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Here I will post just the top ten songs and top five albums for each artist as a little summary in case people don't feel like looking through the big thread. Feel free to comment your thoughts below!

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Songs
12/19 | The Beatles | A Day in the Life
01/20 | Bob Dylan | Like a Rolling Stone
02/20 | The Rolling Stones | Gimme Shelter
03/20 | David Bowie | Life on Mars?
04/20 | Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run
05/20 | Radiohead | Paranoid Android
06/20 | Led Zeppelin | Stairway to Heaven
07/20 | Neil Young | After the Gold Rush
08/20 | The Who | Baba O'Riley
09/20 | Prince | When Doves Cry
10/20 | The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations
11/20 | R.E.M. | It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
12/20 | Elvis Presley | Suspicious Minds
01/21 | Kanye West | Runaway
02/21 | U2 | With or Without You
03/21 | Miles Davis | So What
04/21 | The Velvet Underground | Sunday Morning
05/21 | Nirvana | Smells Like Teen Spirit
06/21 | The Clash | London Calling
07/21 | Jimi Hendrix | All Along the Watchtower
08/21 | Marvin Gaye | I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Albums
12/19 | The Beatles | Revolver
01/20 | Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde
02/20 | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed
03/20 | David Bowie | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
04/20 | Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run
05/20 | Radiohead | OK Computer
06/20 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin IV
07/20 | Neil Young | After the Gold Rush
08/20 | The Who | Who's Next
09/20 | Prince | Purple Rain
10/20 | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds
11/20 | R.E.M. | Automatic For the People
12/20 | Elvis Presley | From Elvis in Memphis
01/21 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
02/21 | U2 | The Joshua Tree
03/21 | Miles Davis | Kind of Blue
04/21 | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico
05/21 | Nirvana | Nevermind
06/21 | The Clash | London Calling
07/21 | Jimi Hendrix | Are You Experienced
08/21 | Marvin Gaye | What's Going On


Top Albums and Songs of Each Artist

December 2019: The Beatles
I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
Songs
01 | A Day in the Life
02 | Strawberry Fields Forever
03 | Eleanor Rigby
04 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps
05 | Hey Jude
06 | Let It Be
07 | Tomorrow Never Knows
08 | In My Life
09 | Come Together
10 | Penny Lane

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Albums
01 | Revolver
02 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
03 | Abbey Road
04 | Rubber Soul
05 | The Beatles [White Album]

January 2020: Bob Dylan
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
Songs
01 | Like a Rolling Stone
02 | Hurricane
03 | Subterranean Homesick Blues
04 | Blowin' in the Wind
05 | Tangled Up In Blue
06 | Positively Fourth Street
07 | Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
08 | Ballad of a Thin Man
09 | Knockin' on Heaven's Door
10 | Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

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Albums
01 | Blonde on Blonde
02 | Highway 61 Revisited
03 | Blood on the Tracks
04 | Bringing It All Back Home
05 | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

February 2020: The Rolling Stones
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
Songs
01 | Gimme Shelter
02 | Sympathy For The Devil
03 | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
04 | Paint It, Black
05 | Honky Tonk Women
06 | Jumpin' Jack Flash
07 | You Can't Always Get What You Want
08 | Street Fighting Man
09 | Brown Sugar
10 | Tumbling Dice

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Albums
01 | Let It Bleed
02 | Beggars Banquet
03 | Sticky Fingers
04 | Exile on Main St.
05 | Aftermath

March 2020: David Bowie
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go
Songs
01 | Life on Mars?
02 | "Heroes"
03 | Space Oddity
04 | Starman
05 | Ashes to Ashes
06 | Changes
07 | Ziggy Stardust
08 | Moonage Daydream
09 | Suffragette City
10 | Rebel Rebel

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Albums
01 | The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
02 | Hunky Dory
03 | Low
04 | Aladdin Sane
05 | ★ [Blackstar]

April 2020: Bruce Springsteen
Oh, someday girl, I don't know when
We're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun
But till then, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run
Songs
01 | Born to Run
02 | Thunder Road
03 | The River
04 | Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
05 | Atlantic City
06 | Badlands
07 | Jungleland
08 | Born in the U.S.A.
09 | I'm On Fire
10 | Hungry Heart

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Albums
01 | Born to Run
02 | Born in the U.S.A.
03 | Darkness on the Edge of Town
04 | Nebraska
05 | The River

