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Andre

* Songs Two doubles in my top 100 ("If You Need Me" and "We Shall Overcome"). I voted in favour of Wilson and Joan for their versions. http://open.spotify.com/user/andre.hendriksen/playlist/0UzRY8slY4xcOKnLEqzKXp See also RYM 1 | The Ronettes | Be My Baby 2 | Wilson Pickett | If ...

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I nominate Ryan Adams - I Do Not Feel Like Being Good.

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The Amazing - 'Picture You' Apologies Rdwdbob! "Picture You" is a repeat nomination from last year. In fact, it's been re-nominated a couple times since... Some unusual interest for that song around these parts. That's right, I also tried to nominate it again at the beginning of this year...

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How could I have forgotten to recommend this nostalgic catchy instrumental song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBXFAioE_ss Nostalgic because I heard this song as a kid visiting "De Efteling" (Dutch amusement park). This song is played as the "Elfjesdans" at the "Indische W...

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LoneLady - Silvering

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Only #5474 in AM???

I recommend the debut single of the best soul singer this earth has brought (so far):

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I will try to update the Excel file with all the AMF chart votes as often as possible. Here is the new one. As "nominator" of the song, I am of course very happy that Björk is the first entry into the 2015 Hall of Fame! And I am double happy, because the 11th place, The White Birch, also w...

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Great recommendations, Honorio.

I can add one Dutch song, which was really a big hit back in 1962 (imagine that!):

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notbrianeno wrote:I nominate "To Die In L.A." by Lower Dens

I'm sorry to write this, but I had already nominated this song and it only got 1 vote in week 7 (guess from who?).

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To pick and vote for only 5 songs out of the list of magnificent 20 ... is pure torture

My nominations (in the category "love at first listen"):
1. Girls Names - Zero Triptych
2. LoneLady - Silvering
3. Ceremony - The Separation

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https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRp4dhHYNi1fltSrUqFN_Pb6fEeSz7KCG0oY5j2NIgjEBrGimQp You all probably had already figured this out a long long time ago, but I just noticed how brilliant this picture is: Turn it upside down both vertically and horizontally and what do you get ? ....

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(see also RYM ) I hope you've noticed me pressing the like button on both your 1960 and 1961 songs lists on RYM. My favourite "new" discovery from these 60s polls so far has been Sixteen Reasons by Connie Stevens from your 1960 list. [imgsize 10x10]http://www.clker.com/cliparts/W/q/D/p/e/...

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* Songs Due to the recent Spotify updates, one carefully prepared playlist of preselected 1961 songs got screwed up. I was able to kind of reconstruct the following 50 songs: http://open.spotify.com/user/andre.hendriksen/playlist/5CHEQEas1jbZ90iUxqPPvR (see also RYM ) 1 | Del Shannon | Runaway 2 | S...

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I have updated and uploaded my Excel file with all the AMF chart votes for 2014 (complete) and 2015 (up to week 12) here

P.S.: I had been 'gone' for a while, but pretty soon I should have more time for music again.

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Anyway, if anyone could confirm for me that the AMF weekly and yearly playlists are doing alright on this site and on the Spotify app, and aren't set to private or anything of that nature, that would be wonderful! Thanks bunches :music-listening: All systems go! And yes, I also find the latest Spot...

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* Albums 1. alt-J - An Awesome Wave 2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City 3. The National - High Violet 4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 5. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream 6. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 7. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 8. Beach House - Teen Dream 9. The Decemberists...

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Two weeks ago there were 3 female nominations from my side. None of them survived the first week ... you should all be ashamed of yourself :angry-nono: No nominations last week since down hill skiing had my focus. This week, let's try these 3 male nominations: 1. Viet Cong - Continental Shelf 2. The...

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I have uploaded my Excel file with all the AMF chart votes for 2014 (complete) and 2015 (up to week 8) here

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Attached you will find all the votes in the AMF Chart 2014 (complete) and 2015 (up to week 13).

Edit March 29th: Updated up to week 12.
Edit April 5th: Updated up to week 13.

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DaveC wrote:
Andre wrote:Just discovered this, and it will end up on my list of 1960 albums (too bad I already posted my songs list):

You can edit your lists on the voting thread anytime before the deadline.

Thank you, DaveC, I will notify you whenever my list is 'finally' edited.

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I have to take this opportunity to advertise for what is possibly my favorite song of the decade so far (yes, really!): http://open.spotify.com/track/1jmDkMtuAQJgSiN9AulFcx Let's make it the big surprise of the half decade poll! :D I was not planning to participate in the half decade poll, but this...

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Congratulations to Alvvays' "Archie, Marry Me" for entering our Hall of Fame! As Andre has pointed out, Alvvays is (probably) the song with the highest vote count we've ever had in our poll, if not close to the top. And it definitely deserves to be, in this chart-maker's opinion. Hopefull...

