Showing posts with label final results. Show all posts
Showing posts with label final results. Show all posts

Monday, December 22, 2014

Blogovision 2014: the official poll results - Greek bloggers vote best albums



Once again it was a fine year. I really enjoyed it - loved it! The discovery process is the best thing of course: finding new music you had missed during the year. And of course the amazing presentations - well done people! Here's to next year. Let's see the final tally below (in parentheses are the points won by each album):



1. War On Drugs – «Lost In The Dream» (753)
2. Röyksopp – «Inevitable End» (725)
3. Future Islands – «Singles» (591)
4. Damon Albarn – «Everyday Robots» (565)
5. Caribou – «Our Love» (558)
6. Wild Beasts – «Present Tense» (537)
7. Swans – «To Be Kind» (430)
8. St. Vincent – «St. Vincent» (416)
9. Antlers – «Familiars» (405)
10. Angel Olsen – «Burn Your Fire For No Witness» (369)
11. Lykke Li – «I Never Learn» (341)
12. Ariel Pink – «Pom Pom» (339)
13. FKA Twigs – «LP1″ (338)
14. Temples – «Sun Structures» (328)
15. Baby Guru – «Marginalia» (322)
16. Perfume Genius – «Too Bright» (318)
17. Ty Segall – «Manipulator» (303)
18. Thom Yorke – «Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes» (294)
19. Banks – «Goddess» (291)
20. Iceage – «Plowing Into The Field Of Love» (264)
= Beyonce – «Beyonce» (264)

Monday, December 23, 2013

Blogovision 2013 final results

So the tally is done, 174 people voted for their favourite albums and let's see the final list for this year (numbers in parenthesis are the points each album got)! I have only five in common with the top-20. Thanks to everyone involved, all the people who voted but most of all to the man who created this fun way to musically end the year and is the soul behind blogovision, Markos Fragkos. Here's to next year!


