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Pierre

Screamadelica... :( Good album, and I would've voted for it if I had expanded my list beyond 200 albums. That said, I've never actually met a Primal Scream fan. Anecdotal, I know, but I am a little surprised that album is in the AM top 100. (I figure its influence on dance music helps though.) I li...

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Pierre wrote:However, we totally fail to cater to the real kids and adolescents demographics. Something will have to be done to push Hilary Duff on the website

And suddenly, I was disproven

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Let's bump this once more. So far, the results are stable: the kids from the 1990s are dominating! However, we totally fail to cater to the kids and adolescents demographics. Something will have to be done to push Hilary Duff on the website :P Yeah, and Demi Lovato! Where's the real music for us ki...

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Let's bump this once more. So far, the results are stable: the kids from the 1990s are dominating!

However, we totally fail to cater to the real kids and adolescents demographics. Something will have to be done to push Hilary Duff on the website

Pierre

Pierre, here is the spreadsheet corrected for the indie pop entry. Henrik, there's a new book "Mixtapes", don't know if it's eligible https://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/mixtapes/ and this one which is coming soon "FRENCH TOUCH 100" https://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/frenchtouc...

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The only lists I have added since the unofficial update are the EOY 2016 lists and Pitchfork's '60s list. I was wondering whether you had time to add the Pitchfork list - thanks for confirming. Great news! Has that been added to the lists spreadsheet? No, Henrik took care of it on his end. He has h...

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Francis Cabrel – La Corrida ; La Cabane du Pêcheur ; Je t'aimais, je t'aime, je t'aimerai (pop, Cabrel is hostile to streaming, that's why finding his stuff is difficult, but he must be shared a lot as he's extremely commercially successful) This just changed out of the blue. I don't know about the...

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Before starting to add the lists from this publisher to the general spreadsheet from the Help Wanted! thread, here's the updated Le Mot et le Reste spreadsheet with the entries from the third Art Music book. This should be the last update to this one, unless someone finds the elusive post-rock book.

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If someone else was following this, know that it's complete! Now time for some thoughts: personally, I find the list too recent games-oriented, but that's probably my tastes as someone who grew up with games that were generally a visual pixel gruel and managed to still find enjoyment in them. I'm p...

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Feel free to yell at me because of no Neon Genesis Evangelion You're asking for it :mrgreen: No, but you seriously need to watch Future Boy Conan if you didn't already. Look at the name of the director, and you'll understand why instantly. And also, because that's an awesome show. Another anime tha...

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bootsy wrote:U2

Uh? Didn't even know there was one in the pipes. I just listened to "You're the Best Thing About Me", and I'm not really hyped. Well, that won't stop them from getting their usual 5 stars from RS, I guess.

Pierre

Mid-month bump!

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Interesting lists for sure. My dad would love the first one - big Marillion fan. As much as I enjoy seeing women in music receive more of a focus, I'm always annoyed that it's about just "music," which is very broad. I'm more interested in specific genres and women's contributions to them...

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Well, I did it again... I have to stop roaming the websites for Camion Blanc Editions and Tsunami Edizioni as I always dig some new lists. Here are three from Jérôme Alberola in his "Anthology" series, after the hard rock anthology, here are three others he did for prog rock, girls music a...

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Seeing Linkin Park place two albums (is Hybrid Theory gonna land as well?) has reminded me, I'm curious if this band will ever achieve critical acclaim in some form. I feel like the band has been treated as a joke among circles like these since their debut, but I think part of it is this weird sens...

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If we're going to continue to merely pay lip service to appreciating the diversity of this list, question the credentials, knowledge and intentions of voters, and demean the taste of others, then my time in this forum may be reaching its end. I've become continually frustrated with this forum's inc...

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Oh good! I think it turned out quite nicely. Indeed. What's the next step? Reviewing all of them? :P Just kidding ;) I was actually thinking of a video of some sort, but I don't even know. That'd be cool. Never tried my hands at this, so I don't really know the amount of work that would imply.

