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One of my favourite albums of all time and one of the best winners imaginable in a great finale! Thanks again for doing this, Brad! It remains a unique game. Let me share my top 10 discoveries through this poll. I exclude albums I had heard before, but include albums I knew existed yet hadn't yet he...

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spiritualized wrote:U2 - With or Without You

Overplayed yes, but overrated ?

Actually yes, one of my least favorite U2 songs, even including their recent output. The overwrought singing of Bono kills it for me.

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John Barry Orchestra - James Bond Theme

Because why not?

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By the way, because of work I have to take a little break here. I won't be updating until Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

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Late to the party, again. I wanted to finally watch the Straight Outta Compton movie from 2015, before commenting, but because of it's length it took until yesterday to get around it. It's interesting that a lot of the reviews here start with a comment about how the writer doesn't feel like he is th...

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Today I updated from #1528 (Mink DeVille's Cabretta) to #1553 (Ice Cube's Death Certificate). Painful milestone: Big Joe Turner's album The Boss of the Blues is easily the least listened to album on Spotify up to now. Not that I kept score or something, but this album has only one track with over a...

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Today, I updated from #1497 (Jackson Browne's Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using)) to #1527 (Booker T. & The MG's Green Onions). Milestone: HALFWAY POINT!!! :music-guitarred: :happy-partydance: :music-guitarred: It took me about 3 months to get here. I want to finish this before the year ends...

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Here is the updated playlist, finally at the maximum of 300 songs! http://open.spotify.com/user/theonering/playlist/3oaqaqHyTKihAuAVGjUmRE Take some time to say goodbye to the final albums of this list. At the very least the bottom 10 will very likely not remain here come the last few updates. The e...

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Also means a few more Fleetwood Mac songs are due to appear in the top 500. I know Go Your Own Way hasn't shown up yet, but does this mean we'll be seeing Dreams and The Chain in the upper echelon as well? Pretty sure they will. It seems to fit a trend of upward motion for radio classics. And that ...

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What a finale! One of my top 10 albums, against one of my nominations. Last year an album that fit both these descriptors won (Saint Etienne's So Tough) and needless to say I'm happy to have one of these descriptors work again. I didn't think both of these would be here. The Woods lost in the first ...

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This is actually quite a good song year, something you wouldn't guess if you look at the top of the AM list and notice that the first song only shows up at #448 and is only one of two songs to barely get in the top 500. I think it actually gets more interesting further down the list, though. And I w...

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I listened to Aviary today at work and to say it got to me is an understatement. That album is pure beauty! I feel that it is to early to say much about it after one listen (and it is 90 minutes long!), but I feel to ecstatic about it to not post my enthusiasm. Everybody who liked Holter in the past...

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Today I updated from #1462 (Santogold's Santogold) to #1496 (Average White Band's AWB). Some bumps along the road, but not enough to come close to a big landmark: the halfway point! Next time we'll get there! And the journey is a pleasant one when you get to listen to Santogold's Santogold (due to l...

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Thank you. It seems I forgot to mention The Basement Tapes, although I am aware of the fact that it lead to John Wesley Harding in a way. Though at large the latter album is more influential, simply because it is the album people knew eight years longer and was immediately followed by some other art...

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Reward by The Teardrop Explores already appeared on the original 1980 release of Kilimanjaro, but is on AM at 1981.

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John Wesley Harding doesn’t get the most ecstatic reviews here I see, mostly mild praise. I myself, however, am quite a fan of this album. If I rank quite a few albums of Dylan higher, than that is mostly because he has several 10 out of 10’s, while John Wesley Harding is “only” a 9/10. Yes, this is...

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Damn, these are some great write-ups, Honorio! The quote of Chris DeVille, who writes as a christian, is of interest to me as I have never believed in any kind of God or religion, but I can be moved by expressions of faith from time to time. I think DeVille puts his finger on the sore spot of much c...

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Rob, I just noticed that you put Cake's version of "I Will Survive" in the playlist, in place of Gloria Gaynor. Rob, you troublemaker. Shit, I was found out! But I only did it go give the playlist at least a small measure of credibility and respectability. Then again, Cake's version will ...

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Today I updates from #1433 (Terence Trent d'Arby's Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby) to #1461 (Serge Gainsbourg's L'homme à tête de chou). Slow update. Lot of albums with some difficulties attached to it. Too stumped to talk about it. http://boomboomdown.com/wp-content/uplo...

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Angel Olsen - Only With You

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As for the one that I think will top the most lists, I think Kanye has it by a mile. Not with a mile; I think To Pimp a Butterfly is going to give it a run for it's money. It might even defeat it. To Pimp a Butterfly currently feels as the album that encapsulates the decade best and it is by the mo...

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So the semi-finals see two rocking albums and two quiet albums go against each other. One thing is for sure, the finale will be power versus peace, in terms of sound. 1. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods vs. 2. Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Two huge personal favorites, so no wrong one c...

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Today I updated from #1401 (Nick Cave & the Bad Seed's Your Funeral... My Trial) to #1432 (John Lee Hooker's The Healer). It's been a slow week for updating, thanks to work. It'll remain this way until mid-November, when I hope to pick up te pace again. Tomorrow there should be another update, ...

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There is actually a lot of great rock when you go looking for it and someone who does love to rock out myself I'm always on the lookout for it (it remains the greatest energizer genre in the world to me). If I have more time I will probably recommend some more, but for now I can't stress Ty Segall e...

