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A ABBA - Dancing Queen ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) ABBA - Kings of the Wild Frontier [note: incorrect entry I think] ABBA - SOS ABBA - The Winner Takes It All ABC - All of My Heart ABC - Poison Arrow AC/DC - Let Me Put My Love into You Adam & The Ants - Antmusic Adam &...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/1000-Songs-Change-Your-Guides/dp/1846700825 The whole list is shown in the "Look Inside!" feature, but as it is not possible to cut and paste from it, I would be very grateful if you could transcribe the list into this forum for me. I suggest that the info is taken...

Yes, that's where I was looking too. I checked it a little further and the only list I am sure should be included is Time Out's "1000 songs to change your life", which will be a great addition. Great choices from most artists, however mixed with strange picks (e.g. Bob Dylan: Barbara Allen...

I think there are sources used in the book that are not included at AM, but would be eligible. Any help to find these would be greatly appreciated!

I can't get enough of this...

I hope this thread will become popular, but too many youtube videos can make threads heavy to load, so please post only one video per post, or use url links if you want to link to several videos.

Blanco, I had a closer look now and I think you were spot on with the colours. The yellow ones should be added. I suppose you were hoping for some red ones too, but I'm afraid it looks to me that they don't meet the criteria.

Although the list was compiled by one critic, his work was mainly compiling, rather than choosing the songs (though he did write an article for each song). He based his information on other sources such as the book "Guaraches de ante azul" (blue suede guaraches) by Federico Arana, and the...

Blanco, it seems to me that this show was about popular songs in Mexico, and not any kind of critics' list.

Hey Henrik, do I transcribe artist, decade, more than 10 years, and EOY lists in a single spreadsheet, or just some of those categories? If it's in a single spreadsheet, I can distinguish each category. The best for me would be if you add everything in one sheet, so that I can easily see all cases w...

This is one I'm not going to use, as it's 30 individual picks, but thanks anyway for posting.

Thanks for the find Jackson, and thanks Nassim for transcribing the list!

Here's a more recent edition of the list:

http://www.maxtv.com.au/pages/main-menu ... f-all-time

Fantastic presentation, Nassim. No issues whatsoever with the point calculations, that's quite an achievement!

As I've already said, I enjoyed the outcome too. Gotta be one of the most eclectic lists we've had.

Radiohead 300 points outside the top 3, who knew?

Wow, this seems to be an important matter. I think I disagree a bit with you all :whistle: but I definitely appreciate your help on this. Here's what I think: Blanco, I agree with you that artist lists shouldn't be restricted to some established artists, but I do think that longer lists generally ha...

JR, I have to say that this list doesn't look very critic-ish. Isn't it a bit too much of a hit parade? I bet these songs were all huge hits in Australia. The staff seem to be using something similar to DDD's criteria of great, rather than listing their own favorite songs.

Yeah, I agree with Blanco, save for the Macarena part.

Hi Eric! Cool to have your response! A real critic who comes to join our discussions. Well, almost... :D Am I right that your list was more of a "most essential songs" guide than a list of your personal favorites? Your list is quite similar to AM's. Perhaps because, as you said, you've bee...

Yes, I don't know who the apparent no. 4 would be.

JR, thanks for posting the Madonna lists, but I need to think more about them. I'm just afraid that if I include them (or many of them) there will come a flood of similar lists for other artists. With Madge, her debut album just turned 30, so that's partly why there have been a number of lists (plu...

Thanks JimmyJazz for this post, but I don't think I will add this list to AM. eBooks will not be included unless they're released by famous critics.

OK, so Bruce you have one opinion, and most of the rest of us have another opinion. We're all entitled to our opinions, so there's no problem. I feel there's no need to continue this discussion. Of course it has to be up to everyone to decide whether to take in the personal lives of artists when he/...

Wow, everyone wants to make their Boss list now it seems. I don't think this one is eligible for AM though, as it seems to be by a single critic.

