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Anouar Brahem - Le Voyage de Sahar 86
Andrés Calamaro - Alta Suciedad 85
Compay Segundo – Yo Vengo Aqui 84
Pere Ubu - Datapanik in the Year Zero (EP) 83
Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual 76
Champion Jack Dupree - Blues From The Gutter 73
Genesis - Foxtrot 70
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak 40

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That is correct my nomination is "Why We Build The Wall".

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Vertigo
The Music Room
Touch Of Evil
Ashes and Diamonds

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I'm a huge fan of Weerasethakul. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is my favorite, Syndromes of a Century is also great. I haven't seen Blissfully Yours.

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Definitely a weak year. I just realized that out of the 691 albums I have in my rating system, only 7 are from 1976. The best albums this year are from other continents. For some reason I had Zombie down as 1977 but it's 1976 in AM. 1. Fela Kuti - Zombie 2. Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil 3. Steven Wonder...

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Anais Mitchell - The Wall.

Sorry, I can't stop nominating Anais Mitchell for things.

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Let me rephrase my criticism of the article then, I believe the article is written on false premises and faulty logic. The critic states that Don't Stop Believin was savaged by critics when it came out, and now it's considered a pop standard. This song happens to be a very melodramatic song. The cri...

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I find this article kind of pretentious. It finds one example of a song shunned and later accepted by critics and props it up as the standard. At best this article is a valid critique that critics often unfairly judge good songs for being too similar to he bad songs coming out around the same time. ...

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Have you been able to find The Traveling Players? That's another great one I needed a region free player to watch. Not available in the US but easily available in the UK. Seriously, if you like the sort of films that are praised on TSPDT, get the Artificial Eye collections for both Angelopolous and ...

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I have a bootleg of A Brighter Summer Day I got on ebay. Check on ebay. It's one of my favorite films, seriously, get that film. The Mother And The Whore I found on Amazon. If you're serious about exporing the TSPDT list get a region free player. You will also need it for Partie de Campagne, all of ...

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A lot of the big indie artists seem to have fallen into a three year cycle, and I think the reason 2007, 2010, and 2013 were the standouts is because that's where The National and Arcade Fire (As well as the man the rest of you like better than I do) fall in the cycle. If that pattern holds true we...

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Black Prairie - Fortune (ty DocBrown) and First Aid Kit - Stay Gold have now jumped into my top ten.

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A lot of the big indie artists seem to have fallen into a three year cycle, and I think the reason 2007, 2010, and 2013 were the standouts is because that's where The National and Arcade Fire (As well as the man the rest of you like better than I do) fall in the cycle. If that pattern holds true we ...

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Henrik, I understand weighting albums and songs equally but I don't understand the step where you multiply the albums score based on how good the songs score is. Doesn't this just penalize albums who have consistent albums but don't care about catchy singles, the same way the old formula penalized ...

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Henrik, I understand weighting albums and songs equally but I don't understand the step where you multiply the albums score based on how good the songs score is. Doesn't this just penalize albums who have consistent albums but don't care about catchy singles, the same way the old formula penalized p...

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Can't believe I forgot to vote last week. Fortunately no matches were decided by less than 2 votes. Black Sabbath - Vol 4 75 Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring 80 Chuck Berry - After School Session 85 Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl 76 Goran Bregovic - Music Inspired And Taken From Underground (Don't have ...

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I think critics rate albums higher when they are more saturated in the media, and are more comfortable placing albums higher when they perceive them as being more recognized, yes. Can't speak for your own personal motives. All the critics who rated Kanye high probably genuinely like him, they're not...

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Great to see a vast majority of the big increases be well deserved. The National, Sleater-Kinney, Wilco, the best alt-rock bands of the 2000s are up across the board and Silent Shout cracks the top 300.

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So sad to see so much drinking of the Kanye West social media cool-aid. Great to see Liquid Swords climbing though, much better album than MBDTF. What was the general trend for non-Anglophone records? Two years ago it seemed a lot of the biggest gainers were French and Spanish albums. Did that same ...

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I'd love to get good recommendations for shows that are 'Before my time', but I don't think they were making the kinds of shows I like until recently. I'm not a fan of the triteness and patness of sitcoms and it's hard for me to warm up to formula-driven procedurals unless they have REALLY good writ...

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Why are some mainstream artists such dicks about putting their albums on Spotify? The Black Keys - Turn Blue even got taken off Grooveshark. It's like these bands are saying "What, you want to sample this record before you buy it? HA! You blind buy it or you don't get to have it at all!" I...

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Dylan FTW

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Bob Dylan and Velvet Underground. @Bruce If anything is absurd, it's tying greatness to mainstream recognition. You're absolutely right that artists from the 50s and earlier are underrated on the artist list due to having come before the album era. But the newer and nichier artists deserve to be the...

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1. Bob Dylan (Minnesota)

4. Prince (Minnesota)

10. Stevie Wonder (Michigan)

6. The Velvet Underground (New York)

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18. The Doors (California) The Doors: My #3 album of all time plus two more in my top 200. Springstee: My #98 album and no others in my top 200. 10. Stevie Wonder (Michigan) 19. Michael Jackson (Indiana) I'm a fan of the Sun recordings but after that I think Elvis' work became overwrought. 11. Nirva...

