Pazz and Jop is dead; long live Jackin' Pop

scott walker is metal as fuck

Matos, have you given any thought to a web based home for this poll? It is important to have the results preserved for perpetuity and it'd be really cool if all the voting data were available so people could play with the data. I seem to remember someone on ILM tallying the female critics votes....

Answer:

Which is why we're proud to announce the Idolator Jackin' Pop Critics Poll. Edited by Michaelangelo Matos--a Seattle-based music critic and author of the 33 1/3 book Sign O' The Times--Jackin' Pop will maintain the Voice's thoughtfully anarchic approach to music criticism, merging it with the technological reach of Gawker Media.

Gawker media / idolator will present the results - it's surely up to matos to co-ordinate with the web monkeys at gawker on how to do this in a similar User Experience to previous VV P & J websites.

HI DERE

http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0506b

I think my point was that something this important needs a proper web presence and not just shoehorned into a MoveableType blog.

Well, fuck 'em.

waht? This poll isn't being conduced online, only reported.

not a blog, a flexible information presentation.

not a blog, a flexible information presentation.

That does not make any sense. What's more "flexible information presentation" than a blog? Would you like the results to be written on a slinky?

xpost I like the name, too. The whole point of it is kinda that Pazz and Jop was also a terrible name.

Something with a database backend, obviously. The Pazz and Jop polls list the albums and who voted for them, along with critics and what albums they voted for -- all as static content pages. This could very easily be done dynamically or at least programatically to generate the pages instead of using static content. That also opens it up to showing which albums critics that voted for album X were also likely to vote for and create a basis for analyzing trends all within the main site.

It may be a small gain since the majority of people don't care and like the same lists as a print version, but the ILM types and statistical obsessives would love this shit. A few people always end up doing something similar anyway, although if it's on Idolator's site they get more ad impressions.

OTM

I'm really of the school of throwing everything in a database for mining later, though.

o. nate otm.

Awww man. Once upon a time, Pazz and Jop used to wait until the year was over and critics did not have to submit their ballots until some time in January, now it looks like Matos will want ballots early. So much for any late December acquisitions...

On a slightly different topic, Michaelangelo Matos had an article in the Village Voice recently. I wonder if he'll have any more there in the future...

are you missing the point on purpose, kenan?

Hopefully Matos will be sending e-mails to Global Rhythms, FRoots, various rap magazines, the Beat, various Latin pop publications, etc. so there will be some votes for more than just Dylan and indie-rockers.

Of course it won't! If 100 people pick the Decemberists as like #8, it carries a fucking lot more weight than if two people pick something as #1.

NO! I'm really lost.

Check out this NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/arts/music/30idol.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=music&pagewanted=print

November 30, 2006
Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bloggy: An Online Poll Covets the Territory Once Owned by Pazz & Jop
By BEN SISARIO
If the rock critics of the world have a clubhouse, it has long been the annual Pazz & Jop poll in The Village Voice.

For more than 30 years, critics at magazines, newspapers and Web sites have contributed their Top 10 lists of albums and singles. Along with those lists came voluminous insidery commentary, all digested and analyzed in one monstrous essay by Robert Christgau, organizing the pop universe into an intellectually cohesive narrative. (“It’s Kanye West’s World, Franz Ferdinand Just Live In It,” ran the cover line for the 2005 Pazz & Jop issue.)

But in the wake of the takeover late last year of Village Voice Media, the weekly paper’s parent company, by the New Times Media chain, and the departure of dozens of Voice employees — including Mr. Christgau, 64, who oversaw the Pazz & Jop coverage and was fired in August — a rival clubhouse poll has emerged. And of course it is on a blog.

This week Idolator, a newish music blog owned by Gawker Media, seized on the outrage and disappointment felt by critics around the country who saw Mr. Christgau — and Chuck Eddy, the Voice music editor, who was dismissed in April — as a force of credibility and journalistic continuity, by announcing its own poll, Jackin’ Pop.

“For those who had long turned to The Voice to help guide them through the realm of pop, rock and hip-hop,” the announcement read, “the 51-year-old alt-weekly now had about as much musical credibility as, say, a three-month-old blog.”

The new survey will be organized by Michaelangelo Matos, a well regarded freelance writer who has served as music editor at the Voice-owned Seattle Weekly. (When New Times Media acquired Village Voice Media, it also took its name.) Jackin’ Pop will have some new technological bells and whistles, like demographic breakdowns of ballots, but will largely be modeled after Pazz & Jop. Mr. Matos, 31, said it was as much a homage to that model as a protest against the new Voice.

