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That English Teacher debut is skyrocketing with the critic scores on Metacritic. Far eclipsing their contemporaries in Last Dinner Party. It’s even outscoring the new Vampire Weekend. Definitely sounds like a grower record, For once I agree with the critics, I think the English Teacher record is a ...

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787. Incubus – Talk Shows On Mute : 6 - I know they got their biggest hits with that kind of song but Incubus's ballads are a bore. They have one pretty great album (S.C.I.E.N.C.E.) that doesn't really sound like much else, especially not like any of their following albums, and they still kept relea...

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So I guess we have left : A Beatles album Blonde on Blonde A Bowie album Kid A or OK Computer Pet Sounds A Love Supreme Kind of Blue Funeral The Queen is Dead a Led Zeppelin album ? A Neil Young album A Prince album MBDTF TPaB Doolittle Hounds of Love London Calling The Velvet Underground & Nico...

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Nice batch : 786. The Allman Brothers Band – Statesboro Blues : 7.5 (a genre of music I'm mostly hermetic to, so that's already a fairly high grade) 785. The Antlers - Sylvia : 8.5 (one of the emotional peaks of the album) 784. Max Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26: I. Vorspiel (Alleg...

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782. Boston - Let Me Take You Home Tonight : 6 781. Doves - Catch the Sun : 6.5 780. Carlos Gardel - Mano a Mano : 6 779. Beirut – Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) : 7.5 (the songs from that album all merges into each other, I can never for the life of me remember which is which) 778. Gorillaz – 5/4 : 7.5 ...

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Their EOY 2023 list, if anyone is interested. If DeepL translates the tone properly, they seem to take themselves seriously. Have you tried the google translation to French ? Yves Tumor becomes "Tumeur d'Yves", boygenius - the record is "garçongénie - l'enregistrement" and Fever...

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Do folks think that Javelin is as good as Illinoise? Is there a song on Javelin that anyone considers equal to (or better than) Chicago? I don't think a lot of people consider it his best album, I'd guess most people would rank it 3rd, some 4th, a few 5th or 6th. But in a year with a lot of good al...

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Did anyone ever checked who has the least different artists in his/her top 1000 ? I'd bet on either Brad, Moonbeam or Henry (but I might forget some big Beatles lover.
On the other side, I wouldn't be surprised if Sonofsamiam or mindrocker had 1000 different artists !

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773. Guided By Voices - Cut Out Witch : 7.5 772. The Waterboys - Destinies Entwined : 7 (the music deserves a higher score but I really dislike the singing) 771. Susanna Hoffs - Unconditional Love : 6 770. Low - Point of Disgust : 9.9 (Low has released 5 true perfect 10 songs imho, and this is my 6t...

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After a couple slow months, they picked up the pace !
On to the top 20 now.

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Dammit, I guess I missed the deadline because of Easter... hopefully that won't ruin Low and Fugazi chances. Songs : 1) Low - Sunflowers 2) Muse - Citizen Erased 3) System of a Down - Forest 4) Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong 5) Noir Désir - Le Vent nous portera 6) Vitalic - La Rock 01 7) Jay-Z - Tak...

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1. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (2005) vs. Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Zuma (1975)
Blockbuster first round, 2 great albums ! Cortez the Killer is a big favorite of mine, but I'll stick with Fiona, Extraordinary Machine is for me the album that balances her tastes and skills the best.

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Seems like a great list to dig into ! (Though the French and German picks are a bit disappointing... I mean they are good albums, but I would have expected less "international" albums, they are almost all in English and very famous abroad).

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So surprising that Canned Heat would be eligible for this game ! Even aside from being the soundtrack to one of the greatest movie dance scenes ever, it's a really fun song and a fairly big commercial success, you'd guess that be enough for at least a few mentions in the more pop oriented lists.

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746. Anouska Shankar – Boat to Nowhere - 7.5
747. St. Vincent – I Prefer Your Love - 8
748. Talking Heads – Making Flippy Floppy - 8
749. Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain - 7
750. Laurel Aitken – Boogie Down My Bones - 7.5

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1. The Roches - The Roches Twin Cinema worked for me, which I didn't expect because I don't recall enjoying the previous 2 New Pornographers albums (maybe I should give them another try) but the Roches' harmonies and sense of humor is too good to pass. I'm not always paying much attention to the lyr...

