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Kendrick Lamar feat. Ab-Soul - Ab-Soul's Outro 6 The Smashing Pumpkins - Drown 7 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Lip Service 8 Bobby 'Blue' Bland - Don't Want No Woman 4 Eurythmics - I Could Give You (A Mirror) 5 Latin Quarter - Radio Africa 6 Kirsty MacColl - Days 8 The Kinks' recording is a 10 ...

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Following their 2010s poll I transcribed http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=9296 70s https://jazztimes.com/features/lists/10-best-jazz-albums-1970s-critics-picks/ Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (1970) The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Ever Mounting F...

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From the jazz publication's website, the first of five retrospectives, each covering a decade of its existence by way of celebrating its 50th anniversary. All lists unranked and the results of surveys conducted among Jazz Times' staff: https://jazztimes.com/features/lists/10-best-jazz-albums-2010s-c...

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Gotta check out Gillian Welch and The Secret Sisters. I can't praise the Secret Sisters album highly enough. Don't go in expecting anything revolutionary but it's the right place for big-hearted, harmony-rich country that straddles trad and alt. Gillian Welch's newest, meanwhile, has its moments wi...

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If there is a tie, the two on top are always the ones to go for, by the way. My score tallies are always in the correct order, with objective parameter present to break the ties. That's handy to know, I've modified the playlist to include Good Intentions, Baby Birch, ☆and ◯ on that basis https://m....

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https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnhTqAkuyDycYxYLE8Ine81jHukfj_Ecg Exuma added! I'll give a chance for Joanna Newsom and Newsun to get tiebreaking selections before they can join the Obeah Man. My first run of 4 albums coming up: Vol. 4 - Supernaut & Tomorrow's Dream Are We There - Tarifa & I Lo...

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Twenty selected Stafford floorshakers, undoubtedly chosen by Nowell to represent the West Midlands town's soul scene Jackie Day - Naughty Boy Gladys Knight - Too Late for Me and You The Originals - Baby Have Mercy on Me The Victors - Hurt Elbie Parker - Please Keep away from Me Big Frank & the Esse...

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Thanks a lot for this, Miles! With this you are (almost) forgiven for removing Song of Sharon from the playlist! I'll check the whole thing once I am done with the Spotify playlist, but can already say the Exuma now has a new entry. See my post below. Sure, I'd missed Exuma, ok if I leave it a day ...

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Been putting this off for too long but I happened upon a series of lists in David Nowell's comprehensive 2011 tome The Story of Northern Soul: A Definitive History of the Dance Scene that Refuses to Die (Pavilion Books). Some of them are from DJs, critics and the author himself, others appear to be ...

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Only just got round to compiling a YouTube playlist of all songs that don't appear to be universally available on Spotify. I hereby present it along with my usual problem of failing to convert a hyperlink into anything more aesthetically pleasing! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnhTqAkuyDycY...

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I'll only inflict my contributions from Monday's and Tuesday's lists for now! Germfree Adolescents: frantic overhauls of mundanity is what this album is all about, none more so than on The Day the World Turned Day-Glo and Warrior in Woolworth . Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: Kill the Poor sets ...

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KRS-One - KRS-One 7.3 (my #20 for 1995)
My highlights: Ah-Yeah, R.E.A.L.I.T.Y., Build Ya Skillz, Wannabemceez

This month's highlights ranked:
Laid
Ah-Yeah
R.E.A.L.I.T.Y.
The Winter Hit Hard
The River Curls around the Town
Build Ya Skillz
Bare Branches
Wannabemceez

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Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

2. The Roots feat. Cody ChesnuTT - The Seed 2.0 v. 4. The Cinematic Orchestra - The Man with the Movie Camera
1. Interpol - PDA v. 3. The Flaming Lips - Fight Test

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A mainly formidable week, including what I think is my highest score this year for a song I haven't previously heard: The Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles away 3 Flint Tillsammans - Staden 6 LiLiPUT - Die Matrosen 8.5 So taken by this I'm currently listening to their self-titled, which is just as dazzl...

