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Both changes made, even if removing points to both "Waterloo Sunset" and "Be My Baby" almost broke my heart...

That's perfectly fine, mileswide! Come back to Rank the Tracks when you want!!

Wezzo wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:44 am
127 | 4 Non-Blondes | What's Goin' On

Sorry, Wezzo, do you mean "4 Non-Blondes | What's Up?" or "Marvin Gaye | What's Goin' On"?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Bob_Dylan_-_Desire.jpg 1. Bob Dylan - Desire (1976) vs. 2. Joni Mitchell - Hejira (1976) 6. Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex (1981) vs. 4. Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B. (1968) 8. Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods (2017) vs. 7. The Chameleons - Scr...

Praia das Catedrais looks amazing – yet another part of Spain that looks well worth a visit! When I clicked on the link you posted and watched the video, I was surprised that they chose to play Celtic folk music in the background. But then I read that the traditional music from that region (Galicia...

Thank you, Henrik! The list is great!

So this is my choruses Top 100. I've only selected songs from my all-time songs list, choosing the ones in which I thought that the chorus is the main reason why I like the song so much. Since my all-time list is in a bad need of update there are not many recent selections... Note: in some cases (nu...

Thank you very much for your kind words, Dan! And sorry for the late reply… All of us who post lists on this forum don’t really have the time to comment on the lists we post, so even though many of the threads contain some very interesting lists, they turn out to be lists devoid of wider critical, h...

My 25 favourite songs of 2019 so far (and I thought I might as well add brief comments)... Excellent list, Dan! It was the soundtrack (both during the car trip and then with headphones) to our visit to the impressive Praia das Catedrais (Cathedrals Beach) , so these songs will always be tied for me...

Welcome to Rank the Tracks (and to the Forum), jimm!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/The-Millennium-Begin-album-cover.jpg 3. Blur - 13 (1999) vs. 2. The Smiths - Meat is Murder (1985) 5. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997) vs. 1. The Millennium - Begin (1968) 7. Spinners - Spinners (1973) vs. 6. ማሕሙድ ፡ ኣሕመድ - ማሕሙድ ፡ ኣሕመድ (19...

I'm beginning with the Excels. Two observations: - StevieFan13, you have Lorde's "Green Light" twice on your list, at #61 and #71. Maybe you could replace one of them with another option. - mileswide, you have two numbers 21, Blur and Aztec Camera. Is it OK to have 151 songs instead 150 or do you pr...

https://images2.imgbox.com/db/93/cxQ56SpC_o.jpg 5. Crowded House - Woodface (1991) vs. 4. Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team (1997) 2. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (2000) vs. 3. múm - Finally We Are No One (2002) 6. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges (2011) vs. 8. Micachu - Jewellery (2009) 7...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/TheVelvetUndergroundVU.png 4. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (2014) vs. 3. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005) 8. blink-182 - Enema of the State (1999) vs. 1. The Velvet Underground - VU (1985) 7. Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks (197...

English is becoming the dominant language in the world, which was not the case 100 years ago. It's mildly unfortunate, because culture is tied to language in a lot of ways (so cultural diversity might lessen), but also good because hopefully people on opposite sides of the world can understand one ...

Pulitzers, Oscars and Grammys And finally I would like to compare the lists on this thread with probably the most important awards on the three categories. The 3 meta-lists of the websites are made of votes from critics who create lists of best works of different periods (all-time, decade, years) s...

About the other question I'm not going to argue with you. Only one thing: if you want to continue participating on the forum you definitely should be more polite with the forum members. Making a pun with my #2 song if you looking for trouble you came to the wrong place... It's the "right" place. I ...

Wow, what a month for Rank the Tracks! mileswide entered like a tornado, firmly decided to ruin my holidays (only joking, I'm delighted to see Rank the Tracks going up again ) and we had 36 albums in only three weeks. In fact I usually update the results the first Sunday of the month but: a) tomorro...

74. Don't (1958) 127. I Beg of You (1957) These are two sides of the same single, both are 1957. It was released a couple of days before the end of the year. Edited (even if according to official sources like the liner notes of my own boxset of the 50s Master should be both 1958). About the other q...

https://images2.imgbox.com/37/5a/vwwZo1E9_o.jpg 1. Mystery Train (1955) At 1'46" Elvis jumps right in and begins to sing the melody a little too early. Any other producer could have insisted in recording another take. But not Sam Philips. The important thing for Phillips (and for Elvis!) was not pe...

