Round 4 is complete and Backstreet Boys didn't make it 
The 5 albums progressing are:
Nevermind
OK Computer
In Utero
Illmatic
Loveless
The below 2 albums are going to the Resurrection Round:
What's the Story, Morning Glory (was tied with Loveless but lost on tie-breaker)
The Bends
Note: Please vote within the timing guidelines. Every time you don't do that, it causes me an unnecessary headache.
Full results below:
Through so far:
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Onto the next round!
Each Monday, I will set up a new round for the contest.
Each round will represent a different decade of albums (I can't check the dates for each album so please make sure yourself).
The decades are below (BOLDED IS THE CURRENT ROUND FOR THIS THREAD):
Round 1 - Up to 1969
Round 2 - 1970-1979
Round 3 - 1980-1989
Round 4 - 1990-1999
Round 5 - 2000-2009
Round 6 - 2010-2019
Round 7 - 2020-Present Day (mini round)
Round 8 - Resurrection Round
Round 9 - The Finals
For each round, please list your top 5 music albums from the decade in list view (album name first, followed by artist).
Please do this by Friday 11:59pm BST (no votes beyond this will be counted).
5th = 2 pts, 4th = 4 pts, 3rd = 6 pts, 2nd = 8 pts, 1st = 10 pts.
The top 5 albums from rounds 1-6 (and top 3 from round 7) will go through to the finals.
The 6th and 7th album from each round (4th and 5th from Round 7) will enter the resurrection round, where 7 albums will go through to the final.
In the event of a tie, I will refer to their AllMusic scores (and then the amount of scores if still a tie).
If you have voted, then changed your vote, please don't edit your vote... instead, reply to it and let me know by tagging me, otherwise I may miss your vote by accident.
I will try to start each new round on the Monday after a vote round has finished.
At the opening post of each round, I will put in the results from the previous round and start the voting of the current round.
Once rounds 1-8 are complete, we head into the final round with 40 albums on the shortlist.
Then once that voting is done, I will post the top 40 in order from last to first and crown the overall winner.
Remember, I have 2 kids and a full time job so there may be times where I miss deadlines or post later than anticipated. Apologies in advance.
I hope this is fun and you guys enjoy it.
The 5 albums progressing are:
Nevermind
OK Computer
In Utero
Illmatic
Loveless
The below 2 albums are going to the Resurrection Round:
What's the Story, Morning Glory (was tied with Loveless but lost on tie-breaker)
The Bends
Note: Please vote within the timing guidelines. Every time you don't do that, it causes me an unnecessary headache.
Full results below:
| Nevermind (Nirvana) | 98 |
| OK Computer (Radiohead) | 70 |
| In Utero (Nirvana) | 52 |
| Illmatic (Nas) | 38 |
| Loveless (My Bloody Valentine) | 34 |
| What's the Story, Morning Glory (Oasis) | 34 |
| The Bends (Radiohead) | 26 |
| Dookie (Green Day) | 24 |
| The Chronic (Dr. Dre) | 24 |
| Endtroducing (DJ Shadow) | 22 |
| Rage Against th Machine (Rage Against the Machine) | 22 |
| Automatic for the People (REM) | 20 |
| Definitely Maybe (Oasis) | 20 |
| Homework (Daft Punk) | 20 |
| Ten (Pearl Jam) | 20 |
| In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel) | 18 |
| Aquemini (Outkast) | 16 |
| Enema of the State (Blink 182) | 16 |
| Siamese Dream (The Smashing Pumpkins) | 16 |
| 2001 (Dr. Dre) | 14 |
| August & Everythign After (Counting Crows) | 14 |
| Moon Safari (Air) | 14 |
| Songs of Faith & Devotion (Depeche Mode) | 14 |
| The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Lauryn Hill) | 14 |
| Violator (Depeche Mode) | 14 |
| Achtung Baby (U2) | 12 |
| Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (The Orb) | 12 |
| Aenima (Tool) | 12 |
| Grace (Jeff Buckley) | 12 |