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Moving Pictures: Red Barchetta & Vital Signs
Suicide: Frankie Teardrop & Ghost Rider
The Crane Wife: Ohhh Valeniciaaa! & Shankill Butchers

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Antics: The whole band's performance of Not Even Jail is mesmerising with Paul Banks sounding possessed to the degree that "Can we all hold hands?" comes across less like a plea for unity than an invitation to a Jamestown-style cult. Conversely, Public Pervert smoulders romantically while lingering ...

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Schüttelbirne wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 9:51 pm Just delete everything after the question mark and it works.

It never does for me but I'm relieved you've managed to crack the code, danke dir

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Months after the poll and in a format that yet again refuses to be presented as a Spotify playlist on this site, here's the relevant playlist! [spotifyplaylist]http://open.spotify.com/user/mileswide/playlist/31yLTXyOWlOzCgopOPrG6Y?si=QGzZUXRfSeSw8RDYZ6bfeQ[/spotifyplaylist] Alas, none of the followi...

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Love the idea of a non-Anglo tournament! Basing it round songs might be an even more accessible gateway to underexposed music though? I can easily accommodate an albums-centred take on it though and I'd relish hearing some eclectic stuff regardless of the criteria.

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James - Laid 5.7 (my #19 for 1993)
My highlight: Laid

This months highlights ranked:
Laid
The Winter Hit Hard
The River Curls around the Town
Bare Branches

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Congrats to bonnielaurel for 2 in a row! Bonnie's and hectorthebat's nomination lists stand out for me but plenty of quality across the board as to be expected!

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Albums 1 | Murmur | 1983 2 | Out of Time | 1991 3 | Automatic for the People | 1992 4 | Reveal | 2001 (Eponymous | 1988) 5 | Reckoning | 1984 6 | Lifes Rich Pageant | 1986 7 | Document | 1987 8 | Up | 1998 9 | Green | 1988 (Chronic Town | 1982) 10 | New Adventures in Hi-fi | 1996 11 | Fables of The...

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Albums 1. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots v. 2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights 3. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat v. 4. Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Songs 3. The Roots feat. Cody ChesnuTT - The Seed 2.0 v. 6. Johnny Cash - Hurt 5....

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A year of punk-funk, 2-Tone and double albums, ending the decade on a high: Albums 1. The Jam - Setting Sons 2. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces 3. The Clash - London Calling 4. Marianne Faithfull - Broken English 5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 6. Gang of Four - Entertainment! ...

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I don't know about anyone else but the first half of our 60s polls next year will see me coming up short, so any albums from the early sixties nominated for this tournament would be godsends (that's what I had in mind for my own suggested album)

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The Decemberists - We Both Down Together 7 Tom Waits - Soldier's Things 8 Taylor Swift - All Too Well 4 They Might Be Giants - Meet James Ensor 3 Laura Marling - New Romantic 8 Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners 6 Royal Blood - Figure It out 5 The Magic Numbers - I See You, You See Me 5 Common & Jo...

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The "5" Royales - Laundromat Blues 5
The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket 7
Dungen - Fredag 8

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To be fair, as much as I really like Hunting My Dress I don't return to it half as often as Memories Are Now I'll have to seek that one out (or see if it crops up here)! The only other album of hers I know is Stonechild and, while it doesn't measure up to HMD, it has some jewels, not least Outside ...

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What Do I Get? A big restraining order, that's what! I Don't Mind, I got a light sentence considering I committed Love Battery! Hello It's Me & It Wasn't Me Are you or aren't you? I'm a walking contradiction - no I'm not. Before anyone asks what that's got to do with Songs for Drella, here be my se...

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Rummaging through the list, these stood out as being: Almost included by me : Interpol - El Pintor (just missed my top 50 of last decade) Ibibio Sound Machine - Doko Mien (made my top 10 of last year) The Beautiful South - Welcome to the Beautiful South (actually was in my preliminary AT ballot) The...

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Modern Life Is Rubbish: Advert & Colin Zeal Another Music in a Different Kitchen: Love Battery & What Do I Get? if the expanded version's allowed, I Don't Mind if not. Songs for Drella: Hello It's Me & It Wasn't Me No Other: No Other & Some Misunderstanding Portishead: Cowboys & Over Steve McQueen: ...

