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821. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Immunity (title track)
Open Eye Signal

806. The Avalanches – Wildflower
If I Was a Folkstar
Subways
(anything but Frankie Sinatra!)

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Past placements (07, 09 11, 14, 17, 20 polls) Arcade Fire- Funeral, 20, 16, 9, 6, 15, ? Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited, 3, 6, 6, 12, 12, ? David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 11, 8, 7, 5, 4, ? Nirvana- Nevermind, 15, 17, 19, 19, 10, ? Radiohead- OK Computer,...

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Nice results. I thought The Modern Dance would make the top ten for sure based on the individual lists, but can't complain with it being on top of the wild card standings. It's crazy how low Teenage Kicks was in the last poll!

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What is going on with The Kinks on this forum? First a huge decline to outside the top 40 in the artists poll, Village Green (which used to rank in the top 50 around here) out of the top 100? I side with my fellow younger voters on the rankings for electronic and hip hop albums, but sounds like they...

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Awesome placements for Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space and Pink Flag!

I'm shocked that Carole King's Tapestry had a better ranking among younger voters. I expected an extreme older split for that album.

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These last few sections have been very 90s and 00s heavy. Many of these albums were surprisingly low last time; it's hard to believe that stuff like Vespertine, Deserter's Songs, 69 Love Songs, and Psychocandy were outside of the top 200. Lots of interesting age differentials in this group (I chuckl...

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This was a fun poll to participate in because most of the group's albums are under 30 minutes long and most of their songs are under 3 minutes long, so I was able to do a lot of listening to some of their less famous material. They are so ridiculously good on the songs side; my top 20 below are all ...

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925. Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American The Middle Authority Song 919. Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me Sludgefeast Little Fury Things 907. The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (Part One) This Time Tomorrow Strangers 902. Ween – The Mollusk Ocean Man The Mollusk There are some...

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242. Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges | Clube da Esquina (1972) 766.013 Points | 18 Votes AM Rank: 1589 2017 Rank: 257 (+15) Under 40: 190 40 and Over: 492 Biggest Fans: panam (#11), sonofsamiam, Toni (#17), Bang Jan, Cold Butterfly (#40), cetamol (#56), Jirin (#62) AMF Favorite Tracks: None I was...

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276. Burial | Untrue (2007)
Under 40: 194
40 and Over: 762

261. Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
Under 40: 188
40 and Over: 622

These are two of the more interesting age splits to me.

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943. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music R.A.P. Music Reagan 934. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! We Drift Like Worried Fire Mladic 933. Angelo Badalamenti – Soundtrack from Twin Peaks Twin Peaks Theme Laura Palmer's Theme Question, do we really want to count Falling here, as it ...

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Yes, you are the one responsible for me putting the album only at 17 on my list, instead of 16 where it normally would have been. The loss of points is probably what will cost it its number one spot. Honestly, I feel like Radiohead's absolute domination in these polls was sort of a bubble waiting t...

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I was surprised to see Seventeen Seconds ahead of Pornography as The Cure's second-highest ranked album. I was a first time voter for Pornography this year, which is an excellent album despite having none of the group's most famous songs (though One Hundred Years really should be more acclaimed). Gu...

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Nice to see The Seer jump up and pass To Be Kind, which usually does better.

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Henry wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:27 pm Possibly leaving the top 100:
83 The Kinks The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
85 John Coltrane A Love Supreme

If either of these happen I will be very, very, very not happy. Both were already too low last time!

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Super Furry Animals – Radiator: In this album the highlights are less obvious than some of SFA's other albums, but Hermann Loves Pauline and Mountain People are my picks.

The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2: Map and I Want Wind to Blow

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Yes, big jump for The Dreaming! Not surprised to see that both Kate Bush and Fiona Apple are doing very well compared to 2017 as they have been consistently getting more attention on the forum over the last few years. I said this on the voting thread, but I expect Hounds of Love will continue this ...

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Spotlight all the way!

I don't think anyone saw The Beths making the finals, that is a huge surprise.

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It's too bad you didn't enjoy Loveless more, though I certainly appreciate you trying. I ranked it #1 in our recent all-time album poll, like I've done every time I've participated. My personal connection with the album has existed for so long, and came so immediately after first hearing it, that's ...

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There were a lot of tough drops for me in that section: Starsailor, Meadowlands, Rings Around the World, Deltron 3030.

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Bang Jan wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:08 pm 4 | Bubu | Anabelas

This is a really strong album; I was excited to listen to it this month after it appeared on your and sonofsam's all-time album lists, and it did not disappoint.

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Henrik wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:43 pm Sometime during November, I hope.

That's great news! I've been trying to catch up on a lot of classics that I've never given a chance, and an updated AM list will be helpful in this effort

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I thought Floating Into the Night, undun, and UFOF were bigger favorites around here. Nice to see a few Stereolab albums in the T1000 that missed in the last poll.

