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I think you guys are really discounting the popularity of "The Wizard of Oz", even among millennials (of which I am one). Even if "The Wizard of Oz" doesn't get all 20 votes, I'll be shocked if it gets any less than 15.

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Kamaiyah- A Good Night in the Ghetto Kamaiyah is a 20 year old rapper from Oakland, and to my knowledge, "A Good Night in the Ghetto" is her first release. And yes, she's a woman, which is a bit of a peculiarity, but somewhat encouraging given that she seems to be gaining a lot of attenti...

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Just thought of another two movies that could be the one all 20 voters have seen- Back to the Future and The Wizard of Oz. Once again, it could be an American bias, but it seems like everyone has seen those two.

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Kendrick Lamar- Untitled Unmastered A good album, but nothing all too special, especially in light on Kendrick's other three albums. But in a way, that's sort of the point to "Untitled Unmastered", it's meant to be a collection of throwaways that didn't make it onto hie previous albums, s...

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Spirited Away? Is that film so popular and well known? Doesn't come close to the other films mentioned, I would guess... Pulp Fiction is a good guess. What about The Godfather? Goodfellas? Saving Private Ryan or another Spielberg film? Not even sure if the last one is competing... My guess of Spiri...

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I believe that the onus of deciding whether or not the artist's life should serve as context on which to interpret the artwork is entirely dependent on the interpreter. If the interpreter can frame a convincing argument without it, then so be it. If it's a necessary context to frame a convincing arg...

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Well, one thing you need to consider is Emilien, who only voted for 28 films. That's going to severely limit how many films everyone has seen. I'm actually shocked The Silence of the Lambs was one of them, considering there are only 3. And two, The Silence of the Lambs and Star Wars, have already c...

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Not to be all "ohhhhhhhhh you haven't seen that??", but I am honestly shocked that there are people alive in 2016 that haven't seen "The Empire Strikes Back". Maybe that's just an American bias though. Interesting to see what other movies I thought "oh, everyone must've seen...

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I've thought long and hard about this idea for a while now, and I still haven't reached a solid conclusion. Nevertheless, I'm willing to share my thoughts. I'm pretty sympathetic to the death of the author. First off, it's my belief that all value judgments in art are entirely subjective. There's no...

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Although Bleupanda has already offered up a good refutation of this point, I feel the need to toss my 2 cents in here. I'm not sure where you're from luney6, but here in the U.S., Star Wars is practically a religion. It's a film that pretty much invented the modern day notion of a "fanboy"...

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Re: Toy Story 3 A good movie. Hell, a great movie. But it's still weaker than the original (in my opinion), and easily ranks as my 5th favorite Pixar movie (behind Toy Story, The Incredibles, Wall-E, and Up- in that order). Re: Being John Malkovich What a fun mindfuck of a movie. A shame it didn't r...

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Re: The Silence of the Lambs If I'm not mistaken, this is the first film all 20 voters have seen. Interesting to see how many more films will fall under that category. Re: Children of Men A good film, no doubt about that, but I feel like my general aversion to children prevents me from connecting to...

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Re: The Social Network, Maschine Man, yawns, etc. I would've written a writeup on The Social Network, and perhaps I should've, but I didn't because I was running out of time and it's hard to write at length about a lot of movies without reusing the same stock phrases (or really, write at length abou...

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It was pretty close between Koyaanisqatsi and The Big Lebowski for number 2 movie on my list. Ultimately Koyaanisqatsi lost and The Big Lebowski won, but it's pretty cool to see how one really, really high placement can get a movie up the list.

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Guilt as charged. I've only seen Mulholland Drive once, but I honestly didn't "get it" at all. The whole movie seems like it's striving for some great meaning, but falls short of actually coalescing around any great idea(s). I will say this about it though- Lynch is probably the only direc...

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Was anybody else surprised to find out that A Beautiful Mind won the Best Picture at the Oscars? With all this Beautiful Mind hate going around, I wonder how the AMF would rank all the Best Picture winners.

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Very happy to see Koyaanisqatsi make the top 200. I was worried that the film was going to place quite low, as it's a real love it or hate it. Perhaps my number 3 vote was enough to propel it forward.

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The Usual Suspects isn't a bad movie. But it's too convoluted for its own good, and most of the fun is in the twist. Much like whuntva said, once you know the twist, what's the point in a rewatch? The main joy found here is figuring out who Keyser Soze is and once that's done...well...the mystery's ...

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Re: Mad Max: Fury Road I think luney6 hit the nail on the head with this one, even if he was a little too harsh here and there. Re: Birdman Bleupanda raised a great point about this movie. The single shot throughout the film is, on a purely technical level, an absolute visual marvel. But what does t...

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Also, with respect to A Beautiful Mind and Ron Howard. While I didn't really enjoy A Beautiful Mind all THAT much, Howard has directed one of my all-time favorite movies, the 2008 movie Frost/Nixon. Definitely worth watching, even if its historical accuracy is about what you'd expect from a Ron Howa...

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I guess Forrest Gump was a little too sentimental for most of the AMF? Well I love it. Fantastic movie. It might walk the line between sincerity and sentimental pretty close, but for me it falls into the sincerity camp a good 95% of the time. Forrest Gump is one of cinema's all time great characters...

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For posterity, I'll be copying my comments before they get deleted. I wasn't too big on Good Will Hunting and A Beautiful Mind for the same reason. They aren't bad movies, but their somewhat flippant attitude towards mental illness (mental illness can be cured by either yelling "IT'S NOT YOUR F...

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2. The Clash- London Calling 8. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV 9. Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run 16. Stevie Wonder- Innervisions 5. David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 7. The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground & Nico 11. Pixies- Doolittle 12. Michael...