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My entry in Unacclaimed of this year Richie Havens' 'Handouts in the Rain' is now on, albeit in live form as part of an otherwise covers-heavy set from 1976.

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jamieW wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:12 pm I think for the sake of voting for "favorite versions," I'll keep our versions separate.

Good choice! I'd say the short protest version I've picked is Public Enemy in their element, which makes for a powerful image whatever opinion you may have of their music.

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63. Public Enemy - Fight the Power (Dir: Spike Lee) mileswide, Live in Phoenix noticed you and I both have "Fight the Power" listed, but apparently there are 3 versions of this video and all were directed by Spike Lee. I wasn't aware of other versions, so when you had Spike Lee as the director, I j...

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Albums 2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. v. 1. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat 4. Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground v. 3. The Books - Thought for Food Songs 2. The Roots feat. Cody ChesnuTT - The Seed 2.0 v. 3. Eminem - Lose Yourself 5. The Flamin...

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Liking the recent additions, especially the ones specific to the AT albums poll, are you responsible for them, whuntva? Just one thing though: - Reading my Quality by Popular Vote suggestion back, I can see I wasn't clear that I was referring to AMF users reacting to professional music reviewers' in...

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American IV: The Man Comes around & I Hung My Head Cosmogramma: Do the Astral Plane & Zodiac Shit You Forgot It in People: Christ, for an album I've only got to know fairly recently, my favourites have already changed so much but I'm feeling Almost Crimes - Radio Kills Remix & Looks Just like the Su...

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Sorry Dave Gahan & Co but it's The ArchAndroid I'll miss hearing nearly every round, so Janelle takes it! EDIT: Everything from here on in was added afterwards... Cheers to Brad and all the nominators for so many albums I wouldn't have approached without your suggestions, not least EMANON, Levelling...

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Moor Mother feat. Nicole Mitchell - Vultures Laughing

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Happy Centenary WC Classics! My nom: the improbably unranked One Hundred Years by The Cure

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Guess who is coming to dinner today: Thanks, that's reminded me to include the Black Uhuru song in my list for 1979! Gilded Palace of Sin: Dark End of the Street & Sin City Let's Stay Together: there's no way I could overlook the title track and I would choose...Broken Heart as a backup but just so...

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Or, by the same token, can an album with an AM-listed song be nominated?

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Taking a backseat from commenting for the next few days, votes will still be forthcoming from me, however: I Speak Because I Can: Goodbye England ( All Covered in Snow) & Devil's Spoke Reign in Blood: Raining Blood & Reborn Let Them Eat Chaos: Tunnel Vision & Grubby The Lion's Roar: Emmylou & King o...

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As if it weren't bad enough to bow out to The Shins in the 1st round of MAA, Deep Space by Model 500 has been fully wiped off Spotify.

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TV Party has been on my song rotation for the past few weeks and it is just great. It's also my introduction to Black Flag and although based on one listen it doesn't seem to be too representative of Damaged, it is unmissable. While it'd be a stretch to call Damaged eclectic, it has enough variety ...

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I listen to the finest songs of faith and devotion! Along with songs of murderous Irish brothers and renegade androids plus an outburst... Back to listening to each album this week, so I come bearing ratings out of 10 (the winner still appearing in bold), all of which fall on the 'good' end of my sc...

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A nicely grandiose last 10 there: the orchestras of Deserter's Songs, Harvest & Skinny Fists; the rock operas of A Night at the Opera and American Idiot...

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andyd1010 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:40 pm I am also seeing it the way mileswide is.

That's a relief, I thought I was having the most mundane hallucination ever!

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Cheers for this Schüttelbirne and to everyone who nominated for some fine picks (congrats also to Rdwdbob whatever happens!) Here are my current 10 favourite songs from the competition not nominated by me with an asterisk next to any new discoveries: 1. Jessie Ware - Remember Where You Are 2. Run th...

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Albums 3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot v. 1. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights v. 4. Sigur Rós - ( ) Songs 2. The Flaming Lips - Fight Test v. 5. Tom Waits - Alice 7. Wilco - Poor Places v. 1. Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have to Love 4. Sleat...

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