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Great find, Harold!

Complex quite recently listed their overall top 100 albums of the last 10 years. That one will be included but not this one.

I found this idea excellent. And it will be for sure a very good game in this website. :happy-partydance: I just see a little "problem" with this, in the end of the year, the risk of a drop of variety in our songs lists. If we all listen the songs porposed here, there are high possibility...

I don't include summer albums lists anyway, so no need to argue.

Are you sure this isn't a readers' list? It sure looks like one.

Not so many votes yet, but there are still many days to vote. I'm still listening myself.

And please go ahead and nominate new songs for the next round!

Thanks guigs2910, it's awesome that you want to step in! We also seem to agree on basically everything. I like your suggestion to give priority to songs with fewer weeks on the chart, in the case of ties at 10th place. I'm not sure about your answer to the last question though. There will always be ...

Some of you noticed that there was a message that the website had expired. I had forgotten to update the Bravenet membership! The reminder didn't appear in the primary tab in my gmail, that's why I missed it. But now I've paid the money and the site went up again in a second, so all is good I think....

Thanks peteski!

Welcome to a test of an Acclaimed Music Forum Chart! As you can see above, the poll runs till 01 Feb 2014, XX:34 and you may select up to 5 songs. I am thinking that this could be a recurring feature. To begin with, I have chosen 20 songs that have been discussed recently in the forum, or are in the...

Listyguy wrote:Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Henrik: I would love to do correlations, what is the formula? Also, do they take into consideration albums that weren't voted for?

Maybe Moonbeam's work can be copied to the albums sheet?

Mindrocker wrote:Uh-oh, I only appear in the foes sections.

Anyway, nice statistics Moonbeam, and thanks once more for hosting the 80s poll.

You almost appeared in my friends section though, and I am proud to be in yours!

Great stats, Moonbeam! I loved the balloons and anchors!

I have an idea that a lot of the music we listen to brings us a challenging message to "Do something!". For some artists/music we find this encouraging, while in other cases it sounds more like "Do something to turn me off!" And I think sometimes there's a fine line between the t...

Maybe that's the issue Henrik has with Husker Du, except that instead of muddy, blurry, drunken sound it's more aggressive wails of guitars that keeps him from enjoying the melody in the core of the music ! Yes, yes! It feels like the whole albums are put through a limited frequency range, which is...

Thanks for the perfect presentation, Listyguy!

Once again, I hope to see some correlations between voters.

So I've seen people rag on the best of them from AC/DC to GNR, to The Smiths to REM to The Cure to Springsteen. Nobody has one negative comment to make about Waits here? You're gonna make me that guy again. Seriously and someone said they can see why Liz Frasiers voice can get on some peoples nerve...

I'm a bit busy at the moment, so if someone wants to go ahead and add Pazz & Jop and what else is left, that's more than fine with me.

A couple of last minute additions were 65daysofstatic, which I discovered after its high placement in the Moderately Acclaimed game; and Margaret Berger’s incredible “I Feed You My Love,” which I found in Henrik’s songs list. A big “Wow!” for both. :D I won't mention the source of the song, as it m...

Rocky Raccoon wrote:It's just a joke playing off the commonly held misconception that Germans don't have a sense of humor.

Yeah, I guess I knew this misconception. I probably would have enjoyed your joke more if it wasn't about my #1 album...

This may sound weird, but after each of the last years, when we have focused on a particular decade, I have had a period where I've got a bit tired of its music. What I mean is that when we have listened to decade x I have had more of "it feels great to move on to decade y" than "I re...

40. Kraftwerk – Computerwelt (Computer World) (1981) Comments: "By 1981, the synthesized worlds that Kraftwerk pioneered had taken over the airwaves, but they still showed themselves to be at the forefront with 'Computer World'. 'The Man Machine' may be more consistent, but the 1-2 punch of th...

Probably not then. I usually only include all-time lists from single writers.

The diversity of the AMF polls continues. Very nice to see Orchestra Baobab, Astor Piazzolla and Philip Glass (at #49!) in the top 100.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281955_film%29 The Unknown Soldier. The greatest Finnish movie of all time. I really should see a few movies from 1955, cos I wanna give points at least to this movie. Edit: Can anyone give five to ten well critically received movies from 1955? Plas...

A couple of last minute additions were 65daysofstatic, which I discovered after its high placement in the Moderately Acclaimed game; and Margaret Berger’s incredible “I Feed You My Love,” which I found in Henrik’s songs list. A big “Wow!” for both. :D I won't mention the source of the song, as it m...

I've never seen anyone use ties before. I'm sure Harold could separate them if he sees your question. My first thought was to otherwise split the points and give them three points each, but actually they could be given 5 points each which is the worst case scenario for each film, given that Harold w...

