Monday, December 14, 2009

Hey, someone actually read through my methodology explanation. Well done. And yes, I did divide all of the albums by six but just posted the top 30. Looking through the numbers a second time though, it seems I didn't add all of them correctly the first time. Here's (what should be the correct) totals for all albums listed with scoring:

Rank/Artist&Album/Score
1 Arcade Fire, Funeral 82.4
2 Decemberists Picaresque 80.7
3 Hour of the BewilderbeastBadly Drawn Boy 62.6
4 Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise 57.9
5 Arcade Fire Neon Bible 57.8
6 Broken Social Scene, You Forgot it in People 57.3
7 The Strokes – Is this it? 53.4
8 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 48.4
9 Yo la Tengo And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out 44.5
10 Strokes Room On Fire 43.9
11 Beck Sea Change 41.2
12 Radiohead In Rainbows 39.7
13 St Germain, Tourist 39.4
14 Chutes Too NarrowThe Shins 38.2
15 Kanye West Late Registration 37.9
16 Band Of Horses Everything All The Time 31.9
17 Kid ARadiohead 31.5
18 Bon Iver For Emma 29.7
19 Waltz for KoopKoop 29.6
20 Feast of WireCalexico 29.3
21 Yoshimi Battles the Pink RobotsThe Flaming Lips 29.1
22 Fox Confessor Brings the FloodNeko Case 29.0
23 TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain 29.0
24 Set Yourself on FireStars 28.4
25 MIA Arular 28.1
26 Bows + ArrowsThe Walkmen 28.0
27 Sigur Ros Takk 27.4
28 Suba Sao Paolo Confessions 27.2
29 The Pernice Brothers The World Wont End 27.1
30 The Microphones – The Glow Part 2 24.7
31 Antics Interpol 24.5
32 The Electric VersionThe New Pornographers 23.9
33 Feist The Reminder 23.7
34 MadvillainyMadvillian 22.8
35 Mum Finally We Are No One 22.5
36 Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill 22.3
37 Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days 21.4
38 Clinic, Walking With Thee 21.2
39 Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker 20.7
40 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 20.5
41 My Morning Jacket - Z 20.0
42 Since I Left YouThe Avalanches 19.7
43 Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump 19.7
44 Lilly Allen Alright Still 19.2
45 K-os Joyful Rebellion 18.8
46 The Kingsbury Manx – The Fast Rise and Fall of the South 18.6
47 Midlake – Trials of Van Occupanther 17.7
48 Jack Johnson, Thicker Than Water 16.5
49 Bruce Springsteen - The Rising 16.3
50 Antibalas, Talkatif 16.3
51 Belle & Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child .. 15.8
52 Steve Earle - Jerusalem 15.7
53 Getatchew Mekuria, The Ex and Guests, Moa Anbessa 15.7
54 Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction 15.6
55 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 15.5
56 Neko Case Blacklisted 15.3
57 Tom Waits - Alice 15.3
58 Soil and Pimp Sessions, Pimp of the Year 15.2
59 Bugge Wesseltoft, Moving 15.0
60 Moby 18 15.0
61 Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don’t Tolerate 15.0
62 Guided By Voices – Isolation Drills 15.0
63 Johnny Cash American IV The Man Comes Around 14.9
64 Over The Rhine - The Trumpet Child 14.7
65 Brad Mehldau, Live in Tokyo 14.6
66 Animal Collective – Feels 14.6
67 The Grey AlbumDanger Mouse 14.5
68 New Pornographers Twin Cinema 14.5
69 Teenage Fanclub – Man Made 14.4
70 Feist - Let It Die 14.4
71 Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers 14.3
72 Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts 14.2
73 Jay Farrar Terroir Blues 14.2
74 Damien Jurado – And Now that I’m in your Shadow 14.2
75 The Lucksmiths Warmer Corners 14.1
76 Josh Ritter - Hello Starling 14.0
77 The Streets Orignal Pirate Material 13.9
78 Kings of Convenience – Quiet is the New Loud 13.8
79 Gotan Project, La Revancha Del Tango 13.8
80 Air Virgin Suicides 13.7
81 Garbage - Beautiful Garbage 13.7
82 David Gray - A New Day at Midnight 13.7
83 Matt Pond – The Green Fury 13.6
84 The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone 13.5
85 Franz Ferdinand 13.4
86 Death Cab for Cutie, Plans 13.4
87 Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions 13.3
88 Simple Things Zero 7 13.3
89 TV on the Radio Dear Science 13.3
90 Jack Johnson, Brushfire Fairytales 13.2
91 Speakerboxx/The Love BelowOutkast 13.2
92 Beulah – The Coast is Never Clear 13.2
93 Sigur Ros, () 13.0
94 Coldplay - X&Y 13.0
95 Figure 8 Elliot Smith 13.0
96 Clinic Internal Wrangler 12.8
97 Melody A.M. Royksopp 12.7
