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Henry

Thanks digitiser for your very helpful response. On the Sea was quite enjoyable upon completing my first listen. I did not catch on to all of your points about the song yet, but hopefully after about 4 more tries they will start to sink in. Liability was good enough, but not as rewarding for me as O...

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Literary Mind works for me.

Not yet sold on Up and Comer.

Henry

4250. / Built to Spill / Untethered Moon / 2015 / NR Brad (211) I recommend the following songs from this album: All Our Songs (hjg-4318), Never Be the Same (hjg-9524), Another Day (hjg-bu), On the Way (hjg-bu). Built to Spill is growing on me, but unless there are some new revelations for me from t...

Henry

Thanks for the recommendations of Texarkana and Me in Honey. The are both pretty good and i have a slight preference for Texarkana.

Henry

andyd1010 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:08 am What does hjg stand for?

HJG are my initials.

Henry

2246. 439. Culture Club - Colour By Numbers / 1983 / 1864 stone37 (219), Akhenaten (434), Romain (571), bonnielaurel (659). Colour by Numbers was Culture Club's most successful album, and, undoubtedly, one of the most popular albums from the 1980s. Scoring no less than four U.S. hit singles (and fiv...

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Below is my current ranking of the songs I have listened to: 1. The War on Drugs / Under the Pressure 2014 2. The National / The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness 2017 3. Future Islands / Seasons (Waiting On You) 2014 4. The War on Drugs / Thinking of a Place 2017 5. David Bowie / Lazarus 2015 6....

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El Mal Querer is one of the best releases in spanish of the last years. A Great fusion between flamenco and pop (but also R&B, and trap for some moments). Part of what helped me to appreciate it was a video essay made by spanish youtuber "Jaime Altozano", where he explains a lot of th...

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The list was made available to me earlier today. Rolling Stone Rank. Artist /Title / Year / All-Time Acclaimed Music Rank 1. Usher / Confessions Part II / 2004 2. D'Angelo / How Does It Feel/ 2000 / 2930 3. Beyonce / Dangerously in Love 2 / 2003 4. Mary J Blige / Be Without You / 2005 5. Mariah Care...

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4240. / Bat For Lashes/ The Haunted Man / 2012 / 2143 Moonbeam (404), Brad (478), Chris K. (972), I enjoy the following songs from this album: Laura (1354), All Your Gold (bu), A Wall (hjg-bu). But, none of these songs are in my top 8000 of all-time, so I do not listen to them regularly. Perhaps one...

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2242. 684. Phil Collins - Face Value / 1981 / 1797 Renan95 (56) I recommend the following songs from the album: In the Air Tonight (549), I Missed Again (hjg-6888), Thunder and Lightning (9904), If Leaving Me Is Easy (hjg-bu), Behind the Lines (hjg-bu), I'm Not Moving (hjg-bu). The songs with an hjg...

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239. 1384. Roxy Music / For Your Pleasure / 1973 / 137 Moonbeam (#27), Emerald (#52), Jirin (#75), KEP (#78), Humphrey1 (#86) Many highly acclaimed songs on this album including: Do the Strand (1336), In Every Dream Home a Heartache (2240), Beauty Queen (9579), Editions of You (bu), For Your Pleasur...

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4227. bu / Porcupine Tree / Deadwing / 2005 / NR styrofoamboots (209) I enjoyed listening to this album again tonight and recommend the following songs: Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (hjg-3085), Lazarus (hjg- 3110), The Start of Something Beautiful (6622), Shallow (hjg-8774). I would like to learn...

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1177. 370. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping / 1974 / 925 emerald (138), nicholas (144) Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote the book on Southern rock with their first album, so it only made sense that they followed it for their second album, aptly titled Second Helping. Sticking with producer Al Kooper (who, after a...

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2233. 1071. Editors / The Back Room / 2005 / 2558 Romain (185), DaveC (282), Acclaimed songs from this album include: Munich (7357), Blood (bu), All Sparks (bu). I need to re-listen to Blood and Sparks. Munich is pretty good, but I do not presently expect that this album will rise into the top 1000 ...

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237. bu / Frank Ocean / Blonde / 2016 / 114 MeiWenjiu (4), Renan95 (9), styrofoamboots (44), antonius (47) There are moments of love and sweetness and neon-light warmth that outstrip the best of Channel Orange. The sound isn't welcoming in the same way that, say, Donuts (another great nighttime albu...

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4199. 386. Heart - Little Queen / 1977 / NR marc (425). After acquiring a substantial following with Dreamboat Annie, Heart solidified its niche in the hard rock and arena rock worlds with the equally impressive Little Queen. Once again, loud-and-proud, Led Zeppelin-influenced hard rock was the thin...

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1174. 996. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy / 2017 / 1468 m24 (101), andy1010 (193), Nick (306), Akhenaten (513), Lagunin (650) My song recommendations from this album include: Pure Comedy (2315), Ballad of the Dying Man (8416), Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution (hjg-102...

