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85. Edan ft. Mr. Lif | "Making Planets": 4/10

Don't like the album, don't care for this.
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Making Planets is a 4
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Antonius returns with yet another seventies song from a classic album.

86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration
Year: 1974
Album: I Can’t Stand the Rain
Biggest Fan: antonius (#341)

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Ineligible: was used in the first edition of Biggest Fan.

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85. Edan, featuring Mr. Lif – Making Planets: 8
86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration: 7.5
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83. Os Paralamas do Sucesso – Alagados - 6
84. Tom Waits – Down, Down, Down - 5.5
85. Edan, featuring Mr. Lif - Making Planets - 4.5
86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration - 7.5
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The only Ann Peebles song I knew before this was, obviously, I Can't Stand the Rain, a towering achievement in '70s funk that I love dearly. Seeing as I would now give A Love Vibration a 10, clearly I have to listen to the rest of the album!
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83. Os Paralamas do Sucesso – Alagados: 6.5
84. Tom Waits – Down, Down, Down: 6
85. Edan, featuring Mr. Lif - Making Planets: 6

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StevieFan13 wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:53 pm The only Ann Peebles song I knew before this was, obviously, I Can't Stand the Rain, a towering achievement in '70s funk that I love dearly. Seeing as I would now give A Love Vibration a 10, clearly I have to listen to the rest of the album!
It's a very solid album overall, so I recommend it.

Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration: 8
Soul can be hit or miss with me, but Ann Peebles has a voice that doesn't even get sappy in a soft love song like this. The melody is pretty great too.
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86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration (1974) 7/10
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86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration | 7.5
"The first word in this song is discorporate. It means to leave your body."
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Today’s a good day as today we get my second highest ranked song eligible for this game! People who played last year’s Tournament of Champions on this forum might know it, as I nominated it there. Or you might have heard it in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained for which it was written. Though, I have to agree with Ennio Morricone who thought the song was misplaced in the film.

86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui
Year: 2012/2013*
Album: Django Unchained
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*The song was first heard in the 2012 film, but the song wasn’t released separate from the film until a month later, in January 2013.

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86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui: 7
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82. Lupe Fiasco – The Show Goes On : 4
83. Os Paralamas do Sucesso – Alagados - 5
84. Tom Waits – Down, Down, Down - 6. Funny, I pictured the Star Wars Cantina band headed by Waits on this one.
85. Edan, featuring Mr. Lif - Making Planets - : 6. The echoed vocals and ambient soundscapes sound odd against a 60s bassline. Really quite a mix of genres, but difficult to get into.
86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration - 7.5 : She sounds like a female Al Green. Very Good.
86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui - 4 : mmmm I don't really feel this, sorry.
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Ancora qui is an 8. The song she competed with at Sanremo this year was even better.
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86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui - 7.5
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85. Edan, featuring Mr. Lif – Making Planets: 8
86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration: 10
86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui: 8

These last four songs have been just a great run.
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Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui: 10
So Quentin Tarantino used a lot of Morricone tracks from other movies in his previous films, but this time he requested one new piece by the maestro, specifically for Django Unchained. Morricone complied, but as said Tarantino used it in a rather strange place: an unnecessary scene where some maids set a table. To be fair to Tarantino, the song doesn't exactly fit with the grotesque, pulpy tone of Django Unchained.

As such I didn't particularly take note of it while watching the film. I only truly discovered it later on a Morricone compilation. And suddenly it struck me as one of the best things the old master had ever done. It's more in line with the melancholy of Once Upon a Time in the West or Novecento in tone, but the playful instrumental approach is more akin to those of The Dollar trilogy or some of the thrillers Morricone scored. It's quite a wonder to note that for a lot of the start we basically just hear a sparse acoustic guitar, that allows Elisa's voice itself to become the orchestra. She later gets accompanied by an assortment of instruments, mostly one or two at a time. The instruments are played simply, but arranged complexly, to create a rather full, romantic sound. And over that sings Elisa, who just gives a vocal masterclass. The song itself changes melody tone quite frequently and Elisa has a voice for it all. I never looked up a translation for the Italian lyrics: the song as is feels like the nearest there is to heaven as an atheist like me could get. Even in the already niche field of film music this is overlooked. Though admittedly it is more a song than a piece of score, making it fall out of the range of regular film music criticism as well as out of pop fields. Oh well, I think it's sublime.
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86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui (2012) 7/10
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86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui: 6
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86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration: 7
86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui: 7

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Fasbjd wants to introduce us to a man named John Lennon, who was once in a band named The Quarrymen. He had some success later when he went solo, like with an album consisting of covers of old rock ‘n roll.

