Who is your P&J doppleganger?

I think that what sometimes is that I send Frank my extra copy of something I already like a lot, and he eventually starts to convince me I should *love* it instead. Unless I love it already, and tell him that when I send it to him. He might disagree with me though; I dunno.

insert "happens" after "sometimes" above.

In addition to Frank, I seem to have three or so votes in common with both Carol Cooper and Bill Friskics-Warren this year. (And Carol voted for Lil Jon's album as well as Brooks & Dunn's, which is cool!)

Anyone have any picks for the list that makes you throw up the most? Or is that just mean-spirited stuff from me because I'm in a shitty mood?

Not to worry, I am also very mean-spirited today because I'm in a bad mood.

To be honest the no voting for singles made me more incredulous than any individual crappy album someone picked.

1 Tego Calderon Tego Calderon BMG Latin 10
2 Dixie Chicks Top of the World Tour Live Columbia 10
3 Lil'Louie Vega Elements of Life Vega 10
4 Lee Williams and the Spiritual QCs Right on Time Malaco 10
5 Brooks & Dunn Red Dirt Road Arista 10
6 Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz Kings of Crunk TVT 10
7 Kirk Franklin The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin Gospocentric 10
8 Bob Marley & the Wailers Live at the Roxy Tuff Gong/Island 10
9 Willie Nelson & Friends Live and Kickin' Lost Highway/UMG 10
10 Van Orly Somebody Hold Me Dureco/Strengholt 10

Singles
# artist title label
1 OutKast Hey Ya! Arista
2 Dixie Chicks Travelin' Soldier Monument/EMN/Columbia
3 R. Kelly Step in the Name of Love (remix) Jive
4 Toby Keith I Love This Bar DreamWorks
5 La Sonora Carruseles Micaela Discos Fuentes
6 50 Cent In Da Club G-Unit/Shady/ Aftermath/Interscope
7 Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins Get Low TVT
8 Dido White Flag Arista
9 Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee Shake Ya Tailfeather Bad Boy
10 Robbie Williams Feel Capitol import

Nate Patrin and I have similar ballots

also i don't think i have a doppelganger that's that close but Mikael Wood, Angela Cravens (who uniquely voted with me for Dat Sexy Body), and Scott Woods all have ballots with some overlap and generally along my lines.

ha, if anyone else voted for diamanda and bubba, i wanna meet 'em.

[also, every fabric 13 voter also selected boy in da corner, and most of them picked at least two of: rapture, basement jaxx, and bubba sparxx.] (yes, I’m procrastinating.)

http://villagevoice.com/issues/0406/eddy.php

It's nice to see a salsa song, but I happen to hate this, plus it came out no later than 2002.

Signed,
An ungrateful salsa fan

of perhaps more interest to others is that I noticed a remarkable correlation between those who voted for King Sunny Ade and those who voted for Lyrics Born.

I think there's even a couple "all albums that were Xgau pick hits" lists! Those always crack me up, for some reason. Which leads me to wonder who had the most Xgau DUDs on their ballot this year...

(Technically, I know, Lyrics Born was not a pick hit per se, since Bob wrote an essay on it instead. But it was an extremely POSITIVE essay.)

Michaelangelo Matos (As Heard on Radio Soulwax 1, 2 & 3)
J.R. Nelson (As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2, Freelance Hellraiser & LCD Soundsystem)
Philip Sherburne (Geogaddi, Stoke & LCD Soundsystem)

Whoa, seeing my name grouped with his makes me feel all weird inside. Anyhow, I'm not sure how close our ballots technically are, but I do dig that Sia's ballot consisted almost entirely of stuff I really really loved -- save Radiohead, which I actually sort of like but only when it's actually playing; when it's not I kind of forget it exists.

I share six picks with Mark Pytlik (who he?), and five with Rod Smith (again, who he?). There might be others but I'm not about to start wading through those who voted for S/TLB or "Crazy in Love."

I need to check the P & J and see if anybody else voted for Abyssinia Infinite and Dizzee as I did...

That would be ILX's own Mark P, scholar and gent.

That issue of the Beat has Thomas Mapfumo on the cover and I wish I had picked up his latest cd. The participants in their poll list a number of cds that I want to check out.

I wonder if Christgau reads the Beat? Maybe Chuck Eddy will check back in here and let us know. I think trying to add (if the Voice hasn't already done so) some of the Beat's participants would be a nice addition to Pazz & Jop...

Did anybody hear Christgau on NPR?

Rockist, yea there's lots of intriguing stuff in that issue of the Beat. Of course, while Pazz & Jop fights it out over hiphop and indie-rock and tokenism in that context, I read on Africaonline Congolese music fans grumbling that their beloved Zaiko Langa Langa and others don't get the respect that more heavily marketed Malian and other African sounds get from fRoots and Global Rhythms and other European based publications. Martin Sinnock, a Brit who writes for the Beat and others, was noting that he goes and buys new Congolese group cds and that the other writers should do the same. He correctly predicted that the better distributed retro-Congolese records and the Malian festival in the Desert and others would do better than his beloved Congolese rumba. In some ways this is analagous to the rockism issue that gets covered here...I won't even touch on trying to relate this to those who may only like Spanish language sounds that resemble classic salsa versus those who may like more contemporary Spanish language styles be it reggaeton or rap-rock or whatever.

I figure if you add more Beat magazine contributors and more from the English language more pop rock-en-Espanol mags you'll make both you and Xgau happy and enhance all sides of the equation in covering international music.