“Pazz & Jop has always been about intellectual music coverage,” he said. “There are people at The Voice doing good, smart work, but the overall culture does not smile upon it being particularly thoughtful.”

Rob Harvilla, The Voice’s new music editor, who will oversee the continuation of Pazz & Jop, disagrees with that assessment. “I understand the consternation regarding” Mr. Christgau, he said. “And we’re going to have to prove ourselves to the critical world at large. But I think it’s worth doing.”

Ballots for the two polls are to begin going out this week.

The Pazz & Jop model, with easily aggregated rankings and spunky, personal, bite-size commentary, is ideally suited to an online update; The Voice itself has a Web version of the poll (villagevoice.com), in which each ballot can be viewed and cross-referenced.

“Pazz & Jop was kind of a bloggy idea before the Internet,” said Michael Hirschorn, an executive vice president at VH1 and a former editor of Spin. “That kind of obsessive narrow fanaticism has been democratized and spread throughout hundreds of blogs.”

Though the Idolator poll (idolator.com) will be open to some bloggers — Mr. Matos said that anyone who writes regularly about music will be eligible — its main constituency will be professional music critics, the same old-fashioned, old-media elite who contribute to Pazz & Jop. This suggests Idolator is betting that readers are still interested in the idea of professional rock critics and their opinions.

“This speaks to the credibility of The Voice,” said Joe Hagan, a contributing editor at New York magazine who writes about the media. “The Voice really did have such an incredible run as a purveyor of rock criticism, and that credibility is gone with Christgau’s exit. It’s there for the taking.”

To nab that credibility, Idolator first offered the job of putting Jackin’ Pop together to Mr. Christgau. He declined, but said he would contribute to both Jackin’ Pop and Pazz & Jop.

While in other fields there are multiple critics’ polls, Pazz & Jop has enjoyed an almost unchallenged run since it began in 1974. (An earlier version was published in 1971, leading to the hedge of calling it the “31st or 32nd annual” poll, and so on.)

But based on an unscientific survey of far fewer rock critics than the 800 or so who usually contribute to Pazz & Jop — Mr. Matos said he was shooting for 1,200 — the presence of a rival is less likely to cause a rift among critics than a shrug, because of doubts about Idolator’s ability to match the quality and breadth of Mr. Christgau’s work and about the future of rock criticism itself.

“What critics used to do was catch the black holes of culture, things that are not adequately distributed or whatever,” said Alec Hanley Bemis, a columnist for L.A. Weekly, a Village Voice Media paper. “These days they get caught by bloggers far before those critics’ lists come out.”

As for Mr. Christgau, who now contributes reviews to National Public Radio and to Rolling Stone and other publications, he said he was glad to be relieved of the yearly burden of Pazz & Jop, which took weeks of laborious work.

“My wife was not happy that I was fired,” Mr. Christgau wrote in an e-mail message. “But she was overjoyed that Pazz & Jop was out of our lives. We hope to go to Puerto Rico in early January.”

Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

Like we were able to tell before.

Ooh, Christgau is going on a trip to Puerto Rico. Hopefully a long reggaeton and salsa essay from him will be in the works!

Will Harvilla let Christgau write an essay in the Voice P & J? I wonder how much space the new/current Voice will give anyone?

Congrats, Paul Edward Wagemann!

No, I think this is great. I hate Spoonerisms, really hate them, so the name Pazz and Jop always made me feel sick.

Being that the Idolator is a Web-only publication, I suspect that some veteran critics won’t be involved in Jackin' Pop—more out of laziness that anything else—and I'll bet that if it does take root it will skew more toward younger bands; I doubt the new Yusuf album will turn up anywhere. My ego will probably guarantee my participation, if only to make sure Olivia Block gets represented, but I still yearn for the days when too much information was just that, not the current mental detonation every new Web page threatens to create."

People like this irritate me.

Elkton High
Elkton,Maryland
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Mother fuckers were lucky I went!

*Either that or a rush of votes on something totally shonky, like the Sandi Thom album.

Track ideas for Matos charity record?

that times article was fascinating in that it asked whether critics were "important" anymore. i use adblocker, so i don't know, but are pitchfork and its ilk still selling ads? even if it has nothing to do with the actual writers, people love year-end lists, so of course they'll check out both polls!

