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On a side note - there were three albums in the tournament this year that I wanted to call out as excellent discoveries for me personally: Comus - First Utterance, Fishmans - Long Season, and Barbara - Barbara chante Barbara . Thanks to Bang Jan, EmilienDelRey and Dan for these nominations! :greeti...

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Thanks very much for this, notbrianeno (and Sweepstakes Ron and babydoll). So much work and effort have clearly gone into this, and it’s much appreciated. It all looks very good! What I’m most pleased about is the improved performance of albums that are not sung in English. Having said that, I do fe...

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Like bonnielaurel, I will interpret the title of this thread differently and post a list of my all-time favourite Eurovision songs. Here in the UK, people view Eurovision as a bit of a joke and don't take it seriously. I used to laugh (and sneer) at it myself. But over the past few years I've come t...

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I expect that Dan (from South Africa)... didn't vote Dan lives in the UK now I did vote, and yes, I selected the UK & Ireland option. I grew up in South Africa but have lived most of my adult life in the UK and I'm a British citizen now (which may or may not mean shit when freakin' Brexit final...

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Ah, so these demographics polls are confirmation that the young Americans are taking over the forum? If I were born two months earlier, I would've had to select the 1970s option, but I was born in February 1980 so I'm a child of the 80s. We've played the "what song was number one on your date o...

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1. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us
vs.
8. Patti Smith - Birdland

6. Lou Reed - The Bed
vs.
3. Animal Collective - In the Flowers

4. Bruce Springsteen - Johnny 99
vs.
2. Air - La femme d'argent

7. A Tribe Called Quest - Butter
vs.
5. T. Rex - Mambo Sun

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I listened to these 16 songs twice today, trying to keep an open mind throughout. In the end I realised that I tended to favour songs from the albums I treasure the most (and therefore listen to the most). I guess it's only human nature to prefer songs you're more familiar with over songs that might...

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Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up

Kate Bush - Jig of Life

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Greetings from Stockholm! It's the last day of my visit to Henrik. We're about to go for a walk (and a barbecue) in a forest. But before we do that, we thought we'd continue the tradition of these Forum meet-ups by posting an album cover. We went to the ABBA museum a couple of days ago, which result...

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Wishing you a wonderful day full of joy and full of owning the dancefloor, BluePanda!

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Albums 2. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back vs. 1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 3. Kanye West - Late Registration vs. 4. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City Songs 2. M.I.A. - Paper Planes vs. 5. Kanye West - Runaway 1. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compto...

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Dan, do you use any formulas to make the spreadsheet work, with the colors and such? If so, I'd greatly appreciate a blank version of the spreadsheet for personal use (not for this year's poll, sadly). :greetings-waveyellow: Here's a blank, formatted spreadsheet. A cell will turn a specific colour ...

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I'm wondering people's thoughts on a couple of things... How to rank albums has been a bit of a wrestling match for me too. At first I just ranked albums by going with my gut feeling. Later, I went completely the opposite way and gave every song on an album a ranking out of 100 and calculated the a...

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“Same Love”. Yes, it’s too sentimental and too focused on Macklemore being straight, despite the good intentions. This somehow got me thinking about a song I’ve been listening to on repeat: “Slip Away” by Perfume Genius. To briefly relate this back to my personal life: Occasionally, people comment t...

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Plenty of recommendations here that I need to listen to. Another song that has a little bit of a hip hop feel to it (although it’s perhaps more “new chanson” than hip hop) is Belgian artist Stromae’s “Formidable” from 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xH7noaqTA In 2012 the Colombian group Onda...

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Albums: 3. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory vs. 1. Nas - Illmatic 8. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives vs. 5. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 4. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City vs. 7. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris 6. Pete Rock & InI - Center of Attention vs. 2. Jay Z - Th...

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I don't have nearly enough listening time at the moment to participate in all the games I would like to participate in. :? But hey, life happens. I'm choosing this game this week. Albums 2. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back vs. 4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 1. Ou...

