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by Gillingham
Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:48 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: More Wisdom From Keith Richards
Replies: 21
Views: 13885

Re: More Wisdom From Keith Richards

Welcome SJ1990!
That's exactly the right spirit I would say. To each their own.
by Gillingham
Thu Sep 23, 2021 5:20 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

539 Queen - We Are the Champions 1977
by Gillingham
Wed Sep 22, 2021 4:58 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

828 Linkin Park - In the End 2000
by Gillingham
Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:52 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

949 Madonna - Live to Tell 1986
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:22 am
Forum: Films, Movies, Motion Pictures...
Topic: Animated Movie poll: Voting and discussion thread
Replies: 27
Views: 22950

Re: Animated Movie poll: Voting and discussion thread

1. Ghost in the Shell (1995) 2. Waking Life (2001) 3. Waltz with Bashir (2008) 4. Grave of Fireflies (1988) 5. The Lion King (1994) 6. Wall-E (2008) 7. Akira (1988) 8. A Scanner Darkly (2006) 9. Persepolis (2007) 10. Up (2009) 11. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 12. The Animatrix (2003) 13. Beauty and the ...
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:52 am
Forum: Films, Movies, Motion Pictures...
Topic: Films of the 2010s: 2011 (2022 Edition)
Replies: 21
Views: 16825

Re: Films of the 2010s: 2011 (2022 Edition)

1. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) 2. A Torinói Ló (Béla Tarr) 3. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) 4. Le Gamin au Vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) 5. Carnage (Roman Polanski) 6. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson) 7. Margin Call (J. C. Chandor) 8. Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine) 9. Shame (S...
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:36 am
Forum: Films, Movies, Motion Pictures...
Topic: Films of the 2010s: 2010 (2022 Edition)
Replies: 38
Views: 26671

Re: Films of the 2010s: 2010 (2022 Edition)

1. The Social Network (David Fincher) 2. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik) 3. Incendies (Denis Villeneuve) 4. Another Year (Mike Leigh) 5. True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen) 6. Haevnen (Susanne Bier) 7. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) 8. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola) 9. The Fighter (David O. Russell) 10. Armadill...
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:31 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: 2021 Songs So Far - FINALE
Replies: 16
Views: 8160

Re: 2021 Songs So Far - FINALE

Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra | Movement 6 vs. Noname | Rainforest

Good stuff!
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:28 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Artist of the Month Song/Album Polls - September '21 - Pink Floyd!
Replies: 30
Views: 22205

Re: Artist of the Month Song/Album Polls - September '21 - Pink Floyd!

Albums: 1. Wish You Were Here 2. The Dark Side of the Moon 3. Meddle 4. Animals 5. The Wall 6. Atom Heart Mother 7. The Division Bell 8. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Songs: 1. On the Run 2. Wish You Were Here 3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) 4. Comfortably Numb 5. The Great Gig in the Sky...
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:04 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

561 Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring 1990
by Gillingham
Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:59 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

294 R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 1981
by Gillingham
Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:52 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

755 Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name 1982
by Gillingham
Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:22 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Moderately Acclaimed Albums 12 - Round 3.3
Replies: 19
Views: 10186

Re: Moderately Acclaimed Albums 12 - Round 3.3

2. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit vs. Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank
by Gillingham
Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:27 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Bruce/Hymie is banned
Replies: 91
Views: 45363

Re: Bruce/Hymie is banned

I seem to be one of the few who isn't all that happy about Hymie being banned. Having said that, I didn't read any of the mentioned posts on the Rolling Stone list thread (where has that gone anyway?!) and the pm's/mails he supposedly send to BleuPanda are definitely out of order. Sorry to hear abo...
by Gillingham
Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:25 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

981 Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia 2004
by Gillingham
Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:12 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Bruce/Hymie is banned
Replies: 91
Views: 45363

Re: Bruce/Hymie is banned

I seem to be one of the few who isn't all that happy about Hymie being banned. Having said that, I didn't read any of the mentioned posts on the Rolling Stone list thread (where has that gone anyway?!) and the pm's/mails he supposedly send to BleuPanda are definitely out of order. Sorry to hear abou...
by Gillingham
Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:53 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

43 The Who - Baba O'Riley 1971
by Gillingham
Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:39 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

96 ABBA - Dancing Queen 1976
by Gillingham
Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:48 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums of 2021 Discussion Thread
Replies: 201
Views: 192542

Re: Albums of 2021 Discussion Thread

Low's HEY WHAT is indeed quite impressive, liking it a lot.
by Gillingham
Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:44 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

824 Prince and The Revolution - Raspberry Beret 1985
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:30 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

163 Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop 1976
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:23 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

