Pazz & Jop 2008

And here is the link ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS

2xp: yeah, but these did:

http://cache.idolator.com/assets/images/gallery/33/2007/01/medium_346844511_c67903232b_o.jpg

For the record, I told Maura I didn't want to do another poll back in February. The '07 one was a fucking nightmare.

Not to sound all "I walked 18 miles barefoot in the snow just to get to my one-room schoolhouse" about it but I had no help at all last year. Most of the people we sent ballots to didn't get them the first time, necessitating my re-emailing 1400 people to ask if they'd received them and if not to let me know so I could re-send them. This I had the pleasure of doing over the course of a few days on six different email accounts, leading to my being blocked from my two main ones for a couple days each for going over my 24-hour sending limit. I also had other things going on at the time that necessitated my being able to send other kinds of email than "Did you get your ballot?" but you know, all in the line of duty, right? The three people who agreed to intern for me all backed out at the last minute. I think I'll leave it there since I took most of my irritation at the whole thing out on this board last year already.

hey glenn, thanks for the explanation on the centricity ratings (btw, i kind of miss "critical alignment," it always sounded like getting one's critical wheels rotated or something, which seems like it might be a useful service, in fact). and may i also say, thanks for keeping up the tradition. i'm pretty boneheaded when it comes to statistics, but i always really enjoy your sifting and sorting of the poll results.

andy k: hey you, get offa my cloud!
tim f: yikes!

:)

Dean's List '08:

http://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans08.php

bring back the reissues option dammit!!!

(worst thing about the last few P&J's has been the lack of a comprehensive Xgau year-end essay to tie shit up in a nice, neat lil' bundle for lazy sods like moi. agree; disagree; ban.)

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i'm kind of shocked people aren't posting their rejected comments in the "comments" sections.

xpost i don't really know if i need to read an essay by a guy who thought the dan le sac vs. scroobius pip song was the 7th best single of the year

bring back the reissues option dammit!!!
Seconded.

Reissues don't really matter in the age of what.cd, sharity blogs, slsk etc. People relate to the past differently now.

yeah, maybe, but it would still nice to have a handy list to check through when browsing through the bins (i.e., searching for shit on amazon).

Reissue packages will continue to matter so long as all the stuff obtainable via blogs, slsk, etc. sounds like total crap.

that too.

mike barthel's second comment is really nicely thought out and well said

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2009/01/pazz_and_jop_2008_is_out.php

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was definitely the album of 2002

I tuned out here.

keep reading for a xgau dig

an

who he?

xxp

4. The poll was founded by former Voice music editor Robert Christgau, who is the worst music critic ever, in my humble opinion. I almost didn't want to vote just to avoid furthering, in any way, his legacy of shitty writing.

x-posts

maybe it's Dom in North American indie-crit drag?

i would punch that guy in the cock if I met him.

and I don't even like Xgau much, he just comes across like all through that.

like a dick

Hey, I just hoped Michael Lacey smacked the dipshit silly for hedging his bet with that wussy "in my humble opinion."

I've long said the problem with current music writing is that so much of it is a reaction to what some dudes in Chicago -- dudes increasingly over enamored of Eurotrash disco -- think.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool @ "eurotrash disco"

What is the approx average age of a Pazz & Jop voter?

100000

Ha! That dude is trying to so hard. He definitely read his Hoffman.

I tuned out here.

The arbitrary comma usage did it for me.

While it was huge this year, "Paper Plans" actually came out in 2007.

thank u for this valuable information.

And then his next sentence after the Chicago dis is about how they're/we're "ahead of the game." Guy isn't very bright, is he?

at i got a username out of it.

at least i got ...

Arrested Development winning in 1992, the year The Chronic came out is hilariously telling of how ignorant rock writers were about rap at the time.

^^ shit like this sends me into automatic challops mode because, like, that arrested development cd is pretty good, hindsight is 20/20, and rock writers are still pretty ignorant about rap. cant stand that "lol look how backwards they were 15 years ago!" shit

I know it's been said, but it's really fucking hilarious calling out someone's writing ability using the phrase "in my humble opinion"

also: wasn't The Chronic released like December '92?

"Dear reader, your humble narrator feels that the writer in question has a difficult, and dare I say almost obscene, way of belaboring even the simplest point which could be summed up in but a few concise words as I will attempt to do forthwith."

The Chronic finished sixth in 1993. (xxpost)

wait until we see how well token rock-crit rap album of the year Lil Wayne is gonna hold up in 15 years.

I wanna add that my verdict re dude's brightness isn't limited to the passage about Chicago/"Paper Planes," by the way.

This is all kind of inside baseball to me, but it cracks me up that he's gonna show bluster about how he hates a guy who used to work at the parent publication so much that he "almost didn't want to vote" but they didn't even send him a ballot because no one at the parent corporation was aware that he's the in-house cool dude now. I bet that his powerful protest has them quaking in their boots.

I wonder how his "they don't know I exist so I'll just act like a grousy douche until they acknowledge my shining light" gambit will work out for him.

No great loss, but I'll vote next year since this is a Village Voice Media paper.

Guess he hasn't been keeping up with this thread:
Village Voice Media being acquired by New Times very soon

No great loss, but I'll vote ring up your order at Barnes and Noble next year since this is a Village Voice Media paper.

They kept the VVM name when they bought it.

I'm talking about all the layoffs

Got it.