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Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out: 6 I have no nostalgia for this. I'm sure I heard it before, but it never quite registered like the Bee Gees greatest songs. It's a fine disco type of ballad. I don't mind hearing it, but wouldn't chose it over numerous of their other songs. http://open.spotify.com/use...

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I think it is time for a Billboard #1 hit again. Is frezzie the only one who remembers it?

137. Bee Gees – Love You Inside Out
Year: 1979
Album: Spirits Having Flown
Biggest Fan: frezzie (#259)

Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your rating.

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The Ventures - Pipeline: 7
The Chantays' original has a more unique arrangement. The Ventures make it more conventional and slick, which would be a bad thing if it didn't also rock very well.

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Now for something much shorter. Today’s surf instrumental isn’t the 1962 classic by The Chantays, but a cover done only a year later by The Ventures. They were a group who could perfectly create their own songs, but like a lot of sixties acts they covered a truckload too. Is this better than the ori...

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor – We Drift Like Worried Fire: 7
Once again with this band the tension is build very slowly and there is an extended release. It still works though.

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Records are made to be broken. Today Jackson breaks the record for longest song on Biggest Fan 2nd Edition, beating the Steve Reich track by two minutes. Anyone dares to go over these 20 minutes? 135. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – We Drift Like Worried Fire Year: 2012 Album: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! ...

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Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid: 6 It's fine country, but I don't know why of all songs here this is gathering so many high votes. Than again, I rarely ever get anything Jeff Tweedy is involved with. John Denver – Leaving on a Jet Plane: 9 I never knew the Peter Paul & Mary version, but I now noticed ...

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Brad wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 2:22 pm Thanks!

Brad, a little late, but I'm still missing your vote Dawes - Little Bit of Everything.

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PUSS IN BOOTS Group Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Johnny Cash - Hurt The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia A group so good that it makes Midnight Train to Georgia seem like a minor song. HOBBES Group Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby ...

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After Acroamor recently got an ineligible song he gets his retry for the second round with today’s song; one which I’m sure we haven’t done before. This appearance gave me three surprises: despite being a well-known evergreen it was not a hit, it is not on AM and got no other votes in our poll. Make...

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1. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016) vs. 2. Stan Kenton - New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm (1953) 5. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me (2001) vs. 3. Gotan Project - La revancha del tango (2001) 4. John Luther Adams - Become Ocean (2014) vs. 8. The Divine Comedy - Promenade (1994) 7. Jimmy Eat...

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After New York Groove, BryanBehar continues his odd obsession with American places named after European cities with just “New” in front it. 133. Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid Year: 1993 Album: Anodyne Biggest Fan: BryanBehar (#211) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your rating.

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I don’t know how Live in Phoenix selects the songs for his list, but it has apparently little to do with if artists play live in Phoenix. Whereas his previous entry Suzanne Vega has been a no-show for a long time in that city, today’s Peabo Bryson apparently never held a concert in Phoenix. Then ag...

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I don’t know how Live in Phoenix selects the songs for his list, but it has apparently little to do with if artists play live in Phoenix. Whereas his previous entry Suzanne Vega has been a no-show for a long time in that city, today’s Peabo Bryson apparently never held a concert in Phoenix. Then aga...

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Tracy Chapman – Across the Lines: 7
Pleasant and warm, but nothing Chapman ever did can quite touch Fast Car in my opinion. Perhaps because songs about riots shouldn't be pleasant and warm?

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Tracy Chapman’s self-titled debut is of course a classic as well as a big selling album with well-known hits like Fast Car and Talkin’ Bout a Revolution. Today Listyguy directs us to one of its less famous tracks. 131. Tracy Chapman – Across the Lines Year: 1988 Album: Tracy Chapman Biggest Fan: Lis...

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Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64: III. Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace: 7 I've listened to a few versions now. I replaced the one I originally had on the playlist as it seems to have been just the most recent recording, but it sounded a bit stale. Every other recor...

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Like in the previous Biggest Fan, Dexter has some classical music ready to go. It comes without specific recording, so as per usual I just take the first version that comes up on Spotify. Technically speaking this is now the oldest song we had in this edition of Biggest Fan, although that does not g...

