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AOTW started in 2011, when I started working here.
There have only been 3 Deerhunter albums in the AOTW era.
The week 'Monomania' came out, AOTW was Savages' 'Silence Yourself,' which was the right call. The week 'Fading Frontier' came out, AOTW was Majical Cloudz' 'Are You Alone?,' which was also the right call.
If Deerhunter really wanna get AOTW, they should consider making the best album of any given week.
None of those Deerhunter albums would've gotten AOTW, though. Not one. Not close.
The Steve Gunn album is really good, and I had him and SVE neck-and-neck for a while.
My thing is I only rate songs that charted in the top 10, my reasoning being that those songs, and only those songs, were ever a threat to get to #1.
So with that in mind, Kinks ratings!
"You Really Got Me" (#7, 1964): 10
"All Day And All Of The Night" (#7, 1964): 9
"Tired Of Waiting For You" (#6, 1965): 9
"Come Dancing" (#6, 1982): 2
And that's it!
Nah man. I would have to be ODing on Aderall to write 10 of these motherfuckers in a day. I'm good for maaaaaybe 2 if I've got a day off coming up. Usually just one.
Didn't fit in the column, but I really love Edwin Starr's "Easin' In," a deep cut from his 1973 Hell Up In Harlem soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOBh4NZ4wZQ
Got sampled on a bunch of great songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxe5f371rrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZAvS8QFTV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8A1LA0WGoA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SZAMBdHHY
