jop jop jop pazz and jop 2011

i've never heard of EMA either. after that, danny brown doesn't ring any bells.

Who the fuck is tUnE-yArDs?

this EMA album is really nice actually

Is Tom Waits the obligatory dad rock vote now?

can't believe wild flag placed so high, that feels really out of left field. had it been getting any widespread or intense critical buzz that i missed?

this poll has reminded me that i need to check the stinky cd store in town for kendrick lamar. i like him.

portlandia fever has boosted wild flag.

portlandia every rock kritic's dream show.

and it contained members of the very adored sleater-kinney

wild flag was like the "rock still rules" album after Black Keys

i thought everyone liked that katy b album more. that it would be closer to the top.

EMA for me too. the others ive not heard i at least have heard of

britney should have been closer to the top too. sad to see her stuck next to the foo fighters. hey, apparently the foo fighters had an album out!

congrats on all the comments, scott!

well, i wrote that long year-end blog thing, so i figured it would be easy enough to cut & paste. i hadn't sent anything in since the xhuxk years.

really loving Tha Carter IV all the way down at #316, that's a sales-to-votes ratio maybe slightly better than Michael Buble

skot, you should check out danny brown, he's from detroit and mostly raps about eating pussy in a squeaky high voice over grimy beats. and also about scrap metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj0jiEIyT24

ugh tune yards

man i really fuckin' hated music this year

rev you truly have a way with nauseating sales pitches

eating pussy in a squeaky high voice over grimy beats

man I've been hungry for a couple hours. Thanks!

i thought everyone liked that katy b album more. that it would be closer to the top.

― scott seward, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:08 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think it's mostly just ilxors and brits who love her

ha al

i dont

stop frontin

mastodon, liturgy, tombs, and wittr are pretty much the only metal albums in the top 200. whiney subway metal.

Great singles ballot:

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2011/686347/

liturgy was on me ballot no one cares :(

death grips at 165 surprising too! NOT just ilxors and brits liked that album.

really surprised by "til the world ends" in the top ten. didn't realize that many ppl liked that song.

did jeff n glenn not get Turisas (lol) in the top 200?

i never even heard of death grips until it started showing up on year-end lists a few weeks ago

Fairly average year - I was the only voter for 6 of my 10. Some of them didn't surprise me - I wasn't expecting a huge groundswell of support for Emmure, and obviously Lulu was the metal pervert's vote-getter of choice, so I was out there alone in supporting Morbid Angel. But nobody else liked Amon Amarth's album this year? Or Girl in a Coma's? Those were great, catchy records.

oh wait Yob in the top 200 too. 5 metal albums (i don't count ghost). hipster metal is finally dead. i mean they are hipster picks but still, not a big metallic showing. or maybe its always like that? seemed like more a few years back.

Show me the data:

https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop

And no, I didn't vote for Turisas.

https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop&thread=%40248444&typeId=9149585060559937602&render=List

i like that philip sherburne voted for blut aus nord.

doesn't ned do pazz & jop? he could have been the 3rd vote for the 5 eps.

and he could have gotten jess to vote for it. he should have pulled a bob seger and gotten it in the top 20.

top 20 rap albums for huge middlebrow lulz
1. Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne
2. Drake, Take Care
3. The Roots, Undun
4. Danny Brown, XXX
5. Kendrick Lamar, Section.80
6. Das Racist, Relax
7. Clams Casino, Instrumental Mixtape
8. Big KRIT, Return of 4Eva
9. Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
10. DJ Quik, The Book of David
11. A$AP Rocky, LiveLoveA$AP
12. Tyler, the Creator, Goblin
13. Common, The Dreamer/The Believer
14. Saigon, The Greatest Story Never Told
15. Death Grips, Exmilitary
16. J. Cole, Cole World: The Sideline Story
17. Main Attrakionz, 808s & Dark Grapes II
18. E-40, Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift/Overtime Shift
19. Lil B, I'm Gay (I'm Happy)
20. Action Bronson, Dr. Lecter

i haven't really gotten into asap rocky. i should give him another chance. i dug kendrick right off the bat.

maria loves death grips. that's her fave album of the year, i think.

asap rocky is the worst shit, fucking lana del rap, no one will care by april, don't bother

are any of the essays any good?

tom's essay is so great even though i was like "i never need to read another thing about ldr"

scott look at #2 https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop&query=2011+Metalism

you'd have to pay me a lot of money to listen to the entire jay/kanye album. why didn't they call it JAKaNYeZ?

https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop&query=2011+Hipness

also the metal albums i voted for that weren't lulu (goreaphobia and in solitude) didn't do anything in the top 200 :(

PJ's album is a lot more metal than a lot of metal! so i can dig that. she was robbed by TunEleSsYawnzzzz.

https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=Pazz-Jop&query=2011+Voter+Centricity

interesting
Here are the 2011 voters sorted by centricity, which is a measure of how close their album ballots came to matching the critical consensus. In 2010 there were 26 voters with >.7 centricity. In 2011 only 4!

saw there was a new paul simon record that finished pretty high!

anyone heard it? good?

think it was matos' #1 record