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Pierre

Only 5 out of the top 30 acclaimed Swedish bands are there mostly based on Scandinavian acclaim (strangely for the highest ranked of them, Håkan Hellström, it's mostly Norwegian and Finnish lists). Sweden just has the benefit of : having lots of artists singing in English and having lots of bands i...

Pierre

I've got a note about your introduction: you say that, judging by AM.net, Sweden and France are among the countries which have less trouble communicating their stuff to the rest of the world. For Sweden, I believe it has more to do with the fact that the webmaster, Henrik, is Swedish himself, there...

Pierre

Hi Blanco! :greetings-waveyellow: What strikes me the most is that the list looks weird in itself because, precisely, of the "forced bias" to help the rest of the world weigh in. All of the songs from the English-speaking world present in this top are pretty conventional, the order they ar...

Pierre

The page from artist "the passions" is wrong. It's 2 different groups Just checked. To be more clear, the page for the Passions lists two bubbling songs, one from this American doo-wop band (Just to Be with You): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passions_%28American_band%29 And one from t...

Pierre

I nominate Yanis - Hypnotized, a great electro-pop track IMO.

Pierre

I'm not gonna participate, as usual, but since I'm here, I'll suggest you some good songs for chanson lovers; I know there are some here. Charles Aznavour - La Mamma The song is about an Italian "Mamma" about to pass away, and the overall mood around her. The subject was quite abstract for...

Pierre

Well, I guess it was kind of foreseeable for some time now... We'll just have to resort to more traditional ways of accessing non-streamed music, although I would like a legal way better.

Pierre

Media announced today that Jack Ely, former singer of the Kingsmen on their hit "Louie Louie", died on 27th April at the age of 71 from an unknown illness. "Louie Louie" is the 26th most-acclaimed song here on AM, and the best-known song by the Kingsmen (although it is itself a c...

Pierre

Nicky wrote:Thanks but I can't see anything below rank #29.

Hello Nicky! Welcome to the forum!

That's because Otisredding usually posts his MCCh stuff by editing his first message several times. You just came on the thread too soon

Pierre

I'm enormously amused by the reaction to Pitchfork awarding a "Best New Track" feature to Carly Rae Jepsen's "All That". I doubt it will be nearly enough to make "E MO TION" the "1989" of 2015 (what a confusing sentence that makes, thank you Taylor Swift), but...

Pierre

letmeintomyzone wrote:
Setherex wrote:Um... It's 'Halcyon'
Thank you. Changed.

Hmm... Not quite

Pierre

I've pointed at least two artists they seem to have that Spotify doesn't: Taylor Swift (up until Red, no 1989 strangely) and Big Black (try to find artists more different than those two). Still no Beatles or AC/DC though, and I've noticed some oddities (the early Sonic Youth albums are missing, for ...

Pierre

JimmyJazz wrote:Apologies for forgetting to close the poll, gentlemen, but three votes for Mirror's Edge means that is has won the tie break. We can now move on to the final round of voting.

That's pleasantly unexpected. Scandinavian games are underrated

Pierre

Curiously, Alex Chilton is listed under "A" with the entry "Alex".

Pierre

Mirror's Edge.

Pierre

Beyond Good and Evil 2 That's almost the only game I've been waiting for during the last twelve years. However, Michel Ancel has since then co-founded an independent studio, and last week, an Ubisoft employee called Yoan Fanise who worked on BG&E left Ubisoft criticizing their new policy of con...

Pierre

Angry side note - the newest Spotify desktop update is absolutely dreadful, and makes my job (as well as Henrik's and all of yours, I'm sure) extremely difficult. And yes, I also find the latest Spotify update pretty annoying ... Yes, I hate it too. I can no longer copy playlists to Excel and back ...

Pierre

Sir Terry Pratchett passed away today at the age of 66 from hospital complications linked to his Alzheimer disease. The author is best-remembered for his prolific series of novels Discworld . I'm extremely saddened by the news. Pratchett was easily one of my very favourite authors. I'll be mourning ...

