Year-End Critics' Polls '08

i really wanted to hear that Westerberg album but by the time I got around to getting it off Amazon it'd already been taken down.

Go listen to it on Rhapsody like i did

And shut it off after five songs like I did.

Then google pictures of Katy Perry until lunchtime like I did.

well it's not great or anything. it just has a lot of nice tunes, and i like the shaggy wtf-ness of it all. i got several times my 49 cents' worth out of it.

done and done, at least on the last part (xpost)

you all find katy perry attractive?!

it's a guilty would blap, but a would blap nonetheless.

she has goggly eyes and in every photo contorts her face into a try-hard pout like the most attention-seeking 8-year-old only child you've ever met.

i like the complete absence of Chinese Democracy on these lists.

katy perry is basically kendley from project runway.

also at the top of my guilty would blap list

katy perry is the toyota to zooey deschanel's mercedes

BUT KATY PERRY IS BI-CURIOUS SO YOU COULD PROBABLY GET HER IN A THREESOME RIGHT

nah, Zooey's less hot and her music's even worse.

I was going to make a "poor woman's Zooey Deschanel" comment, actually.

it's encouraging to see a mention of Andrew Coltrane here!

also, new Prurient on Cold Spring is very very good. Might surpass And, Still Wanting. Cocaine Death is extremely good too...so good..man..but it's a compilation really

both very boinkable xp

not so much about polls, but back on the avant- digression, i'm surprised not to see lucky dragons anywhere.

Thanks for posting these everyone. The next ones to usually come are:

Clash Magazine
Drowned In Sound
Muzzle Of Bees
Gorilla Vs. Bear
Fact Magazine
NME

― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:49 PM (2 days ago)

GvB's list is up. can't tell if he's going for "20 best albums" or "20 best debut records by up-and-coming indie artists BONUS POINTS IF YR LOCAL."
predictably, it's terrible.

Any modern classical lists out there?

both very boinkable xp

― k3vin k., Monday, December 1, 2008 8:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

dont say this fyi

Keep it to the Katy Perry "blap or no blap" thread, guyz.

i hope you're not suggesting we invite Kevin Keller to 77

Like the guy who's sockpuppeting as him isn't already a 77 regular?

will plucky The Verve triumph in the Rocktimists poll?

http://bp3.blogger.com/_yRdvdP7_05I/R8Q5UyW-STI/AAAAAAAAAH4/J_Zl5DxLb2k/s400/Sock_Puppet_3_small.jpg

Talking about whether or not we want to have sex with Katy Perry is frankly much more interesting than talking about where the Black Kids are going to place in the Top 50 of some minor style magazine that nobody reads.

i think ilxor is a better sock btw

You talkin' to me?

Talking about whether or not we want to have sex with Katy Perry is frankly much more interesting than talking about where the Black Kids are going to place in the Top 50 of some minor style magazine that nobody reads.

I mainly use the lists to find music I may have overlooked. The good ones don't start coming for another week or two, so until then:

Favorite Albums You Haven't Seen In The Critics' Polls 08

Fact Magazine - Top 20
http://tinyurl.com/69ffhp

State Magazine - State’s 25 best albums of 2008
http://www.state.ie/blog/states-25-best-albums-of-2008/
Ireland's answer to Pitchfork magazine

Last.fm lists their db top 10 listened to artists, albums and songs from 2008:

http://www.last.fm/bestof/2008

Their top 10 songs feature is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Should have added a rule not to repeat song from same artists.(Just so you don't waste your time there's 6 coldplay songs, 3 MGMT and Kate Perry)

Seems like the Last.fm lists would favor albums and songs that were released early in the year, thus having had longer to rack up plays.

One unusual entry in Fact's list:

03. ZOMBY – WHERE WERE U IN 92? (WERK DISCS)

Anyone heard it?

Haven't heard it but I noticed the eMusic bloggers were talking about it yesterday too.

Heard it. Needs less airhorn.

when do we usually do our polls around here?

usually late at night, when there's noone else in the apartment.

It's nice to see Opeth placing so high on the metal lists, but I'm curious - do people really rate it higher than "Ghost Reveries" - because I don't remember that one doing as well on the year-end lists, even though to me, it's a much stronger album? Is it that the rest of the field is weaker this year, or is it maybe a case of atoning for overlooking a sleeper by overrating the follow-up?

musicOMH Top 50
http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/2008_best-albums-of-intro_1208.htm

Some interesting entries:
48 Thomas Tantrum (Sindy Stroker)
40 Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets (V2)
31 Mystery Jets - Twenty One (sixsevennine)
23 Ladyhawke (Island)
18 Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)
15 Johnny Flynn - A Larum (Vertigo)

Elbow topped musicOMH's poll. It's easy to admire that album but hard to get excited about it enough to crack my top 20. And this album also mad an appearance in State's top 20. I'll have to check it out:

08 Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim (Virgin)

http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/855/STOCKING%20STUFFERS:%20Afropop%20Worldwides%20Top%20Ten%20Releases%20for%202008

afropop.org (Banning Eyre & others)

Chiwoniso, "Rebel Woman" (Cumbancha) (Zimbabwe)
Aterciopelados “Rio” (Nacional) (Columbia)
Toumani Diabaté “The Mandé Variations” (Nonesuch) (Mali)
Seprewa Kasa “Seprewa Kasa” (Riverboat) (Ghana)
Seun Kuti “Seun Kuti & Egypt 80” (Disorient) (Nigeria)
Emmanuel Jal “WARchild” (Sonic360) (Sudan)
Orchestra Baobab “Made in Dakar” (Nonesuch) (Senegal)
Mayra Andrade “Navega” (Nacional/Sterns Arc Ltd) (Cape Verde)
Buena Vista Social Club "Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall(2 CD) [LIVE] " (Nonesuch) (Cuba)
Kasai Allstars "Congotronics 3" (Crammed Discs) (Congo

Theres a Congotronics 3? I must be on that right na na na

Predictably terrible EoY list from OMM now in.

Why do I keep thinking of Stan Freberg's "Old Payola Roll Blues"?

Might as well plug the one I put together: http://idolator.com/5103876/80-08-and-heartbreak-announcing-idolators-year+end-extravaganza

link does not work matos...can't access from idolators front page either :(

works for me.

Time mag's 50 Top 10s: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10
Albums: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1864324,00.html
Songs: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863440,00.html

Resident Advisor's Top 20 labels: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=994

dear Time, please research concept of 'at a glance'