jop jop jop pazz and jop 2011

still blows my mind how much The Roots can sew this thing up year after year, even if they drop an album 17 days before the voting deadline

u ppl shore seem to like this Joy ForMIDable

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2011/685468/

nathan rabin, everyone

yo

sup

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2011/3244515/

This person voted for only kids music: Caspar Babypants, Dan Zanes, Recess Monkey

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2011/U3VyZSBUaGluZ3x8fE1pZ3VlbCAoZnQuIEouIENvbGUp/

Most of the votes for Miguel (featuring J Cole) "Sure Thing" on the singles ballot came from ilxors

ha who of those are ilxors, besides lex, ship, and soto?

all three votes for "drumz" were unsurprisingly from ilxors

that song is wack anyway imo

"my city" and "weed shoes" >>>

― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:48 PM Bookmark

otm

u ppl shore seem to like this Joy ForMIDable

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:31 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can't even tell what wrinkleballs is trying to say here

ha who of those are ilxors, besides lex, ship, and soto?

― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Wednesda

Me, and then Maura is sometimes here

NY Times critics back when used to participate in this, but not anymore. So
my vote for Orchestre Poly-Rythmo -Cotonou Club (Strut) is the only one, although Jon Pareles of the Times had it in his top 10 also.

Tim F*nney did not vote this year, I don't think.

haha i hate the tune-yards album but it's such an unexpected winner i can't hate.

surprised the beyoncé album was so low (beneath pistol annies!)

lulz, tom waits is my 2nd fav album in the top 10

it must be so embarrassing to be in the top 10 centricity list

i would have thought twice about voting for 'sure thing" had i known it would be credited with a j cole feature urgh

Tim F*nney did not vote this year, I don't think.

i worked this out when i saw that NO ONE else voted for the dawn richard mixtape ;_;

i don't know how close "countdown" was to "rolling in the deep" but i'm really hoping it wasn't close enough that an extra vote would have enabled it to be no 1 - "countdown" was pretty much my song of the year but i never put artists on my trax ballot that i've put on my albums ballot

so weird to find another critic with whom you share two votes, and one of those is pistol annies and the other is danny daze o_0

1 Adele, "Rolling in the Deep" * **
Columbia/XL Mentions: 116
2 Beyoncé, "Countdown" **
Columbia Mentions: 98

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2011/

also that miguel thing is an oversight on my part and is being fixed, fret not

Jeremy D. Larson is my new best friend

ok i doubt even a 1st place vote would've been enough to overcome 18 extra voters so my mind is at ease

i think the most annoying thing is how many critics i know didn't bother voting.

"till the world ends" is such a weird pop rallying point. i mean, i like the remix, but...top 10? huh.

yeah singles are counted by mention, not weighted.

and lex help me get those people to vote next year!!

I wish Daddy B Nice, Southern soul guru had voted. I don't think he did

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2012.cfm

lex - another reason for you to be ok with the tUnE-yArDs win

“tuneyards?!?!?!?! are you fucking kidding me?!?!?! I’m starting to wonder if they only polled female music critics?
Posted by Anonymous | January 17, 2012 10:10 PM”

- Brooklyn Vegan comment thread

lulz

it's a terrible album though

surprised the beyoncé album was so low (beneath pistol annies!)

I was under the impression for months that 4 was generally considered to be a hit-free disappointment. It was only toward the end of the year that I saw people arguing otherwise.

it's been beyonce's least popular album with the masses and most popular album with critics since the moment it was released

^^ otm

But I was in such an ilm bubble that I didn't realize how much the masses didn't like it until I heard the Sound Opinions show where several callers called in to bitch about how awful it was. I was just smh.

that's interesting, i haven't gotten the impression that the pop/R&B fans that DID buy the album disliked it

i know that the "point" of commercial music is to generate hits but it never fails to surprise me that so many people equate an album's quality with how successful its singles are

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/voice_pazz.jpg

what the

4 currently has three songs in the top 20 of the R&B chart so it eventually did generate hits, if not big pop crossover hits

To be fair, the woman that called into Sound Opinions thought it was a bad album because there weren't any songs she could add to her workout mix.

it's pretty lousy by that yardstick, i suppose

Thats how she started out, but then she summed up that the whole thing was a disappointment.

yup it definitely fails on that count

i guess B figured that Michelle Obama-comissioned remix of "Get Me Bodied" covered her workout jam quota for the year (xpost)

I could add "I Care", "Countdown", "Love On Top", "End of Time" and "Girls (Run the World)" to any hypothetical mix

I made a Spotify playlist of tracks receiving two mentions because I thought it might be interesting to listen to while I'm at work and figured I might as well share it here.

Around 200 of the 260 tracks matched when I loaded it up. If I get bored I might see if I can add more manually.

"I Care" is pushing it (xpost)

haha @ the pitchforkreviewsreviews guy:

Bon Iver, James Blake, M83, and Girls. Why aren't our heroes pissing more people off? Why are they so polite?

David Shapiro
Brooklyn, New York

i'm just gonna assume he thought these were gonna be the top 4

To be fair, the woman that called into Sound Opinions thought it was a bad album because there weren't any songs she could add to her workout mix.

Mary Lou Retton could sweat into her leg warmers while jamming to "Love on Top."

"I Care" is the same tempo as "Countdown"!

Bon Iver, James Blake, M83, and Girls. Why aren't our heroes pissing more people off? Why are they so polite?

Our Hero will find adulthood a real chore.

so whoever does @Discographies apparently needs to protect their anonymity and vote under their twitter handle?

"I Care", "Countdown", "End of Time" and "Girls (Run the World)" ARE on my gym mix.

why do we care what someone who called into "sound opinions" had to say about a beyonce album