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I want to reintroduce a game we played many years ago. It's probably called something else usually, but anyway I called it "What is the list about?".

Anyone can present an AM-related list of 5-ish items, and then rest of us will guess what the list is about.

OK, here's one for you:

1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Bitches Brew
3. If You're Feeling Sinister
4. Roxy Music or Metal Box or We're Only In It for the Money (depending on how you see it)
5. Metal Box or We're Only In It for the Money or Another Green World

None of these albums have songs in the top 6000!

I bet you have to be more specific with your answer, cos why would it have the options depending on viewpoint. I can't think of anything though.

Also, I have come up with a list. People can still answer to the first list. I hope I have understood this game correctly.

1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Rock Bottom
3. Faust
4. The Velvet Underground & Nico
5. The Doors

Nick wrote:None of these albums have songs in the top 6000!

Correct! The most acclaimed album with no songs in the top 6000.

PlasticRam wrote:I bet you have to be more specific with your answer, cos why would it have the options depending on viewpoint. I can't think of anything though.

I think the options depending on viewpoint comes from the fact that some versions of the albums Henrik listed have songs in the top 6000 while other versions do not.

PlasticRam wrote:1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Rock Bottom
3. Faust
4. The Velvet Underground & Nico
5. The Doors

Piero Scaruffi's 5 favourite albums.

PlasticRam wrote: 1. Trout Mask Replica
2. Rock Bottom
3. Faust
4. The Velvet Underground & Nico
5. The Doors

These albums are rock critic Piero Scaruffi's top 5 albums of all time.

EDIT: Looks like Bang Jan beat me by a minute.

Nick wrote:

PlasticRam wrote:I bet you have to be more specific with your answer, cos why would it have the options depending on viewpoint. I can't think of anything though.

I think the options depending on viewpoint comes from the fact that some versions of the albums Henrik listed have songs in the top 6000 while other versions do not.

Oh okay thanks. Glad mine got solved too!

1. Ramones
2. Kind of Blue
3. Forever Changes
4. There's a Riot Goin' On
5. Murmur

Okay, here's a list for you all...

1. Rubber Soul
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Sticky Fingers
4. Hunky Dory
5. The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle

Bang Jan wrote:1. Ramones
2. Kind of Blue
3. Forever Changes
4. There's a Riot Goin' On
5. Murmur

This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but the top 5 albums that only have 1 song in the top 6000?

Nick wrote:Okay, here's a list for you all...

1. Rubber Soul
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Sticky Fingers
4. Hunky Dory
5. The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle

The album released before the 5 most acclaimed artists' most acclaimed album.

Nick wrote:Okay, here's a list for you all...

1. Rubber Soul
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Sticky Fingers
4. Hunky Dory
5. The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle

Top artists and the albums are the ones that preceded their masterpiece?

Edit: Gosh dang it all! I did not see Henrik's post.

A new list:
1. Paul Simon - Graceland
2. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Clue: Not AM-related.

Also if someone can think of some other meaning, I will prolly accept that too.

Another list, this time unordered:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Kanye West - Yeezus
Atoms for Peace - Amok
Deerhunter - Monomania

Henrik wrote:

Nick wrote:Okay, here's a list for you all...

1. Rubber Soul
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Sticky Fingers
4. Hunky Dory
5. The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle

The album released before the 5 most acclaimed artists' most acclaimed album.

You got it, Henrik!

Perhaps I'll have to think of a tougher one...

PlasticRam wrote:
Another list, this time unordered:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Kanye West - Yeezus
Atoms for Peace - Amok
Deerhunter - Monomania

Easy, 2013 albums.

JimmyJazz wrote:

PlasticRam wrote:
Another list, this time unordered:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Kanye West - Yeezus
Atoms for Peace - Amok
Deerhunter - Monomania

Easy, 2013 albums.

That's only a part of the answer.

As a clue I would say that if you were to only look at Acclaimed Music, there would be almost no way of knowing this. That's why I posted about this to the error thread, which does contain the answer.

So that kinda makes this non-AM-related again, even though I didn't mean it to be.

1. Fulfillingness' First Finale
2. The College Dropout
3. Presence
4. Abbey Road
5. John Wesley Harding

Non-AM related

Nick wrote:

Bang Jan wrote:This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but the top 5 albums that only have 1 song in the top 6000?

