Do we have a PAZZ AND JOB 2009 thread yet?

tops is Mt Goats at #80!

pissed jeans?

saw em, didn't hear the record (ditto Grizzly Bear & YLT)

& godawful Wilco

kornrulez supports one of my claims ...they don't like the bio or how they look.

I'm sure their bio is dynamite stuff. And no doubt they're all handsome young lads. But in refute to your presumptuous (some would say bratty) assumption, I'm basing my opinion on how they sound.

I'm about a week late to this, but re: the relative size of Pfork to other sites/blogs: here are some approximate monthly stats for some of the more well-known sites:

(Audience/Pageviews)
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Pitchfork: 1,500,000 / 30,000,000
Hypem: 1,300,000 / 12,000,000
GVSB: 85,000 / 485,000
Fluxblog: 17,000 / 50,000
99.9% of remaining blogs: way lower

Stereogum keeps traffic data private, ditto for Brooklyn Vegan, but I estimate those at about:

Stereogum: 1,250,000 / 6,000,000
Brooklynvegan: 750,000 / 4,500,000

Catbird, where'd you get those numbers from?

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/pitchfork-editor-takes-public-forum-defend-its-greatness-i-think-you-underestimate-how-much-bigger-we-are/

wtf

Music critics Chuck Eddy, Christopher Weingarten, Maura Johnson, Scott Seward, Ned Raggett and others offered their assessments of the poll

...I did?

Go nuts.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:41 PM

^^

Now the whole internet knows how much Ned loves polls!

Thrills.

@ekaloudis, a combination of Quantcast data and cross-referencing/relative size data from other public data sources (Compete, et. al.)

P&J parallel: 2009 vs 1990

The-Dream = Guy

Maxwell = Neville Bros

not sure what you mean by "parallel". the-dream and max did considerably better in 2009 than those two in 1990, and the Nevilles had a top 5 p'n'j album the year before.

just that they filled v similar niches

i guess, though the neville brothers were far more of a critics band, with little to no pop/r&b chart action

Roots-rock-type voters way more likely to go for Nevilles than Maxwell - no comparison at all, as far as I can tell.

Somebody speculated, somewhere, that since the voting instructions for the first time this year didn't spell out the 15-14-13-12-11-9-8-7-6-5 weighting pattern, there would be a lot more unweighted 10-points-each album ballots. This didn't turn out to be the case, but I was waiting for a minor display-bug in the stats software to get fixed before adding the point-pattern breakdown to my list of slices. It's there now, for anybody really interested in numbers:

Point Patterns

Thanks for reading my blog, Scott & Christopher ;-)