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Jirin

Now that I finished my quarterly mini-tournament my list has rearranged a bit. 1. Fennesz - Becs (95) 2. St Vincent - St Vincent (94) 3. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (92) 4. Todd Terje - It's Album Time (89) 5. Quilt - Held In Splendor (87) 6. Squarepusher x Z-Machines - Music For Robots (87) 7. Ambrose Aki...

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Tim Buckley - Happy Sad (#40 all time) Tom Waits - Bone Machine (#55 all time) Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead 91 Temptations - Temptations Sing Smokey 84 Silver Jews - American Water 83 (Bruce Springsteen - Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 82) Thelonius Monk - Monk's Music 76 Great week, it makes me ...

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Isn't that saying 'Two wrongs make a right' though? Compensation calls are something that shouldn't be on the referee's minds. When the NFL had a problem with bad calls determining the outcome of games they implemented a challenge system that 90% fixed the issue. Yet FIFA seems resolute against fixi...

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Ugh, I'm really annoyed with the way the Netherlands won that match. A penalty kick on a BLATANT flop? They really need to start enforcing penalties for flopping more, and in cases where a penalty kick is at stake they need to have a review process so players don't get away with crap like that. That...

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Ok, so Spotify does have this, only it's buried in a three album collection. *rolleyes* Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out 87 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinemas 86 Rodriguez - Cold Fact 85 Jacques Brel - Brel 84 Exuma - Exuma I (1970) 84 The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site 81 The Tragically Hip - Full...

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Sun Kil Moon - Benji 4 ZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzzzzzzz Unlistenable for me. I know the songs are not bad but totally boring. tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack 8,5 Great album. As good as their first, maybe better with no bad songs. I find the opposite, Benji is the most emotionally engaging album of the year, and Nik...

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Okay, so there is one Jacques Brel album called Brel on allmusic.com, and one on Spotify, and they have completely different track listings.

Jacques Brel is really terrible at naming albums.

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Other than the United States I'm rooting for the best teams to make it to the end, and I'm also kind of rooting for countries like Costa Rica where everybody loves futbol but they haven't had historical success. A draw would put the US in a great position. It would mean that they'd need a draw with ...

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Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon 84
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure 83
Titi Winterstein Quintett - Djinnee Tu Kowa Ziro 82
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia - Ultra 81
Van Halen - Fair Warning 78
The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You 75
Estopa - Destrangis 64
Billy Bragg - Worker's Playtime 62

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I would have abstained in that match if I rated La Folie less than an 80 or so.

Or voted for Lenya if I rated it less than a 60.

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Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact 97 Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles 92 Mana - Donde jugaran las ninas? 78 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay 75 Pata Negra - Blues de la frontera 75 Milton Nascimento - Minas 75 James Carr - A Man Needs A Woman 74 Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye 74 Anyone know wher...

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Ought - More Than Any Other Day is also a really good album.

If you played it for me and told me it was recorded in 1978 in the post-punk movement, I would believe you.

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I'm listening to Jack White's Lazaretto.

First impression, better than his other solo work, not as good as his White Stripes output.

Jirin

I'm shocked how few movies I've seen from this year, especially next to the years before and after.

1. A Man Escaped
2. Aparajito
The Searchers (5 pts)
Written On The Wind (1 pt)

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I disagree with that, I think an album that some hate and some love should rank higher than an album everybody thinks is okay. Mostly because this system makes the list more useful for recommendations. If an album gets 10-10-10-10-10-0-0-0-0-0 I see that as "There is a fifty-fifty chance I will...

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I'd say the risk of giving Pazz N Jop a higher weight based on the number of critics is that it may have the effect of the American electoral college on the results. Just like, if there is a high population state where 51% of the vote goes to one candidate, then 100% of the vote from that state esse...

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1. Neil Young - On the Beach 2. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark 3. Bob Marley - Natty Dread 4. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom 5. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets 6. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different 7. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 8. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) 9. Gram Parsons - G...

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Very happy to see A Wizard, A True Star get in. Everything else here is pretty much the usual suspects. The only high ranked albums that tend not to make it are the non-lyrical ones like Tubular Bells.

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The Watersons - Bright Phoebus 96 Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one here who likes quirky off-melody folk. Also jazz. The Stranglers - La Folie 88 Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain 83 JJ Cale - Naturally 77 Angus & Julia Stone - Down The Way 77 Glasvegas - Glasvegas 75 Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo ...

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Pere Ubu - Worlds In Collision 91 Duke Ellington - Money Jungle 88 Anouar Brahem - La Voyage de Sahar 86 Andres Calamaro - Alta Suciedad 85 Champion Jack Dupree - Blues From The Gutter 73 Genesis - Foxtrot 70 Genesis is the posterchild for the critical buzzword 'Overwrought'. John Talabot - Fin 62 ...

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Totally forgot to rate Swans - To Be Kind. 81 for that one.

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Sun Kil Moon - Benji 95 St Vincent - St Vincent 94 Quilt - Held In Splendor 89 Fennesz - Mecs 88 Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imagined Savior Is Easier To Paint 87 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witnesses 87 Rodrigo y Gabriela - 9 Dead Alive 86 Sohn - Tremors 86 Neneh Cherry - The Blank Project 86 ...

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I have mixed feelings about the Swans album. One second I'm thinking, crap this sounds awesome. Then that awesome sound drones on for seven minutes, and I just want the album to move the hell on.

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Frank Sinatra - Watertown 86 This is the first Sinatra album I've really connected with, I like it better than his two entries in the 200s which are the other ones I've heard. Compay Segundo - Yo Vengo Aqu 84 Pere Ubu - Datapanik In The Year Zero 83 Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual 76 Rage Against T...

