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BleuPanda

Nominations are due October 23 at 9 am CST. I have decided to go with the year 2000 for our first yearly tournament (just in case I want to try and do this as a decade survey), and I have decided to simultaneously run a songs tournament for the year as well; figure we might as well explore the year...

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Hi BleuPanda and everyone! I like this idea, but I wonder if you are thinking that this game will "replace" the usual yearly/decade polls? If not, will you participate in both? Edit: If that sounded negative to this tournament, personally I wouldn't actually mind if we skip the decade pol...

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Hi BleuPanda and everyone! I like this idea, but I wonder if you are thinking that this game will "replace" the usual decade polls? If not, will you participate in both? I definitely don't want it to replace the usual decade polls (especially since this would double the length - each 32-e...

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The issue here is deciding how I'll decide which specific year to cover; vote in the poll above. For the third option, I want to remind everyone each of these would take about 2 months, and I'm not sure it would be as interesting with years we already thoroughly discuss; I'm including the 2010s opti...

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Sheesh, 16 albums in a single week is a stretch, I think... and even I get a lot of time to listen to my music, considering I have an office to myself :) To me, it is more a question of how much new listening is expected each week; if we do the best albums of 2010, I'm assuming most of us here have...

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It looks like year is taking a lead. We could do these in a month each if we did 16 albums a week, but I'm assuming it's better to go slower?

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I added Sonatine.

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Rings Around the World
Basket of Light
Cowboy Bebop

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Idea for running the smaller album contests: 1. I'll decide on a year/genre/country, somehow... 2. The top 10 albums of that year/genre/country on AM get an automatic placement in the tournament 3. The other 22 spots will be filled over a week, with each user getting a single entrant of their choice...

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Now featuring a Nobel laureate!

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And if there's no solid agreement for the first three options, we can always change up the theme each time and just have a general 'album mini-tournaments' thing going on.

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I have created a poll; only vote for either of the last two options if you'd rather I not start anything until next year. If you want to express thoughts on how I handle Best of the B-sides and Overlooked, please discuss. So, I started Best of the B-Sides at the beginning of February; Overlooked son...

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Mercury Rev - Holes

Sad to see 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong lose, but at least something in my top 1000 hangs on.

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The rules are simple: vote for your favorite in each match below. The winner will move to the next round. The deadline to vote is Tuesday, October 18th at 10 PM CST. Please listen to these tracks before voting, even if you've heard them a thousand times before! Bracket: http://www.bracketmaker.com/t...

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Sorry about this...I kind of disappeared from the internet and the change in schedule must have thrown me off...

Sweet Thing: 12
Holes: 14

2 Rights Make 1 Wrong: 12
The Windmills of Your Mind: 14

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Hmm...what to do after this finishes...

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1. King Crimson - Red (8.25/10) vs. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (7.75/10)
2. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (7/10) vs. Amon Düül II - Yeti (7.25/10)
3. Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music 1 (8.5/10) vs. Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night (8.75/10)

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I have extrapolated the results of each division to estimate how well each song would do against the winner. Below, you will find the songs in each division ranked from strongest to weakest, alongside their estimated percentage against #1 (#1 gets a 50 since it should tie itself). I have also made a...

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1. Pulp Fiction
2. Satantango
3. Chungking Express
4. Three Colors: Red
5. The Lion King
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. The Kingdom
8. Ed Wood
9. Forrest Gump
10. Clerks
11. Leon/The Professional
12. Quiz Show
13. Pom Poko
14. Three Colors: White

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Mercury Rev - Holes
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong

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The rules are simple: vote for your favorite in each match below. The winner will move to the next round. The deadline to vote is Saturday, October 8th at 10 PM CST. Please listen to these tracks before voting, even if you've heard them a thousand times before! Bracket: http://www.bracketmaker.com/t...

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Sweet Thing: 15
Velouria: 10

Here's Where the Story Ends: 12
Holes: 13

In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country: 11
2 Rights Make 1 Wrong: 12

The Windmills of Your Mind: 13
Home: 12

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First vote from someone who didn't already vote in the match decides the winner.

The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
vs.
Mercury Rev - Holes

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
vs.
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong

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I think it might get easier when we get to artists with smaller discographies. I expect low turnout specifically for Dylan because some people will feel overwhelmed when they see the size of his acclaimed albums. For smaller artists, it's easier to get through their entire discography in a short tim...

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Or at least as well known for this other version? There are quite a few on the AM list that don't have this information marked, and I wanted to make sure there wasn't a classic I was missing due to ignorance. I think the big one is Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha." Norman Cook's remix has pr...

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A little over a day remains.

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I only have three films left from 1990 and 1991 now. I currently have Thelma and Louise from the library and am waiting for The Hairdresser's Husband. Unfortunately, all the copies of La belle noiseuse in the library network cannot be requested...

