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.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

oh wtf is kid rock doing in the singles poll ffs. and i see vampire weekend's sickness has spread across the pond. and the wrong mgmt song always wins things. (kids>electric feel by dint of being the only semi-listenable mgmt song)

slipknot made it in at 561st in the albums chart. which depending on your position could be taken as "doing surprisingly well." surprised that xiu xiu was 559th, although to be fair it's far from their best album and has the world's worst cover of 'under pressure' on it but i thought indie types'd like that.

i think what these charts teach me is that critics have mostly bad music taste.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you do know that vampire weekend are american, right? ;)

sorry, i'm not following you round the internet correcting you on purpose!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

oh what who's lied to me and told me they're from oxford? shows how much attention i pay.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hehehe, some foals are from oxford, and vampire weekend have a song called oxford comma, so i could see where the confusion may arise.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

ah, that'd probably be it.

either way, they're still rubbish.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i like VW but then i am an indie who grew up on gracelands

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Have you read Simon R's essay about them that accompanies the P&J poll. It is funny! Also VW + "Put A Donk On It" = HE IS YOU!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

hahaha oh dear i was just writing a grumpy post in my own journal about how much that essay made me want to throw bricks through things.

i think i have a semi-subconscious personal vendetta against reynolds for thinking it's clever to have taped things off the radio in the 90s though so cannot pretend to be unbiased.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hahaha, yes i have just read it now, well done SR, there.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years
Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years
Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years
Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years
Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years
Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years
Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years
Vampire Weekend has more interesting rhythms than any hip-hop record I've heard these past several years

OH MY GOD YOU ARE SUCH A FUCKING JOKE, REYNOLDS. though this sentence makes sense if the number of hip-hop records he has heard is zero, which is actually totally plausible.

I wouldn't get annoyed by him if people didn't keep pointing his stupid shit (copyright Girlicious) out to me!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lex he is trolling and you are feeding!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I would ignore it if everyone else ignored it b/c then I would not know about it!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I strongly resemble this comment.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Don't they just make you want to listen to Graceland instead though?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

well, sort of, so i bought a copy of graceland (previous version being on twenty year old audio tape) as well.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

what about El Guincho?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

They made me want to listen to Graceland and I hadn't even heard Graceland. (So I did. And it was better.)

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Damn right critics have bad music tastes -- I'm pissed (and also kind of suprised) that "All Summer Long" didn't finish HIGHER. But then, I'm one of the tasteless chumps who voted for it:

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/singles/2008/QWxsIFN1bW1lciBMb25n

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

it's not that i particularly have anything against the song aside from not especially liking it myself, it was more a genuine 'wtf' because to me it's ...i dunno, such a casual track i can't imagine it being something for lists. but each to their own, etc.

hurrah for 'into the nightlife' being on your ballot, though; i still can't get over how utterly, utterly brilliant that whole album is and especially that track.