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Rob

Never guessed that The Cure appeared as much as Bowie or Waits, but thinking back that makes sense. Have all the Depeche Mode entries been consecutive? It feels like there has been one every year I participated, indeed including Songs of Faith and Devotion twice before. Fun times... I do find it hil...

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Lagunin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:06 pm I think
at least two from Sufjan (Will Anybody Ever Love Me and So You Are Tired)

Surely Shit Talk is in.

Rob

Sinéad O’Connor – Scorn Not His Simplicity: 7
This really gets by on O'Connor's voice and her signature sound as if she is in some hollow place. It hides reasonably well that this isn't all that gripping of a tune.

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Though if the trade-off is getting Gerard Joling... An RYM comment on his "Ticket to the Tropics" single describes the song as "proto vaporwave". While I have to assume that this was meant in jest, it certainly provides weighty expectations for the album... I should say that I h...

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Scorn not the simplicity of musicman’s name, because it is apt in it’s description.

744. Sinéad O’Connor – Scorn Not His Simplicity
Year: 1994
Album: Universal Mother
Biggest Fan: musicman (#815)

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Rob

What? No Air Supply? How could this be? Though if the trade-off is getting Gerard Joling... We do have Depeche Mode. I think they are in every year? David Bowie used to be as well and Tom Waits was a regular in the early stages but haven't been seen here in a while. Honorio, do you know what artist ...

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Double Dee & Steinski – Lesson 2: 8
Countless samples that go very well together. A lot of these samples show up in later famous rap songs too.

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https://writteninmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bobby-Gentry.jpg Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete (1968) / Country Soul Vs. https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0504574573_65 Baths – Cerulean (2010) / Glitch Pop, Glitch Hop Don't you just want to take a bath when you see that cover? This is basically a...

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School on a Sunday? Teacher antonius says “yes”.

743. Double Dee & Steinski – Lesson 2
Year: 1985
Released as a single (along with Lesson 1 and Lesson 3)
Biggest Fan: antonius (#559)

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Wezzo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:42 am Phunk

Seems like you've missed the Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man song.

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Keep up the good work, Safetycat!

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but first, tonight, here are each of the songs that got a #1 vote but didn't make the Top 200. [...] 278. Froukje | "Als ik God was" 1 Votes | 100.000 Points Biggest Fans: Rob (#1) I demand a recount! Seriously though, with my #1 and 2 already gone and my #3 unlikely to appear, I wonder w...

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Grumbling Fur – The Ballad of Roy Batty: 8 So, turning the famous Tears in the Rain speech from Blade Runner into a song is the geekiest thing ever, but at the same time it makes total sense. And Grumbling Fur really made a song from it that doesn't lean on Vangelis' original music, but creates a fi...

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Schüttelbirne keeps it surprisingly simple today by giving us a self-titled song from a self-titled album by a supergroup of sorts. 742. Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman Year: 2020 Album: Bonny Light Horseman Biggest Fan: Schüttelbirne (#292) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later mo...

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And just when you think you’ve had it all Jackson gives us a neo-psychedelic tribute to a Blade Runner character.

741. Grumbling Fur – The Ballad of Roy Batty
Year: 2013
Album: Glynnaestra
Biggest Fan: Jackson (#511)

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Rob

We finally have an album of the holy minimalism on our list, so let's celebrate with an updated playlist.

Rob

Linda Ronstadt – Heat Wave: 7
Ronstadt made this song her own, in a way that makes it a good companion piece to the original. Reminds me a bit of Laura Nyro even.

Rob

This is an underwhelming top ten for me. Most of these won't be remembered as the artist's best work, and in the case of Sufjan, Lana, and Mitski, not even second best. I'm not sure about this. Lana's album I find hard to estimate in the long run, but personally I find this the best Mitski yet (and...

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Sufjan Stevens becomes the second artist to win Album of the Year twice with us, after LCD Soundsystem. Also, for this year he nicely bookends the overview list as the first and last AMF winner ever. It's no small feat to win again after 18 years.

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The last three entries by Henry where Todd Rundgren related, but this time he takes a breather with a cover of a Martha & the Vandellas song. 740. Linda Ronstadt – Heat Wave Year: 1975 Album: Prisoner in Disguise Biggest Fan: Henry (#234) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or cha...

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Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries: 8 Mysterious indeed. And with great beauty as well. Black Eyes Peas – Don’t Phunk with My Heart: 3 I should have recognized the title, because this song was ubiquitous at the time. I couldn't stand it then. This is a rare overplayed song that on a revisit a...

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Still, I feel that instead of our planned Beste Songs of All Time Poll later this year we might go with the less stale option of best Bionicle song of all time. Or maybe broaden it to best Lego song. Just a suggestion. No need, it's obviously this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1CTPC02n0c That's...

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Look, I don’t know what it means when you “phunk” with someone’s heart. Ask kaue.

739. Black Eyes Peas – Don’t Phunk with My Heart
Year: 2005
Album: Monkey Business
Biggest Fan: kaue (#310)

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Rob

Today’s Phil pick proves that Portishead singers and Talk Talk bass players are always in season.

738. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries
Year: 2002
Album: Out of Season
Biggest Fan: Phil (#146)

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Rob

Majical Cloudz - Downtown: 8
A heartfelt song.

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In this cynical world of ours there are still people like BleuPanda who believe in majic. So do the critics, who put today’s song at #9446 on AM. 737. Majical Cloudz - Downtown Year: 2015 Album: Are You Alone? Biggest Fan: BleuPanda (#838) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change...

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King's X – Out of the Silent Planet: 7
This song is more prog than metal in the end. A nice melodious tune.