I forgot about that list. Thanks for doing that! Then we should of course have the discussion there.

Blanco, I have lost track of all the Latin lists you have posted! Would it be ok for you to add the song lists to the spreadsheet, for me to get an overview? If ok, but you want to know which ones I deem eligible before you add them, we can use this thread for a discussion. I won't do anything with ...

Yesterday I looked at what artists that could be left in the presentation. I think the only ones I didn't feel 100 % sure about were CCR and James Brown. That's not to say that I think the outcome is wrong. It's cool to see them both advance. But the best thing is that we still have two "rest o...

Nassim wrote:
JimmyJazz wrote:Part of me was sure he was Top 25 bound in the poll. Makes me hope that the greatest musical artist of the 1980s wasn't too hurt in this poll!
He is at the exact same position as in your ballot !

Awesome group! The best so far I think (which makes sense). So good that I acually had S&G at #15. I suppose you only missed to put me in the biggest fans list, Nassim?

These three lists will be included in the next update. Thanks JimmyJazz!

These three lists will be included in the next update. Thanks JimmyJazz!

;) There is a penalty for "narrow lists" but it's not huge, so artist lists might have a lot of impact for the songs by the artist in question. They don't affect the songs of other artists of course. It's the same thing as if I include an EOY list, or a decade list. A Beatles list is not m...

Actually, that was wrong.

There's a slight overweight of '90s artists so far though. It seems that many of these artists were pushed down but within the top 100, rather than being pushed outside of it.

Now that's a great group! I'm so happy to see Brel in this list (even without Honorio's vote! (where are you btw? - I miss you!)). For the record, he was my #47.

Whatever we do, let's not have any sort of fights in this thread.

I was probably wrong, but it felt like a reminder was necessary.

Nina Simone was a master of several genres (jazz, soul, blues, pop), but despite this - actually I think it's because of this - she has been ignored by both rock and jazz critics, and as a result she is vastly underrated at AM. I hope this is going to change in the future though. I think that our po...

Great presentation, Nassim!

However, have you considered adding the positions from our 2008 poll? In case you haven't, and you want to, they are here: http://acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=30

I am more flexible when it comes to genres that are not under the rock umbrella. It might be that the German Rolling Stone has not included jazz in their other lists. Then I will include this list because I think it would even out the bias rather than result in a bias itself. If I never included lis...

Dan: a) thank you, and 2) I'm sorry. Especially when considering that I had my 1987 list complete before the 1986 list (because I had a special 1987 music event together with a few friends in June) it was extremely lousy of me to not post it in the recommendation thread. My only defense: I have focu...

100 points to "Innocent When You Dream" in 4 minutes!

Albums 1. Prince - Sign 'O' The Times 2. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland 3. Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun 4. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 5. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come 6. U2 - The Joshua Tree 7. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses 8. Chris Isaak - Chris Isaak 9....

Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind

is the winner!

It can't get much closer than that!

1. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
2. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
3. Pass
4. Pass. I'm listening to Hadestown for the first time and it's too good for me to just throw a vote for Ondatropica.

Jirin wrote:the site does drop my cookie pretty often and force me to re-login

This almost never happens to me. Are you sure it's not an issue at your end? How about other websites you log on to?

Lately I think all of us have received messages like "Strict Standards: Non-static method utf_normalizer::nfkc()" when we have submitted posts. Some even have had problems to login to their accounts. I have updated to the latest phpBB version, and it seemed to fix the error for me. Let me ...

Wow. I made a post about my top 20 with detailed comments about each one earlier today and it seems like it's not here. Henrik, there's problems with this site. Posts are disappearing and every time I post anything I see a bunch of scripting errors. And when I connect from Safari the site keeps dro...

EPs are difficult. For the sake of AM, I hate them. For most lists EPs have probably not been taken into account by the critics in the first place, and thus there is probably a bias against EPs at AM. I have wanted to give all kinds of original recordings the same chance to be included at AM though,...

I really need to listen to that Hadestown album.

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