Thank you everyone for your kind words!! I appreciate it a lot!! I do wonder if the percentages would change much if instead of the very top book, record, and film of the year the list included, say, the top 10? If there are “outlier” artists in these fields, they could dominate the top spot for yea...

Gender, race and language bias As I mentioned on the first post of this thread I wanted to analyse the differences on the bias of the critics regarding books, movies or records. I talked about the 3 main bias I can detect on the AM lists previously (see here ). Gender bias Women represent more that...

Gender, race and language bias As I mentioned on the first post of this thread I wanted to analyse the differences on the bias of the critics regarding books, movies or records. I talked about the 3 main bias I can detect on the AM lists previously (see here ). Gender bias Women represent more that...

I've begun to edit the Books... thread. Little by little I will try to edit all my previous posts (I use a lot the imgsize feature).

Excellent work, TheLastEnemy!

Replacing blank space with equal works but it's a lot of editing to do...

DaveC wrote:I hope the other 4+ album is "It's my way"

prosecutorgodot wrote:Live at the Star Club, Hamburg?

Rob wrote:I think that is the best guess. Unless it is At Last!, but that would surprise me.

Exactly, prosecutorgodot! Jerry Lee got a 4,01 on RYM!

Live in Phoenix wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 24, 2019 2:51 am
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Yes, I hope this could be fixed. If not I would need to do a lot of editing...

You'd almost come to think that music is just getting worse by the decade. Well, this could be an interesting subject for discussion. Probably it's not that the music (or any other form of art) is getting worse, it mainly depends on the period the critics established the canon. Usually it was estab...

Best artists Not really the best but the ones with more works qualified as the best of the year. Artists with 4 works as the best of the year: https://images2.imgbox.com/5e/9b/SeN0nh6E_o.png Joseph Conrad | book of 1900, 1904, 1907 and 1917 https://images2.imgbox.com/50/79/JAxnacth_o.jpg D.W. Griff...

Going with 4 Non Blondes on this one... One of the highest ranked is easy: Animals by Pink Floyd. If I recall correctly it even ranks in the top 25, or at least 50. The other one I'm not sure of, but if I must guess I'd go for Young Team by Mogwai. And the 4 Non Blondes album is obvious as the one ...

As I did on the last four editions I'm going to include some (minor) stats about the nominated albums: a) RYM Rating: Again we have our moderately acclaimed albums mostly with a RYM rating between 3,00 and 3,99 (with 98,42% of the albums included there with 74,8% between 3,51 a 4,00). We are followi...

4) For admin purposes, Honorio has agreed to oversee the calculation of the results, for which I'm massively grateful, and I will be responsible for the rollout of the results. Please direct any relevant queries accordingly. Thank you, mileswide! But I need recommendations about which formula I sho...

Best thread ever...

I endorse a Spotify playlist with the songs by The Velvet Underground that does not feature Lou Reed as lead vocalist as my little homage to Cold Butterfly who got unfairly laughed at. He simply made an (understandable) mistake with Doug Yule and Lou Reed voices. My mistake was worse, during many ye...

Best decade Doing a very very simple calculation (calculating the mean of the position of the first works of every decade) I've come with the best decades for every category. Best decade | Mean | Most acclaimed work in the category https://images2.imgbox.com/f0/ce/wlZgYwwB_o.jpg Best decades for bo...

Best decade Doing a very very simple calculation (calculating the mean of the position of the first works of every decade) I've come with the best decades for every category. Best decade | Mean | Most acclaimed work in the category https://images2.imgbox.com/f0/ce/wlZgYwwB_o.jpg Best decades for bo...

The 16th and 14th century pick both have '#80' You're right, BobPatience, "Il Decamerone" was #99 and not #80. Edited. The problems of copying and pasting… Thank you! Best movies by decade https://images2.imgbox.com/1d/38/MEJG14Z4_o.jpg Movie of the 2010s | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | USA ...

All time https://images2.imgbox.com/ad/2e/DfBNiwgb_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/a2/7d/jFLB8F8i_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/98/L2NOE1cn_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/20/49/GmUbSM81_o.jpg Best book of all time | À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) | Marcel Proust | F...

All time https://images2.imgbox.com/ad/2e/DfBNiwgb_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/a2/7d/jFLB8F8i_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/98/L2NOE1cn_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/20/49/GmUbSM81_o.jpg Best book of all time | À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) | Marcel Proust | F...

Well, who knows? Maybe rummaging through the garbage I could find a jewel. But "He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad" will not be one of them, that's for sure...

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