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Cinephile, music lover & library worker originally from San Francisco now living in Maine. These are personal opinions that may not reflect the views of my employer.
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Entered the rest; Okay Temez to Zouk Machine. 150 in all, I think.
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I’ve added everything from ABC to Oaktown’s 3-5-7. Will finish later.
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No texture more satisfying than a nice thick linguini. But I like the fun little ones too.
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Yeah that was me for the 1990 bracket, when I was working from home, with no kids and a very tolerant spouse, after moving to a new state where I had almost no friends.
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Will do. I went through my list and compared, and there are over a hundred I could add. Should I do them all or just the cream of the crop?
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I’m up to thirty albums not on the list and I’m not halfway through my list…
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Who gives permission to edit? Because I’ve already found several albums that should be on there, and I’m just getting started.
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They appear to be now, at least. I must confess I haven’t been very good at interfacing with your list, since I no longer do much with social media on my laptop. I’ve finally opened the document on the latter device, and I’ll try to fill some gaps today if I can.
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Ominous…
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I wonder which of the tied pairs was the one that rallied from 18%… (assuming neither of them swung wildly from 46% or 12% in the home stretch)
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IIRC there was a debate about that (as there was for just about anything worth debating or not). It was a lively board with a diversity of backgrounds & interpretations of humor. Most of us didn’t read AICN much because we wanted “everything to be a snoozefest like Floating Weeds or The Godfather.”
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I hardly ever looked at that site but this review became notorious at an Oscar-obsessed message board I used to frequent. Hilarious to revisit. “It has flames.”
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Three albums nobody else has mentioned yet:
Esham, Boomin’ Words From Hell
L’Trimm, Drop That Bottom
Redhead Kingpin & the F.B.I., A Shade of Red
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I think there’s an oddly large number of people who want to see John Wayne in Hawaii.
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These masks now permanently affixed to our faces make us look BEAUTIFUL!
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Have you heard Mavis Staples’ Time Waits For No One? A Paisley Park release, it seems to fit with a number of these choices.
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Thanks for pointing out The Whitey Album’s eligibility- I’d miscategorized it under its copyright date (1988) not its January 1989 release date!
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Just changed my bonus vote from “School” to “Downtown” after further contemplation; thanks for the reminder.
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The tourney’s first pairing that I wrote down as a possible nomination; I DQ’d after realizing the Miles track’s been polled before. If I hadn’t I’d have insisted on the In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up version for Ministry. Still voted for it though (“Gay Bar” edged “Rise” for my bonus vote)
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Let me know what you think of my “review” (more like a reflection)
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Judge says the first amendment no longer applies to speech the President dislikes.
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Wrote at least a bit about all these but maybe the most on this one, which I had very mixed feelings about boxd.it/9nBEFh
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The Steve Reich album includes a moment that will sound very familiar to close listeners of the 1991 bracket (or at least one song from an album that unfortunately lost to Primal Scream).
One LP not mentioned I hope gets at least as many votes as Glass & Reich: Pauline Oliveiros’ Deep Listening.
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Okay I guess; I liked it better before it got split into multiple houses, and haven’t been much since. Has an interesting history though. Was an X-rated joint for a while in the sixties and early seventies, I believe.
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Saw Malcolm X in first run there.
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…I wouldn’t have voted for it; the corny San Francisco pre-teen in me still has a real soft spot for that song. Nothing against Jennifer Rush, though; for me Frankie would be the weakest link of the three (but still good enough to vote for.)
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The Policy? Old DCs? Some of the stats I’ve collected?
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And I considered it with Lloyd Cole- but I’m glad I held off because Uncle Acid is a very pleasing GB!
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I used to live one block over from the Bank of America building, which isn’t particularly near where the building is supposed to be in on-screen maps, but did sub for the entrance in several shots, including the one with the giant severed finger. It’s the only SF building co-owned by our POTUS.
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Right? Not my favorite phase in their career but certainly not something to be dismissed either…
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smugglers 401k options
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I feel like about a dozen or so. Maybe two dozen at most, including several kids. Why do you ask?
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No, Captain Marvel. The Marvels was someone else.
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I will have to relisten- I recall liking “Nevermind Http” a lot but the rest hasn’t stuck with me.
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It was their first I heard, so it’s still up there for me even if I agree they’ve made many objectively better.
Would love to read more about Red Flag and Razormaid!
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I considered adding The Beloved’s “Hello” to the next @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social poll but I couldn’t decide whether to pair it with Adele, Erikah Badu, Poe or Lionel Ritchie.
That Razormaid connection is crucial, true. I could have made a much longer list, clearly. (ABC, Erasure, Eurythmics…)
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Thanks! I hope you nominate at least some of them- I suspect they’ll need all the help they can get! I left Happiness out only because everything I read says it’s 1990. I’ve never heard of that compilation and will track it down. Not that into Red Flag at LP length, but I should revisit Counterfeit.
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In my personal experience Thrill Kill Kult live shows are superior to Ebb ones, but I may have caught the latter in a less exciting moment (2006) than the former (1993-98).