Yes!

Edit: Another list

1. Unknown Pleasures
2. Endtroducing...
3. Illinois
4. Screamadelica
5. Channel Orange

I'm terrible at guessing these, but love making them up:

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3. Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
4. David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise
5. Bjork - Homogenic

Non-AM

Oh yes, this was always a favorite

Gets a bit confusing if you all guys create list before we get the answers to the other ones, so here are the one still with no answer :

From PlasticRam :

1. Paul Simon - Graceland
2. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Clue: Not AM-related.

Another list, this time unordered:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Kanye West - Yeezus
Atoms for Peace - Amok
Deerhunter - Monomania

From notbrianeno :

1. Fulfillingness' First Finale
2. The College Dropout
3. Presence
4. Abbey Road
5. John Wesley Harding

Non-AM related

From Bang Jan :

1. Unknown Pleasures
2. Endtroducing...
3. Illinois
4. Screamadelica
5. Channel Orange

And from Maschine_Man :

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3. Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
4. David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise
5. Bjork - Homogenic

Non-AM

Nassim wrote: From notbrianeno :

1. Fulfillingness' First Finale
2. The College Dropout
3. Presence
4. Abbey Road
5. John Wesley Harding

ooh! It is that the musician/a band member was involved in a car/motorcycle accident before/during the album recording?

PlasticRam wrote: 1. Paul Simon - Graceland
2. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Seems like those are Oprah's 2 favorite albums.

Maschine_Man wrote: 1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3. Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
4. David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise
5. Bjork - Homogenic

Covers are all by photographer Nick Knight

Nassim wrote:

PlasticRam wrote: 1. Paul Simon - Graceland
2. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Seems like those are Oprah's 2 favorite albums.

Correct!

1. Missy Elliott - All N my Grill
2. Robbie Williams - Supreme
3. Lana Del Rey - Off to the races
4. Lill Bow wow feat. Snoop dogg - What's my name
5. Kendrick Lamar - War is my love

1. Run the Jewels- Run the Jewels 2
2. Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City
3. Kendrick Lamar- good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
5. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Mattceinicram wrote:1. Run the Jewels- Run the Jewels 2
2. Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City
3. Kendrick Lamar- good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
5. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Pitchfork's AotY 2010-2014?

Luke JR68 wrote:

Mattceinicram wrote:1. Run the Jewels- Run the Jewels 2
2. Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City
3. Kendrick Lamar- good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
5. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Pitchfork's AotY 2010-2014?

Yep!

Maschine_Man wrote:

Nassim wrote: From notbrianeno :

1. Fulfillingness' First Finale
2. The College Dropout
3. Presence
4. Abbey Road
5. John Wesley Harding

ooh! It is that the musician/a band member was involved in a car/motorcycle accident before/during the album recording?

Yep!

Nassim wrote:From Bang Jan :

1. Unknown Pleasures
2. Endtroducing...
3. Illinois
4. Screamadelica
5. Channel Orange

Whoof... This one was quite tricky, but are these the highest ranking albums on AM that were not included in the 2012 edition of Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums ?

1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Beck - Sea Change
4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or

I've got one here. Hopefully this one will stump you all for some time...

1. Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks, It's the Sex Pistols
2. Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3. James Brown- Live at the Apollo 1963
4. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
5. R.E.M.- Murmur

Jirin wrote:1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Beck - Sea Change
4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or

I have a feeling that this list is about albums that have gained the most places on AM recently. But I can't really prove this.

Luke JR68 wrote:

Nassim wrote:From Bang Jan :

1. Unknown Pleasures
2. Endtroducing...
3. Illinois
4. Screamadelica
5. Channel Orange

Whoof... This one was quite tricky, but are these the highest ranking albums on AM that were not included in the 2012 edition of Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums ?

Yep!

Another list

1. Transformer
2. Harvest
3. Darkness on the Edge of Town
4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. The Wall

Nassim wrote: Covers are all by photographer Nick Knight

Correct!

Bang Jan wrote: 1. Transformer
2. Harvest
3. Darkness on the Edge of Town
4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. The Wall

The 5 top-ranked 70's albums on AM that haven't got a 5-star rating on allmusic?

