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If I rank my favorite :

1. 00s
2. 90s
3. 80s
4. 60s
5. 10s
6. 70s
7. 50s

But I’d say really my favorite decade in the purest meaning of the word is 97-2006 and the best is 64-73

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Stereogum is launching a crowdfunding campaign to stay afloat after losing a lot of money during the covid crisis (concerts and festivals are usually their biggest source of paid advertising). The indiegogo campaign they launch is based around a compilation of covers by an impressive list of artists...

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Songs : 1) Brian Eno - Third Uncle 2) Queen - Seven Seas of Rhye 3) Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin' 4) Leonard Cohen - Is This What You Wanted 5) Kraftwerk - Autobahn 6) Kiss - Black Diamond 7) Big Star - I'm in Love with a Girl 8) Queen - The March of the Black Queen 9) Queen - The Fairy F...

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#23. Psychonauts (2005) Developed by Double Fine Productions Well that's a game that succeeded where I think Mario Odyssey failed ! Great platforming, great narrative, every level feels and plays differently and keeps surprising you, the difficulty increases progressively and is never too low nor t...

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I don't know what you think of Odyssey, but I also think both Galaxies are much better than Odyssey just because in Galaxy every star feels unique, whereas in Odyssey there's 50 versions of the same moon all over the place and collecting turns into a repetitive chore. Like, 50 goomba stacking, 50 t...

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Nothing I dislike this month, but it looks like I'm mostly on the poptimist side. Heat 3: Call Me Maybe was a bit annoying when you heard it 10 times a day, but time has been fairly nice to it (though the Emotion singles are way better) 170 | Vampire Weekend | Step (2013) 2 | Grimes | Oblivion (2012...

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1. Robyn - Robyn I love The Archandroid too, but if you asked me which one I'd rather listen to, I'd go to Robyn most of the time. The Be Mine!, With Every Heartbeat, Who's That Girl three peat is marvelous. The last concert I went to before everything shut down due to COVID 19 was The Legendary Pin...

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Looking at the bunch of "best songs of 2020 so far", there doesn't seem to be much consensus on any song except for "People I've Been Sad". Some artists are included in every lists I have seen (Fiona Apple obviously, but also Hayley Williams, Dua Lipa, Megan the Stallion or Waxahatchee) but with dif...

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For some reason I tend to play those big AA games a couple years after their releases for some reason. In any case, I have just started Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 4 Golden just dropped on Steam so I won't have free time to play another game for a while, and if I have I'd rather try to get bett...

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Persona 3 with controllable party members is great - there's rumors going around that Persona 4 Golden will be released on Steam soon, so hopefully the PSP version of Persona 3 will eventually follow. I was hoping for a Persona 4 Golden Switch port, but Steam will do ! I've got some big changes com...

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2. Run The Jewels - Blockbuster Night Part 1 6. Run The Jewels - Oh My Darling Don’t Cry 13. Run The Jewels - Legend Has It 14. DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak (feat. Run The Jewels) 17. Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) (feat. Zach De La Rocha) 23. Run The Jewels - Everybody Stay Calm ...

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Shamir - On My Own

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OK let's go ! I realized last weekend that I forgot in my songs list some bands who made it to my songs list so it's likely I forgot some other stuff but here we go anyway ! Songs : You looking at the guy who the guy that you think that I got my style from got his own style from 1) Car Seat Headrest...

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A common complaint from its release now seems rather precious. Instead of controlling every individual action for each character, the game has something it calls a gambit system. You are given up to 12 lines of “if x, then y” statements for each character. The earlier lines take precedence, so you ...

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Some early eliminations were to be expected (Boy In Da Corned and MPP for instance) but Illinois among the first 10 to go was quite unexpected ! Someone tried to put Oracular Spectacular back in, but it seems it was already nominated (rightfully, 3 great songs never made a good album). 22 | Eminem |...

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My favorite guitarist (and one of my favorite songwriters) is Doug Martsch from Built to Spill so I have to recommend a few songs. "Velvet Waltz" probably have my favorite solo ever "Broken Chairs" would be a close second In a more classic "cool riff" and "nice melody" approach, I'd also recommend C...

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That's a really nice read, if you have so much to say about the bottom of your list, I can't wait for the top 20 ! Already a few games I would have in my top 50 (Arkham City and Walking Dead season 1 for sure, Portal and Into the Breach possibly). Regarding the rhythm games, I think at stopped with ...

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Albums : 1) Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power 2) Brian Eno - Here Comes the Warm Jets 3) Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters 4) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 5) Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 6) Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston 7) Al Green - Call Me Songs : 1) Iggy & the Stooges - Search and D...

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2. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

I really love both albums in the first bracket, either one going forward is fine with me !

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504. Brendan Benson – Cold Hands (Warms Heart) : 6

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My votes for March (and 1 February song that happened to be next on the spotify playlist) 446 PJ Harvey & John Parrish – Black Hearted Love : 7 (my girlfriend is a big fan of those Harvey/Parrish albums but I don't think it's ever that great... however it's never bad either so...) 445 The Chameleons...

