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I'd like to nominate Watermelon in Easter Hay by Frank Zappa. I saw that Joe's Garage Act 1 is bubbling under but this particular track is off Acts 2 & 3, and frankly one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard. Great main riff as well.

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Right, I'm afraid I only have time for a song list this month. 1. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road 2. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland 3. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) 4. Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire 5. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon 6. Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets 7....

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The Clash - Cheapskates Scott Walker - Winter Night The Wedding Present - Crawl Arcade Fire - Haïti Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want (Track 11 off The Harder They Come, so with instrumental verses but who cares) Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys -...

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1. Bob Dylan (Minnesota)

32. Charles Mingus (Arizona)

48. Dizzy Gillespie (South Carolina)

16. James Brown (Georgia)

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I find the melody and piano riff of Louisiana to be uncomfortably close to that of Sail Away.

My vote goes towards Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

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I'd like to nominate An Introduction to the Album by The Hotelier.

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ALBUMS 1. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets 2. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark 3. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 4. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale 5. Sparks - Kimono My House 6. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys 7. Kraftwerk - Autobahn 8. Roxy Music - Country Life 9. Gram Parso...

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In a way I'm glad this tiebreaker fell to me - I can't imagine having unknowingly let Glasvegas go ahead in the tournament! Not that I'm saying it's a terrible album...but I don't like it. Even if you look past the painfully obvious musical references (Moonlight Sonata, You Are My Sunshine...f***ing...

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Been meaning to listen to that J.J. Cale album since hearing about it in the '72 poll. And I always have time for Scottish bands.
Give me a couple of days and I'll make a decision!

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The ending of Under the Pressure reminds me of the end of Purple Rain - it's got that same kind of droning feel to it, like it could just keep going on forever.

It's amazing what you can do with two chords and some superb production. (Like Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams"!)

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David Bowie - Up the Hill Backwards The Rubinoos - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend Boards of Canada - Diving Station Drake - Wu-Tang Forever Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me? (Part 2) Neil Young - Tell Me Why The Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer Woody Guthrie - Little Darling (At My Window Sad and L...

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No Woman No Cry is pretty likely to get in the finals for this month whatever happens. But I like the album version enough to think it best if anyone wanting to vote for the live version just votes for it in 1974 - yes, you lose some of the nuances of the live version, but ultimately it's the same g...

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Can't complain with those results! New York Dolls getting in the final is a great bonus. Glad Time got in as well - much prefer it over Money. I'm urprised Elton John didn't get any songs into the top 15, although Goodbye Yellow Brick Road did come close. I thought he'd have been a shoe-in for sure....

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I'd like to nominate the following:
1. Ben Khan - Youth [from his EP "1992"]
2. Michael Jackson - Love Never Felt So Good [the opening track off Xscape]

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If Here Come the Warm Jets gets into the Top 15 for 1973 I guess we wouldn't have to vote for it next month then? To be honest I'd prefer it if it was counted as 1974 - there's a lot of competition for 1973, whereas I think it would be a shoe-in for next month when there aren't quite so many great a...

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Okay, I'm not 100% happy with this one but I guess you never can be really! ALBUMS: 1. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 2. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star 3. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy 4. The Wailers - Catch a Fire 5. Lou Reed - Berlin 6. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters 7. Elton John - Goodby...

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1972: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1750 ALBUMS: 1. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 2. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. 3. Lou Reed - Transformer 4. Neil Young - Harvest 5. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly 6. Nick Drake - Pink Moon 7. Stevie Wonder - Talking Boo...

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Sorry it didn't make the cut this week Timmy! If it's any consolation, it will most definitely be included next week. And good too, considering it's one of my favorite songs of recent ^_^ Thanks a lot. It's great isn't it! If no one has voted for it I'll also nominate The Breakdown by Prince. On a ...

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Did my nomination for Chandelier not get in?

Well if it meant The War on Drugs didn't get back in, then don't worry about it. But if it hasn't been done already I'd like to nominate it again for next week.

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if you want a whole album of that kind of stuff, you can't go wrong with Gorgio's From Here to Eternity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnIwl3FNUl8 The soundtrack to Midnight Express (which Chase is from) is also worth checking out, it doesn't quite follow the Hi-NRG style that track sets up but it'...

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I'd just like to say thanks to whoever nominated and voted for Under the Pressure, I'm completely obsessed! Shame it doesn't look like it'll make it to next week though.

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I'd like to nominate Chandelier by Sia.

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1973 for me is one of those incredible years where there was great music in almost any genre. First, you have two of my top 10 albums, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions and Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star, released in this year. In terms of prog rock, you couldn't get a lot better than Pink Floyd w...

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"If There Is Something" was so close. :( Would anyone mind if we subbed it in for "Ziggy Stardust"? :P Timmy, did you count my album list? I see The Night of the Purple Moon isn't listed but I voted it #10. If so, that might bump Neu! into a tie for 15th? Oh right! I've just rea...

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Thanks for the support guys! I'm glad I had the opportunity to make the lists.
I don't mind at all if DaveC or someone else takes over from here.

