It's 2008!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Pazz and Jop results.

No time to go back to the predictions thread, but xhuxk was right about MIA winning singles, and I was right about Portishead doing very well in albums, and I can't remember who else said what.

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[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

My favorite ballot so far (four Flipper albums!):

[www.villagevoice.com]

I also think it's funny that the Top 40 albums includes bands called both Fleet Foxes and Frightened Rabbit (the latter of whom I swear I never heard of before, though I probably just wasn't paying attention.)

Another thing I had no idea of til now: That some people still care about the Walkmen (32nd!?) and the Black Keys (55th).

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Oops, here is that Flipper-happy ballot:

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2008/685463

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

That was J. NEO MARVIN (also the only other voter besides me to vote for the New Bloods album.)

Another critic with similar indie-rock tastes to me is apparently DOUG MOSURAK, who I've never heard of. We don't actually share any albums on our lists, but he did vote for THREE indie-rock albums that made the Top 58 of my Top 150 albums list that I published in Rhapsody (Prisonshake, Eddy Current Suppression Ring -- who finished 73rd, not bad! -- and Pumice). (On the other hand, I've heard a few other albums on Mosurak's list, and didn't like those much. But still.)

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2008/686364

[koganbot]

I knew Neo a little bit when I lived in San Francisco; he was friends with Patty Stirling and Alan Korn.

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Doug is a NYC promoter and general music dude who I know through Dan Seltzer's nyhappenings list. I seem to remember him being a noise dude, but maybe he's an italodisco dude? It's very hard to keep these things straight.