Acclaimed Music Forums

Welcome to Week 33 of the AMF Chart! The chart where Sun Kil Moon still stands seven months later, in a heated competition that includes both Leonard Cohen and Robert Plant.

Here are your rankings for Week 32 (number of weeks on the chart so far in parentheses):
1. Leonard Cohen - "Almost Like the Blues" (2)
2. alt-J - "Every Other Freckle" (3)
3. Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" (8)
4. Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love" (2)
4. TV on the Radio - "Happy Idiot" (2)
6. Röyksopp & Robyn - "Every Little Thing" (6)
7. Sun Kil Moon - "Micheline" (5)
8. Robert Plant - "Rainbow" (1)
9. La Roux - "Uptight Downtown" (7)
10. The Bad Plus - "Adopted Highway" (1)
10. La Roux - "Let Me Down Gently" (1)
12. Jessie Ware - "Want Your Feeling" (2)
12. Pharmakon - "Body Betrays Itself" (2)
14. The Balcony Stars - "Crystal Bones" (1)
14. Esben and the Witch - "Dig Your Fingers In" (1)
14. Imogen Heap - "The Beast" (1)
14. Magnus feat. Thomas Smith - "Singing Man" (1)
14. Mazes - "Salford" (1)
14. Perfume Genius - "Grid" (1)
20. Vince Staples - "Hands Up" (1)

Due to a tie for 10th, the top 11 songs from last week went on to this week. Not a lot of new songs this week compared to recent ones, but hey, I won't complain. The chart's variance every week remains a delightful highlight of making these topics.

2014 Chart-Toppers by Week (counting tie votes; number of weeks atop chart total in parentheses):
1. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - "Fuck Off Get Free (For the Island of Montreal)"
2. Damien Jurado - "Silver Timothy" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die"
3. Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (2)
4. Damien Jurado - "Silver Timothy" (2)
5. Young Fathers - "Get Up"
6. St. Vincent - "Digital Witness" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (3)
7. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (4)
8. The War on Drugs - "Red Eyes" / Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (5)
9. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (2)
10. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (3)
11. Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry - "Johnny and Mary"
12. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (4) / Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry - "Johnny and Mary" (2)
13. Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (5)
14. tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain"
15. Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry - "Johnny and Mary" (3)
16. The Black Keys - "Weight of Love"
17. The War on Drugs - "Under the Pressure"
18. The Black Keys - "Weight of Love" (2) / Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" / tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain" (2) / The War on Drugs - "Under the Pressure" (2)
19. The Black Keys - "Weight of Love" (3)
20. Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (2)
21. First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining"
22. Spoon - "Do You"
23. Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (3)
24. Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (4)
25. First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining" (2) / Owen Pallett - "The Riverbed"
26. Jon Allen - "Night and Day"
27. Spoon - "Do You" (2)
28. First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining" (3) / Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" / Sun Kil Moon - "Micheline"
29. Spoon - "Do You" (3)
30. alt-J - "Every Other Freckle" / Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" (2)
31. Spoon - "Do You" (4)
32. alt-J - "Every Other Freckle" (2) / Interpol - "All the Rage Back Home" (3) / Leonard Cohen - "Almost Like the Blues"

2014 Hall of Fame (10 weeks of advancing votes; automatically retired from chart):
St. Vincent - "Digital Witness" (Week 1-14)
Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" (Week 1-11)
Sun Kil Moon - "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes" (Week 2-14)
tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain" (Week 9-18)
Future Islands - "Seasons (Waiting on You)" (Week 10-19)
The War on Drugs - "Under the Pressure" (Week 10-19)
Lana Del Rey - "West Coast" (Week 15-24)
The Black Keys - "Weight of Love" (Week 16-25)
Owen Pallett - "The Riverbed" (Week 17-26)
Jon Allen - "Night and Day" (Week 18-27)
First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining" (Week 19-28)
Spoon - "Do You" (Week 22-31)

Here is this week's 19-song Spotify chart (with 1 song included below via YouTube link):

Here is your 2014 AMF Chart playlist of all songs on the chart so far:


Thank you all for voting and nominating continuously every week! Please don't be afraid to supply us with nominations - all songs six months old and younger (or who have received promotion via album/video/single in the last six months) are accepted! And seconding nominations by others' gives those songs a better chance at making the next poll!

As per usual, the next poll will be created as close to Sunday at 19:00 GMT as I can make it. Best of voting!

Here's my nom:
Aby Ngana Diop - "Dieuleul-Dieuleul"

Thanks!

I nominate "Aisatsana" by Aphex Twin. The only song on his new album to match the sheer beauty of the strongest works on Selected Ambient Works Vol. II

My first next nomination:
Marianne Faithfull - Late Victorian Holocaust

Neither found on Spotify, nor on youtube, but here:
https://soundcloud.com/easysoundrecordi ... holocaust/

Second nomination:
Thurston Moore - The Best Day

I'd like to nominate Bang Bang by Jessie J and co.

My reminder to get in your votes, nominations, and seconding nominations before the new poll is created tomorrow!

My nominations for this week:
Kendrick Lamar - "i"
Two Inch Astronaut - "Foulbrood"
Ryan Hemsworth feat. Dawn Golden - "Snow in Newark"

Sofi de la Torre - Vermillion

Smokin' and Drinkin' - Miranda Lambert

I second the nomination for Kendrick and I'd also like to nominate Usher - Good Kisser