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SONGS: 1. Stevie Wonder - Superstition / 650 / 21 2. Lou Reed - Perfect Day / 340 / 15 3. Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side / 328 / 15 4. David Bowie - Starman / 221 / 12 5. Neil Young - Heart of Gold / 205 / 16 6. David Bowie - Moonage Daydream / 191 / 10 7. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Sto...

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David Bowie is the runaway winner of 1972, with not only the #1 album, but 4 songs in the final top 15! He also co-produced Lou Reed's Transformer, which stands at #3 on the album list, from which 3 songs are in the top 15, with two of them making up the top three. But your #1 song of 1972, with no ...

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About JJ Cale's "Really", I stuck to RYM, Discogs, Wikipedia. According to them the album was released in november 1972. In the past decade polls the mmain source was RYM so I chose 1972 That's odd, Allmusic has it as December 1972 as well. There must be some definitive release date somew...

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Songs 2. Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross This is originally from his self-titled album, from 1969. Albums 14 . J.J. Cale | Really According to his official website, this was released in 1973. I've bumped up the other items on both your lists - nicolas, Exile on Main St. is now at No. 15 for you....

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Since we seem to be going by when a song first appeared rather than by its release date as a single for the songs list, I have removed Yoko Ono's "Mind Train" from my list, bumped the songs below it up one, and added The Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice" at #15. Thanks for clarify...

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The Cars! The Cars!

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ALBUMS: 1. David Ackles - American Gothic 2. Roxy Music - Roxy Music 3. T. Rex - The Slider 4. Lou Reed - Transformer 5. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 6. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. 7. Deep Purple - Made in Japan 8. Randy Newman - Sail Away 9...

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Only a few days left for the poll - so those who have put their lists in progress on here, get it in the thread!

Shout-out to my favourite album of 1972, American Gothic by David Ackles:

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Ruth Brown - Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean (Luke JR68) is out, leaving The Doors to...well, break on through to the other side. The full jukebox for April is as follows: Evangelista - Truth is Dark Like Outer Space (Jeff) Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning (whuntva) Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in...

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Hi! I wanted to make this thread to see what which tracks people have played the most - and whether or not they're actually their favourite songs. Just post your most played lists from iTunes or whichever music player you use, and make comments on them if you like. Here's my top 30 (this is probably...

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1. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
4. The Dismemberment Plan - The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified

They probably won't get through but hey, it doesn't hurt to try!

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On another note, I've seen some votes for Ralph McTell's Streets of London, which first appeared on his 1969 album Spiral Staircase. So save it for the '60s lists!

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Songs: 13. Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want I'm afraid this was released as a single in 1970: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/jimmy_cliff/you_can_get_it_if_you_really_want__/ I've been wondering about whether to include The Harder They Come on my personal list. My problem wit...

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I didn't even realise The Only Living Boy in New York got as many as 10 votes, so seeing it just outside the top 15 is both surprising and frustrating. In hindsight I might even have put it lower down my list - either way, something like Theme de Yoyo was a good enough discovery for me to make up fo...

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After a month (or two?) out, I'm back in the ring! The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Hardest Walk The Beach Boys - All Summer Long U2 - In God's Country Madonna - Papa Don't Preach Ramones - I Don't Wanna Go to the Basement Broadcast - Pendulum Elvis Costello and the Attractions - The Beat Johnny Cash ...

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Don't worry about it Jimmy! The hard work you've put into this hasn't gone unnoticed; thanks for getting the ball rolling with these polls, and I hope these shake-ups you've been talking about haven't caused you too much trouble. If it's all right with everyone I'd quite like to step in for the 1972...

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Nabbed a first pressing of Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan at the local charity shop yesterday. Also ordered the Violent Femmes' self-titled LP recently, I can't wait to listen to that one!

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Got tickets to see Mac DeMarco in May, and Neutral Milk Hotel the following day.

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Yes! Go Game Theory!

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Really tough competition for this year! I think I've pretty much finalised my lists, so here they are: ALBUMS: 1. David Bowie - Hunky Dory 2. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 3. Joni Mitchell - Blue 4. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame 5. Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' ...

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1. Neu! - Neu! My favourite thing about this record is how forward-looking it is. It's insane that it was recorded in 1971. I do love Tom Waits, and Bone Machine is one of his best, but Neu! just clips it. 4. Game Theory - Lolita Nation This album is astonishing. How is it not more well-known? The V...

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1. James Blake - James Blake I've heard Tim Buckley is quite a polarising figure. For me, some of his songs are great, including those on Happy Sad, but it didn't quite blow my mind as much as James Blake's debut did. 2. The Temptations - The Temptations Sing Smokey Vocalcity, I've discovered, is gr...

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Annoyingly I've managed to submit my prediction but it's been marked at late - I was thrown by the timezone thing so I wasn't sure when the deadline was. Would it still count towards the competition? I extended the deadline by a day or so, so you may want to just check it from your end but you shou...

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Annoyingly I've managed to submit my prediction but it's been marked at late - I was thrown by the timezone thing so I wasn't sure when the deadline was. Would it still count towards the competition?

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If you're a fan of Fela Kuti, don't forget his terrific live album released this year, featuring Ginger Baker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWRjgathjA Speaking of live albums, this might not be for everyone, but Emerson, Lake & Palmer, as well as releasing Tarkus this year, also recorded a l...

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