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The Cranberries - Zombie
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right
Lou Reed - Sad Song
Muse - Time is Running Out
Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down

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Group 28
Joni Mitchell
Dusty Springfield
Cindy Lauper
Kate Bush

Group 29
Nilsson
Phoebe Bridgers
Gwen McRae
Natalie Imbruglia

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Hiromi is enormously underrated. She's the most phenomenal jazz pianist I've ever heard, but she remains completely ignored by the dominating critics outside of those who are specialized in contemporary jazz.

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Björk - It's Oh So Quiet
Erykah Badu - Tyrone
Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag
Annie - Greatest Hit
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game

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Group 25
Anna Ternheim
Wilson Pickett & Duane Allman
Oasis
Nancy Sinatra

Group 26
CAN
David Bowie
Donna Summer
James Carr

Indeed Donna Summer is the cover version, so these two listed in the wrong order.

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Yes, a top 250 would be better. Wasn't it 200 already last time? You could decide who writes about which artist, based on who ranked them highest. You could PM a list of five artists or so to each participant who's willing to write, without spoiling the whole top 100.

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It has to be said that this website is pretty unique for having such extensive attention for early pooular music. For most music websites the period before 1960 is limited to rock & roll and a few evergreens, so this is quite exceptional!

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Björk - Bachelorette
Louis Armstrong - St. James Infirmary
Madness - One Step Beyond
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It
Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Kate Bush - The Big Sky
black midi - bmbmbm

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My biggest favorites have made it, but I'll add these two:

The Neon Demon (2016)
Utøya: July 22 [Utøya 22. juli] (2018)

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Here's a chronological list of my twenty favorite classical tracks from that era, by twenty different composers. I think I'll make a top 100 with 80 popular and 20 classical tracks. Maurice Ravel | Jeux d'eau | 1901 Sergei Rachmaninoff | Moderato [Piano Concerto No. 2] | 1901 Gustav Mahler | Adagiet...

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Group 23
Janis Joplin
Norah Jones
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 1929
Bruce Springsteen

Group 24
Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
Townes Van Zandt
Blondie

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Thanks for starting the topic and including an extensive list. I'll work on a long list myself. The hardest decision will be which classical music to include, because the year of composition counts and it's only one "track". I think I'll impose a maximum of one track per composer in the to...

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Oasis - Whatever
Muse - Time is Running Out
St. Vincent - Prince Johnny
Carl Perkins - Matchbox
Bruce Springsteen - Candy's Room
Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby of Birdland

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Parasite [Gisaengchung] Arab Blues [Un divan à Tunis] Midsommar Just Mercy Atlantics [Atlantique] Little Women J'accuse The Aftermath Queen & Slim Goldie Marriage Story Sorry We Missed You Papicha The Swallows of Kabul [Les hirondelles de Kaboul] Barn For now a pretty weak year, but I haven't s...

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Group 21
Curtis Mayfield
The Fall
Louis Armstrong
Lenny Kravitz

Group 22
Oleta Adams
Marvin Gaye
Fiona Apple
The Beatles

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Squeeze - Up the Junction
The Cranberries - Zombie
Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Fred Astaire - Puttin' on the Ritz
Sufjan Stevens - For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting
Lush - Etheriel

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Group 19
The Crystals
Sterling Holloway
Charles Trenet
Charlene

4x original

Group 20
Blondie
Postmodern Jukebox
Pizzicato Five
Al Green

4x cover

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Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag
The Jacksons - Blame It on the Boogie
Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again
Portishead - We Carry On
Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God
Steely Dan - Doctor Wu
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Cornershop - 6 A.M. Jullandar Shere

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Group 17 Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra Elvis Presley Joan Baez The Bats Fred Astaire introduced a lot of standards in his films, but Billie Holiday often turned them into jazz with improvisation. Elvis and Joan are the better vocalists. Group 18 Red Army Choir Sinead O'Connor...

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SQY is another good song by her, about Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

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Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone is Not Enough
Steely Dan - Peg
Erykah Badu - Tyrone
Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex
KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
Orbital - The Box
Bon Iver - 33 "God"

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Thanks for the extensive work and the flawless presentation, Holden!

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Group 15
The Temptations
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Outkast

Group 16
Rage Against the Machine
Elvis Costello
Frank Sinatra
Brian Eno

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Utøya: July 22 [Utøya 22. juli] Happy As Lazzaro [Lazzaro Felice] Rafiki Stan & Ollie Everybody Knows [Todos Lo Saben] The Hate U Give Green Book Daughter of Mine [Figlia Mia] Climax Johnny English Strikes Again Sir Never Look Away [Werk ohne Autor] On the Basis of Sex Greta If Beale Street Cou...

