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Hi everyone, I've changed the viewing permissions of the online version of the spreadsheet, so anyone who clicks the link should be able to view it without needing to request.

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I don't get this tendency for publications to release EOY lists before the year is over. While EOY lists typically seem to favor entries from the first half of the year anyways, it's always odd seeing albums/songs from late fall/early winter appear in next calendar year's best-of lists (e.g. Blindin...

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TIMEOUT - 50 Sexiest Songs Of All Time: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/best-sexy-songs Decent-ish list, not my kind of sexy though. I would have dropped "Sex With Me" for one of Kelly Rowland's songs ("Motivation" or "Kisses Down Low"). I think "I Feel Love...

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I hate to be a bit cynical here, but I suspect that if Toxic were sung by any other artist, it would be easily in the top 50. I might actually think the opposite - a few inclusions here make it clear they are appealing to recent news events, so all the focus on Britney Spears recently probably help...

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I'm still relatively new to this forum in the grand scheme of things, and haven't had that much interaction with Hymie before. Regardless, I'm fine with him being banned, because after watching the argument last night unfold as well as hearing what others have said about him, he seems to cause confl...

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I'm surprised that WAP isn't on here. I predicted that it would be the only song from 2020 to make the list. Me too! Considering what massive cultural event it was in 2020, I thought it'd make the list for sure. It's especially odd considering three other songs from last year made it. The best expl...

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I think the song I'm happiest seeing is "Running Up That Hill" at #60. It's by far my favorite song of the 1980s, and top 5 all-time for me. It's also way better than Wuthering Heights (which still good, though a tad overrated in my opinion).

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I'm surprised that WAP isn't on here. I predicted that it would be the only song from 2020 to make the list.

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New songs in the top 100 alone: 97. Patti Smith, 'Gloria' 1975 95. Oasis, 'Wonderwall' 1995 94. Whitney Houston, 'I Will Always Love You' 1992 91. UGK feat. Outkast, 'Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)' 2007 90. Aretha Franklin, '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman' 1967 87. LCD Soundsystem, '...

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New songs in the top 100 alone: 97. Patti Smith, 'Gloria' 1975 95. Oasis, 'Wonderwall' 1995 94. Whitney Houston, 'I Will Always Love You' 1992 91. UGK feat. Outkast, 'Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)' 2007 90. Aretha Franklin, '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman' 1967 87. LCD Soundsystem, '...

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I also never would have guessed that "Dreams" would be the highest-ranked song of 2020.

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I'm actually really digging this list from what I've seen so far. "Bohemian Rhapsody" at #17 (!!!), "Waterloo Sunset" at #14, "Gimme Shelter" at #13, and "Running Up That Hill" at #60 are some of the placements I'm happy with. Also wouldn't have expected "...

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Henrik wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 7:45 pm Mason, this is fantastic (and unexpected)! Thanks a lot!!

I will add it to the main AM site sometime next week.

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!

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I made a '90s EOD spreadsheet for lists on AM that came out in either 1999 or 2000. I used one of the various 2010s EOD album spreadsheet updates as a template (I left any formulas alone). I don't know the formulas or how they work, so if there are any errors with the formulas I'm going to need help...

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Well, despite much tribulation, I'm declaring the spreadsheet as updated. I say this because there's one list that's incomplete (Now & Then's 1992 list), although I'm only missing one placement from that list. If anyone knows where to find the full list, please let me know. I added two lists, on...

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Let's see, there's "Within You Without You," "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "Old Brown Shoe"... Whoops, sorry - I misread the thread title as "Aggravating Beatles Songs." :mrgreen: I love these kinds of lists, so thanks for this. Very glad to see that "Free ...

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I got a request for access to the Google Sheet online. I don't intend on giving anyone else editing access, but as far as I know the Google Sheet should still be viewable. Let me know if you can't see it.

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Interesting list Mason. Coincidentally, I have a Beatles song exercise I'll roll out later this week - something that I've been trying to work out for a while. I can use this list in my example. Always intrigued that "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is the 4th highest-rated Beatles tune on this...

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I made a spreadsheet aggregating the best Beatles songs, using 11 Beatles-centric lists, all of which are already on AM. Unsurprisingly, A Day in the Life and Strawberry Fields Forever and #1 and #2, respectively, but the rest of the list is pretty interesting to me. I used Best Ever Albums' rank sc...

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To clarify, the contents of the list are the top 100 songs specfically released by the Motown Record Label (and its sublabels), not songs in the genre nicknamed "Motown Sound" (although there's going to be overlap, of course). As always with this kind of lists from Rolling Stone I agree w...

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A while ago I realized that I had completely forgotten about adding the weighting for older lists into the formula used. Sorry about that, and I'm sorry for not saying anything about it sooner.

The Google spreadsheet is up to date. Here's the correct excel file.

bballrank_0.02-fixed.xlsx

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It looks like it was a mistake. The album was removed from the list.