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https://writteninmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bobby-Gentry.jpg Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete (1968) / Country Soul Vs. https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4051912074_65 Arthur Russell – World of Echo (1986) / Avant-Folk, Ambient Pop, Experimental, Neo-Psychedelia By now I’m pretty sure I have not...

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I doubt Ocean Blvd. will win. Javelin would be my bet.
That would answer Holden's open question whether one of the 6 previous winners would win this in an affirmative way. However, maybe Belle and Sebastian will pull the most surprising of upsets and win the whole thing.

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When things get too easygoing around here we can always count on sonofsamiam to shake things up. This time he takes us out of the silence and into progressive metal. 736. King's X – Out of the Silent Planet Year: 1989 Album: Gretchen Goes to Nebraska Biggest Fan: sonofsamiam (#950) Don’t forget you ...

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Joey Scarbury - Believe It Or Not (Theme from "America's Greatest Hero): 7 The original context of the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MxOo5koto I'd never heard of this series before, but when I heard the song for the first time today I had a feeling how the opening looked. I was right. ...

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Since Biggest Fan is now in full commercial mode, right after a Bionicle song we get one made for superhero tv show. 735. Joey Scarbury – Theme from America’s Greatest Hero (Believe It or Not) Year: 1981 Album: America’s Greatest Hero Biggest Fan: Renan (#512) Don’t forget you can always vote at a l...

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https://writteninmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bobby-Gentry.jpg Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete (1968) / Country Soul Vs. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Tical.jpg Method Man – Tical (1994) / East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop Over the years I’ve heard quite a few...

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For those of you who want the original context of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqLy1tgyphw Cryoshell – Creeping in My Soul: 5 Bombastic, melodramatic pseudo-metal at it's most nonsensical. Still, I feel that instead of our planned Beste Songs of All Time Poll later this year we might go...

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You may be wondering how Cryoshell, a band formed to promote Bionicle, has gotten three songs in Biggest Fan, but all three come from whuntva’s list. He has one more to go actually. And yes, this song was also used first for a Bionicle commercial. 734. Cryoshell – Creeping in My Soul Year: 2009 Albu...

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Harry James and Kitty Kallen – It’s Been a Long, Long Time: 7 No doubt this was this was modern sounding shit in 1945, but hearing it now it screams 'period piece'. No wonder that the Captain America movies use it to connect to Captain's forties past. It's aggressively 1940's, but that also means it...

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Dexter goes for an oldie this time. What stood out to me is that it has an unusually high amount of streams on Spotify for a song from the forties, reaching almost 100 million. What makes it more curious is that it is not one of those obvious songs and it doesn’t appear on Acclaimed Music. Then I le...

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Alok and Bruno Martini, featuring Zeeba – Hear Me Now: 7 When a hit appears from after the time I still listened to the radio (basically past late 2015) it's always the question whether I know them and even more whether I will like them. Especially if none of the artist names sound familiar. This is...

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Usually we dance for fun, but for people like Sweepstakes Ron and Japanese band TRF it is a matter of survival.

732. TRF – survival dAnce
Year: 1994
Released as a single
Biggest Fan: Sweepstakes Ron (#350)

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Rob

I never would have expected Zebra to get a last-place vote! It's also pretty funny that Alright is the top-ranked song of the 2010s on AM and didn't get a single top-10 vote here. I'm guessing this is the first time that's ever happened in any of our decade polls? I’m with you on Zebra, I figured a...

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Today’s artists really want you to hear them. Critics seemingly didn’t, but audiences worldwide did, as the song has amassed a massive 700 million plus streams on Spotify alone. AMF ignored it, except Karla. 731. Alok and Bruno Martini, featuring Zeeba – Hear Me Now Year: 2016 Released as a single B...

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Motörhead – (We Are) The Road Crew: 8
I'm not completely sure, but I might have had this in my top 1000 in the previous poll. It's such a great straight-ahead no-nonsense rocker. I actually prefer it over the more iconic Ace of Spades.

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For those of you who think that things have gone to soft to here mileswide steps in with a real hard rock song. It bubbles under on AM. 730. Motörhead – (We Are) The Road Crew Year: 1980 Album: Ace of Spades Biggest Fan: mileswide (#163) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change y...

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Henry wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:03 pm 95. Anaïs Mitchell | “Hadestown” (2010)

The Hadestown album includes a song titled "Way Down Hadestown." Is this the song being ranked in our poll or is it a different song?

Based on the lyrics it is actually "Why We Build the Wall".

Rob

Dang, a few people are loving the new Hisaishi OST, I'll have to give it a spin independent of the film. Anyone else traumatized by birds now? Nah, I'm still fond of birds, but my love of them where never based on their innocence. I feel a bit guilty about not including the soundtrack to Spider-Man...

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Bobby Vinton – To Know You Is to Love You: 4
Could define the word "mawkish" in the dictionary. Not fond of this style of singing.

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Albums: 1. Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 2. Susanne Sundfør – blómi 3. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) 4. Lana Del Rey – Did you know there is a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 5. Sufjan Stevens – Javelin 6. Matt Elliott – The End of Days 7. CMAT – Crazymad, ...

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It really seems like R&B gets the shaft around here a lot. I don't see how anyone can deny that the catalog of, say, Mary J Blige is greater than Oasis, Peter Frampton, Jane's Addiction, etc (as an example). She's been releasing solid work for 30 years now. I feel like you will find very few mu...

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To know andyramones1234 is to love him.

729. Bobby Vinton – To Know You Is to Love You
Year: 1969
Album: Vinton
Biggest Fan: andyramones1234 (#47)

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Rob

The Verlaines - Burlesque: 7 These New Zealand bands that have some fans here never truly wow me, but they tend to be dependable rockers, as is this one. Aretha Franklin – The House That Jack Built: 7 I knew this one already, but somehow I had in mind that it was a bad song. Not so on relisten. It's...

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