98 Peter Gabriel Up 12.7
99 R.E.M. - Reveal 12.7
100 King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader 12.7
101 Beck Guero 12.6
102 Wilco, A Ghost is Born 12.6
103 John Cunningham – Happy Go Unlucky 12.5
104 Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia The Dandy Warhols 12.5
105 Wolf Parade Aplogies to Queen Mary 12.5
106 Destroyer Streethawk 12.4
107 Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights 12.3
108 U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind 12.3
109 VeneerJose Gonzalez 12.3
110 Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha 12.3
111 Okkervil River – The Stage Names 12.3
112 Patty Griffin Children Running Through 12.2
113 Dandy Warhols, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia 12.2
114 Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree 12.2
115 Archer Prewitt – Gerroa Songs 12.1
116 The Wrens Meadowland 12.0
117 The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic 12.0
118 Pawa Up First, Introducing New Details 11.8
119 Delgados The Great Eastern 11.7
120 Cast of ThousandsElbow 11.7
121 The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts 11.7
122 Viktor Vaughan Vaudeville Villain 11.6
123 South, From Here On In 11.6
124 Sparklehorse It’s a Wonderful Life 11.6
125 Field Music – Tones of Town 11.5
126 Sao Paulo Confessions Suba 11.5
127 Bebel Gilberto, Tanto Tempo 11.4
128 Novillero – Aim Right For the Holes in their Lives 11.4
129 The Go Betweens Oceans Apart 11.4
130 Ivy Long Distence 11.3
131 Soil and Pimp Sessions, Pimp Master 11.2
132 Pushin' OnQuantic Soul Orchestra 11.2
133 Jolie Holland, Escondida 11.0
134 Bugge Wesseltoft, New conceptions of Jazz 11.0
135 Lil Wayne Tha Carter III 10.9
136 The Bicycles – the Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly 10.9
137 Calexico Garden Ruin 10.8
138 The Headlights – Some Racing Some Stopping 10.7
139 The National Boxer 10.7
140 The Waterboys - A Rock in the Weary Land 10.7
141 Field Music Field Music 10.6
142 Juliana Hatfield – Beautiful Creature 10.6
143 Specialist in All StylesOrchestra Baobob 10.5
144 M Ward Transfiguration Of Vincent 10.4
145 Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends 10.4
146 Sonic Youth Murray Street 10.3
147 David Pajo Pajo 10.2
148 TransatlanticismDeath Cab for Cutie 10.2
149 Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn 10.1
150 Dandy Warhols 13 Tales… 10.0
151 Ga Ga Ga Ga GaSpoon 10.0
152 M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts 10.0
153 Movietone – Blossom Filled Streets 10.0
154 Radiohead - Hail To The Thief 10.0
155 Zero Seven, Simple Things 10.0
156 Young people – All at Once 9.9
157 Vieux Farka Toure Vieux Farka Toure 9.8
158 Echospace The Coldest Season 9.8
159 The Stills Logic Will Break Your Heart 9.8
160 New Buffalo – Somewhere Anywhere 9.7
161 Suzanne Vega - Songs In Red And Gray 9.7
162 Tapes n Tapes – The Loon 9.6
163 Nick Lowe The Convincer 9.6
164 Femi Kuti, Fight To Win 9.6
165 Post-WarM.Ward 9.5
166 The Deerhof – The Runners Four 9.5
167 Last Days of April – If You Lose It 9.4
168 Eivind Aarset, Connected 9.3
169 M. Ward The Transfiguration of Vincent 9.3
170 John Fogerty - Revival 9.3
171 The City Fembots 9.3
172 Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit 9.3
173 Low – Things We Lost in the Fire 9.3
174 Junior Boys So This is Goodbye 9.2
175 Person Pitch Panda Bear 9.2
176 Amon Tobin, Supermodified 9.1
177 Leisure Society – Sleeper 9.1
178 Richard Buckner The Hill 9.1
179 Land of Talk – Some are Lakes 9.0
180 The Horrors Primary Colours 9.0
181 Kathleen Edwards - Failer 9.0
182 Four Hero, Creating Patterns 8.9
183 Radiohead Amnesiac 8.9
184 The Teeth - Your're My Lover Now 8.8
185 Ladytron, Witching Hour 8.7
186 Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust 8.7
187 Foreign Exchange Connected 8.7
188 American Analog Set - Know By Heart 8.6
189 Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat 8.6
190 Tujiko Noriko From Tokyo to Niagara 8.5
191 Antibalas, Who is This America 8.5
192 Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder 8.5
193 Oh, Inverted World The Shins 8.5
194 Two Minute Miracles Volume II 8.5
195 Sun Kill Moon Ghosts of the Great highway 8.4
196 Imperial Teen - The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band 8.4
197 Cut Copy In Ghost Colours 8.4
198 Better Than Ezra - Closer 8.3
199 Bugge Wesseltoft, IM 8.3
200 Rachels Systems layers 8.2
