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I mentioned it briefly in another thread, but hopefully we'll have a chance to complete the '80's albums results sometime this year, as well. I don't know if anyone's heard from Moonbeam lately. I'm always hesitant to reach out to someone because I never know what someone may have going on in their ...

jamieW

Thanks, Listyguy - loved the presentation!

I just realized that we skipped right over the '80's album results from last year. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to catch up with those sometime between now and 2026 (or whenever the '80's poll is scheduled to come up again).

jamieW

I'm not surprised that about 40% of the country would be susceptible to a cult leader. What does surprise me a bit is that it isn't even a clever, charismatic, skilled cult leader, but a bumbling fool who can't even speak in coherent sentences. It seems all it took was for someone to vocally hate th...

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If you had told me in 2016 that the Trump era would end with a pandemic, an attempted coup, and a riot in the Capitol building, I would have totally believed you. Yep. Four years ago, when I was so stressed about him winning the election, my dad asked me what my "writer's imagination" had happening...

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While there's been plenty of discussion about WAP and the K-pop tracks, can I just say it's been nearly a decade and I still don't understand HAIM's critical success? Even with songs or albums that don't particularly appeal to me I can see why people who like that style might care. I keep listening...

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Happy New Year, all! 691 Warsaw Village Band – The Owl 8 692 Ramones – Poison Heart 7 693 The Beach Boys – Diamond Head 7 694 The Verlaines – Makes No Difference 5 695 Information Society – Ozar Midrashim 7 696 Rose Elinor Dougall – Colour of Water 6 697 Madonna – Bedtime Story 7 698 Billy Joel – Th...

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My ratings system goes something like this: 10 - An all-time personal favorite 9 - Excellent 8 - Great (Top 100 of the year worthy) 7 - Very good (Top 200 of the year worthy) 6 - Good/Decent (Lowest rung of my "thumbs up" category) 5 - Not my thing, but I understand why some would like it/Has redeem...

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Thanks, Live in Phoenix! An absolutely outstanding presentation and it's obvious how much work you put into it. You definitely did the music video medium (one of my favorites) proud.

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Unfortunately, I don't have time to rank the albums (though I've heard them all); but I can copy-and-paste my songs list from Hymie's poll a while back: 1. We Can Make the Morning 2. You'll Think of Me 3. Heartbreak Hotel 4. Jailhouse Rock 5. Mystery Train 6. Loving Arms 7. Can't Help Falling in Lov...

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Well, this is actually something of a relief. When I saw this thread this morning, I assumed I'd botched the rankings/calculations. (The only other poll I've ever helped host, I somehow forgot to add someone's entire list and DaveC needed to start the whole thing over.) This does work really well, L...

jamieW

This is great! There are several videos here that I'm not familiar with. Once the countdown is complete, I'm going to start at the bottom and go through all of these over the next month or so. I'm sure there are a lot of videos that will become personal favorites.

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661 The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together 8 662 Tom Waits – Soldier’s Things 7 663 Taylor Swift – All Too Well 5 664 They Might Be Giants – Meet James Ensor 6 665 Laura Marling – New Romantic 6 666 Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners 8 667 Royal Blood – Figure It Out 6 668 The Magic Numbers – ...

jamieW

Awesome presentation, Live in Phoenix! I'm really happy to see the rollout begin. (I especially love the feature with all the nominated videos for each director. Some of them have quite the surprising variety!)

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The Roots feat. Cody Chesnutt - The Seed 2.0

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Albums
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Songs
The Cinematic Orchestra - The Man With the Movie Camera
Interpol - PDA

I give 3 of the 4 songs a 10. (And I give "Fight Test" a 7, so I really like that one, as well.)

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These are the remaining videos that I'm having trouble attributing a director to. There are a few here where I'm not sure about the version, or I'm assuming who the director is. This is not a lethal problem, but figuring these out helps with the director statistics. If I can't find a director here,...

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AMF by a mile for me. (And not just because it has The Cure's "Disintegration.")

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Everything but video games. I was obsessed with them when I was young, but they lost me somewhere along the way. (DId they ever improve upon the eye-popping graphics from Space Invaders, Missile Attack, Berzerk, Centipede, Q-Bert, Frogger, etc.? Just curious...)

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630 The Beatles – Your Mother Should Know 6 631 Kraftwerk – Home Computer 7 632 Roxy Music – Still Falls the Rain 5 633 The House of Love – I Don’t Know Why I Love You 6 634 NuFrequency, featuring Ben Onono – Fallen Hero (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix) 7 635 X – When Our Love Passed Out on the Couc...

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Hi, all. The poll is officially closed as I've now emailed Live in Phoenix the spreadsheet. If there are any mistakes in the calculations, they were simple data entry issues and not "fraud."

(For some reason, I'm feeling happier today than I have in 4 years. Can't quite figure out why...)

jamieW

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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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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Alright, I've decided to just post a top 100 and then an alphabetical list of all the songs I was trying to find a place for. Those are the most honorable of honorable mentions, since I love them all. (There are dozens of others I could've mentioned, as well.) One thing's obvious: I've spent WAY too...

