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2. Any band with a woman as a lead singer, or where the majority of its members are women are eligible. She must be the lead singer the majority of the time to be eligible for the artist poll (so Arcade Fire songs with Regine as the lead are fine for the song poll, but Arcade Fire would not be acce...

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Artists I'm not sure about: The Human League (decided to include) The xx (I went with just Romy at a lower position than I would rank the full band) Fleetwood Mac (went with just Stevie Nicks) My Bloody Valentine (excluded entirely) Top 100 Artists for now (I plan to delve deeper into many of these ...

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After recent discussions in the Hall of Acclaim, demographic survey, and All-Time album poll results topic, I have decided to host three surveys about women in music: a top 250 song, 100 album, and 100 artist poll. Here's a few rules for eligibility: 1. Any woman who performs as a solo act is obviou...

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The Smiths didn't really have much to gain from this. I gave Strangeways a slight bump but that's about it. The Smiths Albums: 1. The Queen is Dead (10) 2. The Smiths (9.5) 3. Hatful of Hollow (8.9) 4. Strangeways, Here We Come (8.8) 5. Meat is Murder (8.6) Top 25 Songs: 1. This Charming Man (10) 2....

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I tend to have a lot of 8.0s when I do this; that is the lowest point for my ranked song list, which I like to update by working from the bottom and evening out the ranks. So, if I give a new song an 8.0, it means I know I want it on my songs list, but am not fully sure how high I want it (the 8.0 s...

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I feel like I'm noticing a trend with both The Rolling Stones and R.E.M. where they start having longer albums once they reach the weaker part of their careers. With R.E.M., none of their albums go over 50 minutes until New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and then the next few go over 50. The last three non-co...

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I just finished Out of Time, and R.E.M. has shot from #10 to #7. Pretty much all of their albums have had slight jumps in placement, leading to huge overall gains. Document especially benefited; I pushed it from a 9.2 to a 9.6. R.E.M. is a thoroughly consistent band throughout the first half of thei...

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The Rolling Stones...their most recent albums never fall into bad territory, but they were never particularly good, either. Just a lot of meh. They did end up overtaking Nick Cave but fell a few points short of Velvet Underground. The Rolling Stones Albums: 1. Beggars Banquet (9.5) 2. Sticky Fingers...

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Up to Black and Blue for The Rolling Stones; "Hand of Fate" really worked for me. Hmm...

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veganvalentine wrote:
prosecutorgodot wrote:The title is amazing. I can say that much for now.
I originally read it as "mass education."

I almost put that in the Upcoming Albums post for this month. And then I spent a week wondering what Mass Eduction means...

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As far as only voting for similar acts, I just thinks this works better when there's some unifying theme between us (if I didn't go with women, I probably would have thrown my top vote toward Todd Rundgren or other acts I respect that I know would make specific people very happy - see you next year?...

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notbrianeno wrote:Hall of Acclaim:
1. Kendrick Lamar
2. St. Vincent
3. Autechre
4. Lady Gaga
5. Adrian Belew
6. Swans
7. Drake
8. Destroyer
9. Grizzly Bear
10. Burial

Backstage Wing:
James Murphy
Flood
DJ Khaled

Note that Kendrick Lamar already placed in the first round.

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Ending with two albums I rate a 7.5/10; I'll go with the one that isn't by the biggest band in the world.

Saint Etienne - So Tough

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For the backstage wing, I think I'll go with these?
1. Pharrell Williams
2. Nile Rodgers
3. Nigel Godrich

I think those fit the idea?

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I've added Erykah Badu to complete my ten.

1. Grimes
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Beyonce
4. Missy Elliot
5. Erykah Badu
6. Janet Jackson
7. Bessie Smith
8. Tori Amos
9. Emmylou Harris
10. Lucinda Williams

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It's a bit of a whim (yeah, more probably like a BIG whim) but I'll keep Grimes at #1 no matter what. Although like you I'm hostile toward strategic voting, I'm open to it this time around for the rest of my list. Regarding older artists who are missing, I think Bessie Smith's a pretty demonstrativ...

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I'll join in the women-only ballot this time (getting my top two votes in this time helps...). I think we just need to be more strategic with something like this, especially with how points are totaled. It doesn't help if we're all voting for entirely different women. I checked the point totals as ...

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I'll join in the women-only ballot this time (getting my top two votes in this time helps...). I think we just need to be more strategic with something like this, especially with how points are totaled. It doesn't help if we're all voting for entirely different women. I checked the point totals as t...

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Just listened to Nick Cave's songs featured on AM and Nocturama. Nocturama is pretty much the most cookie cutter Nick Cave album that could be produced. Nothing here is bad, but nothing particularly stands out either. Nick Cave Albums: 1. Skeleton Tree (9.7) 2. Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus (9.2) 3...

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Finished with Bruce Springsteen. I actually added five of his albums to my 8/10+ zone, which is a lot. He's pretty much halfway between The Beatles and The Velvet Underground now. I'm not sure if I noted this before, but an 8/10 for albums is right around my 1000th album, while an 8/10 for a song is...

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I believe there's, what, 11 hours left to vote in round one?

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But hey; we have two members who identify outside the gender binary and feel comfortable enough to share (though I don't believe we know who the other one is), which I don't think is something you would see in most internet forums.

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Bruce Springsteen has taken a massive leap pointwise, overtaking The Velvet Underground (but still far short of The Beatles). Three albums have been pushed into my 8+ range so far; his debut, The Ghost of Tom Joad, and The Rising. I'm just finishing up The Rising now, so I have seven albums left. I'...

