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Rob

I added one to the playlist this morning, but I seem to have forgotten to post it here somehow... This is especially shameful as the song marks the return of Zombeels after some time. 737. The Dandy Warhols - Godless Year: 2000 Album: Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia Biggest Fan: Zombeels (#535) Do...

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Ooberman | Shoreley Wall

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736. Taj Mahal – Leaving Trunk
Year: 1968
Album: Taj Mahal
Biggest Fan: Woodymac (#458)

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Brainbox - Summertime: 9
Damn low votes here, but to me this is a great version of a song that you'd think had been covered enough by 1969. This one sounds so big and epic, with those enormous riffs. I love it.

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Kind of funny all those Dutch bands coming up and me having nothing to do with it, with one exception. Here is another one, by some guys who for the most part would later be in the far more famous band Focus: 735. Brainbox - Summertime Year: 1969 Album: Brainbox Biggest Fan: BobPatience (#unranked) ...

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Nina Simone – Love Me or Leave Me: 8
I already knew this one, but it is still worth mentioning she really never disappoints me.

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Aimee Mann – Lost in Space (2002) – RYM #7454 https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kQeB7rE5L._AC_SX466_.jpg These were the albums I could choose from: 7451. David Axelrod – Songs of Experience 7452. Cave In – Until Your Heart Stops 7453. Fred Frith - Gravity 7454. Aimee Mann – Lost in...

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I was disappointed when you said you wouldn't be commenting on the albums in this tournament, so I'm pleased I effectively coaxed you into reviewing, even though that's not what I intended to do! Well I try to keep a secret what my nomination is. Luckily Memories Are Now is not the only album I hav...

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Seamless segue: I also never expected to be discussing Soul Asylum three times in a month, however briefly in my case (having picked Runaway Train as one of my top videos in the recent poll) but some vitals to note while the album's fresh in my memory: I predict that 2021 will be the worldwide redi...

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734. Nina Simone – Love Me or Leave Me
Year: 1959
Album: Little Girl Blue
Biggest Fan: prosecutorgodot (#993)

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I'm only starting with listening just now, so I'm a little late with this, but the Stickerbrush Symphony on the playlist is a cover of the David Wise composition, with totally different instruments and another tempo. I'm not the nominator of the song, but I do know it from the Donkey Kong games and ...

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Hubert-Félix Thiéfane - Quand la banlieue descendra sur la ville: 6

Considering I in general don't connect to chansons that is actually rather high. It has a good melody, but there also seems to be a lot going on in a lyrical sense, which goes past my French knowledge I'm afraid.

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131 | Eefje de Visser | Bitterzoet - this is a very pleasant surprise, and I suppose it's Rob's (but I may be wrong). Although as much as I liked it, I'm currently listening to 2013's "Het Is", which I find superior. However I don't think I would have listened to that one if it weren't fo...

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Gary Moore is one of those artists my father listens a lot to, especially the album Still Got the Blues. A couple of years ago I gave my dad the Blues and Beyond box set. I haven't lived with my parents for a while, but my dad assures me he did listen to it a lot. I haven't heard it myself. The song...

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733. Hubert-Félix Thiéfane - Quand la banlieue descendra sur la ville
Year: 2001
Album: Défloration 13
Biggest Fan: Romain (#482)

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Rob

Prince – 3 Chains o’ Gold: 8

In all honesty I haven't been too impressed in general with the Prince deep cuts that Moonbeam has served us, but this one is a happy exception. It is quite the epic!

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I love how the albums were he looks disinterested on the cover are generally also the ones scoring lowest.

Rob

This isn't meant to excoriate the album- nothing here is bad in a technical sense- nor to devalue your opinions, which I share with regard to Coil Rotorvator, Ekseption and evidently Hunting My Dress, none of which I would have heard without your suggestions. But I can't artificially inflate a rati...

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10. Pretty Things - Parachute: 8 Let me add to the praise. I did hear S.F. Sorrow once some years ago and remembered it as a mixed bag. Listening to it again I am more positive, but don't think it is completely consistent. Parachute may be less ambitious, but might be the better album nevertheless. ...

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Moonbeam blesses us with the fourteenth Prince song to appear in Biggest Fan.

732. Prince – 3 Chains o’ Gold
Year: 1992
Album: O(+> ["Love Symbol Album"]
Biggest Fan: Moonbeam (#75)

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Rob

Michael Bublé - Lost: 3 I hadn't heard this in years, but I didn't exactly want to either. Not only do I remember a time when Michael Bublé was always on the radio, especially with this song, I also vividly remember my little sister playing this album on repeat in what at the time seemed like an end...

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SpunaroundSaturn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:53 pm Thank you so much OtisRedding and Rob! Your work is hugely appreciated by so many. Any chance, for completeness, of the highlights for the latest new entries being added?

I initially forgot to send them to Otisredding. I did so a few days ago, so I expect they will be added in the coming days.

Rob

731. Michael Bublé - Lost
Year: 2007
Album: Call Me Irresponsible
Biggest Fan: Neil (#266)

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Orbital - Belfast: 9
I have heard songs of this artist before, but always randomly here and there. They always impress. Time to take a deep dive, because this is almost transcendental electronic music.

