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This is terrible. Really really terrible. Prince and Bowie are two of my absolute favorites. Artistic idols, even.

Really feeling for Moonbeam right now, too. I know he hasn't posted in a while. I hope he's okay.

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From 1954 to 2016... 1957: Buddy Holly & The Crickets- That'll Be the Day (The "Chirping" Crickets) 1965: Bob Dylan- Like a Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited) 1967: The Beatles- A Day in the Life (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) 1971: Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven (Led Zepp...

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If I recall correctly, the New Division/Joy Order band managed to crack the top 20 artists.

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I'm beginning to notice a problem with my rating system, namely that just about everything falls into the "good" or "decent" category, with little albums that fall into the "great" or "bad" category. But I suppose this is just a natural outcome of only listeni...

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Sturgill Simpson- A Sailor's Guide to Earth Country is an easy genre to hate, and modern country is even easier. But despite the complete and utter awfulness that is modern radio friendly country, there are always a steady supply of acts crafting great music just under the radar. Sturgill Simpson i...

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"Junk" is like if Anthony Gonzalez was like "hey guys...what if I made a bad album...on purpose?" ...congrats on doing that I guess? It's not really THAT bad (in my opinion) but it's certainly more bad than good. To be honest, it sounds like from the songs I've heard, not the en...

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"Junk" is like if Anthony Gonzalez was like "hey guys...what if I made a bad album...on purpose?"

...congrats on doing that I guess? It's not really THAT bad (in my opinion) but it's certainly more bad than good.

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So far I've heard 9 songs from this year that I like enough to include in my list... Kanye West- Ultralight Beam Kanye West- Famous Kanye West- Real Friends Kanye West- No More Parties in L.A. PJ Harvey- The Wheel PJ Harvey- The Community of Hope Woods- Sun City Creeps Weezer- L.A. Girlz Anohni- Dro...

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1. Ziggy Stardust
2. Starman
3. Moonage Daydream
4. Five Years
5. Suffragette City
6. Lady Stardust
7. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
8. Soul Love
9. Star
10. It Ain't Easy
11. Hang On to Yourself

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Interpol's album "El Pintor" should have a capital P, not lowercase as seen on AM.

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PJ Harvey- The Hope Six Demolition Project I had liked PJ Harvey for a while, but I wasn't really a big fan of her until "Let England Shake" came out in 2011. "Dry" and "Rid of Me" are good, and "To Bring You My Love" is great, but there was something about h...

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1. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 2. Visions of Johanna 3. I Want You 4. Just Like a Woman 5. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) 6. Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine 7. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 8. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands 9. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 1...

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M83- Junk Okay, time for the real review. M83 have never been a stranger to mining the sounds of the 80s, but on their latest album "Junk" they take it further than they'd ever done before. "Junk" is an apt title for the album too, as the album revisits 80s ephemera that until n...

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The Field- The Follower Over the course of four (now five) albums, The Field has worked on a sound that is entirely his own. Call it micro-house or whatever, but it's his. A Field song is unmistakable. But while all of his albums have garnered a positive reception, the only album with any serious a...

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Just watched "It's a Wonderful Life". Really great movie, brought a couple tears to my eyes during the end. It probably would've placed high on my list had I seen it in time, but it looks like it didn't need my help to get a high position. A great start to my journey through the unseen mov...

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1. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 2. Visions of Johanna 3. I Want You 4. Just Like a Woman 5. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) 6. Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine 7. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 8. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands 9. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 10...

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I'm not a big country music fan, but I really like what I've heard of Merle Haggard. It's a shame that it sometimes takes an artist's death for me to check them out. But I'll definitely be checking out more of his stuff in the near future.

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Nick, you haven't seen It's a Wonderful Life and you live in the USA?! :o I'm just happy neither The Godfather nor The Shawshank Redemption was #1. Fantastic rollout. I didn't vote for this (simply because I haven't seen all 250 films), but it's still a better public opinion poll than all the other...

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Since it seems trendy, her are my Top 10 films that did not make the cut: King Kong (#15) Ed Wood (#18) High Noon (#22) Wuthering Heights (#24) Unforgiven (#27) Fantasia (#28) Oldboy (#31) Serenity (#32) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (#35) Yankee Doodle Dandy (#36) Unless you're talking about the...

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Well with the list all presented, I think it's time for a couple top tens... Top ten movies I haven't seen... 23. It's a Wonderful Life 38. Magnolia 40. The Great Dictator 42. The Rules of the Game 45. Wings of Desire 50. Bicycle Thieves 52. Tokyo Story 56. Freaks 57. Come and See 58. The Gold Rush ...

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I'm surprised (and a little let down) that Pulp Fiction didn't win, but second place is still fantastic and Apocalypse Now is such a great movie.

A million thanks to you, BleuPanda for hosting the poll! Your hard work and level of care are extraordinarily evident here.

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Well we're down to the sane final two as our 2012 poll. And I think I know which of the two all the voters have seen...

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The Sex Pistols as a whole are a bit overrated, but this song is still fantastic. In my top 200 of all time. The energy present here is irresistible, and that opening is classic.

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Although I gave a very flippant comment for Mulholland Drive, it's not a movie I hated. Just a movie I didn't understand...at all. Definitely need to re-watch it at some point.

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Although everyone and their great grandma loves Radiohead, Phil Selway is totally underrated as a drummer. The percussion on "In Rainbows" is one of my favorite things about that album.

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At number 23, "It's a Wonderful Life" is the highest ranked movie I haven't seen.

