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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK, maybe that's true - I don't read the print media! - but R1 plays plenty of US acts, and some hip-hop, maybe not as much as it did a few years ago though. It also never really comments negatively on anything, which gives it a slightly detatched, antiseptic tone. You'd be right to say that most of the music it really gets behind is British though, but as you said earlier this is partly an access thing.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm basing a lot of this on seeing LOTS of union jacks gracing the front covers of eg NME, Q and so on.

I can't believe Destiny's Child once got on the NME cover! Yes just as wank-fodder but that still seems really bizarre in 2006.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

ARRRRRGH make it stop.