My "albums list" included one that would've been an EP by The Under-20-Minute Rule,* another that would've been an EP by The Beatles-Second-Album Rule (under 26:25), and a third that would've been an EP by The It-Says-EP-On-The-Cover-Even-Though-It's-38-Minutes-And-36-Seconds Rule. On the other hand, my "EPs list" contained one that'd have been an album by The Beatles-Second-Album Rule but was an EP by The I-Need-Another-EP-On-My-EPs-List Rule; and one that was an EP by The Six-Of-Its-Twelve-Tracks-Are-Instrumental-Versions-Of-The-Other-Six Rule, the other six qualifying as an EP by The Beatles-Second-Album Rule.
*This turned out to be consequential, since if I'd voted MTS No Beat's Outubro 2023 (14:10) in the EPs category, as I should have, it would have scored a solid 8th place in your rankings, approx 4/2, w/ Get Up losing a point but not a vote. Next year I'll probably apply The Beatles-Second-Album Rule more strictly.
Tom Hull and I have been conversing about the Acclaimed Music website and their EOY list. Lately it has been hard to access, at least for lists from the last three years. In any case this is their current basic list. I can send the 'final' list in a data base (voters, votes etc) spreadsheet on the 31st if you have an interest. I find the site useful in a number of ways. Far more EU list are included among other things. Top 200 Albums:
1 | Sufjan Stevens | Javelin
2 | Caroline Polachek | Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
3 | boygenius | the record
4 | Lana Del Rey | Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
5 | Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
6 | PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying
7 | Blur | The Ballad of Darren
8 | ANOHNI and the Johnsons | My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
9 | Wednesday | Rat Saw God
10 | Olivia Rodrigo | GUTS
11 | Young Fathers | Heavy Heavy
12 | Billy Woods & Kenny Segal | Maps
13 | Slowdive | everything is alive
14 | Jessie Ware | That! Feels Good!
15 | Lankum | False Lankum
16 | JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown | Scaring the Hoes
17 | Kelela | Raven
18 | Yves Tumor | Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
19 | Fever Ray | Radical Romantics
20 | Yo La Tengo | This Stupid World
21 | Grian Chatten | Chaos for the Fly
22 | Paramore | This Is Why
23 | Sampha | Lahai
24 | Kara Jackson | Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
25 | Romy | Mid Air
26 | Depeche Mode | Memento Mori
27 | Noname | Sundial
28 | Amaarae | Fountain Baby
29 | Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings
30 | Foo Fighters | But Here We Are
31 | The Rolling Stones | Hackney Diamonds
32 | Queens of the Stone Age | In Times New Roman…
33 | Sofia Kourtesis | Madres
34 | jaimie branch | Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
35 | The National | First Two Pages of Frankenstein
36 | Troye Sivan | Something to Give Each Other
37 | L'Rain | I Killed Your Dog
38 | Everything But the Girl | Fuse
39 | Wilco | Cousin
40 | Bar Italia | Tracey Denim
41 | 100 gecs | 10,000 gecs
42 | Squid | O Monolith
43 | Róisín Murphy | Hit Parade
44 | Ratboys | The Window
45 | SZA | SOS
46 | The Lemon Twigs | Everything Harmony
47 | Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows
48 | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Weathervanes
49 | Blondshell | Blondshell
50 | Yaeji | With a Hammer
51 | Militarie Gun | Life Under the Gun
52 | Lil Yachty | Let's Start Here
53 | The Murder Capital | Gigi's Recovery
54 | shame | Food for Worms
55 | Janelle Monáe | The Age of Pleasure
56 | Water From Your Eyes | Everyone's Crushed
57 | Sleaford Mods | UK Grim
58 | The Clientele | I Am Not There Anymore
59 | Sleep Token | Take Me Back to Eden
60 | Mandy, Indiana | I've seen a way
61 | Armand Hammer | We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
62 | yeule | Softscars
63 | Andre 3000 | New Blue Sun
64 | Kali Uchis | Red Moon in Venus
65 | James Blake | Playing Robots Into Heaven
66 | CMAT | Crazymad, For Me
67 | Bully | Lucky For You
68 | Victoria Monét | Jaguar II
69 | Earl Sweatshirt + The Alchemist | Voir Dire
70 | Geese | 3D Country
71 | King Krule | Space Heavy
72 | Christine & The Queens | Paranoia, Angels, True Love
73 | Feist | Multitudes
74 | Jungle | Volcano
75 | Gabriels | Angels & Queens
76 | Raye | My 21st Century Blues
77 | Laurel Halo | Atlas
78 | Metallica | 72 Seasons
79 | Tirzah | Trip9love…???
