jop jop jop pazz and jop 2011

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

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.

Maybe David Shapiro can start a homage blog called Unsound Onions.

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

ban opinions

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!

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.

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.

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thanks for this

oh cool! i just added.

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.

i've heard of three of brian's twenty picks!

one of brian's picks is ilx-related too. or xucxk related. i think he used to post here. maybe. didn't he?

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

attn #64 we now officially have beef and I hope you sleep light motherfuckers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3chFhCP5mQ

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

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.)

Just forgot it! :(

I love that album and #10 is a dope finish