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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm really surprised that a lot of people are really into it! The standard response to lists and polls is "botherd", I thought. The top 40 albums are woeful apart from four (three of which are in the top 5 though). How does one get a ballot?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You ask, pretty much. I guess if you see regular print work or have a prominent blog it helps, and ideally you should be American too. And once you're on the list I don't think they take you off, though since I don't tick any of those boxes any more they might not bother sending me one. (But I promise to do comments next time!).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Well I have regular print work! I don't think anyone at Plan B has ever, ever mentioned this thing though. It has a really silly name, who came up with that?

Who do I ask?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Regular print work usually means "regular print work in the US". Though Dorian Lynskey's on it. Dunno if Petridis is.

You ask Chuck Eddy I guess.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It does seem a very US-centric list. There are LOADS of names which I am convinced are completely made up.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, it's a US publication!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was just shocked by the ILM thread full of normally-botherd types actually appearing to care about it!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It has a certain historical weight, it's the biggest music crit poll in the world I think, and it's an interesting barometer of mainstream critical thinking in the states.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It seems pretty much the same as all the other US end-of-yr lists except it has Rachel Stevens and Vitalic limping into its lower echelons.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lex you seem not to be alert to the particular nuances of alt-country placings! I am SHOCKED I tell you shocked.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think they would like it to be GLOBAL but their contacts are primarily US -- they pitch it as gatherin the thoughts of the MOSTEST CRITICS EVAH

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

whatever happened to quality over quantity!