Pierre

I must say, the bass lines do sound quite similar... What I don't understand is why Thicke and Williams chose to take it to court. A few years ago, when Coldplay were sued for plagiarism by Joe Satriani, they settled it out-of-court, and don't tell me Williams doesn't have enough money to satisfy Ga...

Pierre

The new Grimes song is gorgeous, beautiful melody and never had Grimes showed a calm and serene control of everything in the song. Man, thanks for bringing it to my attention; it's probably my new favourite song of the year so far. To think that it's only a demo and will not be on her next album is...

Pierre

Nassim wrote: James Brown - Prisoner of Love
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom

The all-time rank of both songs is equal to their year of release.

Pierre

Nassim wrote: 11) Portal

17) Portal

Nassim, you voted twice for Portal

Pierre

Now I'm totally out of my ground. I'm not even sure I've played fifteen games on those last ten years. Here's the top 5 of the ones I played:

1. Portal 2
2. Mirror's Edge
3. Child of Light
4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
5. Portal

Pierre

I'm not sure what to think. To me as well, the outro is the best part of the song, and the beat is interesting, but overall I don't feel like Kanye is going places he has not visited before. I have not yet listened to Wolves (I'm waiting for an official studio version), but so far I don't feel the s...

Pierre

So, I am very curious if anyone is fine with Stephan voting for the previous polls? I know they have already run, but he said he would have voted had he noticed it was going, and we, honestly, don't have that many voters, so we need all of the numbers we can get! This is the exception to our usual ...

Pierre

This period is somewhat of interest for me, because from about 2002 until 2005 I was a rather fanatical gamer. Before that I played quite a few games, but mostly things aimed at younger gamers or whatever I got for my birthday or something. Some of these games have become classics, like Rayman 2, P...

Pierre

Shadow Of Amn was, yes, but this is Throne of Bhaal. SoA would have been much higher on the list if it were a 2001 game. :) Ah, I see, I didn't notice it was Throne of Bhaal! There's no rule about it, but I personally chose not to vote for expansion packs when making my lists; in my mind they were ...

Pierre

Stephan wrote: 17. Baldur's Gate II: Throne Of Bhaal (BioWare, 2001)

Welcome in our little sect of gamers, Stephan! It doesn't matter much anyway, since only the first 15 games are taken into account for the vote, but Baldur's Gate II was actually a 2000 release

Pierre

Thanks for conducting this poll Jimmy. The inductees were very tightly bunched in terms of votes. I am curious about the vote total for the nominee that finished in 5th place. Great to see Yes in our hall of fame. The top two acts that almost got into the Hall this year were Gorillaz with 34 points...

Pierre

Jimmy, I need to know if I must vote for Dreamfall: The Longest Journey now, as it was released in 2006 on Xbox and on Windows, and the version I'll be voting for is the Windows one. Sure, Pierre. Go right ahead. :) Thanks! Beginning now, my playing time dramatically fell. Not only my family began ...

Pierre

Jimmy, I need to know if I must vote for Dreamfall: The Longest Journey now, as it was released in 2006 on Xbox and on Windows, and the version I'll be voting for is the Windows one.

Pierre

Jirin wrote:This tie is between four games that had one high vote from one person. We may be leading to another four way tie here.

I at least can confirm that I won't vote. I've played none of the four games tied

Pierre

1961 was the year French rock'n'roll exploded (perhaps taking advantage of the void left by English-speaking artists). That's not to say that it was outright fantastic, but for instance, "Twist à Saint-Tropez" and "Dactylo Rock" are still considered classics as of today. https://...

Pierre

Never mind the fact that he just proved that he is Bruce in the 1960 poll thread. I can't believe that you guys are back to this stuff again. Instead of thanking me for spotting an error in someone's song list you are calling for me to be banned. As if Bruce is the only person in the world who know...

