eFests Album of the Year 2022 - THE RESULTS ARE IN!!

[Crouchinho76]

On 12/30/2022 at 10:24 PM, guypjfreak said:

Plastic mermaids.. Watch out for the these boys.. You heard it here first 

Rhian Teasdale, of Wet Leg, used to sing with Plastic Mermaids, before the former took off.

[guypjfreak]

Wet leg come from iow so yea.. Wet leg have taken off big time expect to see them on the glasto poster old son.. 

[Hugh Jass II]

Interesting as well that for all of the "indie rock is dead" talk four out of the top five, and six of the top ten, are mainly lads and ladettes with guitars.

Quite a few of the pop darlings of this forum - Harry Styles, Beyonce, Adele, etc performed pretty poorly.

Still shocked at how badly Dry Cleaning did.

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Interesting as well that for all of the "indie rock is dead" talk four out of the top five, and six of the top ten, are mainly lads and ladettes with guitars.

Quite a few of the pop darlings of this forum - Harry Styles, Beyonce, Adele, etc performed pretty poorly.

Still shocked at how badly Dry Cleaning did.

Would have been impressive if Adele did well considering she didn’t release an album this year.

[Hugh Jass II]

33 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Would have been impressive if Adele did well considering she didn’t release an album this year.

My mistake, thought 30 came out at the start of this year, when it was actually the end of 2021.

[henry bear]

eFests have Miles Hunt as popular as Lizzo shocker!

[Hugh Jass II]

4 minutes ago, henry bear said:

eFests have Miles Hunt as popular as Lizzo shocker!

EFests darling Lizzo's album was less popular than Liam Gallagher's.

[BenG92]

King Gizzard > Lizzo confirmed.

Shout out to the 3 others who voted for Ice Death etc.

[kalifire]

The more time I spend with the new Simz release, the more I wonder whether she would have made it into my top 5 if it had been released a little earlier. It’s very good.

Edited January 4, 2023 by kalifire

[kalifire]

15 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

EFests darling Lizzo's album was less popular than Liam Gallagher's.

It’s that ‘silent majority’ flex again. 

[BenG92]

30 minutes ago, kalifire said:

The more time I spend with the new Simz release, the more I wonder whether she would have made it into my top 5 if it had been released a little earlier. It’s very good.

Same for me and also SZA. Just didn't have enough time to let them digest.

I didn't actually put BCNR in my eFests list and then seeing it win remembered it was a 2022 release. 

[moogster]

31 minutes ago, kalifire said:

It’s that ‘silent majority’ flex again. 

I am one of those Lizzo fans, as in overall and live, but indeed album 2 was just not in my top 5. Doesn't mean she isn't on my top 5  artists I want to see in June.

[gigpusher]

6 hours ago, moogster said:

I am one of those Lizzo fans, as in overall and live, but indeed album 2 was just not in my top 5. Doesn't mean she isn't on my top 5  artists I want to see in June.

Yep in a very strong year I had about 10-15 albums that could have made my top 5 and Lizzo's was close. If she is at Glastonbury she'll be one of my must see's. 

[gigpusher]

7 hours ago, kalifire said:

The more time I spend with the new Simz release, the more I wonder whether she would have made it into my top 5 if it had been released a little earlier. It’s very good.

Yep I probably could have done a top 5 from my advent albums this year and the more time I spend with some of them the better they get. 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

7 hours ago, BenG92 said:

King Gizzard > Lizzo confirmed.

Shout out to the 3 others who voted for Ice Death etc.

King Gizzo & the Lizzo Wizzo supergroup confirmed 

[Quark]

20 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Still shocked at how badly Dry Cleaning did.

I really liked Stumpwork, but I think that with it being a bit more of the same from the first album it's not had as wide an impact perhaps?  

[gigpusher]

21 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

Interesting as well that for all of the "indie rock is dead" talk four out of the top five, and six of the top ten, are mainly lads and ladettes with guitars.

Quite a few of the pop darlings of this forum - Harry Styles, Beyonce, Adele, etc performed pretty poorly.

Still shocked at how badly Dry Cleaning did.

I'm not in a great year of music picking just a top 5 is pretty tricky. The album was fine but nothing startling or original and very close to their last release which may have actually gone against them. The number of albums picked says a lot about how good a year it was. I also didn't pay too much attention to who I put in what position in my top they are all pretty equal for me but the scoring obviously means they are not. 

[Hugh Jass II]

28 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

I'm not in a great year of music picking just a top 5 is pretty tricky. The album was fine but nothing startling or original and very close to their last release which may have actually gone against them. The number of albums picked says a lot about how good a year it was. I also didn't pay too much attention to who I put in what position in my top they are all pretty equal for me but the scoring obviously means they are not. 

We needed a scoring system to rank them, otherwise it's just a list of almost 200 albums people liked.

I demanded a competitive process dammit!

[gigpusher]

44 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

We needed a scoring system to rank them, otherwise it's just a list of almost 200 albums people liked.

I demanded a competitive process dammit!

Yep not quibbling about the methodology just stating from my personal experience that my top 5 was closer than ever so me putting 1 at number 1 and 1 at number 5 was definitely not me saying I thought that my number 1 was 5 times better but that's inevitably the result of the scoring system. 

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Hugh Jass II said:

We needed a scoring system to rank them, otherwise it's just a list of almost 200 albums people liked.

I demanded a competitive process dammit!

You should run a poll to determine what the best process is for scoring albums...

[Hugh Jass II]

13 minutes ago, Quark said:

You should run a poll to determine what the best process is for scoring albums...

I prefer a benign dictatorship to democracy.

[Quark]

[gigpusher]

2 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

I prefer a benign dictatorship to democracy.

That's probably the truth but the problem is power corrupts man, they don't stay benign for long.  Anyway lots of good albums last year. Here's hoping for the same again this year!

[Hugh Jass II]

1 minute ago, gigpusher said:

That's probably the truth but the problem is power corrupts man, they don't stay benign for long.  Anyway lots of good albums last year. Here's hoping for the same again this year!

I am very benign and will have anyone who disagrees shot.

[gigpusher]

12 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

I am very benign and will have anyone who disagrees shot.

Yep that's how they all go. 🤣