1. Arcade Fire – “Reflektor” (1494)
2. Daft Punk – “Random Access Memories” (1294)
3. Arctic Monkeys – “AM” (1053)
4. National – “Trouble Will Find Me” (1038)
5. Vampire Weekend – “Modern Vampires Of The City” (870)
6. My Bloody Valentine – “Mbv” (855)
7. James Blake – “Overgrown” (798)
8. Savages – “Silence Yourself” (650)
9. Queens Of The Stone Age – “…Like Clockwork” (649)
10. Atoms For Peace – “AMOK” (600)
11. Chvrches – “The Bones Of What You Believe” (565)
12. Boards Of Canada – “Tomorrow’s Harvest” (537)
13. Deerhunter – “Monomania” (528)
14. Knife – “Shaking The Habitual” (524)
15. Jon Hopkins – “Immunity” (520)
16. Darkside – “Psychic” (480)
17. Kanye West – “Yeezus” (478)
18. Justin Timberlake – “The 20/20 Experience” (425)
19. Black Angels – “Indigo Meadow” (425)
20. John Grant – “Pale Green Ghosts” (424)
21. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – “Push The Sky Away” (404)
22. Chelsea Wolfe – “Pain Is Beauty” (372)
23. Woodkid – “The Golden Age” (361)
24. Bill Callahan – “Dream River” (360)
25. Sigur Ros – “Kveikur” (346)
26. Fuck Buttons – “Slow Focus” (338)
27. London Grammar – “If You Wait” (321)
28. David Bowie – “The Next Day” (320)
29. Kurt Vile – “Wakin On A Pretty Daze” (297)
30. Girls Names – “The New Life” (294)
31. Deafheaven – “Sunbather” (292)
32. Forest Swords – “Engravings” (277)
33. Disclosure – “Settle” (274)
34. Larry Gus – “Years Not Living” (251)
35. Foxygen – “We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic” (248)
36. HAIM – “Days Are Gone” (247)
37. Parquet Courts – “Light Up Gold” (239)
38. Factory Floor – “Factory Floor” (233)
39. Phosphorescent – “Muchacho” (208)
40. Julia Holter – “Loud City Song” (204)
41. Foals – “Holy Fire” (197)
42. These New Puritans – “Field Of Reeds” (197)
43. Thee Oh Sees – “Floating Coffin” (189)
44. Iceage – “You’re Nothing” (188)
45. Franz Ferdinand – “Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action” (186)
46. Still Corners – “Strange Pleasures” (186)
47. MS MR – “Secondhand Rapture” (181)
48. Rhye – “Woman” (180)
49. White Lies – “Big Tv” (171)
50. Pan Pan – “Missing Two Trains On Purpose” (171)
51. The Men – “New Moon” (171)
52. Tim Hecker – “Virgins” (167)
53. Steve Mason – “Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time” (166)
54. Crystal Stilts – “Nature Noir” (159)
55. Charli XCX – “True Romance” (154)
56. Washed Out – “Paracosm” (151)
57. 65daysofstatic – “Wild Light” (148)
58. Mikal Cronin – “MCII” (146)
59. Primal Scream – “More Light” (146)
60. Goldfrapp – “Tales Of Us” (144)
61. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Mosquito” (142)
62. Tricky – “False Idols” (141)
63. Moderat – “II” (139)
64. Laura Marling – “Once I Was An Eagle” (138)
65. Nine Inch Nails – “Hesitation Marks” (137)
66. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “II” (133)
67. Devendra Banhart – “Mala” (131)
68. Pearl Jam – “Lightning Bolt” (131)
69. Vår – “No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers” (129)
70. Kavinsky – “Outrun” (129)
71. Yo La Tengo – “Fade” (128)
72. Pharmakon – “Abandon” (122)
73. Austra – “Olympia” (122)
74. Hookworms – “Pearl Mystic” (120)
75. Daughter – “If You Leave” (120)
76. The Strokes – “Comedown Machine” (118)
77. Jonathan Wilson – “Fanfare” (117)
78. Lorde – “Pure Heroine” (117)
79. Carcass – “Surgical Steel” (116)
80. King Krule – “6 Feet Beneath The Moon” (115)
81. Mazzy Star – “Seasons Of Your Day” (114)
82. Editors – “The Weight Of Your Love” (109)
83. Moonface – “Julia With Blue Jeans On” (106)
84. Midlake – “Antiphon” (106)
85. Wooden Shjips – “Back To Land” (105)
86. Lady Gaga – “Artpop” (104)
87. Fidlar – “Fidlar” (104)
88. Dirty Beaches – “Drifters/Love Is The Devil” (103)
89. Keep Shelly In Athens – “At Home” (103)
90. Suede – “Bloodsports” (103)
91. Steven Wilson – “The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)” (102)
92. Flaming Lips – “The Terror” (102)
93. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Specter At The Feast” (102)
94. Bonobo – “The North Borders” (101)
95. Matt Elliott – “Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart” (98)
96. Portugal. The Man – “Evil Friends” (96)
97. Local Natives – “Hummingbird” (96)
98. Ulver – “Messe I.X-VI.X” (96)
99. TORRES – “TORRES” (91)
100. Jim James – “Regions Of Light And Sound Of God” (90)

Friday, December 23, 2011

Rock The Vote - Best albums of 2011 - final top-20


Last night the final top-20 was revealed in Bios and also on my Thursday show at Poplie radio, Preludes and Nocturnes. The top positions were not too surprising although I must say I am impressed by the number of points that PJ Harvey managed to gather in regard to the rest.  I have six albums from my list in this one (the ones in italics)! Well done and let's do it again next year.

Here is my radio show Preludes & Nocturnes:

Top 20 Blogovision 2011

01.   PJ Harvey "Let England Shake"
1272
02.   Bon Iver "Bon Iver"
796
03.   John Maus "We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves"
680
04.   Radiohead "King Of Limbs"
633
05.   EMA "Past Life Martyr Saints"
628
06.   Florence & The Machine "Ceremonials"
601
07.   Girls "Father Son Holy Ghost"
522
08.   James Blake "James Blake"
502
09.   Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupi "Rome"
473
10.   M83 "Hurry Up We're Dreaming"
432
11.   Tom Waits "Bad As Me"
421
12.   Weeknd "House Of Balloons"
410
13.   Wild Beasts "Smother"
400
14.   Nicolas Jaar "Space Is Only Noise"
393
15.   Tori Amos "Night Of Hunters"
392
16.   Anna Calvi "Anna Calvi"
390
17.   Washed Out "Within And Without"
369
18.   Cults "Cults"
355
19.   Adele "21"
348
20.   Dirty Beaches "Badlands"
341

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Rock the vote - best albums of 2011 - from 50 to 21




Here are the results for the tallied voting of all participants in blogovision 2011 - positions 50-21
The top-20 albums will be announced tonight at the party in Bios - see poster above.
In the list below are four albums of the ones I had in my top-20 - those underlined.

