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - malik
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
Le Tigre - Le Tigre
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Loscil - Submers
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Lou Reed/John Cale - Songs For Drella
M. Ward - Hold Time
Mahmoud Ahmed - Era Mela Mela
Mano Negra - Puta's Fever
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
Mari Boine - Idjagieđas: In the Hand of the Night
Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis - Cat House Piano
Micachu - Jewellery
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
Mogwai - Young Team
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
múm - Finally We Are No One
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
My Morning Jacket - Z
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
Nina Simone - In Concert 1964
Novos Baianos - Acabou chorare
Oval - 94 Diskont
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Paramore - After Laughter
Paul Oakenfold - Goa Mix
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis - Deep Listening
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Pescado Rabioso - Artaud
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pet Shop Boys - Concrete
Peter Gabriel - Us
Philip Glass - Akhnaten
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Popcaan - Where We Come From
Portishead - Portishead
Prince - "Love Symbol Album"
Prince & the Revolution - Parade
Ravi Shankar - Shankar Family and Friends
Rei Kondoh/Masami Ueda/Hiroshi Yamaguchi - Okami Original Soundtrack
Rodriguez - Coming from Reality
Roxy Music - Country Life
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Rush - Permanent Waves
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
Santigold - Santogold
Screaming Trees - Dust
Section 25 - From the Hip
Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B.
SEXWITCH - SEXWITCH
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
Sky - Sky 2
Sleater Kinney - One Beat
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Songs: Ohia - Didn't it Rain
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Soulwax - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
Spinners - Spinners
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Swans - The Seer
Sweet Trip - Velocity: Design: Comfort
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions
The Beatles - Help!
The Bees - Free The Bees
The Black Keys - Brothers
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Coral - Magic & Medicine
The Crocketts - The Great Brain Robbery
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Jam - Sound Affects
The Kinks - Face To Face
The Knife - Deep Cuts
The Milennium - Begin
The Mutton Birds - Salty
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
The Original Soundtrack - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Pentangle - Basket of Light
The Replacements - Tim
The Seatbelts/Yoko Kanno - Cowboy Bebop
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
The Sound - From the Lions Mouth
The Sound - Jeopardy
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Welcome to the Infant Freebase
The The - Soul Mining
The Velvet Underground - VU
The xx - I See You
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Tim Minchin - Ready for This?
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Tokyo Jihen - Kyōiku
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
Tom Waits - Small Change
Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Tubeway Army - Replicas
U2 - Boy
Various Artists - I'm Your Fan
Weekend - La Varieté
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
Wire - Chairs Missing
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Youssou N'Dour - The Guide (Wommat)
Again, send your nominations to me via a Personal Message through this site, and include the current AM ranking for each album.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
As always, looking forward to seeing your lists!
Let's gear up for Moderately Acclaimed Albums - 2020 style!
This will be year 11 and still going strong, with record attendance last year!
Here's the deal:
Best Moderately Acclaimed Albums is a voting game where only albums and EPs not ranked in the top 500 are eligible. This includes all "bubblers" and completely unacclaimed albums and EPs.
There will be a single elimination draw with 128 albums, and now it's time to pick them.
Send me an ordered list of ten nominations via pm. Please include the artist name and album name as they appear on AM, as well as the AM rank (AM rank is important! Please don't make me track all these down!).
You have until Sunday, February 16th to make nominations.
Same drill as in the past -
I will select nominations as follows:
First I will go through and pick all the first place albums
Then, I will go through and pick all the second place albums
Then, the third place albums, etc, until the draw fills up.
No more than 25 will be picked ranked 1000 or higher, no more than 50 ranked 1500 or higher, no more than 75 ranked 2000 or higher, and no more than 100 ranked 2500 or higher, so make sure you spread your picks out through the entire list.
I will then sort the selections into quadrants based on their rankings, and then create a bracket by randomly sorting each quadrant.
During the competition period (which will begin in early March), we will choose one match-up from each quadrant (starting at the top of each quadrant) in the field and square them off against each other in a week-long voting period. (For clarification, week 1 of the competition will include the top match-up from each quadrant; week 2 will include the second match-up from each quadrant, etc.).
Additional rules:
- No one person can nominate more than one album by the same artist.
- Albums that have previously won the tournament are not eligible.
- No albums that qualified for the 2019 Moderate game are eligible.
- No albums that qualified for the 2018 Moderate game are eligible, except those that were eliminated in Round 1.
- No albums that qualified for the 2017 Moderate game are eligible, except those that were eliminated in Round 1 or Round 2.
- From the 2016 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-3 are eligible.
- From the 2015 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-4 are eligible.
- From the 2014 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-5 are eligible.
- From the 2013 Moderate game, only those albums that were eliminated in Rounds 1-6 are eligible.
- No albums from 2019 are eligible (the eventual winner of the Moderately Acclaimed Album of 2019 will automatically be entered).
Don't get caught up in all these parameters - I've made it easy for you by including the list of non-eligible albums below!
The actual voting won't start until early March (a couple weeks after the bracket is published - exact date tbd).
