Village Voice's F2K

I'd be pretty surprised if any of those wayback machine searches (which seem to take forever to load) turn up lists of individual P&J voters' ballots, and associated lists of voters for each song/album. Those ballots never ran in an actual Voice "issue", on the net or in print (just a special link that was never conistently reliable even when live), but I guess that doesn't mean they might not still be out there, somewhere. (The New Times folks seem to have erased everything, but the links were always kinda shakey, even under the old regime.)

it turned it up and poring through them now

put my findings on the Mosh thread so any tangential nostalgia lols can continue there.

I hope it's not a has-been like eminem

eminem has been doing some good stuff the last few months, i'm actually very interested in hearing his next album after the disappointment(? can't say i was expecting a lot) of relapse

maura and i just spent like four hours writing this thing

#1!

(fuck you, Ned!)

(just kidding, but I had to take the opportunity)

a little bummed that the top is an admittedly hellish cover rather while a true shitstorm Shady goes unacknowledged entirely. i'm not sold that hellish covers are a notable aspect of the 00s so much as pop in general (though youtube does make it easier to poop one out without really promoting it), and I'd hate for negligible artists to think they should focus on their originals (which I really think tend to be worse - sure adam duritz ripped us a big one of his own this decade) instead of inane takes on old chestnuts. I mean better they reiterate the canon instead of attempting to add new entries.

That said, this list was lolgastic, and I'm obviously grateful for something to blather about.

don't ask me what "lolgastic" means because i don't know

yeah, the one gripe i keep making about this list is that there are too many sullied 20th century songs, not enough terrible songs actually written in the last 10 years represented

still, it's been a hell of a ride! especially this thread becoming ground zero to track the death of idolator.

I will say this: the Counting Crows cover is always playing in my doctor's waiting room, so there is a lot of fear and dread I associate w/this song.

why did they let a hobo front their band? was it some sort of sponsership deal with shelter?

while a true shitstorm Shady goes unacknowledged entirely

"Ass Like That" was on the first draft of the list.

Da doing doing doyyyyyng

if, unlike Alien Ant Farm, Smashmouth and most of the acts in that last entry, I can't necessarily pull out a Counting Crows original that's worse, it's because "Big Yellow Taxi" was a humongous piece of shit before they even got their paws on it.

this is the first version I ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6l1wCWXiE

great final entry

lol wow i forgot the big skynyrd guitar solo in grant's version, wtf

whiney and maura (if she reads ilm), you are gods for this list and luckily you have 10 yrs to recover before the sequel.

The amount of writing we did total for this is the size of a 33 1/3 book

i dunno what the legals would be, but you guys should look to get it published! just tack on a new top 50-100 albums list or something.

some scary shit from the song's wikipedia page:

In 1996 a "Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)" peaked on the U.S. dance charts at #39 and was part of the Friends: Music from the TV Series soundtrack album (see Joni Mitchell#Singles and External links).

The song was also performed as part of the finale during the 1997 Lilith Fair tour with the Indigo Girls, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan and Meredith Brooks.

or worst 50-100 albums list, i mean

call it 33 and a turd

whiney, i literally clapped my hands while giggling to that entry. i think 'board-shorted' might be my new favorite term.

call it 33 and a turd

― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:52 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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A serious thank-you to Whiney and Maura for all the work they put into this. I loved reading/listening to it.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun to read. Thank you both.

Likewise!! It is great stuff.

I mean you knew that already. What I meant was that I loved it.

I will add my thanks. This was a fun read and a fun thread, too. I will miss this.

FWIW I never liked "Big Yellow Taxi" that much. Don't it always seem to go that most "political" pop music doesn't really ask the listener to take any responsibility for the situations they declaim?

(")They(") suck(s).

I will miss this.

esp since it signals the end of idolator as well.

You mean you don't want to read vapid blurbs about Jessica Simpson's ear candling?

I already miss Idolator a lot. I asked upthread where I could get writing of this calibre on a daily basis and nobody answered with anything that met this requirement. Personal blogs are cool and all but there are some things that are truly improved with more than one person involved.

also I will miss this thread, one of the few I haven't killed with my "charming" personality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXXnEC_37w

the new ID♥LATOR logo is hilarious in how it's like the polar opposite of nick denton's original gossip/snark/humiliation vision of 05

(fuck you, Ned!)

Ah ya punk. :-D Nah, I'm currently on vacation and also slightly under the weather so I'm glad someone else stepped up, I'm only just now reading all this.

Echoing everyone's thanks for this whole thing.

aw, you guys are so sweet

whens the poll??? good job, whiney and maura dot com.

You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something everyone loved so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr.

<3 <3 <3 x 1000

thx whiney and maura. i imagine this was like the musical version of sailing up the river in apocalypse now.

thanks for following along all this time, everybody! i just reread this whole thread and it was like tripping back through the last eight weeks. which, whew.

I don't know, the original vision was pretty hilarious too.

http://www.i-mockery.com/blabber/pics/otter-pops-armageddon.gif

You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something everyone loved so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr.

<3 <3 <3 x 1000

agreed. and i love joni mitchell, but "big yellow taxi" was always a little too cutesy for me.

love it. thanks for everything you guys.

i think my personal favorite was blue october.

can't find the Alan Partridge clip where he talks about 'Big Yellow Taxi' :(

I never even noticed this thread!
reiterating my plea for a 2cd set from whiney

Seriously it was an awesome and well-researched list but the abject shittiness of each entry crowded out any room for zingers.

I feel like there is no room for zingers right now, sure.

The list doesn't really have that problem, though.