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That #15 to #11 was a great batch. And the Kid A review joke was spot on! Ha yes that Pitchfork Kid A review is pretty great. I'm also happy about the last batch, just 3 of my voted albums are in top 30, they also made top 13 :D. Beatlemania is def. out of control but I've come to expect that here. ...

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Listyguy wrote:
Live in Phoenix wrote:Oh my, what on earth happened to Dylan. I thought for a moment that we had suddenly reached the top 10 countdown...

My thoughts exactly...what an unfortunate turn of events this poll has been for Dylan...

Ouch indeed! And that in the year after his win of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Could those speaking about albums that still haven't showed up yet please post in the prediction thread (which I ignore)? I try to really not think about what is still in the bag and what not, that way it's much more fun (for me anyway). Of course there are some obvious ones, but still.

Thanks!

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Thanks Listyguy

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The Beatles | Help!
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | No More Shall We Part

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Also, I'm impressed with how close Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City came to beating To Pimp a Butterfly! They finished a lot closer together than I think a lot of us would have thought. As for the two Kendrick Lamar albums, I vastly prefer GKmC. I've yet to understand the hype of TPaB, but I'd love to hear ...

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Only four, of which: 1. I wasn't impressed by 1984. Yes, it's very influential indeed, but I didn't like the style (which is very important for me) and knew all about it's legacy which probably didn't help it either. Read it quite a long time ago, but it isn't a book in which you can 'miss' a lot as...

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Thank a lot Listyguy, it's appreciated. Great roll-out, enjoyed the ride. Hope this will start a tradition of doing novel polls once every couple of years.

Not so enamoured of the results, but a lot of others obviously are, so that's alright.

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Then again, I assume most participants in these all-time greatest polls (albums, novels, films etc.) have already heard/read/seen quite some works before the poll starts and only get to know a couple of more works (and do some re-lostening/reading/watching) to make the lists. For me, when it comes t...

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spiritualized wrote:I'll throw in one, albeit a bit late

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Anthem for No State, Pt. III

Supported!

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I agree with Stevie and Godot about the rollout.
Fun to follow it anyway.

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Jackson wrote:I voted for In a Silent Way but if the poll was held today I would've placed it much higher. Beautiful music, like nothing else.

I didn't include it then, but would if I'd compile a list now.

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Great presentation so far notbrianeno (and those whole helped him). Enjoying the ride, thanks.

Agree with what other have said before, the diversity of this list is really nice. And good to see #501-#1000 got some well deserved attention too.

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1. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me vs. The Beatles - Help!
2. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die vs. Tom Waits - Small Change
3. Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank vs. Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West
4. Astor Piazzolla - LIbertango vs. Barbara - Barbara chante Barbara

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Albums Marvin Gaye - What's Going On vs. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On Prince - Purple Rain vs. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Prince - Sign 'O' the Times vs. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions Michael Jackson - Thriller vs. James Brown - Live' at the Apollo Gnarls Barkley -...

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1. Jésus de Montréal (Denys Arcand) 2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen) 3. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 4. My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Jim Sheridan) 5. Átame! (Pedro Almodóvar) 6. Casualties of War (Brian de Palma) 7. Dekalog, Jeden (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 8. Dead Poets Society (...

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1. Kárhozat/Damnation (Béla Tarr) 2. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martine Scorsese) 3. Hotaru no Haka/Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata) 4. Nuevo Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore) 5. Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo) 6. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg) 7. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris) 8. Spoorloos...

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Petri, could you maybe also add the rankings of last time if it's not too much work? Always interesting.
Thanks a lot anyway.

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Paper planes

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1. Der Himmel über Berlin (Wim Wenders) 2. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) 3. Au Revoir les Enfants (Louis Malle) 4. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg) 5. Hong Gao Liang/Red Sorghum (Yimou Zhang) 6. Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen 7. The Untouchables (Brian de Palma) 8. Escape from Sobi...

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1. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West 2. William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying 3. J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace 4. Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 5. Cormac McCarthy - The Road 6. Stanislaw Lem - Fiasko 7. Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater 8. John Williams - Butcher'...

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Albums
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back vs. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City

Songs
M.I.A. - Paper Planes vs. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
The Roots - The Seed (2.0) vs. Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy

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Film: The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca You included both The Shawshank Redemption and Casablanca over Vertigo , 2001: A Space Odyssey and Tokyo Story ? Gotta say, I'm shaking my head over here. Well I included those movies because those films are at or near ...

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You've got The Bends at 54 and 75.

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1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch) 2. Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain (Denys Arcand) 3. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch) 4. Offret (Andrei Tarkovsky) 5. Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen) 6. The Fly (David Cronenberg) 7. Manhunter (Michael Mann) 8. Platoon (Oliver Stone) 9. Aliens (David Cameron) 10. The Miss...

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1. Idi i Smotri/Come and See (Elem Klimov) 2. La Historia Oficial (Luis Puenzo) 3. Ran (Akira Kurosawa) 4. Brazil (Terry Gilliam) 5. Qing mei zhu ma/Taipei Story (Edward Yang) 15 points 6. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) 8 points 7. A Room with a View (James Ivory) 6 points 8. Back to the Future (R...