Here's a list of the albums that are ineligible per the above stated restrictions (please check your picks!):
4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Agalloch - The Mantle
Aimee Mann - Music from the Motion Picture Magnolia
Alabama 3 - Exile On Coldharbour Lane
Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Anne Clark - Changing Places
Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Astor Piazzolla - LIbertango
Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Barbara - Barbara chante Barbara
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Bee Gees - Bee Gees' 1st
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem [London Symphony Orchestra / Benjamin Britten]
Beyoncé - 4
Billy Joel - Piano Man
blink-182 - Enema of the State
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Blur - 13
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Bob Dylan - Desire
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks
Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's My Way
C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell
Camel - Mirage
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Carl Perkins - The Dance Album of Carl Perkins
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clint Boon Experience - The Compact Guide To Pop Music and Space Travel
Coldplay - Parachutes
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges
Crowded House - Crowded House
Crowded House - Woodface
Cyndi Lauper - She's so Unusual
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
David Bowie - Lodger
David Bowie - The Next Day
David Bowie - Young Americans
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin)
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Masterpieces by Ellington
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West
Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Enya - Shepherd Moons
Erykah Badu - Baduism
Etta James - At Last!
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Fela Kuti – Original Sufferhead
Fela Kuti-Zombie
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Fiona Apple - Tidal
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
Fishmans - Long Season
Floatation Toy Warning - Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Francesco De Gregori - Rimmel
Fred Pallem - Le sacre du tympan (Le retour)
Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gemini Eye - The Is of Being
Gene Clark - No Other
George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
Global Communication - 76:14
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Gong-Flying Teapot - Radio Gnome Invisible
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Grimes - Art Angels
Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
Hedningarna - Hippjokk
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
Jacques Brel - Olympia 1964
Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel [Ces gens-là]
Janet Jackson - janet
Jean-Michel jarre - Oxygène
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress
Jimmy Cliff - Jimmy Cliff
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fôrdlandia
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
John Fahey - Volume II: Death Chants, Military Waltzes and Breakdowns
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
Jon Hassell and Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Jorge Ben - A Tábua de Esmeralda
Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music 1
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Kid Kudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Kimio Eto - Koto Music
King Crimson - Red
Kino - Kino (The Black Album)
La Femme - Mystère
Labradford - Mi Media Najanja
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - malik
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
Le Tigre - Le Tigre
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Loscil - Submers
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Lou Reed/John Cale - Songs For Drella
M. Ward - Hold Time
Mahmoud Ahmed - Era Mela Mela
Mano Negra - Puta's Fever
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
Mari Boine - Idjagieđas: In the Hand of the Night
Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis - Cat House Piano
Micachu - Jewellery
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
Mogwai - Young Team
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
múm - Finally We Are No One
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
My Morning Jacket - Z
Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
Nina Simone - In Concert 1964
Novos Baianos - Acabou chorare
Oval - 94 Diskont
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Paramore - After Laughter
Paul Oakenfold - Goa Mix
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis - Deep Listening
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Pescado Rabioso - Artaud
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pet Shop Boys - Concrete
Peter Gabriel - Us
Philip Glass - Akhnaten
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Popcaan - Where We Come From
Portishead - Portishead
Prince - "Love Symbol Album"
Prince & the Revolution - Parade
Ravi Shankar - Shankar Family and Friends
Rei Kondoh/Masami Ueda/Hiroshi Yamaguchi - Okami Original Soundtrack
Rodriguez - Coming from Reality
Roxy Music - Country Life
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Rush - Permanent Waves
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
Santigold - Santogold
Screaming Trees - Dust
Section 25 - From the Hip
Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B.
SEXWITCH - SEXWITCH
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
Sky - Sky 2
Sleater Kinney - One Beat
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Songs: Ohia - Didn't it Rain
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Soulwax - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
Spinners - Spinners
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Swans - The Seer
Sweet Trip - Velocity: Design: Comfort
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions
The Beatles - Help!
The Bees - Free The Bees
The Black Keys - Brothers
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Coral - Magic & Medicine
The Crocketts - The Great Brain Robbery
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Jam - Sound Affects
The Kinks - Face To Face
The Knife - Deep Cuts
The Milennium - Begin
The Mutton Birds - Salty
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
The Original Soundtrack - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Pentangle - Basket of Light
The Replacements - Tim
The Seatbelts/Yoko Kanno - Cowboy Bebop
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
The Sound - From the Lions Mouth
The Sound - Jeopardy
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Welcome to the Infant Freebase
The The - Soul Mining
The Velvet Underground - VU
The xx - I See You
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Tim Minchin - Ready for This?
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Tokyo Jihen - Kyōiku
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
Tom Waits - Small Change
Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Tubeway Army - Replicas
U2 - Boy
Various Artists - I'm Your Fan
Weekend - La Varieté
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
Wire - Chairs Missing
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
Youssou N'Dour - The Guide (Wommat)
Again, send your nominations to me via a Personal Message through this site, and include the current AM ranking for each album.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
As always, looking forward to seeing your lists!
