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Amran Gowani's avatar

Now you guys gotta do Top 100 songs and truly go insane.

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Sam Colt's avatar

I legitimately don't even know how I would go about that. It would be a spreadsheet with 5,000 songs and I just pick at random.

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Amran Gowani's avatar

This is how we should determine the U.S. president.

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Sam Colt's avatar

Ranked choice voting to the max

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NickS (WA)'s avatar

You'd definitely need to establish some criteria. It would be maybe possible to define a top-100 songs that showcase the best songwriting (with a criteria for how you understand good songwriting).

It isn't practical to make a top-100 list that would try to reflect all possible ways in which a song can be good (songwriting, performance, recording, etc. . . )

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A R's avatar

I thought this was a great series and you both chose loads of brilliant albums, but then i listened to aja for the first time based on your comments and it was one of the worst things i’ve ever heard, so now nothing makes any sense to me!!!

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Sam Colt's avatar

Damn, really? I know Steely Dan has their fair share of haters, and I can understand why. Depends how you feel about yacht/dad rock.

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Caz Hart's avatar

A monumental effort. You were both thoughtful, and offered such well crafted writing about music.

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NickS (WA)'s avatar

This is a great follow-up to good series. I really appreciated the section in which each of you talked about the albums that you changed your mind about because the other person had included them on your list.

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Sam Colt's avatar

It's all about getting a different perspective!

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Ynon Reiner's avatar

This was so fun to read. In the early weeks I was on vacation so I actually had time to keep up and listen to the albums. Then life came and now I’m left with a Spotify library packed to the brims with musical gems I must unpack.

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