It's almost reassuring that this is the worst consensus of my lifetime.
reassuring to me that it's my least-centric ballot ever.
My albums (final position): Koze (245), Art Brut (75), Quik & Kurupt (62), Tanya Morgan (185), Hyperdub 5 (143), Fiery Furnaces (99), A-Trak (one vote), BMSR (132), Bloody Mary (one vote), Syran Mbenza (818).
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
(I do wish they'd collate the ties a little more clearly, but BELIEVE ME I KNOW what a pain in the ass that is.)
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Albums — Votes For How to Be a Lady, Volume 1Marcello CarlinTom EwingSteve KiviatFrank KoganAlex MacphersonDavid MooreJordan SargentJulianne Escobedo ShepherdAl Shipley
sup ilx
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the results are absolutely atrocious but tbh i'm pretty excited to read the essays. more than a few could be interesting
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The Dreamer essay doesn't really get to his appeal at all. If I wasn't already a fan, I wouldn't find it convincing.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
really liked xhuxk's essay, but this singles list is seriously abysmal.
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
soderberg voting for bp3 is depressing too
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
and wavves, wow, wtf from one of my fav critics
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
This might be a dumb question, but how much of Pazz and Jop does the Village Voice include in the print version? Do they print all of the ballots they received, just the names of those who contributed to the poll, neither, something else entirely?
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
They have a print edition? (Haven't been to NYC in a couple years.)
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
usually they print the results, comments, essays and a list of the voters (not their ballots -- that's an online-only feature).
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool. Would someone mind grabbing a copy and sending one to me in the mail? If it's no trouble, of course. It's kind of silly, but it's a real kick to have my name printed in the Village Voice.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
THE FACT I WAS THE ONLY ONE TO VOTE FOR "GUTTER MUSIC" (Starkey featuring Durrty Goodz) IS SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON THE ENTIRE WORLD.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Do they not automatically send you a copy of the print edition anymore? I guess they probably don't in this economy.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
idk how "empire state of mind" became the year's critically coalesced huge pop single & not "blame it"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone who thinks the former is better is obv retarded but i'd guess it has something to do w/ the stars, jay & alicia are way safer rockcrit picks
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
it's almost as if people were looking for another signature song about fuckin' new york
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't for a second understand why non-NYers can begin to give a shit about that song.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
dude, that song is a fucking tourist trap. my mind is blown that any New Yorker thinks of it as anything but corny garbage
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Voting "Empire State Of Mind" is like getting your picture sketched in Times Square
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, as I said elsewhere, it's a chart-topping pop song featuring two well-regarded personalities that became a minor cultural phenomenon and that most everybody seems to like, or at least not mind too much.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney otm
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
smh @ this http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/1519966
a vote for 'empire state of mind' is a vote for a-rod. THINK ABOUT THAT.
― maura, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
looks like schnipper slept on music in 2009
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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i think u can just request it tho
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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coincidentally his videotaped interview with project pat is one of my least favorite things of the year
yeah i'm sure there's plenty of writers w/ better taste who'd like to actually vote in this thing, thanks for playing matthew schippner & that goof who voted for thriller or whatever
xp lol maura
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Shit, I might've voted for "Empire State of Mind," if I'd voted this year. Jay-Z is kind of terrible on it (he sounds out of breath most of the time), but that hook is pretty damn unstoppable. Plus, I've got a soft spot for hip-hop that samples old soul songs, and there's not enough of it on the radio these days.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ethan p posted 'for fucks sake' im assuming re: the election results -- i thought about making a joke abt it being pazz & jop related but just settled on kent brockman's 'democracy simply doesn't work' which could also apply here
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
(on facebook)
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
hey i found some more of schnipper's ballots
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/lizardpeopleb.jpg
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
11 of the top 13 LPs and five of the top six singles are shared between this and the Pitchfork list. fwiw.
― scottpl, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:46 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Ok, I can buy this. My disinterest (beyond being annoyed at mediocrity from an artist I've liked a lot in the past) probably boils down to the fact that I've never been to or particularly cared about going to New York.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/686073
Hahahahahahahahhahaahha.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
amazing
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I noticed DJ/Rupture voting for himself, too.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Ten favorite albums? What's an album?
Steve CiabattoniBrooklyn, NY
in which year was this comment cryogenically frozen
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I still maintain that people wouldn't care about OB4CL2 any more than The Lex Diamond Story if it weren't for the title.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't wait for Purple Haze 2 to be the only rap album in the top 10 of Pazz and Jop 2018
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, Rodney, I certainly agree that the Dre beats are BRICKS. They're terrible. I've actually had people try and defend them to me.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Does the 2003 long list still exist somewhere so I can see how many votes Raekwon's last (relatively equal in quality) album garnered?
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
this is better than lex diamond story
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
hes been on fire for awhile though, anyone who copped mixtapes he was dropping in like '06 knew he had this in him. i believe i even *pats self on back* wrote about it in '06
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Rev, your super-challopy argument about raekwon is fucking stupid and it would have done just as well if he called it "CRANK DAT RAEKWON" because it's a dope album and lex diamond was crap
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Reverend: http://web.archive.org/web/20040221181050/http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/03/
If it's anywhere, it'd probably be there?
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:19 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney is that a note of triumph in your voice from the critical cabal around gucci mane u predicted
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Those who know me have heard the story a dozen times apiece. When the Strokes still played clubs right after Is This It? came out, I stood in the front row at the Casbah and got biffed in the bean by Julian Casablancas's microphone stand, producing an impressive golf-ball-size knot. Between the head injury and the revelation of hearing "Barely Legal" for the first time, I fell in love on the spot with what became one of my five favorite bands of the decade. Phrazes for the Young is the first time since Room on Fire that I felt a tingle in that phantom spot on my forehead.
Jennifer C. CookeChula Vista, CA
someone needed to inform this woman that the head is not the #1 body part associated with the word "bean"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I personally would've loved if he titled it CRANK DAT RAEKWON..The kids would've loved it.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
deej: good point about him having been killing it for a while prior, but I don't think it really translated to the album
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link