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Hurray for both of Stevie Wonder's big ones breaking into the top 35! Just as surprised as everyone about 4 Radiohead albums, and of course Let It Bleed being the top Stones pick, though it is my personal fave (the only Stones album I voted for). I suck at this prediction game, I can't ever get more...

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Purple Rain
Superstition

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The title is amazing. I can say that much for now.

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Henry wrote:Madonna - True Blue (189, 1398, 722)

This is a great pop album. Better than Like a Virgin and Like a Prayer in my opinion.

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And now we enter the hallowed, sparsely populated halls of the albums most of us love. The first three to crack 38 votes are Wish You Were Here , Low and Bridge Over Troubled Water . I am surprised that Hunky Dory is beating Low , and that Forever Changes is doing so well, even given its previous po...

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Listyguy wrote:Of course, no discussion about the worst songs of all time is complete without bringing up "Friday" by ten Rebecca Black.

Bob Dylan's original version is one of my favorite novelty tracks.

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Which of the following do we expect to drop in the next 5? David Bowie - Hunky Dory (813, 66, 60) - tough call David Bowie - Low (513, 100, 61) - good possibility Jeff Buckley - Grace (290, 59, 75) - seems likely Kanye West - MBDTF (NR, 73, 69) - likely higher Pearl Jam - Ten (my all-time rating=57...

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Albums
Prince - Purple Rain
Etta James - At Last!
The second matchup was tough.

Songs
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Prince - Let’s Go Crazy

I feel like the final results are pretty clear from here, but maybe it's just me.

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I think it was a very beautiful-looking movie. Cinematography, camera work, framing, etc. etc. all very top quality. Since I am not totally a fan of the original, I cannot in my right mind criticize "2049" anymore beyond that. Without spoilers, does anyone else think one of the female char...

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Stupendous placing for good kid, m.A.A.d. city ! Monumental, that it is our choice of third greatest hip-hop album, over the likes of Nation of Millions and 36 Chambers . Though I love its ranking, it irks me that it still only got 30 votes, the highest so far in the poll for a rap album. Still belo...

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Thanks so much Listyguy! Great poll, great rollout.

I never finished reading Slaughterhouse Five... time to get to it!

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My breakdown for the genres of the top 100: 41 Rock (alternative, progressive, art, indie,...) 16 Pop 8 New wave / Post-punk 7 R&B 7 Folk/Country 7 Singer-songwriter 4 Hip-hop 4 Dance/Electronic 3 Grunge 2 Jazz 1 Post-rock Female albums in top 100 (min 5, max 8): Hounds of Love (#96), Blue, Homo...

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I'm seeing a pattern: on a lot of the albums I don't like, the review mentions nihilism.

ArchAndroid and Rush of Blood are the first albums with 30 votes!

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1. Green Day (their Nineties output alone should get them in) 2. Kendrick Lamar 3. Joe Hisaishi 4. Paramore 5. Bee Gees 6. Linkin Park 7. Janelle Monae 8. Fleet Foxes 9. John Mayer 10. Wham! Backstage: Anthony Fantano (probably the most popular music critic of all time, and second only to Ebert &...

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Iglooghost's Neo Wax Bloom is a cool electronic project to check out. Iglooghost is influenced by the high-pitched sound of PC Music, but even more hyper.

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Yet another song I mistook for another year!

This time it was "Decode" by Paramore. It's my new #1, move everything else down.
Thx bonnielaurel for reminding me.

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Looking good, Listyguy!

I want to read Lolita, but it might be a while before I get around to it.

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Ayyy shout out to my boy Kenny Llama. No matter what happens, he's going to get some damn good placements.

Also shout out to MTV Unplugged in New York. My favorite Nirvana album

Very surprised at its high placement.

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I know I really shouldn't care, but I sure hope Kate Bush gets a nod.
It's going to be weird, but Radiohead is almost certain to get a nod, but they probably wouldn't even show up to the ceremony lol

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No love for "Nude"?

Easy top 5 for me.

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Also, unluckily for Oracular Spectacular, the French publication LesInrocks, who really love that album, like Congratulations even more and picked it instead for their end of decade and all time list. I would agree with that assessment. Congratulations is more consistent, albeit with a different ge...

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I'm expecting ATCQ before we hit 120, and I think it will be the first or second album to hit 30 votes.

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Wait... Help! outranked A Hard Day's Night (unless I completely missed the former go by)? That's...interesting... A Hard Day's Night is more consistent in sound, but Help! has those enduring pop hits, like "Yesterday" and the title track. Just my guess. Also, it's probably not by much, be...

