2022 end of year lists

ROD, SAVE US ALL YOU SON OF A BITCH

Hey guys, so all votes are now in and counted! I've consulted with my good friend Barny to make sure the we keep consistency with the scoring and weighting of placements, so as always, the top 30 from every list will be counted with 30 points attributed to every number one album chosen, and then down from there (#2 album = 29 points etc..)

Just for a little info and to wet the appetite a tad, we had fourteen lists this year and a grand total of 208 albums were chosen; the average list length was 25.5, with 176 albums qualifying for inclusion on the final countdown.

Numbers 176-51 are below as a taster while I work on the data and consider the best options to present the rest:

Artist Album Points Votes

176 Breanna Barbara Nothin' But Time 1 1
175 Weezer SZNZ: Spring 1 1
174 Rachika Nayar Heaven Come Crashing 1 1
173 Foals Life is Yours 2 1
172 Triangle L'Orage 2 1
171 Interpol The Other Side of Make Believe 2 1
170 Weezer SZNZ: Autumn 2 1
169 Work, Money, Death Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction 2 1
168 Jarvis Cocker This is Going to Hurt 2 1
167 Regressive Left On The Wrong Side of History EP 2 1
166 Kelly Lee Owens LP.8 3 1
165 Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen 3 1
164 Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow Zhigeist 4 1
163 Cedric Hanriot Time is Colour 4 1
162 The Spanish English Dictionary loss of motor control 4 1
161 Blood Red Shoes Ghosts On Tape 4 1
160 Weeping Mist Lonely Streets 5 1
159 No Age People Helping People 5 1
158 Ribbon Stage Hit with the Most 5 1
157 Svaneborg Kardyb Over Tage 6 1
156 Animal Collective Time Skiffs 6 1
155 Gwenno Tresor 6 1
154 Jaywood Slingshot 7 1
153 MJ Lenderman Boat Songs 7 1
152 Daphni Cherry 7 1
151 Dropper Don't Talk To Me 7 1
150 Matthew Halsall Fletcher Moss Park 7 1
149 The Sherlocks A World I Understand 8 1
148 Darkwas Waiting For A Way 8 1
147 Ty Segall Hello, Hi 8 1
146 Brian Jackson This is Brian Jackson 8 1
145 Renata Zeiguer Picnic in the Dark 8 1
144 Destroyer Labyrinthitis 9 1
143 English Teacher Polyawkward 9 1
142 1-800 Mikey PLUSHY 9 2
141 Nord1kone and DJ MROK Tower of Babylon 9 1
140 Personal Trainer Big Love Blanket 9 1
139 Robocobra Quartet Living Isn't Easy 10 1
138 Haru Nemuri Shunka Ryougen 10 1
137 Brian Eno Forever And Ever No More 10 1
136 Working Men's Club Fear Fear 11 2
135 Somali Yacht Club The Space 11 1
134 Sarathy Korwar, Photay KALAK 11 1
133 Tumi Mogorosi Group Theory: Black Music 11 1
132 Feeder Torpedo 11 1
131 Daniel Avery Ultra Truth 11 1
130 Yawners Duplo 11 1
129 Jenny Hval Classic Objects 12 2
128 Horace Andy Midnight Rocker 12 2
127 Joyeria FIM 12 1
126 Special Interest Endure 12 1
125 Andy Bell Flicker 12 1
124 Macie Stewart Mouth Full of Glass 13 1
123 Marina Allen Centrifics 13 1
122 Cola Deep in View 13 1
121 Bob Vylan Presents: the Price of Life 14 1
120 Automatic Excess 14 1
119 Stella Donnelly Flood 14 1
118 Kae Tempest The Line is a Curve 15 2
117 Tapir! Act 1 (The Pilgrim) 15 1
116 Editors EBM 15 1
115 Pixies Doggerel 16 1
114 Beyonce RENAISSANCE 16 1
113 Wilco Cruel Country 17 2
112 Charli XCX CRASH 17 1
111 Momma Household Name 18 1
110 Guided by Voices Tremblers and Goggles by Rank 18 1
109 Beak> Kosmik Musik 18 1
108 Andrew Wasylyk Hearing the Water Before Seeing the Falls 18 1
107 Kiwi Jr Chopper 19 1
106 Embrace How to be a Person Like Other People 19 1
105 Marlon Craft While We're Here 19 1
104 Binker & Moses, Max Luthert Feeding the Machine 19 1
103 Horse Lords Comradely Objects 19 1
102 Kali Malone Living Torch 19 1
101 C'mon Tigre Scenario 20 1
100 Young Prisms Drifter 20 1
99 The Hanging Stars Hollow Heart 20 1
98 Pup The Unraveling of Puptheband 20 1
97 Viagra Boys Cave World 20 3
96 Sharon van Etten We've Been Going About This All Wrong 20 1
95 Jake Xerxes Fussell Good and Green Again 20 1
94 Jack White Fear of the Dawn 21 2
93 Toro y Moi Mahal 21 2
92 Deliluh Fault Lines 21 1
91 Stone Foundation Outside Looking In 21 1
90 Jim Bryson Country Wifi 22 1
89 Malamute Una Gran Decepción 22 1
88 Cécile McLorin Salvant Ghost Song 22 1
87 Aircooled St Leopards 22 1
86 Arcade Fire We 22 1
85 Ellen Arkbro I Get Along Without You Very Well 23 1
84 Pusha T It's Almost Dry 23 1
83 Peter Doherty & Frédéric Lo The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime  23 1
82 Whitney SPARK 23 1
81 Jack White Entering Heaven Alive 23 1
80 Bill Callahan REALITY 23 2
79 Jermiside and the Expert The Overview Effect 24 1
78 Joyce Manor 40 oz. to Fresno 24 1
77 Craig Finn A Legacy of Rentals 24 2
76 Tanya Tagaq Tongues 24 1
75 Warpaint Radiate Like This 24 1
74 Kurt Vile (watch my movies) 25 2
73 Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow 25 1
72 Lee Fields Sentimental Fool 25 1
71 Sweaty Palms The Pursuit of Novelty 25 1
70 Fievel Is Glauque Flaming Swords 25 1
69 Death Cab for Cutie Asphalt Meadows 26 1
68 The Mysterines Reeling 26 1
67 Cate Le Bon Pompeii 26 2
66 Guided by Voices Crystal Nuns Cathedral 26 1
65 Monophonics Sage Motel 26 1
64 Shake Chain Snake Chain 26 2
63 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum 26 1
62 Guerilla Toss Famously Alive 27 1
61 Neil Young & Crazy Horse Toast 27 2
60 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava 27 2
59 Angel Olsen Big Time 27 3
58 Confidence Man TILT 27 1
57 Sloan Steady 27 1
56 PVA Blush 27 2
55 Sorry Anywhere But Here 28 2
54 Wovenhand Silver Sash 28 1
53 Village of the Sun First Light 28 1
52 Nas Kings Disease 3 28 1
51 Dazy OUTOFBODY 28 1