I'm game. One question though. How do we know we're not eliminating songs that are already eliminated, without checking every post since the last update?
by Gillingham
Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:20 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM
Replies: 1111
Views: 365823

Re: Game: Eliminate 1 Song - Best of 2018 AM

715 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love 1964
by Gillingham
Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:30 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums and Songs of 1967 Polls
Replies: 62
Views: 33316

Re: Albums and Songs of 1967 Polls

Songs: 1. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 2. Leonard Cohen - Master Song 3. James Carr - The Dark End of the Street 4. Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin 5. Cream - Sunshine of Your Love 6. The Doors - The End 7. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne 8. Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) 9. Lo...
by Gillingham
Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:17 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums and Songs of 1967 Polls
Replies: 62
Views: 33316

Re: Albums and Songs of 1967 Polls

Albums: 1. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen 2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced 3. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding 4. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico 5. The Doors - The Doors 6. James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up 7. Miles Davis - Miles...
by Gillingham
Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:21 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: AMF Best Songs of All Time, 2021 Edition, LIST THREAD!
Replies: 396
Views: 302029

Re: AMF Best Songs of All Time, 2021 Edition, LIST THREAD!

At the very last minute, here's my definitive list, for now. Added some songs I plainly forgot when I posted a list a couple of months ago (like The Girl from Ipanema ), I re-evaluated (like PJ Harvey's Sheela-Na-Gig ) or are just new for me since then (like Wende's Voor Alles ). 1 | Nina Simone | S...
by Gillingham
Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:42 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: AMF Best Songs of All Time, 2021 Edition, LIST THREAD!
Replies: 396
Views: 302029

Re: AMF Best Songs of All Time, 2021 Edition, LIST THREAD!

StevieFan13 wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:19 pm
Holden wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 9:52 pm
StevieFan13 wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 9:34 pm [...]
No song has received a vote on every list, if you're wondering.
That shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does.
Funny, I would be really surprised if there would be a song that's on everyone's list. But that's not going to happen anymore anyway.
by Gillingham
Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:16 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums and Songs of 1966 Polls
Replies: 61
Views: 39371

Re: Albums and Songs of 1966 Polls

Songs: 5. Slim Harpo - Baby, Scratch My Back This is 1965. It entered the Cash Box R&B chart on December 11, 1965. Songs: 20. The Modern Lover - Roadrunner I can't find any information on this. If you meant "Roadrunner" by The Modern Lovers, that is ineligible this year since it's fro...
by Gillingham
Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:33 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums and Songs of 1966 Polls
Replies: 61
Views: 39371

Re: Albums and Songs of 1966 Polls

Songs: 1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe 2. The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning 3. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations 4. James Brown - It's a Man's Man's Man's World 5. The Rolling Stones - Paint it, Black 6. John Lee Hooker - Shake it, Baby 7. The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb 8. The Bea...
by Gillingham
Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:22 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums and Songs of 1966 Polls
Replies: 61
Views: 39371

Re: Albums and Songs of 1966 Polls

Albums: 1. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde 2. John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right to Suffer 3. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage 4. Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind 5. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath 6. John Mayall With Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers 7. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence 8. The Beatle...
by Gillingham
Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:54 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Artist of the Month Song/Album Polls - July '21 - Jimi Hendrix!
Replies: 22
Views: 15627

Re: Artist of the Month Song/Album Polls - July '21 - Jimi Hendrix!

Songs: 1. All Along the Watchtower 2. Hey Joe 3. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 4. Burning of the Midnight Lamp 5. Purple Haze 6. The Wind Cries Mary 7. Who Knows 8. Crosstown Traffic 9. Little Wing 10. Message to Love 11. Foxy Lady 12. Bold as Love 13. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) 14. Machin...
by Gillingham
Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:29 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Artist of the Month Song/Album Polls - July '21 - Jimi Hendrix!
Replies: 22
Views: 15627

Re: Artist of the Month Song/Album Polls - July '21 - Jimi Hendrix!

Albums:
1 | Electric Ladyland (1968)
2 | Are You Experienced (1967)
(Band of Gypsys (1970))
3 | Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
by Gillingham
Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:42 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums and Songs of 1965 Polls
Replies: 88
Views: 52363

Re: Albums and Songs of 1965 Polls

Songs: 1. Nina Simone - Sinnerman 2. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues 3. Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man 4. Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone 5. The Mamas & the Papas – California Dreamin’ 6. Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 7. Them – Here Comes the Night 8. Sonny & Che...
by Gillingham
Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:41 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums and Songs of 1965 Polls
Replies: 88
Views: 52363

Re: Albums and Songs of 1965 Polls

Albums:
1. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
2. Bob Dylan – Bringing it All Back Home
3. Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
4. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
5. The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father (Cantiga para meu pai)
by Gillingham
Thu Jul 01, 2021 7:43 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: The Beatles in 3 Songs
Replies: 28
Views: 13657

