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My 2p : I'm with Romain, but then I guess I am out of the loop with regards to music news. I trawl daily through this site, Allmusic and RYM to get my kicks. However, Kanye West is far from a popular icon in France. I just really Wonder what the fuss is about - and I DO listen to hip-hop, a fair am...

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And in celebration of our new rule, a tribute to AMF Chart history, and the 66 songs that received a total of 0 votes of support. Perhaps, with so many voting options, no song will ever join their ranks again. Only time will tell. FKA twigs - "Two Weeks" (Week 23 2014) Well that one is a ...

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Ok, first small list :

Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
Four Tet/Champion - Disparate
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 3
David Bowie - Girl Loves Me
Daughter - New Ways
Elliott Smith - Plainclothes Man (solo version)
Kevin Gates - 2 Phones
Animal Collective - Laying in the Grass

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Imagine caring enough about an artist that you actively berate others for not being aware of an upcoming release, especially in non-western markets. What a life. Imagine making up something that doesn't exist or accusing someone of something that they aren't actually doing like accusing someone of ...

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The Descendents - Hope Animal Collective - Did You See The Words Lil Wayne - Lock and Load !!! - Kookooka Fuk-U You Say Party! We Say Die! - The Gap (between the rich and the poor) Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw Andrew Bird - The Happy Birthday Song The Strokes - Someday Dr. Octagon - Blue Flower...

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Since then I've been trying to catch up with this art form I had been missing. I think it's overtaken all my other interests, but I still feel inadequate, as if everyone else had a decade head start. Yeah if you compare with some people on the forum, you will always feel way behind, but the average...

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Yup Sir, me :) based entirely on my knowledge and hunches :) should be a good mix. I think you can check who forecasted what on the webpage ? Nassim did one too. Yes, and brianeno too. By the way Henrik only won 2 out of 6 (though I think he was 2nd in the other 4) ! I don't think I've ever been so...

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Wow, you haven't heard Hysteria yet? I thought everyone had heard it in the U.S. despite whether they liked them or not. I'm guessing it's a generational thing. If you were a teenager/20 something in the late 80s, I'm sure it was inescapable. But I doubt many of the forumers who were either in diap...

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On first listen it's much more welcoming and easy to get into than TPaB. I think TPaB lovers will hear it as a very good but still lesser bonus, but for someone like me who didn't really get into TPaB, it sounded like a pretty great, and strangely cohesive, short collection of songs ; less of an art...

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Elliott Smith - Heaven Adores You Soundtrack For an Elliott Smith fan, that's a lovely record, with interesting variations on already known songs. The more electric version of Christian Brothers, recorded with Heatmiser, for instance is a good alternative on the original one (though Queens of the St...

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Makes me wonder why we even have any hip-hop selections, no one in this forum will vote hip-hop(well maybe Kanye) very high except me. What a joke. Just make it old white guys who play guitar vs. old black guys who don't rap contest. LOL. The results of these polls leans heavily towards thats. I wo...

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I feel bad putting one of the few (the only ?) hip-hop albums still in the game on last place... 8) Stevie Wonder | Songs in the Key of Life (#371) 9) Prince | Purple Rain (C+) 12) The Who | Who's Next (C-) 16) Public Enemy | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (D) 4) Led Zeppelin | Led Ze...

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A few more good finds. Money -Suicide Songs meets hype. Daughter - Not To Disappear is quite good. I wish Popmatters let you filter by 9 star albums because most of my best obscure finds came from there. On "album of the year" you can sort albums by the grades given by a certain publicati...

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Who else is having a heart attack with Monster's position at #24? "Blame Game" and "Hold My Liquor"'s placements made my blood boil. I almost stopped reading at The New Workout Plan at #92, even worse at Spaceship #71... especially with Robocop and Homecoming in the top 40... Bo...

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prosecutorgodot wrote:Could I rank just one of the sets of four?

Yes of course !

