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I agree melody is overall more important, but you can’t tell me if you took The Boxer and replaced the lyrics with love song lyrics, you would hear the melody the same way. Usually my point of comparison is when, say, the drummer or the bassist in a band gets a song on the album, and the lyrics and...

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Make a top 1,000 song list and stop going to 4chan. There are trashy people in the world (including whatever Death Grips is) that are not worth your valuable time.

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Thanks for this series, Rob. Always a pleasure to read it when I did, and it certainly never looked easy. Enjoy your day off!

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L to the O to the L

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Man, Amy Grant wasn't messing around that year.

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I forgot about The Wire. (Not that it's a final word, definitive list anyway.) I actually don't watch Game of Thrones**, and was tempted to mix in a list of Greatest Shows Ever to cover personal blind spots. One of the problems with that (besides 60 Minutes) is that theme songs have typically been d...

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If someone does TV theme songs, here are 200ish to comb through. (Source: CBS News, Complex, Digital Dream Door, Me, MSN, Observer, Paste Magazine, Uproxx) The immediate list below is mostly from top 50 lists or shorter (or cut off at 50). Overlap between website lists is in bold. There is not very ...

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The lists in the companion thread are a guide. I don't know. A lot of them contain established classics that the compiler just doesn't seem to like and there is also a lot of "To hell with classic rock" attitude going on. Many of these songs are well-made, well-played and seem to be what ...

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This poll goes well beyond stuff like, My younger brother can’t get past Dylan’s voice and made me feel “guilty” about worshiping him; or my mom hates Astral Weeks ; or I couldn’t get my buddies to like Sonic Youth (or Who’s Next !); or Michael Stipe in an interview made me feel bad at a young age a...

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The song should be embarrassing amidst its other musical contemporaries or with music critics. The lists in the companion thread are a guide. Otherwise we'll have Nirvana or the Beach Boys or Kate Bush winning this because they're embarrassing to play around Grandma, or your gang of friends are too ...

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Damn, your lists are so fancy, I thought those were the results

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Since I've been listing "guilty pleasures" since first arriving on the forum, I'll undoubtedly participate in this. A question about the ranking, though: Does #1 represent our favorite guilty pleasure, or the overall song we feel guiltiest about? (For example, by far the song I feel the g...

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I have a hard time believing that Ace of Base songs are about anything. Also, I mean, a neighbor once told me that Marilyn Manson had 2 ribs removed to orally pleasure himself. And I heard that Rod Stewart had to have his stomach pumped of horse spunk, and that Marianne Faithfull incorrectly applied...

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1. Kate Bush 2. Joanna Newsom 3. Suzanne Vega 4. Chrissie Hynde 5. Joni Mitchell 6. Tori Amos 7. Madonna 8. Enya 9. Stevie Nicks 10. Patsy Cline 11. Elizabeth Fraser 12. Bjork 13. Annie Lennox 14. Patti Smith 15. Cyndi Lauper 16. Kim Gordon 17. Harriet Wheeler 18. Courtney Love 19. Gwen Stefani 20. ...

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If you guys offer to take 1,000 submissions, I'll probably attempt to submit that many.

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At times I have actively worked on a top 1000 list. More recently, I've felt like I would be happy just assembling a top 500 list again.

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Maybe we should have a rule for this poll, disqualifying any songs in AM top 500 and artists in AM top 200. This might solve the popular artist sweeping problem. Stevie Wonder's I Just Called to Say I Love You and Ebony and Ivory are often in lists of worst songs, so I think artists with high accla...

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This might be more principle than it's worth, but since I only had 1 song above within the AM top 3000, I might exclude "U Can’t Touch This" as if it's too good for this poll

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My father-in-law of course got pissed off that the Eagles were on there. OK, this would be my notion of a proper list, at least as a starting point. Unranked at the moment, except that I've included AM rankings in parenthesis. Only "U Can't Touch This" is within the top 3000. Barenaked Lad...

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I remember this book at the library. (It's not necessarily our job, though, to stand up for the very worst.) The Worst Rock ’n’ Roll Records of All Time (1991) - Jimmy Guterman & Owen O’Donnell The Fifty Worst Rock-And-Roll Singles of All Time 1. Berry, Chuck – My Ding a Ling 2. Think – Once You...

