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Sure I am forgetting some, but here it is. Please remove anything that may not be eligible, and I have any duplicates, scratch the second. Thanks! Oh....old. 57 :( Top Albums 1) Pixies - Doolittle (1989) 2) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spider From Mars (1972) 3) Swans -...

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The Beach Boys had one of the oddest careers among widely acclaimed artists. Among the top 20 or so artists on AM, they might be the only one that has only one album in the "albums that you have to listen to when you're getting into music" category: Pet Sounds (I wish I could put Smile Sessions in t...

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Random question that won't likely affect anything: does the Misfits' Static Age count? The album was recorded in 1978 but not released until 1996, apparently because they couldn't find a label willing to release it. It seems weird to consider that a 90s album, just like it feel weird to me to consid...

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This section is headed for a Jessie vs. Jessie matchup in the next round, and I think the winner may take the whole tournament.

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Here's my 3/4 of the way through the year list. I spent a lot of the last few months listening to older music for the AT albums poll, so this isn't that different than the last list I posted outside of adding a few new discoveries from the ongoing 2020 songs tournament. I'm not counting Microphones ...

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madzong wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:55 pm
Could we include the Smile Sessions as an album?

This should definitely be included.

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Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:08 am
Hello, I'm new here. I love this project and I want to participate. I'm 39

This is a great list! Hope you stick around here.

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This is a great group this week, with my two favorite songs of the year and a few of my favorite discoveries to date from this tournament. The only songs I don't like are the last two. 4. Run the Jewels | a few words for the firing squad (radiation) vs. 9. Khruangbin | So We Won't Forget 13. The Psy...

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My unpopular opinion for the month for 1977 is that Frankie Teardrop is the worst song on Suicide's s/t, which I otherwise love. The song is kind of a mess structurally and the extreme volume changes can make it physically difficult to listen to and breaks up the consistent vibe of the other tracks.

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Separately, Holden, have you thought about having a thread/poll where we could discuss which artists to poll next? I'd love to see some polls of newer or less canonical artists. As I’m sure you know, this is sort of built around the AM Best Artists of All-Time list. I like that because we know thos...

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Robert Christgau wrote a little bit about the process of making his list. He includes his personal Top 50, as well as the Top 50 of Carola Dibbell (his wife, and another RS 500 voter), and a list of the listening "homework" they completed before compiling their submissions. https://robertchristgau....

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4. Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan | Walk to School vs. Les amazones d‘afrique ft. Kandy Guira | Sisters : 7 - 7 The next vote by someone who didn't vote in this match-up decides! Highlighting this would knock my nomination out but Walk to School amassed 8 votes to Sisters' 6 votes by my count. ...

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From eyeballing the individual lists I think Hounds of Love will place much higher than it ever has before. I wouldn't be surprised if it lands in the top 20-30 overall. That might be the single album that has most asserted its place in the canon in recent years (see large improvement on P4K and RS ...

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This is a lot more interesting than I would have expected, especially after their last update to the list essentially kept the same order at the top. Moving Sgt. Pepper's down to 24, and below two other Beatles albums, is a nice way of making up for previously overrating that album at #1 and perhaps...

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I've been reading Steinbeck's East of Eden for the last couple of months. It's an incredible book, but very dense. It's taken me a lot longer to get through than many books with a similar page count.

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Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:55 pm
Halloo! Even I like Jessie Ware's "Spotlight". I'd say it's the song "EBTG" only wrote once.

Welcome to the club! This one was the definition of an "instant classic" for me.

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Microphones in 2020 is surprisingly low here.

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I'm submitting a last minute list this year. After listening to almost exclusively 2010s music for the last couple of years, I've used the last few months since the completion of our EOD poll to explore to a bunch of classics (mostly from the 70s and 80s) that I had long had on my "to listen" list, ...

