WesWhite

The Postal Service? That is definitely not true. 98%, 99% maybe... but definitely not 99.9%. But then, you're on a music forum, that's a specific crowd, probably much higher rates of recognition around here. Anyway I think the point people are trying to make is you might like them, if you like Owl City, which is certainly true. http://www.last.fm/music/The+Postal+Servic...ights?autostart While I have the opportunity to pimp a friend, too, Josh Doyle [ex-DumDums] is always getting Postal Service comparisons - some of their fans will no doubt think somewhat kindly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDc7baTOLOM

Amazon and hmv still have KITN no. 1, Climb no. 2, BR 3.

Those 2 Gaga bars combined are definitely a smidgen bigger than Joe's now.

Totally fair enough. Btw: voting closes end of New Years Day. If anyone changes their mind between now and then you can come back and edit your posts because I won't do the final count-up til then. I'm trusting people not to edit their posts just to affect the outcome :P

It still would be a bit of a blow to miss out on number 1 in the downloads chart again, though. Especially *without* anyone campaigning for it. I realise they won't make much of it, though.

I think Rage is going to plummet out of the top 20 by Sunday.

Results 1 Florence and the Machine // Lungs :: 20 points 2 Kasabian // West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum :: 13 points 3 Arctic Monkeys // Humbug :: 11 points 4= Animal Collective // Merriweather Post Pavilion :: 10 points 4= Yeah Yeah Yeahs // It's Blitz :: 10 points 6 Phoenix // Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix :: 5 points 7 The Horrors // Primary Colours :: 4 points 8= Fever Ray :: 3 points 8= Grizzly Bear // Veckatimest :: 3 points 8= Manic Street Preachers // Journal For Plague Lovers :: 3 points 8= The XX // XX :: 3 points 12 f*** Buttons // Tarot Sport :: 1 point everyone else :: 0 points Florence wins! Huge best-of-decade list to follow shortly, will probably open the scoring up a lot more for that one. Both JLS and Robbie Williams (and even Lady Gaga) are very unlikely to feature, I'm afraid, don't shoot the messenger... ----- [original post]: With reference to the end-of-year-lists thread; everyone else is asking people to vote on charts and I'm jealous. So what are forum members favourite albums out of these? Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion The Horrors – Primary Colours Florence and the Machine – Lungs Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter Wild Beasts – Two Dancers Fever Ray Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest F*** Buttons – Tarot Sport The XX – XX The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers Arctic Monkeys – Humbug Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Bob Dylan – Together Through Life Sonic Youth – The Eternal Tinariwen – Imidiwan +3 to your favourite album on the list +2 to second favourite +1 to third favourite -1 to one you actively dislike [optional] Voting is now closed!

I thought he was but missed out cos of Band Aid 20? [remembers he is on a chart expert forum and decides to check..] Oop, no, you're right - but he surely *would* have missed out because of Band Aid 20 anyway, he couldn't take them for the New Year chart. No shame there really.

Yeah I agree Wordshaker - I was actually surprised it didn't drop sooner. The group was still really active up to today but if you check it now there are minutes between wall posts rather than seconds. Think that's all the excitement over. I do think it will drop like a stone, everyone knows the point was made.

So.... it's looking very possible Joe could miss out on number 1 in the download chart for a second week running, no?

Hmm!! Are the Ragers buying Lady Gaga just to spite Joe? :P

But that means that RATM were selling more than Joe on Sunday and Monday. A lot of confused Ragers thinking it would still count for chart, maybe.

Doesn't the fact that RATM are still ahead suggest it has to be a *weekly* rolling chart?

It is an astonishing album though, if it was English language I think it would have been even higher. Uncut made it their 'Album of the Year' in a separate thing (quite why that's only enough to get to 5 on their end-of-year list is beyond me) Yep, that's Q for you...

