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Harold

I feel sad for D'Angelo's "Black Messiah" because that album got such great reviews and didn't end up on critics lists because it was released too late in the year. Some lists might include it next year but others won't want to because it didn't exactly get released on the calendar year j...

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Here's an update, listing all the sources from the 2013 albums spreadsheet whose 2014 EOY album lists have not yet appeared, at least on this forum: USA/Canada Antiquiet Death & Taxes HipHopDX La Presse [Canada] Little White Earbuds Owl, The The L Village Voice Pazz & Jop UK/Ireland BBC Musi...

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Updated with: UK/Ireland: The Sun; Mixmag; SoundsXP Rest of the World: Goute mes disques (France); Indiepoprock (France); Dagsavisen (Norway); Dagbladet [Intl & Natl] (Norway) Also, Amazon has been deleted from the USA/Canada section for consistency re: the non-inclusion of retail outlets. Happy...

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...and that someone else is me. National albums: 1 Highasakite - Silent Treatment 2 Emilie Nicolas - Like I'm a Warrior 3 Ida Jenshus - Let It Go 4 Kaja Gunnufsen - Faen Kaja 5 Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again 6 Store P - Regnmannen 7 In the Country & Frida Annevik - Skogenes sang 8 Silja Sol ...

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1. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great 2. The Zombies - Time of the Season 3. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence 4. Radiohead - Idioteque Or, The Vindication of James Murphy. After not voting for "Someone Great" in the previous two rounds, I finally have my chance, as it's easily my favorite of ...

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International albums: 1 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream 2 Flying Lotus - You're Dead! 3 Sun Kil Moon - Benji 4 Ariel Pink - pom pom 5 FKA twigs - LP1 6 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 7 DJ Quik - The Midnight Life 8 Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie 9 Aphex Twin - Syro 1...

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Albums: 1 Aphex Twin - Syro 2 Caribou - Our Love 3 Todd Terje - It's Album Time 4 Martyn - The Air Between Words 5 Moodymann - Moodymann 6 Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited 7 Lone - Reality Testing 8 Technimatic - Desire Paths 9 SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land 10 Lenzman - Looking at the Stars 1...

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We are very close to having a new #1 album on the spreadsheet. It's probably going to be a tight race for the top spot right to the end.

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Transcriptions, please? o.m., or someone else? Thanks in advance!

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Henrik wrote:Sorry for the late reply on this one. It's probably best to be consistent and exclude Amazon as well, isn't it?

Probably. I'll delete Amazon and move Time Magazine's list into that column.

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I'm sorry, my poor english brought to a misunderstanding. I don't want a specific column for each country, "just" to put the lists by a same country side by side, like what it done in the Song list. But if it's too hard or too long, no problemo. ;) I see how that could be a helpful way to...

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Maschine_Man, this round closed last week. We're in the semifinals already.

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One question: what country? A quick perusal of the site indicates it might be Canadian, but I want to make sure I'm putting the list in the right place.

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Stereogum is a music site, exclusively. That's pretty much all they cover. Here's the mission statement of Complex.com, directly from the music-site link on Complexmedia: "Complex.com covers the latest trends in fashion, music, sneakers, sports and everything in between. Complex is the go to si...

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Hi Henrik, Are you making any allowance for the fact that Black Messiah by D'Angelo and the Vanguard came out after most of these lists were printed? Also note the absence of the following list, which might bump that album a little higher than its current place at #262! http://www.okayplayer.com/ne...

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Henrik: If these 5 top-15-by-genre lists turn out to be it for Goute mes disques' EOY albums, what should I use for the column value on the spreadsheet? For Exclaim!, the longest genre list went up to 20, so the value we agreed on was 21. I'm assuming the value in this case would then be 16 - correct?

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Updated with: USA/Canada: Agit Reader; Pigeons & Planes; CokeMachineGlow (Canada); CMJ; Time Magazine UK/Ireland: Terrorizer; No Ripcord Rest of the World: Liberation (France); Mondosonoro [Natl] (Spain); Hipersonica [Natl] (Spain); PopNews (France); Humo (Belgium); ChronicArt (France) I added T...

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1. The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning (1966) 2. Fela Kuti - Zombie (1976) 3. Radiohead - Idioteque (2000) 4. Elton John - Rocket Man (1972) Only #1 and #2 really deserve to still be here in the semis, and I’ve expressed my love for “Sunday Morning” repeatedly, so this is a no-brainer. 1. The Be...

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I'm including the "Unison" top 10 on the spreadsheet. It's not alphabetical, but it also appears to be unranked so I'm treating it that way.

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Henrik, how come there haven't been any CMJ lists added since 2001? Is it simply that they never get posted here?

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Last year they did an overall top 50 - any idea if they're doing that again this year, or are they only doing these genre lists? Are there any more coming?

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I've been so busy with the album spreadsheet that I haven't really been able to check out the songs list until now. No real surprises in the top ten, particularly the top two. I'm very, very happy to see "Your Love is Killing Me" in the top 20 - to me, it was one of those thunderclap momen...

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Thanks, Romain!

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The article on the website seems to list Paco de Lucia and Smashing Pumpkins as entries on the list as well (not to mention a reissue of Bashung's Fantasie Militaire , which is obviously ineligible) - or am I interpreting that wrong? (Not speaking French, the list seems very confusing to me. Why are...

