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Welcome to the second week of our new weekly chart! Please vote so that we can make it an even bigger success. And don't forget to leave your nominations on this thread for next week's voting! Henrik, could you link it to the mother thread of the chart and create the spotify playlist? I really don't...

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Henrik, My only question before creating the new thread is: Will each new voting round have a new forum thread, or will we use the same thread for all new rounds? Just give me the answer and I'll create the poll (and if it's in the same thread, how do I replace you're poll for the new one?) Thank you!

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Henrik, I can do it. Just tell me which songs do you want to put from the MegaCritic chart, and when the current thread will really end. I just don't know how to create a spotify playlist since I don't use Spotify. But I can leave youtube links. And here's my nomination for the next thread: Ben's My...

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Another new great album is Rosanne Cash's "The River & The Thread". For country lovers like myself, it's a full plate, filled with beautiful melodies, mixing guitars and banjo perfectly and the lyrics are very attachable and relatable, without being formulaic. It starts wonderfully (A ...

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Henrik, I'm Sorry. I didn't get that last quetion correctly. Re-reading it now, I think that if there aren't 10 new nominees, then we should introduce then in the next week's round of voting, alongside with the ones that received more votes. What I mean is: if there are only 8 nominations, the 12 be...

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If we think it is a good idea, we could also discuss the following: - Are others willing to take over and set up new voting threads? It could be a circulating job. - Should it be a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly feature? - 20 options/songs is the maximum. Is this good, or is it too many? - My suggest...

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My first really good álbum of 2014 was released at the end of october of 2013, but the first review I saw was this month, so to me it falls under the "Light Up Gold" category, being a 2014 album.

It is Battlefields Forever by Big Business. Excellent heavy metal stuff here.

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Top 100 Songs 1 Get Lucky - Daft Punk 2 Song For Zula - Phosphorescent 3 The Wire - Haim 4 Ya Hey - Vampire Weekend 5 White Noise - Disclosure 6 Blood On The Leaves - Kanye West 7 Reflektor - Arcade Fire 8 Royals - Lorde 9 Hold On We're Going Home - Drake 10 Bipp - Sophie 11 GMF - John Grant 12 Help...

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Top 50 Albums 1 Yeezus - Kanye West 2 Modern Vampires Of The City - Vampire Weekend 3 Random Access Memories - Daft Punk 4 Trouble Will Find Me - The National 5 Reflektor - Arcade Fire 6 Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 7 AM - Arctic Monkeys 8 The Next Day - David Bowie 9 Days Are G...

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Please let's do it! I can also help out Nick, even though I've also never done a poll myself. Who did it last year? We could ask for the formula and some tips.

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Aren't we going to have a 2013 AMF best albums/songs of the year poll? I'm missing that!

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HRS, I wish I had your talent for writing. Damn, you can write very well and cohesively. Just wanted to say that sometimes I don't get why some records receive the critical praise they do (Kacey Musgraves being my biggest example this year), but I do understand why Beyoncé's "Beyoncé" has....

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Hey Henrik,

Since you were busy and you already do a lot around here, I added a little contribution. Sorry if I couldn't do that, but I was having an insomnia and thought I could help out a little.

Updated with:
USA: Austin Town Hall, Pitchfork, XLR8R

songs2013update.xls

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I loooved the Rival Dealer EP. It's amazing how Burial never seems to make an error to me. And what do you guys think of the new Beyoncé album? It's incredible to see a mainstrem artist release such a perfect and adventurous album. I bet that, had it been released earlier in the year, that it would ...

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I am glad to see Haim way up on the list. It's working its way quickly up my EOY list but nobody seems to talk about it here, possibly because they're mainstream in the UK. I don't think it's the reason, though. I listened to the record and found it a fairly regular indie pop affair. I feel compell...

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The most interesting phenomena of this year's EoY threads is the almost perfect scoring of Get Lucky. more than 90% of the lists are giving it its deservedly number 1 spot. On this rhythm, I wonder where it will end up on 2014's update...

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Blurred Lines should be higher, given the magazine that did the list. And I would trade We Can't Stop with Wrecking Ball, definitely. And, once again, since we're talking about a RS list, Work Bitch was acceptable, I kinda like the song, even though I didn't expect it that high. But I HATE Roar, and...

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Get Lucky at number 3? Oh no, they didn't! It will be my number one song of the year, there's no doubt about it, but my frustration is not beacause they didn't put it at the top, is because I was secretly hoping that it would have a perfect score at the end of the EOY Songs List, and see how high it...

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Other than Daft Punk's "Get Lucky", which is the clear favorite by far, which other ones you think, so far, will also be on the top? Mixing my personal best with what I think will please most critics: A Tooth For An Eye/Full Of Fire - The Knife Song For Zula - Phosporescent Bipp- Sophie Ho...

