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So, this apparently lists the ten favorite songs of 23 authors of the German Rolling Stone (which makes 230 where I live but maybe I just suck at maths). Here's the ones I could find: Jens Balzer : 1. Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday 2. New Dawn Fades - Joy Division 3. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 4....

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According to Rolling Stone the seventh part is the last one: http://www.rollingstone.de/news/meldung ... werke.html.

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Quite interesting how on some of the lists the individual nationalities clearly shine through. Some are pretty much TSPDT core (e.g. Harold, who usually can be found among Bill Georgaris' special contributors whenever a new update gets released), others are way closer to the sentiments of the Americ...

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Yay for Buñuel so far being the one director with top 20 votes only.

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Kinda surprised to see Ozu and Renoir this low. I voted for neither (still haven't seen any Ozu, shame on me) but they are both directors with a big following among cineasts. It just seems like they should have been higher.

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Yeah, great presentation so far, Jimmy! Seven directors so far from the top 50 I submitted (eight if we count Cukor's cameo appearance), which is not too bad I guess, though I still have high hopes for the bulk of the rest in my, say, top 34. Pretty good list so far with a lot of cool directors here...

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No, I don't think you are mistaken. Removed it.

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I thought I had already sent mine but it appears I didn't. You should have it now. Hm, I wonder which of the directors I mentioned is doing poorly. I'm thinking Spielberg. All the others you mentioned have quite significant followings among cinephiles. Spielberg is more of a popular favorite, who I ...

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I believe I already pointed Shane to this but it looks like it hasn't been added yet: Die ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Sachbücher (a non-fiction equivalent to the already added ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher). Link here.

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What about borderline cases like NIN? In such cases, should we simply rely on RYM, who always make a clear distinction in their profiles?

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Excerpts from a DDD discussion on the top albums of 1980: I don't have a problem with any of the points that you raised, but you might want to look into whether The Pretenders debut was really released in 1980. I checked out a Pretenders box set from a library a couple years ago, and I think I remem...

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I remember there was a discussion about this at DDD. I'll see if I can find it.

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OK, I deleted it from the summary of German-language lists.

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Be sure to let me know when it's finished then and whether you need any help in the making.

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JimmyJazz wrote:classical music

You're involved in the making of a site like this for classical music? That's pretty awesome as I've been looking for such a thing for a quite a while now. Link?

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Thanks, Pierre!

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The artist name of Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba still displays incorrectly on the album page of "Jama Ko".

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I found it here . Apparently it's originally from this book: 1966: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, "Freak Out" 1966: 13th Floor Elevators, "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators" 1967: The Velvet Underground, "The Velvet Underground and Nico" 1968...

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DocBrown wrote:Are #178 and #2727; Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, not the same 1976 album?

No.

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I assume these are ineligible: * Best Punk Albums according to Musikexpress * Best Hip-Hop Albums according to Musikexpress * Best Contemporary Garage Rock Albums according to Musikexpress * Best Early Garage Rock Albums according to Musikexpress * Best Unknown Electronic Albums according to Musikex...

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Thanks, Pierre.

I found this: http://www.poplist.de/. Is AM already aware of it? Seems pretty comprehensive.

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OK, I guess I can keep track of these but so far I've only got very few and they haven't been approved by Henrik yet. So, if anyone has posted any others before, please let me know and I'll list them here. EDIT: The ones that have received the Henrik seal of approvement are marked in green . Here's ...

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Mine's eleven albums big: 600 Visions - Grimes 601 The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett 602 Swim - Caribou 603 Neu! - Neu! 604 Meat Is Murder - The Smiths 605 The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson 606 Mott - Mott the Hoople 607 Surf's Up - The Beach Boys 608 Peter Gabriel III - Peter Gabriel ...

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Matana Roberts' 2011 album is listed as "Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libre" while it should be "Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres". The artist name of "Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba" displays incorrectly as "Bassekou & Ngoniba Kouyate&q...

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I have a Bachelor of Education in music and English. I've been playing the piano for well over fifteen years now though my main "instrument" at university are vocals. I've recorded an album with a jazz outfit I played the bass with a few years back, which you can listen to and download on ...

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Ron, there are a couple of capitalization and spelling errors on German language tracks in the spreadsheet, which you might want to correct if you find the time: Fettes Brot - Schwule M ädchen Justus Köhncke - Was ist M usik? Kraftwerk - Die M ensch -M aschine Kraftwerk - Computer L iebe Superpunk -...

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The Blue Nile's "A Walk Across the Rooftops" was released in 1984, not 1983.