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2219. bu / Mary J. Blige / Mary / 1999 / 2923 bonnielaurel (42) I recommend the following songs from this album: All That I Can Say (bu), As (hjg-9811), Your Child (9880), Give Me You (hjg-9990). Perhaps bonnielaurel can discuss her take on any of my recommendations and other songs on the album that...

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236. 419. Queen - Night at the Opera / 1975 / 147 bonnielaurel (#11), Listyguy (#26), Renan95 (#28), Combining these swathes of Freddie Mercury and the band’s vocals (both Brian May and Roger Taylor were also perfectly adequate singers) with a thousand guitar lines and Taylor’s Zeppelinesque drums h...

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4173. 836. Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door / 1979 / NR Edre Depeche Head (313), andy1010 (704) I recommend the following songs from the album: Fool In the Rain (5040), All My Love (7896), In the Evening (bu), I'm Gonna Crawl (11,078). Perhaps Edre or Andy can provide some discussion of the al...

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1172. bu / Rosalia / El Mal Querer / 2018 / 635 bonnielaurel (56), panam (96), Lagunin (275), BleuPanda (637), FrankLotion (745) My song recommendations from this album include: Malamente (583), Pienso En Tu Mira (3209), De aquino no sales (hjg-9673), Bagdad (hjg-10657), Di Mi Nombre (bu). I suspect...

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235. 965. Lorde - Melodrama / 2017 / 240 MeiWenjiu (6), Zorg (37), Lagunin (90), bonnielaurel (563), 21st best Break-Up Album per discovermusic I recommend the following songs from the album: Green Light (269), Perfect Places (4168), The Louvre (6227), Homemade Dynamite (7528), Liability (BU) - but ...

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4172. / The Cure / The Cure / 2004 / NR StevieFan13 (314), Moonbeam (531) I recommend the following songs from the album: The Promise (hjg-6620), Taking Off (hjg-6647), The End of the World (hjg-10,232), alt.end (hjg-bu), Perhaps StevieFan or Moonbeam can provide some additional song recommendations.

Henry

Thanks Romain for sharing your very well articulated thoughts about Beck. Beck is not among my top 50 artists yet. But, I am impressed with what he has given to us. He currently sits at 487 among my favorite performers. But, I expect that in next year's performer poll he will move up appreciably. I ...

Henry

Thanks Live in Phoenix. It is easy to lose track of those comments you made earlier this year.

I now have 3 more Enya songs from your recs to add to my listening priorities.

I would also like to know what you mean by "severe" songs.

Henry

For me, all Beck's early albums are excellent, full of songs that go in and don't come out. It's hard to choose, but from this album, my favorites are the following four: Cold Brain, Lazy Flies, Tropicalia and Nobody's Fault But My Own of course. Thanks Romain. I enjoy Cold Brain and Lazy Flies but...

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234. 749. R.E.M. / Out of Time / 1991 / 350 Wezzo (#5), mileswide (#11), Live in Phoenix (#44), stone37 (#73), Out of Time is a weird entry in R.E.M.’s discography, although in fairness the same can be said of almost every album R.E.M. released during that stretch. Numb from a year on the road, the ...

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4162. 1359. Herbie Hancock / Empyrean Isles / 1964 / 2087 Schüttelbirne (202) Thanks to Schüttelbirne for bringing this album back to my attention. I am very confident that this album will move into my top 1000 in the next poll. I recommend the all of the songs from the album: Cantaloupe Island (445...

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1160. 983. Beck - Mutations / 1998 / 845 Nicolas (134), Chris K. (137), stone37 (305), Romain (333), Brad (392). "It's strange, the niche that Beck now fills in my life. By and away, Beck is known for his freaked out, hip hop-fueled, esoteric early career, with characters like "Loser"...

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2206. / Enya - Shepherd Moons / 1991 / NR Live in Phoenix (41) Thanks to Live in Phoenix, I listened to some more of the songs from this album. Enya's relaxing motif is generally enjoyable for me but lacks the dynamics that may be needed to get me to place this album in my top 1000 in our next poll....

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231. 546. Elliott Smith - X/O / 1998 / 455 Brad (#12), Honorio (#24), Perhaps Honorio or Brad can recommend some additional songs for us to focus on from this album. It dropped a bit in my ranking because I don't enjoy the back half quite as much but the front half is perfection. Waltz #2 is my fav...

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1156. 118. Paul Simon - Paul Simon / 1972 / 749 Rocky Raccoon (182), marc (246), stone37 (303), Geoffrey (440), andy1010 (612), Chris K. (765), Holden (852). "His debut album speaks of anxiety and uncertainty, but also about hope that humanity will pull through. Simon diversifies his repertoire...