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745. Lucinda Williams – 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten : 6 744. Sinéad O’Connor – Scorn Not His Simplicity : 6.5 743. Double Dee & Steinski – Lesson 2 : 6 (that's a tough one, compared to today's standard, say anything by 2 Many DJs, that's very basic and limited, but back when it came out it probably sou...

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Always fun to try to predict the winners of the lesser known albums only based on genre and pictures of the artists. I expect Fiona to walk over the competition, but any of the first 8 albums are solid contenders. Also wouldn't count out Depeche Mode, Natalia Lafourcade or Ella Fitzgerald. Someone p...

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Do folks think that Javelin is as good as Illinoise? Is there a song on Javelin that anyone considers equal to (or better than) Chicago? I don't think a lot of people consider it his best album, I'd guess most people would rank it 3rd, some 4th, a few 5th or 6th. But in a year with a lot of good al...

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Albums : Pretty fantastic top 20. I could extend the list a bit but I'm happy with 20 albums all top 500 all time worthy. The first 2 are perfect 10s and will make my top 10 in the final list for sure. 1) At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command 2) Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 3) Queens...

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I'm surprised you all seem to think boygenius is not a contender (or even thought it might not make the top 10).
I didn't look at the lists posted but it feels like the only album that stands a chance against Sufjan and Caroline.

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Disagreements on best and worst My only other note is that it was a weird occurrence (?) that Pepperami had a 9-way tie. The next closest was Henry at 4-way. OMG that's a pretty hilarious amount hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣 Sorry to beat you Henry but I'm crowned as the Courtney Love / Yoko Ono of the forum now. 😘...

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5) Language : The rate of non-English language albums was 2.6%, similar to the one we had with albums. Languages other than English were Spanish (4), French (3) and Dhuwala (1). https://images2.imgbox.com/d7/88/zGQXNNI8_o.png It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) is in Korean, so make it 3% ! Slightly une...

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Here is the ranking from our EOD poll (which is in the same order as Henry's prediction, I'll assume not by coincidence) 1. Video Games (#1) 2. Bloodbuzz Ohio (#4) 3. Rolling in the Deep (#5) 4. Oblivion (#6) 5. Lazarus (#8) 6. Dancing On My Own (#9) 7. Sprawl II (#10) 8. Blackstar (#12) 9. Cold War...

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Let's go with songs already, it's unlikely something new could crack my top 20 : 1) OutKast - B. O. B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) 2) At the Drive-In - Quarantined 3) Wu-Tang Clan - I Can't Go to Sleep 4) The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist 5) Queens of the Stone Age - In the Fade 6) Millencolin - No Ci...

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10. Not (but, what happened to the following songs: All of the Lights, Holocene and Retrograde?) Retrograde made it to #48, which is a big higher than the end of decade poll so pretty good showing Holocene made it to #138, which is indeed quite low compared to the end of decade poll. All of the Lig...

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38. Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better (my #3) : Such a lovely song, especially how Sufjan expresses how a new baby can be a light in the darkness, a beacon of hope, such a beautiful and universal feeling perfectly expressed. My whole top 10 is now out, I'll be rooting for my #11 now (which w...

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Didn't see that result for "The Barrel" coming !

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Talking about Grimes : 72. Kill v Maim (my #10) : One of the most glorious mayhems of the decade, nothing about this songs makes any sense but you'd be hard pressed to find a more exhilirating banger. 71. REALiTI (my #6) : I don't remember many songs that floored me right away like the demo version ...

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Happy to see a certain artist with 4 songs in the top 100 (because I really like those 4 songs and also had them in my top 100, not for liking the artist's personality. I did back then but if you have one person whose personal life has become News Headlines I would never have guessed...) Is this ar...

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Jackson wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:06 am Inspector Norse outside of the top 100 just feels wrong! One of the greatest instrumental songs of all time, it has the feel of a pop hit even without vocals.

Really never worked on me, find it a bit annoying. I love Strandbar and DeLorean Dynamite a lot though !

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120. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam : The beginning of the end of 2 rappers, for one the opener of an album that would fully shed light on how mentally unwell he is, for the other a glorious victory lap before becoming too preachy to remain endearing. But in that moment, they touched perfection. Great...

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126. Car Seat Headrest - Bodys (my #1) : That song is everything, that song is life itself, it's ecstatic, it's truth, it's my soul mate. Sorry to my girlfriend and my daughter, I will keep jumping to it and screaming it out loud as long as I live. Give me this song in IV please. Happy to see Laura ...

