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Henry

I wonder how many of the following will be in the top 3:

Billie Holiday / Strange Fruit
Judy Garland / Over the Rainbow
Duke Ellington / Take the "A" Train

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It's a shame that the Band album has zero votes. So many excellent albums in this group of ten.

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Too late to count.

Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Diana Ross-The Boss
KT Tunstall - Saving My Face
Carl Sagan / Symphony of Science - A Glorious Dawn

Henry

My second guess for the top 5:

1. Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode
2. Ray Charles, What'd I Say
3. Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock
4. Jacque Brelle, Ne me quitte pas
5. Bill Haley, Rock Around the Clock

Henry

Is there any chance that one of the following songs makes the top ten?

Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
Muddy Waters - Manish Boy
Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88
Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas

Henry

Strawbs - Medley

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Interesting discussion of the chord progressions in Penny Lane at http://www.culturesonar.com/penny-lane/

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If you live in California, you don't need to worry about Clinton's ability to win this state. 538 has California as a complete lock for Clinton, with a likelihood of her victory here being > 99.9%.

Henry

I am also voting for Clinton. She was not my preferred candidate in 2008 and I prefer some of the policies advocated by Bernie Sanders, but I do not think that Sanders would be able to move forward on many (if any) of his proposals if were to be elected with a republican (GOP) congress. When I discu...

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You're absolutely right, Listyguy. I should not have introduced political issues in this wonderful thread (maybe I should have created a thread on "General Discussion"). Sorry, Brad. Sorry, guys. But, you can let us know if you have started such a political conversation in the general dis...

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1950-1959 Songs 1. Chuck Berry / Johnny B. Goode / 1958 2. Elvis Presley / Love Me Tender / 1956 3. Bill Haley & The Comets / Rock Around The Clock / 1954 4. Dave Brubeck / Take Five / 1959 5. Dion / A Teenager In Love / 1959 6. Sam Cooke / You Send Me / 1957 7. Elvis Presley / Don't Be Cruel / ...

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Dusty Springfield - The Windmills of Your Mind

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Sweet Thing
The Windmills of Your Mind

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Boz, Cyndi and Jackson Browne were fantastic. My buddies said that KT Tunstall was also superb. Yo La Tengo were very good, but were not amplified sufficiently for the size of the crowd. Valerie June was disappointing for me - much to twangy for my tastes. Cyndi can be seen on the live webcast at ht...

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Tomorrow and Saturday I'll be at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concert. On Friday, the following acts seem particularly interesting: Robyn Hitchcock (2117), Mavis Staples, Boz Scaggs, Valerie June, and Conor Oberst. On Saturday, the following acts should be fun to see: Cyndi Lauper, Yo La Tengo (Aco...

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Songs 1900-1949 1. Claude Debussy / Walter Gieseking / Clair De Lune (1905) 2. Duke Ellington / Take the "A" Train (1941) 3. George Gershwin / Rhapsody in Blue (1924) 4. Judy Garland / Over the Rainbow (1939) 5. Aaron Copland / Fanfare for the Common Man (1943) 6. Bing Crosby / White Chris...

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1. XTC - English Settlement
2. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
3. Tears for Fears - The Hurting
4. Sharon Van Etten - Epic

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The Byrds - Everybody's Been Burned Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye Dusty Springfield - The Windmills of Your Mind Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die vs. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (pass for now) Kate Bush - Night of the Swallow Belle and Sebastian - Like...

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It's a growing beast. With new lists of 600 or 700 songs it's getting bigger and bigger, but not nearer... 10,000 ranked songs. Late September. Hopefully. 10,000 ranked songs would be an amazing feat. I'm prepared to wait as long as needed for Henrik to complete the update in the manner he prefers ...

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Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country vs. Wire - Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W The Go-Betweens - Streets of Your Town vs. Elliott Smith - Say Yes (pass for now) Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last a Long Time vs. First Aid Kit - Emmylou (pass...

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Pet Shop Boys - Left to My Own Devices Air - All I Need The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends vs. Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd. (Pass for now) Muse - Knights of Cydonia The Jacksons - Shake Your Body The Roots ft. Erykah Badu - You Got Me vs. Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings (Pass f...

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Nine Inch Nails - Hurt vs. Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill a Man (pass for now) Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Something Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Brian Eno - Needle in the Camel's Eye vs. Frank Sinatra - One for My Baby - And One for the Road (pass for now) Pixies - Velouria vs....

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Black

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 16 is scheduled for 9/30, 10/1 and 10/2. It's a free festival with multiple stages in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

I went last year on Saturday only and saw about 10 acts including Paul Weller and Joe Jackson.

This year's performers have not yet been announced.

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1. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns is preferred over Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call

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I looked at some of the artists among my favorites that received only a few other votes in the forum and thought that perhaps some overlap in appreciation is indicated with those who joined me in voting for these artists, including those who voted for the following artists: 1) Steely Dan (my ranking...

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Pierre - Thanks for your latest comment, especially the line: "Where I disagreed with Bruce was that according to him, critics should concentrate on acclaiming craftsmen and ALWAYS give the backseat to artists who are trying to sound more idiosyncratic. Why so? I'll come back to it later."...

