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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My own ballot seems weird to me now. This year, more than any other year, I had huge difficulty qualitatively ranking music - I mean I've known for years it's inherently absurd but this year it was just impossible. (Mostly because this year was the first I was on a lot of regular PR mailing lists PLUS had working reliable internet access all year: it really was a deluge at times.) Albums were easier - I had 7 or 8 top albums, then a mass of about 20 second-tier ones from which I picked three at random (eg deliberately not voting for MIA because she didn't need it). Tracks...completely, completely impossible. I could have submitted the bottom ten of my top 60 (from which I have excised dance tracks! b/c HOW does one compare eg 'Fiori' to eg 'Potential Breakup Song'??) and been totally happy with it.