Pierre

StevieFan13 wrote:
madzong wrote:Loving the list!

Oh good! I think it turned out quite nicely.

Indeed. What's the next step? Reviewing all of them?

Just kidding

Pierre

StevieFan13 wrote:
Pierre wrote:
StevieFan13 wrote:Hope those are on Spotify...

They are, I've listened to this album a lot

Neither of them show up on my American Spotify.

Oh

It's weird that this one is regionally-locked in this sense since Branca is associated with New York. I'm extremely sorry then, and that's a real shame

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StevieFan13 wrote:
Pierre wrote:
StevieFan13 wrote:Glenn Branca | Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar [I put in Le Honneurs du Pied]

I'd recommend a track from the The Ascension album instead, like "Light Field" or "The Spectacular Commodity"

Hope those are on Spotify...

They are, I've listened to this album a lot

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StevieFan13 wrote:Glenn Branca | Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar [I put in Le Honneurs du Pied]

I'd recommend a track from the The Ascension album instead, like "Light Field" or "The Spectacular Commodity"

Pierre

I don't want to think too hard about dream rock and shoegaze, cuz now I just remembered Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb, and I already included plenty (and, in some cases, very high). You can relieve your mind, "Little Fluffy Clouds" is an electro-ambient track, not a dream rock one ;) Do...

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The Brigitte Fontaine song actually ends with "Carol", not "Caro" :) Whoops! Will fix that. This time you were too generous ;) Just a question I'm asking myself: is "Heaven or Las Vegas" the most influential Cocteau Twins song? I would've bet on "Pearly-Dewdrops' ...

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Just a question I'm asking myself: is "Heaven or Las Vegas" the most influential Cocteau Twins song? I would've bet on "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" or "Lorelei", but I'll admit I'm not as familiar with their discography as I should.

Pierre

The Brigitte Fontaine song actually ends with "Carol", not "Caro" :) Otherwise, it's a seriously more than competent top 300 you have here. We can always argue over the rankings and the stuff that missed the cut (there will always be) but that's the same with all lists. Congrats ...

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Last-minute tweaking: in case the top 300 is already full, drop TC Matic's "Putain putain" (Kas Product's "So Young But So Cold" is enough to represent coldwave) and put Liquid Liquid's "Cavern" or "Optimo" in instead. These songs literally invented dance-punk...

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(And if I were counting favorites, I'd have put Screenwriters Blues by Soul Coughing, but it feels like nobody knows that song. I admit I didn't. It sounds interesting; the Wikipedia page for the album applies "beat poetry" as a genre to the album, and that's exactly what it made me think...

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Sorry :? If you expand, maybe you should also add a track by the Feelies, who were a major influence on R.E.M. (something from the first album. "Fa Cé-La" seems the easiest go). Well, OK, I'm done, or else I'll start to throw in the personal favourites. For instance, the Chameleons' "...

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In fact, if I'm getting started: - Tim Buckley "Song to the Siren": would the 4AD label even exist without it? - Pere Ubu "Final Solution" or "Non-Alignment Pact": invented post-punk before punk even existed. - Serge Gainsbourg "Ballade de Melody Nelson": just...

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If someone else was following this, know that it's complete! Now time for some thoughts: personally, I find the list too recent games-oriented, but that's probably my tastes as someone who grew up with games that were generally a visual pixel gruel and managed to still find enjoyment in them. I'm pu...

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I'm not patriotic either way - patriotism is one of those things in life that baffles me. That's something I wholeheartedly agree with, and I feel we don't hear it enough these days. Thanks and sorry for the confusion :) I dunno. If my country does something really good, I feel patriotic. Unfortuna...

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If I may (not trying to be annoying, since you've rounded out your list): - Glenn Branca, "Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar" - the matrix (with The Ascension album) of the entire Sub Pop sound. - Replace My Bloody Valentine's "Only Shallow" by "You Made Me Realize" (it ...

