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Nick wrote: 37. Italians Do It Better- After Dark 2

A quick note - Italians Do It Better is actually the record label (run by Johnny Jewel of Chromatics), not the artist. After Dark 2 is a compilation.

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granit, you missed one entry - The National's Trouble Will Find Me is tied with Chvrches at #4.

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This is different from their actual staff EOY list (I went back to 2012 to check). That will be posted later.

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even The Quietus list, which has 67 freakin' albums that I had to enter into the spreadsheet for the first time Oh, now I understand why you seemed to ignore my lists. :) Not at all, Blanco - if any of the lists you've posted from new sources are eligible, I will gladly add them to the spreadsheet....

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I'm surprised and impressed by how well Yeezus is doing - it's at or near the top of almost every list (even The Quietus list, which has 67 freakin' albums that I had to enter into the spreadsheet for the first time, has it in the top 20). It was such an instantly polarizing album when it came out t...

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All due respect to the folks at the A.V. Club, but I'm going to enter the actual rankings of these albums into the spreadsheet (e.g., Daft Punk aren't #11, they're #12). Can't stand things like that.

Incidentally, the guitarist from Locrian is a co-worker of mine.

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Updated:

USA/Canada: Stereogum, Glide, Textura [Canada]
UK: The Quietus, NME, The Skinny
Rest of World: FasterLouder [Australia]

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So, should Run the Jewels be considered a self-titled album, or should it be credited on the spreadsheet (and, eventually at AM, I presume) to El-P and Killer Mike? How is it officially credited?

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11 John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts 12 Jon Hopkins - Immunity 13 Foals - Holy Fire 14 Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork 15 Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety 16 My Bloody Valentine - m b v 17 Daniel Avery - Drone Logic 18 Darkside - Psychic 19 Yo La Tengo - Fade 20 Low - The Invisible Way 21 David Bowi...

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I normally wouldn't post another update so quickly, but the lists that were released today are pretty significant, so I figured I'd go ahead. The spreadsheet is updated with the following:

USA: Paste, Spin, Rolling Stone
Rest of the World: Blitz-National [Portugal]

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Quick note - there appears to be a pretty significant error on the RS site (not the fault of granit's transcription): #11 is listed as Parquet Courts' EP Tally All the Things That You Broke , but it's clearly supposed to be Light Up Gold when you go to the screen (the album cover is there, and the t...

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Thanks, granit!

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Thanks! Is it my imagination, or are these appearing really early this year?

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Thanks, Otisredding and Nassim!

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Nick wrote:There's no mention on the site of any real order though. Shouldn't the songs list just be counted as an unordered list then?

I was thinking the exact same thing. And why 97?

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I must have missed something here. Why Daft Punk appears at the top on the list when their album does not figure in the top 20 of the Otisredding's list? Because they're two very different lists. Otisredding's bimonthly Mega-Critic list is based on time-of-release reviews, while the EOY spreadsheet...

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Care to enlighten the Excel impaired? Yes. Install Excel. Just kidding. I hope you're not expecting the entire contents of the spreadsheet to be summarized here somehow, though. What I can do is reprint the top 25, which is about all anyone needs this early in the process: 1 Daft Punk Random Access...

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Just a quick note, in case there's any confusion - all of the albums currently on the Mega-Critic top 100 are included in the spreadsheet, even if they haven't yet appeared on an EOY list.

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This thread will be where updates to the 2013 EOY Albums Spreadsheet will be posted. This first version contains the following sources: USA: Amazon, Decibel UK: Mojo, Q, Uncut Rest of the World: Sonic [Sweden], Telerama [France], MondoSonoro-International [Spain], Gaffa [Sweden], Gaffa [Denmark], Bl...

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And here it is! 51 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoniba - Jama Ko 52 The Necks - Open 53 Linda Thompson - Won't Be Long Now 54 Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa 55 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control 56 Edwyn Collins - Understated 57 Frightened Rabit - Pedestrian Verse 58 Mikal Cronin - MCII 59 Lu...

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Someone posted #21-50 on the Drowned in Sound message board (only the top 50 got extended write-ups): 21: Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio 22: The Knife - Shaking the Habitual 23: Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare 24: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II 25: Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In 26: Jason Isbell - Southea...

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granit wrote:List updated ...

Thanks, granit!

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Uncut's (UK) year-end issue is out, containing their top 80 albums of 2013. A couple of message boards (including the one where granit probably found the Q top 20) have posts of the Uncut top 10: 10. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest 9. Arctic Monkeys - AM 8. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze 7...

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This would appear to be a genre list - Laut isn't a metal magazine. I had to look at last year's list to remember that they are a general-interest music site (2012's top 3: Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, The xx). There will be an overall top 50 forthcoming.