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Is there any way you'd consider extending the deadline? I would love to get a few more weeks to dig deeper into Dylan's back catalog, and judging from the relatively small number of lists delivered so far, I wonder if others are feeling the same way. Dylan's relevant discography is at least twice a...

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...you know, the final 4 should be the first bracket vs the last, and then the middle 2 facing off. But I didn't set it up like that in the bracket...

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Pixies - Velouria The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong Dusty Springfield - The Windmills of Your Mind Finally voting against LCD Soundsystem...I promise I'm not a total fanboy. The first match feels really weak to me. I guess Van Morrison just never really clicks ...

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The rules are simple: vote for your favorite in each match below. The winner will move to the next round. The deadline to vote is Saturday, October 1st at noon CST. Please listen to these tracks before voting, even if you've heard them a thousand times before! Bracket: http://www.bracketmaker.com/tm...

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Master of Puppets: 12 Sweet Thing: 13 Velouria: 14 S.O.S.: 9 All I Need: 8 Here's Where the Story Ends: 15 Criminal: 10 Holes: 12 In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country: 12 Emmylou: 11 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong: 12 Delorean Dynamite: 11 Everybody's Been Burned: 9 The Windmills of Your Mind: 14 Night of...

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First vote from someone who didn't vote in the original topic decides the winner.

Metallica - Master of Puppets
vs.
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing

Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
vs.
Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite

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Songs I know we've been considering for our wedding:
"First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes
"Into My Arms" by Nick Cave
"Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips

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TV is such a strange beast, and one where I'm not going to give a publication trouble over their failure to include a lot of foreign stuff. I can't think of much that has really, fully penetrated the market here; television is a much bigger commitment than other media (the only one I would say is co...

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There are currently two ties.

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Reminder that voting goes until tomorrow. Here's the current leaderboard: 1. Acroamor - 91 2. Sweepstakes Ronald - 83 3t. Henrik - 76 3t. Nassim - 76 5. Jackson - 69 6t. BleuPanda - 67 6t. andyd1010 - 67 8. Rob - 65 9. whuntva - 61 10. luney6 - 58 11. spiritualized - 56 babydoll - 51 It appears only...

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Or, silly me, I can just check the UIUC library (the 7th largest library in the US). I found Ju Dou, The Lovers on the Bridge, The Adjuster, and the original Heimat (the second is on Netflix...but I'd also like to avoid going through seven discs...), all just sitting in our undergraduate media secti...

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...I especially want to watch Ju Dou, as Zhang Yimou has quickly become one of my favorite directors... I don't know about you but where I'm from a simple search of the film in youtube will display a result, with English subtitles to boot. So if you can't find one with much better video resolution,...

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Our current board is pretty covered in survey topics, so I figured we might as well have one to simply discuss what we've been watching. I was having some issues this weekend and ended up watching 6 movies between Saturday and Sunday. I got fairly caught up on the 90s film survey. These are the six:...

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Hm...I think I didn't realize we doubled the size of the field from 64 to 128. I remembered only two of my picks getting in last time so I only submitted 4 because I didn't see the point in going any higher. But now I don't want to add more and lose priority...

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To go along with my top 1000 song list update, I have once again done a list of: a) all songs that have improved their standings by at least 25% (including since March of last year, so songs that fell in March 2016 and rose back to the same place this month don't get attention) b) all songs new to ...

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To go along with my top 1000 song list update, I have once again done a list of: a) all songs that have improved their standings by at least 25% (including since March of last year, so songs that fell in March 2016 and rose back to the same place this month don't get attention) b) all songs new to t...

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I just updated my all-time song list; here are the songs with either their placement or score. I only ranked my top 1000, and as a note, #1000 (Bonita Applebum) is an 8/10 2. Metallica - Master of Puppets (305 all-time) vs. 10. Van Morrison - Sweet Thing (sub-1000, 7.75/10) 8. Pixies - Velouria (986...

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The rules are simple: vote for your favorite in each match below. The winner will move to the next round. The deadline to vote is Friday, September 23rd at 8 P.M. CST. Please listen to these tracks before voting, even if you've heard them a thousand times before! Bracket: http://www.bracketmaker.com...

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Sorry for the late results; ended up playing a game of Terra Mystica which ran from about 7:30 to midnight, completely forgot to post this. 4 and a half hour board game sessions can be all-consuming... In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country: 12 Streets of Your Town: 9 New Noise: 9 Emmylou: 12 2 Rig...

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1. Groundhog Day
2. Three Colors: Blue
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Schindler's List
5. Sonatine
6. Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong Trousers
7. Dazed and Confused
8. Naked
9. Jurassic Park

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I feel extreme in my own picks...already 2 albums in my top 100 (I'm currently working on my about twice yearly album list update).

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Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night

2 of my choices this week. Still need to find time for Jimmy Cliff...

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I sent mine. I feel kind of guilty having my top two songs come from the same source, but they are separate works that happened to gain greater prominence when featured on the soundtrack to my favorite video game. It's interesting how being featured on a soundtrack can bring to prominence a totally ...

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