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Plus "appreciating literature" and "being interested in stories" don't have very much to do with each other.

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Bruce wrote:In fact, an immature child would be more likely to be interested in stories than a mature man.

That's a weird sentiment and one I strongly disagree with.

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Anyway, before his death I wondered if he was becoming something of a forgotten artist. He's known well enough among lovers of folk music and an icon of protest singers, but still he never really appears on greatest list, be it for albums, songs or artists. At Acclaimed Music he only ranks at 2005,...

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Apparently Pete Seeger died yesterday. He truly had been a living legend, maybe the last really important musician who rose to prominence in the 1940s to close his eyes forever. May he rest in peace. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-...

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I always looked at Wikipedia, RYM and Allmusic. When their was contradictory information I checked what their sources were and based on that decided, which one probably was the correct version.

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Next up for me would be "The Queen is Dead." Bruce, I will give you credit in listening to one album (Nevermind). In that you recently claimed that Nirvana did not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it may lend some credibility to your argument that you have actually listened to at...

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"In the Wee Small Hours" is better than "Songs for Swingin' Lovers" though, and it's also way more depressing. Not saying you'll necessarily like it (the songs on it are standards after all) but you might want to give it a shot.

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Yeah, me too.

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Also, the older black acts who get a vote are likely not okay with hip hop either. I don't see Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson voting for NWA either. It's also a generational thing as well as a racial thing and given that most voting acts who are already in the hall are of an older generation than t...

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Radiohead is considerably more acclaimed here on the site, and it's not like Eminem and Carey don't have influence and acclaim. Radiohead factor higher in the artist ranking but those rankings are kind of flawed anyway. The most acclaimed song and album by these two artists are both by Nirvana. I d...

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Maybe outside of where these acts all come from (the USA). Inside the USA grunge and whatever else comes from it is only popular in very white areas. All the white suburban schools around here (New Jersey) are mainly into hip hop as far as I can tell. Whenever I refereed basketball games at all whi...

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Nirvana's career is just too short to be a first year inductee. They only relreased 57 songs and that includes a bunch of early demos and live tracks. The quantity of the output shouldn't matter that much. Acts like Nirvana or N.W.A deserve to be first-ballot hall of famers for the immense impact t...

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Bruce, which acts since the 1990s do you see as more deserving than Nirvana? Jay-Z Kanye West Radiohead Eminem R. Kelly Beyonce Mariah Carey I don't see how Radiohead, R. Kelly or Beyoncé could possibly be considered to be more deserving than Nirvana and I highly doubt one can make a good case for ...

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I also think that NWA changed the face of mainstream rock just as much or more than Nirvana, unless you are claiming that hip hop is not part of mainstream rock. I meant to say "modern rock", referring to the radio format, which would indeed exclude N.W.A. Either way I'd indeed argue that...

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Nirvana was an immensely influential act and with the success of "Nevermind" changed the face of mainstream rock completely. To say they only got in because Cobain killed himself is ridiculous. Bruce, which acts since the 1990s do you see as more deserving than Nirvana? Or do you think not...

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Weakest induction class in a long time, especially considering some of the nominated acts that haven been snubbed.

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Luckily my two highest missing albums ("The Harder They Come" and "Hot Rats") are already lying on my shelf waiting for me so I'll try to post some thoughts once I've gotten around to them.

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My first one is actually an eleven album gap: #577 Wild Gift - X #578 Lift Your SKinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor #579 The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett #580 Elvis Is Back! - Elvis Presley #581 Spiritual Unity - Albert Ayler #582 Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths #583 Fut...

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Bach's "Weihnachtsoratorium" is essential. Many traditional German christmas songs are also very beautiful, e.g. "Maria durch ein' Dornwald ging", "Es kommt ein Schiff geladen", "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen", "Ich steh bei deiner Krippen hier", etc.

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Mink DeVille's 1983 album should be "Where Angels Fear to Tread". The last word is currently misspelt. EDIT: Also another minor error: "Alles ist gut" by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft should be capitalized just that way. Lower-case "ist" and lower-case "gut&qu...

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Le Monde's list is an interesting case by the way since the readers could only choose titles that were included on a starting list of 200 books. Only the jottling down of the whole thing to 100 titles and the ordering were actually done by the public. So according to you, the unordered starting list...

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Here are links to Le monde's list and a few others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Top_book_lists
Here's a (German-language) link to ZEIT's list: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEIT-Bibl ... %C3%BCcher

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Well, I included links to Le monde's and ZEIT's lists in my email to him so hopefully this is bound to change.

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