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Faust IV is my first personal favorite to drop. That seems kind of low for one of the iconic krautrock albums, but I guess it beat its position from last time. Person Pitch is one of the biggest surprises so far. I thought that album was a surefire top 500 type placement. We'll see with how MPP plac...

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Andre wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:52 pm 1 | The Lines | White Night

This is a really good song, and I've never seen it mentioned anywhere else. It's a year with plenty of lost classic-type songs (Starry Eyes, Kiss Me Again, and City Slang are a few off the top of my head), but I wonder what happened here.

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I love the over/under 40 splits! Great addition the roll-out. The pace sounds good to me, though I'd personally prefer a quicker top ten reveal given everyone will know what is left at that point.

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Unfortunately I missed the last two rounds of this! The top 16 were quite interesting, and I think they will be much different than our EOY poll. Hopefully some of the surprise performers in this poll will do well in EOY. 3. The Beths | Jump Rope Gazers vs. 4. Dua Lipa | Levitating 2. Run the Jewels...

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Sure I am forgetting some, but here it is. Please remove anything that may not be eligible, and I have any duplicates, scratch the second. Thanks! Oh....old. 57 :( Top Albums 1) Pixies - Doolittle (1989) 2) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spider From Mars (1972) 3) Swans -...

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The Beach Boys had one of the oddest careers among widely acclaimed artists. Among the top 20 or so artists on AM, they might be the only one that has only one album in the "albums that you have to listen to when you're getting into music" category: Pet Sounds (I wish I could put Smile Ses...

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Random question that won't likely affect anything: does the Misfits' Static Age count? The album was recorded in 1978 but not released until 1996, apparently because they couldn't find a label willing to release it. It seems weird to consider that a 90s album, just like it feel weird to me to consid...

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This section is headed for a Jessie vs. Jessie matchup in the next round, and I think the winner may take the whole tournament.

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Here's my 3/4 of the way through the year list. I spent a lot of the last few months listening to older music for the AT albums poll, so this isn't that different than the last list I posted outside of adding a few new discoveries from the ongoing 2020 songs tournament. I'm not counting Microphones ...

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madzong wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:55 pm Could we include the Smile Sessions as an album?

This should definitely be included.

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cetamol wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:08 am Hello, I'm new here. I love this project and I want to participate. I'm 39

This is a great list! Hope you stick around here.

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This is a great group this week, with my two favorite songs of the year and a few of my favorite discoveries to date from this tournament. The only songs I don't like are the last two. 4. Run the Jewels | a few words for the firing squad (radiation) vs. 9. Khruangbin | So We Won't Forget 13. The Psy...

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My unpopular opinion for the month for 1977 is that Frankie Teardrop is the worst song on Suicide's s/t, which I otherwise love. The song is kind of a mess structurally and the extreme volume changes can make it physically difficult to listen to and breaks up the consistent vibe of the other tracks.

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Separately, Holden, have you thought about having a thread/poll where we could discuss which artists to poll next? I'd love to see some polls of newer or less canonical artists. As I’m sure you know, this is sort of built around the AM Best Artists of All-Time list. I like that because we know thos...

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Robert Christgau wrote a little bit about the process of making his list. He includes his personal Top 50, as well as the Top 50 of Carola Dibbell (his wife, and another RS 500 voter), and a list of the listening "homework" they completed before compiling their submissions. https://robert...

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4. Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan | Walk to School vs. Les amazones d‘afrique ft. Kandy Guira | Sisters : 7 - 7 The next vote by someone who didn't vote in this match-up decides! Highlighting this would knock my nomination out but Walk to School amassed 8 votes to Sisters' 6 votes by my cou...

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From eyeballing the individual lists I think Hounds of Love will place much higher than it ever has before. I wouldn't be surprised if it lands in the top 20-30 overall. That might be the single album that has most asserted its place in the canon in recent years (see large improvement on P4K and RS ...

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This is a lot more interesting than I would have expected, especially after their last update to the list essentially kept the same order at the top. Moving Sgt. Pepper's down to 24, and below two other Beatles albums, is a nice way of making up for previously overrating that album at #1 and perhaps...

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I've been reading Steinbeck's East of Eden for the last couple of months. It's an incredible book, but very dense. It's taken me a lot longer to get through than many books with a similar page count.

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Fred wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:55 pm Halloo! Even I like Jessie Ware's "Spotlight". I'd say it's the song "EBTG" only wrote once.

Welcome to the club! This one was the definition of an "instant classic" for me.

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Microphones in 2020 is surprisingly low here.

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I'm submitting a last minute list this year. After listening to almost exclusively 2010s music for the last couple of years, I've used the last few months since the completion of our EOD poll to explore to a bunch of classics (mostly from the 70s and 80s) that I had long had on my "to listen&qu...

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