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Jackson

Same thing for the songs (why not?). My year-end rank in parenthesis: 2013) Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell)- Get Lucky (2) 2008) Fleet Foxes- White Winter Hymnal (5) 2011) The Black Keys- Lonely Boy (4) 2016) David Bowie- Lazarus (10) 2014) Future Islands- Seasons (Waiting On You) (7) 2015) Tame Impa...

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This is probably the first year of the decade where I like every single album in our top ten. There's just something very agreeable about the albums at the top this year.

The top 5 albums are very deserving, with one nice surprise. I think it's JM's to lose, but wouldn't be surprised by M or KM.

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Rock is doing well in this poll with Rolling Blackouts, Car Seat Headrest, and Deafheaven well above the critics and Parquet Courts and Idles obviously still to come. I still do not understand the appeal of TBH&C. I thought critics that listed it high were making some sort of statement, but I'm ...

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Wow, I thought Chris would have been an automatic top 20!

Jackson

Thanks for the presentation, notbrianeno. These gifs make this on of the most enjoyable poll roll-outs in the forum. Immaterial missing top ten is surprising; I thought it would've gotten more than 10 votes. Unpopular opinion: Immaterial is one of the weakest tracks of the album. What drew me to SO...

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"No Tears Left to Cry" over "Thank U, Next" is a bit of a shock, as is "Immaterial" missing the top 10. Oh well! At least my number 1 is in the top 10! I think Thank U Next is good, but No Tears Left to Cry is one of the best mainstream pop songs of the decade. I think...

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I love these GIFs, especially the one for I Shall Love 2.

It's no surprise if you've paid attention on the forum this year, but Pearly Gates is a nice AMF special.

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What a great and unexpected placement for The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra! I agree that the video goes perfectly with the song. It kind of reminds me of the style of Twin Peaks: The Return.

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I’m pretty surprised that “Americans” is totally unranked on the critics’ list. It’s the final track on the critics’ number 1 album of the year, and as Jirin said, a great summation of the state of affairs in contemporary America. To me, it’s the second best song off of Dirty Computer, only behind ...

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I love many of the songs that have been revealed so far. It's great that three AvH songs will make the top 100, with my #1 still to come. I'm disappointed at the lack of love for "Itgehane." It's the type of song that I thought would do really well here, collecting votes from both synthpop...

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That 16-30 section is just one classic after another. I think I'll end up preferring it to the top 15 on the whole.

The biggest surprise for me is Soft Bulletin's placement. I thought it was a no doubter in the top ten.

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I love the elevation of recent scores in this list. Under the Skin at 2 is an inspired choice, and it's nice to see Drive and Sicario as well.

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Nick wrote:The Talk Talk singer has reportedly died. He was 64.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nme.co ... 453863/amp

Wow, that's so sad and shocking. Rip

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ordinaryperson wrote:

What's this one?

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The first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title was Andy Stott's album covers. They're all distinctive, unique, and accentuate the dark, bass-heavy music. I love the black and white aesthetic - wonder how he thought of it. https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5929af2bc0084474cd0c1a15/1:1/w_32...

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Sunbather is a great example of a situation where album art probably attracted critical acclaim. I can't imagine Sunbather would have done as well if it had a generic metal album cover.

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Soundtracks for the Blind over Blue Lines is a crazy result! Bet that will never be repeated again. It would be fun if more people had commented...RockyRaccoon is just lighting into many of the more adventurous albums.

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spiritualized wrote:To be fair, I'm not a very "female-fronted band" fan either. Kim Gordon and Kim Deal appear, the first "real" one is Kirstin Hersh from the Throwing Muses @ 30.

What about Stereolab at 10? Very nice placement btw...

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I've been wondering if the 1-2 ordering here was going to be controversial. The full list of ratings for top two: Voter / Dead Magic rating / Childqueen rating spiritualized / 1 / 30 It certainly was controversial for at least one voter! This was a great poll with interesting results and a fun scor...

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Wow, I'm surprised I'm under 1,000. I need to pick it up!

I assume this doesn't count the old forums?

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Wow Deafheaven and Kamasi Washington (especially Fists of Fury) are making huge and well-deserved gains here on the last day of voting.

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I've been wondering if the 1-2 ordering here was going to be controversial. The full list of ratings for top two: Voter / Dead Magic rating / Childqueen rating spiritualized / 1 / 30 It certainly was controversial for at least one voter! This was a great poll with interesting results and a fun scor...

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Wow, I thought Tirzah and AAL would appear higher. Those were two of the higher-profile nominees. No idea what to expect the rest of the way!

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Current votes: Jirin rumpdoll bonnielaurel DaveC Rob Moonbeam acroamor Brad madzong Jackson Miguel I have tabulated votes based on ballots and it's a very close top two with interesting results so far. Results will start on Saturday, ballots will be accepted up to then. With this group of voters pi...

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I made some edits to my albums list including adding Heaven and Earth at number 8, as I finally got around to listening to the entire thing!

I also added the Avantdale Bowling Club album, which is a really nice discovery from the moderately acclaimed game / sonofsam's list.

