maybe I need to try the new one by the Cure
Smith reckons the winner is the first of a trilogy of albums I saw so that’s 2025 & 2026 sorted 
Thanks for collating, it must have taken a goodly amount of time.
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Thanks @crispyduck for organising this.
As you say it’s a bit of fun but also I have discovered a couple of albums through peoples recommendations although they didn’t make the final 10.
Imo The Cure is a worthy winner. Of course it’s just a personal opinion but the lyrics & music just resonate with me. I’m a similar age to Robert Smith and identify with a lot of the lyrics on the album.
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Yeah, thanks @crispyduck! That is some solid effort going through all the posts by hand.
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So many thanks Mr Duck for organising this, can’t even imagine how much work is involved.
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A pleasure - I find it very enjoyable and I think others do too so definitely worthwhile
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I listen to Greatest Hits in the garage and the car occasionally and they ran a top 500 poll - it makes an interesting (if you like that sort of thing) read.
I have it as an excel, sadly that is not allowed to be attached here, which at the very least allows for manipulation to see how many of a specific artists tracks were selected in the top500.
top 10,.
|1|Bohemian Rhapsody|Queen|
|2|Wuthering Heights|Kate Bush|
|3|Bridge Over Troubled Water|Simon & Garfunkel|
|4|Starman|David Bowie|
|5|Let It Be|The Beatles|
|6|Mr Blue Sky|ELO|
|7|Careless Whisper|George Michael|
|8|Born To Run|Bruce Springsteen|
|9|Imagine|John Lennon|
|10|When Doves Cry|Prince|
OK folks - look like everyone now bored which is the signal for the winner to be declared. Any last votes then do it now and the winner will be announced tomorrow!
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Last chance!
And the winners are…
In third place with 12% of the votes is Billie Eilish with ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’
In second place with 14% is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with ‘Wild God’
The clear winner with 26% is ‘Songs From A Lost World’ by The Cure!
Thanks for all the participation and here’s to another year of new music
TTFN
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As with all such lists my personal faves kick in from about halfway down 
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There’s no accounting for taste, eh Mike
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Thankyou again for your efforts… roll on for ‘25 
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Absolutely!
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Thanks CD. As usual, none of my favourites made the top 3, but a fun exercise all the same.
It’s great that you do this every year 
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My daughter and I where in the first three!
Great fun, thank you @crispyduck.
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Your daughter is Billie Eilish and you are Robert Smith?
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I have tried the new Cure album several times but just don’t like it. I wanted to like it. I generally like their stuff but this one is not for me. Thank you @crispyduck for organising the poll.
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I guess the thread could run forever on that basis. “I like this but I don’t like that.” etc.
FWIW i like 5 of the 10 but of those I think only 1 is the best thing the artist has done. I literally don’t understand the attraction of either the Cure or Cave albums (and I count myself as a fan of the latter) but that’s life innit. Even on the Naim forum not everyone likes Naim and no-one agrees on the best combinations of this or that.
This is a place where people construct an entertaininglylong and utterly futile thread on green versus white lights. Long may it continue… and it undoubtedly will.
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Maybe it needs a red light.
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