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Captain Beefheart. No one can think of any notable tracks from Trout Mask Replica. As Langdon Winner points out in his essay on the album in Stranded , the only TMR track that ever got any real notice beyond the Beefheart cult was "The Blimp," mostly for its juvenile humor - far closer to...

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The Blue Album is so good! even though I got into it pretty recently.
Surprised it jumped so high tho.

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Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote: Also...Thriller finished at #33 the last time we ran this poll. It seems like a lock for the top 20 this time around.
Doubling down on this after seeing Bad go from #308 to #164. Hell, top 10 seems possible (albeit an outside shot).

Ambitious! I will be very impressed if you get this right.

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Toni wrote:- Curtis (6 votes):
Dave C
Henry
Honorio
EmilienDelRey
Madzong
Neil

- Ben (6 votes):
Bang Jan
Bruno
JamieW
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Bonnielaurel
Toni

I counted, and I got the same numbers here.

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We have a lot more Radiohead albums left (and Beatles albums too); I'm surprised A Moon Shaped Pool landed so low in the band's catalogue.

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I'm sorry Steviefan, nothing personal, but "Little Lion Man" must be one of my least favorite songs of all time. I gave Laura Marling - "Night Terror" a listen. I'm glad I did. Also, here's a fantastic video of Fever Ray accepting an award . I cringed, but goddamn, this is exactl...

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All-Prince song finals for the win?

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DaveC wrote: The EP "Metropolis, Suite I: The Chase" was released on 1st June 2007 on Purple Ribbon Records.

Oops, I'm sorry, I stand corrected. For some reason I've always associated the EP with 2009.
I went back and edited my song list.

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Moonbeam wrote:Songs:
[2] Janelle Monáe - Many Moons

This song is either 2008 or 2009, but not 2007, unless you can show me a link?

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Interesting little quickie review of The Great Gatsby right there. Never understood the acclaim of the book, but that review helps me see that side a bit more clearly.

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BleuPanda wrote:I've met tons of people who trash things like more traditional rock or folk because 'anyone could play it,' as if difficulty of performance is the only marker of quality.

I agree, I do not like this approach to appraising music. It's like measuring the quality of a singer only by their pitch range.

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I'm not ready for the Beatles onslaught.

I am very happy with Lemonade's placement!

At this rate, both Green Day albums could be in the top 200. That would be awesome

I'm starting to feel the pain of the electronic drops. I think Mezzanine is pretty dang cool, and I love The Man Machine.

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Holy cow! Black Messiah is the #1 album of 2014!

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Henry wrote:Is there any chance one or more of these didn't make it to the top 1000?

I think they will all make it. "Time Out" already showed up though.

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We only have 3 albums with >=20 votes (out of 74) so far. Based on patterns from the previous poll, we should have started getting albums with 25 votes by now. We're probably not going to get to albums with a majority of votes until well into the top 100. It also confirms the statistics theory that ...

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I was never expecting to catch up on listening to everything before the results were fully released. I had concerns about going too fast back when I did the song poll. How do other people feel about the issue? A slow reveal allows us to discuss where we think things will land, so I guess it depends...

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Thought: Ziggy Stardust could be #2 behind OK Computer.

Edit: Dang, I just realized that Funeral or London Calling taking #2 is way more likely. Lol

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Albums
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
Etta James - At Last!
Jorge Ben - África Brasil

Songs
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive
Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Gil Scott-Heron - Home is Where the Hatred Is

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Wow, am I completely wrong about Drake's dominance? I did not think "Nothing Was the Same" would be his top album, but "Take Care" does not seem likely at this point. I'm pretty surprised by this too. I would've thought for sure "Take Care" would make the top 1000, esp...

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Wow, am I completely wrong about Drake's dominance? I did not think "Nothing Was the Same" would be his top album, but "Take Care" does not seem likely at this point.

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So far, I strongly feel like Hip-hop is getting a boost this time, and I think the final list in comparison with last time will reflect this.

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The Kinks - Face to Face

I think this is my first vote in MA.

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First album to reach 20 votes is... Return to Cookie Mountain!

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So Skeleton Tree is probably going to be the forum's favorite Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album. Any thoughts?

I thought it was worth discussion since the album is only a year old, yet Cave's discography spans nearly four decades.

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Playing the Billboard game TLC - "Creep" was #1 Hot 100 on my birthday! Garth Brooks - The Hits was #1 on the Top 200 :? and Green Day's Dookie at #2 :angry-banghead: Green Day - "When I Come Around" #1 on the Alternative Chart. So it's kinda cool, like I was born to love them ha...

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3. Very surprised to see Swans' The Seer and To Be Kind almost right next to each other. If I had to guess before the poll, I would have thought TBK would place between 500-700 and The Seer would be between 200-300; once I saw TBK at 414, I got prematurely excited and thought The Seer would be much...

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