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2004 Albums Of The Year
Views: 1,531 Nov 29 2009Note: this is the list as-is at the end of 2004, I will eventually probably update the list as time can change opinions. Pretty good year for the Rock, only a handful of amazing records, but dozens of damn good ones. Also great to see a bunch of bands ...
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2005 Albums Of The Year
Views: 1,479 Nov 29 2009My list as it stood at the end of 2005. Differences in the ratings vs list position reflect changing opinions over time. 1.06 - "an average-to-weak year – many releases by artists I like; lots of good, even great records, but very very few ...
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Movies I Saw Too Many Times Growing Up
Views: 1,859 Nov 30 2010ranked by how many times i saw them not by quality.
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2001 My Top Albums
Views: 934 Oct 27 20092001 Y/E list - at the time (you will notice some discrepancies btw the rating and the order here. the rating reflects my feelings about the album today. The rankings are my thoughts at the end of 2001).
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Pivotal Battles of World War 2 (European Front)
Views: 4,869 Dec 17 2010I started making this list by accident, because i was testing out the Ranker interface and happened to choose "Military Conflicts" category randomly. I typed in "battle" to test the autosuggest box and was blown away by the fact that ...
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Top Vijay Mohan Quotes of All Time
Views: 1,336 Jun 14 2010We were going to rank them by # of exclamation points but decided to just go for quality :)
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Ranker Founder Picks for Phish Halloween
Views: 721 Feb 6 2011Phish released a list of possible albums to cover for "Halloween Costume" 2009. Love Phish. Love Metal. DO NOT WANT to hear Phish play metal. Bowie would be cool, and many other of the remainders are faves, so i'm liking the odds of seeing ...
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Best Albums of 2011
Views: 0 Feb 7 20122011's releases easily topped the Best Albums of 2010, but that is faint praise indeed. 2011 was a slightly sub-par year by recent (the last 5 years) standards, but IMHO new rock (and related) music has been ebbing for quite some time (see the best ...
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The Funniest TV Characters of All Time
Views: 0 Dec 7 2011A tough, tough list to rank. Do you treat supporting characters like Leon Black or Moe Szylak equally if they crack you up whenever they are on? Fringe characters (Towlie, Dr. Spaceman)?
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30 Bands/Artists Who Deserve To Be In The Rock Hall Of Fame
Views: 0 Dec 18 2011Well, they deserve to be there more than many who are in . . . I based my rankings not just on personal preference, but also on the type of criteria that the Rock Hall of Fame supposedly is about - being influential and breaking ground. As well as just ...
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Rock Deaths That Left The Most Great Music Behind
Views: 0 Jul 24 2011Following the instructions of the Crowdranked list this contributes to, I didn't include non-rock genres (sorry Hank, Billie et al)
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Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Views: 0 Jan 18 2012Top 500 Rock Bands isn't 100% accurate as this includes solo artists, and though it does not include jazz or blues it does include soul, R&B, Americana, reggae, and classic country (yes, that is somewhat arbitrary, but for whatever reason i listen to ...
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Alltime Best Rock Guitar Players
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011I have never played guitar. But I have listened to as much of it as any man my age, or at least any non-Guitar Center employee my age. The common thread: just about everyone on this list has a totally recognizable, distinct sound. While all of them are ...
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Fave TV shows of past 10 years
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011Updated 3.8.11 to reflect Justified and Boardwalk Empire in otherwise-unspectacular TV season (and am really digging Season 2 of Justified as well - it's my fave new show). Also jumped Mad Men above my beloved Shield after a majestic last season.
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The Best Punk Bands Of Alltime
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011This is a tough one to rank - at certain peak moments, I would say all of the top 10 on this list could have been considered the best punk band on the planet. Which is what punk's all about, innit? It's also hard to decide the boundaries of punk - I left ...
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The Best Blues Artists of All Time
Views: 0 May 31 2011I tried to restrict my list to more pure blues players and therefore didn't include many blues-rock artists tho I did give SRV the nod. I noticed other lists have included artists like Billie Holiday and Solomon Burke but I would stick them in Jazz ...
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The Best Martin Scorsese Movies
Views: 0 Aug 6 2011Ranking this list simply brought home that although he is my favorite director of all time, I really need to re-watch some of his late-70s and early-80s films (for example - King of Comedy, After Hours - both of which I may have been too young to truly ...
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The Greatest Film Actors & Actresses of All Time
Views: 0 Jul 25 2011Admittedly skewed towards the last 40 years as I'm not an aficionado of old movies.
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time
Views: 0 Jul 25 2011My actual rankings for this list aren't particularly airtight as most of my reading of "classic" SF authors was when I was an adolescent or teen and I just don't remember the nuances of how much I loved some of those books. But Stranger In a ...
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The Funniest Movies of All Time
Views: 0 Jul 17 2011Disclaimers: There were a number of mid-to-late-80s movies on the (excellent) master CrowdRanked list here that I did think were hilarious at the time, but since I've never seen them again, and my memory has faded a bit, I've left them off. I'm also ...
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Vegetables I Won't Eat
Views: 0 Jul 20 2011way fewer than I thought. I must be getting soft in my old age.
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The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time
Views: 0 May 21 2011Shocked that I was the first person to add Singles to this list - one of the rare killer soundtracks all the way through, and mostly all original songs on the soundtrack for the first time.
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The Most Important Battles in US History
Views: 0 May 11 2011NOTES: I added the Vicksburg Campaign instead of Battle of Vicksburg because I felt the impact was greater for the full campaign. Yet I added Battle of Atlanta as a proxy for Sherman's March because there wasn't an item for Sherman's March. Messy ...
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The Funniest Stand Up Comedians in Entertainment
Views: 0 Mar 20 2011I don't pretend to be a standup expert - I'm sure there are some great talents whose standup I just haven't really seen.
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Oscar Nominations 2011: Rank The Best Picture Oscar Nominees
Views: 0 Feb 18 2011Of the 7/10 that I've seen thus far, here's my rankings of the 6 that I felt deserved to be nominated (did not like The Kids Are All Right at all). I must say some excellent films in the mix - any of my top 5 could be faves-of-the-year in lighter years.
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Top Coen Brothers Films IMHO
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011Gonna go out on a limb and put Grit at the top. Maybe I need to see Lebowski again but I really didn't think much of it when it first came out. Did not much care for A Serious Man and didn't even make it thru Intolerable Cruelty. The handful of others ...
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Pound-for-Pound Best Directors
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011I wouldn't call myself a cinefile, and also am not one who loves old movies, so my list consists entirely of directors from the '60s onwards.
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Alltime Fave Movies
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011Yeah, not exactly packed with surprises for the tastes of a 42 year old US male. I love a good film as much as anyone, but am by no means a cinefile. I'm sure I'm missing a few movies on here that i loved but only have seen once - for example Shawshank ...
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Books That Changed My Life
Views: 0 Apr 10 2011Not 100% definitive - books are a tough thing for me to Rank, but here's some high-impact ones, mostly from my formative years as I guess given the "changed my life" concept they should be. I used to devour 50+ books a year but workload has ...
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The Worst Cars Ever
Views: 0 Dec 27 2010I'm far from a car guy but suck is still suck. I did get to go to the AMC plant in Wisconsin on a cub scout field trip once though, so I think I'll spare the poor Pacer, though the Gremlin . . . yeah . . .
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