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Harold

Well, THAT was the most predictable #1 ever... Thanks, granit!

Harold

Sigh... I guess it was too much to ask for Death Grips, Dan Deacon and Nas to do well. Great reviews, but now mostly forgotten. Keep in mind that the USA lists are just starting to come in. Those albums will likely start to do better soon. (Conversely, look for a lot of the UK albums to tumble - it...

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Spreadsheet updated with the following lists:

USA: Spin, American Songwriter, Filter
Rest of World: Rumore [Italy], Blitz [Portugal], Gaffa [Denmark], Intro [Germany], FasterLouder [Australia], OOR [The Netherlands]

Harold

Amazon has posted its top 100 list. If someone could transcribe it here, I would be grateful. Thanks in advance!

Harold

Very late to the party here, but I just wanted to echo everyone's praise of sonofsamiam for doing such an amazing job with this poll (in which I didn't participate, unfortunately). I can honestly say that this may be the finest top 1000 songs list I've ever seen. Because I'm an album guy, I thought ...

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Wow, this one came earlier than I was expecting. Thanks, Otis!

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1. Paranoid Android 2. The Tourist 3. Airbag 4. Lucky 5. Subterranean Homesick Alien 6. Karma Police 7. No Surprises 8. Let Down 9. Climbing Up the Walls 10. Exit Music (for a Film) 11. Electioneering 12. Fitter Happier Someone did a hilarious YouTube edit of one of the surpassingly weird iPhone/Sir...

Harold

I think there will be a lot of changes in the spreadsheet. So far it's more or less the UK results. There have been changes already with two more European lists posted since this afternoon. Not enough to justify reposting the file yet, but here's the revised top 20: 1 Ocean, Frank Channel Orange 2 ...

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It's time for the first posting of the 2012 EOY albums spreadsheet! The file currently comprises the following lists: US: Decibel, Paste UK: The Fly, Rough Trade, Piccadilly Records, Mojo, NME, Q, The Guardian (11-50), Uncut, Jazzwise Rest of World: HotTracks [S. Korea], MondoSonoro-Intl [Spain], So...

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granit wrote:Update with top 75.

Thank you!!!

Harold

Saueia posted on the other thread that the missing album is actually Ty Segall's Twins, and that it's actually #42 - Beach House and Cate Le Bon are #'s 40 and 41, respectively. I'm inclined to think this is accurate.

Now if only someone could transcribe the Uncut list!

Harold

Saueia wrote:The missing album is not by Neneh Cherry. It's Twins by Ty Segall. In fact it's the number 42 on the list (Beach House is 40 and Cate Le Bon 41)

Thanks, Saueia!

Harold

Also, the Tame Impala album is titled Lonerism. I'd ask granit if that was a Freudian slip, but it's probably none of my business...

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Granit informs me that what we see here is what we get - Q has decided not to rank their top 50 this year. Very interesting. Thanks, granit!

Harold

Still no confirmation on #40 for the Mojo list? Uncut is out - if someone could transcribe their top 75 albums, that would be most appreciated. Same for the ranked top 50 from Q. Thanks in advance! Once all these are entered, I'll probably send the spreadsheet to Henrik for the first posting. Spoile...

Harold

Thanks, Otis!

Harold

Thanks, Otis!

I'll guess that the missing album is Fiona Apple's.

Harold

You know it's an irrelevant publication when 6 out of its top 10 2012 artists have been around for at least 40 years. Unless, you know, those artists are actually continuing to make vital music in the 4th or 5th decade of their careers. (Well, Cohen, Dylan and Dr. John, certainly. Haven't heard the...

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If you're posting notice of a new EOY list, please post the -entire- list. It will make things a lot easier for me in terms of updating the spreadsheet. I know there are more than 10 or 20 albums on the Uncut and Mojo lists, and if I can avoid having to hunt for the full rosters, I would appreciate ...

Harold

As we search for things to tide ourselves over while we wait for next year's update, I thought I'd contribute a comparison of Acclaimed Music to Best Ever Albums (besteveralbums.com). If you're not familiar with BEA, it's a site that compiles a (very) few critics' lists but is primarily user-generat...

Harold

Thanks, granit!

Harold

And here's a link to the entire top 100 list:

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/content. ... page2.html

Harold

ALBUMS 1. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs 2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 3. Wilco - Summerteeth 4. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun 5. Beck - Midnite Vultures 6. Moby - Play 7. Tom Waits - Mule Variations 8. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness 9. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile 1...

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By the way, with two lists in, Channel Orange is at #1. And there, I am fairly confident, it will remain.

Harold

Thanks! Did they only have a top 10? Last year it was a top 30.

Harold

Criminy! It's too early for this! One correction, which isn't Otisredding's fault - the magazine (complete issue available for browsing online) screwed up: the Allah-Lahs album at #40 is not titled King Tuff (not sure how a mistake like that even happens), it's self-titled. This is as good a place a...