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Stevie Wonder - If You Really Love Me
Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be Free
Kate Bush - The Big Sky
Judas Priest - The Ripper
black midi - bmbmbm
Furniture - Brilliant Mind

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Top 30 Albums: Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams Hiromi: The Piano Quintet - Silver Lining Suite Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime LUMP - Animal Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend San Salvador - La Grande Folie Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! Zaz - Isa Barbara Pravi - On n’enferme pas l...

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That sounds good!

For me 1+2 months is enough. I prefer the usual way, where you can vote for all the films you've seen.

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Coon songs:
George W. Johnson - The Whistling Coon (1891)
Ada Jones - If the Man in the Moon Were a Coon (1907)

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Albums before 1950 are limited. I suppose anything listed as an album or EP on RYM should count. The second half of the fifties has a huge output in jazz albums, rock 'n' roll songs, chanson etc. Before 1940 recording techniques were still rather primitive. So I would group the years even more in fa...

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Group 13 Nina Simone Honeybus Tiffany Sister Sledge Nina Simone added a dimension with her classical piano skills. Honeybus was a close one. Tiffany and Sister Sledge have a better sound. Group 14 Patty Waters Gloria Jones Oscar Brown Jr Julia Holter Nina Simone and Joan Baez have good versions of...

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Gazelle Twin would be better suited for Halloween than for the Christmas period. Elizabeth Bernholz is a musician from Brighton who makes electronic art pop with a gothic element. It sounds gloomy and mysterious. She uses synthesizer loops, processed sounds and whispery vocals. Fascination with deat...

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TLC - Creep
Bjork - Bachelorette
Charlie Parker - Parker's Mood
Louis Armstrong - St. James Infirmary
Albert Ayler - Ghosts
Madness - One Step Beyond
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Muse - Plug In Baby

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These lower parts always give a weird mixture of relatively obscure songs and classics in my book: Wonderful Tonight, The Day Before You Came, Radio Ga Ga...

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This gave me one good tip that I hadn't heard yet: Magnolia Blues. I already knew some of the others.

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Group 11 Elvis Costello & the Attractions Nina Simone The Beach Boys Dusty Springfield Costello has a better voice, with that vibrato, and the arrangement helps too. Gilbert Price is a powerful classical bariton, but Nina Simone has deeper expression. Michel Legrand was better in songwriting th...

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The B-52s - Roam
Bruce Springsteen - Candy's Room
Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine
The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby of Birdland
Big Star - Kanga-roo

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Lady Bird On Body and Soul [Teströl és Lélekröl] Daphne Wonder Woman The Florida Project Everything, Everything The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Insult [L'Insulte] Battle of the Sexes Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno The Circle Gemini Thoroughbreds Marshall Darkest Hours Baby Driver Thelma Atomic Blonde...

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Group 9 Wheatus The Jimi Hendrix Experience Kirsty McColl George Benson Two examples of how a good guitar solo can add something. Kirsty McColl wins easily because of her voice. Group 10 The Velvet Underground Bob Dylan Ike & Tina Turner The Pogues I won't vote against Dylan twice. The Pogues a...

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Tinariwen - Tassili Mali has other famous musicians, but in this case they belong to the Sahara people. They're Tuareg musicians from northern Mali. Tassili n'Ajjer is a sandstone plateau in southern Algeria, where they recorded this album. On this album they use mostly vocals, acoustic guitars, per...

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Thanks, Holden. That was a very original idea and a fun tournament with a lot of variation.

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Oasis - Whatever
Katy B - Katy on a Mission
Louis Prima - Just a Gigolo / I AIn't Got Nobody
Muse - Time is Running Out
Anita Baker - Caught Up in the Rapture
Nina Simone - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Carl Perkins - Matchbox
Ride - Leave Them All Behind

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Hiromi: The Piano Quintet - Silver Lining Suite
RYM

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Group 5
Aretha Franklin
St Etienne
Serge Gainsbourg
Songs: Ohia

Group 6
Sonny & Cher
New Order
Ana Carolina & Seu Jorge
Lauryn Hill

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Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right
Fred Astaire - Puttin' on the Ritz
The Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
UB40 - Food for Thought
Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting
Lou Reed - Sad Song
Car Seat Headrest - Bodys
Lush - Etheriel

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