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Nothing I really dislike but overall much weaker week than the previous 4. 16. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country vs. 10. Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath 14. Gerry and the Pacemakers - Ferry Cross the Mersey vs. 8. Wire - Map Ref. 41 Deg. N 93 Deg. W 11. The Go-Betweens - St...

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73. Incubus Nostalgia played into this for sure, but Make Yourself and A Crow Left of the Murder are good albums Searched to see if Thrice has ever been mentioned on the forums before...Nassim, good to see I'm not the only fan of Thrice and Finch! I still have The Illusion of Safety as my #45 album...

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The comparison tells me that I need to open myself open to more music and different artists. 79% of my artists are in the top 500. I'm sorry for being a "lurker" but I am a very shy person and sometimes I feel like my knowledge is overshadowed by some very knowledgeable folks on this site...

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No time to relisten to everything so only voting for brackets where I remember both songs well. 5970. Tom Jones - Delilah 5977. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight 5964. Seal - Kiss from a Rose 5893. Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over 5926. Renaud - Mistral Gagnant 5885. Godspeed You! Black Empe...

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I guess that's a good opportunity to post my favorite music videos of the year too : 1) Kanye West - Ultralight Beam 2) Car Seat Headrest - Vincent 3) PUP - If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will/DVP Technically that's 2 different song, but they flow so well into each other that for now I have regrou...

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This feeling is still weird to me; I feel entirely undereducated on the subject matter, yet no one in my real-life circle even really listens to albums, outside of a handful of favorite artists. Frankly, this odd middle position might have given me a music-based imposter syndrome; a source of music...

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For something beyond the main results, I hope we can skip the regular and lurker terms. My suggestion is to look at changes between 2013 and 2016 using only those who participated in both polls. Both the 2013 and 2016 results would then have to be reduced to the two-time voters, I don't know if thi...

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Here is my mid year list : Favorite album in a long while (would have probably topped my 2014 and 2015 lists) 1) Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial Great : 2) Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book 3) Moderat - III 4) Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid Very Good : 5) Pup - The Dream is Over 6) David Bowie ...

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VanillaFire1000 wrote:Did my ballot get counted? I gave it in as a PM and never got a response.

Yes, saw your name on page 3 ! (I keep an eye on voters who have tastes relatively similar to mine

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We should definitely include everyone in the main rollout - it'd be unfair and uninviting to new users. I just think something at the end would be a nice bit of data to compare. Yeah, clearly, no doubt about that, there's no reason to exclude anyone. My point wasn't really about new users vs regula...

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I Wonder how the great number of voters will affect the ranking, I would assume it will favor the usual consensus and rock and soul, and either get to a result in the best case closer to AM, in the worst case closer to the Rock and Roll HoF. So I'd be (happily) surprised to see Björk or Arcade Fire ...

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Pretty phenomenal week. 1 song I strongly dislike, 1 I don't like, but everything else is top quality ; the best 11 are all fantastic and deserve to go to the 2nd round. Luckily, it lead to only 2 really tough choices. 14. The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You vs. 3. Fiona Apple - Criminal 8. The Horrors ...

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Let's Eat Grandma - Deep Six Textbook (though if Rapunzel gets a chance, I'm ok with that too)

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JimmyJazz wrote: In the mean time, everyone can speculate on the results for this year!

Well, I know it's a longshot and you might call me crazy, but I think the Beatles will be #1.

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Pierre wrote:
BleuPanda wrote:There's a facebook group?
Same question

https://www.facebook.com/groups/15184325211/

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Wow, it must have been the greatest number of participants in any of our polls. Acclaimed Music is the best world music forum It's time to raise to 100x100 Do you think it is possible to get 100 am'ers send their list of the 100 best songs of their lives? Only 100. I believe that if we say "ca...

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Not as good as the previous 2 weeks overall (though not bad either), and much harder to rank as it all feels pretty even. Blur - Coffee & TV vs. Erykah Badu - Windowseat Pet Shop Boys - Left to My Own Devices vs. Japan - Nightporter Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born on the Bayou vs. Tom Waits ...

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5981. Rod Stewart - Sailing 5899. Serge Reggiani - Sarah 5883. Simon and Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter 5958. Pink Floyd - Echoes 5934. Supertramp - Bloody Well Right This bracket shouldn't be overlooked, the 2 songs are great and I would have voted for them on most match-ups. 5971. Pearl Jam - ...

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Should be no surprise as those songs are both relatively acclaimed and hand picked by us, but great selections once more with not a single song I don't like. 1. Bat for Lashes - Laura vs. 15. Pixies - Velouria 7. Foals - Spanish Sahara vs. 9. Leonard Cohen - So Long Marianne I like Spanish Sahara a ...

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Not sure I have seen a single non English spoken movie that year. 1) Adventureland 2) Zombieland 3) (500) Days of Summer 3.5) The first 5 minutes of Up 4) Whip It 5) District 9 6) Mary & Max 7) Moon 8) Sherlock Holmes 9) Black Dynamite 10) Up While the worst movie I have seen from 2009 is clearl...

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3. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Pick Yourself Up is a beautiful relic of the past, but I'll Sleep When You're Dead is the sound of the (hopefully dystopian) future blasting out.

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JamieW, if I like a lot La Femme (and their new album seems excellent if I just take the two songs already listenable), I think the biggest lover for the band is Nassim ;-) Oh! I get a lot of recommendations from the album ratings you post in the yearly album threads, and I must have thought this i...