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4) Kate Bush | Hounds of Love (#185 of all time) 9) Roxy Music | For Your Pleasure (B-) 14) Prince | 1999 (D) 15) Marvin Gaye | What's Going On (D-) I find the 3 acclaimed tracks of What's Going On to be pretty great (well, 2 of them at least) but the rest of the album is a bore to me. 1) Beastie Bo...

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I love the other 3 songs, so bye Joy Division - Exercise One (hectorthebat) Bill Fay | Time of the Last Persecution (Bang Jan) Dave Brubeck | Blue Rondo a la Turk (Bang Jan) Led Zeppelin | Ten Years Gone (Bang Jan) Todd Rundgren | Couldn't I Just Tell You (Bang Jan) The 13th Floor Elevators | Slip I...

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The intro of this special edition says : "Of the 30 years we have spent digging in the world of culture, we have decided to extract 30 works of art who guided this magazine. They are by Daft Punk, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Virginie Despentes, Wu-Tang Clan, Alain Platel, PJ Harvey, Bret Easton ...

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Pretty even week, I enjoy albums from #6 to #14 about the same. 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers | Blood Sugar Sex Magik (#15 of all time) 8) Robert Wyatt | Rock Bottom (C) 12) Sex Pistols | Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols (C-) 15) The Flaming Lips | The Soft Bulletin (D) 2) Portishead | Th...

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So "nos meilleurs albums" is just writers lists, they haven't actually made a top 30. Well, not exactly, they have published "30 ans, 30 œuvres", which means "30 years, 30 works of art", so it's a top 30 but made of a bit of everything. Albums : The Smiths - Strangeways...

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Beastie Boys - B-Boy Bouillabaisse (from Paul's Boutique) Can this count? "Year and a Day" is bubbling under. Yeah, this probably disqualifies it, though it's kind of weird only part of the piece is acclaimed; unlike the Abbey Road medley, all of them share a master title. Nassim, do you ...

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Beastie Boys - B-Boy Bouillabaisse (from Paul's Boutique)

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Wilco - Radio Cure (from "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot")

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Nick wrote:Also eager to see how much our number 1 crushes the competition. I'm predicting a total blowout.

I don't know, I mean sure it will win but we're in AM, rock and folk get a favorable bias toward hip-hop so I wouldn't bet that SS, TI and maybe even JH are that far behind.

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For once I don't have anything to listen to to be able to rank this week's albums. 9 albums that made my top 400 during out last all time poll, that's the highest amount so far. 3) Jimi Hendrix | Are You Experienced? (#41 of all time) 4) The Replacements | Let It Be (#73) 11) De La Soul | 3 Feet Hig...

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I have a surprisingly hard time remembering music scènes that really hit me in theater. I link 4 of my top 100 songs to a specific movie scene, and only 2 are in my list in big part because of the impact of that scene : First is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcr_uFYiFBc Pale Blue Eyes gives a ni...

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For some reason I thought Lazarus was 2016, probably because the video was released in early January, maybe other made the same assumption. I didn't vote for Black Star but Lazarus would have made the bottom of my list. I think I like our top 20 more than the critics one, the fact that Hotline Bling...

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1) David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (#26 of all time) 2) Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin (#63 of all time) 7) Blur | Parklife (B-) 14) Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention | We're Only in It for the Money (C-) 4) The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed (#367) 8) Pave...

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Well, as usual, we will all agree your health comes first ! The updates can wait ! That being said, have you considered training one or 2 other persons at how to manage the website so they can either ease the burden or maybe at some point even take over ? (not saying we want you gone any time soon, ...

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Albums : 1) Grimes - Art Angels 2) Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love 3) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell 4) Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experience - Surf 5) Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer 6) Deafheaven - New Bermuda 7) Salut C'est Cool - Sur le Thème des Grandes Decouvertes 8) Jamie XX - In Colour...

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Same as for EOY, if you don't mine I'll vote tomorrow morning as I left my list at work !

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Very good! Home stretch. Only two days left to vote. Remember, all times are UTC. So Midnight Sunday may vary depending on where you live. Also, from eyeballing the list, this looks to be the first year since 2011 where we didn't agree with the critics on at least one of the two polls. Sonofsamiam,...