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I'll post a top 100 by the end of today.

Harold

Great job with the results! I notice an error - I didn't have Don't Look Now at #9. (My #9 was Nashville, which was correctly noted earlier.)

Harold

ALBUMS 1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 2. Elliott Smith - XO 3. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs 4. Air - Moon Safari 5. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 6. Beck - Mutations 7. Massive Attack - Mezzanine 8. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty 9. Pulp - This is Hardcore 10. T...

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This list is very wrong, I think. Where's "Black Or White" and "One Sweet Day"? This list is based specifically on Billboard's Pop Radio Airplay Chart, which was introduced in October 1992, NOT on the Hot 100 Singles Chart (on which "One Sweet Day" was #1 for a record ...

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ALBUMS 1. Radiohead - OK Computer 2. Elliott Smith - Either/Or 3. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space 4. Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind 5. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole 6. Pavement - Brighten the Corners 7. The Verve - Urban Hymns 8. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out 9....

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There appears to be one glaring error on the site: the album-cover photo and review link for Crystal Castles are for the second album (2010), but it's clear that it should actually be the 2008 debut (it's in the year list for 2008). Other than the 2010 and 2011 albums - all of which seem clearly des...

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So sorry to hear this, Henrik. I hate to lose five -minutes- of data, so I can't possibly imagine what this feels like. If I have time to help with whatever might need to be done, I will (although it seems like we're all a lot busier than we used to be!). Whatever the future holds, you and this site...

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ALBUMS 1. Beck - Odelay 2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... 3. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister 4. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi 5. Weezer - Pinkerton 6. Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor 7. Wilco - Being There 8. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup 9. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will...

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1. Apocalypse Now
2. Manhattan
3. The Marriage of Maria Braun
4. Alien
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian
6. Breaking Away
7. The China Syndrome
8. Real Life
9. Kramer vs. Kramer
10. Mad Max

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Someone on another forum posted (from the print edition, released today in the U.K.) the remainder of the critics' top 100. It looks legit, based on mentions of a couple of the films in the preliminary articles on the S&S website: 53. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) - 28 lists 53. North by ...

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The top ten films from the directors' poll, all of which are in the critics' top 50:

1. Tokyo Story - 48 votes
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 42
3. Citizen Kane - 41
4. 8 1/2 - 40
5. Taxi Driver - 34
6. Apocalypse Now - 33
7. The Godfather - 31
7. Vertigo - 31
9. Mirror - 30
10. Bicycle Thieves - 29

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The British film magazine Sight and Sound has finally begun releasing the results of the 2012 edition of its every-ten-years Greatest Films of All Time poll. This time around, they received top ten lists from a record 846 "critics, programmers, academics and distributors," and for the firs...

Harold

Thanks for all that work/speculation, Harold! Fantastic post. Random question, but would Watch The Throne be under Kanye West and Jay-Z (in other words, on the pages of both of them), or under a separate artist entry for The Throne? It would make a difference because that would be one more album to...

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I’ve decided to revisit and expand on my previously posted speculations as to which, and how many, albums from 2010 and 2011 will end up on the all-time top 3000 in the next site update. As you may or may not recall, my remarkably unscientific “system” consists simply of adding up the following figu...

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For the chance to recover 5 months' worth of data, it's probably worth the expense (as significant as I gather that expense will be). Fingers crossed, Henrik - if anyone deserves to have their lost data recovered successfully, it's you.

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Kitty Wells, the pioneering country star best known for "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," passed away Tuesday at the age of 92.

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Jon Lord, the brilliant keyboardist whose organ riffs helped define the sound of Deep Purple, passed away on Monday at the age of 71 from a pulmonary embolism related to an ongoing battle with pancreatic cancer. R.I.P., Mr. Lord, and may a 21-flare gun salute be set off in your honor.

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ALBUMS 1. Pulp - Different Class 2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 3. Radiohead - The Bends 4. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love 5. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 6. Garbage - Garbage 7. Elastica - Elastica 8. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters 9. Bjork - Post 10. ...

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nicolas wrote:Exit "Zombie"

Pursued by a bear?

Harold

No one loves Unfair, my favorite off of my favorite album of all time? It's a great song, but there are better/more popular ones on CR,CR. "Unfair" does have one of my favorite lyrics of all time: "Walk with your credit card in the air! Swing your nachos like you just don't care!"

Harold

1. Days of Heaven
2. The Deer Hunter
3. The Last Waltz
4. National Lampoon's Animal House
5. Halloween

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Pavement - Range Life

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dr_Robert wrote:
lagire wrote:Hi everyone,

Except metacritic, ADM and kritiker, does anyone know other websites which does the same job?

thanks for your responses.
ADM? I take it that is a "metacritic" sight of some sort. What is the webaddress for them?

It's Any Decent Music. http://www.anydecentmusic.com

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