Re: The Beatles in 3 Songs

- Yesterday
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- A Day in the Life

Would be fun to this for other bands too.
by Gillingham
Tue Jun 29, 2021 5:18 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Albums of 2021 Discussion Thread
Replies: 201
Views: 192542

Re: Albums of 2021 Discussion Thread

For me, this year has been at least as good and probably better than the first halves of the last couple of years. So I'm not complaning. I guess it helps that I listened to more releases than last years at this time. It's true that there havent't been a lot of big releases yet, but that doesn't inf...
by Gillingham
Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:41 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

You don't debate at all. You just want people to say you're right, even when you're wrong. Your obsession with 'facts' is only because you lack critical comprehension of art, so you demand everyone else speak in meaningless numbers. Numbers are never meaningless. What's meaningless is trying to wri...
by Gillingham
Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:00 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

We're not talking about "random" citizens here. "Apples with apples" means if we could get an expert who lived through those times and an expert from now, the expert who lived through those times will have a much sharper understanding of what things were like then. You were talk...
by Gillingham
Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:48 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

Oh, I disagree. It should be a combination of both. An objective look at the overall impact of each item in the entire history since the item was released. Objective? There is no 'objective' in a list of personal favorites of a selected group of voters. Obviously not, which is why I don't put much ...
by Gillingham
Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:14 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

Maybe. Maybe not. Who has a better understanding of Roman politics and culture, an expert professor on the topic, or a random roman citizen who happened to live through it? Not such an obvious answer there... We're not talking about "random" citizens here. "Apples with apples" m...
by Gillingham
Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:01 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

Also, current all-time song lists are not about the impact/acclaim of songs in that era, but about how it is perceived when the list is made. Oh, I disagree. It should be a combination of both. An objective look at the overall impact of each item in the entire history since the item was released. O...
by Gillingham
Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:11 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

From Wikipedia: In late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no previous writing experience, aimed to provide the Internet with a regularly updated resource for independent music. After re...
by Gillingham
Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:38 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: AMF Weekly Chart 21.25
Replies: 13
Views: 10667

Re: AMF Weekly Chart 21.25

by Gillingham
Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:28 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

If it’s all about sales then they’d just publish a list of best selling singles of all time. It's not "all" about sales, but it's certainly "partially" about sales. No recording artist puts out a record and doesn't want it to sell a lot of copies. Wu Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time...
by Gillingham
Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:00 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

It seems like the rock canon froze in some peoples' minds when Rolling Stone published these famous all-time lists in the early 2000s. Some of the discourse around Smells Like Teen Spirit is as if it is still a "newer" song like it was in 2003. Now it's been 30 years since Smells Like Tee...
by Gillingham
Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:57 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021
Replies: 214
Views: 144564

Re: Predictions: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs update 2021

The top 10 of our last songs poll consisted of four 60s songs, four 70s, one 80s and one 90s.

This could lead to the (overly simple) conclusion that the average participating amf'er prefers songs from before when they were even able to pronounce it's title. Quite 'stagnant'...
by Gillingham
Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:13 pm
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: 2021 Albums So Far - LIST THREAD
Replies: 42
Views: 30214

Re: 2021 Albums So Far - LIST THREAD

1. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature 2. Wardruna - Kvitravn 3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! 4. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark 5. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time 6. Otay:onii - Ming Ming 7. Lana del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club 8. Ar...
by Gillingham
Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:53 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: Spotify's "Only You" blurb
Replies: 17
Views: 10377

Re: Spotify's "Only You" blurb

Looks fun, but not really impressed by this gimmick to be honest. Pair: Lana del Rey and Herbie Hancock. (Logic and kind of logic but a bit random) Time: 1965, 1954 and 2021 (guess they picked 1954 just because not a lot of Spotify listeners listen to anything before the 60's?) Genre combo: Music po...
by Gillingham
Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:01 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: AMF Weekly Chart 21.22
Replies: 12
Views: 9704

Re: AMF Weekly Chart 21.22

Darkside - Lawmaker
by Gillingham
Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:55 am
Forum: Music, Music, Music...
Topic: AMF Best Songs of All Time, 2021 Edition, LIST THREAD!
Replies: 396
Views: 302029

Re: AMF Best Songs of All Time, 2021 Edition, LIST THREAD!

1 | Nina Simone | Sinnerman 2 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Have You Ever Seen the Rain 3 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | All Along the Watchtower 4 | Radiohead | Karma Police 5 | The Rolling Stones | Sympathy for the Devil 6 | Neu! | Hallogallo 7 | Bob Dylan | Subterranean Homesick Blues 8 | TV ...

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