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It's too bad they didn't do a traditional ranked list; I usually find a few gems from them that get overlooked by most other sources. This format is basically unreadable for me.

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That Avalanches album got included quickly in this list. It's too bad it didn't come out a few weeks ago, as I think quite a few critics would have included it.

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Really interesting list that shows some of the gaps critic have with "genre" music like metal, prog, emo, punk, and jazz. I've thought before that Ween is one of the most underrated/overlooked artists on AM and this gives me some validation. The Mollusk and Quebec are excellent quirky rock...

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Also, as easy as it is to lament that a song like "Blind" may never be #1 again... This assumption has been stated numerous times in this thread, but is it really accurate? After all, People I've Been Sad is a strong #2 and I don't think it is much more popular than Blind. While the last ...

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The issue with very acclaimed albums sneaking into the field appears to be primarily a 2010s issue given the top of the AM list remains massively biased to albums that have had many years to gain acclaim. Only 45 2010s albums are in the top 500, so there are many popular and acclaimed albums like Ar...

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Jackson wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:36 pm [1: Sleaford Mods - Mork N Mindy (ft. Billy Nomates)
2: Jockstrap - Acid
10: Headie One - Ain't It Different (ft. Stormzy & AJ Tracey)

I listened to the top few I hadn't heard last night and added these to my playlist for consideration for my EOY list.

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Soft Bulletin and Yoshime block all later Flaming Lips albums, etc. Which post-Yoshimi Flaming Lips albums do you rate with those two? Embryonic is the #11 album for 2009, so they weren't totally forgotten about. If anything it's their earlier albums that get boxed out, as Transmissions from the Sa...

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I like Masseduction and Actor the best among her albums, but the self-titled and Strange Mercy are settling in as her most acclaimed. I don't quite get why, but around here most seem to agree that Masseduction is the best of her 2010s work: it placed 25 in our EOD poll compared to 47 for the s/t and...

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I figure it’s obvious what our AOTY is going to be, but I’m pretty stumped when it comes to our SOTY. Maybe “Spotlight” if I had to guess. It's cool that SOTY is so wide open this year! I'd guess Kyoto, People I've Been Sad, and Spotlight as our top three. I could see Fiona Apple getting 5 or 6 son...

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The new Avalanches album sounds good to me on first listen, and I'm glad to see it's getting positive reviews. The singles didn't make much of an impression on me, but the songs sound much better in the flow of the album, which I remember being the case with Wildflower too. That album was a major gr...

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Thanks for this update Sweepstakes Ron! I agree with many that this is a curious year for this songs list, and I'm interested to see how this evolves over the coming years, as I could see things changing substantially. A few major impressions for me: - It's so cool that Christine and the Queens fina...

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https://thequietus.com/articles/29370-the-quietus-top-100-tracks-of-the-year-2020 Top Songs: 1: Sleaford Mods - Mork N Mindy (ft. Billy Nomates) 2: Jockstrap - Acid 3: $hit & $hine - Hillbilly Moonshine 4: Divide And Dissolve - Denial 5: Chloe x Halle - Do It 6: Kelly Lee Owens - Corner Of My S...

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Happy to see Kelly Lee Owens with a strong showing in a few lists today.

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It's funny that Billboard's list isn't much different from Pitchfork now.

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That's an exciting upset for the top spot. I was thinking Losing My Religion might not win, but I thought it would be Radio Free Europe to take it down.

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414 Creedence Clearwater Revival- Willy and the Poor Boys 415 Randy Newman- Sail Away 416 Tortoise- Millions Now Living Will Never Die 417 The Rolling Stones- Some Girls 418 The Police- Reggatta de Blanc 419 Prince- Dirty Mind 420 Dexys Midnight Runners- Searching for the Young Soul Rebels 421 Dead...

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I see this source has been included in the past (2010, etc) but not 2018 or 2019. Is it eligible? They stopped publishing for a few years which was a shame, they had the best lists at the beginning of the 2010s. They came back this year, the editorial line is a bit different but pretty interesting....

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29. Perfume Genius, “On the Floor” 21. Sufjan Stevens, “My Rajneesh” 20. Run the Jewels, “A Few Words for the Firing Squad (Radiation)” 19. Caribou, “Never Come Back” 05. Dua Lipa, “Levitating” 03. Jessie Ware, “Spotlight” The three TSwift songs in the top 15 was a little much, but they redeemed th...

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50. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses I Am the Resurrection I Wanna Be Adored 49. The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St. Rocks Off Happy 48. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless [Not on Spotify] Soon When You Sleep 47. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver Someone Great All My Friends 44. Kendrick Lamar – To ...

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Thanks for the update, Holden. A few take-aways: - I'm pleasantly surprised to see both Sault albums still doing well, with Black Is even rising a few spots in this update. I thought their placement on the initial list may have just been an outlier from a few lists, but it appears it will last. Can ...

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I’ll post an update tomorrow but for however much everyone thought FTBC was going to dominate the EOY lists, it is assuredly not doing that. It is near/at the top, but dominating it is not. If this is the case it's because Punisher and RTJ4 seem to be overperforming, not from FTBC underperforming. ...

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I’ll post an update tomorrow but for however much everyone thought FTBC was going to dominate the EOY lists, it is assuredly not doing that. It is near/at the top, but dominating it is not. If this is the case it's because Punisher and RTJ4 seem to be overperforming, not from FTBC underperforming. ...

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Something I haven’t seen a lot of people mention is Royals being in the Top 100. It definitely belongs there! How crazy would it have seemed a few years ago that Royals is now one spot ahead of Get Lucky? After the initial update that featured those songs, Get Lucky was 46 and Royals was 312; even ...