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I wished more recognition for the Erotica-Bedtime Stories-Something To Remember period. It's actually quite brilliant pop music and a clear path to anyone who wonders how come Madonna from the 80's reached such a diferente kind of music on her masterpiece of the late 90's, Ray Of Light. Songs like T...

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I have 4 shows this year coming up, so far:
-The Breeders
-Beach House
-Tame Impala
-The XX

And I haven't bought it yet, because it's still not open for selling, but there'll be a festival here in Brazil that will feature Blur and Beck. Can't miss that one either.

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Holy Grail - Jay-Z feat. Justin Timberlake. It's incredible! And the part where they do the "Smell Like Teen Spirit" chorus? I love it!

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Even though I really like Drake too, I must say how much I ADORE Thrift Shop! I think its beat is quite unique and the lyrics are pure rap-comedy-fun genius! I don't really understand why it is not garnering much critical acclaim. But, that's life.

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I think it's all based on personal opinion ... But I think that sometimes music critics and lovers have some bias against pop music, and it's nice to see a deserving one being recognized. After all, pop music is all about fun and catchy beats (and the ones on Call Me Maybe are very well constructed,...

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I am completely in love with the new update

It's just so nice to spend the weekend observing the changes. Thanks for your wonderful work Henrik!
And just adding that I think Call Me Maybe is really deserving of being in the Top 1000. It's a perfect pop track, with no mistakes.

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Right now 2 of them: And I Love Her - The Beatles (a very underrated song by the Fab Four in my opinion) and Lose Yourself To Dance - Daft Punk.

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Wow, that was quite unnecessary. OK, REALLY unnecessary. But moving on to the discussion SavoyBG's outburst opened, I think that tehre's a lot to be considered. 1) Most critics aren't that old to have enjoyed pre-1955 music so much. I mean, the critics that have are probably retired and it's natural...

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You really don't know how much you've helped me! Thank you SO much. I really appreciate it!

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Jirin, thanks a lot for your help! Even though the 1st solution is simpler, I don't think it matches what I'm trying to do. I think 2 is way more interesting for me. And I'll explain why through an example: Imagine album X. I gave it an 8, metacritic has given it a 7, ADM a 7,5 and MGC has a 7,3. Th...

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Hi fellow AMFers! I need some help! Let me explain to you... I've been recently writing for a small website here in brazil about music, a weekly column. By the end of the year I want to do a "best of 2013" post, with the best songs and albums i've heard this year. The songs post will be a ...

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Ashley Monroe's "Like A Rose" is incredible!!! And I'm also in love with Bowie's "The Next Day"

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This is insanely good!

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1.The Beatles-Revolver 2.U2-Achtung Baby 3.Stevie Wonder-Innervisions 4.Elvis Costello-This Year's Model 5.Miles Davis-Kind of Blue 1.David Bowie-Hunky Dory 2.Pixies-Doolittle 3.Patti Smith-Horses 4.The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Electric Ladyland 5.Pink Floyd-The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1.The Smith...

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Finally Torres is in! I was really cheering for that! It's an incredible debut album. I am also cheering for more recognition of the Fear Of Men album ... let's wait!

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Albums: 1.Joy Division-Closer 2.The Beach Boys-Pet Sounds 3.The Beatles-Abbey Road 4.Guns n' Roses-Appetite for Destruction 5.Aretha Franklin-I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 6.Pink Floyd-The Dark Side of the Moon 7.The Band-Music from Big Pink 8.Tom Waits-Swordfishtrombones 9.Otis Redding-Oti...

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Up to today, my Top 20 songs are (in no specific order): A Tooth For An Eye - The Knife Counting - Autre Ne Veut Play By Play - Autre Ne Veut Mosaic - Fear Of Men Your Side - Fear Of Men Retrograde - James Blake Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Disappear - Petite Noir So Good At Being In Trouble - Unknow...

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I love albums, but usually I take more interest in separate songs. And recently I have started a blog (written in portuguese, since I'm from Brazil, but still people can listen to the songs) with the songs I think were the highlights of given period. I started with a January post, and my friends tol...

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Hi, my name is Guilherme, I'm 20 years old and I'm from Brazil (Rio), and I often visit the acclaimed music website for at least 3 years, I'm not sure if longer, but just discovered the forums last october and started reading and seeing how nice the threads and its participants were. So, in december...

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My list is final and can be included!

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My year-end Top 50 songs: 01 - Oblivion - Grimes 02 - Pyramids - Frank Ocean 03 - Bad Girls - M.I.A. 04 - Myth - Beach House 05 - Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen 06 - Climax - Usher 07 - Swimming Pools (Drank) - Kendrick Lamar 08 - Losing You - Solange 09 - The House That Heaven Built - Japandroids...

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Wow! What a huge climb for Usher's "Climax"! Didn't expect that!

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