Recent Updates and Information:
Vinylsurrender has also incorporated the rankings and opinions
from the following publications into the site's own ranking system. (Sorry,
but the lists haven't been reproduced)
THE NME TOP 50 / Rolling Stone Top 25 Albums of 2009.
All existing albums have been boosted to reflect this end of year
list.
THE NME (New Music
Express) TOP 10 Albums of 2008.
All albums and tracks on
VS been boosted to reflect this end of year opinion.
INCLUDED - 2008: Pitchfork Media TOP 10 Albums of
2008.
All album tracks from the
top ten PF albums of 2008 have been boosted so as to reflect opinion.
ALSO TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION for 2008:
Spín Magazine, Drowned In
Sound, Prefix Magazine, A.V.Club, Entertainment Weekly, Last.fm, Rolling
Stone Magazine, Popmatters, Paste Magazine, Blender.
Other publications, NOT taken into consideration!
2008: Metacritic. MC is good, but the
technique of choosing EVERY rating from EVERY music related publication
and then calculating an average, doesn't really work. Some sites such as
the NME are generally very good, whereas some other sites tend to be
rather inconsistent, to say the least. An 'average' based on every opinion
of every music journalist from every newspaper does not necessarily
reflect what is good.
2008: Rateyourmusic.com. An excellent site but their votes seem to
be weighted by the opinions of specific groups, especially heavy metal
fans.
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