Posted this on the Uncut thread but maybe more visible here?
Last year @andyourbirdcansing aka Baron H seemed to be hankering after curating the AW Album of the Year poll but Gary beat him to it.
If he doesn’t fancy taking over for 2023, anybody else like to step up to the plate?
If not, I’m happy to dust off the spreadsheet, presumably starting proceedings 1st December
I can’t possibly do it two years in a row. I’m 61-and-a-half, for God’s sake.
Also 61 and a half, Baron can do the reissues one if he wants. I got so much grief from him last year I am not bothering this year
I could cope with Archival, Historical & Reissues this year, if you like, dai.
Be my guest
Also 61 and half, and I’m not doing it either…
I would offer to help out here but:
a) at the crucial moment of data collection, I will be away from home and my PC, and I’m not doing spreadsheet manipulation on me phone.
b) Argy Bargy has put me up to reviewing a 32 CD box set for the end of the month.
c) I am also 61 and a bit and, apparently, this precludes me from helping out.
d) you would all assume there was some folkie bias when Lankum, inevitably, win.
e) I am still in full time employment.
What’s a spreadsheet?
It’s what happens when you take it out of the linen cupboard and make the bed
That’s me out too then as I never make the bed.
Count me out I can’t do spreadsheets I get trapped inside the duvet cover when I try to put it on the duvet.
That’ll learn ya for being all continental with yer duvet n’ ting.
This is like a Mexican standoff, no one wants to make the first move.
Anyway, I can’t do it. I’m not 61 so I’m not qualified.
“Not 61” is a bit vague. If you’re younger than 61, you probably still have enough vitality and derring do to tackle such a demanding endeavour. Whereas if you’re older than 61 you’re probably too fatigued and bewildered by your own existence to attempt it.
I’m older than 61 so what you said I think and I rarely attempt anything anymore including making the bed.
I often remind myself of Homer Simpson’s wise words: “Trying is the first step towards failure”.
Unless you happen to be Robert the Bruce who got misled about the underlying mechanisms of existence by an arachnid.
And Robert The Womack
(If There’s One Thing That Beats Failing..)
I’m trying to remember what the spider inspired Robert the Bruce to do. I think it was either:
(a) Lead the Scottish army to victory against the English, or
(b) Kill someone in a church
To be honest, the spider comes out of this better in one than it does in the other.
Unless the spider was English, in which case it doesn’t cover itself in glory either way.
As a mere 50, you represent Da AW Yoof and should be bouncing around with unbridled energy. Not like the sedentary old men like me.
A bit over 53 and a half, all my own teeth (including the gold ones I bought), all my own hair (increasingly high fringe line).
I think perhaps either RayX or JustTim should do it, seeing as they contributed nothing last year, the lazy fecks. Zero, zilch, nada, niente. They should be begging to do it as a path toward atonement and redemption. And perhaps even enlightenment. Yes.
As Phoebe said in a Friends episode I watched the other day, I’d love to do it but I don’t want to.
The fickle finger of fate keeps its deranged digit firmly pointed at me. Where is @andyourbirdcansing when you need him?
I’m happy to help in any way. Can collate, help add scores, be the sole arbiter of whether selections are good enough. Anything.
You, sir, have just won first prize! Voting usually starts 1st December and ends midnight 31st but, hey, you can do it any way you thinks fit: make new rules, disqualify anybody whose list contains not one record you or anyone else has ever heard of, no noodling jazz nonsense or anything even vaguely prog. It’s all yours!
ps I trust you are not doing anything over the festive period this year – you’ll have no time for such frivolities?
pps my tip would be to try and tally scores on a daily basis, leave it more than a few days and that way lies madness.
ppps make sure to make at least two mathematical errors so Dai can point out the error of your ways.
pppps Thank you, thank you, thank you!
No problem – I’ll set it off on 1st December. Can’t wait for the complaints to start rolling in…
Please end it earlier so we have the results by Christmas 😉
As I have (until now) only heard one album released in 2023 (Wilco) I will not be taking part this year.
Anything? Can you get me Betty Boo’s phone number?
And all thanks and praises for taking the poisoned chalice, Paul 🏆🏆🏆
Listen not to One New Record Dai. New Years Day is Result Day. Saying that, Paul decides – he the man.