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Henry

I haven't finished updating my spreadsheet for the albums falling in the 4001-8724 range. The following list is a work in progress. I encourage others to comment on the albums in this fourth tier of the poll. I plan to focus my comments on albums which were rated somewhat highly by other forum membe...

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I haven't finished updating my spreadsheet for the albums falling in the 2001-4000 range. The following list is complete unless there were some omissions or other oversights after my initial perusal. I encourage others to comment on the albums in this third tier of the poll. I plan to focus my comme...

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I just finished updating my spreadsheet for the albums falling in the 1001-2000 range. But, the following list is a work in progress in terms of punctuation breaks and potential errors. I encourage others to comment on the albums in this second tier in the poll. I plan to focus my comments on albums...

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So far, I only seem to like two of those albums:

604) Benny Goodman - The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (my AT rating is 1646)
1085) Lennie Tristano - Lennie Tristano (my AT rating is 1603)

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I also feel like some of us are getting comfortable with what we already like (or simply failing to find the time to update our lists) which is likely to hurt the more recent releases. I stand by my general idea that most people who get serious about music feel the urge to check out the classics, b...

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Thanks DaveC and Holden. Great roll out. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

I'm looking forward to seeing the spreadsheet and the placement of albums that fell below the top 1000 in the poll results.

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I'm now anticipating a potentially large move upwards by Disintegration.

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Great move by The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

Important votes by Jackson and Sonofsamiam and cetamol.

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My first crack at the top 100 - likely to be revised if I have time 1. Radiohead - OK Computer / 1997 2. The Beatles - Revolver / 1966 3. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds / 1966 4. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars / 1972 5. The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underg...

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Which of the following albums that placed in the 2020 poll top 1000 will: a) drop out of the top 1000 this year, or b) move up into the top 200 this year? 202. Pink Floyd - The Wall - 1979 - expected to be in the top 200 205. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf / 2002 - expected to be in th...

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Did Scott Walker change his last name?

338. Scott Engel - Scott 4(1969)

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Which of the following albums that placed in the 2020 poll top 1000 will: a) drop out of the top 1000 this year, or b) move up into the top 400 this year? 350 / 246 / Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out 1997 351 / 313 / The Doors - L.A. Woman / 1971 352/ 328 / The Police - Synchronicity / 1983 - as expected p...

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Which of the following albums that placed in the 2020 poll top 1000 will: a) drop out of the top 1000 this year, or b) move up into the top 500 this year? 451 /482 / Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley / 1956 - as expected placed in the top 500 453. Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent and the E Str...

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Which of the following albums that placed in the 2020 poll top 1000 will: a) drop out of the top 1000 this year, or b) move up into the top 550 this year? 500. Roxy Music - Roxy Music 1972- presently expected to be in the top 550 504/ 521 The Doors - Strange Days / 1967- presently expected to be in ...

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Albums of the new millennium in the top 200 of the 2020 poll - by year: Radiohead - Kid A / 2000 OutKast - Stankonia 2000 The Avalanches - Since I Left You 2000 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 2000 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2000 The Strokes - Is Th...

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I don't have a lot of predictions, the trend of reevaluating positively some female artists (mainly Fiona Apple and Kate Bush) was already seeable in our last poll. Maybe Janet Jackson can benefit the same way, and Taylor Swift finally crack our top 1000 ? (and hopefully Hounds of Love make it to t...

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Songs 1. Joe Satriani - Energy 2. Kamasi Washington - Street Fighter Mas 3. Joe Satriani - Thunder High On the Mountain 4. Kamasi Washington - Fists of Fury 5. Empress Of - When I'm With Him 6. Kamasi Washington - The Secret of Jinsinson 7. Faye Webster - Kingston 8. Kamasi Washington - Will You Lov...

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Statistics for Top 1000: YEARS: ___________ 1950's: 8 1960's: 140 1970's: 356 1980's: 173 1990's: 124 2000's: 122 2010's: 54 2020's: 15 ________________________________________ ARTISTS: 23: Todd Rundgren 17: The Rolling Stones 13: The Beatles 11: Genesis; 10. Joe Satriani; 9: Steely Dan; Stevie Wond...