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Something funny I noticed on these US-American lists: It's only American and British songs, with a few K-Pop tracks, but only if they feature or were written/produced by American or British artists. This is the USA telling the rest of the world: "Once again, the 50 best songs of the year were ...

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This is the most interesting songs list I've seen so far. I was beginning to think I was crazy for liking "Never Come Back" so much.

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I've been listening a lot to SAULT over the last week. Both of their albums will make my list, though I kind of wish they had combined the best bits of both into one album, which could have been a true masterpiece. I'm leaning on placing Rise higher than Black Is as I think it's a little more consis...

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I mean, does anyone remember This is America sweeping the Best Song of 2018 (or whatever year it was) lists because of its video more than the song itself? And then never being mentioned again afterwards. None of this is new really. This Is America was ranked very high in EOD lists as well as EOY l...

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96. Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister Me and the Major Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying 95. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King 21st Century Schizoid Man Epitaph 93. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures Disorder She’s Lost Control 88. Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model (I Don’...

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I wonder why he didn't do this years ago when he could have had more time to enjoy the money. That said, he probably made a lot more by waiting as valuations of song catalogs have increased significantly in the last few years.

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Here are the top 10 albums and songs from the main site that didn't make out list: ... Albums NEU! - NEU! '75 (1234) Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Zuma (1304) Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube da Esquina (1348) Pink Floyd - Meddle (1351) Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1362) Jean...

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It’s obvious at this point that Pitchfork has changed, and for the worse. This wouldn’t have happened even three years ago. Back then you could have critiqued Pitchfork for their writing or their attitude or their politics, but their lists? Their lists contained some genuinely forward thinking, bou...

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Was electronic music excluded, or are they just pretending it doesn't exist? No Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Bjork, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Daft Punk, Aphex Twin, Burial, Jesus and Mary Chain (in addition to many of the artists named above)? Given all the recent pop artists included, how is Lor...

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Further evidence that Rolling Stone is now no different than the other mainstream critics. It wouldn't be that surprising if Pitchfork has a nearly identical top ten; when was the last time you could say that? There are a few eye rolling inclusions further down the list but they also included Kelly ...

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150. The Stooges – Fun House 1970 T.V. Eye 148. Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique Car Thief Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun 147. Nas – Illmatic N.Y. State of Mind It Ain't Hard to Tell 144. Outkast – Stankonia B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad) Xplosion 140. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love Down by the Water ...

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Yeah I wasn't suggesting it should be included, just if anyone was interested checking it out. Seemed to be a running list i.e. not just half a year & still attached to their home page. It's a running playlist they keep going throughout the year. They have one each year and it doesn't necessari...

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Songs 1- Zombie (Fela Kuti) 2- Seventeen (Sharon Van Etten) 3- Water No Get Enemy (Fela Kuti) 4- Younger Us (Japandroids) 5- Care of Cell 44 (The Zombies) I said this earlier, but I don't see how Fela Kuti wasn't in my top 5. It's impressive you got two Fela songs in your top 5 given their length!

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fabrizioalbertini wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:49 pm hope to see miss XCX rise up to at least the top 15, especially after her snub last year

Same here! Looks like she got a couple of new top ten placements since this was updated.

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Ooh La La might be the worst song on RJT4. That hook is just so annoying. What a strange pick.

Looking at these songs lists so far, it's as if Jessie Ware didn't release any music this year. I was hoping songs from What's Your Pleasure would be all over these lists.

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I appreciate you making the deadline a few days into the new year. When it's an end of year deadline it's always difficult for me to participate or I just forget. I have 20 albums to go to listen to all 151 so I'll work on that over this month

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Great songs list. Not sure why they cut it off at 20 given the albums list is 50.

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170. The Avalanches – Since I Left You Frontier Psychiatrist Since I Left You A good example of an album where there are two very obvious tracks for the playlist. These are the only ones that really make sense to listen to out of the context of the album since the rest of it flows so well. 169. Led ...

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Sorry for the late time, but two days worth of votes have been compiled and the playlist has been updated accordingly. 225. Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On If You Want Me to Stay This song is from Fresh, not There's a Riot Goin' On. 176. Neil Young – Harvest Harvest Moon I woul...

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Well, it's still way to early to make the call, but... yes. I even like Cardi B but that song is a bit much for me. Hopefully it doesn't end up No. 1. I don't mind, it's a fun song and there isn't really a lot of competition (and that's coming from someone that was REALLY annoyed at Bodak Yellow do...

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We are really going to end up with WAP as song of the year aren't we?

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https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/12705012-16x9-large.jpg?v=2 Looking closely at your list. I wonder where's SAULT ? The musical revelation of 2020? Sault released two albums in 2020 ! Four in the last 2 years. The first Untitled (Black is) in june (**** according to ALLMusic / 86 (4 reviews) accord...

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Sault's rise is definitely the story of the EOY lists so far. Very interesting to see them come out of nowhere after I didn't sense much buzz when the first one came out this summer. RTJ4 seems on track to end up as their most acclaimed album, which is surprising after they underperformed on EOD lis...

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Actress - Karma & Desire

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225. Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On Family Affair If You Want Me to Stay 218. Can – Tago Mago Halleluhwah Oh Yeah 217. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain Can You Get To That Maggot Brain 216. TV on the Radio – Dear Science DLZ Halfway Home These two tracks are much better than the two s...

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Since I listened to the full top 10,000 from the previous update, doubtful I have a streak unless ten new songs somehow entered all in a row. I'm surprised that there are multiple people on the forum that have done this! I'm no completionist, but I feel like I listen to a lot of AM-ranked music, an...

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