jop jop jop pazz and jop 2011

<em>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.</em>

I was not aware of this! Thanks for the heads-up.

wait, does steven tyler of beantown's aerosmith hate my morning jacket or wish that they had done better?

rassa frassa bb code

hey al glad someone threw a vote for that disciplines record

doesn't EVERYONE emphasize the second syllable of "formidable"? i've never heard the word pronounced any other way.

high five, cad!

who in here voted for Cake?

line up to receive your sb

I guess I should be happy that Cinderella's Eyes got two votes, but it should have gotten more.

lol nicole's dn

http://www.answers.com/topic/formidable

doesn't EVERYONE emphasize the second syllable of "formidable"? i've never heard the word pronounced any other way.

Nah, "FOR-mih-duh-bull" is fairly common in English, too. Then there's French ppl.

...who don't vote in P&J.

the more pressing question is, would you put The Joy Formidable on your workout mix

...who don't vote in P&J.

How does this have any bearing on how the band name is pronounced?

the French are socialists, therefore immune to the charms of P&J.

ok morbz now explain why you spelled "sure" as "shore," is that another delightful linguistic puzzle as rewarding as "forMIDable"?

dr. mORBius

dr. MORBiuS

Of your picks this year, I have Cauldron, Blood Ceremony and Vektor as metal. Sound right?

Well, I'd say you missed two (see above), but I'm not gonna quibble about it.

The only thing I didn't get about Dr. M's original post was why an album at #58 and a single at #33 was proof that "u ppl shore like" the JF.

that too

Oh, I see. Yeah, I'd call Nazareth and Gentlemen's Pistols hard rock, not metal. My basic rule is that a band has to either be in EM, or their Wikipedia page has to describe them as metal in the first sentence.

gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised at Raphael Saadiq's Stone Rollin''s placing (#39 with 33 votes), I figured it would get nowhere near the (inferior) The Way I See It (#18 with 45 votes in 2008) but it had a pretty respectable showing.

Much of pop music—with a few exceptions, and God bless Lady Gaga—had a bread and circuses flavor this year, especially as experienced online. As long as we're arguing amongst ourselves about Lana Del Rey or Tyler, the Creator, we're not discussing unemployment, #OWS, or the simple fact that the majority of GOP presidential candidates are certifiably batshit crazy.

Jim Testa
Weehawken, New Jersey

Amazed anyone still seriously uses "bread and circuses" about pop music. Most of the people (ILX mainly) I discussed OWS with were the same people I discussed Tyler and LDR with. Amazing how the human brain can accommodate more than one topic.

think of all the starving children he could have been feeding (or at least TALKING about feeding) at the exact moment he was writing that shitty Pazz & Jop comment instead

I know my biggest concern in the world today is that not enough people have been talking about why Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich are kinda nutty.

think about all the poor children who can't afford circuses.

The only thing I didn't get about Dr. M's original post was why an album at #58 and a single at #33 was proof that "u ppl shore like" the JF.

By 'you people' I meant most of the 8 or so ILXors whose ballots I looked at.

sd, I'd love to explain every little goofy nuance of all my posts to you but zzzzzzzz

at this point the gop presidential race is way more bread+circuses than pop music

for what's its worth, my comments were ALL about the destruction of the human race. but i am thinking about LDR right now...

late to the thread but are you fucking kidding me re: tune-yards??

^^^ woke up to my Facebook feed clogged with these posts.

^^^ sang this post to the tune of "Turn My Swag On"

Whiney, I think you have to give up complaining about mediocre indie rock and middlebrow rap when your cash your first spin paycheck

tbf Spin's top 20 rap albums was superior in every possible way to P&J's top 20 rap albums

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

― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:10 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

their album went #1 this year!

US Number 1 Albums Of 2011

Highest artist that I have not heard of on the Albums list:
57 The Men, Leave Home

Highest artist that I have not heard of on the singles list:
44 Blawan, "Getting Me Down"

Still pissed they got rid of the reissues category.

also btw jon/via/chi I'm actually really really impressed by your ballot

i don't really get the passion some people have for year-end reissues lists -- like i think it's great that reissues are consumed and written about but imo it doesn't lend itself to year-end listmaking like new releases.

can't find 'Jon Viachi' on the ballots page...is his real name Jonny Leather?

xpost -- Agreed, and related to that:

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

Conflict of interest! And I did submit a ballot for the first time in a while. Full rundown of all choices done last month on my blog.

no singles? BAD ned, bad bad ned ::waves rolled up newspaper::

Fuck a singles list.

can't find 'Jon Viachi' on the ballots page...is his real name Jonny Leather?

He's the fourth Jonathan alphabetically.

(Apologies for using your GOVERNMENT NAME.)

undone - the brah song

Whiney, I think you have to give up complaining about mediocre indie rock and middlebrow rap when your cash your first spin paycheck

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:08 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbf Spin's top 20 rap albums was superior in every possible way to P&J's top 20 rap albums

― Whitechocolatespacecase (some dude), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:09 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Our top 40 list is better than the Pazz top 40 too....