It's also probably my ultimate spit-take movie, the one movie where, when you announce that you haven't seen it, everyone around you spits out their drink in incredulity.

Looking forward to the top 20!

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BleuPanda wrote:And two David Lynch! Chaplin, Hitchcock, and Leone as well.

14 of our top 30 movies came from just 6 directors. Whoa.

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Three Kubrick films in the top 30 as well as three Coppola films. We sure do love our auteurs!

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BleuPanda wrote: Haven't seen the rest. I wonder where Mononoke would have fared here with how most of these placed.

If we were allowed to nominate 5 films as opposed to 3, the other 2 films I would've nominated would've been "The Truman Show" and "Princess Mononoke".

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WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP RANKING PORCO ROSSO SO DAMN LOW?! :angry-screaming: I find it to be more than decent. It is a stunning exploration of man's demons set in the sunny Adriatic seas. Of course, if you've only seen the Michael Keaton-dub, let me tell you the original Japanese is so much better. I...

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My Neighbor Totoro is my girlfriend's favorite movie. If she cared about the opinions of the members of a semi-obscure online music forum, I'm sure she'd be pleased to see it in the top 50. Anyway, to me Miyazaki has released four masterpieces, one per decade. My Neighbor Totoro was his first, Prin...

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My Neighbor Totoro is my girlfriend's favorite movie. If she cared about the opinions of the members of a semi-obscure online music forum, I'm sure she'd be pleased to see it in the top 50. Anyway, to me Miyazaki has released four masterpieces, one per decade. My Neighbor Totoro was his first, Princ...

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PlasticRam wrote:I would've liked to see The Truman Show in the competition.

That's easily my favorite movie that didn't make the list, and I'm kicking myself for not nominating it.

Anyway, there's 6 movies in the top 50 that I haven't seen. Let's see how they rank...

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Is "Freaks" really that brilliant of a film to merit a placement in the all time top 60? I've never seen it. In fact, the only clip I've seen is the "gooble gobble gooble gobble" clip. But based on what I know about it, it reaaaaaaaaaaally doesn't seem like it would be that good...

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Is "Freaks" really that brilliant of a film to merit a placement in the all time top 60? I've never seen it. In fact, the only clip I've seen is the "gooble gobble gooble gobble" clip. But based on what I know about it, it reaaaaaaaaaaally doesn't seem like it would be that good ...

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1. Radiohead- OK Computer
2. The Clash- London Calling
3. The Beatles- Abbey Road
4. The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground & Nico

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"Grave of the Fireflies" is amazing, but there's about 5 or 6 Miyazaki films I'd put above it (and I know "Grave of the Fireflies" isn't Miyazaki). Just goes to show how amazing Studio Ghibli's output is. For the record, those 5 or 6 Miyazaki films are- Spirited Away, Princess Mo...

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Maths is a study of patterns in nature. We say that 2 + 2 = 4, because, for example, in the past, whenever two apples and two apples have been put together, four apples have been obtained. If, one day, you started getting five apples, for whatever reason, dimensional, calculational, etc, it would b...

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luney6 wrote:
Nick wrote:I'm guessing that it won't be a movie from before 1970 due to some bias against "old movies".
On this forum? I doubt it.

Well not from the majority of voters. But all it takes it one voter with said bias to deny an old film all 20 votes.

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I'm guessing that it won't be a movie from before 1970 due to some bias against "old movies".

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Well it wasn't The Wizard of Oz...and it wasn't Back to the Future either.

I'm still leaning towards Raiders of the Lost Ark and Pulp Fiction, with Spirited Away as a dark horse candidate.

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Okay. I have a step by step method worked out now. I think it will resolve this argument at its roots, perhaps in favor of either side. I remember reading somewhere that you're an architecture student Nick. In that case, if everything is subjective, then why do you study architecture? And if you we...

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babydoll wrote:Hey, Nick, there's your Wizard of Oz at #84! I am sorry.

No apologies necessary! I'm happy to see The Wizard of Oz place in the top 100, even if I expected a little more than 15 votes. Oh well. Still curious to see what the last movie with all 20 votes is.

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When I approach the so-called 'objective' merits of a work, I try to approach it from a cultural sense. Some subjectively great works have had objective impacts on their medium, whether it be through creating new techniques or being specifically cited by future artists. I think a work that directly...

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Now, good argument, but I had said intellectual effort, and not intelligence. Intellectual effort could be taken to combine the artist's ability to imbue originality into his work, add depth to the art, etc, etc. Simply put, would you not agree that Moby Dick is a better book than Twilight is? I ha...

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Beautiful post, Nick. While I am with you that the perceived "intelligence" is all basically the audience's objectiveness towards it, I dismiss the concept of having awful taste. I should also clarify here that I also reject the concept of "good" or "bad" taste when us...

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BleuPanda wrote:
Nick wrote:So...you got any more of those results coming up, Bleu?

Sorry, I've been busy with Easter and other stuff this weekend. I'll try to get back on track Monday. Sorry for the sudden delay of everything.

No need to apologize! I'm just excited to see the results is all.

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I think that there is definitely a way to measure the merit of art, and that stems from the intellectual effort put in by the artist. I mean surely, as PlasticRam said, it is possible to see that The Beatles were a better band than Nickelback are, and for this simple reason. And this objectivity ca...

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So...you got any more of those results coming up, Bleu?

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I'm an avid reader, but there are a couple problems with a books poll. First off, do we count fiction and nonfiction together? How about religious texts? Novels and short story collections? Should a series count as individual books or as a single unit? Second off, there's a serious difference in tim...

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