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I wish I'd have realised it sooner, but I've just revisited Focus Plays Focus (aka In and Out of Focus) and found that I remembered all of the songs from when I listened to it as a child! So that brought back a lot of memories for me. Very nice early prog rock with a lot of elements of psychadelic a...

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ALBUMS: 1. The Stooges - Fun House 2. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush 3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 4. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew 5. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Déjà Vu 6. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 7. The Beatles - Let It Be 8. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother 9. Cat Stevens - T...

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Paul McCartney - "Dress Me Up As a Robber" Magic Sam - "Sweet Home Chicago" Kate Bush - "Strange Phenomena" Dead Kennedys - "I Fought the Law" Machito - "Frenzy" Weezer - "Buddy Holly" Glenn Gould - "Prelude No. 19 in A major" by ...

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I'll leave it till later to post the lists as I'm still working on them. Just wanted to recommend the album Cold Fact by Rodriguez (already in a couple of people's lists) as it's one of the hidden gems of the year, in my opinion. Without the film Searching for Sugar Man, I don't know if any of us wo...

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I'm so conflicted about this Blank Realm album. I can definitely see some good things in it - the songs are pretty catchy, and some of the instrumental jams are nice, but the sloppy playing and off-key singing repels me a bit.

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I had a feeling Foxygen would win the 2013 thread! Anyway, time to get started listening to these albums.
It's a shame the only Tim Buckley album to get through is Happy Sad...and that it's up against James Blake!

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Kanye West- On Sight (Mattceinicram) De La Soul - Take It Off (Brad) The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian (Luke JR68) Richard Cheese - Silent Night (TimmyWing) Some of the song titles have been muddled! I've taken the liberty to correct them. Jolly Goods - Girl Move Away From Here (DocBrown) Alice C...

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This first choice couldn't have been any more perfect! Goes downhill from there unfortunately. The Magnetic Fields - Nothing Matters When We're Dancing Yazoo - Tuesday Richard Cheese - Silent Night [Ah ffs...] The Creation - Tom Tom Beach House - Zebra Herbie Hancock - Three Bags Full Pink Floyd - S...

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I reckon (at least I hope!) Blue Monday will end up near the top. Also my low placing of There She Goes is probably due to its overuse in the dfs adverts here in the UK. Sorry La's!

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Whoever ends up doing this poll, I am so ready for it. The '60s probably has my favourite albums overall, but the sheer amount of good music that was made in the '70s is just staggering. Plus, it's the decade in which punk arrived and I can only thank it for that!

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Why talk about the passion when Common People could enter the Random Rules Jukebox for December? R.E.M. - Talk About the Passion (JimmyJazz) Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage (TimmyWing) Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (TimmyWing) Frank Zappa - Flakes (TimmyW...

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Here's my list: At the Drive-In - Enfilade Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage They Might Be Giants - Chess Piece Face Madvillain - Rainbows Kate Bush - Feel It Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing Frank Zappa - Flakes The Velvet Un...

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Oh yeah! I look forward so much to these threads. :D Otis Redding - The Glory of Love Savages - City's Full Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon De La Soul - WRMS: Cat's in Control <---heh, as if this is going to get very far T. Rex - Baby Strange Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Living in Paradis...

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I'm surprised and delighted that The Next Day has made it on the list already! It's a lot better than some of the other releases they could have chosen, certainly. Also interesting that the only Hot Chip album they choose should be In Our Heads, but at least they are represented now - and it is a go...

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Rolling Stones - Heart of Stone (Bruce) I can't get behind it anywhere near as much as Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette, which resultantly tumbles into the Random Rules Jukebox! The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Blanco) New Order - Blue Monday (Blanco) Mando Diao - The New Boy (MTV Unplugge...

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M.I.A.- Born Free (Nick) is out, putting Black Math by The White Stripes into the Random Rules Jukebox! The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Blanco) Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away (Blanco) New Order - Blue Monday (Blanco) Mando Diao - The New Boy (MTV Unplugged) (Blanco...

