Wrapping up the Album of the year 2020


So, is it finally over? yeah ... now, how to summarize what we have all learnt here ... 

Firstly, the list, right? :


I did a little thing on Twitter and got some votes/Likes ... 
Wedding Present : 10 
Such Small Hands : 3
Art Brut : 3
Pixies : 2
Emperors Of Ice-Cream : 2
Canshaker Pi : 1
Jetstream Pony : 1
Lewsberg : 1
Stephen Malkmus : 1
James Dean Bradfield : 1
Built To Spill : 0
Lou Barlow : 0
Smashing Pumpkins : 0

This proves conclusively I have more Wedding Present fans as Twitters followers, and bugger all else ...

So who is the overall winner? You are dear reader ... 

its impossible and pointless to judge the albums against each other... I still enjoy them all, and there was a lot of other great 2020 albums from Slow Readers Club (2!), Morrissey, Sports Team, Fenne Lily, Bob Mould, Baxter Dury, etc etc ...

so there is no gold, silver, bronze here, I am not going to rate the 13 albums against each other, I think its fair to rate one artists albums against its others, but rating albums by different bands isn't so fair, a lot depends on the mood, if I want to 'rock out' or listen to sad music, for example ...

But Canshaker Pi are always going to be winners for me ... 


so what next for the blog ? This was a struggle at times, and the time invested versus reader numbers/interaction makes it a tough call ... but I am not done yet ...

I will still write for myself ... I have a problem to solve, which is I often don't know which is my favourite album by a certain artist ... or what the names are of certain songs ... its tough to make playlists .... so I have devised my trademarked scoring system 

example : El Rey by The Wedding Present

Sant ana winds – 7

Spiderman – 6

Monkey – 8

Soup – 7

Palisades – 8

Trouble With Men - 7

Model, Actress, Whatever - 7

Don’t take me home – 8

Thing I like best – 9

Boo Boo – 10

Swingers – 5

 

82 points

11 tracks

Average 7.4545

 


So, a total mark for a album, divided by the number of tracks. Songs for each song - but only in comparison to the same artists over work.

I'm thinking to listen to albums (4 or 5 a week) , record the songs (this will only be albums I've owned for a while, and need to refresh on ... it wouldn't work to judge a album like this that I have owned for less than 12 months)

I will do Artist by Artist ... coming up is Frank Black, Dinosaur Jr. Wedding Present/Cinerama - and maybe to kick off a easy one - Canshaker Pi has released 4 full length CDs, so I might well start there ... 

I genuinely don't know which is my favourite Dinosaur Jr or Frank Black album .... so - discover with me ... 



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