May 2020: Radiohead
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy
You don't remember
You don't remember
Why don't you remember my name?
Songs
01 | Paranoid Android
02 | Fake Plastic Trees
03 | Creep
04 | Karma Police
05 | No Surprises
06 | Street Spirit (Fade Out)
07 | Everything In Its Right Place
08 | Let Down
09 | Idioteque
10 | Reckoner

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Albums
01 | OK Computer
02 | The Bends
03 | Kid A
04 | In Rainbows
05 | Amnesiac

June 2020: Led Zeppelin
Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow?
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?
Songs
01 | Stairway to Heaven
02 | Kashmir
03 | Whole Lotta Love
04 | Black Dog
05 | Immigrant Song
06 | When the Levee Breaks
07 | Rock and Roll
08 | Ramble On
09 | Over the Hills and Far Away
10 | Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You

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Albums
01 | Led Zeppelin IV
02 | Led Zeppelin II
03 | Led Zeppelin
04 | Led Zeppelin III
05 | Houses of the Holy

July 2020: Neil Young
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flyin'
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children cryin' and colors flyin'
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loadin' had begun
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Songs
01 | After the Gold Rush
02 | Rockin' in the Free WOrld
03 | Heart of Gold
04 | Like a Hurricane
05 | The Needle and the Damage Done
06 | Cinnamon Girl
07 | Old Man
08 | Cowgirl in the Sand
09 | Southern Man
10 | Cortez the Killer

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Albums
01 | After the Gold Rush
02 | Harvest
03 | Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
04 | Rust Never Sleeps
05 | Tonight's the Night

August 2020: The Who
Sally, take my hand
We'll travel south 'cross land
Put out the fire and don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together before we get much older
Songs
01 | Baba O'Riley
02 | Won't Get Fooled Again
03 | I Can See For Miles
04 | My Generation
05 | Behind Blue Eyes
06 | Pinball Wizard
07 | I Can't Explain
08 | The Kids are Alright
09 | Substitute
10 | Love Reign O'er Me

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Albums
01 | Who's Next
02 | My Generation/The Who Sings My Generation
03 | Quadrophenia
04 | Tommy
05 | The Who Sell Out

September 2020: Prince
Dream, if you can, a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and you
Songs
01 | When Doves Cry
02 | Purple Rain
03 | Kiss
04 | 1999
05 | Sign o' the Times
06 | Let's Go Crazy
07 | Little Red Corvette
08 | Raspberry Beret
09 | When You Were Mine
10 | I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

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Albums
01 | Purple Rain
02 | Sign 'O' the Times
03 | 1999
04 | Parade
05 | Dirty Mind

October 2020: The Beach Boys
love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air
Songs
01 | Good Vibrations
02 | God Only Knows
03 | Wouldn't It Be Nice
04 | Surf's Up
05 | I Get Around
06 | California Girls
07 | Don't Worry Baby
08 | Caroline, No
09 | Sloop John B
10 | Heroes and Villains

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Albums
01 | Pet Sounds
02 | The Beach Boys Today!
03 | Surf's Up
04 | Sunflower
05 | The Smile Sessions

November 2020: R.E.M.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
Songs
01 | It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
02 | Losing My Religion
03 | Radio Free Europe
04 | Fall On Me
05 | Man on the Moon
06 | Nightswimming
07 | The One I Love
08 | Find the River
09 | Orange Crush
10 | (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

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Albums
01 | Automatic For the People
02 | Murmur
03 | Out of Time
04 | Document
05 | Green

December 2020: Elvis Presley
We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me
When you don't believe a word I say?
Songs
01 | Suspicious Minds
02 | Can't Help Falling in Love
03 | Jailhouse Rock
04 | That's All Right
05 | Don't Be Cruel
06 | Heartbreak Hotel
07 | Hound Dog
08 | In the Ghetto
09 | All Shook Up
10 | Mystery Train

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Albums
01 | From Elvis in Memphis
02 | Elvis Presley
03 | Elvis Is Back!
04 | Elvis
05 | Elvis' Christmas Album

January 2021: Kanye West
And I always find, yeah, I always find somethin' wrong
You been puttin' up with' my shit just way too long
I'm so gifted at findin' what I don't like the most
So I think it's time for us to have a toast
Songs
01 | Runaway
02 | Power
03 | Gold Digger
04 | Flashing Lights
05 | Jesus Walks
06 | Black Skinhead
07 | Monster
08 | Ultralight Beam
09 | All Falls Down
10 | All of the Lights

