Hey I love lists of favs
One place that blew my mind was:
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/customerfaves2002.html
Simple and clean...leaving me free to listen to their
samples and see if any would really pull me.
But, that would be difficult to do, unless someone was
web minded and had the time.
Cheers
--- chthonic <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com> wrote:
quoted 66 lines From: "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com>
>
> From: "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com>
>
> >> see, this gets too much into the "list" or
> "ranking" mentality of
> this
> >> kind of thing. personally, i don't care the
> order, or how many
> >> people voted for a particular release. i want to
> hear *why*
> people
> >> think something was the best. i want
> descriptions, i want
> >> comparisons, i want passion for music.
>
> >Good point, i'd rather read good reviews of stuff i
> missed this
> year.
> >But i'd like to hear that anytime really.
> >Why i think a web poll is a good idea though is to
> keep the list
> from
> >getting flooded
> >with alot of sterile top 10 lists like you mention,
> and put the pure
> numbers
> >voting on a webpage.
> >Good desciptions and comparisons should be posted
> on here
> anytime IMO.
>
> then i think people will just vote on the webpage,
> which people like
> me will never visit, unless someone posts the
> results to the list,
> which brings back the same problem. if there is no
> webpage, or
> simple survey, people can just say what they want
> about the
> releases.
>
> i agree it should happen year-round, but on the
> lists i've been on,
> sometimes it takes something like this to give the
> discussions a
> kick-start. this kind of thing is also an
> opportunity for reflection in
> hindsight, or to put each release in perpective with
> similar
> releases in the same time period.
>
> also, one's initial review or reaction to a release
> may be different in
> this context or simply after a few months have
> passed
> (e.g. april: "'draft 7.0' is the highlight of
> autechre's career."
> december: "it's better than 'confield' but not as
> good as 'amber'.")
>
>
> d.
>
>
>
>
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