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I didn't expect Kate Bush to win at all. That was great.

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I'm stunned that "Swimming Pools" is on 1300 on AM. Especially given the placements of his more recent songs. Some lists of Kendrick’s best songs place it surprisingly low. It still blows my mind that The Blacker the Berry didn't place more highly with critics in 2015. It just seems to be...

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I would have voted Green Light very high. I think it's one of the best songs of the year, but I don't place the full album as high as other people do. For me it is the other way around. Melodrama is one of those albums on which every track is pretty great and that makes the competition tougher. We ...

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Interesting to see Rumours only place at 15. I assume some people didn't consider it a female album.

I wish To Bring You My Love had made a better run at the top ten. I enjoy Bjork but I think PJ Harvey has had an even better run among 1990-2010s female artists.

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So sad, he soundtracked some of the best films in recent years and I was looking forward to seeing what he'd do in the years ahead. His work on Sicario and Arrival is remarkable.

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Truth at number 6 is the best! I had no idea it was going to be that high.

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Alvvays, Slowdive, and CRJ making the top 20 is great. I love our lack of correlation with the critics this year (though I'm not sure that will be the case on the albums side).

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The top 100 so far is great. Looking forward to seeing where Loud City Song places.

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#70. Men I Trust | "Tailwhip" (85.909 Points | 2 Votes) Critics' List: #293 Biggest Fans: Jackson (#2), JohnnyBGoode (#3) #66. Jane Weaver | "Slow Motion" (92.881 Points | 4 Votes) Critics' List: #1906 Biggest Fans: Smithers-Jones (#8), DaveC (#10), Jackson (#11) #61. Algiers | ...

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#80. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | "French Press" (71.702 Points | 4 Votes) Critics' List: #454 Biggest Fans: JohnnyBGoode (#4) This was my favorite discovery from other people's lists. Wish it had gotten more attention, but hard to do so in a year where rock is out of favor with crit...

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Throughout much of the year I thought 2017 would turn out to be one of the weaker years of the decade. For top-end albums and songs, maybe that's true, but this is one of the deeper years in recent history. Also, it is (for me) the best year ever for women in music. Significant female contribution t...

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Nice write-up and choice of song. I've liked this song for years, but recently my appreciation has grown even higher. There is simply nothing else that sounds like it, from the much-discussed solo to the bizarre rhythm.

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Hmm...I wonder if people are actually reading what critics are saying about the song to justify its placement. As much as we simplify all these lists down to their rank and nothing more, pretty much all of these lists have at least a paragraph explaining each song; Pitchfork wrote 450 on Bodak Yell...

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That list of albums entering the top 3000 is awesome. Ennio Morricone, modern classical, jazz, and foreign albums did really well.

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A belated thanks to Henrik for this awesome update. I love the expansion to 10,000 songs. Even though the order of songs 5,000-10,000 doesn't seem very meaningful given the small sample size of lists, this will be a great resource when getting into new artists. I look forward to pouring over this li...

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I'm a few days late on this but here are a few fun alternate lists I came up with: Brazilian Music Fans : Defined as everyone who voted for at least one of Clube de Esquina, Os Mutantes, and A Tabua de Esmeralda (24 total voters) 1 | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground & Nico (3) 2 |...

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BleuPanda wrote: My Bloody Valentine (excluded entirely)

5. Portishead

Both of these artists are in somewhat of a gray area for this poll, but why would Portishead (1 of 3 female members) be eligible if My Bloody Valentine (2 of 4 female members) is not?

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So apparently Bjork is the opposite artist in appeal to Green Day. Her albums dominate the non-Green Day list but are totally out of the top 150 in the Green Day list.

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It looks like support for Thriller is a huge breakpoint so I'd be interested in seeing the lists for those who did and didn't vote for Thriller.

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I wish Sgt. Pepper's had been the album to take a surprising drop instead of Blonde on Blonde and Exile on Main Street...I think the Beatles are in for redemption after Arcade Fire beat all of their albums last time around.

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Beatles albums from 1965-1969 in the top 30: 5 Any album made from 1990-2017 in the top 30: 6 I wonder if/when newer music will begin to have more proportional placement on the top of the list. In particular I find the 1990s placing only two albums in the top 30 to be way too low given all of the gr...

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Dummy at number 31 is an awesome placement. I had forgotten that one hadn't dropped yet.

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Really thought Love - Forever Changes would be in the top 15. Must be all the youngins' Well, it's a great album with a great sound and excellent songs, but IMO I don't think it's an all time top 15 album (79 for me). And I'm not a youngin' :D It's a little overestimated by critics and hipsters jus...

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Of course, no discussion about the worst songs of all time is complete without bringing up "Friday" by ten Rebecca Black. Friday is so bad that it's almost cheating to bring it up in these discussions. It's like The Room of music. It's so bad you're just amazed at its badness. Friday is h...

