Album Rank 2017

[Dan]

From the Choirgirl Hotel
Boys for Pele
To Venus and Back
Scarlet's Walk
Under the Pink
Native Invader
Strange Little Girls
Little Earthquakes
Unrepentant Geraldines
Night of Hunters
American Doll Posse
The Beekeeper
Midwinter Graces
Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Gold Dust

I like all her records, really.

[cnchocula]

Boys For Pele
From The Choirgirl Hotel
Under The Pink
Scarlet's Walk
Little Earthquakes
Strange Little Girls
To Venus and Back
Native Invader
Night of Hunters
The Beekeeper
Unrepentant Geraldines
American Doll Posse
Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Gold Dust
Midwinter Graces

[MikeEP]

I feel like it’s a contentious statement but I’d still rather listen to The Beekeeper or ADP over UG or NI most times when it really comes down to it. There are just more highs on the first two than on the latter for me.

I can’t wait for the Choirgirl reissue. I really think it’s her best body of work other than Pele. And as an era it has EVERYTHING: the b-sides, the TOUR, the artwork, the videos.

[wout]

Albums in tiers are ranked:

--- holy trinity ---
To Venus and Back
Under the Pink
From The Choirgirl Hotel

--- the other good stuff
Boys For Pele
Scarlet's Walk
Little Earthquakes
The Beekeeper
Unrepentant Geraldines
Native Invader

--- here's where things get more iffy
American Doll Posse
Strange Little Girls
Night of Hunters
Midwinter Graces
Gold Dust

--- die in a fire
Abnormally Attracted to Sin

[Beelust]

So it is well into 2018 and I am moving Native Invader up in my list... and made AATS the bottom instead of TBK.

Is Native Invader growing on anyone else? Moving up their lists? I am liking it even more over time.
I love Venus, but prefer Native Invader (sorry wout!)... WTF is happening?


From The Choirgirl Hotel (IIEEE)
Little Earthquakes (Little Earthquakes)
Boys For Pele (Hey Jupiter)
Under the Pink (Past the Mission)

Scarlet's Walk (Crazy)
Native Invader (Reindeer King)
To Venus and Back (1000 Oceans)
Unrepentant Geraldines (Forest of Glass)
Strange Little Girls (Real Men)
Night of Hunters (Shattering Sea)

Midwinter Graces (Holly, Ivy and Rose)

American Doll Posse (Beauty of Speed)
The Beekeeper (Martha's Foolish Ginger)
Abnormally Attracted to Sin (Give)

[BrotherNamedErised]

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[Bryan Alan]

Boys For Pele
Under the Pink
From the Choirgirl Hotel
Little Earthquakes
Scarlet's Walk
Native Invader
To Venus and Back
Strange Little Girls
Unrepentant Geradlines
Night of Hunters
The Beekeeper
American Doll Posse
Midwinter Graces
Gold Dust
Abnormally Attracted to Sin

[iwo1333]

So I recently re-thought my song and Album rank and Came up with a points system. Here are the results:

1. American Doll Posse - 638 pts
2. From the Choirgirl Hotel - 621
3. Little Earthquakes - 604
4. Boys For Pele - 498
5. Scarlet's Walk - 436
6. Under The Pink - 411
7. Abnormally Attracted To Sin - 379
8. Native Invader - 290
9. To Venus and Back - 251
10. The Beekeeper - 242
11. Unrepentant Geraldines - 135
12. Night of Hunters - 84
13. Y Kant Tori Read - 67
14. Strange Little Girls - 64
15. Midwinter Graces - 0

[jasonhicks]

best
1 Boys for Pele - Father Lucifer
2 From the Choirgirl Hotel - Spark
3 Under the Pink - Cornflake Girl
4 Little Earthquakes - Precious Things

great
5 Native Invader - Bang
6 To Venus and Back - Glory of the 80s
7 The Beekeeper - The Beekeeper
8 Scarlet's Walk - Taxi Ride

good
9 Strange Little Girls - I Don't Like Mondays
10 Abnormally Attracted to Sin - Give
11 Unrepentant Geraldines - Invisible Boy
12 Night of Hunters - Star Whisperer

@tori delete these
13 Am*r*c*n D*ll P*sse - Smokey Joe
14 Midwinter Graces - Pink and Glitter
15 G*ld D*st - Snow Cherries from France

Venus would probably take over NI if it weren't for that whack live disc. It's truly got some strange choices on there even if it is performed well.