Cremey - my, god that's an amazing pic of Cheryl in your signature. Are there any more where that came from? :wub: Artist - Album (self-titled otherwise) :: Q / Uncut / Mojo / Rough Trade / NME 21. Wilco (The Album) :: 29 / 7 / 34 / - / - 22. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate :: 47 / 28 / 9 / - / - 23. Doves - Kingdom of Rust :: 11 / 17 / - / - / 23 24. White Denim - Fits :: - / 13 / 36 / 16 / - 25. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns :: 26 / - / 21 / - / 22 26. Mos Def - The Ecstatic :: 24 / - / 41 / 31 / - 27. Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery :: - / 24 / - / 48 / 31 28. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream :: 28 / 43 / 47 / - / - 29. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart :: - / - / - / 5 / 15 30. Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love :: - / - / - / 37 / 7 31. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You :: 8 / - / - / - / 25 32. Jamie T - Kings And Queens :: 21 / - / - / - / 10 33. The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant :: - / - / 11 / - / 30 34. La Roux :: 30 / - / - / - / 13 35. Atlas Sound - Logos :: - / - / - / 13 / 48 36. Basseke Kouyate and Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula :: - / 15 / 27 / - / - 37. The Girls - The Album :: - / - / - / 26 / 16 38. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream :: 16 / - / - / - / 42 39. Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More :: - / - / - / 38 / 17 40. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions :: - / 25 / 19 / - / - 41. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career :: - / - / - / 19 / 28 42. Alela Diane - To Be Still :: - / 22 / - / 27 / - 43. Portico Quartet - Isla :: - / 35 / 22 / - / - 44. Noah And The Whale - First Days Of Spring :: 25 / - / - / - / 32 45. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils :: - / 47 / 25 / - / - 46. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone :: - / - / 26 / - / 49 47. PJ Harvey And John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By :: - / 29 / - / - / 27 48. The Dead Weather - Horehound :: 27 / 31 / - / - / - 49. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs :: - / 27 / - / 53 / - 50. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions :: 31/ - / - / 41 51. Dead Man's Bones :: - / - / 43 / 33 / - 52. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 :: - / 49 / - / - / 33 53. Japandroids - Post Nothing :: - / - / - / 59 / 39 54. Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My :: - / - / 45 / 43 / - 55. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications :: 50 / - / - / 44 / - 56. Telepathe - Dance Mother :: - / - / - / 50 / 47 57. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years :: - / 2 / - / - / - = 58. Muse - The Resistance :: 7 / - / - / - / - = 58. The Leisure Society - The Sleeper And the Product Of The Ego Drain :: - / - / - / 7 / - = 60. U2 - No Line On The Horizon :: 9 / - / - / - / - = 60. Forest Fire - Survival :: - / - / - / - / 9 From here on (as you can see) they only appeared in one individual list, so these are **selected** others together with the list they appeared on: Q 12. Jack Penate - Everything Is New 14. Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be 15. Dizzee Rascal - Tongue'N'Cheek 17. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 18. Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much 19. Monsters Of Folk 23. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die 32. Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up 35. Pearl Jam - Backspacer 40. Cheryl Cole - 3 Words 44. The View - Which Bitch? 45. Conor Oberst And The Valley Band - Outer South 46. Golden Silvers - True Romance 48. Ian Brown - My Way Uncut 18. Graham Coxon - Spinning Top 26. The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming 32. Iggy Pop - Preliminaires 39. Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast 41. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl Mojo 24. Vieux Farka Toure - Fondo 29. Mastodon - Crack The Skye 33. Leonard Cohen - Live In London 40. Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light NME 18. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another 19. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms 29. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young 43. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight 46. Gallows - Grey Britain 50. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose Rough Trade 10. The Very Best - The Warm Heart Of Africa 49. The Irrepressibles - From The Circus... To The Sea 51. Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 54. Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong 55. Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms 56. She Keeps Best – Nests 57. Soulsavers – Broken 58. The Acorn – Glory Hope Mountain

+5 :: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name +4 :: Cheryl Cole - 3 Words [i like this far more than I expected to, the video is fantastic] +3 :: 30H!3; Katy Perry - Starstrukk +2 :: Lady GaGa - Bad Romance +1 :: Peter Kay's Animated Allstars - The Official BBC Children In Need Medley -1 :: Rihanna - Russian Roulette -2 :: Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway -3 :: Robbie Williams - You Know Me -4 :: Joe McElderry - The Climb -5 :: Journey - Don't Stop Believing The top 4 I actually like to some extent - Peter Kay's thing was fun but the novelty's worn off - Rihanna, BEPs and Robbie were hard to choose between for different levels of extreme boringness - Joe's song is actively bad, Journey's is actively even worse.

Presumably it's safe to assume that anything halfway or more to Rage now is going to overtake them? Be weird if the Journey track was higher than KITN in next weeks chart - certainly looks possible though.

I find with Florence that I think she's fantastic one day, and then a few days later I'll hear the same song, same performance, and think it's awful -- or vice versa. I must admit I haven't heard the album though, just the singles and some lives. I'll post the rest of the combined list up tonight or later this week -- there'll be one for the decade too but I'm waiting for Mojo to publish, I assume they're going to do one of those in their next issue.

Amazing!

Okay here's one - not from this year but relevant because it's prominently sampled in (and provides the title of) 'Whatcha Say' which is currently charting - Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek http://www.last.fm/music/Imogen+Heap/_/Hide+and+Seek I don't know if it charted anywhere in the UK but it certainly wasn't top 40.

Next 10, since this is proving so popular: 11. The XX - XX :: - / 6 / 22 / 1 / 2 12. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin :: 22 / 21 / 12 / 2 / - 13. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers :: 5 / 23 / 20 / - / 14 14. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug :: 6 / 38 / 23 / - / 23 15. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix :: 10 / 10 / - / 14 / 34 16. Kasabian - West Pauper Lunatic Asylum :: 1 / - / 19 / - / 11 17. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle :: - / 11 / 2 / 60 / - 18. Bob Dylan - Together Through Life :: 49 / 4 / 6 / - / - 19. Sonic Youth - The Eternal :: 36 / 19 / 38 / - / 35 20. Tinariwen - Imidiwan :: 43 / 35 / 5 / - / -

Was that the girl who got to judge's houses on X-factor this year? I remember her as being great, but I'm not sure if my memory might be being swayed a lot by the fact that she was really beautiful...

Tony - I may be mistaken, but I think it's nothing more than a corruption of 'lol's. As in laughs, obviously.

None of the stuff I really love ever does anything in the charts anyway, I'm only here for the lulz :P

For me with Little Boots I think she was really strangely marketed. In her early pictures and interviews she came across like a quirky nu-folk kind of songstrel, I thought she seemed really interesting and in fact like my kind of artist, but the songs are actually *really* pop - I can imagine the kinds of people who might otherwise like her music actually being put off by the image - and certainly I really liked the image (quite apart from the fact she's awfully pretty), but the songs do nothing at all for me. Shame, I really wanted to like her.