Those are probably the same people who talk about U2 being "important" so uh good riddance...

Something with a database backend, obviously. The Pazz and Jop polls list the albums and who voted for them, along with critics and what albums they voted for -- all as static content pages. This could very easily be done dynamically or at least programatically to generate the pages instead of using static content. That also opens it up to showing which albums critics that voted for album X were also likely to vote for and create a basis for analyzing trends all within the main site.

[...]

-- mh (neupun...) (webmail), November 29th, 2006 4:28 PM. (mike h.) (later) (link)

Maybe we're not on the same page. You can do all of that with Movable Type.

-- whoop de doodle (fluxion2...) (webmail), November 29th, 2006 4:30 PM. (kenan) (later) (link)

LOL

Free Matos!
Free Matos!
Free Matos!
Let them know it's Christgau time again

ack!

"We figured that the people over at New Times Media--the company responsible for putting the "ill" in the Village Voice--would be a little pissy about our announcement of the Jackin' Pop Critics Poll; what we didn't realize was that they'd be such thin-skinned weenies about it: We've been told that an email is circulating among New Times staffers that not only talks up how great their poll is going to be this year, but also warns its staffers not to vote in our poll! So let's get this straight: A company responsible for putting out alt-weeklies--supposedly a place where you go to find independent-minded writing and reporting--is essentially putting a gag order on its staff. Yay, corporate interests trumping employees' right to free speech! Yay, bad journalism!"

Just received my P&J ballot.

from comments on the zoilus blog:

"Dennis Lim is reviving the Voice's equally valuable film critics poll on indiewire"

Well, I think the fact that the P&J featured the young hip critics and the older folks made P&J interesting. For those of us who enjoy trad rock and roots in addition to other stuff, the more seasoned critics were more likely to introduce us to something along those lines instead of the flavors of the era, in my opinion.

Matos had an article in the Voice the week before the announcement of the new poll

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0647,matos,75086,22.html

I sincerely think everybody who got a ballot (including myself) should give Hinder's Extreme Behavior 30 points. All it would take is a hundred people who either think the New Times can bite it or think Hinder fucking SLAYS ALL OTHER BANDS, to almost guarantee it as the #1 album of the Nu-Voice's Xgau-free Pazz'n'Jop poll.

Tell your friends!

Should be "Lips of An Angel" as noted but I like this mistake -- think of pronouncing 'Angel' as the Spanish male name.

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the loophole New Times could possibly use to throw out votes

By J. Freedom du Lac
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 2, 2006; C01

"Steven Tyler can have his scarves. Austin Winkler, the otherwise Tyleresque lead singer of the ascendant power-rock band Hinder, has a different idea about how a rock star prone to debauchery should properly decorate his microphone stand.

His recipe is simple, but crass: Take multiple brassieres, hang them from said stand and -- voila! -- you have the perfect prop to amplify your status as the new king of swaggering, sexualized rock-and-roll.

During a ragged set Thursday night at the sold-out 9:30 club, Hinder proved that it's quite possible to sound like Aerosmith covering Nickelback, the angsty, power-balladeering, post-grunge band, while misbehaving like the loony, libidinous fruitcakes in Motley Crue."

This is from the ballot. Hmmmmm, Christgau is contributing a ballot for some reason, Matos himself contributed an article that ran in the Voice a few weeks ago, and Harvilla says comments are welcome, so should I submit a ballot with comments in the naive belief that they will print some anti-New Times opinions???

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41874000/jpg/_41874764_despaireyewire203300.jpg

(xpost to the mic stand thing)

*sound of jackboots marching in the hall*

We're really excited about this, and based on the number of people who've expressed interest in participating and on their accompanying comments, we think you might be too. We hope so. Thanks for being part of this, and have a wonderful holiday and 2007.

Hinder is better though. HINDER!

(also, I have ballots for NEITHER poll at the moment. :-( )

Which kinda makes me wonder why he's still bothering to send in a Pazz'n'Jop ballot (if he really is, as Harvilla's e-mail implied). Maybe his desire to see Pazz'n'Jop live on after him is enough to make him put aside why it's already "after" him. If his Consumer Guide was still around, I'd have a better sense of what he thinks of Hinder.