| Moon Pix (Cat Power) | 12 |
| The Fat of the Land (The Prodigy) | 12 |
| 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Jawbreaker) | 10 |
| Doggystyle (Snoop Dogg) | 10 |
| Dude Ranch (Blink 182) | 10 |
| Ecliptica (Sonata Arctica) | 10 |
| Either/Or (Elliott Smith) | 10 |
| F♯A♯∞ (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) | 10 |
| From Yorkshire 2 New York (Mc Devvo & Shady Piez) | 10 |
| If You're Feeling Sinister (Belle & Sebastian) | 10 |
| Metallica (Metallica) | 10 |
| Millennium (Backstreet Boys) | 10 |
| Out of Time (REM) | 10 |
| Parklife (Blur) | 10 |
| Reasonable Doubt (Jay Z) | 10 |
| Souvlaki (Slowdive) | 10 |
| Sublime (Sublime) | 10 |
| The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails) | 10 |
| The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails) | 10 |
| The Predator (Ice Cube) | 10 |
| The Soft Bulletin (The Flaming Lips) | 10 |
| Thunder Perfect Mind (Current 93) | 10 |
| Low End Theory (Tribe Called Quest) | 10 |
| Mustt Mustt (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) | 10 |
| Agaetis Byrjun (Sigur Ros) | 8 |
| Apple Venus Volume 1 (XTC) | 8 |
| Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) | 8 |
| Different Class (Pulp) | 8 |
| Experience (Prodigy) | 8 |
| Fitzxarraldo (The Frames) | 8 |
| Imaginations from the Other Side (Blind Guardian) | 8 |
| Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morisette) | 8 |
| Laid (James) | 8 |
| Perfect From Now On (Built to Spill) | 8 |
| Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Aphex Twin) | 8 |
| Spiderland (Slint) | 8 |
| Static Prevails (Jimmy Eat World) | 8 |
| Superunknown (Soundgarden) | 8 |
| The Holy Bible (Manic Street Preachers) | 8 |
| Trompe Le Monde (Pixies) | 8 |
| Homogenic (Bjork) | 8 |
| 808 Skate (Ex:el) | 6 |
| A Different Class (Pulp) | 6 |
| ATLiens (Outkast) | 6 |
| Is This Desire? (PJ Harvey) | 6 |
| Keep The Faith (Bon Jovi) | 6 |
| Leftism (Leftfield) | 6 |
| Middle Class Revolt (The Fall) | 6 |
| Portishead (Portishead) | 6 |
| Ready to Die (Notorious B.I.G) | 6 |
| Soul Cages (Sting) | 6 |
| Still Life (Opeth) | 6 |
| The Score (The Fugees) | 6 |
| Urban Hymms (The Verve) | 6 |
| Vauxhall & I (Morrissey) | 6 |
| Weezer Blue Album (Weezer) | 6 |
| Where I Wanna Be (Donnell Jones) | 6 |
| Californication (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) | 6 |
| A Meeting by the River (Ry Cooder & VM Bhatt) | 6 |
| 1 Outside (David Bowie) | 4 |
| Adrenaline Rush (Twista) | 4 |
| Black Sails in the Sunset (AFI) | 4 |
| Dah Shinin' (Smif'N'Wessun) | 4 |
| Dig Your Own Hole (Chemical Brothers) | 4 |
| Dummy (Portishead) | 4 |
| God Fodder (Ned's Atomic Dustbin) | 4 |
| I Could Live in Hope (Low) | 4 |
| Life After Death (Notorious B.I.G) | 4 |
| Mescal Head (Swervedriver) | 4 |
| Pinkerton (Weezer) | 4 |
| Seal (Seal) | 4 |
| The Dark Saga (Iced Earth) | 4 |
| The Slim Shady LP (Eminem) | 4 |
| White Room (KLF) | 4 |
| All Eyez On Me (2Pac) | 2 |
| Black Sunday (Cypress Hill) | 2 |
| Blue Lines (Massive Attack) | 2 |
| Dirth (Alice in Chains) | 2 |
| Don't Sweat the Technique (Erik B & Rakim) | 2 |
| Enter the Wu: 36: Chambers (Wu Tang Clan) | 2 |
| Henry's Dream (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) | 2 |
| It Was Written (Nas) | 2 |
| Les Colocs (Les Colocs) | 2 |
| Midnight Marauders (A Tribe Called Quest) | 2 |
| Operation Doomsday (MF Doom) | 2 |
| Pod (The Breeders) | 2 |
| Significant Other (Limp Bizkit) | 2 |
| The Afghan Whigs (Black Love) | 2 |
| The Lonesome Crowded West (Modest Mouse) | 2 |
| Themple of the Dog (Temple of the Dog) | 2 |
| They Might Be Giants (Flood) | 2 |
| This is My Truth, Tell Me Yours (Manic Street Preachers) | 2 |
| Through Silver in Blood (Neurosis) | 2 |
| Uptown Saturday Night (Camp Lo) | 2 |
| Lewis Taylor (Lewis Taylor) | 2 |
Through so far:
Round 1:
Abbey Road (The Beatles)
Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)
The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
The Doors (The Doors)
Revolver (The Beatles)
Round 2:
The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
Unknown Pleasure (Joy Division)
Never Mind The Bullocks (Sex Pistols)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
Round 3:
The Queen is Dead (The Smiths)
Disintegration (The Cure)
Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Doolittle (The Pixies)
Apetite for Destruction (Guns n' Roses)
Round 4:
Nevermind (Nirvana)
OK Computer (Radiohead)
In Utero (Nirvana)
Illmatic (Nas)
Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
Resurrection Round:
Let It Bleed (The Rolling Stones)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin)
London Calling (The Clash)
The Joshua Tree (U2)
Closer (Joy Division)
What's the Story, Morning Glory (Oasis)
The Bends (Radiohead)
Abbey Road (The Beatles)
Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)
The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
The Doors (The Doors)
Revolver (The Beatles)
Round 2:
The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
Unknown Pleasure (Joy Division)
Never Mind The Bullocks (Sex Pistols)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
Round 3:
The Queen is Dead (The Smiths)
Disintegration (The Cure)
Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Doolittle (The Pixies)
Apetite for Destruction (Guns n' Roses)
Round 4:
Nevermind (Nirvana)
OK Computer (Radiohead)
In Utero (Nirvana)
Illmatic (Nas)
Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
Resurrection Round:
Let It Bleed (The Rolling Stones)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin)
London Calling (The Clash)
The Joshua Tree (U2)
Closer (Joy Division)
What's the Story, Morning Glory (Oasis)
The Bends (Radiohead)
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Onto the next round!
Each Monday, I will set up a new round for the contest.
Each round will represent a different decade of albums (I can't check the dates for each album so please make sure yourself).
The decades are below (BOLDED IS THE CURRENT ROUND FOR THIS THREAD):
Round 1 - Up to 1969
Round 2 - 1970-1979
Round 3 - 1980-1989
Round 4 - 1990-1999
Round 5 - 2000-2009
Round 6 - 2010-2019
Round 7 - 2020-Present Day (mini round)
Round 8 - Resurrection Round
Round 9 - The Finals
For each round, please list your top 5 music albums from the decade in list view (album name first, followed by artist).
Please do this by Friday 11:59pm BST (no votes beyond this will be counted).
5th = 2 pts, 4th = 4 pts, 3rd = 6 pts, 2nd = 8 pts, 1st = 10 pts.
The top 5 albums from rounds 1-6 (and top 3 from round 7) will go through to the finals.
The 6th and 7th album from each round (4th and 5th from Round 7) will enter the resurrection round, where 7 albums will go through to the final.
In the event of a tie, I will refer to their AllMusic scores (and then the amount of scores if still a tie).
If you have voted, then changed your vote, please don't edit your vote... instead, reply to it and let me know by tagging me, otherwise I may miss your vote by accident.
I will try to start each new round on the Monday after a vote round has finished.
At the opening post of each round, I will put in the results from the previous round and start the voting of the current round.
Once rounds 1-8 are complete, we head into the final round with 40 albums on the shortlist.
Then once that voting is done, I will post the top 40 in order from last to first and crown the overall winner.
Remember, I have 2 kids and a full time job so there may be times where I miss deadlines or post later than anticipated. Apologies in advance.
I hope this is fun and you guys enjoy it.
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