Mind if I join?

Monkees
Kinks
Kaleidoscope
Flaming Lips

I don't actually know what happens now. Do we order the rest? Average best wins?

I think you tally up the votes and the one with the most is out. Then a new round starts (lasting a few days at most) until all but one remain.

I'd prefer it if we just voted for the best three, and did it that way.

I'm saying that's how it's done from now on.

I'll have to change my votes then.

No worries. I think it's just a quicker way of getting through it.

You're going to have to re-announce the battle now, or no one will vote. Also, can you explain the best three thing with a little more depth? Perhaps the albums with no votes are out? We can then switch it to two, and then one? But even then, we'll be left with multiple albums. I'm just not sure exactly how it would work.

Also, why don't we have a Jangle Pop list? I could probably put it together. It might fit better into Rock Album Survivor, but if you guys want to have it here, that would be cool as well.

EDIT- Actually, I suppose we could fit Jangle Pop into both Alt Pop and Indie Pop.

I am just here as a organiser and trying to keep some order, if you want to make lists feel free to do so. Also suggest any edits you want.

After a bit of consideration, I think maybe we would be better off ordering the lists ourselves from 1-10. #1 gets 10 points, #2 gets 9 points etc. Tally up the totals and publish the overall ranking and winner.

Thoughts on that system?

Sounds good to me.

I've only participated in a couple of survivor threads here, but I can definitely see why the 'survivor' format has been popular. Because it plays out over many rounds, people end up discussing the relative merits of the albums as they go, people sometimes change their minds as they go and a particular album grows on them, some will join the thread toward the end if they haven't had time to listen to the whole list at the start, and when there are only 2 or 3 albums left things get heated (usually in a friendly way). Basically it becomes more of a game. However if you want a quick way to find out which album of a list is the most popular amongst the MB community, what you suggest will definitely be quicker. Obviously it's your thread so I'll go with what you choose.