80 | Genesis Owusu | Struggler
81 | Avenged Sevenfold | Life Is but a Dream…
82 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | 12
83 | Killer Mike | Michael
84 | Nation of Language | Strange Disciple
85 | Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine
86 | Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music
87 | Danny Brown | Quaranta
88 | Zach Bryan | Zach Bryan
89 | Blonde Redhead | Sit Down for Dinner
90 | Nourished by Time | Erotic Probiotic 2
91 | Joanna Sternberg | I've Got Me
92 | John Cale | Mercy
93 | Jorja Smith | Falling or Flying
94 | Paul Simon | Seven Psalms
95 | Karol G | Mañana Será Bonito
96 | Hotline TNT | Cartwheel
97 | Protomartyr | Formal Growth in the Desert
98 | Doja Cat | Scarlet
99 | Slow Pulp | Yard
100 | Creeper | Sanguivore
101 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
102 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Again
103 | Model/Actriz | Dogsbody
104 | Indigo de Souza | All of This Will End
105 | Tomb Mold | The Enduring Spirit
106 | Overmono | Good Lies
107 | The Hives | The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
108 | Chappell Roan | The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
109 | Blink-182 | One More Time…
110 | Jeff Rosenstock | HELLMODE
111 | Feeble Little Horse | Girl With Fish
112 | The National | Laugh Track
113 | KAYTRAMINÉ | KAYTRAMINÉ
114 | Sparklehorse | Bird Machine
115 | Sparks | The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
116 | Hozier | Unreal Unearth
117 | Algiers | Shook
118 | MSPAINT | Post-American
119 | Youth Lagoon | Heaven Is a Junkyard
120 | Sigur Rós | ÁTTA
121 | Loraine James | Gentle Confrontation
122 | Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily | Love in Exile
123 | Cleo Sol | Heaven
124 | Gorillaz | Cracker Island
125 | Travis Scott | Utopia
126 | HEALTH | RAT WARS
127 | Andy Shauf | Norm
128 | The Coral | Sea of Mirrors
129 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Council Skies
130 | The Japanese House | In the End It Always Does
131 | The Chemical Brothers | For That Beautiful Feeling
132 | The Armed | Perfect Saviors
133 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Five. In The Garden
134 | BC Camplight | The Last Rotation of Earth
135 | Lisa O'Neill | All of This Is Chance
136 | Gel | Only Constant
137 | McKinley Dixon | Beloved! Paradise? Jazz!?
138 | 파란노을 (Parannoul) | After the Magic
139 | Little Simz | No Thank You
140 | Steven Wilson | The Harmony Codex
141 | Liv.e | Girl in the Half Pearl
142 | Benefits | Nails
143 | Robert Forster | The Candle and the Flame
144 | The Necks | Travel
145 | James Holden | Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
146 | a.s.o. | a.s.o.
147 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
148 | Veeze | Ganger
149 | Billy Nomates | Cacti
150 | slowthai | UGLY
151 | Miley Cyrus | Endless Summer Vacation
152 | Nabihah Iqbal | Dreamer
153 | Sexyy Red | Hood Hottest Princess
154 | PinkPantheress | Heaven Knows
155 | Kylie Minogue | Tension
156 | Swans | The Beggar
157 | Bdrmm | I Don't Know
158 | Jim Legxacy | hnpm (homeless n*gga pop music)
159 | Katatonia | Sky Void of Stars
160 | Helena Deland | Goodnight Summerland
161 | Animal Collective | Isn't It Now?
162 | Beach Fossils | Bunny
163 | Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter | SAVED!
164 | Margo Price | Strays
165 | Ralphie Choo | SUPERNOVA
166 | Zulu | A New Tomorrow
167 | Bar Italia | The Twits
168 | Code Orange | The Above
169 | Fall Out Boy | So Much (For) Stardust
170 | Marina Herlop | Nekkuja
171 | Svalbard | The Weight of the Mask
172 | Triángulo de amor bizarro | SED
173 | Cala Vento | Casa Linda
174 | Bad Bunny | Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana
175 | Melenas | Ahora
176 | Debby Friday | Good Luck
177 | RVG | Brain Worms
178 | Meshell Ndegeocello | The Omnichord Real Book
179 | Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My
180 | Asake | Work of Art
181 | Jess Williamson | Time Ain't Accidental
182 | Baroness | Stone
183 | ML Buch | Suntub
184 | Ice Spice | Like..?
185 | Empire State Bastard | Rivers of Heresy
186 | MIKE | Burning Desire
187 | Monika Roscher Bigband | Witchy Acitivities and the Maple Death
My "albums list" included one that would've been an EP by The Under-20-Minute Rule,* another that would've been an EP by The Beatles-Second-Album Rule (under 26:25), and a third that would've been an EP by The It-Says-EP-On-The-Cover-Even-Though-It's-38-Minutes-And-36-Seconds Rule. On the other hand, my "EPs list" contained one that'd have been an album by The Beatles-Second-Album Rule but was an EP by The I-Need-Another-EP-On-My-EPs-List Rule; and one that was an EP by The Six-Of-Its-Twelve-Tracks-Are-Instrumental-Versions-Of-The-Other-Six Rule, the other six qualifying as an EP by The Beatles-Second-Album Rule.
