The only reason I brought it up was because it was the first time I was aware of the public's relative dislike of the album. I was all warm and cozy in the ilm lovefest for the album.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe David Shapiro can start a homage blog called Unsound Onions.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
why do we care what someone who called into "sound opinions" had to say about a beyonce album
it was either this or have opinions on Lana Del Rey
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
ban opinions
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
NY Times critics back when used to participate in this, but not anymore
They hardly ever filed actual ballots, but we used to be allowed to just pull their votes straight from the Times year-end page, and give the albums 10 points each. Maybe Maura isn't aware of that though.
Anyway, a question for Glenn: How do voters find out their own metalism scores? Mine should be higher than it's ever been no matter what, but I'm curious whether Gentleman's Pistols and Nazareth counted as metal.
And where do we find out which voters were most similar to us? Didn't seem to be in Glenn's ratings last night, but maybe I missed it.
Also curious why Whiney left #10-finishing Shabazz Palaces off his middlebrow rap list way up above. (Are they not considered rap, or did he just miss it? I sort of like that album, but I'm guessing it supports his thesis, either way.)
And finally, does Gunplay live in Ontario, Arizona, or Leeds? "Local" metal bands I voted from all those places each got two votes!
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
I could not agree with this more, this is such depressing logic.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― fffv, Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:29 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
thanks for this
― mute the wife (bnw), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh cool! i just added.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
I always look at Br1an T's ballot for records even you folx haven't heard of.
can't even tell what wrinkleballs is trying to say here
I think you can, wrinkletongue.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
i've heard of three of brian's twenty picks!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
one of brian's picks is ilx-related too. or xucxk related. i think he used to post here. maybe. didn't he?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
you capitalized the letters "MID" in the word "Formidable" -- i know in the brain that created "pundneb" that's considered dazzling wordplay but out here it looks like nonsense
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
attn #64 we now officially have beef and I hope you sleep light motherfuckers
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3chFhCP5mQ
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
who's the biggest "oh hey i guess they put out an album this year" artist on the list -- for me it was The Decemberists
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Just forgot it! :(
I love that album and #10 is a dope finish
― 誤 means 訳. 訳 means 侮辱. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Chuck:
https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop&thread=%40257603&typeId=9149585060559937602&render=List
Of your picks this year, I have Cauldron, Blood Ceremony and Vektor as metal. Sound right?
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Joy FormidaBULLSHIT
― 誤 means 訳. 訳 means 侮辱. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol
I'd like to add "that THAT, REM"
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
^ let me ghostwrite for u morbz
― 誤 means 訳. 訳 means 侮辱. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
for me it was the foo fighters. but, in general, i try to forget they exist.
x-post
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
see how Brits pronounce formidable, sd, and also yr fly
#64 = #1 with me, but then I heard 3 albums last year eh
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I think Ryan Adams for me.
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
see how Brits pronounce formidable
I actually have no idea how the band pronounces its name. (In fact, ILXor Jenny and I were just wondering about this the other day.)
<em>They hardly ever filed actual ballots, but we used to be allowed to just pull their votes straight from the Times year-end page, and give the albums 10 points each. Maybe Maura isn't aware of that though.</em>
I was not aware of this! Thanks for the heads-up.
― maura, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
wait, does steven tyler of beantown's aerosmith hate my morning jacket or wish that they had done better?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
rassa frassa bb code
― maura, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
hey al glad someone threw a vote for that disciplines record
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
doesn't EVERYONE emphasize the second syllable of "formidable"? i've never heard the word pronounced any other way.
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
high five, cad!
who in here voted for Cake?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
line up to receive your sb
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I should be happy that Cinderella's Eyes got two votes, but it should have gotten more.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
lol nicole's dn
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.answers.com/topic/formidable
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, "FOR-mih-duh-bull" is fairly common in English, too. Then there's French ppl.
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
...who don't vote in P&J.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
the more pressing question is, would you put The Joy Formidable on your workout mix
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
How does this have any bearing on how the band name is pronounced?
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
the French are socialists, therefore immune to the charms of P&J.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
ok morbz now explain why you spelled "sure" as "shore," is that another delightful linguistic puzzle as rewarding as "forMIDable"?
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
dr. mORBius
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
dr. MORBiuS
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I'd say you missed two (see above), but I'm not gonna quibble about it.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
The only thing I didn't get about Dr. M's original post was why an album at #58 and a single at #33 was proof that "u ppl shore like" the JF.
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
that too
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I see. Yeah, I'd call Nazareth and Gentlemen's Pistols hard rock, not metal. My basic rule is that a band has to either be in EM, or their Wikipedia page has to describe them as metal in the first sentence.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised at Raphael Saadiq's Stone Rollin''s placing (#39 with 33 votes), I figured it would get nowhere near the (inferior) The Way I See It (#18 with 45 votes in 2008) but it had a pretty respectable showing.
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
Much of pop music—with a few exceptions, and God bless Lady Gaga—had a bread and circuses flavor this year, especially as experienced online. As long as we're arguing amongst ourselves about Lana Del Rey or Tyler, the Creator, we're not discussing unemployment, #OWS, or the simple fact that the majority of GOP presidential candidates are certifiably batshit crazy.
Jim TestaWeehawken, New Jersey
Amazed anyone still seriously uses "bread and circuses" about pop music. Most of the people (ILX mainly) I discussed OWS with were the same people I discussed Tyler and LDR with. Amazing how the human brain can accommodate more than one topic.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
think of all the starving children he could have been feeding (or at least TALKING about feeding) at the exact moment he was writing that shitty Pazz & Jop comment instead
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link