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Last Nite by the Strokes anyone? I remember it being on Top of the Pops or something and there was something about that attitude that just took me. And then when I heard the song years later, I immediately recognised it, and that led to me discovering bands like The Shins, Modest Mouse and eventuall...

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Ween's Chocolate and Cheese was a really fun listen, thanks Jackson. Zappa-esque in its nuttiness, it just kept a smile on my face for the entirety of the 50-odd minutes that it was playing. Their 1993 album got a 5/5 from Allmusic, but no one seems to have voted for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Dan wrote:The Ronettes - Be My Baby

If we mention this, we have to mention the Jesus and Mary Chain's Just Like Honey too!

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I think it's a great idea!

Perhaps we can do a "20th century" one as well, similar to TSPDT, so that it expands out a bit. Those little bands, like The Shins, will never make a splash in the all-time games, but could in a 20th century one.

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Finally heard it. Loveless sounded exactly the same (i.e. enjoyable), while the EPs were a really interesting listen. If only these had come out a couple of months ago, in time for the 1991 poll, I might have brought myself to listen to these more. As it stands, they've been ripped onto the laptop, ...

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Am I alone in preferring division 2.1 to division 1 hehe? Probably because of all the Rolling Stones...

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These are the albums that I've listened to and the albums that are already on my radar to listen to - Illmatic Weezer Ready to Die Dookie Hole Suede The Downward Spiral Liz Phair Tori Amos Pulp Bee Thousand Built To Spill Ill Communication Stereolab Pavement Divine Comedy Blumfeld Dummy Parklife Def...

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Japandroids sounds great to these ears too. It's just bursting with energy.

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Me too in the "Django Django is great" camp. Harold's experiences are exactly like mine. I've also heard the most amazing album yesterday - Accelerando by the Vijay Iyer Trio. Made up of a pianist, a bassist and a drummer, these guys play the most intricate and impressive avant-garde jazz....

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I'd like to do Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention (as listed on AM)

1. Peaches en Regalia
2. Absolutely Free
3. The Little House I Used To Live In
4. The Gumbo Variations
5. Valarie
6. Trouble Every Day
7. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
8. Hungry Freaks, Daddy

God, that was hard...

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A boring top 6 for me - I found this year to be not very interesting. 1. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville 2. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 3. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements 4. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen 5. Bjork - Debut 6. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy Songs...

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Top 5 second-to-last songs on an album (The Creator Has A Masterplan on Karma by Pharoah Sanders would be an easy number 1, but I reckon that's cheating) (also, this is almost entirely arbitrary - furthermore I'm not picking the "best" second to last songs, but those that are in my opinion...

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Sometimes it just feels inappropriate to attempt to put a melody on a song that simply doesn't want it - it leaves it rawer, more spiritual. Henrik I'd really recommend the 1994 album (perfect for next month!) L'etat et moi by a German band called Blumfeld. There's a lot of talk-singing in that, as ...

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I've listened to a grand total of 2 albums from this year, and I wasn't big fans of either of them. I too seem to not have the will or the patience to pick something up from this year and really stick to it. I think one of the main reasons for this is that there haven't been many established artists...

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The Divine Comedy's Promenade is one of my favourites from 1994, so I'm definitely going to be picking up Liberation. I always wondered they were a "big" hit in France, but on in their home country or anywhere else...

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47 is far too young for such a legend. The Beasties are just so unique in the musical pantheon that the loss seems to be even sharper, if that sounds right.

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Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

Here

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Albums 1 . R.E.M. - Automatic for the People | 978 | 26 2 . Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted | 522 | 21 3 . Tom Waits - Bone Machine | 492 | 17 4 . Sonic Youth - Dirty | 270 | 16 5 . Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes | 216 | 14 6 . PJ Harvey - Dry | 190 | 16 7 . Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against...