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951. Metallica - Master of Puppets 1986 Metallica has taken the raw material of heavy metal and refined all the shit — the swaggering cock-rock braggadocio and the medieval dungeons and dragons imagery — right out of it. Instead of the usual star-struttin' ejaculatory gestures and hokey showbiz razz...

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901. Echo & The Bunnymen/ The Fountain 2009 _____________________________________________________________________ 902. Tori Kelly - Unbreakable Smile 2015 _____________________________________________________________________ 903. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas 1990 Songs: Iceblink Luck, Che...

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass ( https://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/schedule/ ) should be fun on Saturday and perhaps Sunday.

Artists playing at the festival include:
Rickie Lee Jones
Steve Earle
The Church
The Lone Bellow
Beth Orton
Emmylou Harris
Kurt Vile
Jason Isbell

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851. Todd Rundgren - A Cappella 1985 14th best Todd Rundgren album per Michael Gallucci. _____________________________________________________________________________ 852. California Guitar Trio / Whitewater 2004 _____________________________________________________________________ 853. The Rolling ...

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801. Keane / Under the Iron Sea 2006 _________________________________________________________________________ 802. Soundgarden / Badmotorfinger 1991 _________________________________________________________________________ 803. Tommy James & the Shondells Crimson and Clover 1968 _______________...

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751. Warren Haynes - Man In Motion 2011 Warren Haynes has been almost ubiquitous since he joined the Allman Brothers Band, and formed Gov't Mule with Allen Woody and Matt Abts. He's played and collaborated with everyone from the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan to Little Milton and Taj Mahal. Fans might ...

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701. Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker with Strings / 1950 _______________________________________________________________________ 702. Sade - Stronger Than Pride / 1988 After two LPs with little or no energy, Sade demonstrated some intensity and fire on her third release. Whether that was just an att...

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651. XTC - English Settlement 1982 Songs: Senses Working Overtime; Ball And Chain; No Thugs in Our House; Melt the Guns _________________________________________________________________________ 652. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales 2000 Jack Johnson, the multi-talented American guy who likes to s...

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601. Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy / 1975 Songs: Curtains, Someone Saved My Life Tonight __________________________________________________________________________ 602. Tame Impala Currents 2015 t's a despairing, open-ended psych-disco hybrid whose closest modern analog is...

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551. Pat Martino - El Hombre / 1967 46th best jazz guitar album per Richard Havers and Charles Waring. Guitarist Pat Martino's debut as a leader finds the 22-year-old showing off his roots in soul-jazz organ groups while looking ahead at the same time. Joined by organist Trudy Pitts, flutist Danny T...

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The Rolling Stone list is provided at https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-latin-american-rock-albums-1234818717/abraxas-santana-1234822418/#recipient_hashed=c1694f2240a98a104ca7fdd20840e2c5789c1c5937c4209ebd29a454d498f822&recipient_salt=91871dc7834ce82cabf767746a9f509d5f9a9d6c8d7...

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501. Sarah McLachan - Afterglow / 2003 During the mid-'90s, Sarah McLachlan was a near-ubiquitous presence in pop music, establishing adult alternative pop radio with 1994's Fumbling Toward Ecstasy and 1997's Surfacing and spearheading the popular Lilith Fair touring festival, but once the last Lili...

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451. Stevie Ray Vaughn / Texas Flood / 1983 It's hard to overestimate the impact Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut, Texas Flood, had upon its release in 1983. At that point, blues was no longer hip, the way it was in the '60s. Texas Flood changed all that, climbing into the Top 40 and spending over half a ...

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401. The Good Rats - Tasty / 1974 The Good Rats often performed at relatively small venues in Nassau County back in the day and were lots of fun live. The first album of the classic Good Rats lineup that would thrill fans throughout the Northeast from the mid 70's until the early 80's, and arguably ...

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351. Jeff Beck - Truth / 1968 Despite being the premiere of heavy metal, Jeff Beck's Truth has never quite carried its reputation the way the early albums by Led Zeppelin did, or even Cream's two most popular LPs, mostly as a result of the erratic nature of the guitarist's subsequent work. Time has ...

