PJ dunkin'

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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

The reason it's called Pazz & Jop

[(Anonymous)]

Is because the albums format (100 points divided among 10 albums, highest points-per 30, lowest 5) was taken from Jazz & Pop magazine's annual poll. It's a pun on the name--since J&P was a jazz magazine w/some pop, Christgau conceived it as a pop magazine w/some jazz. The reason it's "32nd or 33rd annual" is that he did an informal version of the poll in 1971, left the Voice for two years, came back in 1974 and started the poll again.

Re: The reason it's called Pazz & Jop

[(Anonymous)]

oh, and sorry for not signing that--it's Matos here.

Re: The reason it's called Pazz & Jop

[(Anonymous)]

and of course that should be "conceived it as a pop POLL w/some jazz."