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inspired by the way they do movie drafts on The Big Picture podcast.
the idea is we pick a year, i.e. "only albums released in 2004", but from there the albums you draft must fit into a category. you draft one album that fits into said category. example categories i was brainstorming:
rock/pop/country album hip-hop/r&b album metal album country album electronic album grammy winning nominated album (from the grammies period that covers most of the year selected) solo artist album compilation/greatest hits album debut album live album - for a live album released during the year. doesn't matter when the show was. must be an official release, i.e. you can't just pick a live show The Dead played that year and put on nugs.net. wildcard
EDIT:
band album album released 10+ years after the artist's first album
you can fill a category at any point in the draft. so for example, you're up first in the draft, and you really want to lockdown The College Dropout, you would post "for my hip-hop album, i draft Kanye West's The College Dropout".
the categories above were designed to be somewhat clear in order to avoid controversy over choices. specifically for the genres i either kept it broad (rock/pop covers a lot of ground, as does hip-hop/r&b) or so specific that it's hopefully hard to fuck up (metal album). i avoided genres like "punk" because that could be anything from Blink-182 to Public Image Ltd and i don't want to get into an argument about how The College Dropout is "really punk if you think about it".
certain picks may cover multiple categories, i.e. "The College Dropout" could be both a solo artist and a hip-hop/r&b album. that's OK, you just have to choose which category you are drafting it in.
interested in anyone's interest in this draft format, or ideas for other categories or criticisms of the above categories. the number of categories will obviously determine the number of rounds.
i was worried about confusion. if you like listening to 90 minute long movie drafts you can listen to the most recent episode of The Big Picture (the 2004 movie draft) and you'll get the idea.
but basically when it's your turn to draft you have to do two things: draft an album from 2004 and pick what category it's going in. no particular order to the categories, you can do hip hop first, or metal first, or compilation first, whatever. but you have to draft an album for each category. so at the end of the draft your team would look like:
hip hop/r&b - the college dropout by kanye metal - leviathan by mastodon grammy award winner - confessions by usher
etc etc.
and standard rule of once an album is drafted it's unavailable to anyone else.
Post by Teddy Flair on Sept 15, 2021 15:15:35 GMT -5
Do we have to declare which category as we draft? Like if I took Sour could I decide later on whether I wanted to use it as debut or solo, and leave myself a little flexibility?
Do we have to declare which category as we draft? Like if I took Sour could I decide later on whether I wanted to use it as debut or solo, and leave myself a little flexibility?
you have to declare the category as you draft.
this gives people the opportunity to dispute the categorization of your pick (i.e. you can't draft "The College Dropout" as a compilation album).
Do we have to declare which category as we draft? Like if I took Sour could I decide later on whether I wanted to use it as debut or solo, and leave myself a little flexibility?
you have to declare the category as you draft.
this gives people the opportunity to dispute the categorization of your pick (i.e. you can't draft "The College Dropout" as a compilation album).