Wildflowers the 3CD or 5LP set of loft jazz? I didn't know it had been reissued again. The version I have is from 2001 or so, on Knitting Factory Works.

http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide

singles:

1 : Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
2 : Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
3 : Clipse with Bilal - Nightmares
4 : Nadiya - Tous Ces Mots
5 : Prince - Black Sweat
6 : TI - What You Know
7 : Snook - Snook Svett Och Tarar
8 : Birdman and Lil Wayne - 1st Key
9 : The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
10 : NOMO - Fourth Ward
11 : Katamari Soul Trains - Katamari on the Funk

Some close calls:

Chamillionaire - Ridin' Dirty
Ciara with Chamillionaire - Get Up
Common Market - Connect For
Esperanza Spalding - Mompouana
The Coup - I Love Boosters!
E 40 with T Pain and Kandi G - U and Dat
The Coup - Laugh/Love/Fuck
Ghostface with Trife - Be Easy
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - Freedom for the Stallion
E 40 with B Legit and Stressmatic - Gouda
Weird Al Yankovic - White and Nerdy
Milosh - I'm Trying
Nelly Furtado with Attitude - Afraid
Rascal Flatts - What Hurts the Most
Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me (Missy Elliott Remix)
Alex Lilly and Colorforms - Green and White Stripes
Beyonce - Get Me Bodied
Bertine Zetlitz - 500
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Orion
Rick Ross - Hustlin'
Ratatat - Wildcat
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
J Dilla - Last Donut of the Night
J*Davey - Mr. Mister
Beyonce - Green Light
Cassie - Me and You
Jay Z with Usher and Pharrell - Anything
Lenine - Jack Soul Brasiliero
Malcolm Holcombe - Not Forgotten
TI with UGK - Front Back

albums

1 : Common Market - Common Market
2 : Tom Ze - Estudando O Pagode
3 : Theo Bleckmann and Fumio Yasuda - Las Vegas Rhapsody: The Night They Invented Champagne
4 : Ghostface Killah - Fish Scale
5 : Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
6 : J Dilla - Donuts
7 : Girl Talk - Night Ripper
8 : Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
9 : Milosh - Meme
10 : Sir Richard Bishop - Fingering the Devil
11 : TI - King

Some close calls:

Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
The Del McCoury Band - The Company We Keep
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Abigail Washburn - The Sparrow Quartet EP
Beyonce - BDay
Jake Shimabukuro - Gently Weeps
The Knife - Silent Shout
Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
Lenine - Lenine
NOMO - Newtones
Nuru Kane - Sigil
The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
Lil Wayne - Any of about six street tapes...
Prince - 3121
Rick Ross - Port of Miami
Tengir Too - Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan: Music of Central Asia v. 1

Matt, that top 11 isn't really organized by value; I think the TI is in the top ten. Just can't figure out what to prune.

For reissues, I have the Fania series, the blue note Axelrod: The Edge and the Fats Waller three disc. What am I missing?

You got sent all of them and you're listing them as one item! Can you burn me a few.

"What am I missing?"

Folk reissues, reggae reissues, punk reissues, African, New Orleans ... Who can afford 'em all or get sent them all...

http://www.wpwend.com/images/siegedropdeadreissue.jpg

1. Prurient
2. T.I.
3. Grizzly Bear
4. P.O.S.
5. Ecstatic Sunshine

I saw a Hinder video on VH1 this morning. Ugh.

I did not buy enough or get sent enough reissues this year. Should I believe the hype on Karen Dalton:
"The late Dalton has been the muse for many folk rock geniuses... Her timeless, aching, blues-soaked, Native American spirit inspired multiple musical generations: Bob Dylan: "Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday's and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed." Nick Cave: "She is my favorite female blues singer." Devendra Banhart: "Without a doubt, she is my favorite singer."

I could easily fill out a ballot of ten great albums by women, or ten albums in Spanish (and another for Portuguese), or ten records by people not based in the U.S., or whatever. The problem is bringing it all together. I might be up all night. I think this is fun.

Categories I will continue to neglect through ignorance/exhaustion: metal (even though "the best metal selection in the midwest" is five minutes from my house, I can never remember Skot's favorite records when I'm there), British rawk, current country (I gave up this year), MySpace pop, gangsta rap (I guess T.I. kinda counts but not really, Chingo gets kinda gully on his mextape but not sure if I wanna spend a vote on an album that cannot be purchased anywhere, etc.), many more. Lo siento.

I woke up this morning with the head of a dead juggalo beside me (the post-it on its forehead said "U ROT IN HELL KTHXBYE MM"), so try again.