Pierre

Never mind the fact that he just proved that he is Bruce in the 1960 poll thread. I just saw it. That's not the first time Hymie does this, that was included in my #3 in my first answer earlier in this topic. But Hymie sounds like he doesn't even care anymore that everyone think he is Bruce. Theref...

Pierre

Television iconic actor Leonard Nimoy, best-known as Mr. Spock from Star Trek and the Great Paris in Mission: Impossible , passed away today at the age of 83. I know this should probably be posted in the general discussion or film forums, but I felt like putting it here, on the one hand admittedly o...

Pierre

For you Bruce : Claude Nougaro - Armstrong Thank you Romain! :D Here's another: Nino Ferrer - Je voudrais être noir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yG2qU1PYxw 1. Hey hey hey, Mister Wilson Pickett. Hey hey hey, you Mister James Brown, Please tell me how you do it, Mister Charles, Mister King, Mist...

Pierre

Well, I give up on trying to understand why people want to categorize music according to the amount of melanin in the artist's skin. Oh, the humanity...

Pierre

From my point of view it's not that sure that Hymie is Bruce, and he isn't bothering people on the same level as Bruce, so certainly we shouldn't ban him without firm evidence. Edit: But I think I've been the second most sympathetic to Bruce after Hymie, so that's makes my opinion kind of not matte...

Pierre

If you read posts by TheRebel, or look at the layout of this thread I think you'll agree that there are stylistic similarities and even instances of language that would indicate a... closer(?) congruency. So if you accept this theory, it would appear that it is within Bruce's skillset to assume the...

Pierre

So, as we're talking about video games there on the general discussion board, Kanye West announces his own. Funny coincidence. If I understood correctly, it's about helping his mother reaching heaven, and is based on "Only One" (though in which way is anyone's guess). As it stands, it sou...

Pierre

So, as we're talking about video games there on the general discussion board, Kanye West announces his own. Funny coincidence. If I understood correctly, it's about helping his mother reaching heaven, and is based on "Only One" (though in which way is anyone's guess). As it stands, it soun...

Pierre

Jirin wrote: 14. TacticsOgre

A similar game from the creator of Final Fantasy Tactics, but it had some gameplay issues.

Jirin, are you sure this game is eligible? The Wikipedia page claims it's a port from a 1995 SNES game.

Pierre

Personally I'm not a fan of FFVII, but I know that for a lot of people it was their first exposure to JRPGs so it has strong emotional meaning. Indeed. I agree with you. But as much as I feel my emotional attachment to it, it actually remains my favourite JRPG, only challenged by the VI, so I don't...

Pierre

More Bruce s***. This post should be renamed "Uninteresting article".

Pierre

Man, this decade of video gaming was just ridiculously good. Look at the amount of classics and cult games released only in this five year span! However, it was a period where I became more of a full-blown PC gamer, and I only played the console games I stumbled upon, until I finally acquired a Play...

Pierre

1. Kanye West - Yeezus 2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy PlasticRam, I don't disagree with your top two (after all, both albums are fantastic, although Yeezus is "only" my #3 of 2013 behind Reflektor and RAM), but I would be interested in hearing your rationale for putting...

Pierre

1. Kanye West - Yeezus 2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy PlasticRam, I don't disagree with your top two (after all, both albums are fantastic, although Yeezus is "only" my #3 of 2013 behind Reflektor and RAM), but I would be interested in hearing your rationale for putting...

Pierre

Well, it seems we are running into the whole Pac Man thing again :mrgreen: I personally don't care what version of DOOM anyone votes for: aside from "plot" changes, they all feel like one and the same game to me all of the time. Same with Mario Kart, same with The Sims, same with Civiliza...

Pierre

Live in Phoenix wrote:In light of the voting arrangement for Tetris in the first round of voting, if I prefer Doom 64 for the Nintendo 64, should I just vote for "regular" Doom, since they are in many ways the same game?

Actually, Doom 64 is a different game. It consists of entirely new levels and graphics.

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