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Pretty cliché, but what can I say? I didn't bother to check the month and day any of the albums that were released in the year of my birth came out. If the album came out in 91, I counted it no matter what. 1. Radiohead- OK Computer 2. LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver 3. The Strokes- Is This It 4. R...

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I definitely prefer "Illinois". I like "Carrie and Lowell" a great deal, but sometimes the songs tend to blur together. Also, I was a bigger fan of "Illinois" lyrically. As a general rule, I'll take the sprawling kitchen sink album over the intimate succinct album. Favo...

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5. Michael Jackson- Thriller 8. The Beatles- Rubber Soul 14. Prince- Sign 'O' the Times 16. Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti 3. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 6. Talking Heads- Remain in Light 11. Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks 12. The Rolling Stones- Beggars Banquet 1. Radiohead- OK C...

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I'm interested in being a writer, and have no problem writing up to a dozen or so entries.

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Perhaps posting the list as is, and then letting the forumers comment on the comments? Again, feel free to remove any of my comments that you thought didn't follow decorum. But I do feel that most of my negative comments were written respectfully.

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I suppose there's a problem if the negative comments greatly outweigh the positive ones. But at the same time, I'd rather have an honest reflection of the thoughts of the users on this forum than praise or nothing. Great art is always going to have a lot of divisive reactions. Anyway, I understand y...

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While I understand where you're coming from, I respectfully disagree, Bleu. I see no problem with negative comments. We shouldn't be afraid to express our feelings about the movies in this poll, so long as it's done in a respectful manner. I've added a decent number of negative comments in my post, ...

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With 125 films seen out of the 256 films on the list, I'm coming in at a hair under 50% in terms of films watched from the list. Which might not seem that much to you megafilm nerds out there, but considering the fact that I had only seen 62 of those 125 movies before the start of 2015, I consider t...

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On the banner, the top album from Japan is shown as the Boredoms' "Soul Dischagre/Soul Discharge 99". In actuality, the real top album from Japan is Boredoms' "Vision Creation Newsun".

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How do you feel about the large amount of metal fans who've claimed that you aren't "real" black metal in the wake of your success?

Or alternately: how do you feel about all of the attention you've been getting from audiences and publications that typically aren't into metal?

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3 days, gonna start adding the lists tomorrow; can I get a show of hands of people who plan to participate? I'm really hoping you're all waiting for the last day, because this really hasn't gotten much participation. I've accepted that I probably won't be able to watch any more movies, so at this p...

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It is important to distinguish what you like from what is good. I, and I think some other forumers too, have a problem with this sentence. I think it's important for a music critic to put music into a perspective, to know the history of the artist and the genre in question, but I think a critic (or...

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7. Marvin Gaye- What's Going On 9. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours 10. Neil Young- After the Gold Rush 16. Leonard Cohen- Songs of Leonard Cohen 5. The Smiths- The Queen is Dead 11. Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home 12. Elvis Costello- This Year's Model 15. Patti Smith- Horses 1. The Beatles- Revolver 3. ...

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Beatles totally cleaned up this week. Shocked "The White Album" beat out "Pet Sounds".

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Top albums I have not heard. 258. Notorious BIG - Ready To Die 286. Parliament - Mothership Connection 324. Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin Lovers 350. John Mayall - Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton 353. LIttle Richard - Here's Little Richard 371. Bob Marley And The Wailers - Live! 386. The Crick...

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A lot of my favorite albums of the year had all their best songs released in 2015 (looking at you, "Blackstar" and "Moth"), so when it comes to my favorite 2016 songs, they're all from "TLOP"...

Ultralight Beam
Famous
Real Friends
No More Parties in L.A.

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Just gave it a listen. It's a nice, good album, but it's easily his weakest effort thus far. Easily. But that's sort of the point. It's clear that the album is meant to be a collection of throwaways. And as an album of throwaways, it's pretty good. But make no mistake, this isn't some "Amnesiac...

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Just out of curiosity, Bleupanda, if you had never listened to a full album before coming to this website, what lead you here and what sparked your interest in full albums?

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Wow, you haven't heard Hysteria yet? I thought everyone had heard it in the U.S. despite whether they liked them or not. I'm guessing it's a generational thing. If you were a teenager/20 something in the late 80s, I'm sure it was inescapable. But I doubt many of the forumers who were either in diap...

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Nice! I'm almost done with the top 500 myself, but I have a fair amount of the top 1000 under my belt too.

Any albums you didn't expect to love but ended up loving in your top 1000 quest? Any albums you've flat out hated in your top 1000 quest?

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1. The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds 3. The Beatles- The Beatles 7. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless 16. Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town The top three in this bracket are all in my top 50 albums of all time. I like the Springsteen album too, but it's probably my fourth or fifth favorite by him...

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The album art for the new M83 album makes the art for "TLOP" look like the art for "Unknown Pleasures" or "Agaetis Byrjun" in comparison.

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Pretty good combination of the usual suspects and some criminally underrated albums (that Weezer one, for example).

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babydoll wrote:Who else is having a heart attack with Monster's position at #24?

"Gold Digger" at #60 and "Power" at #29 are even worse. Those two are definite top 5 Kanye songs in my book.

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PlasticRam wrote:
Setherex wrote:
New album coming this summer
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/702566224304152576

I was kinda disappointed with TLOP, so I think this is good news.

Says the user with the TLOP avatar

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6. The Who- Who's Next 7. Prince- Purple Rain 11. Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 15. Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life 5. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV 10. Joy Division- Closer 14. Queen- A Night at the Opera 16. The Rolling Stones- Aftermath 1. Bob Dylan- Highway ...

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Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was originally released in 1967, not 1969.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album ... lbum_1700/

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