the 2006 dirty poll: the results

[holden]

it is what it is. So sorry that an averaging of multiple people's opinions doesn't match your own. There's no need to criticize what other folks considered their favorite music of the year. As it is, this is a nice cross-section of just what it is, other than UW, that dirties enjoy listening to and kudos to Matt for tallying!
The fact that "breaking & Entering" is up there certainly has to do with the hyper-exposure of that soundtrack around these parts. But it also is in the minds of many a lovely album. So quit yer whinin' and banishin', please. What's the world without surprises?

holden

p.s. and before this launches into the usual, "we're just discussing/debating" and "everyone's entitled to opinions" endless argument, let me repeat that this poll is what it is. These were voted on, and shouldn't be changed, regardless of if i feel slighted that my tops didn't rank high or get on.

[Stephen]

Fuck me there's some moaning going on. If you want to see a list of the 50 best albums of 2006 that you agree with 100%, then write it yourself.

Without any kind of weighting, this is always going to be skewed like this. I mean, I barely bought 10 new albums last year (I didn't vote either) but if I had voted it would basically have been everything that I'd bought (assuming I didn't buy any dogshit recordings by accident). Gnarls Barkley ended pretty high up so let's say for arguments sake that 15 people voted for St Elsewhere. Of that 15 maybe 3 thought it was excellent, the rest thought it was good/fun/whatever. Those 12 people then entered it into their top ten of 2006 alongside some albums they really REALLY loved. Someone could feasibly have included Gnarls and Trentemoller on their list, knowing full well that they enjoyed Trentemoller's offering infinitely more and yet, the 2 votes count exactly the same amount towards the final results.

[kid cue]

bitching & moaning about lists = people love (talking about) music.

why is the "everyone's entitled to opinions" debate only welcome when it's positive opinions being expressed?

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by kid cue

bitching & moaning about lists = people love (talking about) music.

why is the "everyone's entitled to opinions" debate only welcome when it's positive opinions being expressed?

No, people are definitely entitled to their opinion, whatever it may be, it's just that it wouldn't hurt for people to recognise the limitations and nature of such a poll.

I only bought three albums off that list (Trentemoller, Technasia and Nathan Fake) I intend to pick up the Junior Boys and Burial offerings very soon though.

[kid cue]

i agree completely about understanding the nature of this poll. i just wanted to re-emphasize that criticizing polls like this is fun, and should not be frowned upon!

[thee carp dreamer]

i'm not exactly losing sleep over this poll.
just i'd rather whoever voted for the u/w to look at this poll and listen to the rest of the top 20 eventually, just to appreciate the truely great music that has been released this year. if someone's voted for the u/w album, having listened to the rest of the top 20, i'll be astonished.

[patrick]

agreed... i do agree that it is suprising that it is out there in front... but remember that this is a compilation of polls, so it is is statistically not very significant in terms of: lots of people know uw here, and so many maybe put it on the end of their list... maybe only a few put bonobo on their list, but ranked higher...

which is the better albumn vs. which is more popular?

[kid cue]

i'd like to see the number of votes for each album on the list ... matt used to include this data in previous years' lists, if i'm not mistaken.

[GreenPea]

I assume the #1 picks are VERY heavily weighted as I am pretty sure I am the only one that voted for The Goslings.

[adam]

Body Riddle is really growing on me. I was sort of indifferent my first listen, but it gets better with each listen.