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Listyguy

Welcome to the AM World Cup Drafting Thread. Here, post the two artists you would like to “own” for the cup. Based on the demand for teams, the cup will run with either 32 or 64 teams. In the case we only have 32 teams, only the top 8 from the previous cup are guaranteed to return (and their owners ...

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I'm going to give this one last bump, but I've already made up my mind that there will be a cup this year. The only question I really have left is if this will be a 32 or 64 team cup.

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Is there a link to the old World Cup game? I'm interested in participating, but I do not remember being around for the last one. What is this game about exactly? Countries competing against each other through songs, or something like that? Anyhow, if it involves music from around the globe, I'm def...

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Jirin wrote:I'd play. I think second time we tried it it never got off the ground though.

Yeah, that was after a year. I figured I'd try and resurrect it again given the influx of newcomers since the original.

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So it has been 4 years since the original AM World Cup was held, with Otis Redding winning the cup. That being said, I would gladly run the game again this summer if there are still people willing to play. So I've added a poll below to gauge the level of interest in the cup. Please respond, regardle...

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Three years ago when I made my list of 500 songs, I was racing against one of the largest storms in the history of the Northeast United States. No such issues this time (thankfully), and I have expanded my list to 800 songs for the 2015 edition of the poll. In total there are 234 unique artists feat...

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So much disrespect for War on this list. And the entries they chose (other than the big two) are somewhat suspect. "Drowning Man" is a good song, but "40" might be the worst song on the album. Would have loved to see "Seconds", "The Refugee" or "Red Light...

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The update happened in July last year if I remember correctly, so I wouldn't get too excited just yet. However, that was the big update that expanded the songs list, so I could be wrong.

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This is a very shitty list I threw together, but I felt it would be disrespectful to Bob Dylan to not vote for some of his gems from this year. 1- Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 2- Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice It's Alright 3- Ronnettes - Be My Baby 4- Bob Dylan - Masters of War 5- The Beatl...

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I have no real record of this, but if I had to guess I'd say Led Zeppelin IV and Abbey Road are at the top, although Blood on the Tracks has probably gotten the most recent plays.

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This might be the best of Kanye's new songs, in my opinion.

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Andres Segovia, arguably the greatest classical guitarist ever, is from Spain. His rendition of "Leyenda" is the closest any other guitarist has come to matching Hendrix if you ask me. A couple of African artists that haven't been brought up yet are Mahmoud Ahmed (Ethiopia) and Orchestra B...

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Sweepstakes Ron wrote:
Listyguy wrote:I've probably said this at least five times already, but I'll say it again: Moonbeam's program is the greatest thing ever.
If you don't mind me asking, how many different songs do you have entered in the program?

Somewhere in the range of 950 I believe. I haven't run it a lot yet, however.

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I've probably said this at least five times already, but I'll say it again: Moonbeam's program is the greatest thing ever.

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Apparently the album has been renamed SWISH. Not a huge fan of the name, hopefully the music will be better.

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This is an interesting list, Blanco. Thanks for sharing. I think one of the reasons the results are somewhat ridiculous (Lorde in the top 20? C'mon now) is that this list is essentially the best foreign songs to US/UK critics. Which is why a song like "Get Lucky" or "Dancing Queen&quo...

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BleuPanda wrote:I'm hoping everyone's waiting for the last minute.

I am in fact waiting until the last minute. I want to run Moonbeam's program in large quantities before submitting my list.

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In sports, players are considered to be a breakout performer if they've been around for a few years without being that impressive, but then they come out of nowhere and have a great season. I think this concept can be applied to songs as well. Here's my loose definition of a "breakout song"...

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Just saw this list. Not bad for a Rolling Stone list, though I'd like to have seen Nirvana and Cheap Trick a bit higher.

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Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I have another game idea that's rather limited in possible candidates, but would probably be some fun. We could do some small brackets with top artist's albums. Like I said, there's only a finite number of artists this could be done for, because very few have the ...

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Nick wrote:
Listyguy wrote:Hehe looks like I misread that surname question
Also I'm shocked no one else voted for Pitchfork.
My guess is that since Pitchfork is an online publication, most people didn't consider it a magazine.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that.

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Hehe looks like I misread that surname question

Also I'm shocked no one else voted for Pitchfork.

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I'm sure there's one out there, but I'm not sure that it's accessible to the public. Have you tried posting something in the RYM forums about it? Even if an official spreadsheet isn't available, I'm sure someone out there has transcribed one themselves. Are you looking for a certain top number of al...

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I'm clearly in the minority here, but I despite Vampire Weekend. They're music just screams "we're fuckboys" to me...

Also the average year of the top 10 is 2011.2

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As long as I start working on this before June, I'm good...hopefully...I'll get a list in don't worry...