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There will be nine albums in the top 50 that were in the #55-75 range in 2014: Songs in the Key of Life (#55) Wish You Were Here (#59) Hunky Dory (#60) Low (#61) Bridge Over Troubled Water (#63) Odessey & Oracle (#68) My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (#69) In Rainbows (#73) Grace (#75) In the ...

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I guess Dylan taking a hit is a bigger surprise but I thought Loveless was a lock for top 20, based on RYM and another forum I used to vote on. It's funny, I thought the same thing the first album poll after I joined the forum. I think it's a combination of (1) the album doesn't have a lot of huge ...

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I love or at least appreciate most of the albums at this point, but Morning Glory and Ten stick out to me as albums that belong at least 100 places back. Nice placement for Loveless (I remembered it being lower last time, but maybe I'm thinking about the 2012 poll), and fun seeing Bob back to back. ...

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Glad to see Dear Science tearing up the albums poll so far but surprised to see only one vote for (in my opinion) the album's masterpiece, DLZ. It's always been a curiosity to me why this song didn't get more critical acclaim -- maybe it's the dull title?

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Wow, the top three rap albums in the poll will be from the 2010s!

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That last five was a strong group. Awesome placement for In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. I had expected a higher finish from the individual lists, but not as high as 75. Btw, I should be on the biggest fans list.

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Nice jumps for A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang, and Nas. I did not expect that but just shows how many different constituencies are voting in this poll. I also like the drop for Murmur, I've never understood what makes that such a hugely regarded album. Interesting the In the Court of the Crimson King...

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Well, firstly "London Calling" isn't a punk album (although I admit it is usually categorised as such). Just to add fuel to the fire. I voted for The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Gang of Four, Wire, Stiff Little Fingers, and The Jam (again not really Punk). But only one genuine ...

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The terrible performance of punk in this poll continues with the Ramones falling 30 spots (and I'm surprised again to see myself as the biggest fan--none of the 70 voters had this in their top 25?). Back to back Flaming Lips is fun, but I'm really surprised to see The Soft Bulletin out of the top 100.

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Happy to see there's still some classic rock masterpieces in a forum that has always been a bit indie-oriented. (Cosmo's Factory, Nebraska, Talking Book). Those albums lost some ground compared to 2014, but maybe it"s because the voters are younger (and that there are albums from the last 3 ye...

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why do males prefer albums by males and/or females prefer albums by females? Good question. I'm not necessarily sure this is true. I said this recently on another thread, but if a list is well-rounded in terms of genres, it will naturally skew male. If you're voting for a lot of rap, electronic, ja...

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Can you post a recap of 1000-201 before moving on to the top 200? Loving the pace of the rollout. On the placements side, I loved the 240-300 section, which had a ton of interesting albums and personal favorites (Spiritualized, King Crimson, Madvillaon, D'Angelo, TV on the Radio, Steve Reich, etc.)....

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That was a great section, but it also means my favorites took an absolute beating, likely in favor of a bunch of stuff I didn't vote for. Disappointing showing for Spiderland, Untrue (which I should have been on the top voter list for), Here Come the Warm Jets, and Rock Bottom, though there were a l...

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Just wait until you see how badly Untrue, one of the greatest and most famous electronic albums this century, does in the all time and 2007 polls...I'm hoping that's not the case, but it's never done well in forum polls before. You mean like how it finished all the way down at #217 on the 2014 poll...

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First album to reach 20 votes is... Return to Cookie Mountain! I'm saddened by it's steep drop from the last poll. Over the years it's grown in my estimation, but it seems like it's slipping in these polls (and possibly even on critics' lists). Yes it seems to fall on critics lists too. Not as stee...

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A lot of my favorites are dropping now. A couple of thoughts... 1. People often talk about how electronic and rap are underrated on the forum; I'd like to submit punk as another underrated genre. I was very surprised to see myself as the biggest fan for both Zen Arcade and Double Nickels on the Dime...

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I hate to be this guy, but...I voted for Double Nickels on the Dime at #60 but I don't see myself on top fans.

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StevieFan13 wrote:I've never even heard of The Millennium, let alone knew they were good enough to land an album in the top 500!

Listen to it...will have you hooked from the first track!

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Last few sections were awesome...nice placements for Pharoah Sanders, the Milennium, Ennio Morricone, John Cale, and Yes. I wish One Beat had been higher.

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I voted for In a Silent Way but if the poll was held today I would've placed it much higher. Beautiful music, like nothing else.

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Just wait until you see how badly Untrue, one of the greatest and most famous electronic albums this century, does in the all time and 2007 polls...I'm hoping that's not the case, but it's never done well in forum polls before. You mean like how it finished all the way down at #217 on the 2014 poll...

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I'll make predictions from my own list. These are the albums that will have missed the top 1000 entirely: The Knife - Shaking the Habitual John Zorn - Naked City Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! James Blake - James Blake...

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