PJ dunkin'

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Pazz and Jop time again - here's my ballot, I feel a bit guilty for not taking longer over it. 2005 was a strange year.

(from that you can access the whole bunfight, if you like - I've not actually explored it yet, even the singles list feels quite distant from anything I care much about. Is it just me or do the concerns of US and UK music fans feel further apart now than any time since about '95?)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

U.S. and Brit charts have been diverging since the late '70s. But notice that you did vote for a couple of things that weren't singles anywhere.

Also - and perhaps they will correct this problem by the time you look again - they screwed up the point totals for "Be Mine!" by dividing its vote among those who used the exclamation point and those who didn't!. It really totals 14 points and places 48th!!!

But all of this pales in comparison to the fact that "KEROSENE" MADE THE TOP 40!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think my ballot was full of pretty obvious choices, minus K-Bitches perhaps, the kind of ballot a typical pro-pop British crit might put together (except maybe I'm the only pro-pop Brit-crit who gets polled, who knows!) - and Glenn McDonald's rankings even on singles alone still have me right at the bottom.

Also there's been some occasions when the charts have been more convergent - the early 90s for instance, with Eurodance going one way and R'n'B and alt.rock the other.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

they ask me also but i never get it together (also it clashes w.tax year which demands v.similar declarations about the recent past rendering me totally allergic)