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Harold

I've tweaked and streamlined my update predictions somewhat following the addition of another EOY album list: Top 500 Kanye West / Yeezus Daft Punk / Random Access Memories Vampire Weekend / Modern Vampires of the City Arcade Fire / Reflektor 501-1000 My Bloody Valentine / m b v The National / Troub...

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Dead at 46. Found in his NYC apartment. Reports indicate apparent heroin overdose - more than apparent, actually. This one is really hitting me hard. A brilliant actor, one of my favorites. He'd apparently struggled with addiction years earlier, was clean for decades, then it flared up again last ye...

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Updated once again:

Rest of the World: Plugged [France]

One very significant change near the top. With apologies to Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner:

EZRA KOENIG: Who are you?
WIN BUTLER: The new Number Two.
EK: Who is Number One?
KANYE WEST: Still me, motherf---ers!!!

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"Album Rock" and "Plugged Magazine" lists are not yet in the final list. Which ones still lack? Album Rock fell just short of the minimum number of links. Plugged doesn't seem to have a dedicated website outside of its Facebook and Twitter pages, so I didn't include it. However,...

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And away we go...

Looks like 2014 is off to a strong start. This time last year there were 4 albums with a score of 77 or higher - we've already got twice that number.

Thanks, Otisredding!

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sonofsamiam wrote:A fantastic song, my favorite by the Pretty Things. Bruce and Harold, you should also check out the single "Defecting Grey".

It's a bonus track on my S.F. Sorrow CD, and yes, it's quite fantastic.

Harold

Love the entire album, although like most "concept albums" the concept doesn't hold together unless you read the between-songs commentary in the liner notes. It's one of the greatest - and least-dated, because the PT's rocked like a proverbial mother - psychedelic albums.

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It may have a high Alexa ranking, but it's hardly a music site, is it?

Anyway, if I was Henrik, I wouldn't add a list from something called the "Bro Bible" if there was a gun to my head.

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In looking at the decade lists from Paste included in the post on non-EOY lists to be added, I found that they did a 1960s list as well (a staff list, from 2012): http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/the-60-best-albums-of-the-1960s.html I don't think it's been posted here before. JR, can...

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A note for Henrik, if you're still thinking about possibly adding new pre-2010 albums in the next update: there are three albums on this list that are also included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die but are not currently in the database. *Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story (1989) *The Residen...

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I would hope that a list with the Killers at #21 and Kaiser Chiefs at #27 is a reader's list...

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Also, not saying that an argument couldn't also be made that "Royals" is a better recording than "Get Lucky." Maximalism vs. minimalism, and all that.

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I really don't understand why they are two separate awards for Record and Song of the year. What I don't get even more is how the same song doesn't win both. One is for the songwriter, and one is for the performer, but I can never remember which is which. I don't get why the songwriter and performe...

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First year I can think of where all 3 of the top award winners - Album, Record ("Get Lucky"), and Song ("Royals") - are worthy, or at least non-cringe-worthy.

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Yes, I was worried as well. Glad to see everything's back up and running again!

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Is this the website of the Gibson guitar company? Its eligibility is doubtful, but it's an interesting - if largely predictable - list.

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Just noticed that Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is marked as a compilation. It isn't, of course.

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A couple of notes for Henrik after taking a long look at the list: *The Allman Brothers Band's Beginnings is a repackaging of their first two albums, the self-titled debut and Idlewild South . *Similarly, Back to Basics by Billy Bragg collects the entirety of his first two releases ( Life's a Riot w...

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Thanks for the predictions! Any idea where the songs will land? I don't pay quite as much attention to the songs as to the albums. Maybe someone else can look at those. The order of the songs that make it into the AM database will probably be pretty close to their order on the EOY spreadsheet, as t...

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Now that the EOY albums spreadsheet is (presumably) complete, I’d like to turn my attention to one of my favorite exercises: trying to predict where the 2013 albums will end up on the all-time list in the next AM update. Once again, as opposed to Henrik’s statistical rigor, I’m doing this via the mo...

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1. Strangers on a Train 2. A Streetcar Named Desire 3. Diary of a Country Priest 4. Ace in the Hole 5. The African Queen 6. The Thing from Another World 7. The Day the Earth Stood Still 8. An American in Paris 9. A Place in the Sun 10. [tie] The Lavender Hill Mob ; The Man in the White Suit Sorry, ...

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luvulongTIM wrote:"It's not like a band I loathe like Depeche Mode will be the reason they don't make the top 100." #100 AND 99 De FREAKIN' peche Mode LOL!

You mean New Freakin' Order, right?

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The top 200 albums of 2013, according to the AM EOY spreadsheet: 1 / Kanye West / Yeezus 2 / Vampire Weekend / Modern Vampires of the City 3 / Arcade Fire / Reflektor 4 / Daft Punk / Random Access Memories 5 / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Push the Sky Away 6 / The National / Trouble Will Find Me 7 ...

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Updated (possibly for the final time) with: UK/Ireland: Time Out Rest of the World: Heaven [Netherlands], Porcys [Poland] As always, this has been an enormous amount of work, but fascinating and fun. Grateful thanks, again, to everyone who's helped by posting lists here. I couldn't do this without a...

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Site's been down for several hours. Really? How long does it take to upload a top-20 albums list?