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Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (ft. De La Soul) (Chilton) is out. The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Blanco) Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away (Blanco) New Order - Blue Monday (Blanco) Mando Diao - The New Boy (MTV Unplugged) (Blanco) M.I.A.- Born Free (Nick) LCD Soundsystem-...

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Wilco - Box Full of Letters (Nick) And Ray Charles- I Love You So Much it Hurts (Mattceinicram) are taken out, leaving Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' by Michael Jackson to be the first to enter the Random Rules Jukebox for October! The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Blanco) Charles Bradley & T...

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Grimes - Oblivion (Blanco) A good enough song, but I think it has an unfair advantage over the others in Blanco's list. The Doors- When the Music's Over (Nick) And this is just a poor man's 'The End'. Here's what's left: The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Blanco) Charles Bradley & The Menah...

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I've been anticipating this moment greatly. :) Rush - Something for Nothing Paul Simon - St. Judy's Comet Bruce Springsteen - My Father's House Savages - I Am Here The Human League - Open Your Heart Richard Cheese - Man in the Box <---(pfhaha, oh well) Johnny Cash - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Fa...

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Basement Jaxx - Broken Dreams (Nassim) is out, leaving one hell of a song by Built to Spill - Broken Chairs - in the Random Rules Jukebox! Sufjan Stevens- The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders (Mattceinicram) Otis Redding- My Girl (Mattceinicram) Nina Simone - Sinnerman (TimmyWing) The Animals - ...

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Peter & Gordon - I Go To Pieces (Henry) Robert Johnson- Walking Blues (Mattceinicram) Ray Charles- I Love You So Much it Hurts (Mattceinicram) Sufjan Stevens- The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders (Mattceinicram) Otis Redding- My Girl (Mattceinicram) The Beach Boys - Shut Down (TimmyWing) Nin...

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Yes - The Yes Album vs. Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson

No contest - I vote for Miles!

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Great list, Bruce! Thanks for letting us be a part of this.

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The other day I was listening to Another Green World by Eno and when "Becalmed" came on I was actually amazed. Possibly even more than Music for Airports , it's just so soothing, and leaves you calm in an almost spiritual, transcendent way. And it's over far too soon... Definitely on repea...

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Primal Scream - Come Together
Burial - Ghost Hardware
LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Pretentious Version)
John Linnell - Nevada
The Beach Boys - Shut Down
The National - Val Jester
Nina Simone - Sinnerman
XTC - Down in the Cockpit
The Animals - I Believe to My Soul
Phosphorescent - Ride On/Right On

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Hmm, this makes things a bit more interesting! The Adverts - Bored Teenagers (1:44), an anthem for a generation. The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe (1:41) Brian Eno - Another Green World (1:41), pretty much the shining example of this album's beauty and influence on the ambient genre. Buzzcocks - O...

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Do You Think It's Alright? might be one of my favourites of these. :) There are a few from The SMiLE Sessions: Our Prayer (1:05), Gee (0:51), I'm in Great Shape (0:28), Barnyard (0:48), I Wanna Be Around/Workshop (1:23). The Magnetic Fields made a bunch for 69 Love Songs; my favourites would have to...

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Kind of a mixed bag with Yeezus. Black Skinhead and New Slaves are great (and I love Bound 2), but as a whole there's no way in hell it compares to any of his other albums bar 808s and Heartbreak, and even then I think I prefer that one.
The fact people are going crazy for it just baffles me.

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AFAIK this happened with #Beautiful by Mariah Carey when it first got released - could not stop listening to it!

Right now: (Don't Go Back To) Rockville by R.E.M. going straight into Little America. Perfect ending to Reckoning.