201 The Life PursuitBelle and Sebastian 8.2
202 Bonobo, Animal Magic 8.1
203 Aimee Mann Bachelor # 2 8.0
204 Parc Avenue Plants & Animals 8.0
205 Lucinda Williams - Essence 7.9
206 The Antlers Hospice 7.8
207 Soil and Pimp Sessions, Pimpoint 7.7
208 Black Sheep Boy Okkervil River 7.7
209 Todd Snider - East Nashville Skyline 7.7
210 Bonnie prince Billy Greatest Palace Music 7.6
211 One BedroomThe Sea and Cake 7.5
212 Alligator The National 7.3
213 Over the Rhine - Live From Nowhere Volume One 7.3
214 Steve Earle Transcendental Blues 7.3
215 Beastie Boys, To the Boroughs 7.3
216 Outkast, Stankonia 7.1
217 Bright Eyes Cassadaga 7.1
218 Andorra Caribou 7.0
219 Cat Power The Greatest 6.9
220 Five Roses Miracle Fortress 6.8
221 Spoon, Gimme Fiction 6.7
222 The EraserThom Yorke 6.7
223 The Walkabouts - Drunken Soundtracks 6.7
224 The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse The Besnard Lakes 6.5
225 Grant Lee Phillips Virginia Creeper 6.4
226 David Gray - Life in Slow Motion 6.3
227 Do Make say Think, & Yet & Yet 6.3
228 Max Richter Blue Notebooks 6.2
229 MicrocastleDeerhunter 6.2
230 I'm Wide Awake, It's MorningBright Eyes 6.0
231 Julie Doiron Goodnight Nobody 6.0
232 Back to Black Amy Winehouse 5.8
233 Luna Rondezvous 5.8
234 Steve Earle - Just an American Boy 5.7
235 Antibalas, Security 5.5
236 James Blackshaw Litany Of Echoes 5.3
237 PosesRufus Wainwright 5.3
238 Rheostatics - Night of the Shooting Stars 5.3
239 Built to Spill, You in Reverse 5.3
240 The Long GoodbyeThe Essex Green 5.2
241 Mogwai Happy Songs for happy People 5.1
242 The White Stripes, Elephant 5.1
243 Rings Around the WorldSuper Furry Animals 5.0
244 The Rosebuds - Life Like 5.0
245 Mojave 3 Excuses For Travellers 4.9
246 Before the Dawn Heals Us M83 4.8
247 Jack Johnson, On and On 4.7
248 Max Avery Lichtenstein Tarnation Soundtrack 4.7
249 Close to ParadisePatrick Watson 4.5
250 Natalie Merchant Motherland 4.4
251 Dzihan & Kamien, Freaks and Icons 4.3
252 Nick Cave The Lyre of Orpheus/Abattoir Blues 4.2
253 Cibelle Cibelle 4.2
254 Guided By Voices, Earthquake Glue 4.1
255 Good News for People Who Like Bad News Modest Mouse 4.0
256 Peter Bjorn & John Writers Block 4.0
257 The Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues, Part 2 4.0
258 Eivind Aarset, Electonique Noire 3.9
259 What We Must Jaga Jazzist 3.8
260 The Real Tuesday Weld I Lucifer 3.8
261 Thievery Corporation, The Mirror Conspiracy 3.7
262 From Here We Go SublimeThe Field 3.5
263 Hawaii 3.5
264 Warren Zevon - The Wind 3.3
265 Moby, Hotel 3.3
266 PhrenologyThe Roots 3.2
267 Linda Thompson Fashionable Late 3.1
268 Sergio Mendes, Timeless 3.0
269 Cease to BeginBand of Horses 3.0
270 Lloyd Cole - Anti Depressant 3.0
271 Amy Winehouse Back To Black 2.9
272 Cody Chestnut The Headphone Masterpieces 2.7
273 The Many Moods of Ben Benjamin , Vol. 1Ben Benjamen 2.7
274 Todd Snider - Happy to Be Here 2.7
275 Sam Roberts, Chemical City 2.6
276 Lust Lust Lust Raveonettes 2.5
277 Bonobo Animal Magic 2.4
278 Explosions in the Sky, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Plan 2.4
279 DeadringerRJD2 2.3
280 Jack Johnson, In Between Dreams 2.2
281 Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors 2.2
282 Gnarles Barkley, St Elseware 2.0
283 Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to HeavenGodspeed You Black Emperor 2.0
284 The Visualz Anthology Siah & Yeshua 1.8
285 Hope Sandaval, Bavarian Fruit Bread 1.8
286 Michael Andrews You And Me And Every One We Know 1.8
287 Len Parrot's Memorial LiftBaxter Dury 1.7
288 Paul Simon - Surprise 1.7
289 Banca de Gaia, Last Train to Lhasa 1.6
290 Eminem The Eminem Show 1.6
291 Silent AlarmBloc Party 1.5
292 Snow Patrol, Final Straw 1.4
293 Scott Merritt - Detour Home 1.3
294 Vekatimist Grizzly Bear 1.3
295 Nils Petter Molvaer, er 1.2
296 In Ghost Colours Cut Copy 1.2
297 Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime 1.0
298 War of the Waking PhantomsThe High Dials 0.8
299 Joseph Malik, Diverse 0.8
300 Bob Geldof - Sex, Age & Death 0.7
301 Cinematic orchestra Every day 0.7
302 Manitoba, Start Breaking my Heart 0.6
303 And Yet And YetDo Make Say Think 0.5
304 Gillian Welch Time The Revelator 0.4
305 Berlin SerengetiRadio Citizen 0.3
306 The Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here 0.3
307 Shout Out Louds, Howl Howl, Gaff Gaff (late addition not sequenced) 0.2
308 Blueberry BoatFiery Furnaces 0.2

