Do we have a PAZZ AND JOB 2009 thread yet?

I noticed DJ/Rupture voting for himself, too.

Ten favorite albums? What's an album?

Steve Ciabattoni
Brooklyn, NY

in which year was this comment cryogenically frozen

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 can't wait for Purple Haze 2 to be the only rap album in the top 10 of Pazz and Jop 2018

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.

Does the 2003 long list still exist somewhere so I can see how many votes Raekwon's last (relatively equal in quality) album garnered?

this is better than lex diamond story

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

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

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Reverend: http://web.archive.org/web/20040221181050/http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/03/

If it's anywhere, it'd probably be there?

whiney is that a note of triumph in your voice from the critical cabal around gucci mane u predicted

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. Cooke
Chula Vista, CA

someone needed to inform this woman that the head is not the #1 body part associated with the word "bean"

I personally would've loved if he titled it CRANK DAT RAEKWON.
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The kids would've loved it.

deej: good point about him having been killing it for a while prior, but I don't think it really translated to the album

gucci would have been higher if dude didn't split his vote between 17 mixtapes

with no critical on which was the best

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.

The NYC boosterism has nothing to do with why I like it.

oh come on. do i have to go in & count how many people voted for him?

as far as i can tell, two of his mixtapes got votes, and his one album. also, one random dude voted for a mixtape from 2008. i doubt there were even 12 ppl voting for gucci long players

xxxp to whiney

What works for me is that "Empire State of Mind" could conceivably be about ANY mega metropolis, EVEN with the very NY-specific references and such. Plus, the emotions it conjures aren't exclusive to NY. Any city you love makes you feel like that.

its a good song bcuz of alicia but it never really resonated w/ me in a big way. i think its an odd #1

Grizzly Bear, "Two Weeks" **
Warp

if this song isnt about total recall then fuck indie rock imo

http://www.haaretz.com/hasite/images/iht_daily/D070902/ny_running110902_ap.jpg

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someone needed to inform this woman that the head is not the #1 body part associated with the word "bean"

I guess someone needs to inform me, too. And Merriam Webster's should fix that fifth definition.

xps: gawwwd, the idea of "LEEETTTSHEARITFORSEAAAATTTTLLLEE" makes me even more nauseous

lol jordan

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― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:28 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he wasnt taking the bait in the gucci thread \o_O/

i mean, you were being monster stupid on the swag thread coming up with some weird inverse critic venn diagram sitch where for every writer that cosigns drake a gucci loses his wings. And then some dude called me psycho on the hugitout thread. I'm just pretty much gonna let this one lie

nah i just needed to i-told-you-so after yr shit about all the hipster critics who were overrating gucci cuz it really was you being a vayjayjay about admitting you just didnt agree with those of us on ilx who talk about him

the essay about the-dream is really self-defeating in the way that it glosses over electrik red in one sentence by saying that it provides "cheap thrills" but finds ample space to chide people for not being totally up on the-dream

the same year that he got a feature 4-star review in rolling stone magazine

can someone find the 08 results? i want to see how many ppl voted for his first album

wanna say it placed in the 50s

really? i wanna say it placed in the triple digits. i think there were at most ten votes for it or something but i could be imagining that

or #91, rather

ayo glenn can you do something like you did here?: Pazz & Jop 2008

thnx 2 noz for finding one of the funnier ballots to vote for 'trap goin ham'
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/685700

*smh*

lol @ one of the comments being on the douchiness of "actually". get this dude on 77

uh deej that allison stewart vote is kinda awesome in way that I simply cannot put into words.

wait is that
http://blacksnob.com/storage/msnbc_alisonstewart-big.jpg

I hope so, she has hotness and we could have a totally awesome platonic but flirty relationship while listening to "White Lies".

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/686367

interesting list

snoop dogg smh .gif @ empire state of mind

I kinda disapprove of any votes for Daniel Merriweather's "Impossible".

its forks. what can u say.
dap for voting "own step" though, i dig that song

Lady Gaga had three singles in the top thirteen and scored votes for seventeen (!!) different songs (and nine of those seventeen were received multiple votes). There has to be a P&J record in there somewhere, right?

lol I've only just seen these. thanks, australian open, for distracting me. horrendous. get better taste, critics.

btw, i hate it when people justify their love of "empire state of mind" by citing its huge hook, as though a) we didn't already know that it has a huge hook - it doesn't exactly hide this, b) no other songs had huge hooks in 2009. i mean yeah there's a hollow power there but one of the TEN best songs of the year? i mean, no way. even its boosters mostly admit that jay-z is shit on it!

and you know, if you want big alicia keys drama, she did "try sleeping with a broken heart" herself in 2009 too.

biffed in the bean by Julian Casablancas's microphone stand

i don't think they're doing pazz and jop this year. budget cuts.

― scott seward, Friday, November 6, 2009 11:24 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if only