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#'s 4, 3, and 2 have been posted: 4 - Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers 3 - St. Vincent - St. Vincent 2 - Sun Kil Moon - Benji Presumably #1 will be revealed Tuesday. I'd say that presumably it will be The War on Drugs, but there are a number of top performers that haven't appeared yet (Caribou, Swans...

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Updated with: USA/Canada: Passion of the Weiss; XLR8R Rest of the World: MusikExpress [complete list] (Germany); Numerocero [Intl, #2-20] (Spain); Nojesguiden [Intl & Natl] (Sweden); Rolling Stone-Germany (Germany); Spex (Germany); Telerama (France); Double J (Australia); Blitz [Intl & Natl]...

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granit wrote:26-50 :
http://www.rollingstone.de/news/meldung ... is-26.html

Can someone please type and post the rest of the list? Thanks in advance!

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Are the individual top 5 album lists ranked or unranked? If they're unranked, I can just enter the value as 7; if they are ranked, I'll need to do something similar to what I do with the Exclaim! genre lists. They are not ranked Harold. Thank for the huge job you do here ;-) Thanks! And, you're wel...

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Amazon is still in the list? From last year's discussion of the issue of whether record store lists should be included: *********************************************************** [Quote from Henrik:] There seem to be an increasing amount of lists from record stores. It's really difficult to say th...

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Are the individual top 5 album lists ranked or unranked? If they're unranked, I can just enter the value as 7; if they are ranked, I'll need to do something similar to what I do with the Exclaim! genre lists.

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1. MGMT - Time to Pretend (2007) 2. The Rolling Stones - Get Off of My Cloud (1965) 3. The Cure - In Between Days (1985) 4. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream (2011) Here’s a rarity for me: a recent track beating out a lifelong classic-rock favorite. As much as I love #2, it’s a little played out for ...

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(Though Listyguy's definitely right about "Carol of the Bells": if there's a bad version, I've never heard it!) Apparently you've never heard "Ding! Fries Are Done" by "Billy," a (mercifully) brief parody of the "Carol" that Dr. Demento used to play a lot at ...

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Alexa stats don't meet the criteria. Not that far off from eligibility, but "close, but no cigar," as they say. Is it a relatively new site? Haven't seen it here before.

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Updated with:

USA/Canada: Pitchfork; Tiny Mix Tapes; SputnikMusic; Flavorwire
UK/Ireland: God is in the TV; Resident Advisor; Kerrang!; State (Ireland)
Rest of the World: Numerocero [Intl - #5-20] (Spain); Mowno (France); WATM (France); De Morgen (Belgium)

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If you're asking whether lists are being delayed so that the new D'Angelo album might be added, I doubt it. There are usually a few days - especially following a flood of lists like we've had this week - where there aren't a lot of new lists being posted. I have definitely found myself wondering abo...

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JimmyJazz wrote:BTW, Harold, totally off topic, but are you going to submit a ballot for the director poll that's ongoing on the film board? The deadline is the 23rd and we have 15 ballots so far.

Since the deadline is the 23rd, that gives me another week, correct? I definitely plan to submit a ballot.

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I don't know how to feel with the inclusion of so many publications from the rest of the world, I sometimes feel that these lists are not as well thought (or focused) as the ones from UK, Canada and USA. This affects the position of many artists (St. Vincent should be #2, Are We There, Syro and The...

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Updated with: USA/Canada: Under the Radar; Treble; Exclaim! (Canada) UK: fRoots Rest of the World: New Noise (France); Rumba (Finland); Les Inrockuptibles (France); Laut (Germany); MusikExpress (Germany); Recorder (Hungary); Rip It Up (Australia); Muzikalia [Intl & Natl] (Spain); Hipersonica [In...

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Bumped as a reminder to myself. Thanks for keeping track of this, Otisredding!

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Thank you, Arnaud!

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Bumped again. I can't believe there isn't anyone out there - and I'm not talking about here on the forum, I'm talking about the entire Internet, because this list is nowhere to be found - willing and able to spare the 15-20 minutes, tops, it would take to type out and post the rest of the top 100 li...

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I think the genre lists are complete now - they've posted their top 10's for Country/Folk/Blues, Metal/Hardcore, and Hip-Hop. If someone could please post those lists here, I can enter them all into the spreadsheet (in a single column with an adjusted score, as I have for Exclaim! in past years). Th...

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Bumped. Anyone have a print copy with #51-100? No one seems to have posted the complete list anywhere online yet.

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1. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (1977) 2. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love (1961) 3. The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love (1964) 4. The Knife - Heartbeats (2002) The cruelty that is Round 2: every song this week that I really love is in Brackets 2 and 4. I don’t dislike any of this week’s selections;...

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The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

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Rumba's been missing in action here for a couple of years. It's an established source - no eligibility check needed. Thanks!

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I believe Les Inrocks actually compiles a top 100 albums list - can someone please post #51-100?

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Interesting and unexpected to see a comedy album (Esposito's) on an EOY list. They do pop up occasionally.

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Updated with:

USA: Amazon; AllMusic; Slant; Austin Town Hall; Billboard; Consequence of Sound
UK: Drowned in Sound; Dummy; Digital Fix; Clash
Rest of the World: Soundi [Intl & Natl] (Finland); De Volkskrant (Netherlands); The Age (Australia)

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One missing album above, to make 20:

Wild Beasts, Present Tense

Also, Chet Faker's Built on Glass is decisively identified as the #1 album, with the rest unranked.

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