AMF Chart Week 49

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AMF Chart Week 49

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A Tribe Called Quest - The Space Program
8
10%
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
9
11%
Angel Olsen - Sister
7
8%
Solange - Cranes in the Sky
6
7%
A Tribe Called Quest - Conrad Tokyo
4
5%
Frank Ocean - Pink + White
5
6%
Guillaume Perret - Heavy Dance
6
7%
Preoccupations - Memory
5
6%
Frank Ocean - Nights
3
4%
Laura Marling - Soothing
4
5%
Josefin Orhn & The Liberation - Rainbow Lollipop
3
4%
Jain - Makeba
2
2%
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - I Need You
8
10%
Burial - Young Death
2
2%
Yael Naïm - Coward
2
2%
Jimmy Eat World - You With Me
2
2%
Noname - Diddy Bop
2
2%
Elbow - Magnificent (She Says)
2
2%
Ages and Ages - So Hazy
2
2%
The Chemical Brothers - C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L
1
1%
 
Total votes: 83

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AMF Chart Week 49

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Bonjour à tous / toutes

Welcome to another instalment of the AMF Chart. A slight change in the rules of engagement means that a huge turnover has taken place (the chart position will be determined by number of votes first then the lowest number of weeks in the chart, encouraging a healthy renewal of songs. In case of a tie at the bottom of the chart, the cutoff will take place at the change of "age" of the song)

No less than 4 new entries and all first nominations have been accepted and the top song (tied with Leonard Cohen's) is a new entry from the excellent A Tribe Called Quest.
Noteworthy too are the three other entries, classics from Frank Ocean and Laura Marling and a curveball from the unknown Swedish band Josephin Ohrn & The Liberation

A Tribe Called Quest : One of the most artistic and popular rap acts of the 1990s, and leaders of the Native Tongues school of thoughtful jazz-inflected hip-hop.

Here is what Pitchfork had to say about the song : The album’s first number, “The Space Program,” is quintessential Tribe—it has that sooty bottom heavy warmness, the uncluttered arrangements and bright instrumentation, and it sounds like a piece of 2016 instead of a fragment of 1994. [...] The song plays with a sci-fi framing—“There ain't no space program for niggas/Yo, you stuck here, nigga”—yet it’s not about an imaginary future, but right now. “Imagine if this shit was really talkin’ about space, dude,” Q-Tip raps, unveiling the entire song as a metaphor for gentrification, perhaps even forecasting the showdown over the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock. And just that quickly, you realize that Tribe—poetical, allegorical, direct, and forever pushing forward from the present—are back as if they never left.

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Dan may be interested to know that Jain's Makeba is a tribute to the South African ethno jazz singer Miriam Makeba.
Worth a listen.
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Seems to start out being a light week for noms. That being said, here's one: Kings Of Leon - 'Over'
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Grandaddy - A Lost Machine
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Guys, I'm really happy to see Guillaume Perret have these 5 or 6 "likers" each week. Of all my nominations of the year, it's the one I thought it would be the one with the least success.
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Romain wrote:Guys, I'm really happy to see Guillaume Perret have these 5 or 6 "likers" each week. Of all my nominations of the year, it's the one I thought it would be the one with the least success.
That song rocks!

And yes, I am also surprised by which of my nominees do well on this list and which ones fade away without a single vote. It's what keeps this interesting!
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Kingoftonga wrote:
Romain wrote:Guys, I'm really happy to see Guillaume Perret have these 5 or 6 "likers" each week. Of all my nominations of the year, it's the one I thought it would be the one with the least success.
That song rocks!

And yes, I am also surprised by which of my nominees do well on this list and which ones fade away without a single vote. It's what keeps this interesting!
And I found the live version (on youtube) far better than the studio version.

It's good if the forumers remain surprising for other.
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Here is an artist I discovered only recently, great songs, of which :

L.A. Salami - Aristotle Ponders The Sound

And in a TOTALLY different style :

IDLES - Well Done - quintessentially British
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Old 97's - 'Good with God' (sweet call & response with Brandi Carlile)
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:text-bump:

Reminder, a fair amount of the new entries have only two votes, leading to a huge tie, and we have very few noms this week.

Please VOTE and NOMINATE :)
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I nominate:

DJ Shadow – “Bergschrund” (Feat. Nils Frahm)
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