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5. Let Down
6. Karma Police
2. Paranoid Android
10. No Surprises
4. Exit Music (For a Film)
9. Climbing Up the Walls
11. Lucky
1. Airbag
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
8. Electioneering
12. The Tourist
7. Fitter Happier

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4. Venus in Furs
1. Sunday Morning
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
6. All Tomorrow's Parties
9. I'll Be Your Mirror
8. There She Goes Again
7. Heroin
3. Femme Fatale
5. Run Run Run
11. European Son
10. The Black Angel's Death Song

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9. And Your Bird Can Sing
14. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
10. For No One
7. She Said She Said
13. Got to Get You Into My Life
11. Doctor Robert
5. Here, There, and Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
4. Love You To
8. Good Day Sunshine
12. I Want to Tell You
1. Taxman

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Neil Young - Thrasher vs. Animal Collective - In the Flowers The Velvet Underground - I'm Set Free vs. Bob Dylan - Oxford Town Frank Ocean - Crack Rock vs. Nas - Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park) Bruce Springsteen - Working on the Highway vs. The Modern Lovers - Hospital Daft Punk - Voyager vs. Neil ...

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The Stooges - Real Cool Time vs. Aretha Franklin - Money Won't Change You MC5 - Ramblin' Rose vs. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark Johnny Cash - Greystone Chapel vs. Lou Reed - The Bed The Allman Brothers Band - Hot 'Lanta vs. Gang of Four - Ether Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied vs. The Whi...

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Prince - The Ballad of Dorothy Parker vs Pink Floyd - Eclipse Joy Division - Heart and Soul vs Lou Reed - I'm So Free Pixies - Gouge Away vs Kanye West - Dark Fantasy Arcade Fire - In the Backseat vs Paul Simon - I Know What I Know Now Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition vs Primal Scream - Higher Tha...

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Ghostface Killah - Fishscale vs. The Undertones - The Undertones John Zorn - Naked City vs. Kylie Minogue - Fever Queen - The Game vs. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja Various Artists - I'm Your Fan vs. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil Favourite songs: 1. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love 2. Kyli...

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Nassim wrote: Songs I'm happy to see but didn't expect :
Jacques Brel - Jacky (and I'm sure Dan will agree on that one)

Yes, I feel a shoulder dance coming on!

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Radiohead - The Tourist vs. The Stooges - 1970 Prince - The Cross vs. Dr. Dre - Lyrical Gangbang The Smiths - Frankly, Mr. Shankly vs. Michael Jackson - Burn This Disco Out De La Soul - Change in Speak vs. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us Tom Waits - Rain Dogs v...

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Thanks everyone for mentioning more songs and for the comments about them. When I have more time I will create an appendix containing all the songs not mentioned in the opening post of this thread and link it to that post. And thanks for mentioning Skam , Henrik. I binge-watched translated episodes ...

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Talking Heads - Remain in Light: 'Listening Wind'

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The Kinks - 'Village Green'

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Arcade Fire - Funeral: "Crown of Love"

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Sufjan Stevens - Illinois: 'The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us'

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Paul Simon - Graceland: 'I Know What I Know"

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I nominated albums this year, so I thought I might as well participate properly this time round. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go vs. The Jam - Sound Affects Garbage - Version 2.0 vs. Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages The Fall - Bend Sinister vs. Nilsson - Aerial Ballet Mitski - Retired from ...

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Lil' Wayne on the one end and classical music on the other end. Supposedly dumb music vs. supposedly intelligent music. Fortunately someone has already made a short video to challenge this notion...

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DaveC, I will let you know if there are any changes as the month goes on (that said, I feel more confident about my 2001 lists than my 2000 lists). Positions from when I participated in this poll 6 years ago in brackets... Albums: 1 (3) | Daft Punk | Discovery 2 (4) | The Strokes | Is This It 3 (2) ...

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What drama with that Best Picture announcement. Reading the winner from the wrong envelope, on the biggest night of the entertainment calendar. (I think it's safe to assume that whoever was responsible for handling the envelopes will... er... not be responsible for that again next year.) But what I ...

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For reasons unbeknown to me and beyond my control, from time to time I find myself searching for Chris de Burgh’s “Lady in Red” on YouTube or Spotify. I’ve not had an experience with a woman dressed in red to get nostalgic about, I usually dislike light, mid-tempo ballads, and it’s certainly not the...

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There is a conference in Barcelona from July 2-7 that I want to attend... it might not be out of the question for me to visit Stockholm first if my abstract is accepted. :whistle: Well, I'll try not to allow myself to get excited about this as it may not happen, but that would be all kinds of wonde...

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Henrik wrote:Dan is coming to see me in Stockholm between Friday 30 June and Monday 3 July. Anyone who would like to join us is warmly welcome!

Booked that flight with a big smile on my face. And yes, the more the merrier!

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