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Just discovered this, and it will end up on my list of 1960 albums (too bad I already posted my songs list):

(Link Wray & The Wraymen - Link Wray & The Wraymen)

Some very fine surfabilly proto-punk!

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Already mentioned this at the 1960 songs poll, but just that it does not get forgotten:

Currently listed as 1960 on AM, but Nina Simone's "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" was already released in 1959 on her live album Nina Simone at Town Hall.

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I don't want to be cruel, but I think Nina Simone's Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair is first released in 1959. The track is on the '59 live album Nina Simone at Town Hall . But since the track was first released on single in 1960, I guess it's still eligible? Good point, but I'm not going...

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I don't want to be cruel, but I think Nina Simone's Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair is first released in 1959.
The track is on the '59 live album Nina Simone at Town Hall.

But since the track was first released on single in 1960, I guess it's still eligible?

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In 1961, Brel released one of his best albums: Jacques Brel 5. But the best song of this album, Le moribond, was released as a single in 1960. Here you can enjoy an extraordinary live version with English subtitles. Here , the studio version. Great Brel song indeed! And I never knew that Terry Jack...

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Thank you for the thank yous. Here's another one: Thank you, Dan the Man! My ranking of the album poll winners: 1. 2008: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 2. 2013: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City 3. 2007: LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver 4. 2014: The War On Drugs - Lost In The dream 5. 2005:...

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Come on, there must be someone more than me who loves "Duvan"! Henrik, the Spotify link to this song does not work here in Germany, but I just listened to it via youtube. It is a nice song, but at the moment there are still 5 other songs in the chart that I like more. Will listen more thi...

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2. The Amazing - Picture You Was already submitted and eliminated from the chart last year! Sorry Andre :( Oops, you are right. That's what can happen if you keep all AMF data in one Excel file, but 2014 and 2015 in separate sheets. :x Here my corrected nominations: 1. Emile Haynie featuring Lana D...

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Great list and thank you so far, Dan!
Among them are quite a few interesting albums that I've not heard yet ...

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My nominations for next week:
1. Emile Haynie featuring Lana Del Rey - Wait For Life
2. The Amazing - Picture You
3. Dutch Uncles - Decided Knowledge

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Why "Archie, Marry Me"? This is a 2014 song. In general we have a 6 months window for nominations. However, at the end of the year we added songs from the eoy spreadsheet that had not been in the chart before, "Archie, Marry Me" among them. This is the 10th and last week for the...

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My final votes will come by the end of the month.

Here's my album list in progress and here my preliminary Spotify songs list:

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Thanks, DaveC and Henrik, for your responses. I will then vote for Etta ('60) and Howlin' Wolf ('61) according to the upcoming AM update.

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Which is also the argument for why I didn't want to extend the nomination period anything longer than what it currently is, and even considered suggesting shortening it :whistle: Well, Setherex, even though the temptation to still nominate a 2014 song (Continental Shelf by Viet Cong, a real masterp...

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... and acknowledge how awesome Courtney Barnett's Pedestrian at Best is. Catchy, fun and insanely quotable ; "I think you're a joke but I don't find you very funny" is a putdown for the ages. And also the video is quite awesome. The song is not only awesome, it has not left my head for a...

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DaveC, thank you for moderating this poll. Two questions regarding songs of 1960/1961 I want to ask you and Henrik: 1) "I Just Want To Make Love To You" by Etta James is listed as 1961 in AM, according to RYM it is a track on the 1960 album "At Last!" (https://rateyourmusic.com/r...

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* Albums 1. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream 2. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There 3. Spoon - They Want My Soul 4. Sea Pinks - Dreaming Tracks 5. Moss - We Both Know The Rest Is Noise 6. Temples - Sun Structures 7. Wild Beasts - Present Tense 8. Future Islands - Singles 9. The New Division - Togeth...

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I just added a vote for the artists poll as well. Since albums and songs of the more acclaimed artists are quite well-known, this should be less time-consuming. It would be great to have the classical and compilation polls as well. Not to participate in myself, but to see all of your votes and recom...

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All suggested polls sound great to me and deserve to take place in 2015. However, due to the limited free time I have, I can only guarantee participation to a subset. Looking back to 2014, I participated heavily in the AMF chart, really enjoyed the Unacclaimed poll and managed to deliver 4 out of th...

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DocBrown, I see that you have quite a few good Canadian artists in your list. And, like me, you listed a lot of songs that we've seen in last year's AMF chart. :) Dan, I've also made some minor changes to my songs list. Here's my "final" songs list for this poll: http://open.spotify.com/us...

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My second nomination for next week:
Ben Howard - End Of The Affair

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Interesting lists so far.

Here is my 50 songs list in progress.

In Spotify:

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Hmm, let's see how many possible lists there are:
20 remaining songs, that makes 20*19*18*...*1 = ~ 2.4 * 10^18 possible lists!
Should be easy to get a score = 0

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