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The Beach Boys - Hawaii

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I listened to way too many of the early Beach Boys albums (though I did bump into an album cut of "Misirlou" because of that, which was sort of amusing).

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Just listened to Johnny Burnette's "Honey Hush," that was pretty cool. It seems to belong in what is practically a mini-genre like, "Don't come near me, man, I'm on edge."

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Bob Dylan is now 80. (Get used to that number pretty soon for '60s legends.)

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I'm ambivalent about The Crow. (Hell, I'm ambivalent about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I know they started as a comic book, and are like a remix of superhero tropes. I guess it's because of the heavy martial arts aspect.) I think of The Crow as something like an action fantasy film.

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I wouldn't consider Joker a superhero movie, because there are no superheroes in it. Just a villain. I don't think most people consider Men in Black or Ghost World a superhero movie, but I haven't seen them, so I can't be sure. The Lego Movie has superheroes in it, but if I remember correctly, they...

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It looks like the emphasis is strongly on the superhero element, whereas a comic book can sort of be about anything. So, my list will include films that include a superhero typically defined as "customed, with superpowers, and regularly protects the public." Obviously, the definition can b...

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The Bats – Boogey Man I dunno. It's about the boogey man, as the title states, but it also sounds very chill and summery. Maybe a little too much so, because although it makes for a rather pleasant song it passes by a little too easily. The Bats – Boogey Man 4 I noticed you didn't rate the selectio...

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I asked you to go to the Green Day concert You said you never heard of them (how cool is that) How cool is that? So I went to your room and read your diary: "Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table" R.I P. New Jack (died May 14th, at 58 years old) https://upload.wikimedia....

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Alright, upon looking into it, I think that it might be a good idea to just go off of RateYourMusic's genres. Let me know what you think, but I feel like it would be easy and simple to say that if a movie hase "Superhero" as a main (bolded) genre on RYM, it is eligible, and otherwise not....

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ABBA - People Need Love

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This was on an ABBA greatest hits album I used to own. It was probably my least favorite song, though now I see that it was simply an early effort.

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The CDC's message for vaccinated citizens:

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Do the supernatural abilities in some Asian martial arts movies (like House of Flying Daggers or Kung Fu Hustle) make them superhero movies? It's not super-obvious where the break between fantasy and comic book/superhero needs to be, but if we include every super ability movie, things are going to ...

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I'd be just as happy leaving off Robocop (not to say it's a bad film, but I've never thought of it as a superhero flick). Obviously someone like Dick Tracy is not a superhero, but he's very much a comic book or comic strip type character. His first comic book appearance still predates Superman actua...

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I assume that eligible characters include someone who dates back to a medium like comic strips or radio, before the debut of Superman and before comic books became a stronger medium, like the Dick Tracy character. On the flip-side of things, there are some movies like The Crow, The Mask, Blade, or G...

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If you do horror next, we'll have to figure out what counts as horror. Alien but not Aliens and not Predator? Godzilla #1, but none of the other entries?

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Holden wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 10:16 pm Maybe horror?

Not my preference, but I could do a list of 20 or whatever for that.

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Cool, thanks, Holden. If you ever have the appetite to do an all-out, open-ended comic book/superhero movie poll, I'd turn in something for that too.

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Today's news is we're back online

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I'm hoping to get mine out next month, like last time.

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Pop Smoke was gunned down by a baby-faced 15-year-old shooter who ambushed the Brooklyn rapper with a group of teens They were bent on stealing the singer’s diamond-studded Rolex, a detective testifies https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-murder-of-brooklyn-rapper-pop-smoke-center-of-la-court-...

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I don't know if it really qualifies as a super hero movie, but My Super Ex-Girlfriend is probably the 2nd worst movie I have seen in a theater. It would need a 4.3 or lower to be dealt into this game. It's sitting pretty with a 5.1 rating. I did see Superman IV in the theater way back when, but I w...

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For fun, I looked up a bunch of bad comic book/superhero movies on IMDb. (I worked off the top 15 worst from four different lists online.) These are the 10 worst-rated on IMDb, or awfully close. When I said The Avengers was my lowest-ranking submission but not the worst thing out there, this is basi...

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I assume that the 1994 Fantastic Four won, and you can't bring yourself to tell us.

I'm just playing, you probably have finals or something. Thanks for doing all of these polls.

