Popped In Polled Out

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://pop.idolator.com/ - Idolator's critic's poll is up. Not a huge number of surprises in the main poll, to be fair (though I wonder if this year their critic base is different from P&J's - it feels more 'webby' (also not surprising).

A cool thing Idolator do is to ask individual critics to make an end of year mix, plus comments, which will be found at the link above (I assume!). I did one for them myself.

Comments

[koganbot]

So far I have read none of the essays but have confined myself to working up the Kogan Affinity Ratings, a list of people who chose three or more items that I chose. I stayed up past my bedtime working on this.

Who is Josh Timmerman? Is he one of you?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

If he is , we'll soon kick that RHCP love out of him ;)

Nobody voted for the Boney M reissues, I notice. They really did go under the radar, huh?

[koganbot]

I certainly had no idea there were any Boney M reissues. (But I never have any idea what's being reissued, and I usually use the category to vote for comps or special-event new albums that are old material, like the Neil Young live show from '71.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The concept of rewarding and ranking reissues is totally bizarre to me. They just seem...unimportant. How is buying a reissue any different to just going out and buying an old album?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I always find that section impossible! I put a Greensleeves comp on it which I'd just downloaded, just because I wanted something to put.

From a reviewer's POV I like reissues - I'm semi-eagerly awaiting a copy of the Thriller 25th anniversary set - because they're a ready-made opportunity to find a new angle on something old or take stock of it (despite the earlier thread, I'm not anti "test of time" as a test to apply to old stuff!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I wanted to put the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas collection of 12"s but it specified that the reissues had to be of music more than five years old, as if anyone listened to music from way back then.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Well you do often get extra stuff on CD reissues. Half the time, they're not worth a damn - demos and outtakes that should have stayed in the archives - but the Miles Davis 'On The Corner' thing for example is something like 80% (?) new material.