Predict Pazz & Jop 2003

YYYs will be on my ballot, fersure.

Unless anyone's heard otherwise, Bjork and PJ Harvey are both slated to release albums in 2003.

Um, I think they'll vote for the Alterations reissue at #1 and probably the Steve Turner solo album will come in second.

1. Fountains Of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers
2. The Notwist, Neon Golden
3. White Stripes, Elephant
4. Pernice Brothers, Yours, Mine & Ours
5. The Mars Volta, De-Loused In The Comatorium
6. Damien Jurado, Where Shall You Take Me
7. Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears
8. Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People
9. Manitoba, Up In Flames
10. Four Tet, Rounds

haha Metacritic

Dark horse Top 10: Drive-By Truckers
Dark horse Top 20: Grandaddy

Annie Lennox Top 20. Metallica Top 20. Neil Young (!!!) Top 20 (the record ain't half bad).

ditto to Drive-By Truckers, Grandaddy (the Ted Leo has owned indie America this year, big midwest 'real music' vote)

This thread so early is making my ass pucker.

also, 50 Cent top 10 easy

I'm not hearing it (literally or figuratively)

yes, 50 Cent album top ten

Zwan got a great crit reaction, it's been big on the radio, Billy's got his fans, etc., etc. Yr giving peeps too much credit, JB!

Yanc3y, check yr email

ZWAN????? maybe in the bottom top 30.

If Luther croaks late in the year he might get it.

Audio Bullys, Ego War
The Rapture, Echoes
Adult., Anxiety Always
The White Stripes, Elephant
ARE Weapons
Luomo, The Present Lover
Grandaddy, Sumday
The Libertines, Up the Bracket (Amurkin release: March '03)
Electric Six, Fire
Exploding Hearts, Guitar Romantic
Fantastic Plastic Machine, Too
FCS North, Vocabulary
Manitoba, Up In Flames
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell
Murs, The End of the Beginning
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Hearts of Oak
The Black Keys, thickfreakness
Killer Mike, Monster
The New Pornographers, Electric Version
Super Furry Animals, Phantom Power
that Radiohead thing

I have yet to hear the new Drive-By Truckers. I might just go out and buy it on my way home from work tomorrow, sound unheard.

This year is pants for "big huge super exciting world-sweeping movements" but fucking amazing for "dancing".

I am definitely saving a slot for the new Ludacris based on its title alone. Chicken and Beer, motherfuckers! I hope it has a Bill O'Reilly dis track.

damn I wish I had more than two suitcases and a backpack full of stuff with me here rather than having everything else PACKED IN BOXES back in NYC

*pause*

*sigh*

*hard eyeroll 45 degrees up*

I love you Matos.

diamond OTM.

Useless, but popular! This is by far the most successful thread I've ever started. :-)

The long-awaited Obie Trice album! heheh.

Don't underestimate the New Pornographers. They will probably place top ten, possibly top 3, possibly number one.

Matos -- do you overrate you're faves chances in the poll every year? (I'm thinking of your Daft Punk/Basement Jaxx/Avalanches all top 10 prediction) No way New Porn top 3!?!

Elephant's about half as good as White Blood Cells but still way better than some other past winners I can think of.

I've got my fingers crossed for Outkast.

Anybody heard the Rancid yet? And is Justin Timberlake way too 2002 for me to vote for it? I didn't hear the whole album until about a month ago and I'm shocked at how much I like it.

if the yeah yeah yeahs get the 'hot chicks over guitars' boy-crit vote i will jump off a bridge, i swear, sigh guess i'd better get my sproingy shoes ready

and what about the thursday record, i can't walk five feet without reading something about it, for realz

my ballot might have on it andrew wk (yes!!), apes, s prcss, throwing muses at this point. also i need to spend more time with the evergrey record.

I don't think 50 Cent will be top 10 -- I think a lot of the token votes it might get will get mitigated by its singles vote -- a lot of people will vote "In Da Club" and bypass the album. It'll be top 20 though.

Also are there any good singles left on the Sean Paul album? Because he deserves to have a "record of the summer."

critics from dailies i've read (incl. the suddenly-emo-happy nyt) seem to thrill at it

I would also LOVE to see The Microphones' Mount Eerie fare better with the P&J crowd than Elvrum's The Glow, Pt. 2 did back in 2001.

Among records released so far this year, I'd say the only ones with a legitimate shot at winning are Elephant, Hail to the Thief, and maybe Fever to Tell.

Elephant is almost certainly the most broadly acclaimed of the bunch and it's kicked considerably more ass on the Billboard charts than White Blood Cells--or, for that matter, Is This It or Veni Vidi Vicious if not that stupid Vines record--did, though I'll concede that it's a slightly weaker album than its predecessor.

If this year turns out to be especially weak than I could see Hail to the Thief managing the same sort of minor consenus that landed Little Creatures at the top of the albums list.

And I'm really not sure at all how much support Fever to Tell will amass. At first, I was less taken with it than I was their Master EP, though the last three tracks are pretty fantastic. Still, if it grows on the P&Jers the way it's grown on me, than a victory is probably completely not out of the question.

I also hope that Electric Version places really well (top ten--*fingers-crossed*), though I still prefer Mass Romantic.

Lucinda's World without Tears is obviously no Car Wheels but is arguably stronger than Essence and that slipped into the top ten in a year that was arguably stronger than this one's shaping up to be.

Pig Lib? Top twenty, perhaps. I think that just depends on how nostalgic it makes voters for the good ole Pavement days.

Yo La Tengo's record is relatively weak but it will probably make the top twenty or twenty-five, because it's only RELATIVELY weak.

I hope the Kills' album makes at least the top 40. It's good stuff.

50 Cent I'm conflicted on. In da Club will (deservingly) clean house in the singles poll and 21 Questions might show up there, too, but his album just doesn't strike me as being consistent enough to make the top ten.

I'm not crazy about Blur by any stretch of the imagination but it's sure to rank high on Brit-lists and some of the love might carry over on this side of the Atlantic.

I haven't heard the new Amy Rigby, but if what I've read is a good indicator, it will probably place well.

I hope Northern State's Dying in Stereo pops on a good number of lists this year. Both EPs made a handful of lists last year (including Christgau's).

Oh, and then, of course, there's that godawful new Liz Phair album. Contrarian-minded pop fans might land it in the top 40 but I truly hope not. It's easily the worst thing I've heard all year; worse even than St. Anger!

Among upcoming releases....

PJ Harvey's album will have to really suck for it not to make the top five or ten, but I really don't count on that happening. She's never made anything even remotely resembling a less-than-great record and only Is This Desire? failed to crack the TOP FIVE. In fact, if her new album is as good as Stories from the City it just might win.

The same goes to only a slightly lesser extent for Bjork's Lake Experience. If it's on par with Vespertine, it'll definitely place in the top 3-5.

If the expected Strokes LP is as highly regarded as Is This It (which seems doubtful, for some reason, but certainly not impossible) it'll be sure to give Elephant a run for its money.

OutKast's double-solo-album(s) seems like a risky bet to me. It'll either win the thing by as larger or an even larger a margin than Stankonia did or really underwhelm everyone's expectations.

Anyhoo, those are my thoughts on this year's poll.

I'm rooting for Lumidee so hard, but I doubt it.Ã?

I'll predict it! *raises hand*

rmde at everyone stanning for fucking Elephant all those years ago