Other stats:

Album that appeared on all 6 lists: Picaresque - The Decemberists

Albums that appeared on 5 lists: Funeral - Arcade Fire, Neon Bible - Arcade Fire, Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens

Albums that appeared on 4 lists: Hour of the Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy, You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene, Is This It? - The Strokes, Set Yourself On Fire - Stars

Albums that appeared on 3 lists: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out - Yo La Tengo, Finally We Are No One - Mum, Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins, Sea Change - Beck, Room on Fire - The Strokes, Trials of the Van Occupanther - Midlake, Late Registration - Kanye West, Bows + Arrows, The Walkmen, For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver, The Reminder - Feist, Arular - MIA, Kid A - Radiohead, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Albums that appeared on 2 lists: Tourist - St. Germain, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Everything All the Time - Band of Horses, Feast of Wire - Calexico, Waltz for Koop - Koop, Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips, Takk - Sigur Ros, The Electric Version - The New Pornographers, Antics - Interpol, Walking With Thee - Clinic, The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones, Madvillainy - Madvillain, The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy, Joyful Rebellion - K-os, Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine, The Fast Rise and Fall of the South - The Kingsbury Manx, Since I Left You - The Avalanches, 18 - Moby, Sao Paolo Confessions - Suba, Let It Die - Feist, Z - My Morning Jacket, Tanto Tempo - Bebel Gilberto, A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay, Feels - Animal Collective, Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand, The Stage Names - Okkervil River, The Great Eastern - The Delgados, Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes, Guero - Beck

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