1. Bob Dylan - "Thunder on the Mountain"
2. Peter, Bjorn and John - "Young Folks"
3. The Pipettes - "Pull Shapes"
4. The Rumble Strips - "Hate Me You Do"
5. Sally Shapiro - "By Your Side"
6. Lillix - "Sweet Temptation"
7. Wynton Marsalis - "Sparks"
8. Home Blitz - "Stupid Street"
9. Momus - "Frilly Military"
10. Lansing-Dreiden - "A Line You Can Cross"

1. LCD Soundsystem - "45:33"
2. T.I. - "What You Know"
3. Shareefa featuring Ludacris - "Need A Boss"
4. Sally Shapiro - "I'll Be By Your Side"
5. The Game - "Let's Ride"
6. AZ - "The Format"
7. Peter Bjorn and John - "Young Folks"
8. Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland - "Promiscuous"
9. Fergie - "London Bridge"
10. Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"

reissues:

1. David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
2. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
3. V/A - Big Apple Rappin'
4. Weather Report - Forecast Tomorrow

artists:

1. High School Musical
2. Timbaland
3. the Knife
4. Joanna Newsom
5. "Weird" Al Yankovic

01 ellen allien & apparat, orchestra of bubbles
02 paris hilton, paris
03 the knife, silent shout
04 ciara, ciara: the evolution
05 v/a, kiki: boogybytes vol 1
06 justin timberlake, futuresex/lovesounds
07 junior boys, so this is goodbye
08 beyoncé, b'day
09 booka shade, movements
10 scott walker, the drift

(tenth spot was rather wide open; fuckpony, e40, clipse and joanna newsom could all easily have taken it)

singles

01 ciara 'promise'
02 cassie 'me & u'
03 ellen allien & apparat, 'way out'
04 pussycat dolls ft snoop dogg, 'buttonz'
05 delia gonzalez & gavin russom, 'relevée' (carl craig rmx)
06 beyoncé, 'ring the alarm'
07 ti, 'what you know'
08 rex the dog, 'maximize'
09 jenny wilson, 'let my shoes lead me forward'
10 cham, 'ghetto story'

(rejigged after i realised that it was almost identical to the albums list - wtf this NEVER happens! - hence no knife, paris, booka shade, justin singles; in retrospect should have voted for 'irreplaceable' but 'ring the alarm' is my jam right now)

artist

01 PARIS HILTON
02 ellen allien
03 ciara
04 gabriel ananda
05 beyoncé

Timbaland is easily my #1, the rest I had to think about. Ended up with Joanna Newsom (because I often find HER more interesting than her album), James Murphy (to recognize "45:33," DFA remixes), Owen Pallett (for Final Fantasy and also string arrangements for Grizzly Bear), and Gnarls Barkley (for being the media sensation of the year).

timbaland, scott walker, naeem juwan, green gartside and ornette coleman ended up in my artists category [not in that order.]

What's the live one? The Peel Sessions one?

I have listened to fucking loads of Hefner this year, cuz've matters of the heart.

I have listened to fucking loads of Hefner this year, cuz've matters of the heart.

Yeah, except it's released as "Maida Vail" rather than "Hefner: The Peel Session". Dunno why. Still awesome though, the versions of "Greater London Radio" and "The Day That Thatcher Dies" in particular are just godly.

still at number 1: TV on the Radio

They still need a proper Peel sessions disc then. Maybe for 2007...

1. T.I. - King
2. Yo Gotti - Back 2 Da Basics
3. Spice 1 & MC Eiht - Keep It Gangsta
4. Boss Hogg Barbarians - Every Hog Has Its Day
5. Lil Wayne & Birdman - Like Father, Like Son
6. DJ Scream & D4L - Only The Crunk Survive 12: Kings of Snap
7. Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin
8. Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance
9. Army of the Pharaohs - The Torture Papers
10. The Roots - Game Theory

Top 10 Singles/Tracks of 2006

1. Trae feat. Z-Ro - No Help
2. Bo Hagen feat. D4L, Diamond & Princess - Wuz Up
3. Young Dro feat. T.I. - Shoulder Lean
4. BHI - Do It, Do It
5. Termanology feat. Lil Fame & Papoose - Watch How It Go Down (Remix)
6. Yung Joc - Dope Boy Magic
7. Project Pat feat. Pimp C - Cause I'm A Playa
8. Lil Yola - I Ain't Gon Let Up
9. Ludacris feat. Young Jeezy - Grew Up A Screw Up
10. Unk - Walk It Out