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It was only just recently reported: Lucinda Williams Suffered a Stroke Last Year The singer-songwriter is in recovery and unable to play guitar, but hopes to return to the stage this summer Pitchfork MATTHEW ISMAEL RUIZ MAY 4 2021 Lucinda Williams suffered a stroke in November 2020, Rolling Stone re...

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Another coup! Happy, of course, that Sunday Morning took the #1 spot.

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Oh yeah, since VU now counts, the spectacle of seeing what if anything that people would rate above Squeeze in the 10 artist bonus game has now been thwarted. I probably would have placed it above one of the Clash albums, and a Beach Boys album or two.

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Top song from each album (eligible or not) in bold. Songs: 1. Smells Like Teen Spirit (#1 all-time) 2. Come As You Are 3. Lithium 4. In Bloom 5. Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam 6. The Man Who Sold the World 7. All Apologies 8. Heart-Shaped Box 9. Dive 10. About a Girl 11. Aneurysm 12. Sliver 13. B...

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Albums, short version (songs later) 1. Nevermind 2. Bleach 3. In Utero ================================================= Michael Stipe, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: “Nirvana defined a moment, a movement for outsiders, for the ‘fags,’ and the fat girls, and the broken toys, and the shy nerds, and the ...

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By today, I mean last night. Not a really important post, but, don't try to sneak go-go/funk music past 74-year-old Glenn Close.

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Thanks mileswide. Final Fantasy 7 had more top 10 votes, so that had a lot to do with my guess. I played FF7 late in the day, and that might actually be the last game that I've beaten. I've played 10 hours maybe of Chrono Trigger, a decent chunk of Resident Evil 4 (including on two different console...

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Gonna guess that Final Fantasy 7 wins.

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Chrono Trigger
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Resident Evil 4

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The rollout emphasizes newer games Does it though? Only 2 of the games in the 11-20 range came out in the past 15 years. I guess it's all just a matter of perspective, but to me, games that came out in the 1990s are definitely "older" games (I was born in 1991 for what it's worth). Yeah, ...

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The rollout emphasizes newer games, so the top 10 is pretty wide open to me. There are only a few games that come to mind, and I'm not sure how many votes they got.

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For the 2015 poll, I actually posted first, which now seems hilarious. After the 2018 poll, when I went from 500 to 1,000 songs, I just came to expect the process to take forever and occasionally fill me with moments of dread. ("This is actually going to get finished and posted someday, right?&...

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That's more or less every band.

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I never turned in a final '70s song list around wintertime because of this same goofiness masquerading as brilliance. Even when it's easy to call up an old list, like my top songs from 1962, I just end up changing the order or throwing things out for my present-day list, anyway.

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One of the things slowing down my list is that I've thought, well gee, my list should be consistent with any list I've posted since the last top 1,000 songs post, three years ago. I looked it up, and that's 58 lists to check. Maybe that's dumb legalism.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie (1st Movement) (No rating -- I already know that *I* rate it highly.) I think I picked up this album for free outside of a record store, from a crate of mostly water-damaged LPs, way back when I was in high school. For a moment this morn...

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NatalieChapman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:38 pm I don't know why, but I have a similar relationship to number 5 !

Talking about Pokémon Go, right? The pace has gotten crazy. And (obviously) there's no real end to the game. Usually I just play games that can be beaten, or games like Asteroids where your character dies pretty quickly.

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ALBUMS 6 | WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT | 1968 5 | SQUEEZE | 1973 I thought this might happen at some point, though more likely during the next 10 months bonus game. (I don't plan on Squeeze being my #46 of 46. Of the likely set of 46 albums, the only ones I'm not too familiar with are a couple of Kanye ...

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5 years without Prince

Opioids took him from us, like they would with Tom Petty the following year.

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5 Anthony Braxton - For Alto (1970): 5 I'm afraid I'm a bit less enthusiatic. Yes, love the boldness, but ultimately the album ventures beyond the limits of my enjoyment - not sure I need to experience this again anytime soon. Would much rather listen to Metal Machine Music. This minus the last sent...

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Looks like my #5 is getting in. I maybe underrated it, but it's also gotten on my nerves in the last year.

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I'm impressed with everyone. I've heard around ten albums, which is still puny, and I wasn't sure how a comprehensive Miles Davis poll would work out. But you can't underestimate the forum.

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