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Not done with my moderately acclaimed albums listening, so my album list will wait until Sunday, but I might as well vote for songs already. 1. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy 2. Grime - REAliTi (demo) 3. Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better 4. Jamie XX feat Romy - Loud ...

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A week when I guess I'll be quite against the forum consensus, with my seemingly love for rap-rock. 3) Beastie Boys | Licensed to Ill (#117 of all time) 4) Bruce Springsteen | Darkness on the Edge of Town (B-) 9) The Doors | L.A. Woman (C) 12) Jeff Buckley | Grace (C-) Grace is hands down my favorit...

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Maybe awards for everything we usually don't have polls for: video, live act, new band, album cover, cover, lyrics...

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Too bad I missed the deadline, thought it was end of Jan. I think it would have been enough to make Like a Rolling Stone first and Space Oddity 10th.

Very nice presentation anyway, and some nice discoveries along the way.

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Some loose definition of Hard Rock & Metal, but the top 5 are the albums you'd expect : 80) Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In 79) Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster 78) Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap 77) The Clash - Combat Rock 76) Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin 75) Quiet...

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Very good week, 16 albums I like. My #16 of the week would have been #13 in any other week (I think, haven't really checked...) 5) Bruce Springsteen | Born in the U.S.A. (top 300 of all time) 6) Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention | Hot Rats (serious contender for top 400 of all time) 7) Primal Scr...

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Brad wrote:So far, I've received 12 nominations in addition to my own (13 total).

Here are the 12 submitters:
DaveC
luney6
spiritualized
ordinaryperson
Jeff
Jirin
Sweepstakes Ron
acroamor
bonnielaurel
DocBrown
Honorio
PlasticRam

Still about 3 weeks left to get them in!

I've sent mine too, 8th of Jan !

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Not best bands, but my favorite !

1. Queens of the Stone Age
2. Beastie Boys
3. Built to Spill
4. LCD Soundsystem
5. Arcade Fire
6. Modest Mouse
7. Hot Chip
8. Puppetmastaz
9. Radiohead
10. The Beatles

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Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra is a very intriguing and beautiful piece of music, but I can't leave the opportunity to get the opening track of my favorite album get in the jukebox. Thelonious Monk - Ask Me Now (Brad) Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Comic Strip (Brad) Scott Walker | The Sevent...

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Not even helping my favorite of the week by cleaning up their groups. Courtney Barnett - Boxing Day Blues (Maschine_Man) Minutemen - History Lesson Pt. II (luney6) Built To Spill - Randy Described Eternity (luney6) Pere Ubu - the Modern Dance (luney6) Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra (luney6) Thelonious ...

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I think it would be fun, besteveralbums do that regularly. I'd say if we talk albums, we should rank all of them and do something akin to what we do for the decade polls were unranked albums get the average score, not to favor albums everybody has heard.

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Tank! (which I didn't nominate but was higher on my all time list than a couple of my nominations)
I actually liked the live version of Funeral more than the album one.

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Now that a Dr Dre album finally dropper, will 2016 be the year of The Wrens or The Avalanches comeback ? Not too sure about the XX, Coexist had a tepid reception but if the tracks with 2 or 3 of them on In Colours is any sign it could indeed be huge. I looooooove RTJ but they don't seem like a band ...

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James Murphy actually tackled those points in his note there are people who don’t hate us at all, in fact who feel very attached to the band, and have put a lot of themselves into their care of us, who feel betrayed by us coming back and playing. who had traveled for or tried to go to the MSG show, ...

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By the way, I still think that should count as a Belgian list for what it's Worth

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1) Queens of the Stone Age | Songs for the Deaf (#3 of all time and favorite album of the tournament) 5) Stevie Wonder | Songs in the Key of Life (#371 of all time) 7) Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here (B-) 10) Eagles | Hotel California (C) 2) Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (#71 of all time) 3) Bob Dyla...

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