87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass
Year: 1974
Album: Walls and Bridges
Biggest Fan: fasbjd (#508)

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87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass: 7
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86. Ann Peebles | "A Love Vibration": 5/10
86. Elisa | "Ancora Qui": 7/10
87. John Lennon | "Steel and Glass": 4/10

So I assume Morricone specifically wrote "Ancora Qui" for Elisa, because he quotes "Für Elise" in the beginning?
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Schüttelbirne wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:21 am So I assume Morricone specifically wrote "Ancora Qui" for Elisa, because he quotes "Für Elise" in the beginning?
The song was a collaboration, with Morricone writing the music and Elisa writing the lyrics. I interpret the quote at the beginning the same.
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Rob wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:58 am Fasbjd wants to introduce us to a man named John Lennon, who was once in a band named The Quarrymen. He had some success later when he went solo, like with an album consisting of covers of old rock ‘n roll.

87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass
Year: 1974
Album: Walls and Bridges
Biggest Fan: fasbjd (#508)

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My preferred version is the one listed as Take 8 on the John Lennon Anthology. It's a much sparser earlier version without a proper ending but I think is more powerful. I don't think it's on Spotify. Here it is on YouTube

https://youtu.be/lErpssHiTek
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86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui | 7.5
87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass | 7
"The first word in this song is discorporate. It means to leave your body."
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Steel and Glass is a 4.
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87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass - 5.5
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fasbjd wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:24 pm My preferred version is the one listed as Take 8 on the John Lennon Anthology. It's a much sparser earlier version without a proper ending but I think is more powerful. I don't think it's on Spotify. Here it is on YouTube

https://youtu.be/lErpssHiTek
John Lennon – Steel and Glass: 5
I listened to both versions. I guess the one from the Anthology is the best, but really they have the same problem for me. They are mostly a showcase for Lennon's angry singing and as much as that part works, there isn't any underneath to support the anger. The lyrics are mean-spirited, but not in a clever, sharp, relatable or justified way. They're just mean, but too vague and meaningless to have any effect. It could be self-directed, but even that doesn't quite add up. And the music is too sparse, especially at first. It makes Lennon seem to scream into the void. And for that to work we have to get back to more effective lyrics, so I can feel why he is screaming at the void, instead of at some random dude I don't know. Maybe it's just one of his primal scream songs and making it was therapeutical for him. In that case, good for him, I guess.
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87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass: 6
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87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass (1974) 6/10
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John Lennon – Steel and Glass | 7
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86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration - 7
Not as intense or engaging as the album's title track, but really good nonetheless.
86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui - 6
I quite like a lot of this song but it sometimes gets a little too melodramatic at times between the echo and the violins.
87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass - 7
I'm ususally not a fan of Lennon's post-Beatles work, but I appreciate the bitter negative energy here. This really was his "divorced phase", huh?
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JamieW surprised me today with a song I didn’t know was eligible. It was released rather close to the poll deadline, but apparently impressed enough to immediately make jamieW’s #200. It doesn’t rank on AM yet, but it will, as it was #22 on the critic’s aggregate list. I suspect it won’t be eligible next time around, as I know many forumers like it.

88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown
Year: 2021
Album: Screen Violence
Biggest Fan: jamieW (#200)

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CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown - 9
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87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass: 5

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88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown: 10

My No. 4 from last year
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CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown: 6
With the exception of The Mother We Share the appeal of CHVRCHES is generally lost on me. I actually think this one is better than most of them. Yet that's still only a six. There's nothing wrong with it, but even Robert Smith can't make it seem exciting to me either.
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88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown (2021) 7/10
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88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown | 7
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85. Edan, featuring Mr. Lif – Making Planets: 5
86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration: 6
86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui: 7.5
87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass: 5
88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown: 7.5
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85. Edan, featuring Mr. Lif – Making Planets | 4
86. Ann Peebles – A Love Vibration | 6
86. Elisa & Ennio Morricone – Ancora qui | 7.5
87. John Lennon – Steel and Glass | 6.5
88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown | 9.5
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Get ready for your jaw to drop: How Not to Drown is a 10 for me. I mean...how could it not be?
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Despite the yesterday’s band name we’ve been listening to secular music for way too long now. Luckily, the aptly named Father2TheMan will lead us into prayer today! It’s also the shortest song up til now.

89. The Beach Boys – Our Prayer
Year: 1969
Album: 20/20
Biggest Fan: Father2TheMan(#916)

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88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown - 9
89. The Beach Boys – Our Prayer - 4.5
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88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown: 7
89. The Beach Boys – Our Prayer: 6.5
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88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown: 6.5

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88. CHVRCHES ft. Robert Smith | "How Not to Drown": 6/10
89. The Beach Boys | "Our Prayer": 4/10
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88. CHVRCHES, featuring Robert Smith – How Not to Drown: 5.5
89. The Beach Boys – Our Prayer: 3

Two songs that are not my favorite. How Not to Drown I see how I could like under certain circumstances; Our Prayer sounds like a private school entry in a high school choir competition.
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Our Prayer is a 3
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