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Has anyone listened to White Lung's latest ? VERY impressed by it - although it is right up my alley, musically. I wonder what the forumers think ? I liked it too, came as a big surprise as I had never heard anything from the band so I didn't expect a sound so close to bands that usually don't get ...

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5996. X-Ray Spex - Identity 5964. Seal - Kiss from a Rose Possibly my 2 favorite songs of the week. Kiss From a Rose was 12 year old me favorite song, so I got to give it the edge. 5884. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 5893. Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over 5933. Bert Jansch - Needle of Death 5926....

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16 songs I like, though In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida would be a great 4 minute song but doesn't have quite enough ideas to last that long. The finale in particular is disappoiting and doesn't pay off the wait. 2. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt vs. 9. Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baila 15. Foreigner - I Want to Know Wha...

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Climbing Up the Walls The Great Curve Lost in the World Ignoreland Stacked. The winner of this group could very well win it all. That's some insight ;) I vote for Climbing Up The Walls, but the Great Curve would be a deserving winner. On the first round The Great Curve won the bracket by a fair mar...

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Whoo hoo! We've tied our record! I definitely think we can hit 50. (If we do, we should also include artists #101-150). I will post the Top 500 anyways like we always do, but what do folks think? Should I do the proper display for a Top 150, or even 200? I'd say it depends, last time the score diff...

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I saw a new one with 100 french rap albums in store today.

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I went with Via Chicago, but overall I'm pretty confident the winner will be in the 3rd quarter. For the sweet sixteen round I have on that quarter A Rose for Emily, Set Controls for the Heart of the Sun (which I think was pretty close to our top 1000 in the last songs poll), Initials B.B. and Via C...

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Souls of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity (#2970)

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Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends (#2635)

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Refused - New Noise (#3726) - criminally under-rated That will get my vote against pretty much anything ! Bat for Lashes - Laura (1054) Autre Ne Veut - Play by Play (1288) More personal favorite I won't have to nominate my self ! Can't believe either that Like Dylan in the Movies is still unranked ...

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Before I go to bed :
Labradford - Lake Speed (unranked, from Labradford (bubbling))

It's a mystery to me how there is no Labradford album in the top 3000 !

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Today in "songs that will never pass round 1 " :
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat (unranked, from Feels (874))

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The good news: The Avalanches are back with a new album on July 8th!!! The bad news: The lead single, "Frankie Sinatra", really isn't that good. Generic slice of electro swing with serious mixing issues and confounding Danny Brown and MF DOOM features. You guys had 16 years to create a fo...

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Dusty Springfield - The Windmills of Your Mind (unranked on AM list; #1 on personal all-time list) From an AM top 500 album, so it's not eligible. These rules are a tad complicated. :? :D Singles from an AM top 500 album are eligible, no? Yes ! Making the rules even more complicated ;) I somehow th...

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Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls Talking Heads - The Great Curve Discussion Time! Which eligible song do you most wish was in this tournament? I'll join you BP, The Predatory Wasp is one of my favorite songs of all time, and They Are Night Zombies is in my top 500. And I'll also join DaveC for In T...

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So on top of that they now publish "30 years, 30 artists" with one (music) artist for every year (though not necessarily linked to a specific album). With that they publish playlists of "year x in 30 songs", here is for instance the article for 1993, dedicated to the Wu-Tang, and...

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5929. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Your Precious Love 5944. Ofra Haza - Im nin'alu 5880. Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues 5993. Kasabian - Fire 5918. Cannibal & The Headhunters - Land of 1000 Dances 5891. Oneohtrix Point Never feat. Antony Hegarty - Returnal 5982. Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic He...

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It's already a lost cause but :
2. Miossec - Boire, one of the best French rock albums of the 90s.

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EmilienDelRey wrote:
TimmyWing wrote:This week, I'll go for "Fill in the Blank" by Car Seat Headrest.
Seconded!

Tripled !

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5885. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm 5949. Madonna - Die Another Day 5924. R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion 5988. Judy Collins - Amazing Grace Hard to rank as it's not easy to consider Storm as "one song" or to judge that version of Amazing Grace on its own merit given how many there are. 5...

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Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls
pass : favorite discovery against old favorite, I will have to consider it for a few more days
Portishead - Mysterons

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Portishead - Mysterons
The Beatles - You Never Give Me Your Money

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Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls
Pass
LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
Talking Heads - The Great Curve

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4. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something

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5911. The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women 5962. ScHoolboy Q feat. A$AP Rocky - Hands on the Wheel 5975. Jackson Browne - These Days 5898. Perfect Pussy - Interference Fits 5937. Green Velvet - La La Land 5936. George Harrison - Awaiting on You All 5873. Dwight Twilley Band - I'm on Fire 6000. Moceda...

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I sticked (with one tiny exception) to the AM songs list when it comes to picking the highlights, since I consider those are the songs critics would recommend, but looking as some choices by other people, I see it's not what everybody did ! Should we have a guideline for that too ? I think I want t...

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Albums : 1) OK Computer 2) The Bends 3) In Rainbows 4) Kid A 5) A Moon Shaped Pool 6) Amnesiac 7) The King of Limbs 8) I Might Be Wrong Songs : 1) Fake Plastic Trees 2) Idioteque 3) Airbag 4) Electioneering 5) No Surprises 6) Climbing Up The Walls 7) 15 Step (with a special spot for the 2009 Grammys...

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