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I liked SAW 85-92 a LOT more than I thought I would. I'm generally ambivalent to electronic/ambient albums, but there was something about it which just clicked. It was like walking through an empty city at night, with these haunting enduringly wistful sounds. Songs: 1. Tori Amos - Winter 2. Tom Wait...

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I don't think In The Wee Small Hours is his favourite album, it's just in order of release date, which is why Sinatra comes first.

Thurston Moore's list is incredibly conservative, considering the fact that he's an "alternative" hero...

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I really really enjoyed this year. A great trilogy of rap albums (The Chronic, Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde and Check Your Head), indie heroes (Dirty, Slanted and Enchanted), female singer-songwriters (Dry, Little Earthquakes), new albums from old artists (Automatic For The People, Henry's Dream, Bo...

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So in the Quietus there was this feature where Frank Black (Black Francis in his heyday as lead singer of Pixies) spills his 13 favourite albums. Here's the list in full (not in order I don't think): Baxter Dury - Happy Soup Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance Neil Young - Le Noise Musique De La Grece Anti...

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Thanks a lot! Though I only participated sporadically due to lack of knowledge, I feel happy knowing that I've played a part in crowning the Stones as the bestest of them all!

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Dylan. Thanks Slick!

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To do a listyguy: 7 Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 22 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 45 Prince - Sign O The Times 61 Bob Dylan - Desire 72 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home 117 Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks 128 Prince - Purple Rain 192 Prince - 1999 So Bob wins handily. 34 The Rolling Stones B...

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Bob Dylan (#1 vs #2)
Prince (#19 vs. #25)
Bowie (#6 vs. #7)
The Beatles (#5 vs #41 (though that 41 is only due to lack of knowledge of their other albums - LZIV is imo better than any Beatles album))

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I thought I'd post album lists as well. Bob Dylan vs. U2 I prefer 5 Dylan albums to Achtung Baby - he's simply the greatest artist of all time. The Who vs. Bruce Springsteen (#2) My preference of the albums goes like this: Darkness, The Wild, Born to Run, Who's Next, Tommy, Born in the USA, Nebraska...

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Bob Dylan (1st all time) Bruce Springsteen (2nd all time) Radiohead (5th all time) Prince (19th all time) R.E.M (25th all time) Elvis Costello(76) Stevie Wonder (80) The Who U2 Johnny Cash Nirvana The Cure Marvin Gaye Beastie Boys The Police Pink Floyd All down the left.The only close one was Nirva...

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Led Zeppelin vs. Van Halen
Miles Davis vs. Metallica
pass
The Clash vs. John Coltrane
The Beatles vs. Sly & The Family Stone - There are a couple of bands that can beat the Beatles, but Sly is not one of them
Simon & Garfunkel vs. The Beach Boys
The Kinks vs. Depeche Mode
pass

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Michael Jackson : 18 vs. Elvis Costello: 16 Touch matchup for Elvis. I love This Year's Model , but MJ has a solid catalogue of material that I enjoy from 1979-1995, bar a few missteps ("The Girl Is Mine", "Childhood"). That said, I only know the first 2 Costello records. What w...

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R.E.M. vs. Oasis - Oasis face a lot of (undeserved) backlash, just because of the sheer hype they received during the britpop era. But let's just admit it guys, (What's the Story) Morning Glory IS a pretty great album. That said, no contest here. It's good. I've voted for Oasis because of their eas...

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R.E.M. vs. Oasis - Oasis face a lot of (undeserved) backlash, just because of the sheer hype they received during the britpop era. But let's just admit it guys, (What's the Story) Morning Glory IS a pretty great album. That said, no contest here. The Smiths vs. Beastie Boys - The Queen is Dead is s...

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My initial exploits into the year make me feel like it's even better than 1991...

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Bob Dylan vs. Van Morrison Neil Young vs. Pink Floyd U2 vs. The Velvet Underground Radiohead vs. Talking Heads The Who vs. Otis Redding Marvin Gaye vs. Pearl Jam Stevie Wonder vs. Nine Inch Nails Bruce Springsteen vs. The Smashing Pumpkins Surprisingly easy matchups, the only one I winced for sligh...

