Before the results countdown commences, a brief resume of the last five years:

2018 642 albums nominated – winner Ry Cooder: Prodigal Son

2019 563 albums nominated – winner Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars

2020 531 albums nominated – winner Bob Dylan: Rough & Rowdy Ways

2021 565 albums nominated – winner Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raise The Roof

2022 556 albums nominated – winner ?????

Results in the comments. Just over 100 albums/collections nominated. Naturally as it is Christmas Eve I am three sheets to the wind so apologies for any errors/omissions.

Saturday felt like a Sunday, Sunday felt like a Saturday. So today is Monday, right? And what does the first Monday in January mean? It means The AfterWord Album of 2021 results are in!

After a long night’s toil, Little Gary is exhausted. But enough of Little Gary and his sordid adventures, let’s get going, shall we?

(Usual disclaimers – mistakes, mishaps and misspellings may well have occurred (92.37% probability) and the “old but new” debate lumbers on. But, hey, we’re friends, right? Right?)

No less than 565 separate albums were nominated (no wonder Little Gary is tired). One album led from the the first week of voting and was only overhauled in the final furlong between Christmas and New Year.

As is the time-honoured (?) tradition (?) let’s starts with those poor wee albums nominated by just one person giving it one measly vote Alan Vega- Mutator Brian Setzer – Gotta Have The Rumble Ches Smith And All We break – Path of Seven Colours Decemberists – Live Home Library Drinking Boys And Girls Choir – Marriage License Elton John – Regimental Sgt Zippo Gnod – La Mort Du Sens Isaiah Rashad – The House Is Burning John Zorn, » Continue Reading.

Thanks to all who voted, over 80 unique nominations, sure some of them were made up though 😉

Results in the comments (the top 10). Apologies for any maths errors, please do not bother to correct me …

all votes here:

Reissue/Archive Release of the year

2018 – Ry Cooder 2019 – Bruce Springsteen

The AW Poll – as always at the cutting edge, finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the mad, crazy world of Pop, Pop Music!!

Do you think there’s the smallest of chances that the 2020 Winner will also be an actual OAP?? Let’s see shall we…?

See this thread here:

Poll – Best Archive or Box Set Release of 2020

A total of 60 releases were mentioned officially (a number of others unofficially).

Results in comments.

Thanks for all the entries. And special thanks for the 32 people who posted as I asked with dashes in thetheir offering, the rest made my life very hard.;)

Silly me chose the deadline to be on the day when I had 2 huge work deadlines and also the day before I go on (faurly local) vacation for 2 weeks. So apologies for the errors that will surely be there.

Results in the comments. We had 94 entries and 490 unique films were chosen.

OK, in the style of Radio 1 in the 70s/80s I am going to count down the albums form 10 to 1, and will then reveal the rest of the top 100, go through this at your own pace, I suggest playing the youtube link to get into the spirit of things.

Some stats: Around 100 contributions, I think 645 dufferent albums were nominated.

Disclaimer: I have double checked the results, but no guarantee everthing is completely correct. I had some trouble from the likes of @Lodestone-of-Wrongness and @Lemonhope trying to sneak in multiple entries …

First a disclaimer (where disclaimer = excuse). The votes have been tabulated in four different countries, on a laptop, a phone and a tablet. Sometimes the spreadsheet has been opened late at night and ample refreshments may well have been taken beforehand. Whilst I am certain that the major placings are correct (within the normal statistical deviance of plus or minus 50%) there may indeed be some minor mistakes towards the bottom edges of the leader board where a combination of very silly band names and even sillier album titles may have led to a confused nay befuddled Little Gary inadvertently making the tiniest of errors. So apologies to Swidt, a hip hop collective from Onehunga, New Zealand and oft we jolly well go.

Thank you everyone for your contributions to my 60 albums thread. And thank you for bearing with me while it slowly dawned on me that it was a bigger job than I thought and I hadn’t really planned it out properly!

I’ve found it fascinating reading all the results. But I’ve now finished the big spreadsheet and I’m ready to share the results. I’ll do so year by year in the comments below. It’s going to take some time to go through all the years, but, hey, we have all the time in the world, in the words of Mr Armstrong.

I’ll also comment on some of the problems, like the same album appearing in different years (West Side Story, I’m looking at you).

My next job is to decide a method on choosing the winner for each year. I don’t want to just go with the one with the most votes for each year. That’s bland and boring and I never intended that. I’ll lay out all the nominations for each year here and then I can have a think.

One thing is clear – some years have a clear winner. I think in these cases I can just » Continue Reading.

Right apart from the fact that it appears that Americana is very popular around here I`m going to stick to the facts. After a re-count Jason Isbell has been voted a close winner over St. Vincent in the AFTERWORD TOP ALBUM OF 2017 POLL. Over 90 of you voted for up to 20 artists each. Over 625 albums and 615 bands/artists were nominated, representing the diversity of musical tastes around here.

Thank you to all who took part and commented, this has been an enjoyable exercise for me. I would like to thank those Prog Rock giants The Flower Kings whose music has helped me in this endeavour.

Disclaimer: Any mistakes and missing umlauts are intentional. The results are in Comments. Admin could the results be displayed at the top of the column for a 7/8 days, thank you.

ALL THE VOTES HAVE BEEN COUNTED, 90 AFTERWORDERS VOTED FOR THEIR CHOICE OF BEST ALBUM OF 2015. 341 ALBUMS WERE SELECTED…see comments. Here`s some Southern Soul to calm you down when you realise only you voted for that album.

Well that was a `rum` blog, but without further ado here are the results in ascending order, (votes in brackets):

Receiving one vote each: Marc Almond, Ian Anderson, Burt Bacharach, Syd Barrett, Irving Berlin, Buck/Berry/Mills/Stipe, Sammy Kahn & Jerome Kern, Charli XCX, Kurt Cobain, Sam Cooke, Cathal Coughlan, John Darnielle, Difford & Tillbrook, Nick drake, Richard Drummie, Stephen Duffy, Greg Dulli, Stephen Foster, Gamble & Huff, George & Ira Gershwin, The Gibb Brothers, Gilbert & Sullivan, Martin Gore, Peter Green, Greenwich/Barry/Spector, Kristin Hersh, Nick Heyward, Noddy Holder & Jim Lea, Howard Jones, Paul Kelly, Carole King, Mark King, Leadbelly, John Lennon, Jerry Lieber/Mike Stoller, Mark Linkous, Little Richard, Frank Loesser, Ian Mackaye, John Martin, Paddy McAloon, Mogg & Way, Morrissey, Van Morrison, Randy Newman, Roland Orzabal, Andy Partridge, Prince, Smokey Robinson, Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons, Tom Russel, Mike Scott, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Strauss, Joe Strummer & Mick Jones, Tennant & Lowe, Harry Vanda & George Young, Clifford T Ward, Diane Warren, Roger Waters, Jimmy Webb, Kurt Weill, Stevie Wonder.

19th (2): Becker/Fagan, Black Francis, Nigel Blackwell, Nick Cave, Duke Ellington, Noel Gallagher, George Gershwin, Buddy Holly, Jackie Leven, Shane McGowan, Morrissey/Marr, Lou Reed, The RZA, Richard Thompson, Bruce Springsteen, » Continue Reading.