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I too love this album ❤️ I think No Angel is my favourite Dido album but this would be second. 'See You When You're 40' and 'Stoned' are highlights for me. I went to see her live in 2019 and it was probably one of the best gigs I've been to. She played: Hurricanes Hell After This Life For Rent Hunter No Freedom Grafton Street Sand in My Shoes Give You Up Thank You Friends Sitting On the Roof of the World Quiet Times Here With Me See You When You're 40 Mad Love End of Night Take You Home Take My Hand Encore: Have To Stay White Flag For some reason I really thought she did 'Stoned' as well but at least according to Setlist.fm, she did not.

After my third listen, 'crystalize' remains my favourite ❤️

I'm not crazy about 'outta time' so far but I don't know if I'd consider it her 'worst song' haha. For me it's not as interesting/striking as some of the others though.

I have a few more, darlings Joni Mitchell (no longer releasing albums but she had a very prolific career with such an interesting and beautiful discography ❤️): 1968: Song To A Seagull 1969: Clouds 1970: Ladies of the Canyon 1971: Blue 1972: For The Roses 1974: Court and Spark 1975: The Hissing of Summer Lawns 1976: Hejira 1977: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 1979: Mingus 1982: Wild Things Run Fast 1985: Dog Eat Dog 1988: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm 1991: Night Ride Home 1994: Turbulent Indigo 1998: Taming the Tiger 2000: Both Sides Now (orchestral renditions of mostly covers; includes two of her own songs) 2002: Travelogue (re-workings of previously released songs) 2007: Shine Joni has such a large body of work that while I have listened to every album at least once, there are quite a number of them that sadly haven't gotten as many plays from me as I would like, making it difficult to distinguish each one. Moby: 1992: Moby 1993: Ambient 1995: Everything Is Wrong 1996: Animal Rights 1999: Play 2002: 18 2005: Hotel 2008: Last Night 2009: Wait For Me 2011: Destroyed 2013: Innocents 2016: Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. 2016: These Systems Are Failing (as Moby & The Void Pacific Choir) 2017: More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse (as Moby & The Void Pacific Choir) 2018: Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt 2019: Long Ambients 2 2020: All Visible Objects 2021: Live Ambients - Improvised Recordings Vol. 1 2021: Reprise (re-workings of previously released songs) 2023: Ambient 23 2023: Resound NYC (re-workings of previously released songs) 2024: Always Centered At Night 2026: Future Quiet Again, so many albums, and in this case I have listened to most of them but not all - I haven't given a spin of some of the ambient albums and albums of re-workings. James Blake has also been quite consistent: 2011: James Blake 2013: Overgrown 2016: The Colour in Anything 2019: Assume Form 2021: Friends That Break Your Heart 2023: Playing Robots Into Heaven 2026: Trying Times

Tori Amos has been pretty consistent with putting out new albums, and we love to see it ❤️ 1992: Little Earthquakes 1994: Under The Pink 1996: Boys For Pele 1998: From The Choirgirl Hotel 1999: To Venus and Back 2001: Strange Little Girls (covers album) 2002: Scarlet's Walk 2005: The Beekeeper 2007: American Doll Posse 2009: Abnormally Attracted To Sin 2009: Midwinter Graces (Christmas album) 2011: Night of Hunters 2012: Gold Dust (re-workings of previously released songs) 2014: Unrepentant Geraldines 2017: Native Invader 2021: Ocean To Ocean 2025: The Music of Tori and the Muses (accompanying album for her children's book) 2026: In Times of Dragons Impressive stuff! She has such an interesting discography too, I deeply appreciate her work ❤️

Voted! My top 2 are insanely close, I would like to say that my 15 is actually also an 18 in my heart ❤️ Also, I enjoy it when my votes include a song or two that I doubt many people would expect me to vote for! For example, a few contests ago I voted for the Mothertopia entry called 'Girls Gone Wild' which I was pleasantly surprised about but it was so vibe-y and fun - and it happened again in this edition, I didn't give this one as many points but I doubt many would expect me to vote for a song like that.

For once I am doing a proper update xo Aw, Poe came 26th in the semi which means a DNQ. This is our first DNQ since 'Ööö' at the tail end of last year, and only our second since our return in BJSC 178. My entries since my return haven't exactly lit up the scoreboard majorly - although I was pleased with 'Timekiller' coming 14th, 'Geometría Polisentimental' coming 16th, and 'Parallelograms' of last year coming a surprising 22nd - but I'm pleased that my participation since my return has generally speaking been more successful overall than previously, with 'only' two DNQs and a streak of more than two qualifiers for the first time ever - we achieved five consecutive qualifiers this year, entitled 'Mejor*', 'Timekiller', 'We Are Not Safe', 'How The Eye', and 'Geometría Polisentimental'. Stay tuned for our next entry, which has literally given me CHILLS on my arms on at least one occasion haha. I hope enough people like it, it reminds me a lot of Goldfrapp and that's mainly due to the vocals which make me think of Alison Goldfrapp.

@Doctor Blind Did you make the video for your entry yourself? (I just heard/saw it for the first time) Are you a train driver?

This album is so beautiful and special ❤️ I'm trying to think of something else to say but I don't think my words would do it justice lmao. Maybe after a few more listens 🥲

I got five instances of 2 points 😅 (and some other points, thanks everyone who pointed Poe!) I lost four from my votes! 6 - Harmonica - The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer 5 - Altyr Muunilinst - W O L F C L U B - Break This Heart 4 - Persephonia - Butch Kassidy - Killakee 2 - Lotunia - HWASA - Good Goodbye

I also gave The Motels 6 points! (Will post all the rest at the end)

Oh well, I'm still pleased I had more qualifiers in a row than ever before this year (from January all the way up to now) ❤️

Rontvia was 13th for me, so not far off ❤️

So your favourite might actually get just 1 point, and so on? 😱