It is what it says on the tin.
Post your favourites of the year. You can list as many as you like but the top one will score ten, the second nine, down to the tenth which will score one point.
Poll closes 31st December 2024 at midnight.
Musings on the byways of popular culture
It is what it says on the tin.
Post your favourites of the year. You can list as many as you like but the top one will score ten, the second nine, down to the tenth which will score one point.
Poll closes 31st December 2024 at midnight.
Essential Freebies from Word, Uncut, Mojo and Q. I’m not sure if we have been here before? You may have or recall some great covermount CDs that stand out from the mire? For me, these were some excellent albums in their own right:-
# Heroes Can Be Any Size: An Introduction to Jackie Leven, a promo release came free with March 2012 edition of The Word Magazine. # Uncut 2007 01 – Comets Ghosts And Sunburned Hands # Q – DCCCDII # Word – January 2010 # Uncut 2000 12 – More Sounds Of The New Ẁest # Uncut 2008 10 – Interstellar Overdrive # Uncut Unconditionally Guaranteed vol 7 (The Coolest Sounds From The Hottest Bands Of 1998) Can AWs recall any other essential ‘free’ CDs? (Sounds like an oxymoron).
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Graig42 presents the Top 42 by Artist (not by album)
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Thanks to all of you who have taken part in this poll. Total number of Albums voted for: 499 Number of AW Voters: 98 (sadly no Moose or Bingo to make 100) Total Votes: 980 [Drum roll]
……….Please note the results have been input on punched cards (Fortran77). The teletype will be back working after this batch job has run on my ICL mainframe.. Final Score 16:45 today………………….
Dai’s Rules still apply:
1) Post 10 albums ONLY 2) Place them in order 1 to 10. Number 1 will be allocated 10 points down to 1 pt in 10th place. 3) If you post more than 10 only the first 10 will be counted. 4) If you don’t post a preference in the 10 then each will be allocated 5 pts 5) Post exactly like this : Number – Album – Artist e.g. 1 – Dare – The Human League Use proper names not The Fabs or HJHM etc If you don’t your choice may not be counted.
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Here are the results – I’m unable to format, copying from a spreadsheet with the result it looks even messier with the points totals. So I’m giving scores for the top 5 alone.
There were a total of 99 different entries. The top five scored thus: 1 – 71; 2 – 51; 3 – 35; 4 – 21; 5 – 19
Beatles – The Beatles (White Album) 1 Bob Dylan – More Blood, More Tracks 2 Primal Scream – Give Out But Don’t Give Up 3 Bobby Gentry – The Girl From Chickasaw County 4 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society 5 Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses 6 Marillion – Clutching At Straws 7 John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once 8 Kate Bush – Complete =9 Tom Petty – Hidden treasures =9 Love – Forever Changes =10 Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller Present Jazz On The Corner =10 David Bowie – Loving The Alien Box =10 The Moody Blues – In Search Of The Lost Chord =10 Robert Kirby – When the day is done =10 John Lennon – Imagine =16 Prince – Piano & Microphone 1983 =16 Roxy Music – Roxy Music =16 Frank Sinatra – » Continue Reading.
How would you characterise the majority of your music listening? Are you:
1. A box set/catalogue binger?
2. A butterfly?
3. A shuffler?
I’m definitely a butterfly, flitting between albums (artist to artist, genre to genre), but also have a tendency to binge from time to time. I NEVER shuffle. What about you?
On the old Afterword, one of the first posts I made was to ask where you all are, geographically. Well now I have found that we could do this cartographically – by putting little flags on a map. Afterworders across the world Follow the link and add your flag if you want, together with your username. There is also a separate layer for culturally-significant locations Other layers could be added as requested. The map is fairly open to editing – I think only the layers have to be added by myself – the flags and labelling can be edited by anyone (so watch out you don’t move other people about). You also have to be logged into Google to do this, so – if you want a flag, but don’t want to sign up – let me know and I can add you. Let me know what you think – it might all drop like a lead zeppelin, of course…
The response to the Top 100 albums suggested we are all Mojo/Q fans – safe choices. Just to prove/challenge that, here are all the albums that were selected as first choice by y’all. Be sure to check the video out for a fresh faced young man in blue shirt. (Numbers in brackets where more than one person chose that album as all time favourite) –
AC/DC – Highway To Hell Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda The Allman Brothers! – Brothers & Sisters! Ariel Ramirez & Jaime Torres – The Avalanches – Since I Left You The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up The Beatles – Abbey Road (5) The Beatles – Rubber Soul The Beatles – Sgt Pepper The Beatles – The Beatles [White Album] (5) Big Star – Radio City Billie Holiday – Lady sings the blues Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Blue Nile – Hats Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (3) Brian Eno & David Bryne – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Bruce Cockburn – Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run The Byrds – The Notorious » Continue Reading.
There were several threads in the first Afterword sampling tastes, basically leading to lists and charts. This one, (initiated by @Tiggerlion, egged on by @madfox) I kept. I could post others if you like.
1. Revolver – The Beatles 2. Hunky Dory – David Bowie 3. The Beatles (The White Album) – The Beatles 4. Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan 5. Abbey Road – The Beatles 6. London Calling – The Clash 7. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses 8. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie 9. The Queen is Dead – The Smiths 10. Exile on Main Street – The Rolling Stones 11. What’s Goin’ On ? – Marvin Gaye 12. The Dark Side of The Moon – Pink Floyd 13. Parallel Lines – Blondie 14. OK Computer – Radiohead 15. Solid Air – John Martyn 16. Marquee Moon – Television 17. Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan 18. Rumours – Fleetwood Mac 19. Five Leaves Left – Nick Drake 20. Bryter Layter – Nick Drake 21. The Band – The Band 22. Born » Continue Reading.
Hello all, I have been asked to post the results of the Afterword Top Album of 2014 list on here. As the site was down at the time we had to do this on Facebook so the number of entries was drastically down on last year but here are the highest entries:
Lost In The Dream War On Drugs 14 Down Where the Spirit Meets The Bone Lucinda Williams 7 Hendra Ben Watt 5 Morning Phase Beck 5 Everyday Robots Damon Albarn 5 Going Back Home Wilko Johnson / Roger Daltrey 4 Atlas Real Estate 4 The Silver Globe Jane Weaver 4 Rave Tapes Mogwai 4 Benji Sun Kill Moon 4 The River And The Thread Rosanne Cash 4 Ryan Adams Ryan Adams 3 Indian Ocean Frazey Ford 3 Endless River Pink Floyd 3 Colfax The Delines 3 Hypnotic Eye Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 3 Sukirae Tweedy 3 Basement Tapes Bob Dylan 3 Singles Future Islands 3 Manipulator Ty Segall 3 It’s Album Time Todd Terje 3 LP1 FKA Twigs 3
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