Village Voice's F2K

other hated charters yet to be represented:

flo rida
will.i.am or fergie (it's not like "my humps" was the worst thing either appeared on)
chris brown
creed
clay aiken (or any Idol vet)
katy perry

shady seems easily the most deserving, though

whiney would never do his girl katy like that

don't drown me like that, don't drown me like that, u know i love u baby, don't drown me like that

TS: "Ass Like That" vs. "Just Lose It"

fergie

I think "Big Girls Don't Cry" would at least be in my top 5 worst singles of this decade.

don't forget "labels or love."

but oh man, eminem. Mockingbird, When I'm Gone, 3am, Beautiful, Ass Like That...so many options. The only post "Lose Yourself" (which I don't even care for much) single I'll rep for is "Just Lose It" and I know I'm in the minority on that one.

was there one where a fart sound was part of the beat?

what about his single that was designed to SHIFT THE COURSE OF THE ELECTION

i liked bully but it wasn't a single.

(or how to really contribute to a thread.)

what about his single that was designed to SHIFT THE COURSE OF THE ELECTION

"mosh" apparently did not even chart, shockingly

also love that the 'original' is labelled on youtube as 'Whats Going On (HIV/AIDS tribute)' like it is in honour of HIV/AIDS.

― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Monday, December 21, 2009 7:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol "mosh" is eminem's only song to make pazz'n'jop since "lose yourself," coming it at no. 12 in 2004, tied with Loretta Lynn's "Portland, Oregon" and just ahead of the killers and LCD Soundsystem.

how do you know that, half the pazz and jop results are lost in the sands of the internet

lol "mosh" is eminem's only song to make pazz'n'jop since "lose yourself," coming it at no. 12 in 2004, tied with Loretta Lynn's "Portland, Oregon" and just ahead of the killers and LCD Soundsystem.

― da croupier, Monday, December 21, 2009 4:35 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

time it was what a time it was

fu voice/new times for taking down the 04 p'n'j section so i can't find out who voted for "mosh" and ponder whether or not they'd prefer to listen to that or LCD's "yeah" if asked today

how do you know that, half the pazz and jop results are lost in the sands of the internet

all the top 40s are on xgau's website, it's only the ballots that are lost

this might help?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://villagevoice.com

easier:

http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres04.php

read more carefully, chuck

Yeah, just noticed that, as soon as I posted; jumped ahead a few posts.

I'd be pretty surprised if any of those wayback machine searches (which seem to take forever to load) turn up lists of individual P&J voters' ballots, and associated lists of voters for each song/album. Those ballots never ran in an actual Voice "issue", on the net or in print (just a special link that was never conistently reliable even when live), but I guess that doesn't mean they might not still be out there, somewhere. (The New Times folks seem to have erased everything, but the links were always kinda shakey, even under the old regime.)

it turned it up and poring through them now

put my findings on the Mosh thread so any tangential nostalgia lols can continue there.

I hope it's not a has-been like eminem

eminem has been doing some good stuff the last few months, i'm actually very interested in hearing his next album after the disappointment(? can't say i was expecting a lot) of relapse

maura and i just spent like four hours writing this thing

#1!

(fuck you, Ned!)

(just kidding, but I had to take the opportunity)

a little bummed that the top is an admittedly hellish cover rather while a true shitstorm Shady goes unacknowledged entirely. i'm not sold that hellish covers are a notable aspect of the 00s so much as pop in general (though youtube does make it easier to poop one out without really promoting it), and I'd hate for negligible artists to think they should focus on their originals (which I really think tend to be worse - sure adam duritz ripped us a big one of his own this decade) instead of inane takes on old chestnuts. I mean better they reiterate the canon instead of attempting to add new entries.

That said, this list was lolgastic, and I'm obviously grateful for something to blather about.

don't ask me what "lolgastic" means because i don't know

yeah, the one gripe i keep making about this list is that there are too many sullied 20th century songs, not enough terrible songs actually written in the last 10 years represented

still, it's been a hell of a ride! especially this thread becoming ground zero to track the death of idolator.

I will say this: the Counting Crows cover is always playing in my doctor's waiting room, so there is a lot of fear and dread I associate w/this song.

why did they let a hobo front their band? was it some sort of sponsership deal with shelter?

while a true shitstorm Shady goes unacknowledged entirely

"Ass Like That" was on the first draft of the list.

Da doing doing doyyyyyng

if, unlike Alien Ant Farm, Smashmouth and most of the acts in that last entry, I can't necessarily pull out a Counting Crows original that's worse, it's because "Big Yellow Taxi" was a humongous piece of shit before they even got their paws on it.

this is the first version I ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6l1wCWXiE

great final entry

lol wow i forgot the big skynyrd guitar solo in grant's version, wtf

whiney and maura (if she reads ilm), you are gods for this list and luckily you have 10 yrs to recover before the sequel.

The amount of writing we did total for this is the size of a 33 1/3 book

i dunno what the legals would be, but you guys should look to get it published! just tack on a new top 50-100 albums list or something.

some scary shit from the song's wikipedia page:

In 1996 a "Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)" peaked on the U.S. dance charts at #39 and was part of the Friends: Music from the TV Series soundtrack album (see Joni Mitchell#Singles and External links).

The song was also performed as part of the finale during the 1997 Lilith Fair tour with the Indigo Girls, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan and Meredith Brooks.

or worst 50-100 albums list, i mean

call it 33 and a turd

whiney, i literally clapped my hands while giggling to that entry. i think 'board-shorted' might be my new favorite term.

call it 33 and a turd

― the finest of display name homies (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:52 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^____________^

A serious thank-you to Whiney and Maura for all the work they put into this. I loved reading/listening to it.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun to read. Thank you both.

Likewise!! It is great stuff.

I mean you knew that already. What I meant was that I loved it.