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I hope we get a list from Moonbeam in this thread. I was thinking the same! Romain too, for that matter Moonbeam has been on and off with the forum recently - I hope he checks this month! I'd assume he could pull off a top 500 songs list for Prince fairly easily. Separately, Holden, have you though...

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Taylor Swift's 1989 is definitely the best recent example. The apex of a pop giant with a very mainstream sound, multiple #1 singles, and massive sales. The mega-success of both albums also proved difficult for both artists to duplicate.

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A lot of those are quite surprising! I'd throw in 4 as another surprise in addition to the ones you mentioned, plus Lazarus vs. Pyramids being such a blowout.

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Fred wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:32 am
Quite a year for David Bowie, 1977...

The amount of great music that Bowie and Brian Eno (often together) either created or contributed to in the mid-to-late 70s is incredible.

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Disappointingly low debuts in the chart for Microphones in 2020 and Inner Song.

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Based on the individual lists, I thought that Julia Holter had a chance to overperform expectations, so I wouldn't be surprised to see her in the top 15 or 20.

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Kelly Lee Owens' Inner Song is awesome. I knew it would be because I loved each of the four singles, but was great to finally hear it after it was delayed from its initial release date. Definitely an EOY contender for me (which is no surprise, as her s/t debut was my 2017 AOTY). I hope this gets her...

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This is one of the funniest polls we've ever run in a way. Green Day and Coldplay as top 100 2010s acts, and Katy Perry over the likes of Joanna Newsom? I certainly agree that some of these don't really seem to represent the forum, which isn't surprising given the lower number of voters. It will be ...

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It's interesting that HAIM got two songs into the bracket while Fiona Apple only got one. 3 songs, actually, which is even wilder. My guess is that people assumed that everyone on the forum would listen to FTBC in a way that they wouldn't necessarily listen to WIMPIII I can see why now after the re...

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It's gotta be Daft Punk, right? Or do they not count with the Tron: Legacy soundtrack? Rob, I'mma presume you're counting Tunes 2011-2019 as an album and plump for Burial? Technically Burial did not release a single album this decade and yes, I do count soundtracks as albums, so Daft Punk and Buria...

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There were not as many voters in this poll as some of our other polls, and some of the people who did vote are newer to AM, so these results should be unpredictable. A few random thoughts: Jenny Hval missing the top 100 is a disappointment as she was fairly prolific and consistently excellent throug...

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While 1976 doesn't have as many classics as the other years of the 70s, I'll take back my comment about it being a weak year after digging in more to some albums I hadn't heard before. There were some interesting things going on especially if you look past the US/UK. Albums 1 | Ramones | Ramones 2 |...

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Great presentation, it must’ve taken a while to collect all those playlists! I can’t speak for Sons of Kemet et. al. But I think your point distribution for Killer Mike/Run the Jewels seems like the ideal. Sorry for making your life difficult with the Killer Mike / Run the Jewels double listing! Th...

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I was a bit disappointed myself. There was only 1 song on the entire album that I really loved. I see what you did there... ;) In all seriousness, the race for 2020 album of the year is over for me. I loved "A Crow Looked at Me," but this is Phil's masterpiece to my ears. 44 minutes that flew by wi...

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Remain in Light: I prefer The Great Curve over Once in a Lifetime. I am in this club. I think a lot of others on here are "Great Curve" fans as it won a bracket for unacclaimed songs from acclaimed albums a couple of years ago. To me Remain in Light is a clear example of an album where the first ha...

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panam wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:20 pm
Jethro Tull's "Thick as a brick"

And now "Microphones in 2020"

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Dan wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 03, 2020 3:18 pm
01 | Cartola | Cartola (1976)

Glad I chose to listen to this based on the recommendation of Dan and a few others in the thread!

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That Death song is really something - and then there is the outro. That song blasted me away, too Thanks for the link, rumpdoll. I'll third the recommendation for Death's Politicians in My Eyes along with Cloud One's Atmosphere Strut, a highly enjoyable precursor to house music. Pere Ubu's Final So...

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