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Maschine_Man

REALLY long one. You weren't kidding! Once I get wifi at work/time, I'm going to give it a spin. Looks really interesting from the quick scroll through. I made a mixtape for someone over Christmas, they requested my personal "Gems" so I gave him a concept mixtape about someone mining a pr...

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Album: Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Song: One Love

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Album: Pixies - Doolittle
Song: No. 13 Baby

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I have always enjoyed reading your Opinions, even if I haven't contributed much myself! Sing was one of my favorite songs as a child, I think this and Drops Of Jupiter might have been considerations for what I thought was best song ever back in 2001. I think a lot of this has to do with the music vi...

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Anyone else have records like these they want to share? I wish I could share something as interesting and complete as yours, my records only go back to 2013! I think your way of ranking albums is really interesting and lends itself to more movement than mine. I do need to re-listen to everything at...

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Massive thanks to whuntva and sonofsamiam!!! Glad to see Bjork (and four other women!) in the top 10. Glad my #1 made it into the Top 40.

Interesting to note, I was one of the three people who liked TPAB, but didn't place it in the Top 10.

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Bang Jan wrote:15 Step is 3044 on AM.

You were quick! I double checked right after I posted! Haha

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Album: Radiohead - In Rainbows
Song: ~~15 Step~~ Videotape

~~It feels weird to nominate the opening track.~~ Seems 15 Step is just outside the Top 3000, so I'll go for the second option, which is also a great song.

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I'm also basing my list on personal experience.

1. Bjork
2. Courtney Barnett
3. Peaches
4. Gorillaz
5. Joanna Newsom
6. Radiohead
7. Jungle
8. Jack White
9. St. Vincent
10. Nobunny

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Had a very busy day out, so was excited to see this already so far in. I'm liking the look of it all so far.

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The first five are in my top 100. Hero remains one of my favourite films of all time, I could put it on at any time and remain raptured. Russian Ark is mind-blowing and that grand-ball scene was breathtaking. It was Julianne Moore's year though, Far From Heaven is great and even The Hours was fantas...

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I have recently booked The Villagers for Feb, Damien Jurado for March and Grimes for April.

The Primavera lineup was almost too good to miss out on, but I held strong. I'm thinking of going to Field Day for PJ Harvey, John Grant and Beach House in the summer, though.

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I have enjoyed listening to everything over the last two days. Not much in the way of "hating". The Faada Freddy LP is probably my favorite discovery. I'll be putting in my list soon.

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I'm having a listening party today of the albums on this list. I made a Spotify Playlist, if others have not got around to it. As always, I have the Australian Spotify, so if you can't see something, it might be region blocked. Looking at it, lots of great albums and a lot of different styles. http:...

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PJ Harvey - "The Wheel"[/quote]

This, i second this right here.

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Hotline Bling sounds really average, typical top 40 stuff. Does anyone here think it's a great song? I quite enjoy it, but I understand where you are coming from. I'm not surprised it did so well, the video was so spot on. I would argue that without it, the song wouldn't have done nearly as well. A...

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I guess this is an interesting topic just to see what people consider is a Romantic Album. I get that The Beatles and Beach Boys sing a lot about love, but I don't really consider that romance, I think 'Romance' needs it's ups and downs. 1. Bjork - Vespertine A beautiful, intimate and open declarati...

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MaschineMan : While I enjoy this song, I have to say I don't get why people love it *that* much. I'll be disappointed if this is Number 1. Whoops, this was meant for A Day In The Life, which makes far more sense. While I'm here, I'd like to commend Rob on his insightful and well-written comments as...

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I don't know if it counts, because it's almost a year since its debut, but I would like to nominate Manta Ray by Antony Hegarty and J. Ralph. It was only brought to my attention because of its nomination for Best Song at the Academy Awards.

Edit: If not, the new Damien Jurado song - Exit 353.

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My favourite films of 2001 with a score of 75 or higher. Spirited Away is my #9 film of AT and the first 5 are in my Top 100. 1. Spirited Away (97) 2. Royal Tenenbaums, The (96) 3. Amélie (93) 4. Monsters, Inc. (90) 5. Series 7: The Contenders (88) 6. Mulholland Dr. (87) 7. Zoolander (87) 8. Lord of...

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My films of 2000 with a score of 75 or better. Best in Show is my 14th favourite film of all time and Love's A Bitch is currently sitting around #600. The first 4 films are in my Top 100. 1. Best in Show (95) 2. Chicken Run (93) 3. Dancer in the Dark (88) 4. Requiem for a Dream (88) 5. Battle Royale...

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I thought I would be able to listen to all of these this week, but work has conspired against me. So I focused on giving my #1 of all time a shot! 1. Björk | Homogenic 2. Arcade Fire | Funeral 3. Tricky | Maxinquaye 4. Oasis | Definitely Maybe Edit: 1. Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ...

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I managed to rank 139 of the songs. It was the longer jazz pieces which I'm not familiar with, and need to time to take in, that I left instead of ranking them too low or too high. The piece about Hiroshima was fantastic, but I thought it would have a similar issue. I sent off my email with the file...

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I'm listening to that wonderful Spotify playlist, trying to fill out the list. I had about 35 songs already ranked, about 60 others well enough and many of them are at least familiar to me. This is helpful to flesh out my songs list with older songs, for the next AT Songs Poll (I'm still annoyed I f...

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I saw The Hateful Eight on 70mm the other day. Possibly the most amazing Cinema experience I have ever had. Obviously excluding the time I saw The Tuxedo and was the only person in the theater.

Edit: Just realised this is not at all the appropriate thread.

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So glad I made it in time for the 2000s poll. I have just finished ranking, loosely, all of the films I have seen. My earlier films are a bit thin, but this I can do.