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321. Deep Purple - Made In Japan / 1972 Recorded over three nights in August 1972, Deep Purple's Made in Japan was the record that brought the band to headliner status in the U.S. and elsewhere, and it remains a landmark in the history of heavy metal music. Since reorganizing with singer Ian Gillan ...

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151. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms / 1985 Brothers in Arms brought the atmospheric, jazz-rock inclinations of Love Over Gold into a pop setting, resulting in a surprise international best-seller. Of course, the success of Brothers in Arms was helped considerably by the clever computer-animated vid...

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121. Elton John - Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player / 1973 Elton John became a true superstar with 1972's Honky Chateau. He followed that album with Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, his most direct, pop-oriented album to date. Designed as a pastiche of classic and contemporary pop s...

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101. U2 - Joshua Tree / Funnily enough, while The Joshua Tree once and for all catapulted U2 to permanent superstardom, the album marks something of a conscious refinement of the group's sound. The album was nowhere near as strident as War or as radically overwrought as The Unforgettable Fire (which...

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81. Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard 461 Ocean Boulevard is Eric Clapton's second studio solo album, arriving after his side project of Derek and the Dominos and a long struggle with heroin addiction. Although there are some new reggae influences, the album doesn't sound all that different from th...

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61. The Who - Quadrophenia / 1973 Quadrophenia is the Who at their most symmetrical, their most cinematic, ultimately their most maddening. Captained by Pete Townshend, they have put together a beautifully performed and magnificently recorded essay of a British youth mentality in which they played n...

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41. Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver / 1980 Utterly unencumbered by the baggage of his long years in the music business, Winwood reinvents himself as a completely contemporary artist on this outstanding album, leading off with his best solo song, "While You See a Chance." Winwood also plays ...

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31. Todd Rundgren - Healing / 1981 Healing is a subdued, reflective effort unlike anything else in Todd Rundgren's catalog. Certainly, there are some familiar elements throughout Healing, particularly on majestic ballads like "Compassion," but there are more new variations on his style sin...

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21. Yes - Fragile / 1971 Fragile was Yes' breakthrough album, propelling them in a matter of weeks from a cult act to an international phenomenon; not coincidentally, it also marked the point where all of the elements of the music (and more) that would define their success for more than a decade fel...

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In order to improve the flow of lists in the All-Time Poll I will place comments regarding my selections in this thread and excise them from the list thread. Perhaps others will choose to do the same. Some comments on my top choices (NB: many of these are not my original comments): 1. The Beatles / ...

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Albums 1. Todd Rundgren / White Knight 2. The War on Drugs / A Deeper Understanding 3. Jessie Ware / Glasshouse 4. LCD Soundsystem / American Dream 5. The National / Sleep Well Beast 6. The XX / I See You 7. Phoebe Bridgers / Stranger in the Alps 8. Slowdive / Slowdive 9. Arcade Fire / Everything No...

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Songs 1. Kamasi Washington / Truth 2. Todd Rundgren / That Could Have Been Me 3. The War On Drugs / Pain 4. Todd Rundgren / Tin Foil Hat 5. The National / The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness 6. Todd Rundgren / Wouldn't You Like To Know 7. The War On Drugs / Thinking of a Place 8. Phoebe Bridger...

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bonnielaurel wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:44 pm Statistics: My top 1000 contains 155 new albums compared to three years ago. These are the divisions:

Decades:
1940s 010
1950s 065
1960s 123
1970s 182
1980s 151
1990s 149
2000s 145
2010s 142
2020s 035

Very nice balance among the decades from 1960-2010.

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501. Devendra Banhart – Little Boys (2005): TBD 502. The xx – A Violent Noise (2017): TBD 503. Jake Bugg – Two Fingers (2012): 5.3 504. Sergei Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil, Op.37 - Rejoice, O Virgin (1915): TBD 505. Jay and the Americans – Come a Little Bit Closer (1964): 7.9 506. Pere Ubu – Oh Ca...

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