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Today I updated from #1357 (Cesária Évora's Miss Perfumado) to #1400 (The Decemberist's The Crane Wife). So recently I noted that some songs had gone missing from the count. Now far more had vanished, it startled me a bit. I did a quick scroll through the list and noted that quite a few albums as we...

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Today I updated from #1335 (Mitski's puberty 2) to #1356 (Mary J. Blige's My Life). A short update yes, but Puberty 2 is a short album. The next one will be quite long though. Well, here it is Puberty 2 by Mitski: https://grcmc.org//images/uploads/img1500563240192-168-1-139.jpg Mitski's pink guitar ...

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Today I went from #1299 (Devendra Banhart's Rejoicing in the Hands) to #1334 (Derrick May's Innovator). A simple update. No news (or irritations). Perhaps everything went so smooth because I had the calm Devendra Banhart's Rejoicing in the Hands on: https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/d...

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6. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things vs. 1. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods 5. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues vs. 2. Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 8. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans vs. 7. The Knife - Deep Cuts 3. Aimee Mann - Music from the Motion Picture Magnolia vs. 4. Jóhann Jó...

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Today I updated from #1262 (EPMD's Strictly Business) to #1298 (Kate Bush' The Dreaming). Note: I rant a lot here about albums that appear in strange or bad ways on Spotify, but today I have the album that takes the cake. I'm talking, of course, about Escalator Over the Hill, by Carla Bley and Paul...

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I always saw I See A Darkness about more male friendship than romance - to me thats why its such a great song because there arent many of a similar kind. Same goes for Bobby Jean and Backstreets. Agreed, that's part of the appeal of that song for me. I like Elder's list and comments in general, but...

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The updated playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/theonering/playlist/3oaqaqHyTKihAuAVGjUmRE Every year there is this one album that falls off the list, only to get back on again, to fall off again, etc. This year Camp Cope has this dubious honor. Well, we will reach 100 soon and that will be the e...

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spiritualized wrote: TWO Hoffers this week : Simon & Garfunkel + David Bowie

I think you mean Oasis and Manic Street Preachers

Odd to see classics by Aretha Franklin and Paul Simon lose to Hips Don't Lie.

Anyway, I nominate:
Wild Beasts - All the King's Men

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It seems my nomination for Kadhja Bonet didn't make it, so I'll try with another one by her: Mother Maybe.

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There are a lot of songs there that are huge popular favorites, especially in the top half and I have a feeling they will only do better this year than in 2015.

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By the way, does anybody keep track of albums being removed from Spotify? My last update I noticed I was missing three songs all of a sudden, but the fault wasn't in that update (and I always check if the count is still correct after each update). I can't figure out a quick way to decide which albu...

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My buddy Ron saw Beach House at The Fox Theater in Oakland recently and thought that the live show was rather tame in that the band members failed to interact with the audience and were not clearly visible during the performance. They perform with a lot of smoke and atmospheric lighting. The band m...

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I had two concerts last week. Two very different ones. The first was John Carpenter. Yes, the director of horror and action movies who peaked in the seventies and eighties. He composed the scores for most of his films himself and now tours with them. He also released a series of two albums in the la...

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By the way, does anybody keep track of albums being removed from Spotify? My last update I noticed I was missing three songs all of a sudden, but the fault wasn't in that update (and I always check if the count is still correct after each update). I can't figure out a quick way to decide which album...

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Today I updated from #1223 (Eric B. & Rakim's Follow the Leader) to #1261 (Faces' A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... To a Blind Horse) Note: Frank Zappa's Uncle Meat sucks! I mean, I never actually heard it, but the way it has been reissued over the year with new tracks put right in the middle and ho...

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1. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods vs. 8. Pixies - Trompe le Monde 4. Julia Holter - Ekstasis vs. 2. Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 5. Camel - Mirage vs. 7. The Knife - Deep Cuts 3. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fôrdlandia vs. 6. Dolly Parton - Jolene So, what we have here are three of my nomin...

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Few reactions here and again I am late to the party. This was an unexpectedly warm October week, probably specifically so to make listening to this album more appropriate. I don't know much about dub music, but this was a pleasant discovery. Nobody is going to call this album varied, yet it changes ...

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Today I updated from #1172 (Kurt Vile's Wakin on a Pretty Daze) to #1222 (Ramones' It's Alive). That was a big update after a slow week for this. Hope to get more done next done. Should work out. Note: Today was Kurt Vile Day! Yes, he released a new album this week and fate has decided I should cel...

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I remember The Pokémon Theme Song being talked about much when this poll was announced, so I thought it be near the top. Apparently I ended up being the only one voting for it. Too bad. I didn't vote for the number 1, but I do like it. Overall I don't like too many of these songs however, but that w...

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I agree with your sentiment per what I wrote a few posts back. Now we're barely into the top 1,000 and Starless just dropped. That used to be a mainstay of the T200 in polls past. I guess there might be different surprises this time? We'll see. Perhaps, but I expect that in general the songs will b...

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But I can't answer your question as to why which version is better than another. It is a point of contention for many purists, without clear winners in general. Some are clearer than others, though. The US version of Rubber Soul omits "Drive My Car," "Nowhere Man," "What Go...

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