Will this be like, one release per artist? Or maybe per artist per distinguishable era? If so we'll need to set up special committees. Who will chair the Coltrane, Mayfield, Barretto, (...et al) sub-commissions?
1) Google Docs has a relatively new "Forms" template that can be used to collect survey data for free (unlike Survey Monkey though the latter probably does better post-processing of data).
2) Rather than giving people a list of LPs to choose from, it makes more sense that they nominate. The main question is how many do you really want to have to process? And how elaborate do you want to get? For example, the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop poll has "points" you split between your 10 selections, so that some albums are weighted heavier than others. However, to crunch that shit, you'd have to have someone with the right programming skills.
The easier route would be to limit people to just 5 or so albums (equally) and then rank albums by most votes.
3) It's tempting to split by genre but I think that gets unwieldy; perhaps it's better to just test this out with all genres BUT make it album only (and then do a separate 45s poll later).
4) This may also be a good opportunity to collect some basic demographic info on Soulstrut users: age, sex, race/ethnicity, location, record collection size, primary genres, etc. Might as well take the opportunity, no?
1) Google Docs has a relatively new "Forms" template that can be used to collect survey data for free (unlike Survey Monkey though the latter probably does better post-processing of data).
2) Rather than giving people a list of LPs to choose from, it makes more sense that they nominate. The main question is how many do you really want to have to process? And how elaborate do you want to get? For example, the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop poll has "points" you split between your 10 selections, so that some albums are weighted heavier than others. However, to crunch that shit, you'd have to have someone with the right programming skills.
The easier route would be to limit people to just 5 or so albums (equally) and then rank albums by most votes.
3) It's tempting to split by genre but I think that gets unwieldy; perhaps it's better to just test this out with all genres BUT make it album only (and then do a separate 45s poll later).
4) This may also be a good opportunity to collect some basic demographic info on Soulstrut users: age, sex, race/ethnicity, location, record collection size, primary genres, etc. Might as well take the opportunity, no?
This sounds like a smart way to proceed, perhaps executed after this thread has a week or two's more life as an ongoing source for nominations (suggestions/reminders, etc).
1) Google Docs has a relatively new "Forms" template that can be used to collect survey data for free (unlike Survey Monkey though the latter probably does better post-processing of data).
2) Rather than giving people a list of LPs to choose from, it makes more sense that they nominate. The main question is how many do you really want to have to process? And how elaborate do you want to get? For example, the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop poll has "points" you split between your 10 selections, so that some albums are weighted heavier than others. However, to crunch that shit, you'd have to have someone with the right programming skills.
The easier route would be to limit people to just 5 or so albums (equally) and then rank albums by most votes.
3) It's tempting to split by genre but I think that gets unwieldy; perhaps it's better to just test this out with all genres BUT make it album only (and then do a separate 45s poll later).
4) This may also be a good opportunity to collect some basic demographic info on Soulstrut users: age, sex, race/ethnicity, location, record collection size, primary genres, etc. Might as well take the opportunity, no?
Ace Spectrum - Inner Spectrum
AIR - S/T on Embryo
Al Green - Gets Next To You
The Hanged Man - Played by Bullet
Alice Clark on Mainstream
The Ambassadors - Soul Summit
Ananda Shankar and His Music
Andy Bey - Experience and Judgement
The Animated Egg
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Archie Bell - I Never Had It So Good
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Whitewater
Arthur Verocai
Arzachel
Ata Kak - Obama Sima
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
Badder Than Evil - Gordon's War
Barbara & Ernie - Prelude To...