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Albums
01 | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
02 | The College Dropout
03 | Late Registration
04 | Yeezus
05 | Graduation

February 2021: U2
See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I'll wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you
Songs
01 | With or Without You
02 | One
03 | Sunday Bloody Sunday
04 | Pride (In the Name of Love)
05 | Where the Streets Have No Name
06 | New Year's Day
07 | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
08 | Mysterious Ways
09 | I Will Follow
10 | Beautiful Day

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Albums
01 | The Joshua Tree
02 | Achtung Baby
03 | War
04 | The Unforgettable Fire
05 | Boy

March 2021: Miles Davis

Songs
01 | So What
02 | Blue in Green
03 | All Blues
04 | Concierto de Aranjuez
05 | In a Silent Way / It's About That Time
06 | It Never Entered My Mind
07 | Pharaoh's Dance
08 | Milestones
09 | Will O' the Wisp
10 | Flamenco Sketches

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Albums
01 | Kind of Blue
02 | In a Silent Way
03 | Sketches of Spain
04 | Bitches Brew
05 | On the Corner

April 2021: The Velvet Underground
Sunday morning brings the dawning
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind
Songs
01 | Sunday Morning
02 | Heroin
03 | Sweet Jane
04 | I'm Waiting for the Man
05 | Venus in Furs
06 | Pale Blue Eyes
07 | Rock and Roll
08 | All Tomorrow's Parties
09 | Femme Fatale
10 | What Goes On

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Albums
01 | The Velvet Underground & Nico
02 | The Velvet Underground
03 | Loaded
04 | White Light/White Heat
05 | VU

May 2021: Nirvana
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
Songs
01 | Smells Like Teen Spirit
02 | Come As You Are
03 | LIthium
04 | All Apologies
05 | Heart-Shaped Box
06 | About a Girl
07 | In Bloom
08 | The Man Who Sold the World
09 | Where Did You Sleep Last Night
10 | Polly

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Albums
01 | Nevermind
02 | In Utero
03 | Bleach

June 2021: The Clash
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning
I live by the river
Songs
01 | London Calling
02 | Train in Vain (Stand By Me)
03 | Rock the Casbah
04 | Spanish Bombs
05 | Should I Stay or Should I Go
06 | The Magnificent Seven
07 | (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
08 | The Guns of Brixton
09 | Straight to Hell
10 | Rudie Can't Fail

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Albums
01 | London Calling
02 | The Clash
03 | Combat Rock
04 | Sandinista!
05 | Give 'Em Enough Rope

July 2021: Jimi Hendrix
No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
Songs
01 | All Along the Watchtower
02 | Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
03 | Hey Joe
04 | Little Wing
05 | Purple Haze
06 | The Wind Cries Mary
07 | Foxy Lady
08 | Crosstown Traffic
09 | Bold as Love
10 | Manic Depression

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Albums
01 | Are You Experienced
02 | Electric Ladyland
03 | Axis: Bold as Love
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Here are our upcoming months, if you wish to get prepared:

06/21 | The Clash
07/21 | Jimi Hendrix
08/21 | Marvin Gaye
09/21 | Pink Floyd
10/21 | Elvis Costello
11/21 | Stevie Wonder
12/21 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
01/22 | Madonna
02/22 | Bob Marley and The Wailers
03/22 | The Smiths
04/22 | Michael Jackson
05/22 | Van Morrison
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Updated with David Bowie!
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Now updated with Radiohead!
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Yeesss. Glad to see The Bends make second place! Such a wonderful album!
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Now updated with Led Zeppelin!
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Updated through Neil Young. I'm working on adding Playlists. I've been thinking, could an Admin make this sticky?
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Updated through The Who, playlists for the first five now available. Maybe an Admin could make this sticky?
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All playlists added in!
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Fully updated through Prince!
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Fully updated through The Beach Boys!
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Now fully updated through R.E.M!
That's one full year of AOTM guys! Thanks so much! I hope this game keeps on going for a long time!
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All update through Elvis Presley!
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Updated through Kanye West!
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All updated through U2!
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All updated through Miles Davis! If you ever wanted a seven hour playlist of Miles Davis's hits, here you go!
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All updated through The Clash, no playlists for the last two yet, sorry!
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