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I've only heard the first two, and I think that's all I'll get to this week.

1. The Black Keys - Brothers

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Trouble Will Find Me
Depression Cherry
Deletion 3030

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Interesting that Brand New is No. 1 on this list. Did critics know about Jesse Lacey's transgressions back in 2006? I know that's what kept their last album off AM after great initial reviews. I've always liked their music, and Deja Entendu (127 on the list) is one of my favorite albums.

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1. Elliott Smith - Figure 8

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Funny that it's been up as Fat Slow Disco, but it is indeed Fast Slow Disco. What a fantastic song. Big improvement over the original.

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Some of the most consistent albums ever, like Abbey Road, Purple Rain and OK Computer, and also some of our great favorites, like Automatic for the People and Illinois, have faced each other with their seven best tracks, and, after all, AndyD and his perfect lineup for Funeral deservedly win our cu...

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"Moon River" has received several votes credited to Henry Mancini, Audrey Hepburn, or Henry Mancini feat. Audrey Hepburn. I am aware that there are different versions of the song in the original movie, but I decided to combine all these votes in order to avoid confusion over which version...

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StevieFan13 wrote:
jade.palooka wrote:
StevieFan13 wrote: I believe that song's from '95.
but it peaked in spring 96. fuck fascist release dates
Fair point. After all, Shea Serrano did call it the best rap song of '96 for that reason.

Ok, bump the other ones up a spot then. Thanks.

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Sorry if this is a stupid question. I joined this game very late and I’m surprised that the albums that the semifinalists all still had the most famous songs left to play with. I would have thought that some managers would use the most famous songs in the beginning of the game, to get past the grou...

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Here Comes the Sun
Rebellion (Lies)

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Twin Shadow - Five Seconds

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While checking out the top 6001-6096 songs section, for the first time it was quite heavy for me to load the top 10,000 songs page (at work). Do many of you have this problem? I think it was the two long spotify lists that slowed down the process, which means that splitting the list into pieces, wi...

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Funeral (Wake Up)
Abbey Road (Something)

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Bridge Over Troubled Water (The Only Living Boy in New York)
Funeral (Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels))
Ok Computer (Let Down)
Abbey Road (Come Together)

All great songs. Like I said in another thread, Let Down got a big boost after seeing Radiohead live last week.

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Just saw Radiohead at MSG. Great show, really true to the albums, and the setlist was a pretty expansive overview of their career. The best surprise to me was how good Let Down was. After that performance I would have moved it up a couple hundred spots on my list if the songs poll deadline hadn’t pa...

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Funeral (Neighboorhood #3 (Power Out)) Parallel Lines (Hanging on the Telephone) The Idler Wheel... (Anything We Want) Abbey Road (Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End) Bridge Over Troubled Water (El Condor Pasa (If I Could)) The Queen Is Dead (The Queen Is Dead) OK Computer (Paranoid Andro...

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1. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2. Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

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Automatic for the People (Drive) Parallel Lines (Pretty Baby) The Idler Wheel... (Werewolf) Draw Funeral (Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)) Dookie (When I Come Around) Abbey Road (Oh! Darling) Illinois (The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!) OK Computer (Airbag) Born to Run (She's the One) St...

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I'll rank the top half of the songs. Group C really is the Group of Death. Two of my top 4 albums are up against each other, and I'm voting against my own nominee for the first time ever. The Queen is Dead (Frankly, Mr Shankly) vs. 11. Parallel Lines (Picture This) 8. Elephant (There's No Home For Y...

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Mine will be Born to Run

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I'll do Funeral and Abbey Road

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Songs 8 | R.E.M. | Everybody Hurts 9 | Blind Melon | No Rain Everybody Hurts already qualified for the decade poll from the 1992 poll. So I will not count it here. No Rain was also 1992, but only received 40 points, so no chance on Wildcard count-back, so I suggest replacing it with a 1993 track. W...

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I couldn't get up on stage like that after a hundred beers, so I tip my cap to you guys. Can't wait to see what the next AM meeting brings! :music-rockon: To be fair, I don't think any of us could get up on stage after a hundred beers. But this is great - cool to see you guys meeting up and having ...

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Woo! Feels good to submit that. I've always listened more to songs than albums, so as exciting as it was last year to delve into a bunch of classic albums I had never heard, I looked forward to making this list the most when I joined the forum a couple years ago. You can treat #990 as "Abbey Ro...

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I thought this quote was funny from Noel Gallagher in a recent interview with Lars Ulrich: "All my favorite songs of all-time, I couldn't give a s--t what the lyrics are. I couldn't give a flying f--k what any of them are singing about at all. It means nothing to me. They're just words that you...

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I refuse to rate an artist highly simply based on creativity if I don't enjoy the music. Obviously I don't do that either. I already mentioned Madonna, who is very influential and did her own thing, but I don't personally care about her music and didn't vote for her. Originality is also not just ab...

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As others have said, thank you very much, BleuPanda. You clearly put a lot of time and effort into this, and the rollouts were fantastic with many great choices of quotes and pictures... Not to mention how great of an idea these polls were in the first place, coming to fruition with all of your part...

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I just started making my list, and the first combination case that came up for me is Brain Damage / Eclipse. I see that Brain Damage is listed separately on AM while Eclipse is nowhere to be seen. I would much rather rank them together, since I think the whole is much better than the sum of its part...

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I agree with Rob's thoughts on The Life Pursuit. Too bad it has faded a bit here. I heard it for the first time in the Albums of the 2000s poll and fell in love with it.

1. Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
2. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

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She’s great. Excited to give this a listen. Who’s the second one you like, BleuPanda?

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Red Ant wrote: 2 ¦ The Eagles ¦ The Last Resort

Do I have to feel guilty about loving The Last Resort? I've never gotten why so many people hate the Eagles. That's a great song and I'm surprised it's not acclaimed, especially coming from an all-time album.

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Neighborhood #1! All-time top-25 for me.

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1. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things vs. Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
2. Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt vs. CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye
3. Pass
4. M. Ward - Hold Time vs. Yehuda Poliker - Efer Veavak

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Toxic also would have been fairly high on my list, but I didn't include it since it's so acclaimed.

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1. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
vs.
2. The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

3. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
vs.
4. Nina Simone - Sinnerman

Sinnerman has grown on me a lot recently, but I still think it's longer than it needs to be.

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While my list has its fair share of (supposedly) terrible pop songs like all the other lists, mine also has a lot more intense songs that it seems this forum could never fathom finding pleasure in. But a lot of these were my favorite songs as a teenager. There are many more Thrice songs that I like ...

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I just moved Fiona Apple up from No. 5 to No. 3. She was probably in the 30-40 range a month ago and has been rocketing up since then. I just finished getting through her discography, and her consistency is remarkable. She's a contender for No. 1 once I get more familiar with her work.

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Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Nina Simone - Sinnerman

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If I could get an extension until tomorrow, that would be great. My list will give a boost to St. Vincent and recent acts in general, so at least you have that to look forward to. Thanks BleuPanda.

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