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Night of the Hunter
Pather Panchali
Floating Clouds
Diabolique
Ordet
Tales of the Taira Clan
Night And Fog
Rebel Without A Cause
Lola Montes

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Wow, I'm bad at this. Even songs that I know really well tend to take me just over 15 seconds to connect the intro to the song to the title.

I got 860 in the 90s Alternative poll.

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Personally I don't mind Here Come The Warm Jets being included in either year, I just don't want to have to look across two different sources in the future to figure out which year an album is.

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I'm enjoying Nikki Nack but I'm worried its borderline twee-ness is going to wear on me by the end of the year.

Lykke Li's album has some of the best singles of the year, but it's a little uneven overall.

@luvulongTIM

Imagine how I feel about Tom Waits' recent output.

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Since this is an acclaimedmusic.net forum, shouldn't we be using acclaimedmusic.net's years as definitive, using RYM as a fallback for things not listed on AM? Having to double check every single album against RYM would be a hassle, their lists aren't as clean and easy to index and reference the one...

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Nina Simone - Pastel Blues 86 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 83 The Caretaker - An empty bliss beyond this world 83 Gal Costa - Gal Costa (Nao Identificado) 82 Talk Talk - Colour Of Spring 80 Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl 76 Certain General - November's Heat 76 Counting Crows - August And Everything A...

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In case I don't have a chance to listen to the Bregovic: Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes... 96 (Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic 87) Chuck Berry - After School Session 85 Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using 81 Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 75 I like t...

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If this were me it wouldn't be a musical issue so much of an issue of her thinking she can tell me what I can and can't listen to. That'd be very distressing and would remind me way too much of my mother. At one point she tried to forbid me from listening to Matchbox 20 because she misinterpreted th...

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This just all seems confusing to me. I would get it if it were like Michael Vick or something. But Kanye West is just obnoxious and self-aggrandizing, he hasn't done anything morally outrageous. Is this really just one of those "I'm holding on more because I don't want to lose face than on actu...

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Can't you just, like, wear headphones when you listen to music she doesn't like?

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1. The Stooges - Raw Power 2. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure 3. Neil Young - Time Fades Away 4. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 5. Kevin Coyne - Marjory Razorblade 6. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 7. The Who - Quadrophenia 8. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets 9. Lou Reed - Berlin 10. Led Zeppelin - H...

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I wonder if it is possible to design a system so we can determine the forum favorites while factoring out the difference in number of people who have listened to the album. It would be challenging and probably involve everybody listing every album they've heard then work a lot like Henrik's formula ...

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Has anyone else heard Richard Buckner - Bloomed?

I will give it an 89. Just beautiful.

Edit: NVM, this is actually a 1994 album and I saw a review of it that did not mention it was a remaster.

Maybe I'll nominate it next BMAA...

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irreduciblekoan wrote:The new Fennesz album is shaping up to be something special if early critical buzz is any indication. As a great fan of Endless Summer, Venice and Black Sea, I can't wait to hear it.

Fennesz - Mecs 87

And unlike other Fennesz albums, it's on Spotify!

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I went to see The Knife last night.

Every song is accompanied by a colorfully lit, highly choreographed interpretive dance. They put on an excellent show.

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Laura Nyro - Eli and the 13th Confession 94 Babasonicos - Infame 82 I love the guitar work for this album. The vocals are a little bouncy and sugary for me. Bob Marley - Soul Revolution/African Herbsman 80 BOO to this matchup! Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms 79 Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson 73...

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Sorry, go with 3.

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I will now cast my vote for:

Misty In Roots 78

Can't find the Goran Bregovic album on Spotify or Grooveshark for next week. Anyone have a link?

Jirin

Changing your vote because your tastes changed is fine.

I don't think anybody is changing their vote because something they voted for doesn't have a chance to win and they want to help somebody with a chance to win instead, but if they are, that should be frowned upon.

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Yes - Fragile 90 Pink Floyd - Animals 85 Nic Jones - Penguins Eggs 84 Love those folk singers whose performance conveys unique emotion. Also I like the song overlap with Anais Mitchell's Child Ballads. U2 - Zooropa 77 Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado 76 The Cars - The Cars 74 For Misty In Roots, the...

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And as for the religious thing, I am personally an atheist, but I could date someone who was religious. But in all honesty, I really could never date someone who was REALLY REALLY religious. But hey, that's just me. I could date someone who's really, really religious. But, I don't think I could rep...

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Finally got a chance to listen to the two that are on Grooveshark but not Spotify. It takes me longer to get to those because I don't want to stream music over the Wifi at work, and I can do Spotify from my phone. The Dismemberment Plan - The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified 95 This is easily my favo...

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You guys would actually dump a girl over musical tastes?

...I just wouldn't listen to a lot of music with her around. *shrug*

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Drive By Truckers and Hold Steady are rock.

Do you like old school R&B/soul sounds? If so, you might like Regina Carter and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings.

Bruce, you take it from here.

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Also if these questions were weighted instead of all being worth 1, I think I'd score higher.

Like:
-Have you ever ranked your favorite albums of the year? -1 pt
-Have you ever designed and coded a complicated mathematical algorithm to help you calculate this list? -10 pts

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I haven't been to Coachella but I have been to Bonaroo, doesn't that count? Also I think the bonfires at Woodstock 99 were awesome. I use the word 'Overproduced' once a week. :) I also took the 'Stereotypical American' quiz and got a 45. I wonder what that says about me. Of course, given some of the...

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