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166. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz (my #2) : "When I'll live, I'll give it all I got"" sings Sufjan, and he did. Sufjan's voice is such a wonderful tool, conveying so many feelings in the span of a single song, from a gorgeous hymn to living life at its fullest to an honest expression o...

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Toni wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:34 pm I had completely forgotten we had this one at the final. So it makes for 3 albums that included 4 of their songs in the final: "Random Access Memories", "To Pimp a Butterfly" and "Modern Vampires of the City".

You can add NFR in that list

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179. Sufjan Stevens | “Impossible Soul” (my #7) : One of my favorite concert memory of the decade is a crowd of well behaved Parisians turning apeshit after the "1, 2, 3, 4" count and the sonic explosion that followed… that was the glorious peak of a stunning concert (though Sufjan spreadi...

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How is this not an exciting group? You all must be whiter than rice. I am excited to see so much R&B and hip-hop here since that is often lacking when it comes to the Hall of Fame. It seems like some of you just want to induct more white rockers. If the Hall really is about influence and contri...

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Listened to Tapir! yesterday because none of the top 15 I haven't heard yet appealed to me and it gave me a great dose of 00s indie, didn't realise I needed that so much !

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What's going on with Space Song? Objectively it's Beach House's most popular song and probably the most acclaimed, but it finished behind all of their other songs in this poll. It's the one I ranked highest and their most streamed (most likely thanks to TikTok and Wednesday) but it's behind 4 other...

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240. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Sunday Candy (my #9) : For a short while, Chance the Rapper knew how to express wide eyed joy more than anyone else. That song is a Sunday Candy, a sweet bonbon that will turn your frown upside down… my be too sugary for some but the perfect dose for...

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Again Jamie XX performed much lower than I expected: “Loud Places” and “Good Times” didn’t even make the final. And “Gosh” appeared at #282. “how do you sleep” also suffered a great fall. I remember in one of our all time songs polls that it was the highest 2017 song along with “Green Light”. Yeah ...

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725. Janelle Monáe – Neon Valley Street : 7.5

701. American Quartet – Moonlight Bay : 7
702. Mallrat - Groceries : 7
703. Atmosphere - You : 5
704.Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl : 7
705. Todd Rundgren - Initiation : 5.5
706. XTC - King for a Day : 6

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So because of Biggest Fans I was checking in which list Desafio by Arca was included, and cause it's on a Pitchfork list I decided to go read the blurb. Where it was supposed to be, I found instead a song by Camp Code. The thing is the post on acclaimed music indeed has Arca at #25. Could have been ...

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724. Scott Walker – The War Is Over (Epilogue): 7 718. Joni Mitchell – The Same Situation - 7 717. The Comsat Angels – You Move Me - 7.5 716. Compay Segundo - Sabroso - 6 715. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – 09-15-00 - 8 714. Caetano Veloso – O estrangeiro - 5,5 713. Melissa Etheridge – Like the Way I...

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Ok, finally came out with a songs list. 1) Sofia Kourtesis - El Carmen 2) boygenius - 20$ 3) Jaimie Branch - Burning Grey 4) Flaving Berger - D'ici là 5) Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me 6) Julie Byrne - Summer Glass 7) Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire 8) Sufjan Stevens - Will Anybody Ever Love Me ? 9) Flavin...

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Ok, lots of catching up to do ! 723. Blur - Sing : 7 - this recently popped up somewhere (in a TV show I think) and my gf was pretty surprised I didn't know the song, both because I have seen Blur live a few times and because it's in the Trainspotting soundtrack. Not my favorite of them but I think ...

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Weaker bunch than of the past few years, hard to predict who could get in. I think the White Stripes were eligible for the first time, is that correct ? I'd pick Oasis, SInead, Eric B. & Rakim and A Tribe Called Quest (who I think might get in this year), don't care for anyone else enough to giv...

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RIP Damo Suzuki (CAN)

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/cans-da ... -has-died/

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25. Art Angels (my #3) : Technofuturistic pop has never sounded so fun, the most insanely catchy album of the decade is banger after banger, but also knows how to wear its heart on its sleeves. 19. The Age of Adz (my #1) : It might be odd to have at my #1 (and #2) spots an album with a couple songs ...

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Wouldn't have expected Atrocity Exhibition that high but I'm glad it is ! 28. Run the Jewels 2 (my #7) : A meeting of great minds ! Killer Mike and El-P collaboration already lead to some killer tracks on each other's solo albums, and a first joined project that sounded like a fun victory lap for 2 ...

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