Top 5 Reissues of 2006

1. Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
2. Lord Finesse - The Awakening
3. Horace Andy - Natty Dread A Weh She Want
4. Just-Ice - Back to the Old School
5. DJ Jelly & MC Assault - Bass Game 4

Top 5 Artists of 2006

1. Aphilliates
2. K-Rab
3. DJ Scream
4. Young Dro
5. DJ Toomp

Should have done this

Top 10 Singles/Tracks of 2006

1. T.I. - What You Know
2. AZ - The Format
3. Prodigy - Mac 10 Handle
4. Omarion - Icebox
5. Too Short - Blow the Whistle
6. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
7. Basement Jaxx - Hush Boy
8. Big Mike and Six 2 feat. Young Bleed - Down Home
9. 50 Cent feat. MOP - I'll Whip Ya Head Boy (Remix)
10. Juvenile - Get Ya Hustle On

Top 5 Reissues of 2006

1. Jiggs and Cheeks - The Don
2. Tom Moulton - A Tom Moulton Mix
3. Coughee Brothers - Collector's Edition
4. Larry Levan - Journey Into Paradise
5. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 1

Top 5 Artists of 2006

1. Timbaland
2. T.I.
3. J Dilla
4. Will.I.Am
5. Lil Wayne

I'll be honest I totally did the 'top 5 artists' at the last moment w/ no thought.

Real curious to see where the '05 rollover votes put this in Pazz & Jop.

5. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 1

It's surprising how this passed by with little notice.

Charles Mingus, Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard . . . Played in Its Entirety at UCLA
Van Hunt, On the Jungle Floor
Mary J. Blige, The Breakthrough
E-40, My Ghetto Report Card
Tom Ze, Estudando o Pagode
Andrew Hill, Time Lines
Kelis, Kelis Was Here
Ghostface Killah, Fishscale
Basement Jaxx, Crazy Itch Radio
Lily Allen, Alright, Still

Singles/Tracks

Arctic Monkeys, I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
Lupe Fiasco, Kick, Push
Morrissey, Human Being
OK Go, A Million Ways
Pipettes, Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
Prince, Black Sweat
Rihanna, S.O.S.
Spank Rock, Rick Rubin
Young Jeezy, My Hood
Neil Young, Let's Impeach the President

Reissues

Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story
A Tom Moulton Mix
The Tommy Boy Story, Vol. 1
What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves
Jamaica to Toronto: Funk Soul & Reggae 1967-1974

Artists

Andrew Hill
Mary J. Blige
Tom Moulton
Os Mutantes
Jamie Lidell

my idolator list:

beach house, beach house
girl talk, night ripper
liars, drums not dead
yyys, show yr bones
clipse, hhnf
blow, paper tv
rapture, pieces of the people
supersystem, million microphones
camp lo, fort apache: the mixtape
think about life, think about life

lcd soundsystem, 45:33
snowden, like bullets
delorean, time breaks off
t.i., what you know
beach house, master of none
the clipse, wamp wamp
fiery furnaces, benton harbor
gnarls barkley, crazy
justin timberlake, my love
midlake, roscoe

ray barreto, acid
karen dalton, in my own time
tortoise, a lazarus taxon
pavement, wowee zowee
willie colon, el malo

1. T.I. - "What You Know"
2. Grizzly Bear - "Knife"
3. Young Dro - "Shoulder Lean"
4. Fergie - "London Bridge"
5. E-40 - "Tell Me When To Go"
6. The Pack - "Vans"
7. The Clipse ft. Pharell - "Mr Me Too"
8. Busta Rhymes ft. Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliot, Rah Digga, Lloyd Banks, Papoose and DMX - "Touch It (Remix)"
9. Shawnna - "Gettin' Some"
10. Kill The Vultures - "Moonshine"

1. Tropicalia
2. Big Apple Rappin': The Early Days Of Hip-Hop Culture In New York City 1979-1982
3. American Hardcore: The History Of American Punk Rock 1980-1986
4. Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches
5. Harvey Milk - Courtesy And Goodwill Towards Men

1. Prurient
2. T.I.
3. Grizzly Bear
4. P.O.S.
5. Ecstatic Sunshine

1. Panic! At the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
2. Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland - Promiscuous
3. T.I. - What You Know
4. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
5. CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
6. Sonic Youth - Incinerate
7. Justin Timberlake - My Love
8. Hot Chip - Boy From School
9. The Killers - When You Were Young
10. Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push

[No votes for reissues: I only heard a couple and they didn't seem worth voting for.]

