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If I go with "first ten albums I haven't heard enough times to be certain that I like them or not": 118 Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town 119 LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver 120 Arcade Fire The Suburbs 121 Dr. Dre The Chronic 122 David Bowie Low 123 Pixies Surfer Rosa 124 Jay-Z The Blue...

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With disco still around and punk/new wave plus some good classic rock and pop, I have a really long list of songs for the year. All BUBBLING UNDER songs are discoveries this year from sampling off other forumers' lists and my own independent listening. SONGS BU | The Kinks | (Wish I Could Fly Like) ...

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I really haven't listened to a ton of albums from this year so the top 7 have pretty solid favour with me. After that, the support is a lot weaker. I won't be surprised if there's a lot of movement before the next time we do a 1979 poll. ALBUMS BU | Nick Lowe | LABOUR OF LUST BU | Andraé Crouch | I'...

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661. The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Year: 2005 4 662. Tom Waits – Soldier’s Things Year: 1983 5 663. Taylor Swift – All Too Well Year: 2012 6 664. They Might Be Giants – Meet James Ensor Year: 1994 4 666. Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners Year: 1957 6 667. Royal Blood – Figure It Out ...

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And I'm definitely discovering new tunes...11 of the top 25 tunes are in one of my year playlists now.

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I've been super busy trying to keep up with crafting my first all-time album list and the 80s/70s yearly lists. I do still read this and sample but I may be kind of erratic actually popping in with a vote.

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A tad boring maybe but solid. I'd have a different Van Morrison.

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Is there anywhere in the article with the whole list? I can only see part of it. Might be a paywall issue.

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andyd1010 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:51 am Nice editing, Rolling Stone

8. “You Send Me” (Sam Cooke, 1957)
“That song came out in 1967, but I don’t care when you it it, it still doesn’t sound dated.

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I listened to it. It's OK but I think "It's a Blue World" is a better track from them, personally.

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Can't get behind Brian's Stones or Dylan picks at all. The Four Freshmen cut I don't know. It's not on the compilation I own. Surprised nothing from the Hi-Los and only one Spector single. The Four Freshmen are the group that Brian always credits with forming his ideas about vocal harmony. https://...

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The James Ray cut was a nice discovery. Weird Redding pick though.

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Lennon's version of "Stand by Me"? Meh. Haven't heard Simone's version of "I Put a Spell on You" but the original would be hard to top.

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Can't get behind Brian's Stones or Dylan picks at all.
The Four Freshmen cut I don't know. It's not on the compilation I own. Surprised nothing from the Hi-Los and only one Spector single.

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Rob wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:16 pm I never would have guessed that King Crimson was still hip among the kids.

Yeah, that's the one that baffled me as well. I'm guessing it gets some cred from the Kanye sample.

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Hymie wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 5:03 am Joni Mitchell’s favorite songs:

‘Saturday Night Fish Fry’ – Louis Jordan
‘You Get What You Give’ – New Radicals

Most of the rest of this seems right but these were unexpected. I love both of these but I wouldn't have imagined Joni would be a fan.

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Actually now that I think about it, I should have made room for "Still I Dream of It" as well.

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Excellent list everyone! But let me point to the great ones by Father2theMan and Miguel (not by chance the ones with Beach Boys related avatars). Songs: 7. Break Away (1969) 126. Aren't You Glad (1967) 133. The Little Girl I Once Knew I should have shoehorned these in as well. You're clearly a huge...

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Miguel wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:42 am
3. Breakaway

Feeling lazy but I should have found room for this single. Nice list. Very little I would quibble with for being there.

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Pretty huge omission in my list! Fixed it.

Good Time,unfortunately, drops off. Caroline No in at 4.

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ALBUMS w/comments/rationale 29 | Summer in Paradise | 1992 Truly abysmal. Only "Strange Things Happen" is tolerable. 28 | Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 | 1996 Not sure I count this as a BB album since they do backing vocals on all these. Best track is a decent Willie Nelson take on "Warmth of the Sun". N...

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Assorted additional thoughts: These will probably get a lot of help from me next time we do this: 875. Soft Cell | Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981) 863. Donald Fagen | The Nightfly (1982) 772. Johnny Cash | American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) (By far my favorite of the American series. One of the...