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Everyone's welcome (and encouraged) to submit lists, but please let me know if you've make any changes so I can adjust the spreadsheet accordingly. I'm so sorry, jamieW. I edited my list yesterday, and should have mentioned it. My apologies! No worries at all, Miguel - thanks for letting me know! I...

jamieW

Alright, still working on my own video list, but I've begun working on the spreadsheet. Everyone's welcome (and encouraged) to submit lists, but please let me know if you've make any changes so I can adjust the spreadsheet accordingly. (Live in Phoenix, I still plan on having the calculations finish...

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The find of the month for me was Bubu. Thanks to those who included it on their lists! Albums: 1. Klaus Schulze – X 2. Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians 3. Magazine – Real Life 4. The Cars – The Cars 5. The Residents – Not Available 6. Bubu – Anabelas 7. Brian Eno – Music for Films 8. Sun Ra – La...

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Just an update on this: I'll be posting my own list on Saturday. (I pretty much have my list complete, but I'm revisiting a lot of the videos since it's been a while for some of them.) At that point, I'll begin tabulating the lists. If you make a change after that, please let me know. You're more th...

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A few suggestions with an added emphasis on the non-English ones worth looking at: 박쥐 [Thirst] (Chan-wook Park, South Korea 2009) Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] (Robert Wiene, Germany 1920) The Descent (Neil Marshall, UK 2005) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily A...

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Albums
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Light

Songs
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love
Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock
The Cinematic Orchestra - The Man With the Movie Camera

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Well horror used to be my favorite genre but I haven't watched a horror movie since earlier this year. there are some horror movies I have downloaded and will watch them asap. My favorite horror movie of all time has to be "The Blair Witch Project". Mine, too, Arsalan! That one got under my skin li...

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Great review (and idea for a thread), Holden! As a big horror movie fan (and film fan in general), I look forward to reading these. I will say I was 13 when "Nightmare" first hit the theaters and it seemed totally original (and quite scary) at the time. If you hadn't seen it before, I can understand...

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Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…
Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Rodriguez - Cold Fact

All 8 are really good albums.

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Albums Bruce Springsteen - The Rising Eminem - The Eminem Show Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Agalloch - The Mantle Songs The Roots feat. Cody Chesnutt - The Seed 2.0 Eminem - Lose Yourself The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? The Knife - Heartbeats Emi...

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Spotlight

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Dua Lipa | Levitating
Run the Jewels | a few words for the firing squad (radiation)

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Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Rodriguez - Cold Fact

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Grimes | Delete Forever
Dua Lipa | Levitating
Run the Jewels | a few words for the firing squad (radiation)
Jessie Ware | Spotlight

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The banjo riff in Swamp Thing from The Grid, no way Prodigy could top that in a million years from there for ever!!! ((aka: late summer of mid-Europe 1994... and Body Count had their first and final BLM hit with Born Dead so who cared anymore anyway Just listened to this - now THAT'S a music moment...

jamieW

Hello Live in Phoenix, I've made some changes to my list. I've added Rabbit in Your Headlights, Don't Look Back in Anger, and Debonair, while I've removed Liberation, Never Let Me Down Again, and Crazy. I probably won't begin tabulating the lists until the last week of October, since I know a lot o...

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Sigur Rós - ( )
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…
Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Ritchie Valens - Ritchie Valens

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Only time for songs this week... LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge 9 vs. Interpol - Obstacle 1 8 The Roots feat. Cody Chesnutt - The Seed 2.0 10 vs. Wilco - Jesus, Etc 8 Eminem - Lose Yourself 9 vs. Coldplay - The Scientist 6 Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows 8 vs. Missy Elliott - Work It 1 The ...

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Just wanted to say, it looks like I won't be able to complete an all-time albums list after all. It would be a lot more work than I originally anticipated, and it's going to be a busy couple of weeks. Looking forward to the results, though! (Time to prepare a list for 2023!)

jamieW

If we can still turn lists in until 10/15, I'll submit a list on Saturday. This is the only major forum poll in which I've never participated and the reason is simple: Embarrassment. Nowhere else is my love for the critically unacclaimed genre of female-fronted pop-metal bands (Nightwish, Within Tem...

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I'll probably be posting my list sometime close to the end. (What else is new?) But I do already know what my #1 will be (and it's one off the grid a bit). New Order's "The Perfect Kiss" was directed by Jonathan Demme, about a half-decade before "The Silence of the Lambs." For me, this is the perfec...

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Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Rodriguez - Cold Fact

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600 Cortex – Troupeau bleu 7 601 Joni Mitchell – Come in from the Cold 6 602 Beach House – New Year 7 603 Split Enz – Take a Walk 7 604 Louis the Child, featuring K.Flay – It’s Strange 6 605 Billy Joel – The Entertainer 7 606 Kelly Clarkson – Piece by Piece 5 607 Stereolab – Super-Electric 7 608 Bri...

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Unfortunately, only time for a quick list this month. (I included a couple of extra songs, since the classical premieres likely aren't eligible.) Albums: 1. Soundtrack – Saturday Night Fever 2. Fleetwood Mac – Rumors 3. Television – Marquee Moon 4. David Bowie – Low 5. Iggy Pop – Lust for Life 6. De...

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Albums (Ranked) 2. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising vs. 6. Turner - A Pack of Lies 5. Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things vs. 4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. 3. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat vs. 8. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends 1. Eminem - The Eminem Show vs. 7. Avril Lavi...

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