EWB's Top Artists of 2012 Voting Thread

[fr34k]

1. Nine Inch Nails

2. The Stooges

3. The Velvet Underground

4. Einstürzende Neubauten

5. Nirvana

6. Radiohead

7. Dead Boys

8. The Germs

9. Joy Division

10. Nas

11. The Clash

12. The Smiths

13. Devin Townsend

14. Black Flag

15. John Frusciante

Probably forgot something, but oh well.

Last year...

1. Nine Inch Nails

2. The Stooges

3. Nirvana

4. The Germs

5. The Clash

6. Radiohead

7. The Velvet Underground

8. Dead Boys

9. Joy Division

10. Muse

11. Placebo

12. Ramones

13. Saul Williams

14. Neutral Milk Hotel

15. HORSE The Band

[probablyoliver]

1. New Order

2. The Lucksmiths

3. The Mountain Goats

4. TV On The Radio

5. Cat Power

6. Andrew Jackson Jihad

7. Les Savy Fav

8. My Morning Jacket

9. LCD Soundsystem

10. Scroobius Pip

11. Weatherbox

12. Aesop Rock

13. Laura Marling

14. Das Racist

15. Hop Along

I've mellowed out in the last couple years. There's probably loads of stuff that I'd have wanted in my top 15 that I'm drawing a blank on but hey, this is pretty much based purely on my last.fm.

[probablyoliver]

Also I totally think we should use YI's scoring method, it just makes way more sense as far as getting a collective best band result.

Like say one person votes, I dunno, Peter Frampton at number one, that's fifteen points under regular scoring system. Then three people all vote, fuck it, Enya in twelth place which'd be 12 points. But the fact more people on EWB like Enya enough to vote for her (seriously guys, Enya? You guys like some shit music) surely means she should place higher in the list than ol' Frampy?

I dunno, I just really dug YI's scoring method.

[gunnar hendershow]

Only reason I'm not doing it is because it helps encourage strategic voting.

"Well Enya's okay but I totally want her on the list instead of Big Daddy Kane so I'll vote her 15th so that 6th that she was voted by Cloudy gets multiplied."

We can discuss changing the scoring method though, I'm open to a good argument for why YI's method should be used. I don't have feelings either way beyond my above statement.

[METALMAN]

I narrowed this down to a shortlist of twenty-five, and from there it was really tough, but in the end I had to say goodbye to The Cribs, Marina & the Diamonds, Belle & Sebastian, The Kinks, Paul Simon, Josh Rouse, Bob Marley, The Divine Comedy, The Beach Boys, Beach House, Charlie Mingus and The Pogues. So too bad for them. Best of luck in the future guys.

Final fifteen is as follows:

1. Chic

2. David Bowie

3. Steely Dan

4. Prince

5. Hank Williams

6. Lady Gaga

7. The Byrds

8. James Taylor

9. Miles Davis

10. Bob Dylan

11. The Rolling Stones

12. Ryan Adams

13. Neil Young

14. Scott Walker

15. The Smiths

and last year's is similar but different:

1. Ryan Adams

2. The Beatles

3. David Bowie

4. The Smiths

5. Belle & Sebastian

6. Bob Dylan

7. James Taylor

8. Josh Rouse

9. Miles Davis

10. Neil Young

11. Janelle Monáe

12. The Rolling Stones

13. Steely Dan

14. Outkast

15. Frightened Rabbit

[probablyoliver]

No Cher Lloyd? Why break character? :/

[METALMAN]

FUCK

I feel so bad right now.

But I don't know if I can let her in on the basis of only one album, as brilliant as it is. :/

I will need to hold a committee meeting. With myself. I'm in for a long night.

[METALMAN]

11. Les Rallizes Denudes

Largely picked from my last.fm most listened to list, and just off the top of my head. I'm not going to edit it, even if I think of anyone I've missed.

I really liked that song those guys did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FGhEOlDl6w

[livid]

1. The Black Keys

2. Arcade Fire

3. Nine Inch Nails

4. Queens of the Stone Age

5. The Black Angels

6. The Antlers

7. UNKLE

8. Childish Gambino

9. Bon Iver

10. Beach House

11. The Glitch Mob

12. The National

13. Porcelain Raft

14. Youth Lagoon

15. Led Zeppelin

Last year's list:

1. Nine Inch Nails

2. Queens of the Stone Age

3. Arcade Fire

4. The Black Angels

5. Childish Gambino

6. The Black Keys

7. Mastodon

8. UNKLE

9. The Glitch Mob

10. Led Zeppelin

11. Bon Iver

12. Interpol

13. The National

14. The Antlers

15. Gnarls Barkley

Overall a fair amount of shuffling but nothing really drastic other than Mastodon not being on the list at all after being fairly high last year. I will say that my interest in listening to stuff I already have has waned quite a bit lately so the latter half of the list contains a lot of bands that I happen to be into at the moment (or within the last year, at least).