144 bloggers voted
753 albums were voted

21. Lykke Li “Wounded Rhymes” (26 bloggers)340
22. Feist “Metals” (26 bloggers)338
23. Jamie Woon “Mirrorwriting” (20 bloggers)329
24. Arctic Monkeys “Suck It And See” (23 bloggers)326
25. Kate Bush “50 Words For Snow” (20 bloggers)325
26. Boy “Ηλιοθεραπεία” (15 bloggers)324
27. Rapture “In The Grace Of Your Love” (26 bloggers)281
28. Iron & Wine “Kiss Each Other Clean” (19 bloggers)280
29. Mogwai “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” (22 bloggers)274
30. Bjork “Biophillia” (18 bloggers)269
31. Fleet Foxes “Helpnessness Blues” (27 bloggers)251
32. Kills “Blood Pressures” (20 bloggers)238
33. Josh T. Pearson “Last Of The Country Gentlemen” (17 bloggers)236
34. Still Corners “Creatures Of An Hour” (17 bloggers)233
35. Horrors “Skying” (20 bloggers)226
36. Peaking Lights “936″ (16 bloggers)226
37. Raphael Saadiq “Stone Rollin’” (12 bloggers)214
38. Crystal Stilts “In Love With Oblivion” (16 bloggers)212
39. Battles “Gloss Drop” (12 bloggers)211
40. Vaccines “What Did You Expect From” (20 bloggers)205
41. Gang Gang Dance “Eye Contact” (12 bloogers)201
42. Zomby “Dedication” (16 bloggers)199
43. Kasabian “Velociprator” (12 bloggers)198
44. Men “Leave Home” (13 bloggers)198
45. Austra “Feel It Break” (17 bloggers)190
46. Antlers “Burst Apart” (18 bloggers)189
47. Foo Fighters “Wastin Light” (9 bloggers)182
48. Tune Yards “Who Kill” (10 bloggers)181
49. Foster The People “Torches” (16 Bloggers)171
50. Real Estate  “Days” (14 Bloggers)167

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Final Top-20 countdown for best albums of 2010


So as you know if you have been reading my posts for the last month, for the 4th year in a row, my dear friend Gone4sure organized the vote for the best albums of the year by Greek bloggers, with the valuable help of homo Ludens and Aggelos K. I have taken part in this since the first time back in 2007. You have seen my top-20 and also Giannis' top-20 list in my previous post. Here are the final results of the jury for this year's Blogovision (fun name, isn't it?)


01. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
02. The National - High Violet
03. Caribou - Swim
04. Beach House - Teen Dream
05. Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
06. Black Keys - Brothers
07. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
08. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
09. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
10. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
11. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
12. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
13. Janelle Monae - Archandroid
14. Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here
15. Ariel Pink - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
16. Midlake - The Courage Of Others
17. MGMT - Congratulations
18. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
19. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Ads
20. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
21. Twin Shadow - Forget
22. Motorama - Alps
23. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
24. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
25. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
26. These New Puritans - Hidden
27. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
28. Pantha du Prince - Behind The Stars
29. John Grant - Queen of Denmark
30. Foals - Total Life Forever
31. Electric Litany - How To Be A Child And Win The War
32. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
33. Divine Comedy - Bang Goes The Knighthood
34. Four Tet - There Is Love In You
35. Lone Wolf - The Devil And I
36. Neil Young - Le noise
37. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
38. Pan Pan - Someday Maybe I Wont Mind
39. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
40. Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme

No big surprises on the top-5, it was expected that Arcade Fire and National would give a strong fight for the top, Caribou was a really strong contender as were Beach House who were really popular, and Gonjasufi is this year's hip selection. I am happy to have eight of my top-20 selections in the top 40. Let's do it again next year!