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730. Orbital - Belfast
Year: 1991
EP: III (but it also appeared on the self-titled album later the same year)
Biggest Fan: JohnnyBGoode (#799)

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Rob

Black Sabbath – Under the Sun/ Every Day Comes and Goes: 7

Heavy guitar riffs for days!

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Planxty – The Well Below the Valley (1973) – AM #2956 https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/134936/files/235533823/planxty-the-well-below-the-valley-cd.jpg These were the albums I could choose from: 2951. Malcom McLaren – Duck Rock 2952. Kid Creole and the Coconuts – Wise Guy/ Tropical Gangsters 2953. L...

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mileswide wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:39 pm
Album
Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now 4.9 (my #27 for 2017)
My highlight: Pegasi

I'm going to let you all in on a secret about this week's album: it wasn't me who nominated it.

I'm really surprised with this low rating, considering you liked her Hunting My Dress. What's the problem?

Rob

Pretty nuts that China, which has 20% of the world population, has zero presence on this list. As a matter of fact, there is only one Chinese album on this website (it's bubbling under), and ZERO Chinese songs. Any takers as to why this is? The Anglophonic nature of music criticism? The fact that m...

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729. Black Sabbath – Under the Sun/ Every Day Comes and Goes
Year: 1972
Album: Vol. 4
Biggest Fan: Depeche Mode (#336)

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Rob

Out of curiosity, has anyone been converted from their original pick yet? Found one of these that is better than your own entry? I’ve only listened to seven so far, but I will say that Let It All In is pretty close to being above Mystic Familiar in my list. Not yet, but in the six editions I played...

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XTC – Earn Enough for Us: 6

It's okay, but with these guys I expect a lot more creativity. This feels like filler in the bigger view of their career.

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728. XTC – Earn Enough for Us
Year: 1986
Album: Skylarking
Biggest Fan: Jackson (#960)

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Rob

The Libertines – Gunga Din: 7 By no coincidence at all I saw the 1939 movie Gunga Din yesterday, which did not help me much in liking this song more, as the two have not much to do with each other. The movie is losely based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling. The song refers to the most famous line from t...

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The second appearance by The Libertines. The last time they rose to #1 on our list, even if only for one rendition of it. Will they be able to repeat the success. The song ranks at AM at #6555. 727. The Libertines – Gunga Din Year: 2015 Album: Anthems for Doomed Youth Biggest Fan: Krurze (#742) Don’...

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The Moonglows – See Saw: 6
A rare doo-wop song I can enjoy. The sax does a lot of wonder for it.

Rob

It's almost against my nature to write nothing with the votes, but I don't want to give my choices away too easily. What I do want to say though is that the first week has a very good selection of songs. All solid songs; I even end up voting for Madonna. Group 1 Fleet Foxes | "Jara" Joan A...

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Hymie in the year 2021.

726. The Moonglows – See Saw
Year: 1956
Album: Rock, Rock, Rock [A Various Artists soundtrack]
Biggest Fan: Hymie (#650)

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Rob

Bruce Springsteen – Two Faces: 7

Tunnel of Love never has been and probably never will be a go-to Springsteen album for me, but I can't deny its songs are solid, like this one.

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The Christmas and New Year weeks are never great for album listening. So I'm behind. Here are my ratings for the two I missed the previous weeks. Graham Coxon – Love Travels At Illegal Speeds: 6 The name Graham Coxon didn’t ring a bell, but now I’m being told he was the secret genius behind much of ...

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I've looked up all the albums on Spotify and all of them are on there (at least around here), except Various Artists - Live at the Windmill. It is on Bandcamp, as it is an album made for a fundraiser: https://windmillbrixton.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-windmill However, the song by Shame isn't pl...

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The third appearance by Bruce Springsteen.

725. Bruce Springsteen – Two Faces
Year: 1987
Album: Tunnel of Love
Biggest Fan: Live in Phoenix (#865)

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Rob

Raul Seixas – Cowboy fora da Lei: 6

Brazilian country? It was bound to happen sometime. It's pretty good too.

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The third appearance by Raul Seixas.

724. Raul Seixas – Cowboy fora da Lei
Year: 1987
Album: Uah-Bap-Lu-Bap-Lah-Béin-Bum!
Biggest Fan: andyramones (#55)

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Rob

Oingo Boingo – Home Again: 7
Sounds familiar. Has is appeared somewhere? I expected something weirder, but this is some catchy new wave.

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It seems that most people more or less agree here. For me, the opinion doesn't radically change after three listens most of the time, except perhaps when over a very long period where my tastes change somewhat. Seems incredible to me. For the Mountains of Music topic I have not set a number of requi...

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Yes, thanks OtisRedding! I always look forward to these updates and they once again introduced me to some good music I would probably have ignored otherwise.

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Today we celebrate two years of Biggest Fan!

723. Oingo Boingo – Home Again
Year: 1987
Album: Boi-Ngo
Biggest Fan: Live in Phoenix (#824)

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Rob

Jessy Lanza – It Means I Love You: 7

This is actually quite fun. A bit like Grimes, but even more idiosyncratic, focusing almost exclusively on odd beats.

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I guess in this case we shouldn't reveal which songs and album we picked, am I right?

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