Wait, does this mean I'm more hipster than Eddie?

But for now I have the start of a list of Perhaps Worth Checking Out Albums :D

 

These albums only got one vote, but were placed on no.1 when voted for. So it might be that we just didn't like the album, though the voter loved it, or we haven't heard it!

So here's the list and links to free listens (no, no illegal download links)

 

Perhaps Worth Checking Out Albums

• Smith & Burrows - Funny Looking Angels
  -Free listen at soundcloud
  

• Sin Fang - Summer Echoes
  - Can be listened at on the label's site
  

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• Sean McCann - Son of a Sailor
  - His official site let's you listen to this album
  

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• Robert Post - Rhetoric
  - Free listen at his soundcloud
  

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• Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner vs Everything
  - Review on NME which is funny because they give it a 3, but listeners give it a 9.4
  

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• Cristina Dona - Torno a casa a piedi
  

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• Brains - Constant Love Forever
  - Free listen at their bandcamp
  

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• Blink -182 - Neighborhoods :\

Gonna listen to as much obscure music as possible this year so I can actually make the hipster list next time~

 

Thanks for all the work, Wyrd and Space Cadet :nice:

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• Blink -182 - Neighborhoods :\
  

lol what's with that smiley

 

I think I understand why

 

but lol

The WoM section usually smells like hipsters

Wait, does this mean I'm more hipster than Eddie?

 

nah your list was just bigger

 

Brains - Constant Love Forever[/size]

- Free listen at their bandcamp

in my head this is one of the best albums ever made but I don't think even the band agree with me

damn I've gotta get a lot more hipster :disappointed:

Hate to rain on everyone's parade but people's interpretation of the "Unique Taste" list is flawed. For example, let's say this was my submission:

 

1) Vices and Virtues - Panic! at the Disco

2) When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes - Yellowcard

3) Screaming Bloody Murder - Sum 41

4) Alpocalypse - "Weird Al" Yankovic

5) Get Your Heart On! - Simple Plan

6) I'm American - Billy Ray Cyrus

7) This Loud Morning - David Cook

8) When the Sun Goes Down - Selena Gomez & the Scene

9) Sunshine State of Mind - We the Kings

10) Rabbits on the Run - Vanessa Carlton

11) Sky Full of Holes - Fountains of Wayne

12) Vice Verses - Switchfoot

13) Evanescence - Evanescence

14) Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

15) Clancy's Tavern - Toby Keith

16) Under the Mistletoe - Justin Bieber

17) Break the Spell - Daughtry

18) The Path of Totality - Korn

 

Now that list would be one of the most unique but would you consider it to be hipster?

 

(To be fair, I guess maybe in an ironic fashion...)

Ooh, good point. :surprised:

 

Nice list too! :nice: :uhoh: :| :anxious: :freak:

Hipsters like Justin Bieber.

He has some great r&b songs, but the majority of his music sucks :\

 

He's working with Kanye and Drake on his new album so I have high hopes...

 

 

(this isn't a hipster opinion this is my genuine opinion)

(if i am a hipster that would still make it a hipster opinion but i dont consider myself a hipster)

(im probably a hipster)

(im probably a hipster)

 

Hipster rule #1: True hipsters don't declare themselves as hipsters.

 

:snobby:

I'm glad that 5 of my albums made the top 10!

 

But uh....it's kind of awful that TKOL is #2, in my opinion. There wasn't anything special about it at all. Y'all are crazy........

If there's two hipsters on the board with the same hipster taste, then on this list they would not even appear because they both voted for the same hipster album that no one ever heard of except them two, hahaha!

 

I am making a list of voters that had the most in common with the actual list. This time I summed up the points each song got on their list and this way I can again come up with a 'hipster' list, which will be a bit different because now also the songs that did make the Top will count. I will fall off for example because I also voted for MX and Bon Iver and Radiohead. David will still be number one, hahaha!, because he really voted only for albums that no one else voted for.

 

I'll come up with more hipster albums worth listening to, as well :D

Okay, so I added up the points per album for each list and devided it by the lenght of the list. Average Points per album on list are shown behind the voter, as well as the number of matches between the common Top 25 and the exact matches with the common Top 25 (and number of albums in their list)

 

Top 10 Voters most mainstream between voters:

 

1. Cleggy (5388) (9/11) (0/11)

2. Dundah Mifflin (5158) (9/10) (1/10)

3. stuardjo (4897) (5/5) (0/5)

4. Saketblitz (4777) (8/10) (1/10)

5. Baw8cc (4706) (7/10) (0/10)

6. Melagomania (4657) (9/11) (0/11)

7.Cyan Kat (4569) (7/9) (1/9)

8. Cheese Nip 2 (4374) (7/9) (0/9)

9. rainplay (4234) (8/10) (0/10)

10. ivet (4215) (8/11) (0/11)

 

Sorry para-para-parrotdies :P You are also according to this way of calculating mainstreamness a kind of hipster :laugh3:

 

Top 5 Voters least mainstream between voters:

 

1. David (350) (0/7) (0/7)

2. domscientist (489) (0/14) (0/14)

3. Timothy Q. Mouse (568) (1/20) (0/20)

4. para-para-parrotdies (948) (2/25) (0/25)

5. squareonefivesix (1484) (6/25) (0/25)

haha I'm still on the hipster list :cheesy: yay

 

Actually, I find it rather amusing cos to me all the ones who voted for the arty-farty cardigan wearing stuff like Bon Iver & St Vincent are the hipster ones :lol:

^ :laugh3:

 

but yes, they annoy me sometimes

More albums perhaps worth checking out?