Lovely stuff. As a small point of order, I believe albums with more votes are placed higher when tied on points (see Strokes v Doves in 2020 when Strokes won with 9 votes to 8).

STATTO STATTO STATTO

Really surprised Bill Callahan didn't receive a few more votes.

Lol Kevin has just posted about The Sherlocks

WAITING

When i'm good and ready

Barny did mention to me in passing that his "intricate spreadsheet network" would be replaced this year by Kev's "shitsheets" and he might wilt at the pressure. I personally think Kev has this covered though.

"a taster while I work on the data and consider the best options to present the rest"

Doesn't sound promising to me. Kevin should have considered these options fully before begging to replace our chief of data operations Barny. 

"VLOOKUP? More like VCOCKUP this year"

Kev is doing a magnificent work and I'm pretty sure the amazing presentation will erase any kind of memory of the previous lists

He's all about the glory. You just knuckled down with the numbers and produced RESULTS

Rumours in the Watsapp groups that Barny is going to push #pasteasplaintext hard tomorrow.

No, but maybe it's all starting to look a bit suspicious. I mean, here you can start big ambitious projects that nobody really cares about like a record from every country or even introduce a dictatorial system of qualifying rounds for rating records and stop it all of a sudden... but when you mess with the end of year lists, it's the hearts of the people you're playing with

Fuck sakes. 

I should have made Alvvays my number 1! What an album. I know it said it was number 2 but FUCK. It's HITTING ME HARD 

I'm really surprised at the universal praise the Alvvays record has gotten. Don't get me wrong, I like it, some great tunes. But Each record has been a step down from the last. Just feels like this kinda attention should have come before this record.

Looks like another day of silence from Krburg's end guys. It'll be time to post our 2023 end of year lists at this rate.

Agreed. I tried again with it yesterday but it is 100% worse than the two that came prior.