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Nice surprise to see Gene Clarke's No Other jump so much and getting 13 votes. I added that one to the Moderately Acclaimed game last year and nobody seemed to give a damn about it, so it is nice to see it having some fans after all. Beautiful album. For what it's worth, Rob, I have been sampling i...

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Just a reminder that once we reach 500, I am cutting down to 50 a day. This is because at 500, I’m going to start adding in extra elements to the list that are going to take longer because of the research involved in finding the elements. No problem, great job with the updates! A little bit disappo...

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Jackson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:44 pm There were a lot of tough drops for me in that section: Starsailor, Meadowlands, Rings Around the World, Deltron 3030.

It looks like in Deltron's case younger voters didn't like it as well as older Forumers.

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900-876
This stretch only has 3 albums that would probably be on a top 1000 list for me.

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Early thoughts: 971. ABBA | The Album (1977) An "old" album where the Forum youngsters appraise it much more highly than the more "seasoned" AMFers. I wonder if it's because a large percentage of the older folks were more attuned to punk/new wave when ABBA was around as it was "reacting" to them whi...

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I predict my list will have the highest non-correlation with other forumers. (AKA "I am pseudo Hymie.")

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I submitted a tweak to Holden several hours ago but hadn't posted here yet in case I could get a beefed up list of 250 together. Nope...my eyes are starting to cross so I am done obsessing over THIS list so this is what my final ended up being...changes more about position switches than major additi...

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I will try and tweak and post an amended list since there's a little more time.

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So, the best laid plans of mice and men, eh? I intended to get a list of 1000 but it proved too daunting. Then lowered my sights to 500 but that proved too much by the deadline as well. I settled for 100 my first time out and I'm worried that I didn't do enough massaging of the hierarchy but it is w...

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Also sent you a PM, Holden.

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This is the only major forum poll in which I've never participated and the reason is simple: Embarrassment. Nowhere else is my love for the critically unacclaimed genre of female-fronted pop-metal bands (Nightwish, Within Temptation, and yes, even Evanescence) more painfully evident. I've been rath...

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I have made a decision on the deadline: September 31st is the soft deadline, however, the rollout will start on October 15th. If you truly cannot submit your list by the 31st; still post it and it will likely be added if it is submitted by the time the rollout starts. Now that I have finished my su...

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I couldn't finish it by the deadline but this would have been my song list NEW All Saved Freak Band Don't Look Back NEW Alpha Band Arizona Telegram NEW Andy Pratt That's When Miracles Occur NEW Andy Pratt Treasure That Canary NEW Blondie In the Sun NEW Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Mary Lou NEW...

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I missed the cutoff to post a song list. I'll post a late one...

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ALBUMS 51 Neil Young Tonight's the Night 50 Eric Carmen Eric Carmen 49 Jim Crain All Because I've Known You 48 Smokey Robinson A Quiet Storm 47 Wings Venus and Mars 46 Marshall Tucker Band Searchin' for a Rainbow 45 Walter Hawkins Love Alive 44 Spinners Pick of the Litter 43 Neil Young Zuma 42 David...

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Since it got extended, here's my list. It will probably be vastly different from everyone else's. I still need to check out a lot of music from the past decade. 75 anderson.paak 74 Beautiful Eulogy 73 Steve Hindalong 72 Daniel Amos 71 The Oh Hellos 70 Lana Del Rey 69 T-Bone 68 Tedashii 67 Nick Jonas...

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Just realized that several songs on my 1974 list were actually 1975 releases (and at least one album). I intend to place them on my 1975 lists so they're in the right year but I can asterisk them so they don't get counted twice. They seem to be things that I'm all alone on anyway so it probably will...

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NEW DISCOVERIES IN NO ORDER ABBA So Long Ann Peebles (You Keep Me) Hangin' On Ann Peebles A Love Vibration Barbara Mandrell This Time I Almost Made It Big Star O My Soul Big Star Way Out West Big Star You Get What You Deserve Blue Magic Welcome to the Club Bob Marley So Jah S'eh Bob Marley Talkin' B...

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