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1. Bob Dylan (Minnesota)

8. R.E.M. (Georgia)

4. Prince (Minnesota)

5. Jimi Hendrix (Washington)

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I did kinda like it when it first came out, but at the time I also thought Creed and Staind were great bands. ;) And Creed and Staind may have been overall terrible but they both had one or two individual singles who are legitimately worthy of critical praise, far more than Nickelback, Lou Bega or L...

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How did How You Remind Me get on the list? That song is like the posterchild of whinecore.

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3. Elvis Presley (Mississippi)

19. Michael Jackson (Indiana)

22. Pixies (Massachusetts)

6. The Velvet Underground (New York)

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34. Flaming Lips (Oklahoma) This one is hard because Springsteen's best singles are better than the Lips' best singles, but IMO his albums aren't as consistent as the Lips' top ones. 18. The Doors (California) Seeing as The Doors currently have 2 albums in my top 30, not a hard choice. 23. Lou Reed ...

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Romain wrote: 1) Twilight Zone
2) Breaking Bad
3) Twin Peaks
4) Game Of Thrones

Jirin wrote: 1. Twilight Zone
2. Twin Peaks
3. Breaking Bad
4. Game of Thrones

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I think upsets will be more common from here on, because in the first round much of the bottom 32 was made up of the highest rated artists from states without many high rated artits.

4. Prince (Minnesota)

13. Talking Heads (New York)

12. Miles Davis (Illinois)

5. Jimi Hendrix (Washington)

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Decalogue, that's another one I think of as a movie I will have to add in. Surprising to see so little love for DS9 from people who give so much love to Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. I would think the demographics for those shows would have more overlap, since all three constitute the same sort ...

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I don't know where to begin. They are North Americans!

Hey, speaking of which, why aren't LCD Soundsystem in this? They are North American Scum!

1. Bob Dylan (Minnesota)

17. Public Enemy (New York)

24. Johnny Cash (Tennessee)

8. R.E.M. (Georgia)

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REM - Reckoning 84
The Decemberists - Picaresque 83
Cafe Tacvba - Re 81
REM - Chronic Town 81
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace Of God 76
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 75
Gas - Konigsforst 73
Camel - The Snow Goose 65

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Wait, I totally didn't think about Riget and Berlin Alexanderplatz as options, mostly cause I think of them as movies. Those will have to slide in somewhere. (As the only non-english language TV shows on my lists. I guess there are also a few animes I didn't think about I might consider adding). And...

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For me the only really important thing to me is that the music engages me emotionally. Other than that there is no 'Litmus test'. If a song focuses on melody, the melody is important. If it focuses on rythym, rythym is the most important. If it focuses on guitar riffs, guitar riffs are more important.

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11. Nirvana (Washington)

22. Pixies (Massachusetts)

27. Beck (California)

6. The Velvet Underground (New York)

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3. Elvis Presley (Mississippi) 30. Al Green (Arkansas) 35. Missy Elliott (Virginia) Abstain - not a huge fan of either 19. Michael Jackson (Indiana) WHY does Janelle Monae have to be up against the person who mastered her style of music? I would have loved to vote for her against some of the accepte...

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1. Emotional engagement
2. Whichever the song I'm listening to focuses on.

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1. Sweet Smell Of Success 2. Wild Strawberries 3. The Seventh Seal 4. Throne of Blood 5. The Bridge On The River Kwai Also seen Nights Of Cabiria and Paths of Glory but not a fan of those two. Nights of Cabiria is one of those Fellini films where imbecilic women get victimized and Paths of Glory pre...

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Went up to 40 because that's the point where I start dipping into 'Shows I sort of like' category. 1. Twilight Zone 2. Twin Peaks 3. Breaking Bad 4. Game of Thrones 5. The Simpsons 6. Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister 7. The Daily Show 8. Monty Python's Flying Circus 9. Battlestar Galactica (2005 ve...

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I'm not sure I could get to 100 and still only be listing shows I consider good. I suppose maybe if I heap in all the random game shows I ever enjoyed. Be back in about an hour.

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10. Stevie Wonder (Michigan)

23. Lou Reed (New York)

26. Otis Redding (Georgia)

7. The Beach Boys (California)

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2. Bruce Springsteen (New Jersey) 34. Flaming Lips (Oklahoma) 18. The Doors (California) 15. The Byrds (California) All very easy choices for me today. Personally I think the only reason to vote against a band you're not familiar with is if the band you're voting for is one of your absolute favorite...

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12. Miles Davis (Illinois)

44. Scott Walker (Ohio)

37. Nine Inch Nails (Pennsylvania)

5. Jimi Hendrix (Washington)

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4. Prince (Minnesota)

36. Elliott Smith (Oregon)

45. Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Kentucky)

13. Talking Heads (New York)

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You are certainly Americans, but are you Mur'cans?

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Marquis de Sade - Rue de Siam 99
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#8 95
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority 86
Sun Ra - Lanquidity 84
Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel [Ces gens-là] 78
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 78
Robert Wyatt – Shleep 67
The Notwist - Neon Golden 57

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9. Marvin Gaye (Washington DC) 56. Peggy Lee (North Dakota) Abstain because I have no familiarity with Peggy Lee 24. Johnny Cash (Tennessee) 40. Lynyrd Skynyrd (Florida) 8. R.E.M. (Georgia) CCR/Lynyrd Skynyrd was a tough call. I have both positive and negative feelings about Skynyrd but no strong fe...

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