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129. Ramones – The KKK Took My Baby Away (1981) 10/10 Advantages of music nerdery. "KKK" was always one of my favourite Ramones song but when I learned the story behind I liked it even more. Joey Ramone's girlfriend, Linda Daniele, cheated on him and began a relationship with Johnny Ramon...

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From the guitar pyrotechnics of Satriani we’re now going a simpler but not less iconic approach to the guitar, by the Ramones. Honorio didn’t go to their more acclaimed seventies output, but instead chose an eighties song with a title that has kept people guessing what inspired it. 129. Ramones – Th...

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Joe Satriani – Always with Me, Always with You: 7 This song is getting destroyed here. Not completely deserved. Sure it is cheesy, but at least it is fun cheese. The intro sounds like a singer is about to come up to sing the schmaltziest ballad of the eighties. Instead, Satriani basically jumps stra...

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Air guitarists of the forum, unite! It’s time for one of the most famous tracks by one of the most iconic guitar virtuoso’s, from one of the most guitar albums ever! Henry will lead you into endless air guitar solos! 128. Joe Satriani – Always with Me, Always with You Year: 1987 Album: Surfin’ with ...

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gnash, featuring Olivia O’Brien – i hate u, i love u: 5
Well, it's a lot better than recent megahit Meant to Be, but that ain't saying much. It's mostly harmless fluff.

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Compulsion - The Future is Medium: 8
A very good rock album that seems to fall into a lot of trends of the nineties, while never fully subscribing to any of them. It just likes to rock out and it does so very well. Even has a few moments of cleverness within.

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Renan returns with a smash hit, albeit one of those semi-recent hits that I don’t think I actually heard before. But how can over a billion streams on Spotify be wrong? Just a note for the grammar police: the lowercase in the main artist’s name and the song title is correct. 127. gnash, featuring Ol...

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Coconut Records – West Coast: 6 For better and worse this is kind of what I was expecting based on simply on the combination of Jason Schwartzman, his band's name and the song title. It's a summery track that feels light, no matter that it is about missing someone. It is also an earworm that only ta...

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This update is especially rich on heavy hitters, as in that we have a lot of major artists releasing albums: Kendrick Lamar of course, a sort-a comeback Arcade Fire, a variation of Radiohead, hitmakers Florence + the Machine, the respected Sharon Van Etten and the mainstays that are Rammstein. Among...

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STIMPY Group Vasia Vasylok - The Wedding Present Mr Pharmacist - The Fall Steal My Girl - Postmodern Jukebox Get Here - Oleta Adams FIGARO Group You Missed My Heart - Phoebe Bridgers Why Try To Change Me Now ? - Fiona Apple When You're Smiling - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 1929 Beat the Retr...

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An outstanding week! + The Life of Pablo 8. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (2016) vs. 3. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (2008) 2. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co. (2003) vs. 4. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (2014) 7. Eleventh Dream Day - El Moodio (1993) vs. 5. Paul Shapera - The Dolls of New Albion, ...

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I never knew that actor Jason Schwartzman also made music, but he has something of a side-project going on called Coconut Records. Wezzo, whose amount of songs eligible for Biggest Fan is quite extreme, has caught on though. Is Schwartzman as good a musician as an actor? 126. Coconut Records – West ...

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Serge Gainsbourg – I’m the Boy: 5
I disliked this album, but one Gainsbourg song in this style is doable. That doesn't make it great though. Gainsbourg sounds quite tacky here.

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Did you know that among Romain’s many appearances we never had a Serge Gainsbourg song? That simply won’t do. You may recognize today’s pick from it’s recent appearance in Moderately Acclaimed. 125. Serge Gainsbourg – I’m the Boy Year: 1984 Album: Love on the Beat Biggest Fan: Romain (#394) Don’t fo...

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Burial – Rough Sleeper: 8
A week after Nike comes another soundscape, but this feels a lot more like music and I like it a lot.

Dawes – A Little Bit of Everything: 8
Reminds me a bit of Jackson Browne, but Browne only occasionally hits these lyrical heights! Subtly moving.

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If anyone ever looked at stevejazz list they’ll notice he has a plethora of pre-rock songs ranked, which I would love to tap into. However, this will not happen today, as he gets a song from 2011, just like everyone else! The song is also bubblin’ on AM, but that’s largely thanks to Steve himself. 1...