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2018 is one of the better and deeper years of the decade. It was another amazing year by female artists, but that wasn't really a surprise after they similarly dominated 2017. A more pleasant surprise was how strong guitar rock and jazz were this year. I see this year factoring strongly in my EOD li...

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This is not in order, or final -- I'm just putting it out there in case people are looking for some other listening experiences before we finalize. I don't have songs listed yet either. This has been one of the toughest years ever for me to rank albums...there are just so many of high quality, from...

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Here are mine (some of these are influenced by my wife as we share a Spotify): 1. Dua Lipa - New Rules 2. Men I Trust - Tailwhip 3. Rae Sremmurd - Powerglide 4. Algiers - The Underside of Power 5. Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling 6. Camila Cabello - Havana 7. Alvvays - Dreams Tonite 8. Yaeji - ...

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About that Grimes song, that could almost be the biggest musical disappointment of the year to me. All original qualities of Grimes previous efforts seem to be removed to come to more standard modern sound. Even the fascist robot theme feels extremely stale and cliched. It does reasonable well here...

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Immaterial just dominated that last update. I think it'll do even better on our forum list. It's also interesting to see the battles between thank u, next and no tears left to cry and Honey and Missing U. They seemingly swap every update.

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That last update was kind to Parquet Courts. Now their placement is much closer to what I was expecting.

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https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3357 Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix) Kasper Marott - Keflavik Raime - Real People, Not Actors Rush Plus - Sweat Barker - Look How Hard I've Tried James Blake - If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead Leif - Number 13 Flow - Boy Girl Action Peggy Gou - It Mak...

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Still amazed at thank u, next. The divergence with No Tears Left to Cry over the last few updates has been really surprising. It's hard to think of a song that has benefited more from timing, with Thank U, Next being released right at the beginning of EOY list rollout, going immediately to #1 in th...

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I'm still doing a bunch of listening as always during this time of year, but these ten albums will definitely factor into my year-end list: Against All Logic | 2012-2017 Daughters | You Won't Get What You Want DJ Koze | Knock Knock Fucked Up | Dose Your Dreams Idles | Joy as an Act of Resistance Ka...

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I agree with the consensus that this is a great class. (Of course what allowed this to be such a good class is that all of these acts were snubbed in the past.) Especially happy to see Roxy Music and The Zombies make it as I would not have expected them to get in ahead of other acts that are more po...

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One of the best lists yet. I love Dead Magic and the Phantom Thread soundtrack making the top ten.

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Harold wrote:Shockingly, U2 is not #1, due to the technicality of not actually having released an album this year.

Don't worry, they're not losing their touch: Paul McCartney is still above Mitski and Janelle Monae.

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57. Viagra Boys – ‘Street Worms’

I can't believe this is real.

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22 (31) Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

I am becoming obsessed with this song. I had never heard of it a week ago and now it's showing up seemingly on every list.

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;) Can't believe that "5 Dollars" is getting any acclaim at all - it's one of the least good songs on Chris . How on Earth is "Doesn't Matter" not lapping the field from that album?! I thought Doesn't Matter would be the most acclaimed track too--it's certainly the catchiest! May...

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If Oil of Every Pearl... moves up one more spot will it be the weirdest album ever to make the top ten for its year? The biggest competition it has this decade are Shaking the Habitual and Syro.

@Bleu The Sons of Kemet album has been a great end of year find for me as well.

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Neutron Dance is such a jam. Shades of Todd Terje and New Order.

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Nick wrote:Against All Logic- 2012-2017

I'm surprised this one isn't getting more heat in end of year lists. I thought it'd serve as the "token electronic album" for a lot of indie publications but it looks like DJ Koze and Jon Hopkins are taking those spots.

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Also I never really thought about it until now, but OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES has got to be one of the worst album titles I've heard in a while. The music is fine enough, but that title is just completely unintuitive. I totally agree that it's a ridiculous title, but it's supposed to mean &qu...

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So, the big thing to me this year - As I pointed out while doing the women in music polls, only a single year on Acclaimed Music has women make up at least half of the albums in the top 10 (2015), and that was an exact 50/50. This is looking to be the first year ever where women outnumber men at th...

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https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-100-best-songs-of-2018/ 97. Young Fathers - "In My View" 94. Amber Mark - "Love Me Right" 93. Aphex Twin - "T69 Collapse" 92. Charli XCX - "Track 10" 89. Carly Rae Jepsen - "Party for One" 70. Kama...

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Thank U Next and No Tears Left to Cry are vote splitting almost perfectly. I wonder how highly either one would rank if not for the other.

It's interesting that MGMT has two songs on here but neither one is the sublime She Works Out Too Much, which seems like it will be the AMF favorite.

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There’s only one song from 2016 - 2018 in our top 40 songs of the 2010s (“Ultralight Beam” at number 26). I get that newer songs have always had some trouble competing against old favorites, but the sheer amount of 2015 songs in the top 40 (there’s 8 of them) leads me to believe we’ve all collectiv...

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