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Rob

Luiza gets to kick off round twelve of Biggest Fan: 2nd Edition. Regardless of what you end up thinking of the song, the title is great. The album title is another matter, though. It’s already very strange to the ear, but is the band insinuating that the crow is in fact the murderer? The ellipse at ...

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The Allman Brothers Band – Statesboro Blues: 8
This is not quite how Blind Willie McTell played it, but who can resist it?

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The Allman Brothers’ live recording at Filmore East is of course well-known for it’s extraordinarily long guitar solos, but it also contained a few tracks of “normal” length including this cover of a Blind Willie McTell song. It ranks at #5984 on AM. Also, with this cetamol closes rank on everyone’s...

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The Antlers - Sylvia: 5
I'm pretty sure I heard this album once during Moderately Acclaimed or something and I also remember liking it, but this song on its own barely registers with me.

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Curiously, on the day I drew this week’s songs for Biggest Fan I read some online discussion about acts that seemed big for a short moment in the 2000’s and 2010’s and where subsequently forgotten. The Antlers where mentioned there. Holden remembers though. 785. The Antlers - Sylvia Year: 2009 Album...

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(just the way he sings the word Ibiza sends me over the edge of insanity) Well, the funny thing is that he actually uses the correct pronunciation of the word in Spanish... :D Well yes, but the pronunciation isn't the problem, it's the way he slurs the word in this affected "cool" way tha...

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Max Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26: I. Vorspiel (Allegro moderato): 8
It may be an unknown composer to me, but this is some very good classical music. Rather magical in sound even.

Rob

4. Prefab Sprout – Jordan: The Comeback Here is an album I can somewhat see why people enjoy it, but it is a real challenge for me. This has an eighties type production that reminds me of plastic and Paddy McAloon has that sophisti-pop type of affectated singing that grates heavily on my nerves (jus...

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Time to go classical again, as fasbjd highlights a composer I frankly never heard of. As per usual, the version on the playlist is just what Spotify gifts me. 784. Max Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26: I. Vorspiel (Allegro moderato) Year: 1866 Concerto: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G min...

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Television – Prove It: 8
I've heard this album and by extension this song many times before, but my God can these guitars send tingles down my spines with their beauty. And this even a "weaker" track on the album for me.

Rob

jamieW wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:29 pm Sorry for the long song post, Rob, but life has stabilized a bit so I wanted to jump back in. Hopefully, I can listen to these on weekends and catch up before the next ratings update.

No problem. I've just caught up with all your votes. Glad to have you back.

Rob

Nassim wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:02 am Seek

Seems like you missed Midnight Gold.

Rob

735. Joey Scarbury – Theme from America’s Greatest Hero (Believe It or Not) 8 (Rob: While I was going through these I didn’t see your rating for this one. Maybe I missed it elsewhere…) I wrote review for it, but somehow forgot to add the grade. I fixed it and gave it a 7, though it is actually clos...

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Does Emerald have something to prove by selecting a bubblin’ under track from a very classic album?

783. Television – Prove It
Year: 1977
Album: Marquee Moon
Biggest Fan: Emerald (#805)

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Rob

Boston – Let Me Take You Home Tonight: 7
It's not my favorite of theirs, but it is another hookworm for sure.

Rob

Cool! Is there already a RYM playlist for this?

Rob

Let Listyguy take you to Boston tonight.

782. Boston – Let Me Take You Home Tonight
Year: 1976
Album: Boston
Biggest Fan: Listyguy (#373)

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Rob

Doves – Catch the Sun: 7
This song really gets by on it's pleasantly warm guitar tone.

Rob

Today DaveC grants us the second appearance of Doves at Biggest Fan. A warning note: it is impossible to actually catch the sun and attempts tend to end with severe burn wounds. 781. Doves – Catch the Sun Year: 2000 Album: Lost Souls Biggest Fan: DaveC (#547) Don’t forget you can always vote at a la...

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Beirut – Mount Wroclai (Idle Days): 7
Typical Beirut sound, which is not a bad thing.

Carlos Gardel – Mano a Mano: 6
Sounds fine, but I can't say it completely grabs me.

Rob

Usually when we get a song here that is over 100 years old it is either a piece of classical music or comes from stevejazz’ list. Not this time, as Honorio introduces us to an Argentinean icon of tango music. 780. Carlos Gardel – Mano a Mano Year: 1923 Released as a single (B-side to Mi Manta Pampa)...

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For their second appearance here Beirut take us to a mysterious mountain whose name gets misspelled at Spotify. Michel know the way. 779. Beirut – Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) Year: 2006 Album: Gulag Orkestar Biggest Fan: Michel (#288) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your r...

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Gorillaz – 5/4: 6
Not bad, but they are capable of much better.

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The Gorillaz first appeared on the second edition of Biggest Fan with a 13 minute song. Their third appearance as picked by Romain is decidedly shorter. 778. Gorillaz – 5/4 Year: 2001 Album: Gorillaz Biggest Fan: Romain (#187) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your rating.

Rob

Very solid week! 4. Shack – HMS Fable Britpop is a genre that I so strongly link to radio play and mainstream success that I’m almost surprised by the obvious fact that there are also Britpop acts that are not known and might even be good. It seems that this band was something of an underdog favorit...

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Metallica – Seek & Destroy: 8
Despite The Stooges being unimpressed by this title, this is actually Metallica how I like them to most: total shredding extravaganza!

