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The Pop Five is a series of Pop Candy readers' top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Andrew (PabaBritannica):

Presenting the debut of a new regular feature on Sound Affects: Counterbalance, where Jason Mendelsohn and Eric Klinger debate the merits of some of the most critically-acclaimed albums of all time. The Canon. The Greatest Albums of All Time. For decades, they've been analyzed, ranked, charted and graphed-so much so that a Swedish statistician has developed a mathematical formula to enumerate them for posterity at Acclaimedmusic.net. But after so many years and so many lists and so many spirited arguments in pubs and record shops around the world, one question remains: do these critics' darlings really hold up, or [...]

It’s that time of the week again when we condense 50 years of music into just five songs that start with the same letter of the alphabet. This week we move on to the letter “S”. Our list includes a Glee favorite, a Tears For Fears song that doesn't make us "shout, shout, let it all out", and a pick from the 00's that will probably make Kanye interrupt this post. See who earned a spot in our “S” collection by clicking below. And remember, if you don’t agree with us on our selections, [...]