So after having finally finished my top 100, which will of course be subject to change, I can forsee at least three albums on the horizon that might sneak there way in, plus there's always room for surprises.
With the mamoth task finished I thought I'd do some statistical analysis of the top one hundred. Just for fun to see what was the dominant genre and who were the dominant artists.
For simplicities sake I've dumbed down the genres so they look a little like this;
Indie: Other than just including Indie it will include soft alternative, so for example Arcade Fire will be labelled as Indie
Hard Rock: American influence rock, the heavier stuff, not metal but distinctly not indie, i.e Foos, Hold Steady, Muse
Electro: Electro will be a group term including dance, sampling and all kinds of stuff like that.
Hip-Hop: Will be a catch all for grime, UK garage, or any other subvarients of rap music
Pop: Will include soul, R and B and Electro-lite
Stadium: Kind of self explanitory think Coldplay, U2 etc.
Metal: Also includes hard Alternative
Punk
Folk: Also includes Singer Song writers who are distinct from pop, Psychedellia and other odd stuff.
So lets see what the decades dominant Genre:
1. Indie - 27
2. Electro - 16
3. Hip Hop - 13
4. Pop - 11
5. Hard Rock - 11
6. Folk - 10
7. Stadium - 5
8. Metal - 5
9. Punk - 2
Kind of how I expected going in really, if I had to guess the decades dominant themes, although i'd of expected pop to be higher and Hip Hop a little lower, but then that's partly due to classification as Artist like the Streets could arguably be listed as closer to electro than hip hop, but its tough to say. It certainly hasn't been a good decade for metal or in particular Punk, and lets Face it Green Day probably should have been listed as Stadium I was just feeling sorry for them.
So next up whose the dominant creative force, who has the most albums in the list:
1. Radiohead - 4
2. Kanye West - 3
3. Lily Allen -3
4. Kings Of Leon - 3
5. Coldplay - 3
6. M.I.A - 2
7. The Strokes - 2
8. LCD Soundsystem - 2
9. Jay Z - 2
10. Arcade Fire - 2
There were quite alot of bands with 2 as you can probably imagine but the interesting thing I supose is that Coldplay and Kings Of Leon ended up with 3 a peice, granted when the year is finished I can certainly see Only By The Nigh and Vida La Vida slipping out of the list but it shows that importance and consistantly being good rather than great can certainly let you slip into the back door to greatness *coughs*Dave Grohl*coughs*.
And we'll end with some random facts:
32 of the albums in my list were debuts.
29 of the albums in my list were by solo artists.
11 of the albums in my list were by solo or all women groups.
76 of the albums in my list were made by men and men alone
13 of the albums in my list were made by mixed gender bands.
77 of the albums in my list were made by just caucasions artists
22 of the albums in my list were made by either mixed or other ethnic groups
1 of the albums in my list were made by robots
2 of the albums in my list were compilations
1 of the albums in my list were self released
39 of the albums in my list were by British artist
1 of the albums in my list was Icelandic
2 of the albums in my list were French
25 of the albums in my list have won album of year from major Music Magazines
5 the number of albums who probably would have made the list but I haven't heard
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