Pazz & Jop 1985: Critical Hindsight Two Decades On

but yeah, "Mambo #5" = PARADIGM SHIFT

problem is, once you stop "keeping up" with pop music you fall behind and get caught up with other shit and time...goes...by...

thought about listening to current hits yesterday but rain makes me think jazz so I played Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Harris.

I seem to recall thinking, if not when this particular pazz & jop came out, then not too long afterward, that it was the first really boring one--or anyway the year itself was the first really boring music year since punk. Looking at the albums list anyway I still believe that (though for pazz & jop albums, '82 is also incredibly blah--I think I'd need to go over the singles lists for a more accurate snapshot). I didn't vote in it, but I did submit a list to the mag I wrote for at the time (http://rockcritics.com/features/ballot_woods.html). Not a great ballot by any stretch, some of it is clearly me trying to impress my indie peers, though I'm glad I had the scritti politti single and the aretha franklin album in there even if it should've been the scritti politti album and the aretha franklin single.

I read the above comments with interest. It so happens I own 34 of the albums on that list, but I have eclectic musical taste (and a humongous amount of pop music. Over 1500 CDs and counting).

If anyone owns a copy of Unsophisticated Time by Marti Jones and would be willing to burn me a copy (it is comepletly out of print), I would be greatful, plus I won a lot of oop stuff myself, so I would happily trade.