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dendre wrote:50. Mazzy Star
49. Primal Scream
48. Cate Le Bon
47. The Strokes

according to 'In this month's Q's sample picture (if you click on the cover at their website).

I saw that on the site. 24 down, 26 to go. (How did granit find the top 20? It doesn't seem to be online anywhere yet.)

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So, the Q website has a playlist containing key tracks from 46 of the top 50 albums (some of the artists haven't made their tracks available). In addition to 19 of the artists in the top 20 (the exception is My Bloody Valentine), these 27 artists are also on the list: AlunaGeorge Boards of Canada Ca...

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Harold wrote:I'm assuming #'s 21-50 are forthcoming... Thanks!

Or not... Anyone?

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I'm assuming #'s 21-50 are forthcoming... Thanks!

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I just noticed that the top 20 list is incomplete - it only contains 19 albums. The full list only appears in the print magazine. Does anyone know whether there was a 3-way tie for #18, or a #20 album? Thanks!

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In that case I think Piccadilly and Rough Trade should be excluded too. In the last site update I made the criteria for EOY inclusion stricter from 2010 (at least for the calculations, some lists still appear in the listings) when the number of EOY lists increased rapidly, and I think we could add ...

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There seem to be an increasing amount of lists from record stores. It's really difficult to say that one would be eligible and another one not, and since they are not "the core of music criticism" maybe we should exclude them all (except maybe really big ones like amazon). I'm not sure ab...

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I went ahead and transcribed the rest of the album list myself: 21 Phoenix - Bankrupt! 22 Kanye West - Yeezus 23 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II 24 Charli XCX - True Romance 25 Lucius - Wildewoman 26 Rhye - Woman 27 Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action 28 Jessie Ware - Devotion ...

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As it turns out, The Resident is a record store in Brighton. Its website, resident-music.com, has decent Alexa stats (current rank: 872,502; sites linking in: 151), and I'm assuming its EOY list is compiled by several people. Henrik, do you think it's eligible? Bumped for the eligibility question. ...

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Thanks again, SuperFurry!

You may already be doing this, but if it isn't too much trouble could you post the rest of the Amazon list as well? That should catch me up with everything that's been posted so far. Thanks!

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Thanks, SuperFurry!

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Please post the rest of the top 100 as well. Thanks in advance!

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irreduciblekoan wrote:Savages are doing astonishingly well so far.

Or, they would be if all these lists were eligible. This one isn't, unfortunately. Don't worry - I have no doubt that Silence Yourself will end up being ranked very high indeed.

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As it turns out, The Resident is a record store in Brighton. Its website, resident-music.com, has decent Alexa stats (current rank: 872,502; sites linking in: 151), and I'm assuming its EOY list is compiled by several people. Henrik, do you think it's eligible? (If it is eligible, their list - conta...

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This is a brand new (as of this year) site. It doesn't quite have the Alexa stats for inclusion yet (particularly the link-ins), but I can check back periodically as the EOY process goes on. It can take time for a new site to establish itself.

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This isn't the same source as Resident Advisor, is it? If not, I don't think we've seen this one here before.

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Could someone transcribe the whole top 100? Thanks!

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Nick wrote:
Mattceinicram wrote:For the most part very typical, except for this handful of surprises.
57. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
"Remain In Light" a surprise?

I'm guessing the "surprise" is that it's ranked that low, not that it's on the list at all.

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This looks eligible for inclusion at AM. It's a book by two Australian critics, Craig Mathieson and Toby Creswell; Creswell was the author of the book 1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time , which is included here. The only album on this top 100 that isn't currently in the AM top 3000 is #55, The ...

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ALBUMS 1. Pixies - Doolittle 2. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 3. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising 4. Lou Reed - New York 5. The Cure - Disintegration 6. Neil Young - Freedom 7. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever 8. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 9. Madonna - Like a Prayer 10. Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy SO...

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Pierre wrote:See the good side of things, Miley has nothing yet...

Not yet, but it wouldn't surprise me to see "We Can't Stop" or "Wrecking Ball" make a bunch of EOY lists for 2013.

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I find "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit the more surprising song here...I've also seen this on worst songs of all time lists :( I mean, like, you know, um, could we have as many thousands of extra songs until the moment that Limp Bizkit shows up to the party? The only good thing about "Nookie...

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Anyway, doesn't anybody else feel that we're out-of-topic now? Perhaps just a tad... As this was pretty clearly specifically intended to be the "help wanted" thread for the new songs spreadsheet, the discussion of this site's statistical methods should probably continue in its own, dedica...

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Sonic Youth - Candle

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How did this thread manage to jump into the Music forum?

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Chris K. wrote:And the winner is James Blake Overblown.

The misspelling is deliberate, I presume...

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