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I hope this topic takes in weird and wonderful directions!

1) The White Stripes
2) Radiohead
3) The Beatles
4) Arcade Fire
5) Goldfrapp
6) The Smiths
7) Pixies
8) The Rolling Stones
9) Florence + The Machine
10) R.E.M.
11) The Kills

I did 11 too, because I'm not sure about Flo

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It would be nice to include Villagers - Hot Scary Summer from last year.

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Working on it! Edit: 1. Bicep - Just 2. Eric Prydz - Opus (four Tet Remix) 3. Format:b - Chunky 4. Jamie Xx - I Know Theres Gonna Be (Good Times) 5. Kelela - Rewind 6. Skepta - Shutdown 7. Jack Ü Feat Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now 8. Dj Koze - Xtc 9. Frankey & Sandrino - Acamar 10. Novelist X ...

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I'll do the songs, unless someone else has started? Edit: I wasn't sure when to stop, it wasn't too difficult so I went to 104 (127 songs) 1 Drake, Hotline Bling 2 Kendrick Lamar, King Kunta 3 The Weeknd, Can't Feel My Face 4 Kendrick Lamar, Alright 5 Courtney Barnett, Pedestrian at Best 6 Missy Ell...

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I was thinking the exact same thing today! Great minds Bleu, great minds.

Maybe we could take out all of the songs that are already listed on AM? Or artists with a bunch of songs on AM. Do we really need to do a Beatles ranking with the same set of songs at the top?

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If there were any doubts about this album ranking high this year, they have gone. Not that there should have been, it's a fantastic album. I have been breaking it down and only listening to parts as there is a lot going on in these seven tracks. It's the first album I listened to this year and he ha...

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This is so upsetting. With Blackstar just being released I have had him on my mind the last few days. Silly daydreams of a small series of concerts which I manage to snag a ticket.

He lived one hell of a life, that's for sure.

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Fantastic tournament, thanks for all that nominated and voted, and a special thanks to whuntva for hosting. After the last tournament where both my nomination were out in the first round, I was delighted that both my nominations made it to the quarter final; Many Moons (who was the other nominator?)...

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My Bloody Valentine - Loomer (Sweepstakes Ron) Joy Division - Warsaw (DocBrown) The Decemberists - The Sporting Life (DocBrown) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Make Believe (DocBrown) Screaming Females - Hopeless (DocBrown) Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station (spiritualized) The Clash - Clampdown (sp...

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I don't care that much for either of these tracks, though maybe I'm just bitter.

I'll go for Tank! as I'm more familiar with it and the show its from.

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Beyonce will be the pop artist critics flock to if she releases another album. St. Vincent will release an album towards the end of the year. If not, a single. Perfume Genius and Anohni are going to duke it out for queer album of the year. Arca will release another album. Possibly a collaboration, t...

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I wasn't fussed when I realized that I missed the deadline to get in a few films that had been missed. Then I had a real good look at the list, bah humbug, why didn't I do it before Christmas! the films in my Top 10 that I'm surprised aren't on the list; All About Eve (#2) Rocky Horror (#4) Pan's La...

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Nassim wrote:I will nominate : LCD Soundsystem - Christmas will break your heart

I second this.

I also nominate the other surprise release over Christmas, Radiohead - Spectre.

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Glad to see Bjork jumping up the list, slowly.

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I Sleep in Nature - Quilt
Dead Celebrity - EMA
Storm - Django Django
The World Of Sleaze - Regurgitator
PrimeTime feat. Miguel - Janelle Monáe
Yassassin - David Bowie
Boxing Day Blues - Courtney Barnett
Vietnam - John Grant
Talk - Coldplay
Surfin' Safari - The Beach Boys

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Natalia Lafourcade & Kevin Johansen - La Fugitiva

Bjork-Verandi

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Shiina Ringo - Souretsu ("Funeral")
Janelle Monae - Many Moons
Nicholas Jaar - With Just One Glance You
Bjork - Verandi

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dEUS-Nothing Really Ends

Joy Division-Dead Souls

Janelle Monae-Many Moons

Natalia Lafourcade & Kevin Johansen - La Fugitiva

Nicholas Jaar-With Just One Glance You

Seatbelts/Yoko Kanno-Tank!

Bjork-Verandi

Dinosaur-Kiss me Again

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Adele's new one isn't a mainstream pop album (most of it isn't anyway), it's an MOR album for people to play at dinner parties. The music press doesn't much care for that. Carly Rae Jepsen is a mainstream pop album, and the music press fall over themselves in giving acclaim to those. I guess that m...

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Morphine-Good

Nicholas Jaar-With Just One Glance You

Stromae-Alors an Danse vs. Prince-Moonbeam Levels (I'll abstain from this vote)

Seatbelts/Yoko Kanno-Tank!

Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi-The Rose with a Broken Neck

Bjork-Verandi

Dinosaur-Kiss me Again

Yasunori Mitsuda - Time's Scar

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I don't get why Adele is getting the cold shoulder while Carly Rae Jepsen gets in the top 20. I re-listened to Emotion a few times today and it's exactly as I remembered it, a completely mediocre album. I didn't find any aspect outstanding, the music, the lyrics or her singing. Is this what critics ...

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Only a 4 films in the top 25 I yet to see, I know what I'm doing this weekend. I don't think I'm ever going to develop love for the The Social Network and I just remember being underwhelmed by 12 Years . Other than those and the ones I have yet to see, I think the top 25 is fantastic. Thank you for ...

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Under the Skin : I'm a big fan of Jonathan Glazer. Like many of his contemporaries (the 90's music video directors super stars) their movies don't come around often enough. Scarlet Johansson was captivating and I find it difficult to reconcile the fact that a year later she would play the titular L...

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