PlasticRam wrote:Another list, this time unordered:

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Kanye West - Yeezus
Atoms for Peace - Amok
Deerhunter - Monomania

These were the worst albums of 2013 according to Scaruffi.

Nick wrote:

Jirin wrote:1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Beck - Sea Change
4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or

I have a feeling that this list is about albums that have gained the most places on AM recently. But I can't really prove this.

I don't know exactly, Untrue for instance climbed more than Either/Or.

Krurze wrote:The 5 top-ranked 70's albums on AM that haven't got a 5-star rating on allmusic?

Yep!

Another list

1. Moondance
2. Surfer Rosa
3. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
4. In the Court of the Crimson King
5. Songs of Leonard Cohen

Nick wrote:

Jirin wrote:1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Beck - Sea Change
4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or

I have a feeling that this list is about albums that have gained the most places on AM recently. But I can't really prove this.

One hint: That is not what the list is, but the nature of the list guarantees all albums on it will have risen on AM lately.

This thread is quickly turning into Listo-mania. I think there should be a cap on the amount of unsolved lists here, lest we become swamped.

Here's our unsolved lists-

Romain:

1. Missy Elliott - All N my Grill
2. Robbie Williams - Supreme
3. Lana Del Rey - Off to the races
4. Lill Bow wow feat. Snoop dogg - What's my name
5. Kendrick Lamar - War is my love

Jirin:

1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. The Knife - Silent Shout
4. Beck - Sea Change
4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or

Nick:

1. Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks, It's the Sex Pistols
2. Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3. James Brown- Live at the Apollo 1963
4. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
5. R.E.M.- Murmur

Bang Jan:

1. Moondance
2. Surfer Rosa
3. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
4. In the Court of the Crimson King
5. Songs of Leonard Cohen

Romain, I really have to congratulate you for making a tough list! But I think I've cracked it!

Romain wrote:1. Missy Elliott - All N my Grill
2. Robbie Williams - Supreme
3. Lana Del Rey - Off to the races
4. Lill Bow wow feat. Snoop dogg - What's my name
5. Kendrick Lamar - War is my love

All of these songs sample François de Roubaix's score from the film "Dernier domicile connu"!

Another small hint for mine: The answer can be found exclusively on this site.

Nick wrote:Romain, I really have to congratulate you for making a tough list! But I think I've cracked it!

Romain wrote:1. Missy Elliott - All N my Grill
2. Robbie Williams - Supreme
3. Lana Del Rey - Off to the races
4. Lill Bow wow feat. Snoop dogg - What's my name
5. Kendrick Lamar - War is my love

All of these songs sample François de Roubaix's score from the film "Dernier domicile connu"!

Yes Nick ! Bravo!

Since it looks like nobody's going to get mine and the game is stalled.

Top ranked albums that have competed in Best Moderately Acclaimed Album.

1. Gang Starr- Moment of Truth
2. The Rolling Stones- December's Children (And Everybody's)
3. Goldfrapp- Black Cherry
4. Lightning Bolt- Hypermagic mountain
5. dEUS- In a Bar, under the sea

luney6 wrote:1. Gang Starr- Moment of Truth
2. The Rolling Stones- December's Children (And Everybody's)
3. Goldfrapp- Black Cherry
4. Lightning Bolt- Hypermagic mountain
5. dEUS- In a Bar, under the sea

Lowest ranked albums in the AM top 3000.

Mine was the highest ranked albums to receive exactly 8.5/10 by Scaruffi.

Here's another list

1. The Smiths
2. The Byrds
3. The White Stripes
4. Sex Pistols
5. Massive Attack

Bang Jan wrote:

luney6 wrote:1. Gang Starr- Moment of Truth
2. The Rolling Stones- December's Children (And Everybody's)
3. Goldfrapp- Black Cherry
4. Lightning Bolt- Hypermagic mountain
5. dEUS- In a Bar, under the sea

Lowest ranked albums in the AM top 3000.

That's Correct.

Here's another one:
1. Paris 1919 by John Cale
2. Everything must go by Manic Street Preachers
3. Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants
4. The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers
5. Rings Around the World by Super Furry Animals

Highest rated albums by artists from Wales?