Henry

Please note that the title of this thread is "albums and songs which don't CONNECT WITH YOU." I have departed from the title by discussing artists rather than albums and songs. My interest in providing my list is not to defend my lack of connection as being correct in any objective manner....

Henry

The primary issue for me is artists who are talented but for the most part create music that I just don't particularly enjoy listening to. In most cases there are at least a few songs by these talented artists that do work for me, but far fewer than those which are very highly acclaimed or otherwis...

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The primary issue for me is artists who are talented but for the most part create music that I just don't particularly enjoy listening to. In most cases there are at least a few songs by these talented artists that do work for me, but far fewer than those which are very highly acclaimed or otherwise...

Henry

Is there a spreadsheet that provides us with a list of the AM top 3000 acclaimed artists? I was not able to determine many of the artists ranked between 1212 and 3000, including: 1212, 1554, 1656, 1850, 1859, 1931, 1958, 1984 and 1990. Are all of the top 3000 slots taken? If so, how can we find out ...

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Is there a difference between Nilsson (ranked ~1372) and Harry Nilsson (ranked ~667)?

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1. King Crimson - Red
2. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

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I am looking for song recommendations for the following artists on the list: 1) Curt Boettcher (rated highly by BangJan and Sonofsamiam), 2) George Jones (rated reasonably highly by JamieW and Jirin) 3) Jellyfish (rated highly by sonofsamiam and spiritualized) 4) Low (rated highly by Nassim and spir...

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I turn 60 next month.

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The Beatles top even the 'Jazz-head' list. That got me thinking, can we cook up any possible combination of voters that doesn't have The Beatles at the top? (besides the voters who don't include Beatles) If you remove everyone who didn't vote for King Crimson, (everyone except Bang Jan, Listyguy, s...

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I'm a bit surprised that there was not a single vote for Jackie Wilson (AM rating=379/ 2013 Poll rating=303/ my rating=246). Other notables without a single vote include: The Lovin' Spoonful (478/726/144) Big Joe Turner (535/211/1464) Carl Perkins (540/220/754) The Four Seasons (712/725/148) - rated...

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The Byrds - Everybody's Been Burned

Mac DeMarco - Blue Boy

Vince Guaraldi - Linus and Lucy

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye

Radiohead - You and Whose Army?
vs.
Babes in Toyland - Bluebell (pass)

Yes - Starship Trooper

Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger

Green Day - Holiday

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5970. Tom Jones - Delilah

5884. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

5958. Pink Floyd - Echoes

5969. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow

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Looks like Bowie is the highest rated artist in this spreadsheet so far.

Henry

Suggested corrections:

Clovers should have AM Rating of 1258.
Counting Crows should have AM Rating of 1013.

Henry

Just an FYI for those interested in the corrected and alternative lists, I'm currently assisting JimmyJazz in making his spreadsheet more user friendly - I'm essentially doing a complete overhaul, so it might be a couple days before it can be shared. Thanks for helping Jimmy on this. You are a true...

Henry

top ten prediction:

1) Beatles
2) Rolling Stones
3) Dylan
4) Prince
5) Bowie
6) Radiohead
7) Stevie Wonder
8) Bruce Springsteen
9) Led Zeppelin
10) R.E.M.

Henry

Top 15 prediction:

1) Beatles
2) Rolling Stones
3) Dylan
4) Prince
5) Bowie
6) Radiohead
7) Stevie Wonder
8) Bruce Springsteen
9) Beach Boys
10) Led Zeppelin

11) Michael Jackson
12) Pink Floyd
13) R.E.M.
14) The Velvet Underground
15) Smiths

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Top Twenty order prediction (in case Jimmy does the quick reveal): 1) Beatles 2) Rolling Stones 3) Dylan 4) Prince 5) Bowie 6) Radiohead 7) Stevie Wonder 8) Bruce Springsteen 9) Beach Boys 10) Led Zeppelin 11) Michael Jackson 12) Pink Floyd 13) Jimi Hendrix 14) R.E.M. 15) U2 16) The Velvet Undergrou...

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I would be surprised if Queen doesn't appear in the next 5 because Queen came in at 54 in 2013, 53 in 2010 and 96 in 2008.

Others in the next five could include:
The Cure, Bjork, The Smiths, Simon and Garfunkel, Arcade Fire, Michael Jackson and U2.

Henry

Eno with more votes than Steely Dan. How many folks that were listening in the 1970's bought Eno albums? Albums were a significant investment in the 1970's. I bought albums by neither artist. I did hear and enjoy Steely Dan's singles on the radio. Brain Eno was the guy from Roxy Music who made albu...

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Next 5 could include:

Queen (2013 poll ranking=54/my ranking=61)
Talking Heads (43/293)
Simon and Garfunkel (41/20)
Michael Jackson (37/66)
Miles Davis (27/143)
The Cure (26/179)
Bjork (25/61)
U2 (22/63)

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Eno with more votes than Steely Dan. How many folks that were listening in the 1970's bought Eno albums? Only those born around 1960 or before were at record buying age during the heyday of Steely Dan and Brian Eno, so I think your question eliminated at least 90% of the forum. The rest of us have ...

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Eno with more votes than Steely Dan. How many folks that were listening in the 1970's bought Eno albums?

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