[METALMAN]

omg Youth Lagoon is so amazing aren't he? That was a cracking album.

[livid]

Yeah that was one of my favorite albums last year (obviously). I really can't wait to see how he follows it up.

[gunnar hendershow]

Basically going off my last.fm with a few exceptions.

1. Boards of Canada

2. Nujabes

3. Wu-Tang Clan

4. The Smiths

5. Radiohead

6. Thievery Corporation

7. Miles Davis

8. Aphex Twin

9. Blur

10. Lone

11. Cornelius

12. Pink Floyd

13. The Velvet Underground

14. Black Moth Super Rainbow

15. Organized Konfusion

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

1. Paramore

2. Kendrick Lamar

3. Patsy Cline

4. Linkin Park

5. The White Stripes

6. Jack White

7. Phillip Phillips

8. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

9. Coldplay

10. Fleetwood Mac

11. Loretta Lynn

12. Joan Jett

13. Michael Jackson

14. Childish Gambino

15. Xzibit (Napalm is fucking awesome)

[Matt]

I think the best example of why YI's system works is Nine Inch Nails last year. Under the system you're employing (which GoGo used) they came 10th because 4 people gave them 15 points, under YI's system they came joint 21st because no-one else gave them a single vote. I believe there were 55 voters last year, 4 of them voted for Nine Inch Nails but they got in the top 10, despite the fact that only 4 people considered them to be in their top 15 bands. The system you're using is favourable to niche bands that a handful of people love as opposed to bands that a lot of people like but don't consider their favourite band. In theory 4 people could say that some obscure band-of-the-month are their favourite band and that then ranks them higher than a band that 59 people rank as their 15th favourite band. Obviously that's an extreme scenario that would never happen, but it doesn't seem right to me.

[Jimmy]

1. The Courteeners

2. Los Campesinos

3. Wavves

4. Eminem

5. The Black Keys

6. The Cribs

7. Scroobius Pip

8. The Hives

9. Gaslight Anthem

10. Maccabees

11. Laura Marling

12. Libertines

13. Foals

14. Veronica Falls

15. The Smiths

Honourable mentions: The Skints, Tokyo Police Club, Best Coast, Childish Gambino, Grimes and Summer Camp.

Last year's list.

1. Los Campesinos

2. Eminem

3. Tokyo Police Club

4. The Cribs

5. Foals

6. Bombay Bicycle Club

7. Crystal Fighters

8. The Macabees

9. Darwin Deez

10. Laura Marling

11. Little Comets

12. Arctic Monkeys

13. The Vaccines

14. Cobra Starship

15. Gorillaz

[Gorka]

1. The Black Keys

2. Arcade Fire

3. Modest Mouse

4. Iron Maiden

5. Them Crooked Vultures

6. Rage Against the Machine

7. The XX

8. Arctic Monkeys

9. The Naked and Famous

10. Bombay Bicycle Club

11. Weezer

12. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

13. Daft Punk

14. Kasabian

15. Johnny Cash

2011 List:

1. Arctic Monkeys

2. Arcade Fire

3. Gorillaz

4. Biffy Clyro

5. Iron Maiden

6. Daft Punk

7. Manic Street Preachers

8. Rage Against the Machine

9. The Naked and Famous

10. Plan B

11. The Chemical Brothers

12. Eagles of Death Metal

13. Them Crooked Vultures

14. The XX

15. Airbourne

[Benjamin]

1. Placebo

2. The Killers

3. Fun.

4. Owl City

5. Fall Out Boy

6. Blink 182

7. Panic! At The Disco

8. Coldplay

9. Foster The People

10. Toto

11. The Corrs

12. The Cranberries

13. Kid Cudi

14. DragonForce

15. Kanye West

[Cymbols]

Edited my list. Forgot a couple of people.

[Rich]

1 Biffy Clyro

2 M83

3 Alexisonfire

4 Set Your Goals

5 Los Campesinos!

6 Brand New

7 At the Drive In

8 Joie de Vivre

9 The Album Leaf

10 A Day to Remember

11 City and Colour

12 Cap'n Jazz

13 Empire! Empire! (I was a Lonely Estate)

14 Enter Shikari

15 Tears for Fears

[New Damage]

Aww man, I got into The Gaslight Anthem and they had an album I've been listening to a tonne this year too. :/

1. Soundgarden

2. Nirvana

3. Reuben

4. Childish Gambino

5. Foo Fighters

6. Silversun Pickups

7. Delphic

8. Pearl Jam

9. Bruce Springsteen

10. Shinedown

11. Limp Bizkit

12. The Roots

13. God is an Astronaut

14. Jay Z & Kanye West

15. Charlie Simpson

Randomness, go!