This is the Fifth Annual Shmoo Poll, our annual chance to complain about how Pitchfork's rankings are collectively a pretty accurate representation of Obner. Yay!

PLEASE READ THE RULES!

Here's how it works:

Everybody ranks their top 20 (or less) albums of the year and submits them on the above website. I conduct the point scale as follows:

Ranked 1-5: 4 points
Ranked 6-10: 3 points
Ranked 11-15: 2 points
Ranked 16-20: 1 point

This way you don't have to decide an exact ranking and there isn't a huge spread of points separating albums at the top from the bottom. If you don't like it, shut up. Every year someone complains about my points system so I run it another way out of curiosity, and the results barely change.

Feel free to leave blanks. You don't need to have all 20 albums. But you cannot have a #1, a #5, and a #17 without the intervening numbers. All albums must be consecutive.

As with last year, you add the albums to the Charts function and then they will appear on the drop-down. Double check that the album is not already there before you add a new one! Do not abbreviate artist names or album titles. If you're too lazy to do these things, maybe I'll be too lazy to run the fucking poll.

So then I rank them and we get an overall top 20. I always end up posting the entire rankings though, because people want to see where their favorite album landed if it’s not in the top 20. Probably no SAS this year, Sketch. As we get closer to the deadline I'll either decide or start a poll about whether we'll do blurbs, as well as asking someone to take charge of coordinating that (ahem, chase).

The deadline for this poll is January 15th, 2007 and 11pm Eastern Time, so you should have plenty of time. Don't submit too early if you think you're going to keep changing your mind.

Only entries submitted via the ballot site will be accepted. Entries posted in this thread will not be counted (unless also submitted via the site).

Thanks as usual to HaqDiesel for setting up the web-ballot. If you have any problems with the ballot, it’s probably because you’re computer illiterate. However, feel free to PM HaqDiesel or myself if you still can’t figure it out.

The ballot can be found at http://www.obner.org/poll06/

Any questions?

yes! it's back, baby. i'll probably have mine in around the new year.

Thanks for continuing to do this poll.

oh snap! it's on!

done.

added 3 more albums too.

I feel sorry for your kids.

wow, I just looked at this list and realized that I had only heard like three of the cds. It looks like I need to stop buying cds from the 80's and 90's and actually maybe start trying to listen to new music because I have no idea whats going on in the music world these days.

someone's cranky.

what's the deadline?

why you gotta bait the shmoo like dat dri?

I'll be avoiding that thread and playing at the other playground.

is that computer illiteracy or just normal illiteracy?

You can't blame her if the information isn't there. I can't figure out how to enter albums in the chart function, but I'll muddle through I guess.

information isn't there?

shmoo, maybe you should bold the deadline for people who don't read or have no reading comprehension skills.

wow, looks like there is a severe lack of good hip hop this year...

EDITED
shmoo poll 2.0
1. Jason Collett - Idols Of Exile
2. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
3. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
4. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
5. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
6. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
7. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
8. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
9. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
10. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
11. Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
12. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
13. The Futureheads - news and tributes
14. Boris - Pink
15. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
16. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
17. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
18. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
19. My Morning Jacket - Okonokos: Live
20. Lily Allen - Alright, Still...

This one was hard because there were a lot of records I wanted to put in the 11-20 spots...

Apologies to: The Rapture, The Decemberists, Silversun Pickups, Josh Rouse, Amy Millan, Be Your Own Pet, Beck, Calexico, Cat Power, Cold War Kids, Film School,

Sorry I haven't gotten your record yet: Jarvis Cocker, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emily Haines

Better luck next year guys

I've been working furiously on my list.

I've been bingeing on Rhapsody for the last couple weeks to do this up right.
Added The Coup's record to charts just now.
Thanks again, shmoo and Haq

OK SHUTUP EVERYONE, i saw the deadline. my bad. i was just skimming through the post really fast and i'm hungover.

chill the fuck out.

jan. 15, 2007. got it.

christ.

Submitted. Had to add a lot. But whatever.

I have now blilghted the poll with my choices as well.

Added Cheap Trick - Rockford, as it is worthy by the standards of all that I have heard this year.

Here's mine. Conveniently I'd already put this together for another board.


1. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
2. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
3. Growing - Color Wheel
4. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
5. Citay - Citay
6. Akron/Family - Meek Warrior
7. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
8. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
9. Comets on Fire - Avatar
10. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
11. Shogun Kunitoki - Tasankokaiku
12. The Brother Kite - Waiting For The Time To Be Right
13. The Black Angels - Passover
14. Belong - October Language
15. Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
16. OOIOO - Taiga
17. Tunng - Comments Of The Inner Chorus
18. Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
19. Mogwai - The Beast
20. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics

Shut up you!

Just kidding. Yeah, I just got annoyed by people complaining about having to add albums last year. But the "computer illiterate" comment was in there from the previous rules I copied and pasted.

And the Pitchfork thing is just true. Every year people say how out of touch Pitchfork's list is, and then ours comes out very similar.

Yeah but we complain about our list too