*This turned out to be consequential, since if I'd voted MTS No Beat's Outubro 2023 (14:10) in the EPs category, as I should have, it would have scored a solid 8th place in your rankings, approx 4/2, w/ Get Up losing a point but not a vote. Next year I'll probably apply The Beatles-Second-Album Rule more strictly.
Tom Hull and I have been conversing about the Acclaimed Music website and their EOY list. Lately it has been hard to access, at least for lists from the last three years. In any case this is their current basic list. I can send the 'final' list in a data base (voters, votes etc) spreadsheet on the 31st if you have an interest. I find the site useful in a number of ways. Far more EU list are included among other things. Top 200 Albums:
1 | Sufjan Stevens | Javelin
2 | Caroline Polachek | Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
3 | boygenius | the record
4 | Lana Del Rey | Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
5 | Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
6 | PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying
7 | Blur | The Ballad of Darren
8 | ANOHNI and the Johnsons | My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
9 | Wednesday | Rat Saw God
10 | Olivia Rodrigo | GUTS
11 | Young Fathers | Heavy Heavy
12 | Billy Woods & Kenny Segal | Maps
13 | Slowdive | everything is alive
14 | Jessie Ware | That! Feels Good!
15 | Lankum | False Lankum
16 | JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown | Scaring the Hoes
17 | Kelela | Raven
18 | Yves Tumor | Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
19 | Fever Ray | Radical Romantics
20 | Yo La Tengo | This Stupid World
21 | Grian Chatten | Chaos for the Fly
22 | Paramore | This Is Why
23 | Sampha | Lahai
24 | Kara Jackson | Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
25 | Romy | Mid Air
26 | Depeche Mode | Memento Mori
27 | Noname | Sundial
28 | Amaarae | Fountain Baby
29 | Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings
30 | Foo Fighters | But Here We Are
31 | The Rolling Stones | Hackney Diamonds
32 | Queens of the Stone Age | In Times New Roman…
33 | Sofia Kourtesis | Madres
34 | jaimie branch | Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
35 | The National | First Two Pages of Frankenstein
36 | Troye Sivan | Something to Give Each Other
37 | L'Rain | I Killed Your Dog
38 | Everything But the Girl | Fuse
39 | Wilco | Cousin
40 | Bar Italia | Tracey Denim
41 | 100 gecs | 10,000 gecs
42 | Squid | O Monolith
43 | Róisín Murphy | Hit Parade
44 | Ratboys | The Window
45 | SZA | SOS
46 | The Lemon Twigs | Everything Harmony
47 | Corinne Bailey Rae | Black Rainbows
48 | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Weathervanes
49 | Blondshell | Blondshell
50 | Yaeji | With a Hammer
51 | Militarie Gun | Life Under the Gun
52 | Lil Yachty | Let's Start Here
53 | The Murder Capital | Gigi's Recovery
54 | shame | Food for Worms
55 | Janelle Monáe | The Age of Pleasure
56 | Water From Your Eyes | Everyone's Crushed
57 | Sleaford Mods | UK Grim
58 | The Clientele | I Am Not There Anymore
59 | Sleep Token | Take Me Back to Eden
60 | Mandy, Indiana | I've seen a way
61 | Armand Hammer | We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
62 | yeule | Softscars
63 | Andre 3000 | New Blue Sun
64 | Kali Uchis | Red Moon in Venus
65 | James Blake | Playing Robots Into Heaven
66 | CMAT | Crazymad, For Me
67 | Bully | Lucky For You
68 | Victoria Monét | Jaguar II
69 | Earl Sweatshirt + The Alchemist | Voir Dire
70 | Geese | 3D Country
71 | King Krule | Space Heavy
72 | Christine & The Queens | Paranoia, Angels, True Love
73 | Feist | Multitudes
74 | Jungle | Volcano
75 | Gabriels | Angels & Queens
76 | Raye | My 21st Century Blues
77 | Laurel Halo | Atlas
78 | Metallica | 72 Seasons
79 | Tirzah | Trip9love…???
