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
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
1 Adele, "Rolling in the Deep" * **Columbia/XL Mentions: 1162 Beyoncé, "Countdown" **Columbia Mentions: 98
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2011/
― maura, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
also that miguel thing is an oversight on my part and is being fixed, fret not
― maura, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
Jeremy D. Larson is my new best friend
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
ok i doubt even a 1st place vote would've been enough to overcome 18 extra voters so my mind is at ease
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah singles are counted by mention, not weighted.
and lex help me get those people to vote next year!!
― maura, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
I wish Daddy B Nice, Southern soul guru had voted. I don't think he did
http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2012.cfm
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
lulz
it's a terrible album though
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
it's been beyonce's least popular album with the masses and most popular album with critics since the moment it was released
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
^^ 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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
that's interesting, i haven't gotten the impression that the pop/R&B fans that DID buy the album disliked it
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:09 (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
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/voice_pazz.jpg
― 誤 means 訳. 訳 means 侮辱. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
what the
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty lousy by that yardstick, i suppose
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Thats how she started out, but then she summed up that the whole thing was a disappointment.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
yup it definitely fails on that count
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
i guess B figured that Michelle Obama-comissioned remix of "Get Me Bodied" covered her workout jam quota for the year (xpost)
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
I could add "I Care", "Countdown", "Love On Top", "End of Time" and "Girls (Run the World)" to any hypothetical mix
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:28 (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.
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.
― fffv, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
"I Care" is pushing it (xpost)
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
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 ShapiroBrooklyn, New York
David ShapiroBrooklyn, New York
i'm just gonna assume he thought these were gonna be the top 4
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Mary Lou Retton could sweat into her leg warmers while jamming to "Love on Top."
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
"I Care" is the same tempo as "Countdown"!
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
"I Care", "Countdown", "End of Time" and "Girls (Run the World)" ARE on my gym mix.
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
why do we care what someone who called into "sound opinions" had to say about a beyonce album
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
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 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
― 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