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1. Once upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone) 2. Kaos (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani) 3. Threads (Mick Jackson) 4. The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé) 5. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) 6. 2010 (Peter Hyams) 7. Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen) 8. The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein) 9. The Terminator ...

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Just wanted to chip in to say this is pretty useful. Thanks BleuPanda!

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but it's definitely one of the less accessible of the top 100. Only if you have problems with long or silent films. Otherwise it's the opposite, scoring points through a lot of sensational scenes and dime-store philosophy that a kid could understand. Looking over the rest of the top 100 I find most...

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1. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky) 2. Zelig (Woody Allen) 3. Videodrome (David Cronenberg) 4. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand) 5. L'Argent (Robert Bresson) 6. Rikos ja Rangaistus/Crime and Punishment (Aki Kaurismäki) 7. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker) 8. Scarface (Brian de Palma) 9. E la Na...

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1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) 2. Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman) 3. La Notte di San Lorenzo (Paolo & Vitorio Taviani) 4. The Thing (John Carpenter) 5. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) 6. The Verdict (Sydney Lumet) 7. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio) 8. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen...

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1. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen) 2. Garde à Vue (Claude Miller) 3. Gallipoli (Peter Weir) 4. Scanners (David Cronenberg) 5. Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Uli Edel) 6. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 7. One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola) 8. Mad Max 2 (George Miller) 9. Raiders of ...

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Also, what makes American Beauty pretentious? And for those of you who find it pretentious, do you also dislike Vampire Weekend, etc for being pretentious? I can agree with American Beauty being slightly pretentious, but I don't mind pretentiousness at all, as long as a film (or work of art in gene...

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spiritualized wrote:232--Radiohead - Amnesiac
477--Radiohead - Amnesiac

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Interesting article notbrianeno, thanks for posting it to add to the discussion. From my perspective and experiences it is really valuable to read articles like this, in order to understand and appreciate what trans women are facing in their daily lives. Part of me wants to say: yes, I get why you h...

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Since posting here a month ago, I've read: Stanislaw Lem - His Master's Voice Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities Jose Saramango - Blindness Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart None of which will make my list, unfortunately. Currently reading Carsons McCullers' The Member of the Wedding and am defi...

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LOL at most the USA films at the bottom. What a joke. This will probably be the last time I participate in a obviously biased and skewed poll like this. I normally don't whine about stuff like this but this is a very slanted and one sided poll. This really amazes me. If anything, this poll is biase...

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I wanted to vote Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but unfortunately they are not even on the list.

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1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) 2. Chère Inconnue (Moshé Mizrahi) 3. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) 4. The Elephant Man (David Lynch) 5. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kirshner) 6. Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg) 7. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa) 8. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino) 10 poi...

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Great to see the deadline is extended. I will try and make the 15th.

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I would love to have a directors poll, but it's going to take me a long time to attach the films to directors in my spreadsheet I'm working on. Actors might be more fun in the mean time. It has me thinking, maybe we could do a AM Oscars with cinematographers, costume design etc. It could be interes...

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Won't be able to submit anything that soon unfortunately.

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Some of my favourite writers include Cormac McCarthy (first and foremost), William Faulkner, JM Coetzee, Philip Roth, Flannery O'Connor and many others. Just a couple of quick reccommendations that generally don't make the usual lists: - John Williams | Butcher's Crossing - Stanislaw Lem | Fiasco - ...

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Great.
Good to see we still have some time to compile a list. Definitely will participate.
By the way, do we just post our lists in this thread? I think that would encourage others to join in.

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1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) 2. Festen (Thomas Vinterberg) 3. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen) 4. Pi (Darren Aronofsky) 5. De Poolse Bruid (Karim Traïdia) 6. Los Amantes del Circulo Polar (Julio Medem) 7. Happiness (Todd Solondz) 8. Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson) 9. La Vie Rêvée de...

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1. Abre los Ojos (Alejandro Amenabar) 2. Lost Highway (David Lynch) 3. Cube (Vincenzo Natali) 4. Good Will Hunting (Gus van Sant) 5. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) 6. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) 7. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell) 8. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol) 9. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee) 10. Carn...

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Albums:

1. Nebraska
2. Born to Run
3. Darkness on the Edge of Town
4. The Ghost of Tom Joad
5. Tunnel of Love
6. Born in the USA
7. The River
8. The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

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5. Lost Highway That's from 1997. Glad you're back Gillingham. And like you said Lost Highway is from 1997. Thanks, but I'm not really back though, just temporarily back in The Netherlands and will continue travelling for a couple of months in a week.I might be able to attend this forum slightly mo...

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Ouch! Was still mildly optimistic when I went to bed at 3.00 (Netherlands). Slept well, but was appalled after reading the results, as everybody is around here.
Anyway, although this result really is upsetting in too many ways, I won't let this take away my positive view of life.
But still, what now?

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