80 | Genesis Owusu | Struggler
81 | Avenged Sevenfold | Life Is but a Dream…
82 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | 12
83 | Killer Mike | Michael
84 | Nation of Language | Strange Disciple
85 | Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine
86 | Yussef Dayes | Black Classical Music
87 | Danny Brown | Quaranta
88 | Zach Bryan | Zach Bryan
89 | Blonde Redhead | Sit Down for Dinner
90 | Nourished by Time | Erotic Probiotic 2
91 | Joanna Sternberg | I've Got Me
92 | John Cale | Mercy
93 | Jorja Smith | Falling or Flying
94 | Paul Simon | Seven Psalms
95 | Karol G | Mañana Será Bonito
96 | Hotline TNT | Cartwheel
97 | Protomartyr | Formal Growth in the Desert
98 | Doja Cat | Scarlet
99 | Slow Pulp | Yard
100 | Creeper | Sanguivore
101 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
102 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Again
103 | Model/Actriz | Dogsbody
104 | Indigo de Souza | All of This Will End
105 | Tomb Mold | The Enduring Spirit
106 | Overmono | Good Lies
107 | The Hives | The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
108 | Chappell Roan | The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
109 | Blink-182 | One More Time…
110 | Jeff Rosenstock | HELLMODE
111 | Feeble Little Horse | Girl With Fish
112 | The National | Laugh Track
113 | KAYTRAMINÉ | KAYTRAMINÉ
114 | Sparklehorse | Bird Machine
115 | Sparks | The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
116 | Hozier | Unreal Unearth
117 | Algiers | Shook
118 | MSPAINT | Post-American
119 | Youth Lagoon | Heaven Is a Junkyard
120 | Sigur Rós | ÁTTA
121 | Loraine James | Gentle Confrontation
122 | Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily | Love in Exile
123 | Cleo Sol | Heaven
124 | Gorillaz | Cracker Island
125 | Travis Scott | Utopia
126 | HEALTH | RAT WARS
127 | Andy Shauf | Norm
128 | The Coral | Sea of Mirrors
129 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Council Skies
130 | The Japanese House | In the End It Always Does
131 | The Chemical Brothers | For That Beautiful Feeling
132 | The Armed | Perfect Saviors
133 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Five. In The Garden
134 | BC Camplight | The Last Rotation of Earth
135 | Lisa O'Neill | All of This Is Chance
136 | Gel | Only Constant
137 | McKinley Dixon | Beloved! Paradise? Jazz!?
138 | 파란노을 (Parannoul) | After the Magic
139 | Little Simz | No Thank You
140 | Steven Wilson | The Harmony Codex
141 | Liv.e | Girl in the Half Pearl
142 | Benefits | Nails
143 | Robert Forster | The Candle and the Flame
144 | The Necks | Travel
145 | James Holden | Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
146 | a.s.o. | a.s.o.
147 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
148 | Veeze | Ganger
149 | Billy Nomates | Cacti
150 | slowthai | UGLY
151 | Miley Cyrus | Endless Summer Vacation
152 | Nabihah Iqbal | Dreamer
153 | Sexyy Red | Hood Hottest Princess
154 | PinkPantheress | Heaven Knows
155 | Kylie Minogue | Tension
156 | Swans | The Beggar
157 | Bdrmm | I Don't Know
158 | Jim Legxacy | hnpm (homeless n*gga pop music)
159 | Katatonia | Sky Void of Stars
160 | Helena Deland | Goodnight Summerland
161 | Animal Collective | Isn't It Now?
162 | Beach Fossils | Bunny
163 | Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter | SAVED!
164 | Margo Price | Strays
165 | Ralphie Choo | SUPERNOVA
166 | Zulu | A New Tomorrow
167 | Bar Italia | The Twits
168 | Code Orange | The Above
169 | Fall Out Boy | So Much (For) Stardust
170 | Marina Herlop | Nekkuja
171 | Svalbard | The Weight of the Mask
172 | Triángulo de amor bizarro | SED
173 | Cala Vento | Casa Linda
174 | Bad Bunny | Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana
175 | Melenas | Ahora
176 | Debby Friday | Good Luck
177 | RVG | Brain Worms
178 | Meshell Ndegeocello | The Omnichord Real Book
179 | Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My
180 | Asake | Work of Art
181 | Jess Williamson | Time Ain't Accidental
182 | Baroness | Stone
183 | ML Buch | Suntub
184 | Ice Spice | Like..?
185 | Empire State Bastard | Rivers of Heresy
186 | MIKE | Burning Desire
187 | Monika Roscher Bigband | Witchy Acitivities and the Maple Death
188 | Daughter | Stereo Mind Game
189 | Iggy Pop | Every Loser
190 | Susanne Sundfør | Blómi
191 | Lael Neale | Star Eaters Delight
192 | Avalon Emerson | & the Charm
193 | Say She She | Silver
194 | CASISDEAD | Famous Last Words
195 | It It Anita | Mouche
196 | Peso Pluma | Génesis
197 | The WAEVE | The WAEVE
198 | Sprain | The Lamb as Effigy
199 | Liturgy | 93696
200 | Black Country, New Road | Live at Bush Hall
GUTS has become a consensus favorite and a popular success to a degree that feels unprecedented in recent memory.