The Battered Ornaments - Mantle-Piece
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Beatnuts - Street Level
Beck - Odelay
The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau
Ben Sidran - Feel Your Groove
Bernard Wright - Nard
Betty Davis - S/T
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane
Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City
Big Youth - Screaming Target
Bill Mason - Gettin' Off
Bill Withers - Still Bill
Biz Markie - Make the Music With Your Mouth, Biz
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Black Sabbath - S/T
The Blackbyrds - S/T
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right To Children
Bob James - One
The Bobby Hamilton Unlimited - Dream Queen
Bobby Lyle - The Genie
Bohannon - Stop & Go
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Boscoe
Brethren
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - David Byrn - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Brother Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin'
Jack Bruce - Things We Like
Bwana
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knight
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo[/b]
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Can - Tago Mago
Cannonball Adderley - Soul of the Bible
Captain Puff - The Naked Truth
Carl Sherlock Holmes - Investigation No. 1
The Cars - Candy-O
Catalyst - S/T
Cesar Mariano & CIA - Sao Paulo - Brasil
Chicken Curry and His Pop Percussion Orchestra - Stereo Discotheque
Chris Harwood - Nice to meet Miss Christine
Christopher Cross - The Definitive
The Clash - London Calling
Coke (on Sound Triangle)
Collins and Collins
Commodores - Machine Gun
Common - Resurrection
The Continental IV - Dream World
Cortijo & His Time Machine - Y Su Maquino del Tiempo
Cumulo Nimbus - 47 Times It's Own Weight
Curtis Mayfield - S/T
Cymande - S/T[/b]
Dr. Hooker - The Truth
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Da Grassroots - Passage Through Time
Danser's Inferno
Darondo - Let My People Go
Daryl Hall & John Oates - the Essential
David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My name
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
The Delfonics - La La Means I Love you
Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!
Dennis Coffey - Hair & Thangs
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Devo - Q: Are We not Men?
Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts, and Hip Hop
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Dillinger - CB200
Diplo - Florida
DJ Quik - Quik is the Name
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Brainfreeze
Don Blackman - S/T
Donny Hathaway - S/T
Doris - Did You Give the World Some Love Today baby
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Dr. Dre - The Chronic[/b]
Earth, Wind, and Fire - S/T
Ebony Rhythm Campaign
Eddie Drennon & BBS Unlimited - Collage
Eddie Fisher & the Next One Hundred Years
Eddie Harris - Plug Me In
Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs
Eddie Kendricks - People Hold On
Egg - S/T
El Michels Affair - Sounding Out the City
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eramus Hall - Your Love is My Desire
Erkin Koray - Elektronik Turkuler
ESG - A South Bronx Story
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
Express Rising - S/T
The Fabulous Counts - Jan Jan
Faces - A nod is as Good as a Wink
The Fatback Band - Keep on Steppin'
The Flying Burrito Brothers - the Gilded Palace of Sin
Food - Forever is a Dream
Franck Dervieux - Dimension M
The Frank Cunimondo Trio - Echoes
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Fred Wesley & the JB's - Doing It to Death
Freddie Robinson - Off the Cuff
The Free Design - Kites are Fun
Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain[/b]
the rap discogs are going to be tough, will there be a set standard to limit it to one artist? or is it open for multiple titles from the same musician/group?
Raj: my point was that we shouldn't have a list of albums for people to choose from. Just create a survey where people can list, say, ther top 10 albums.
Then whoever crunches the survey results just adds up which albums show up the most frequently on the aggregated list.
Comments
Also, Donuts and maybe a few Madlib-releases.
Power of Zeus
Horizon Drive
Stark Reality (co-sign)
hes coming for sadistic mika band??
david crosby!
micahel henderson banana thong
donnie and joe emerson
all mighty leo sayer
dr buzzard
afreaka this is neither robbery or s&m related
edan? just out of respect to salma hayek moments
stark should be #1 though in memory of brotha monty
whatnauts on the rocks
minority band
1) Google Docs has a relatively new "Forms" template that can be used to collect survey data for free (unlike Survey Monkey though the latter probably does better post-processing of data).
2) Rather than giving people a list of LPs to choose from, it makes more sense that they nominate. The main question is how many do you really want to have to process? And how elaborate do you want to get? For example, the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop poll has "points" you split between your 10 selections, so that some albums are weighted heavier than others. However, to crunch that shit, you'd have to have someone with the right programming skills.
The easier route would be to limit people to just 5 or so albums (equally) and then rank albums by most votes.
3) It's tempting to split by genre but I think that gets unwieldy; perhaps it's better to just test this out with all genres BUT make it album only (and then do a separate 45s poll later).
4) This may also be a good opportunity to collect some basic demographic info on Soulstrut users: age, sex, race/ethnicity, location, record collection size, primary genres, etc. Might as well take the opportunity, no?