Updated (possibly for the final time) with: UK/Ireland: Time Out Rest of the World: Heaven [Netherlands], Porcys [Poland] As always, this has been an enormous amount of work, but fascinating and fun. Grateful thanks, again, to everyone who's helped by posting lists here. I couldn't do this without ...

I've only seen Ace in the Hole from 1951.. so I guess give 15 points to that film. Makes me wonder, did we settle on a minimum number of films to list at all? Stephan and I agreed sometime during the '60s poll, that lists with less than 5 films would be ok, but using the following maximum points: 4...

Yikes! was 62 not really Strangeways Here We Come? I'm 99% sure it's the Waits album with the Smiths comments. I can't change it now. Also, Bad was given an accidental #1 by Henry, so I'll also be fixing that tomorrow. Listyguy, your great show continues, but I think you need to check this entry cl...

Yes, at least if it is a collaborative effort from the staff.

Listyguy wrote: 138. This Mortal Coil – It’ll End in Tears (1984)

"I really just don't get this genre at all" Listyguy

Listyguy, could you please add this comment for me when you get to the Hüsker Dü albums? Thanks!

Does it meet the album review criterion?

I'll go ahead with my top 20 songs. 1. Daft Punk – Giorgio by Moroder 2. Margaret Berger – I Feed You My Love 3. Jacco Gardner – Puppets Dangling 4. James Blake – Retrograde 5. Phosphorescent – Song For Zula 6. Bill Callahan – Ride My Arrow 7. Catrin Finch – Genedigaeth koring-bato 8. Charli XCX – N...

Nick wrote:After some careful reconsidering, mostly in part to sonofsamiam's excellent comment, I have decided that I was wrong about not making lists public. If you want to start a separate thread for that, be my guest.

This was said several days ago. Will there be such a thread?

Two comments: Saying that artists interested in their image don't focus on the music is like saying that artists who puts a lot of thoughts in the lyrics can't have great melodies. I don't think of Faith as singles-oriented. It has a quite unique atmosphere throughout the album. However, the song th...

The end of the AMF pop era...

Miguel wrote:
I am among the lucky ones who got the CD version!!
I can also boast of being among those lucky! Congratulations on this superb post, Mr. Barranco!

Another lucky owner here!!

This is wonderful. I love these songs-from-a-country threads!

1. Prefab Sprout
2. Iron Maiden
3. Nat King Cole
4. Gil Scott-Heron
5. Georges Brassens
6. Ennio Morricone
7. Dead Can Dance
8. Astor Piazzolla
9. Deep Purple
10. Junior Boys

Thanks Henrik, i was wondering if there were going to be any more updates before P&J's big release :D The top 111: Outta curiosity, is there any particular reason why you listed the top 111, or was it just an arbitrary number of spots? I'm not sure what Henrik's reason was, but if it had anythi...

What about tracks that were released in 2012 on singles/EPs, but were on albums released in 2013, are they cool to be included? I'm generally pretty lenient when it comes to release dates. So far I've allowed music from 2012 by Parquet Courts, Matthew E White, and Chvrches to be included. I like th...

Mine sent too.

jamieW wrote:
Live in Phoenix wrote:^ Genesis made it in
Oops. How quickly I forget! (I'm getting old.) Thanks, Live in Phoenix! (And double-thanks for the Moody Blues vote.) I will edit my post, and add back an artist very closely connected to Genesis instead.

...who is also already in!

I wanted to do some more listening but I haven't been feeling well the last couple of days. I'll try to finish it tonight.

List coming today or tomorrow.

Thanks Sweepstakes!

Those are the sources I use as well, with RYM & Discogs > Wikipedia > Allmusic.

Yes, It will most likely be in June.

The file size gets much smaller if you don't use any of the sort buttons during the last session. I need to re-open the spreadsheet, press enter somewhere and save again every time before I upload the songs spreadsheet. Anyway, I changed the maximum file size to unlimited, so this shouldn't be a pro...

And here's the top 111 by artist. Disclosure, Kanye West, The National and Vampire Weekend have most songs with 4 each. 087. A$AP Ferg - Shabba 033. AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies 002. Arcade Fire - Reflektor 045. Arcade Fire - Afterlife 007. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? 083. Ariel Pink & J...

Here's another update again. New additions: Australia: The Age Belgium: Humo (a new list replaces the old one) France: Les Inrockuptibles Germany: Plattentests Norway: Dagsavisen Poland: Screenagers Spain: Mondo Sonoro (national), Playground (national), Rock de Lux (international & national), Ro...

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