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Led Zeppelin (266) vs. Louis Armstrong (64) John Coltrane (120) vs. Black Sabbath (101) Metallica (136) vs. AC/DC (85) Miles Davis (169) vs. Rage Against The Machine (76) pass Frank Sinatra (130) vs. Steely Dan (96) Ramones (126) vs. Van Halen (100) The Clash (233) vs. Television (75) - The creator...

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I think Sufjan is most likely to grow. Though I think Kanye West is one of the finest artists not only of our generation but all time, I think his acclaim will be stuck within his time, as it's quite difficult for rap artists to distinguish themselves from the rest.

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But the members of the Pixies didn't really like each other towards the end of their run, seeing Frank Black as far too controlling of the record making process. I could never see Pixies releasing another album, just because it would open up old scars. With MBV it was different, wasn't it? They kind...

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The Quietus is in my opinion the best written review site out there which really articulates the things I find important when I listen to music. Pitchfork is pretty good for the "niche" albums that they like - Liars, for example. But really I find most of my music from our Albums of 2012 t...

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I think another factor is that importance breeds importance. Just who would be calling Oasis "the next Beatles" if they came from Japan? That somehow the US/UK "got there first" in establishing rock and pop in the 50s/60s is very important to the continued success of these anglo ...

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The Jayhawks will be on my list. Initial findings: The Tom Waits album is so interesting. I listened to it at about 4am alone in my room and I think I listened to "That Feel" 7 times in a row or something. I always find that the best time to listen to music is just before going to bed or j...

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Marvin Gaye (120) vs. Pavement (70)
Stevie Wonder (176) vs. Foo Fighters (65)
Paul Simon (96) vs. Otis Redding (74)
Nine Inch Nails (97) vs. John Lennon (77)
Bruce Springsteen (190) vs. Aretha Franklin (64)

The Who
pass
pass
Pavement
Stevie Wonder
Paul Simon
Nine Inch Nail
Bruce

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Having just started my listening for 1992, I've found songs from Ride and Tori Amos that come ahead of pretty much every REM song except Nightswimming...1992 seems like such a promising year, perhaps not full of classics like 1991, but more depth, with the beginnings of careers and the continuation ...

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Bobby D
Tom Waits
pass
Neil Young
U2
VU
Talking Heads
Radiohead

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Hah. R.E.M. will probably come first in my poll as well, though not at that level of fandom. I'm giving my first listen to Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes and really enjoying it.

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I feel I can finally give a recommendation which some of you might not have heard of! It's a German band called Blumfeld, who are a weird mix of Sonic Youth-like guitars and Pixies-esque indie rock. It feels smarter than those bands though, much more wordy and Neil-Young-commentaryesque, and they sp...

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I haven't looked through 1991 nearly as much as I should have, so here's my very half-hearted list. Hopefully I'll be back on the bandwagon proper in 1992. 1. Slint - Spiderland 2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 3. Primal Scream - Screamadelica 4. Nirvana - Nirvana 5. Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam ...

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It's for people like us, who don't know the limits of addiction. I'm certainly going to try to pick it up, because I think MBV are one of those bands who are wholly dependent on their sound for their acclaim. The remaster might change a lot.

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Pixies
Sonic Youth
The Smiths
R.E.M.
Nirvana
Public Enemy
Jane's Addiction (A recent addiction to "Three Days" propels them to 7th)
N.W.A.
The Replacements
The Beastie Boys

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Hmmm, maybe it's because it was the first month and I was much keener as a result, but 1990 seems to have a lot more depth to it, which is funny because 1991 is one of the most acclaimed years ever. I've listened to Nevermind, Spiderland, Yerself is Steam, Blue Lines (ish), Loveless and Screamadelic...

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