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Dan wrote:I'm not patriotic either way - patriotism is one of those things in life that baffles me.

That's something I wholeheartedly agree with, and I feel we don't hear it enough these days. Thanks and sorry for the confusion

Pierre

Just my 2p. I just listened to change yr mind and still in shock. How Talking Heads is that song ???? I had to check if David Byrne hadn't done a cameo appearance on the album. Good song too ! Well, what about "Other Voices" then? It was actually the one that struck me most as Byrne-esque...

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Ocarina of time #55, that's a surprise ! I guess they didn't want to have too many Nintendo on top but still. Same for Super Mario 3 at #68. I find the rankings pretty oddball generally, although I guess nearly all the games mentioned would deserve to be in such a top. My own top 100 would probably...

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One of the geniuses behind the greatest krautrock band ever (minus Kraftwerk, I guess), Holger Czukay, was discovered dead in his apartment on Tuesday September 5. Sad news. Since he's still considered obscure despite his influence, it hasn't been talked about much in the press. Czukay also attracte...

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I'm not sure I can help, but if you really want to make the list of songs that shaped alternative rock, then Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" should actually be in the list, if not top 5, if not number 1. I can't think of an act which predicted more accurately the d...

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Doing a bump already, as the forum is very active these days (which of course is a good thing)! Will the 80s and the 70s catch up with the 90s? Or will that decade stay ahead of the pack?

I was born in 1988, by the way.

Pierre

StevieFan13 wrote:- Soundtrack - 118 Great New Zealand Albums (2007)

Note for the future: Stevie, if you go back to this, forget about this one, it's already been added in the "first spreadsheet" of this thread

Pierre

I could actually do alot of that myself with my wife if we ever had some. Transcribing includes artists too, right? I know several artists here would go under different names completely depending on if you used their English or Mandarin name. Actually, I don't know how it works. I can read the most...

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Well, it apparently dawned on the Queen of Pop that her lead single was getting an unusually tepid reaction by her standards, so she quickly threw at our face the opener for her album, "...Ready for It?" in an attempt to get her marketing campaign back on track. Taylor's new song is admitt...

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Added to the "lists to be decided" thread. Thanks Nassim! Slightly annoying snubs in Téléphone and Indochine (I know you hate them but I disagree with you about this band). Bizarre choice for the Louise Attaque entry, in my opinion only their first album could deserve classic status. Same ...

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Dan lives in the UK now and Harold is from the US as far as I'm aware... Then I was misinformed. Thanks for the clarification! I guess I should have checked the China/Korea/Japan one? I've been living in Taiwan for 6 years now... I'm not strict, you can check wherever you feel your heart is ;) Thou...

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My my, are we a kids' forum. Didn't see that one coming

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One of the two main French websites about videogaming, Jeuxvideo.com, just decided out of the blue to make their top 100 of the greatest video games of all time. It will unravel over the course of the next ten days. It is specified that sales were not a criterion used for the evaluation. Here's the ...

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Second phase, as requested by Dexter. So, we'll go by decades, is that fine? Just comment if you have a different suggestion.

If you happen to be immortal or a time-traveller, please feel free to indicate it below.

Pierre

Time to close this one. AM remains even more so than before a Western world thing, with 34 members from America, including 31 from North America and 29 from the States alone, and 30 from Europe, plus, surprisingly enough, seven members from Australia and NZ. Only 2 members are from elsewhere, namely...

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I've listened to it twice (and I love it). Here's the stuff I have to say about it: First off, the album is, as promised, quite dark. Not goth-level dark, but the underlying melancholy of James Murphy's work is even more apparent this time. Secondly, it's somewhat striking how LCD Soundsystem wear t...

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They've also released a new, 14 minutes electronic and percussions instrumental during the night titled "pulse (v.1)" which apparently won't be on the album. It's downloadable for free on their website without further explanation (or streamable everywhere else). I don't have a particular o...

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One day left. Tomorrow starts the second phase of the demographics poll, as requested by Dexter

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