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Acroamar’s next pick a short and perhaps sweet indie song from a bubblin’ under album. 123. Girlpool – Before the World Was Big Year: 2015 Album: Before the World Was Big Biggest Fan: acroamor (#461) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your rating. This one was 917 in the f...

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Acroamar’s next pick a short and perhaps sweet indie song from a bubblin’ under album. 123. Girlpool – Before the World Was Big Year: 2015 Album: Before the World Was Big Biggest Fan: acroamor (#461) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your rating. Ineligible. See below for...

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Radiohead - Bloom: 6
Sonically rich, but somehow not completely fulfilling as a song. Goes for pretty much all of The King of Limbs for me.

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Radiohead is a band so popular on this site that most of their songs are ineligible for Biggest Fan on grounds of getting too many votes in the poll. Still, there are is a grab bag of tracks still ready to go, more than a few coming from Ordinaryperson’s list. 122. Radiohead - Bloom Year: 2011 Album...

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Bon Jovi - Never Say Goodbye: 4 Although I've cooled significantly on Bon Jovi over the years, there are times that I can still get in touch with my teenage self and enjoy some of their songs. The thing is that Never Say Goodbye was never one of the songs I enjoyed then. I thought it was dull. Nowad...

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Another nomination from your host (looks like I'm catching up finally with the law of averages !) An unknown Irish band, alternative rock from the 90s - archetypical Spiritualized music ! I think one of their songs appeared in the song version of this game. Indeed, It's Great appeared on November 2...

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Today we get the highest ranked song that is eligible on Flibie’s very short list of candidates. It’s from a band that has always been more of a popular than a critical favorite, though it comes from their one acclaimed album. What do you think? 121. Bon Jovi – Never Say Goodbye Year: 1987 Album: Sl...

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Blood Orange – You’re Not Good Enough: 6
Good enough is actually how I would describe this song. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Despite Elder being another user with a Latin language as the mother tongue (Portuguese I believe), he breaks the non-English language streak with an American song. Not that this doesn’t make him good enough, as the critics have ranked it at #4257 on AM. 120. Blood Orange – You’re Not Good Enough Ye...

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5. Aaliyah - Aaliyah (2001) vs. 6. The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses (1982) 4. Richard Hawley - Coles Corner (2005) vs. 3. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008) 7. Foals - Holy Fire (2013) vs. 2. Ravi Shankar - Music of India: Three Classical Rāgas (1956) 8. Tate McRae - all th...

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About the #1, I already alluded to it before, but that one came out just before our poll deadline ended. If the poll deadline was a few months later I'm sure it would have been on more lists, as it is clearly popular at our forum.

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Los Corraleros de Majagual – La Yerbita: 6
That sure is some jolly music. Maybe a little too jolly, although that might depend on my mood.

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That's it! Usually I would post some statistics, but I don't have much. Mostly because of the new format I can't really say anything about victorious users yet. There is also only one act yet with two songs: The Godfathers somehow. About the gifs, I wanted to use as many as possible but they are a r...

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10. https://i.gifer.com/4OnI.gif Tom Waits – Down, Down, Down Year: 1983 Album: Swordfishtrombones Biggest Fan: acr0320 (#866) Points: 7,034090909 Votes: 22 9. https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/02/45/01/22/360_F_245012288_9kzLYBDdTNIvlr7Ci62nOGMOXeM2vxJv.webp The Godfathers – Birth, School, Work, Death Year...

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20. https://64.media.tumblr.com/62b3c804f20b8924a0b27afca040dcf0/tumblr_nlqpe061fu1sioaoho1_1280.gifv Courtney Barnett – Debbie Downer Year: 2016 Album: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Biggest Fan: maverick470 (#441) Points: 6,87037037 Votes: 27 19. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oy4ItV...

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30 (Tie). https://img-www.tf-cdn.com/artist/10/smog.jpeg Smog – Teenage Spaceship Year: 1999 Album: Knock Knock Biggest Fan: Nassim (#202) Points: 6,75 Votes: 22 30 (Tie). https://i0.wp.com/farm9.staticflickr.com/8362/8296600290_648de35e40_o.gif?resize=500%2C368 Fugazi – Sieve-Fisted Find Year: 199...

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