POX Pazz and Jop Albums Poll Winners

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I was looking at all the old Pazz and Jops today, and was kinda amazed by how few of the winners are records that I really like a lot.

My POX:

The Clash "London Calling"
Michael Jackson "Thriller"
Hole "Live Through This"
Outkast "Stankonia"
Prince "Sign O The Times"
PJ Harvey "To Bring You My Love"
Liz Phair "Exile In Guyville"
Nirvana "Nevermind"
Kanye West "Late Registration"
Outkast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 5 February 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, I think I'd have to switch out that second Outkast for Wilco, actually.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 5 February 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Who's Next
The Basement Tapes
Nevermind The Bollocks
This Year's Model
London Calling
Born In The USA
Sign o' The Times
Nevermind
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Love and Theft

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 5 February 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

For reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazz_and_jop

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Sunday, 5 February 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, there are a lot of weak ones in there. Mine:

Sign O the Times
Court and Spark
Songs in the Key of Life
Thriller
Imperial Bedroom
Stankonia
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Squeezing Out Sparks
Graceland
3 Feet High and Rising

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Sunday, 5 February 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

basement tapes
3 feet high and rising
it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
sign o the times
thriller
nevermind
exile in guyville
stankonia
never mind the bollocks
this year's model

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 5 February 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

basement tapes
never mind the bollocks
london calling
graceland
sign o' the times
nation of millions
3 feet high and rising
live through this
stankonia
love and theft

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 5 February 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

I go exactly with blount's excellent list, except I swap that Costello thing out for Graceland.

tho, seriously happy to see two of the critics I respect the most on ILX put Basement Tapes on top! now I'm totally inspired to pull out some Dylan, in my verging-on-drunk state.. Live 66 (electric) sounds like a real good call

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 5 February 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Never Mind the Bullocks
Thriller
Graceland
Stankonia
Nation of Millions
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Nevermind
To Bring You My Love
Born In the USA
3 Feet High and Rising

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 5 February 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

(that was in random order)

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 5 February 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

i like more than just these ten, but narrowing it down:

* 1975 - Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
* 1977 - Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
* 1980 - The Clash - London Calling
* 1983 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
* 1985 - Talking Heads - Little Creatures
* 1987 - Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
* 1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
* 1994 - Hole - Live Through This
* 1995 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
* 2001 - Bob Dylan - Love and Theft

― the petronas towers (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 February 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

like that list a lot, i guess I really just don't get the Hole love (as expressed by a number of folx on this thread); I remember that album album coming out and just thinking "eh". was it that good?? i guess I need to listen to it again! it has been over a decade since I listened. I mean at the time I was way into that sound but I just thought Courtney sounded lame compared to like Babes in Toyland. and I'm a massive Nirvana fan. and I'm a massive female rock fan. I love Bikini Kill, for one; I love the Runaways! I love lots of stuff. but man, Hole just never ever did it for me. i guess it's just one of those thing.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 5 February 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

i like hole and courtney, but for me it's about the goth grotesquerie as much as the music (weird mix of surfpunk, sunset strip metal, shambling janglepop, stevie nicks, '77-'91 anglophilia, always so much more glammed out than its austere indie and riotgrrl cousins*).

*babes in toyland's fontanelle was awesome, although i sorta can't stand kat bjelland as a person

― the petronas towers (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 February 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

and she's gotten to be like prince in terms of her taste in female proteges (melissa auf der maur, and her recent all-girl band) -- statuesque, freaky, big-haired, intimidating, terrific foils to her messy nuttiness.

― the petronas towers (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 February 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

1971 - The Who - Who's Next
1974 - Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
1975 - Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
1976 - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1977 - Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
1980 - The Clash - London Calling
1983 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
1987 - Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
1988 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2003 - OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

I like Nirvana but don't listen anymore. Never "got" De La Soul.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh damn, how did I miss Nation Of Millions winning? I'm not sure if that necessarily changes my POX list, though.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 5 February 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

1971 - The Who - Who's Next
1976 - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1978 - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
1980 - The Clash - London Calling
1983 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
1987 - Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1994 - Hole - Live Through This
2004 - Kanye West - The College Dropout
2005 - Kanye West - Late Registration

I don't even own Key of Life or London Calling and haven't spent much time with them, but I'm sure I like them better than some that I have heard (Imperial Bedroom, Speakerboxx).

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 5 February 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

POV: Pazz and Jop winners that haven't aged as well:

Not bad records, but let's just say there were better releases that year.

Squeezing Out Sparks (Rust Never Sleeps, The Clash, Armed Forces)
Ragged Glory (terrible year, but there's still Fear of a Black Planet, All Shook Down & No Depression)
Arrested Development Slanted & Enchanted, Automatic For The People, Sweet Old World
Little Creatures Rain Dogs, New Day Rising, Unforgettable Fire
Odelay Call the Doctor, Being There, Different Class

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 5 February 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Play
London Calling
Stankonia
Late Registration
Odelay
Who's Next
Nevermind
3 Feet High and Rising
College Dropout

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sign O The Times
This Years Model
Thriller
Born In The USA
Basement Tapes
It Takes A Nation Of Millions
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Love & Theft
Ragged Glory
Exile In Guyville

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

1974 - Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
1976 - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1983 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
1987 - Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
1988 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
1993 - Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
1995 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
1996 - Beck - Odelay
2000 - OutKast - Stankonia
2003 - OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2004 - Kanye West - The College Dropout
2005 - Kanye West - Late Registration

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

oops that's not ten. Scratch all the white people.

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Born in the USA
London Calling
The Basement Tapes
Exile in Guyville
Never Mind The Bollocks
Thriller
Live Through This
Ragged Glory
To Bring You My Love
Songs in the Key of Life

Unheard by me: most of Late Registration

I prefer other albums by: The Who, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Prince, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Nirvana, Lucinda Williams, Wilco (if you count the ones they did w/Billy Bragg)

But basically I enjoy them all except for Imperial Bedroom and the Arrested Development one.

― Patrick (Patrick), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The Clash - London Calling
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Kanye West - Late Registration

― Chuck B, Monday, 6 February 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

My five favorites of these: This Year's Model, Thriller, 3 Feet High and Rising, Exile in Guyville, and Songs in the Key of Life.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

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