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Also, even with all this love for Kanye, "New Slaves" finished way too low. It would have been in my top five had I voted.

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Kanye West definitely the top performing artist in the poll, though to be fair, if you stripped out the one outlier ballot in which like half of the top 50 was Kanye, the placements would be a little more reasonable. I feel like there are at least 3 or 4 different forumers that this could have been...

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Listyguy, what happens after this final round? New sets with new scoring? Or do we keep our scores? New sets do start new scoring, however I've run out of questions and time, so someone else will have to take over if y'all want this to continue. Do you want me to host it for the next six weeks? I a...

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26- Name a really bad album by an otherwise great artist Self Portrait - Bob Dylan (Listyguy, Live in Phoenix, Sonofsamiam, PlasticRam) Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed (Bang jan, Nassim, Ordinaryperson, Krurze) Come - Prince (Whuntva, Luney6) Lulu - Lou Reed/Metallica (DaveC) Dirty Work - The Rollin...

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We're down to the final day!

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Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote:Keep them votes coming in!

Apparently you can only embed a max of three quotes

Last reminder to vote!

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Live in Phoenix wrote:RE: 29, you mean the general public would wrongly assume it's from a certain year?

Basically. Think of songs whose release year is often argued over I guess.

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Gillingham wrote:Listyguy, what happens after this final round? New sets with new scoring? Or do we keep our scores?

New sets do start new scoring, however I've run out of questions and time, so someone else will have to take over if y'all want this to continue.

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And the final five questions: 26- Name a really bad album by an otherwise great artist 27- Name an artist with a number in their name, other than U2 28- Name an album with a hidden song 29- Name an song whose release year isn't clear 30- Name an song title with a person's name in it, other than &quo...

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21- Name a musician who died at the age of 27 Kurt Cobain (Nassim, Gillingham, ordinaryperson, Luney6, Bonnielaurel, Sweepstakes Ron, Live in Phoenix, Sonofsamiam, PlasticRam) Jimi Hendrix (Listyguy, Bang Jan, DaveC, Nick, whuntva, Kingoftonga, Krurze, DocBrown) 22- Name an artist who has performed...

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Reminder there's about a day left for voting. Also be warned I'll probably close this week's poll a bit early.

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I always say I'm going to participate but then I get caught up in other listening...it almost cost one of my picks this week...

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Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote:Keep them votes coming in!
What he said.

Apparently you can only embed a max of three quotes

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Five more coming at you: 21- Name a musician who died at the age of 27 22- Name an artist who has performed at a Super Bowl Halftime Show 23- Name a famous medley, other than the one on "Abbey Road" 24- Name a band that is considered to be "hair metal", other than Guns N' Roses 2...

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Late, but here they are: 16- Name a Beatles solo song, other than the abhorrent "Imagine" My Sweet Lord (DaveC, Gillingham, Nassim, whuntva, Live in Phoenix) Maybe I'm Amazed (PlasticRam, Jirin, Sonofsamiam, Bang Jan, Krurze) Band on the Run (acroamor, ordinaryperson, DocBrown, Nick) Insta...

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The clock is ticking! There is less than a day to vote!

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Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote:Keep them votes coming in!
What he said.

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Oh fuck, I have to get my shit together with this now so I can spend the next three months using Moonbeam's program

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And some more questions: 16- Name a Beatles solo song, other than the abhorrent "Imagine" 17- Name an 80s album by a solo female artist 18- Name an song whose title is often mistaken (ex: "Song 2" is often called "Woo Hoo"), other than "Song 2" 19- Name a Euro...

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11- Name anyone on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", other than any of the Beatles Bob Dylan (Listyguy, Gillingham, Bang Jan, DaveC, Nick, Jirn, PlasticRam, Whuntva, BonnieLaurel) Marilyn Monroe (Kruze, Nassim, OrdinaryPerson, DocBrown) TE Lawrence (Luney6) Karlheinz S...

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A few hours to go!

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One good thing is that 1989 came out in late November, which will hurt its position...at least that's my hope. I fully advocate Lost in the Dream for the top 500 though.

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Listyguy wrote:
Listyguy wrote:Keep them votes coming in!
What he said.

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I figured this was as good a thread as any to pose this question in, as I've been thinking a lot about it lately: What are your favorite Kanye songs. I can figure out my top 5 fairly easily, but deciding between the top four which is my favorite is proving to be a challenge. The four songs are "...

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And now for some more questions: 11- Name anyone on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", other than any of the Beatles 12- Name a song on "OK Computer" that should be AM ranked but isn't 13- Name a member of the Yardbirds 14- Name a well-acclaimed "sophomore...

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