[jasonhicks]

So I recently re-thought my song and Album rank and Came up with a points system. Here are the results:

1. American Doll Posse - 638 pts
2. From the Choirgirl Hotel - 621
3. Little Earthquakes - 604
4. Boys For Pele - 498
5. Scarlet's Walk - 436
6. Under The Pink - 411
7. Abnormally Attracted To Sin - 379
8. Native Invader - 290
9. To Venus and Back - 251
10. The Beekeeper - 242
11. Unrepentant Geraldines - 135
12. Night of Hunters - 84
13. Y Kant Tori Read - 67
14. Strange Little Girls - 64
15. Midwinter Graces - 0

May I ask what your point system is? I'm curious to try it

[Joey]

The album has been out for 5 whole days and nobody's done this yet?!

I mostly kid, but for me the new album is so obviously better than everything else post-SW that this isn't so difficult to do at this point. I honestly can't see it falling any lower. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. I also divided my list into tiers, the top 4 albums being absolutely perfect and pretty untouchable.

01. Boys for Pele
02. Scarlet's Walk
03. From the Choirgirl Hotel
04. Under the Pink

05. To Venus and Back
06. Little Earthquakes
07. Native Invader

<- Y Kant Tori Read
08. Strange Little Girls
09. Unrepentant Geraldines

10. The Beekeeper
11. Night of Hunters

12. American Doll Posse
13. Abnormally Attracted to Sin
14. Midwinter Graces
15. Gold Dust

More than a year on and I'm still okay with this.

[iwo1333]

May I ask what your point system is? I'm curious to try it

To begin with i tried to fiddle with an exponential function, but my excel/maths skills were not good enough, so I stole the points system from the FIS (international ski federation. Bizzare, I know) where 1st place is 100 points, 2nd is 80 points,.... up to 30th place being 1 point. However I stretched this over the 212 songs i classified, so that the last song would be roughly equivalent to 1 point. Then I added together the points for each respective album and rounded the points. To be honest, this was an awful way to do this and is full of rounding errors and super confusing. I'm pretty sure you could come up with a more elegant way of doing things which is simpler to process.

[Venus_Envy]

To begin with i tried to fiddle with an exponential function, but my excel/maths skills were not good enough, so I stole the points system from the FIS (international ski federation. Bizzare, I know) where 1st place is 100 points, 2nd is 80 points,.... up to 30th place being 1 point. However I stretched this over the 212 songs i classified, so that the last song would be roughly equivalent to 1 point. Then I added together the points for each respective album and rounded the points. To be honest, this was an awful way to do this and is full of rounding errors and super confusing. I'm pretty sure you could come up with a more elegant way of doing things which is simpler to process.

the fact that ADP came out on top shows how flawed your system is

[iwo1333]

the fact that ADP came out on top shows how flawed your system is

That's not the system, thats just my sick music taste lol.

[Carey]

Favourites

1) Choirgirl
2) Scarlet's Walk
3) Hidden Treasures
4) Pele
5) Venus + Live

Good

6) Under the Pink
7) Little Earthquakes
8) Native Invader
9) Beekeeper
10) Night of Hunters
11) Geraldines
12) Strange Little Girls

Bad

13) Abnormally
14) Posse
15) Gold Dust
16) Midwinter

Hideous

17) YKTR

NOH-Geraldines is a tier, because both are actually EPs to me. I only listen to Tori solo tracks on NOH and I only listen to piano solo tracks on Geraldines. Ideally, I'd combine the two halves into a single album.