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232. 103. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy / 1973 550 whuntva (#69), Humphrey1 (#77), digitiser (#84), Listyguy (#87), mileswide (#89), Brad (#94), Rocky Raccoon (#97), stone37 (#98), One of the myriad things that makes Zeppelin so great is that the subject matter of their songs is generally about ...

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4161. / Steven Wilson / The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) / 2013 / BU nicholas (238), andy1010 (831) I was not familiar with this album until yesterday. Today, the album would almost certainly be in my top 1000. I recommend the following songs: The Watchmaker (hjg-2055), Drive Home ...

Henry

"Armageddon It" should have been on my list.

I think that Rocket is decent, but not a winner for me yet.

Henry

2205. 1330. Def Leppard / Hysteria / 1987 / 818 stone37 (226), Bruno (344), whuntva (421), Akhenaten (745), Moonbeam (790), FrankLotion (918) AM rated songs from this album include: Pour Some Sugar On Me (3309), Love Bites (9699), Animal (9738), Hysteria (bu). I like each of these songs, but prefer ...

Henry

Thanks for the great roll-out Daniel.

I was curious about songs that landed outside the top 100 - especially Stevie Vai's Christmas Time Is Here. How many votes did that song get?

Henry

1151. 1054. Smokey Robinson - Going to a Go-Go / 1965 / 1080 Geoffrey (103), Rocky Raccoon (130), stone37 (244) I recommend the following songs from this album: Ooo Baby Baby (262); The Tracks Of My Tears (1637); Going to a Go-Go (2802); My Girl Is Gone is a listening priority for me. Perhaps one (o...

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231. 546. Elliott Smith - X/O / 1998 / 455 Brad (#12), Honorio (#24), A year before his major-label debut, XO, was released, it seemed unlikely that Elliott Smith would even be on a major, let alone having his record be one of the more anticipated releases of 1998. He had certainly earned a great de...

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4154. / The Beach Boys / 20/20 - 1969 / NR
stone37 (201)

I recommend the following songs for this album: I Can Hear Music (6303), Cabinessence (bu), Break Away (bu).

Perhaps stone37 can recommend a few more songs.

Henry

2203. 1022. Muse / The Resistance / 2009 / BU marc (197), bonnielaurel (349), M24 (385) I recommend the following songs from this album: Uprising (5941), Resistance (hjg-3369), Undisclosed Desires (hjg-5054), United States of Eurasia (hjg-5702). Perhaps one or more of the above-referenced fans can s...

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1150. 600. The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads / 1965 / 738 Rocky Raccoon (152), andy1010 (272), In 1965, the Stones finally proved themselves capable of writing classic rock singles that mined their R&B/blues roots, but updated them into a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context. T...

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229. 1210. Kate Bush / The Kick Inside / 1978 / 540 SL3 (#12), bonnielaurel (#19), Lagunin (#27), Jirin (#39), She is a lilting siren that doesn't lead to shipwrecks but rather delirious seductions. A force-of-nature with a sonorous voice to match; an on-target arrow for originality - she sounds lik...

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4133. / Cage the Elephant / Thank You, Happy Birthday / 2011 / NR whuntva (199) I plan to listen to the following songs: Shake Me Down (), Around My Head (), Aberdeen (), Always Something (). I look forward to expanding my listening priorities for this album based on any recommendations from whuntva.

Henry

2200. 1537. Keith Jarrett - The Survivors' Suite / 1977 / NR Schüttelbirne (55), sonofsamiam (641) This album will almost certainly make my top 1000 in the next poll. Both sides are fantastic. I have a slight preference for side 2 - but note that the raunchy (pitchy and over-extended) sax is not my ...

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1148. 857. The Original Broadway Cast / West Side Story / 1957 / 685
Akhenaten (85), honorio (139), SL3 (161), bonnielaurel (806)

Recommended songs include: Something's Coming (hjg-4265), Tonight (hjg-5755), Maria (hjg-6525), Somewhere (6887), Jet Song (hjg-bu), America (hjg-bu),

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227. 80. Peter Gabriel - So / 1986 / 234 FrankLotion (#53), Listyguy (#54), marc (#61), Emerald (#74), stone37 (#77), This is an album that is so consistently good that you could greatly enjoy it from start to finish without skipping a song. Best Gabriel album per Brad Sanders (Spin) in 202302. Pete...

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4111. 315. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is / 1986 / NR stone37 (506). There isn't a second of Bruce Hornsby & the Range's The Way It Is that suggests it's a debut album. On the contrary, the record sounds like the culmination of a band's efforts over many years. The group has a dis...

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1143. 968. My Chemical Romance / The Black Parade / 2006 / 2690 M24 (106), andy1010 (175) My favorite songs from the album include: Welcome to the Black Parade (1895), I Don't Love You (hjg-7520), Teenagers (hjg-8336), Famous Last Words (hjg-10320), Most of the other songs on the album have not yet ...

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