This sounds like a smart way to proceed, perhaps executed after this thread has a week or two's more life as an ongoing source for nominations (suggestions/reminders, etc).
I will add a list sometime in the next few days.
Keep posting your ideas/noms!
You are such a sociologist.
Ace Spectrum - Inner Spectrum
AIR - S/T on Embryo
Al Green - Gets Next To You
The Hanged Man - Played by Bullet
Alice Clark on Mainstream
The Ambassadors - Soul Summit
Ananda Shankar and His Music
Andy Bey - Experience and Judgement
The Animated Egg
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Archie Bell - I Never Had It So Good
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Whitewater
Arthur Verocai
Arzachel
Ata Kak - Obama Sima
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
Badder Than Evil - Gordon's War
Barbara & Ernie - Prelude To...
The Battered Ornaments - Mantle-Piece
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Beatnuts - Street Level
Beck - Odelay
The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau
Ben Sidran - Feel Your Groove
Bernard Wright - Nard
Betty Davis - S/T
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane
Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City
Big Youth - Screaming Target
Bill Mason - Gettin' Off
Bill Withers - Still Bill
Biz Markie - Make the Music With Your Mouth, Biz
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Black Sabbath - S/T
The Blackbyrds - S/T
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right To Children
Bob James - One
The Bobby Hamilton Unlimited - Dream Queen
Bobby Lyle - The Genie
Bohannon - Stop & Go
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Boscoe
Brethren
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - David Byrn - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Brother Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin'
Jack Bruce - Things We Like
Bwana
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knight
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo[/b]
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Can - Tago Mago
Cannonball Adderley - Soul of the Bible
Captain Puff - The Naked Truth
Carl Sherlock Holmes - Investigation No. 1
The Cars - Candy-O
Catalyst - S/T
Cesar Mariano & CIA - Sao Paulo - Brasil
Chicken Curry and His Pop Percussion Orchestra - Stereo Discotheque
Chris Harwood - Nice to meet Miss Christine
Christopher Cross - The Definitive
The Clash - London Calling
Coke (on Sound Triangle)
Collins and Collins
Commodores - Machine Gun
Common - Resurrection
The Continental IV - Dream World
Cortijo & His Time Machine - Y Su Maquino del Tiempo
Cumulo Nimbus - 47 Times It's Own Weight
Curtis Mayfield - S/T
Cymande - S/T[/b]
Dr. Hooker - The Truth
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Da Grassroots - Passage Through Time
Danser's Inferno
Darondo - Let My People Go
Daryl Hall & John Oates - the Essential
David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My name
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
The Delfonics - La La Means I Love you
Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!
Dennis Coffey - Hair & Thangs
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Devo - Q: Are We not Men?
Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts, and Hip Hop
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Dillinger - CB200
Diplo - Florida
DJ Quik - Quik is the Name
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Brainfreeze
Don Blackman - S/T
Donny Hathaway - S/T
Doris - Did You Give the World Some Love Today baby
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Dr. Dre - The Chronic[/b]
Earth, Wind, and Fire - S/T
Ebony Rhythm Campaign
Eddie Drennon & BBS Unlimited - Collage
Eddie Fisher & the Next One Hundred Years
Eddie Harris - Plug Me In
Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs
Eddie Kendricks - People Hold On
Egg - S/T
El Michels Affair - Sounding Out the City
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eramus Hall - Your Love is My Desire
Erkin Koray - Elektronik Turkuler
ESG - A South Bronx Story
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
Express Rising - S/T
The Fabulous Counts - Jan Jan
Faces - A nod is as Good as a Wink
The Fatback Band - Keep on Steppin'
The Flying Burrito Brothers - the Gilded Palace of Sin
Food - Forever is a Dream
Franck Dervieux - Dimension M
The Frank Cunimondo Trio - Echoes
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Fred Wesley & the JB's - Doing It to Death
Freddie Robinson - Off the Cuff
The Free Design - Kites are Fun
Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain[/b]
YESSS!!!!!!!!! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!!
Then whoever crunches the survey results just adds up which albums show up the most frequently on the aggregated list.