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Song list. Albums scheduled to follow sometime later today.

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Thanks! There's a clean point break at 30, so I think I'll use that.

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Also, could you put the Heaven link into its own separate thread? Thanks!

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Re: the Heaven list - if I'm reading this correctly, it looks like the albums are ranked first by number of mentions and then by total points, and that there were only 34 albums that made two or more lists. If this is correct, I should only include a small number in the spreadsheet. Did they really ...

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Does it meet the album review criterion? If it does, I'll add it. This and the top 20 from Porcys (due to be posted Friday) should just about wrap things up for the albums spreadsheet. Anyone know what's up with Beats Per Minute? They haven't updated since before Christmas. Anyone manage to track d...

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For some reason, Time Out EOY lists haven't been included here, and I'm not 100% sure why. Henrik, is it because TO isn't a music-specific publication? I'm thinking that might be it.

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Quick note: the single asterisks above represent songs for which 2012 votes were also counted. Double asterisks represent tracks for which votes for remixes/alternate versions were counted. Triple asterisks represent that the title of that one Beyoncé song is actually "***Flawless."

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There are 123 songs in the P&J "top 100" - lots and lots of ties. Yeezus complements its impressive album win by placing three tracks in the top ten. Meanwhile, belying Bangerz 's abysmal album poll performance, Her Royal Twerkness lands two songs in the top 20. 1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharre...

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Updated with:

USA/Canada: Village Voice Pazz & Jop [top 100]
UK/Ireland: Terrorizer

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They posted it: Albums: http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/pazz-and-jop-best-albums-of-2013-40816576/ Singles: http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/pazz-n-jop-best-singles-of-2013-40816810/ As the man responsible for album #20 once said, first it giveth then it taketh away. The links don't work...

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It's finally up. Here's the complete top 100: 1 Kanye West, Yeezus 2 Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City 3 Daft Punk, Random Access Memories 4 Beyoncé, Beyoncé 5 Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap 6 My Bloody Valentine, m b v 7 Haim, Days Are Gone 8 Janelle Monáe, The Electric Lady 9 Kurt Vile, Wa...

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I called the top 5 ranking for Beyoncé in a post on the Mega-Critic thread; I wonder how many other publications will follow Spin's lead in holding a place for the album on their 2014 EOY lists to compensate for having compiled their lists too early. As it stands, there's a real possibility that the...

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I posted the rest of the top 100 (found on the stat site linked to in the P&J thread in the general section) last night, but I've deleted it - the VOICE still (as of 5:45 am Chicago time) hasn't updated the P&J page, and I'm very uncomfortable with having posted before the results are public...

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They posted it: Albums: http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/pazz-and-jop-best-albums-of-2013-40816576/ Singles: http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/pazz-n-jop-best-singles-of-2013-40816810/ As the man responsible for album #20 once said, first it giveth then it taketh away. The links don't work...

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How did you guys find these? The VOICE hasn't updated the P&J page yet.

I've posted the top 25 on the Critics' List forum, and the rest of the top 100 will be posted - by me or someone else - later.

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The VOICE hasn't posted the full Pazz & Jop 2013 page as I write this (6:30 Chicago time), but a post on the general music forum has links to slideshows of the top 25 albums and singles. Assuming these don't change, here are the P&J top 25 albums: 1. Kanye West - Yeezus 2. Vampire Weekend - ...

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1. Strangers on a Train
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Diary of a Country Priest
4. Ace in the Hole
5. The African Queen
6. The Thing from Another World
7. The Day the Earth Stood Still
8. An American in Paris
9. A Place in the Sun
10. [tie] The Lavender Hill Mob ; The Man in the White Suit

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To echo what irreduciblekoan wrote in another thread about this magazine, I'm not sure why its lists haven't been added in previous years (I suppose I can probably blame list fatigue for ignoring last year's), but it certainly seems to be an eligible source.

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Updated with:

Rest of the World: PopNews [France], Screenagers [Poland]

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20. Jon Hopkins - Immunity 19. The Flaming Lips - The Terror 18. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon 17. Kanye West - Yeezus 16. The Necks - Open 15. Atom (TM) - HD 14. David Bowie - The Next Day 13. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience 12. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest 11. Holden - The...

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Until I did a free-translation of PopNews' comment on #4, I didn't realize that this isn't, in fact, the same Holden who recorded The Inheritors - it's a French band that's been active since the late 1990s. I'll make a note of that in the artist column on the spreadsheet.

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The file size gets much smaller if you don't use any of the sort buttons during the last session. I need to re-open the spreadsheet, press enter somewhere and save again every time before I upload the songs spreadsheet. Anyway, I changed the maximum file size to unlimited, so this shouldn't be a pr...

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The entire last half hour has been incredibly bizarre. After I received the error message, I went into my Excel directory to look at the file size - and it actually said the spreadsheet file was 19,656 KB! I have no idea what the hell happened there, but the reading is now back to normal. Maybe Henr...

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OK, I have no idea what happened to the spreadsheet earlier, but somehow it was being read as several times larger than it actually is. Let's try this again.

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Henrik, we have a potentially huge problem - I just tried to upload another update, with the BBC and Kerrang! lists added, and received this message: "The file is too big, maximum allowed size is 5 MiB." I'm going to email the spreadsheet to you - please try to adjust it so that it can be ...

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