Teddy Pendergrass – Love T.K.O.: 4
The schmalz is to big for me on this one.

Rob

After all that senseless aggression I happy to say candyman gives us love again today. This song ranks on AM at #7312.

777. Teddy Pendergrass – Love T.K.O.
Year: 1980
Album: TP
Biggest Fan: candyman (#61)

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Rob

Another song with an aggressive title today (to say nothing of the album title). It used to be so peaceful here. Despite tendencies towards violence this song has over 200 million streams on Spotify, ranks at #3149 on AM and most importantly made it to Arsalan’s list. 776. Metallica – Seek & Des...

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Brand New – Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t: 7
Emo always sounds kind of weird to me; it's a genre that to feels somewhat inaccessible to my mind. But I can't deny that this song has some great build-up and development.

Rob

Today’s andy1010 pick should come with a trigger warning. It is the second appearance by Brand New at Biggest Fan. 775. Brand New – Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t Year: 2003 Album: Deja Entendu Biggest Fan: andy1010 (#512) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your...

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Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz – Midnight Gold: 7 If I'd heard this without being given information in advance I may have guessed that it was a lost Oasis track from the nineties. That's not a bad thing, but it just mistifies me that this is something Georgia would go for in twenty years...

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We come to one of those inevitable moments, comparable to Henry getting a Todd Rundgren song: StevieFan13 gifts us with a EuroVision song. It’s the 2016 entry for Georgia. It would end up at the 20th place during the event. Will we place it higher? Curiously, the song is not available on Spotify in ...

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The Waterboys – Destinies Entwined: 4 I have a soft spot for earlier work of The Waterboys, but never went as far into their career as 2015. What happened? Surely they coined the term "The Big Sound", but here the big emotions feel forced and fake. It's a song that really doesn't work in a...

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If you’re sleeping under the bushes under the stars one night you might just hear today’s CupOfDreams song of choice. 773. Guided by Voices – Cut-Out Witch Year: 1996 Album: Under the Bushes Under the Stars Biggest Fan: CupOfDreams (#258) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change ...

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Here's the updated highlights playlist. There are songs on it.

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Destiny brought us a late-career Waterboys song from Akhenaten’s list today. It is their second appearance here.

772. The Waterboys – Destinies Entwined
Year: 2015
Album: Modern Blues
Biggest Fan: Akhenaten (#258)

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Rob

Naturally, this list might not qualify for inclusion on Acclaimed Music (although I wish they would!), but I find it intriguing and worth sharing. Well, since it is by and large a list of classical music it is ineligible by default and it doesn't help that these are compositions without a stated re...

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Suzanna Hoffs – Unconditional Love: 7 In many way a very typical soft pop ballad of the nineties (although I'd have guessed it would be more late nineties, so props for being ahead of the curve); the type that makes for easy radio play, but doesn't dig deep emotionally. It's just content to be an un...

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A change of plans. Turns out that David Thomas & The Pedestrians’ The Sound of Sand and Other Songs of the Pedestrian is only available on YouTube in The Netherlands with most songs missing. I’ve tried looking elsewhere online, but no luck. The are a few websites in The Netherlands that do have ...

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Spring is in the air and on Easter day Frezzie confesses their unconditional love to today’s Cyndi Lauper cover.

771. Suzanna Hoffs – Unconditional Love
Year: 1991
Album: When You’re a Boy
Biggest Fan: frezzie (#138)

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Rob

Low – Point of Disgust: 9 When Mimi Parker passed away the album I listened to over and over was actually Trust. I can't quite explain why, because many of their albums seem to be rated higher. Maybe because that one encapsulates their various sounds the best. Point of Disgust is one of the best tra...

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4. Baltimore – Living in the Background With apologies to the nominator, but this one to me sounds like it consists almost exclusively out of my least favorite cliches of the 1980’s. The only thing I can say in its defense is that at least the band seems to have put their heart in it, but this is ab...

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If you remove the dash between the artist and song title below you get Low Point of Disgust, but that’s not what is intended here, especially by Nassim. 770. Low – Point of Disgust Year: 2002 Album: Trust Biggest Fan: Nassim (#694) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your ra...

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George Harrison – Breath Away from Heaven: 4 Adding "world music" to your rock and pop tracks was a big thing in the eighties. Harrison had long been influences by the music of India, so expanding this to what sounds to other parts of Asia might not be the biggest surprise. Breath Away fro...

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And now thanks to starchman46 we have three of four Beatles with a solo song in Biggest Fan. Will Ringo get in before we hit #1000? He only has one eligible song, so chances are slim. 769. George Harrison – Breath Away from Heaven Year: 1987 Album: Cloud Nine Biggest Fan: starchman46 (#72) Don’t for...

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Spoon – Rhthm & Soul: 7
Spoon are incredibly dependable. This is far from my favorite song of theirs, but it is still very nice to have.

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No, I didn’t spell today’s title wrong; that was the actual spelling on the original release. On Spotify the song is now spelled correctly, but who cares? Certainly not acr0320 who used the original spelling on their list. 768. Spoon – Rhthm & Soul Year: 2007 Album: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Biggest Fan: a...

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U.S. Girls – M.A.H.: 9 I was kind of surprised to see this one pop up. I mean, I think it is a great song, but didn't think of it as top 1000 anymore. I had it on rotation when I made the top 1000 so it was on the top of my mind, so that's why it is here. In contrast to the 10 that is Pearly Gates I...

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