i love gang gang dance! xp
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Nobody I know likes it, but you'd be surprised what well-meaning Pazz & Joppers will vote for sometimes. (I'd say "corny Pazz & Joppers," but I actually think it would be kind of sweet if people vote for that song, even though I can't stand it myself.)
huh, i just remembered that year when that "george bush doens't care about black people" thing placed.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
the mariah album really should've eaten this summer btw, huge zeigeisty pop hits and all, but though it's still almost certainly going to be my no 2, i feel a little embarrassed repping so hard for it after she effed up its singles campaign so spectacularly
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I almost mentioned that horrible Legendary K.O. thing in my last post, because I really think lefty critics are a lot more likely to put a song like that (or, ugh, "Rock The Casbah") on as a 'protest ballot,' then to include a song merely to celebrate Obama (of which there are many, none of which seem to be any good). maybe if the election gets robbed again there'd be a big angry anthem. (xpost)
― some dude, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf didnt that plush album come out like 3 years ago???
― 888 (ice crӕm), Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It was Japan only then. Everywhere else got Underfed, the demos album.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:42 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol internet
― 888 (ice crӕm), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe if the election gets robbed again there'd be a big angry anthem
"Born in the Land of the KKK"! get crackin', Bruce.
― Ioannis, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
has anyone mentioned santogold yet?
Yeah, it's been mentioned. "L.E.S. Artists" will do real well as a single (maybe top five, as somebody said above); album will do respectably too, I assume. But what about her Diplo mixtape? I like that more than the "real" album myself, and M.I.A.'s Diplo mixtape placed back before anybody even knew who M.I.A. was, right? Plus the Santogold mix got reviewed in Rolling Stone, so I assume it's been heard pretty widely. Then again, people having to split votes between two Santogold albums could potentially hurt both album's chances, too.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think anything Obama-related will have any effect on P&J, at least not this year. Does anyone actually like "Yes We Can"?― some dude, Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:02 AM Bookmark
― some dude, Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:02 AM Bookmark
Dear gawd. I briefly roomed with an Obama field organizer who was a giant cornball. I was listening to something or other and he asked me, "Can you play 'Yes We Can'? It would make me really feel better." I looked at him like he was retarded.
Anyway, I don't think something like "Yes We Can" will do as well as "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People", because unlike that one, there's no novelty factor.
― Gene Amondson (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 October 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
serious lols at that story
― some dude, Thursday, 30 October 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Lil Wayne will not win album of the year because only rap albums that seem to criticize or investigate rap itself end up winning.
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 30 October 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
dude sings as much as he raps on it and twiddles a guitar on a bunch of songs, wouldn't that count?
― some dude, Thursday, 30 October 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:09 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
"dr. carter"
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
is it cool to put Boredoms on my list or is it like OMG JAPANESE IMPORT ON TORRENTS IN 2007 GET A LATE PASS
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 October 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i usually get annoyed when xhuxk says this but honestly if it's in your honest top 10 you might as well list it. i mean, why wait and see what year it may or may not get a U.S. release.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
well it was released in the us in 08, but all my mentalist borebuddies were over it by fall 2008
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
fall 2007, i mean
i love it
i would say if it wasn't released in any country this year, yeah, let it go.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait ok it was out here this year. yeah, whatever. i haven't had too many import/domestic release dilemmas before, except last year my list had a Sloan album that had been out in Canada in '06.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I listed Luomo's The Present Lover in 2004, Stars' Set Yourself on Fire in 2005, and Fujiya & Miyagi's Transparent Things in 2007, all of which came out in the U.S. a year after their original release. If I'd actually heard them in the year of their original release, I wouldn't have waited (e.g., I listed Robyn in 2005), but the delayed U.S. release kind of gives me an excuse for dragging my feet.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
That wasn't very clear: The year I voted for those albums was the year they came out in the U.S. but not the year they were originally released.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha ha, I'm glad I'm not the one who has to the carryover-voter math on Robyn's album this year. How many different years has thing come out now? I wonder if they can access vote records that go back to 2005 these days. (The Voice has had a lot of turnover since then, including among the techies.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, all the old p&J results are kind of fuXXored on the site right now.
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
and have been for like two years
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
whiney, i plan on voting for that boredoms disc, you ain't alone
of course that could change anytime, there's way too much shit vying for a place in my Top Ten albums at the mo
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 30 October 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, it's actually gonna be in my top 20 prolly. This year was the easiest top 10 of any year ever for me!
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 October 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
you voting for prurient?
i'm def. voting for "and still, wanting" - was considering voting for "cocaine death" too but that wouldn't be fair
― Beatrix Kiddo, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm seriously thinking about submitting an all-R&B ballot this year. Maybe just for singles, I'd have to cut some good rock/rap albums to make that work.
― some dude, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
"oh those curveball throwing rock critics. R'n'b songs are good enough for their singles list but the artists are never worthy enough for their album list" A comment tossed my way once (it may have been about rap and not r'n'b)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 October 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
lol yeah. i definitely like enough R&B albums this year to fill up my top 10, i just don't want to shaft albums from other genres that I like a bit more just for the purpose of a theme.
― some dude, Friday, 31 October 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
the singles list is more impt! and a lot harder to narrow down. there are probably 20-25 albums this year i think are "top 10-worthy" but like 100 singles.
― lex pretend, Friday, 31 October 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
really?
I have like 8 singles on my tentative list and one of them is N.E.R.D.
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 October 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i think there are a bunch of albums this year that are top 5 worthy and a bunch of singles that are 5-10 or worse worthy
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
worthy warts
this year I've been a lot less enthused about singles overall compared to previous years, but I've still got a looong potential list (and will probably blog a top 100 list like I usually do).
― some dude, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
ive got pretty much just rap records and that the-dream album. i think. maybe the luomo too.
singles are the easiest for me bcuz i have no reservations about those
― joe 40oz (deej), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i always love more than 10 songs in a single year and i hope it stays that way
i like a lot of songs, but not many of them were singles.
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i just tried to dash off a quick, off the top of my head, only the definite best will do list, excluding duplicates and anyone with an album i want to vote for, also excluding 08 singles off 07 albums...and still got to 30. no idea how i'm going to narrow it down but i intend an all-funky house top 5.
― lex pretend, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
PM me it.
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
all i can think of is shit like "Yahhh"
i can post my tentative singles list, but should i do it here or should that kind of thing be kept to a totally different thread?
― some dude, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
if it's tentative, we should have a thread on borad or something to discuss until we all make up out minds.
― Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
there's a top 10 singles of 08 thread already
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
So we're halfway through 2008; what are your top 10 SONGS of this year, so far?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck 10 songz, i'm talking 100 singlez
― some dude, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
eh maybe i'll post it there anyway, i just feel like i'd be fucking up the flow
haha i don't think anyone is going to mind
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
if there is no idolator poll then i dont get to vote yay no having to choose woo hoo u.s.a.
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
alright, done
(xpost lol)
― some dude, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link