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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)

Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your rating.

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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".

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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)

Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change your rating.

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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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The second appearance by Aretha Franklin shares a title with a movie by Lars von Trier, which may or may not be more disturbing than the song. Krurze appreciates this act of architecture and so do the critics who ranked this at #9020 on AM. 728. Aretha Franklin – The House That Jack Built Year: 1968...

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Well, it's official. Acclaimed Music Forum is going down. Forum participation is slowly but steadily declining. I wonder how much it plays a role that the main website hasn't been updated for a few years now? I, like probably most people here, have discovered the forum through the main website, but...

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We come to it at last: the most Bradcore band ever, The Verlaines, appear for the first time in the second edition of Biggest Fan, after several appearances in the first edition. 727. The Verlaines - Burlesque Year: 1984 EP: 10 O’Clock in the Afternoon Biggest Fan: Brad (#145) Don’t forget you can a...

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Duk Koo Kim is a song I have not heard, but it sounds like if someone was trying to remember the name of "Dmt Kiu Ldt" and couldn't quite. Du Koo Kim was an actual person though. Sun Kil Moon – Duk Koo Kim: 8 I sometimes find it hard to focus on these type of vocals to hear the words, but...

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Here is the updated playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zW1BHIOLXDtlaCC0HShw1 The IDLES album isn't released yet, but coincidentally all the highlights have, so I have them on the playlist. I'll replace them with the album versions later. It's still a small list, but that makes it all the m...

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The_Claw wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:39 pm
Rob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:37 pm 21. Existence - Spraakwater (2015)
Thanks for posting! This probably should be Extince - Spraakwater (1995)?

Yes, you are correct. I did that group name wrong twice actually. Fixed it.

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It’s time for a long song again, because today’s tribute to a Korean boxer from styrofoamboots’ list lasts almost 15 minutes. 726. Sun Kil Moon – Duk Koo Kim Year: 2003 Album: Ghosts of the Great Highway Biggest Fan: styrofoamboots (#590) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or change ...

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Janelle Monáe – Neon Valley Street: 6 Nothing wrong with it in context of the album, but it is one of those songs that on it's own doesn't really leaves much of an impression. Scott Walker – The War Is Over (Epilogue): 7 A good song, but it also feels like he's playing on past successes a bit. https...

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And the finale: 10. Doe Maar - Pa (1983) 9. Fresku - Twijfel (2010) 8. De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Sterrenstof (2010) 7. Liesbeth List & Ramses Shaffy - Pastorale (1968) 6. Spinvis - Wespen op de appeltaart (2007) 5. Doe Maar - 32 jaar (Sinds 1 dag of 2) (1981) 4. Ramses Shaffy - Zing, vecht, hu...

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For her third appearance on Biggest Fan Janelle Monáe takes us again to a futuristic city, where prosecutorgodot walks the streets. 725. Janelle Monáe – Neon Valley Street Year: 2010 Album: The ArchAndroid Biggest Fan: prosecutorgodot (#50) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or chang...

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Fred opts for a song with an optimistic title, even if in the real world a lot of wars aren’t over by a long shot. Then again, I’m not sure which war Scott Walker – who makes his second appearance here – is talking about. 724. Scott Walker – The War Is Over (Epilogue) Year: 1970 Album: ‘Til the Band...

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Blur - Sing: 4
I'm not the biggest on Blur around these parts, but even so this feels a rather dull song.

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Rumpdoll today gives us one of the most obvious titles for a song you can think of. It is the second appearance by Blur here and you can find the track bubblin’ under on AM. 723. Blur - Sing Year: 1991 Album: Leisure Biggest Fan: rumpdoll (#472) Don’t forget you can always vote at a later moment or ...

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Tina Turner – We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome): 8 One of my favorite guilty pleasures. Tina Turner was something of a champion of this type of campy nonsense that fits the movies. I kind of hate the film this came from, but at least it gave us Turner going all out on this song (which absolut...

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Let’s throw in another hit, this time from Profeta’s list. Fun fact: it comes from the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, in which Tina Turner plays the main villain. Sadly, she doesn’t sing it in character, but only during the credits. 722. Tina Turner – We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) Year...

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https://media.s-bol.com/E0gvjZx94Z2l/kgoo5N/550x550.jpg The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema (2005) / Power Pop, Indie Pop Vs. https://writteninmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Bobby-Gentry.jpg Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete (1968) / Country Soul As I said in my last post The Delta Sweete is k...

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I agree that it isn't the most exciting group. I barely feel the need to make a personal top 5. Oasis, Sade, O'Connor, Tribe and Erik B. & Rakim I guess. I guess Sinead O'Connor's semi-recent death put her back in the picture and makes her a likely win. That's the only one I almost dare to bet m...

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Kiss – I Love It Loud: 5
I usually like Kiss as a dumb fun band, but dumb does not have to mean lazy, which is how this song feels. Sure, it gives what it promises in the title, but it feels a dime a dozen for 80's cock rock.

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Thanks, Jirin!

The number one made no impression on me. I had it ranked #18 of #21 overall. Maybe I should give it another shot.
Surprised Hellmode didn't make the top 10.

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No quiet music today! Sadly you can’t hear this band live in Phoenix in the near future, but they have gone to the city multiple times, most recently in 2021 during their final tour. 721. Kiss – I Love It Loud Year: 1982 Album: Creatures of the Night Biggest Fan: Live in Phoenix (#537) Don’t forget ...

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Mary Mary – Shackles (Praise You): 7
One of those "Ah, it is this one!" songs. Very catchy. No surprise that this is a Christian song that plays well with secular people, as the religious context is easy to gloss over.

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Father2TheMan returns with another Christian song, but no Christian Rock this time. Instead we get a gospel track that was a cross-over success. As such, it isn’t the most dogmatic of religious songs. 720. Mary Mary – Shackles (Praise You) Year: 1999 Album: Thankful Biggest Fan: Father2TheMan (#957)...

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Radiohead – The Gloaming: 7
This goes hard on the atmosphere and sounds like it might become one of their best songs, but misses something of a finish or a truly interesting development in the end.

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Today we get the third appearance by Radiohead, a band who has been surprisingly unsuccessful in keeping their entries in the Biggest Fan Top 100. Perhaps ordinaryperson has found the right track to change that? 719. Radiohead – The Gloaming Year: 2003 Album: Hail to the Thief Biggest Fan: ordinaryp...

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Joni Mitchell – The Same Situation: 8
It's hard to find real fault with 70's Joni Mitchell. I wouldn't even call this a stand-out and it is still strong.

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25. The Opposites, featuring Dio & Willie Wartaal - Dom, Lomp & Famous (2007) 24. Winne - Lotgenoot (2009) 23. Flinke namen - Wolken (2009) 22. Sef - De leven (2011) 21. Extince - Spraakwater (2015) 20. Marco Borsato - Binnen (1999) 19. Lil Kleine & Ronnie Flex - Drank & drugs (2015)...

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