1. Timbaland
2. Joanna Newsom
3. James Murphy
4. Owen Pallett
5. Gnarls Barkley

ah well, I forgot Timbaland, too, so it'll hardly be my biggest regret.

1. Amerie, That's What U R
2. The Fray, Over My Head (Cable Car)
3. Justin Timberlake feat. Timbaland, SexyBack
4. Lily Allen, LDN
5. Erase Errata, Another Genius Idea From Our Government
6. LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez, Control Myself
7. Gui Boratto, Like You (Supermayer Remix)
8. Mat Kearney, Nothing Left to Lose, Promiscuous
9. Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland,
10. Surkin, Radio Fireworks

1. V/A, American Primitive, Vol. 2
2. V/A, Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937
3. V/A, The House That Trane Built: Story of Impulse Records
4. The Dead C., Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005
5. John Peel and Sheila, The Pig's Big 78s - A Beginner's Guide

1. Ornette Coleman
2. Timbaland
3. Justin Timberlake
4. Robert Christgau
5. Fergie

singles:
the pipettes "pull shapes"
t.i. "what you know"
beyonce "irreplaceable"
lil jon "snap yo fingers"
my chemical romance "welcome to the black parade"
beyonce "ring the alarm"
amy winehouse "rehab"
webstar/young b. "chicken noodle soup"
basement jaxx "take me back to your house"
chamillionaire/krayzie bone "ridin"

(i guess i liked the kelis/nina n./nellie m. albums more than most people did. and i think lady sov's very good album is being unduly overlooked just because we all heard the songs a year or two ago. or whatever. for reissues i put down all fania stuff; if i'd thought about it longer i would've included this heat and the pretenders. i also feel bad for leaving the dixie chicks off the singles list, cuz i did really like that single.)

1. The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love
2. Mastodon, Blood Mountain
3. Booka Shade, Movements
4. J Dilla, Donuts
5. Ghostface Killah, Fishscale
6. v/a, Mary Anne Hobbs Presents the Warrior Dubz
7. The Coup, Pick a Bigger Weapon
8. Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury
9. E-40, My Ghetto Report Card
10. Comets on Fire, Avatar

1. Escort, Starlight (Darshan Jesrani Parks Dept. Dub)
2. Justice, We Are Your Friends (Lee Cabrera's Lower East Side Mix)
3. Dondolo, Dragon (Shit Robot "Fire Breathing" Mix)
4. Gnarls Barkley, Crazy
5. T.I., What You Know
6. Termanlogy, Watch How it Go Down
7. Too $hort, Blow the Whistle
8. Ne-Yo, Get Down Like That
9. Quiet Village Project, Circus of Horrors
10. P.O.S., Safety in Speed (Heavy Metal)

1. v/a, A Tom Moulton Mix
2. v/a, Big Apple Rappin'
3. v/a, Journey Into Paradise: the Larry Levan Story
4. v/a, What It Is!
5. v/a, Jamaica to Toronto

1. J Dilla
2. Timbaland
3. Ornette Coleman
4. Ghostface Killah
5. Oakland, CA

I SEE MYSELF AS THE HOLY RESURRECTION OF PUN

i guess this is kinda true, between these and the Blaq Poet cd he's bringing it right now.

FRIEND AND ALLY.

That was when Clipse and Ghostface still had legitimate commercial upside and so didn't need to aggressively market to the indie kidz and associated publications.

it did, yeah. but i'll speak up for whatever minority of us there are (maybe just me) who thought that was the overrated ghost album. all my years of listening to supreme clientele never made me like it as much as i liked fishscale the first time through. i even held off buying fishscale because of my suspicion of ghost-hyping. so, you know. milage varies etc.

Quite true all around. Now let me tell you how great the new Cure album will be.

I really enjoy [i]Hell Hath No Fury[/i] and I've yet to see a review that ain't trippin balls (Ethan's "Mobb Deep with more backpackerish lyrics" dis is actually the best description of why it's great that I've read!)

waht

thanks for the tunes. that's a real cool idea. i'm digging the mixtapes.

-- deej

coulda been worse