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503. Ariane Grande, featuring Zedd – Break Free : 5.5 502. Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain : 7.5 501. Danny and the Champions of the World – You Don’t Know (My Heart is in the Right Place) : 6 500. The Books - Take Time : 10 499. Galaxie 500 - Temperature's RIsing : 7 498. First Aid Kit – In the Hearts ...

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Jeff Rosenstock's surprise release NO DREAM is pretty good, POST- has some great moments but No Dream keep delivering on fun and catchy songs, somewhere between early 90s indie rock (Dinosaur Jr, Archers of Loaf, Sebadoh...) and the more recent trend of pop-punk revival (PUP, Dogleg...). The final t...

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So sad to see Baby Birch trailing behind, such a beautiful song !

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Controversial opinion maybe, but I honestly thought it was a significant improvement over Teens of Denial, which overall kind of disappointed me. Teens of Denial is possibly my favorite album of the decade, so yeah, I'd call that controversial ! I enjoyed Making a Door Less Open, but it's still a l...

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Albums : 1. OK Computer 2. In Rainbows 3. The Bends 4. Kid A 5. Hail to the Thief 6. Amnesiac 7. A Moon Shaped Pool 8. The King of Limbs 9. Pablo Honey The hardest part is choosing between In Rainbows and The Bends, the rest is pretty clear cut. Songs : 1) Fake Plastic Trees 2) Idioteque 3) Election...

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Songs : 2 of my 3 favorite love songs make this year's top 2. 1) Big Star - Thirteen 2) David Bowie - Moonage Daydream 3) Black Sabbath - Supernaut 4) Black Sabbath - Snow Blind 5) David Bowie - Five Years 6) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust 7) Black Sabbath - Changes 8) The O'Jays - Back Stabbers 9) De...

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I think I haven't voted since the first month (did I even vote back then) but as I'm starting my 7th week of confinement, I guess that's a good way to kill time. I guess 7 will be my go to grade as it's the grade for songs I like but don't love, and I trust the forum's taste to prevent me from going...

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Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:24 am
Metacritic still has her at 100 with 23 reviews.

That's a blatant example of when the Metacritic score is pretty mysterious. 23 reviews, half of them are 100, half of them are not, the average definitely isn't 100 so how is that score calculated ?

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Too bad Bags isn't doing better, it's not a very showy song but it's lovely.
On the other hand, I think I Know There's Gonna Be Good Times and Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe aren't even among the best 5 songs of their respective albums.

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So in about a year time, she will have 5 albums out of 5 in the AM top 2000 which is quite a feat, especially for someone whose name doesn't seem to appear much in discussion about major artists. There aren't that many artists who have 100% of their discography in AM (though yes, it is a bit easier ...

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Pretty much a 2 horse race between this and Ride The Lightning, though I do have a soft spot for Double Nickels on the Dime.

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But for any re-release of a notable album that came out more than 20 years ago, a 10 is almost the default score. I don't think this new 10 score means as much as it would have in a prior era of Pitchfork. I don't agree with that, they review an old album every Sunday and with that added to all the...

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Fiona Apple's new album just got Pitchfork's first 10 in 10 years !!!

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Nice to see Car Seat Headrest doing well (though I guess it starts with favorable conditions, being a rock song surrounded by lots of pop and rap)
I don't like is a terrible song, I don't get the acclaim at all.

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I didn't realize so many lists were still coming in! Sorry about that! In the future I'll do some kind of last call to make sure nobody gets excluded. I think it is also better to wait until the month is finished all around the world, if I read "vote in April" I would assume on the 31st is OK where...

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Damn, could barely pick 2 songs I like last week and now I had to make choices to stop at 10 !

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Listyguy wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:49 pm

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Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:57 am
1) Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
This is meant to be Songs of Love and Hate, I'm assuming?

Yes it does !

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I really don't like the middle of the 70s, but the great stretch of music that preceded it ended up with a bang on 71, really great year. You've got your classic rock legends, your soul greats, some forward thinking milestones... You even got a song with such a great hook that it got sampled in 3 so...

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1. Sigur Rós - ( )
2. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk

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While we are asking for specific data : does anybody have the AM list of albums which their respective length ? Sometimes I have only 30 or 40 minutes available and wonder which album I would have the time to listen to and by the time I find a fitting album I have lost 5 of those free minutes. You ...

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While we are asking for specific data : does anybody have the AM list of albums which their respective length ? Sometimes I have only 30 or 40 minutes available and wonder which album I would have the time to listen to and by the time I find a fitting album I have lost 5 of those free minutes.

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2. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst

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My third 1 from Hymie ! I was starting to worry it would never come, I got stuck with 2s and 3s recently.

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Every Bad by Porridge Radio is the first album of this year to really stand out for me. However, all those are also quite good : Pantha du Prince - Conference of Trees Caribou - Suddenly Grimes - Miss Anthropocene Makaya McCraven - We're New Again, a reimagining The girlfriend also really liked The ...

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