 

• Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (1 vote, 2nd place)
  Indie/lo-fi, 9.3 as rating in the

Pitchfork review, album stream on guardian website
 
 
Mark Radcliffe - What Remains Of The Day (1 vote, 2nd place)
Acoustic solo album, samples to be heard on record company's webpage
 
 
Memphis - Here Comes A City (1 vote, 2nd place)
Indie (dream) pop, 7/10 rating in review, free song listening on their myspace
 
 
Mother Mother - Eureka (1 vote, 2nd place)
Avante Indie rock/pop, #6 in best albums 2011 here and that goes with free listens to the songs!
 
 
The See See - Late Morning Light (1 vote, 2nd place)
Psychedelic pop, some songs can be listened at on their website and myspace
 
 
The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing (1 vote, 2nd place)
Indie pop/rock/punk, 95% rating in this review and 4,5/5 here
 
 
Gotye - Making Mirrors (2 votes, 2.5th place on average)
Pop, rating 9.2 here and 7.7 on pitchfork, tracks can be listened at on his soundcloud

More albums perhaps worth checking out?[/size][/color]

:heart: Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes :heart:

 

 

"It must be hard being Nicola Roberts. Imagine living your life knowing that at any point you might be CRUSHED BY THE WEIGHT OF YOUR OWN AMAZINGNESS" - Popjustice :dance:

 

 

• 9/10 from No Ripcord
  
• 4/5 from Digital Spy
  
• 4/5 from The Guardian
  
• 4/5 from The Independent
  
• 4/5 from The Observer
  
• 4/5 from The Telegraph
  
• Listed on Popjustice Readers' Poll as 4th Best Album of 2011
  
• #1 Dance-Pop album of 2011 + #2 Electropop album of 2011 on Rate Your Music
  
• Listed on para-para-parrotdies' Best Albums of 2011 list at number 13 :cool:
  

 

:heart: Single #1 - Beat of My Drum :heart:

• Beat of My Drum voted number 25 on MTV's 25 Best Songs of 2011
  
• Beat of My Drum listed on Billboard's Best Songs of 2011 list at number 14
  
• Beat of My Drum listed on The Guardian's Best Songs of 2011 list at number 14
  
• Beat of My Drum listed on Popjustice £20 Music Prize 2011 shortlist at number 2
  
• Beat of My Drum listed on Popjustice Readers' Poll as 4th Best Single of 2011
  

 

:heart: Single #2 - Lucky Day :heart:

• 4/5 on Digital Spy
  
• Listed on para-para-parrotdies' Best Songs of 2011 list at number 13 :cool:
  

More albums perhaps worth checking out?[/size][/color]

 

 

 

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• The See See - Late Morning Light (1 vote, 2nd place)
  Psychedelic pop, some songs can be listened at on their website and myspace
   
   
   
  

 

YES. This. :pleased:

 

Check it out people. 'Specially if you like Oasis or Beady Eye or The Verve or the Arctics and all that guff - cos these are waaay better :P They're seriously damn good :nod:

^ Great Recomendation! I love it!:D

 

If anyone likes pyschedelic music I recentally got this free mix tape from "Psych Fest"

http://allover.bandcamp.com/album/austin-psych-fest-2012-mixtape

I ranges from some more poppy stuff, to some really "out there" stuff, and some songs are better than others, but hey, it's free, maybe someone here will enjoy it!:) Check it out if you interested!

 

 

 

Edit: Are they members of "The Committee To Keep Music Evil"?

Oh, I just noticed I was on the list of mainstream people. Well, mainstream for rock I guess. Cool, I won something!:P

 

Darn Hipsters....you and your bands that haven't come out yet!:D

Thanks people for the recommandations! I like this :D

 

Both 'Mainstream' and 'Hipster' lists are not to be taken seriously, if you discovered an amazing new indie band and whored it around here in WoM sure some people have picked it up and listed it in their list as well, thereby making you all a bit more 'mainstream'.

 

I just realised that I wanted to have Bombay Bicycly Club and Foster The People on my list as well. Somehow I forgot about those :,,,(

 

For this year (2012) I think I will try to whore around more with my favorites. When I make the Mainstream List, it means I was succesful! :smug:

 

Anymore lists people can think of that we can make with the data we have? I like making lists ... apparently :confused:

percentage of countries in top 100?

like 60% american 10% canadian etc