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According to the article, an earlier list was made in 2016, but it seems like it was never added to AM.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-one-album-wonders-14916/ 1. Sex Pistols, 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols' (1977) 2. Derek & the Dominos, 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' (1970) 3. Lauryn Hill, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' (1998) 4. Jeff Buckley, 'G...

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To clarify, the contents of the list are the top 100 songs specfically released by the Motown Record Label (and its sublabels), not songs in the genre nicknamed "Motown Sound" (although there's going to be overlap, of course).

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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-motown-songs-1139063/ 1 | Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965) 2 | The Temptations, “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” (1972) 3 | Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On” (1971) 4 | Martha and the Vandellas, “Heat Wave” (1963) 5 | Stevie...

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The 2015 version of this list has been in AM for some time, but upon looking through the wayback machine, it's been updated periodically since then. The most recent update is particularly interesting to me since there's a new #1 all time. And it's an album from this year! That ... kind of seems lik...

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Holden wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:28 am And it’s an album I literally can’t find anywhere...

Here's the EP's bandcamp page. All of the songs (except one) seem to be behind a paywall.

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Here's the full list. Preening – Dragged Through The Garden EP (Ever/Never, 2021) | Bandcamp The Stooges – Fun House (Elektra, 1970) Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963) John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) The Beatles – Revolver (Capitol, 1966) Van Morris...

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The 2015 version of this list has been in AM for some time, but upon looking through the wayback machine, it's been updated periodically since then. The most recent update is particularly interesting to me since there's a new #1 all time. And it's an album from this year! Full list: http://fastnbulb...

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I don't get the hype behind Love Will Tear Us Apart. I understand its lyrics are very personal Ian Curtis, especially since the stress of the events that inspired the song had a hand in his untimely death. But what makes it so much better than any other post-punk song from the era? (1977-84ish). Per...

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Have you included any of the Basketball Reference rankings? Like this one? https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ws_career.html Since the NBA season is still ongoing, I'm waiting until after this year's playoffs to add any statistical-related rankings (PER, VORP, WS, etc.). They'll be added ...

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I need some help relating to spreadsheet formulas/functions. The way I have the current spreadsheet for this project set up, players who do not appear on a given list will be assigned a value that is one greater than the number of entries on said list. For example, if I have a list of 100 players, a...

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Animal Crossing as the highest rated game of 2020 really surprises me. I was expecting TLoU 2 to take that spot. I'm happy though, AC is definitely my favorite from last year.

I'm even more surprised Hades isn't in the top 2000. Critics ranked it very high in most EOY lists I've seen.

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Mulholland wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:48 am I finally have my head together enough and have pulled the trigger on the next update.

Thanks for the hard work, Mulholland. I hope you're having a good recovery.

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Very cool! I made a list back in 2014. It's obviously outdated, but I'll share anyway: [1] Michael Jordan [2] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [3] Bill Russell [4] Wilt Chamberlain [5] Magic Johnson [6] Shaquille O'Neal [7] Tim Duncan [8] LeBron James [9] Larry Bird [10] Jerry West [11] Hakeem Olajuwon [12] Jul...

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What a title.

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The spreadsheet has been updated. 5 all-time lists and 21 decade lists have been added. Some notes: - Honorable mentions are now calculated - All-Time lists released before 2015 are now given a lower weight. This does not apply for decade lists. - Several lists added previously have been updated. Th...

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C'mon guys! Don't be too harsh on Arsalan. He is just 15 and his favourite album is "Nevermind", so for his age he does have a great taste. He might not be able to express his thoughts properly, but I am sure he is far from being a racist. What he meant to say, I assume, by pointing out s...

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My username is moist_mason. I'm starting to reuse it after it's been sitting dormant for about two years, so you're not going to find anything on there really. I am currently working on a Top 50 Best Songs of the 2010s list that I will post soon.

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So even though this thread has been dead for a while, I stumbled upon it and I wanted to give my two cents on the topics discussed. In the 88th Academy Awards, None of the nominees were black which caused a lot of controversy, I believe that made critics to praise movies and songs made by black peop...

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Even though Physical is still pretty good, Don't Start Now is one of my favorite songs of the last decade and its current placement saddens me.

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I was looking at this list, and the #88 song, "Rock Me Baby" by BB King, is not from the 50s, it's from 1964. This makes zero sense to me. I get that it's a cover of a song first made in 1951, but why not include a version actually recorded in the 1950s, or include B.B. King's version in ...

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I enjoy this a lot, Listguy! Do you have any idea when/what poll you plan on doing next? I'd love to take part in it.

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I was looking at this list, and the #88 song, "Rock Me Baby" by BB King, is not from the 50s, it's from 1964. This makes zero sense to me. I get that it's a cover of a song first made in 1951, but why not include a version actually recorded in the 1950s, or include B.B. King's version in ...

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