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I wanted to give this its own topic, because damn. This just might be my album of the year, and this is a year where my favorite band released their first album in seven years and actually managed to match my expectations. I'm not sure what the standout tracks are yet, but the way everything flows t...

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MASSEDUCTION is immediately rivaling American Dream for my album of the year. St. Vincent's best yet (each of her albums is better than the one before).

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Big day of releases tomorrow.

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For me, both GKMC and TPaB made my top 25, but TPaB stands as my favorite largely due to the production. It made me realized I really love hip hop with a jazz influence (which is also why I've rediscovered A Tribe Called Quest since its release). It's such an inventive album through every track. The...

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No More Shall We Part
Libertango

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The Velvet Underground Albums: 1. The Velvet Underground and Nico (10) 2. The Velvet Underground (9.6) 3. White Light/White Heat (9.5) 4. Loaded (8.8) 5. V.U. (8.6) 6. 1969: Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed (8.2) 7. Squeeze (5.5) Top 25 songs: 1. Heroin 2. Sweet Jane 3. Venus in Furs 4. Pale B...

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Just got through listening to Squeeze, the only new album for me in my trek through The Velvet Underground. As an infamous album, Squeeze...really isn't that bad? Like, it's nowhere near their actual albums, but there's nothing here that makes me feel its reputation is justified besides its status o...

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Now my final rankings: Bob Dylan reached 14 albums in my 8+ range, making him now the artist with the most 'great' albums on my list (David Bowie and Nick Cave both have 13). Bob Dylan albums: 1. Highway 61 Revisited (9.5) 2. Bringing It All Back Home (9.4) 3. Blood on the Tracks (9.2) 4. Blonde on ...

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Down to the three most recent albums...not exactly excited for modern Bob Dylan doing covers.

With a few changes, Bob Dylan has officially overtaken The Beatles in my artist file; I could see them being eternally back and forth with each other.

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Horses has since become my #3 album after a few re-listens due to Best of the B-Sides 2. I wonder how much that 17 position increase would have affected things if I bothered to update my list another time before the submissions actually closed.

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I sense a theme. Rap isn't really supposed to be melodic, in the same way that poetry isn't supposed to be melodic. That isn't the point...For two of the rap groups you name, Public Enemy were very much against melody, because that wasn't the Police by. What are you trying to say in that last sente...

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The 80s were not a good era for Bob Dylan, though it ended on a definite high note with Oh Mercy, which went from being a low 7/10 to an 8.2. Bob Dylan is inching ever closer to overtaking The Beatles. ...and then I get to Under the Red Sky, which starts with one of the worst songs I've ever heard. ...

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So we might really have more genderqueer people than women? Huh...

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If I exclude stuff from 2016, here is my top 10 for the first round: 1. Kendrick Lamar 2. Arctic Monkeys 3. Grimes 4. Vampire Weekend 5. Bon Iver 6. James Blake 7. St. Vincent 8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 9. The Streets 10. Swans Beyonce and Frank Ocean fell out without the presence of Lemonade and Blonde. Bo...

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Almost had The xx at number 2 but remembered they are only that high on my artist list due to I See You pushing them up. I'll wait for next year when they'll like be my number one choice (after Kendrick hopefully gets in). Most of my choices are similar, musicians who broke through this current deca...

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It's interesting BleuPanda that your favorite artists are all extraordinarily acclaimed. Have you increasingly appreciated acclaimed music over time as you've listened to so many AM albums, or as your taste always been this similar to that of the critics? I actually only got into music around 2008 ...

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"Nude" was in the 41-50 range, but I decided to cut it to 40 since I was starting to fall into my sub-7 range with the last few (I'm sure there are more songs I'd rank above a 7 by Radiohead, but I simply haven't considered all their songs on their own. A song generally needs to either be ...

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I had started making a "rank all the LCD soundsystem tracks" list but I still have to listen to some b-sides. By the way, do you know Big Ideas, from the "21" original soundtrack ? I think it could contend for LCD Soundsystem top 10 (even if it has more than a passing ressemblan...

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Thoughts on my re-exploration of Bob Dylan so far: His debut album is surprisingly good. For an artist who is sometimes derided for his vocals and acclaimed for his lyrical genius, this is a perfect example of his skills as a performer. Bringing It All Back Home was much better than I remembered; it...

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I feel like I haven't explored the secondary works of many of my favorite artists enough. Too much time spent focusing on listening to works that are new to me, but I've been shifting focus to revisit works I've only listened to once. It's also been interesting in exploring the less discussed works ...

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Regarding the Closer defense, I don't really buy the "great album but no great songs" argument. I get what you're saying about an album being more than the sum of its parts, but albums are collections of songs, and a top 50 album by nature must have at least a few great songs. Not necessa...

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Yoshimi over Soft Bulletin? That's a big surprise.

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On Magical Mystery Tour, I just relistened to the entire Beatles canon this weekend and still don't get it. It doesn't 'feel' like an album to me like their other works do. Sure, the songs are great, but it doesn't flow as well as their other classics. Where Abbey Road has the medleys, The White Alb...

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High-ranking albums without songs such as Joy Division's Closer are easier to explain; there's something about the overall atmosphere and style of the album that makes an excellent extended statement, even if the individual parts don't necessarily stand on their own. Trout Mask Replica made this cle...

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Henry wrote:Let's see how many of these notable efforts drop before we get to 100:

Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes (134, 638, 670) - likely missed the top 1000.

This one landed at 389.

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The Jam - Sound Affects
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Astor Piazzolla - Libertango

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-petty- ... ead-at-66/

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