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Okay this took a lot of narrowing down. Tried to judge it on continued output throughout the decade so far, rather than just a solitary good album or something. 1. Kanye West 2. Bon Iver (exception to the rule - Bon Iver, Bon Iver was just too good) 3. Frank Ocean 4. Death Grips 5. Jai Paul Honorary...

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Right now 2 of them: And I Love Her - The Beatles (a very underrated song by the Fab Four in my opinion) and Lose Yourself To Dance - Daft Punk. Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance I love that one - possibly my favourite on RAM alongside Doin' it Right. The album itself I found a little underwhelmin...

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I figure this has happened to me often enough for me to make a thread about it. There are some songs you like. And then there are other songs--whether it's the first time or the 20th time you've heard them--which hit you in such a way, and end so quickly, that you've just got to put them on repeat. ...

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I think what got me the most was his shameless plugging of Digital Dream Door - not a bad website by any means (in fact their classical and electronic lists are actually quite useful), but it just reinforces the way he was always so stubborn and up himself by constantly referring to lists on which h...

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I'm surprised how long this has 'stayed alive' for. I'm really glad Papa Was a Rollin' Stone is still in, though. 40) Hound Dog - Elvis Presley 39) Just My Imagination - Temptations 38) Light My Fire - The Doors 37) Tainted Love- Soft Cell 36) Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown 3...

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I love Creedence but if I had to save one of their songs, it wouldn't be Who'll Stop the Rain. Then again, California Dreamin' is fucking awful. 165. California Dreamin' - Mamas & the Papas 5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones 7. Jai...

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My question wasn't really if your taste changes over time. I'm sure it does for everyone, more or less. What I wanted to know was if you think you can predict what you will enjoy more in the future. I don't think I generally can, but now and then I hear a song (usually in the dance-pop genre) that ...

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I like Jefferson Airplane, but I wouldn't call this song an absolute classic. White Rabbit, while possibly more overrated, is definitely more crucial I'd say. 94. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones...

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Okay, next time, I swear to myself I'm taking out Another Brick in the Wall. For now, 62. Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley : not one of the better songs by him in my opinion. 3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolli...

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I still don't know how I feel about this one. Is it a guilty pleasure? I really do like that drumbeat...but I think I'll succumb to the part of me that utterly hates it and delete 142. Dancing Queen - ABBA . 1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 5. I Heard It Through ...

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How the hell is this drivel still here? Thank God River Deep/Mountain High wasn't on the list. 154. What's Love Got To Do With It? - Tina Turner 1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - ...

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For this to be No. 2 on the list is bloody ridiculous - especially when Aretha has so many better songs. So even though it's by no means a bad song, I think Respect needs to be removed just for the sake of fairness. 2. Respect - Aretha Franklin 1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 3. Stairway to Heaven ...

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"Heart Full of Soul" is gone. I feel the Yardbirds are acclaimed for their star lineup more than anything. 1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 2. Respect - Aretha Franklin 3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 4. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen 5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 6. (...

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I had a few ideas of what to evict but this one is far and away the worst. Goodbye "All Right Now"! 1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 2. Respect - Aretha Franklin 3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 4. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen 5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 6. (I Can't...

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And a well-deserved victory at that!

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Easily the weakest one out of the lot at the moment. Top 33 (rpm) 17. Love - Forever Changes 18. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle 19. The Beatles - Abbey Road 20. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 21. Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg 22. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 23. The Rolling Stones...

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Are we not going to start adding albums again? I had at least a couple more that I wanted to suggest.

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Okay, so although Electric Ladyland is by no means a bad album, it's clearly so high up the list on the basis of All Along the Watchtower and Voodoo Child. And since the rest of the record's so flimsy, it's gonna have to go. 6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 8. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. ...

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It was this or Nevermind...but I think I'll save that for another day. 2.The Beatles - Revolver 6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 8. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. 12. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? 13. Radiohead - OK Computer 15. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 16. David Bowi...

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Greg wrote:need at least one Springsteen...

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I was hoping someone else would add this if I didn't!

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