The Poptimists 2006 End Of Year Poll: ALBUM OF THE YEAR

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Poptimists End of Year polls kick off with the unimportant, but still intriguing, category of Album of the Year. Thankyou for your nominations, which have been distilled to a shortlist (by the scientific means of "most mentioned") as follows:

Paris Hilton - Paris: The year's most controversial release - frothy R&B-pop from the heiress-turned-renaissance-woman.
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles: Luscious electronic pop and atmospherics from German boffinette and henchbeing.
The Knife - Silent Shout: Shrieksome electro artpop from Scandinavia.
Marit Larsen - Under The Surface: Scando singing-songwriting popstrel spans country, twee and Euro-pop.
Beyonce - B-Day: Quickly recorded relationship dissections from the reigning queenbot of R&B.

You, the Poptimists Voting Academy, can grace ONE of these with your tick. Do so!

[Poll #891029]

Another category tomorrow - if you didn't nominate you STILL CAN in the other categories by going here!

Comments

Re: Tom, Please Vote For The Paris Album In Jackin' Pop and Pazz & Jop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have locked the JP ballot! I did think about just voting for the Paris album and no others, but I didn't want it to be taken as some statement about Paris-ness or Album-ness.

I may think a bit harder about albums for Pazz and Jop, though.

Re: Tom, Please Vote For The Paris Album In Jackin' Pop and Pazz & Jop

[koganbot]

I locked my ballot too - back when the deadline was midday Friday - which means that for better or worse I can't go back and find a kinder way to deliver the message in my opening salvo. But for P&J I'd think you'd easily be able to find another couple of albums to vote for (if you're iffy on 'em, just give 'em five points). The Rackamonie EP is an example: Unless it turns out you totally detest "Be Mine!" and "Cobrastyle" and that you no longer like "Konichawa Bitches," that's enough to vote for her right there (three out of five tracks), and you can listen to "Jack U Off" on her MySpace. And "List Of Demands" is all over the Web. And if you consider that to be old stuff, don't worry, if your motive is to neutralize an implied statement about Paris and about albums.

And I give you permission to vote for anything on my albums list, even if you haven't heard it.

(Now, gotta go cram for my country critics ballot. I think Jennings fils will outrank Colter mère.)

Re: Tom, Please Vote For The Paris Album In Jackin' Pop and Pazz & Jop

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I remember that back when I had only heard 'Be Mine' and 'Who's That Girl?', I was 100% pro-Robyn; now, I can't even listen to those songs, it's one of those cases where once you realise what the weaknesses are you can't ignore them. I can safely say that I loathe everything about Robyn now, including what I used to love. And it's not just because of the race hate aspect to some of her fans. She infuriates me because she's just NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Re: Tom, Please Vote For The Paris Album In Jackin' Pop and Pazz & Jop

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I'll never get your Robyn hate.

Have you heard 'With Every Heartbeat' yet? If it was anyone else I'm sure you'd love it. Maybe you'll love it anyway.