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Something I certainly don't want to happen is for a beloved act to sweep our list, just because some jerk article out there said they were terrible, and then we're trying to act like some very acclaimed musician is a guilty pleasure. Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List / L.A. Weekly ht...

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Some websites are more than happy to let you know what is supposed to be the worst in music. We could post a few of these lists, and that could at least start a discussion. I remember the list below from the now-defunct Blender. Obviously, in lists like these, there are going to be outliers that mak...

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Sorry about that. As far as the all-time poll, I'm fine with either sooner or later. (Either way, I'd presumably have several months from the starting gun. God knows it's time-consuming, as no one is safe from revision, plus I'm trying to organize the songs by year.)

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Milli Vanilli has a song on the main page, now. MC Hammer always had one. Vanilla Ice's #1 hit still unaccounted for. I'd presumably be voting for all of them.

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Can't wait for the all-time songs poll to start but I'm also interested in an all-time guilty pleasure songs. For me, it will be interesting to know what are the AMFers' guilty pleasure songs, sort of like a counter program to the main poll, and I will be willing to conduct it. Do you think it's a ...

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Burning off a few Top 100 main page songs, now. Wouldn't have expected "Umbrella" to go already.

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Can't say I regret not voting for "Go Your Own Way" for this type of poll. I do regret forgetting about "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"...

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I remembered Robert Christgau comparing Randy Newman's lyrics disfavorably to Threepenny Opera (and he's given Newman, not to mention Steely Dan, A grades and an A+). "Even in translation (the only way I know them) Brecht's fifty-year-old lyrics retain an ironic fervor that makes tough-minded m...

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Sometimes I don't think of the '90s really starting until 1991 (for the EIGHTIES, 1981 or 82). I agree with spiritualized's assessment, but regardless, Violator came out all of 3 months into the '90s, so it's not like it ruined anyone's idea of the '90s at the time (or now, evidently).

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The lyrics for "Ivo" sure don't clear anything up

(and I voted for it).

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Thanks DaveC for all your work on these decade polls. The results, and personal re-appraisals, discoveries, and submissions are all over... These are my top 15 albums & songs of the decade (regardless of making it to the final round). Albums: 1. Joanna Newsom - Ys 2. Arcade Fire - Funeral 3. The...

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I think I know who's going to finish at #1, and another song that will be Top 10. Everything wide open otherwise.

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So glad this has started. And it looks like my #1 got a second vote.

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BleuPanda, if you don't mind, I'd like to play this game too and move Judee Sill | The Kiss from #80 to 17.

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When Doves Cry

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Yeah, I agree with Rob and DaveC, for the most part. If you like Last Nite, then why aren't Hard to Explain and the others also in the same position? It's baffling that this one is so high compared to the others. I'm a huge fan of Is This It , and I can tell you why I prefer "Last Nite" t...

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Thanks Henrik for all you've done for this site. I checked out the forum much later, but I've been visiting this site since maybe 2003. It's never looked easy, so I could certainly understand you stepping away.

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Prince x 3

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In the spirit of the ending football season, I thought I'd throw a Hail Mary. At worst, this won't go anywhere. These were theme songs for a local monster movie program in the '70s and '80s. Two other ones have already have been identified: "Black Magic Woman" as played by Santana, and &qu...

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Well, someone's doing quite well for himself in this poll.

Albums
Prince - Purple Rain
[Pass]

Songs
Prince - When Doves Cry
Prince - Computer Blue (Hallway Speech Version)
Prince - Let's Go Crazy
Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue

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1. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) 2. Sting - When the Angels Fall 3. Sting - Be Still My Beating Heart 4. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 5. Queen - These Are the Days of Our Lives 6. Derek and the Dominos - Layla 7. Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep 8. Bananarama - Cruel Summer 9. The S...

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1999 songs - The Magnetic Fields, "Busby Berkeley Dreams"

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Like with Prince, a puzzling death turns out to be part of the opioid crisis.

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