Best Album Of.....1988

**jebus** · 04/07/2008, 8:21 AM

Originally Posted by Marked Man

Btw, Allmusic.com have NWA's 'Compton' as a 1989 release.

They're wrong though, check the back of the album.

Surprised Sonic Youth haven't got any votes yet, possibly suffering the same fate it did on my lost, being ranked 2nd or 3rd of the year, but not having the quality to reach the top. Public Enemy's album is far superior to NWA in my book too

**Wolfie** · 04/07/2008, 12:14 PM

Went for Surfer Rosa.

Honourable mentions to:

The House of Love - The House of Love
Happy Mondays - Bummed

**jebus** · 04/07/2008, 12:25 PM

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God is discounted because it wasn't released in 1988. Release date was June 1987 lads so if you're voting other make sure the album was issued in that year

**Billsthoughts** · 04/07/2008, 12:28 PM

Maybe it would have made more sense to have a nominations thread....then follow that with a voting thread....or maybe a link to top 40 albums of the year in question as some sort of criteria....(I tried googling it but couldnt find anything but singles...)

**jebus** · 04/07/2008, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Billsthoughts

Maybe it would have made more sense to have a nominations thread....then follow that with a voting thread....or maybe a link to top 40 albums of the year in question as some sort of criteria....(I tried googling it but couldnt find anything but singles...)

That would take too long and clutter up the music forum. I was hesitant about doing this at all because it will mean having 27 polls between now and the end of the year to sort it out, adding an extra 20 nomination threads would swamp the forum. I think the other option and nominating in the thread will work cause someone has to make a decision on the final list eventually anyway and cut it down to 10. This way if you nominate an album that wasn't shortlisted and enough people agree with you then it goes through

To be honest I found lists a plenty by just googling best albums of 1988 so I don't know what you're typing in, and if people can't be bothered to look up what year an album they are nominating was released in than I'm just not going to include their vote, simple as really

**noby** · 04/07/2008, 12:52 PM

A top 40 albums might not cover them all, but it would be a good starting point.

You could run a knockout tournament; a bit of fun used I've on other forums that wil give an overall "winner".
Start a nominations thread, with a time limit of, say, three days. People nominate albums from the given year with each person given up to five nominations. At the end of this pick the 16 most popular, someone holds a random draw, and then the knockout tournament begins. So for example the draw might throw up the fixture:
Pixies - Surfer Rosa v NWA - Straight Outta Compton

and people vote on which album from each fixture is their favourite. With a two day time limit on each round the whole tournament can be run in just over a week.
(I'm very tired today, so forgive me if I posted this on the other thread already).

Just a bit of fun, and not very scientific.

**noby** · 04/07/2008, 12:59 PM

jebus - just a thought: I'm sure we're more than capable of voting on multiple years at the same time, so it doesn't necessarily have to be one year each week, stretching out until Christmas.

**jebus** · 04/07/2008, 12:59 PM

Don't like the tournament idea as you could end up with something average like The Strokes - Is This It going far, whereas something like Radiohead - OK Computer could go out first round to the Stone Roses. Mod foot coming down on this one

Originally Posted by noby

jebus - just a thought: I'm sure we're more than capable of voting on multiple years at the same time, so it doesn't necessarily have to be one year each week, stretching out until Christmas.

Had thought of that alright. Might put up 2 a week but thats it, don't want the thread to be just about this poll so I don't want a front page consisting of 20 polls and the music exchange thread

**noby** · 04/07/2008, 1:04 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

Don't like the tournament idea as you could end up with something average like The Strokes - Is This It going far, whereas something like Radiohead - OK Computer could go out first round to the Stone Roses. Mod foot coming down on this one

Isn't that the beauty of a knockout tournament though? The underdog? Muddy pitches? Jumpers for goalposts? Mmm.

Ok maybe not for something as 'serious' as this project, but maybe as a sideline.

**jebus** · 04/07/2008, 1:15 PM

Originally Posted by noby

Isn't that the beauty of a knockout tournament though? The underdog? Muddy pitches? Jumpers for goalposts? Mmm.

It is in cup competitions, this is more of a league to find THE best album though

**noby** · 04/07/2008, 1:25 PM

Whatever you say, Sepp.

Actually, with your new found powers can you modify the poll? If one of the 'others' is in the running it would be nice to have it added to the poll properly, and maybe dumping out one of the rejects instead (I'm looking at you, Sonic Youth)

**jebus** · 04/07/2008, 1:29 PM

Originally Posted by noby

Actually, with your new found powers can you modify the poll? If one of the 'others' is in the running it would be nice to have it added to the poll properly, and maybe dumping out one of the rejects instead (I'm looking at you, Sonic Youth)

One of the other isn't yet though. The Pogues would have been a worthy addition as it has been nominated 3 times, but that's been discounted. All the rest have been nominated once, and usually by people who have voted for something else in the poll and then given other titles as ones that were good, so they wouldn't count either

**noby** · 04/07/2008, 1:35 PM

Fair enough. I was just too lazy to do the maths myself.

For the benefit of the narky amongst us, I wasn't actually too lazy, but thought it might make the poll more readily readable. Not relevant, obviously.

**Billsthoughts** · 04/07/2008, 2:11 PM

Sorry I thought it was just a bit of craic....I didnt know there was so much riding on this...

Would ya not just stick the pogues in? It would have four votes at this stage
!

**noby** · 04/07/2008, 2:19 PM

Jebus, where's your June 1987 reference coming from for the Pogues? Wikipedia?
The Pogues own site says Jan 1988, and allmusic has 1988 too.

**kingdom hoop** · 04/07/2008, 2:25 PM

Wiki and Discogs say '88 as well. Sack the mod!

Just in case you weren't messing up there Bill, in fairness a line has to be drawn somewhere so someone's choice will always be left out of the actual poll. The 'vote Other and name in thread' option is a fair alternative rather than Jebus going through nominations and picking his favourites. You'll always need an 'Other' option so it's easiest to put the 10 or so most likely choices in the poll and take it from there.

Elsewhere, I think one a week is a good idea as that gives people time to vote and just as importantly to discuss why the album is so good, what it means to them, why it's better than the others, and so on. Hopefully the teething problems can be resolved this week and there'll be no more crankiness.

Now. Back to the music ffs.

**jebus** · 04/07/2008, 2:29 PM

Originally Posted by noby

Jebus, where's your June 1987 reference coming from for the Pogues? Wikipedia?
The Pogues own site says Jan 1988, and allmusic has 1988 too.

Looked up the Pogues - Fall From....on Wiki and they gave June 1987

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Sh...Grace_with_God

Link the official site and I'll include it, since allmusic were wrong about the NWA I'm not taking dates from them