The 32nd P&J Albums Poll!

I voted for Sonic Youth then and still would, even though I prefer Rather Ripped.

Same here (except the preferring Rather Ripped part).

Typically, I went for the boring old '60s fart--the Geir pick, if you will.

I voted for Franz Ferdinand, ahead of my favorite Wilco album, Kanye, and the Arcade Fire. The Usher album is coincidentally in the mail to me, so I may revise my view. It's weird to me how many of these albums still seem new: I guess it's because it's when new music started piling up for me, so that I haven't yet listened to the Bjork album or the AC Newman (I imagine I never will listen to the latter). I've never even listened to Sonic Nurse---I love Murray Street so much that I haven't wanted to stray from it. Maybe I will.

You. Really. Need. To. Hear. It. Now!

Hmmm...I've heard less of these than I would like. Kanye, Ghostface, Madvillian or Usher could get my vote.

Nellie McKay, but I have a sneaky suspicion U2 or Green Day might win by a large margin.

M.I.A. wasn't M.I.A. So my vote goes to the ugly, brutal, supposedly-hipper-than-Youssou-N'Dour Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1 (please - I'm too fragile for a volume 2).

M.I.A.:

Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats - I played this at a dance party and some revelers were stunned. I guess they thought they were going to get...well, what? Tropicalia? Still, galloping around to the irritating "Pocotocopo" lifted my ass into the stratosphere.

Caetano Veloso: A Foreign Sound - Gawd, I hope they didn't think they were getting this - Tropicalia dinner music for people who top ten Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1.

Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster - "Please introduce yourself to America's first songwriter," says this tribute album. Emphasis on "please."

Grandaddy: Below The Radio - Best indie rock mix tape ever withMeat Puppets II as the spiritual coordinate.

Diplo: Favela on Blast: Rio Baile Funk 04 - I'm a very trendy guy.

Todd Snider: East Nashville Skyline - America's best singer-songwriter of the 21st century. And he seems to be handling it better than Stephen Foster.

The Soft Pink Truth: Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? - Answer: yes. Most homosexual album of the year.

Reissue of the year:

The Homosexuals: The Homosexuals' CD - Notice that this is NOT the three-disc horror Astral Glamour but rather the one-disc distillation of these formerly shadowy dub punks. Do NOT let people tell you need Astral Glamour unless you have a very high tolerance for tuneless caterwaul. Or one-minute "pop" songs consisting of tossed-off folk guitar with voice.

Didn't hear until 2005 but prolly would've top tenned: Madvillainy

Favorite missing albums of '04: Gwen Stefani, Love Angel Music Baby; Masta Killa, No Said Date; Daddy Yankee, Barrio Fino

i voted madvillainy, it was between that and ghost

Kanye! My enthusiasm would wane the next year.

good year.

1. kanye
2. interpol
3. ghost
4. franz
5. fiery furnaces

can't wait for big & rich to win by 22 votes.

Hey, if they did it wouldn't be the end of the world.

They deserve to.

My ballot that year; haven't changed my mind much since, I don't think:

1 Big & Rich Horse of a Different Color
Warner Bros points: 30
2 Monster Records: The Seventies Sampler
Monster
points: 15
3 M.I.A./Diplo Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1
no label
points: 11
4 Yolanda Perez Aqui Me Tienes
Fonovisa points: 10
5 Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats
Essay Recordings import
points: 8
6 Kenny Chesney When the Sun Goes Down
BNA points: 6
7 Red Swan After the Barn Goes
Isoxys
points: 5
8 Skye Sweetnam Noise From the Basement
Capitol points: 5
9 Trick Daddy Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets
Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic points: 5
10 Rick Springfield Shock/Denial/Anger/Acceptance
Gomer points: 5

I went with Sonic Youth. I was disappointed with Rather Ripped, but Sonic Nurse is right up there with Murray Street as one of the best Sonic Youth albums. A close second for me was MIA/Diplo.

Big & Rich can't possibly win, guys. But it would be cool if they did.

xp (haha...)

I still love The Streets. I'm sad that nobody else seems to anymore.

Miccio much more OTM than Jordan S. re: poll-rigging.

As only the man who originated the "Go Hinder!" campaign last year could be, natch.

Anything apart from Brian Wilson.

i will vote for the streets

My pick is the Joanna Newsom, but I also like the Brian Wilson, Nellie McKay, MIA, Devendra Banhart, Sonic Youth, Black Keys, and A.C. Newman.

Sonic Youth, then and now. (This was the first year I voted in P&J.)

I believe Junior Boys was #41, btw.

can't wait for big & rich to win by 22 votes.

-- J0rdan S., Monday, November 19, 2007 11:00 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

You haven't been on ILX long enough.

christ how the fuck did u2 make the pazz'n'jop top ten with THAT album.

though there's actually a lot of "THAT album?" on the list.

And Green Day, too! Maybe voters were still sore over the Nov. elections?

at least green day was at their commercial peak since Dookie! There's SOME logic there. This was just a gaudy turd after the "comeback" album.

on both albums my favorite song was the nonsensical rave-up. "Vertigo" sounds like Enrique Iglesias leading R.E.M. circa Monster. I can get behind that.

both U2 albums, I mean.

did the entire Rolling Stone staff vote for Green Day, U2, and Loretta Lynn?

Every U2 album in the past 20 years has made P&J, and the only ones that missed the top ten were the genuine fiascos (Pop and Rattle And Hum).

Compare and contrast for hours of fun and games:

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/04/ballots-votedfor.php?titleid=250529

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/04/ballots-votedfor.php?titleid=251327

Can't wait for Danger Mouse's How To Dismantle A Heart-Shaped Grenade

Every U2 album in the past 20 years has made P&J, and the only ones that missed the top ten were the genuine fiascos (Pop and Rattle And Hum).

I guess this was really the first Just Another U2 Album since October. Ugh.

pop and r&h are better than their last two imo

Loretta Lynn received the "gosh darn it, there's no White Stripes album to vote for this year!" award, methinks. Still a really good record, tho.

xp's galore

Yeah, I pretty much agree, just saying those are the 2 big PR disasters/backlash moments of their career. They didn't have to go away and dream it all up again after Atomic Bomb. (xpost)

This helped too.

(xpost)

Please erase U2 from history.

Not to mention this:

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/

xp

For some reason I clicked on that expecting to see How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb at the top. I feel...relieved.

Weird. Stylus awarded the U2 record a C, but Metacritic give it 60 points? How the hell does that work out? Shouldn't it have been 50 points at the most?

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=2537

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/u2/howtodismantleanatomicbomb?q=u2

this is freaking me out!

Please erase U2 from history.

-- The Reverend, Monday, November 19, 2007 1:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Madvillain then and now.

Sonic Youth narrowly over the Hold Steady

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Streets, although I see the Scissor Sisters winning this by a ridiculous margin ;-)

About 70 more from 2004

Montgomery Gentry – You Do Your Thing (Columbia)
Chingo Bling – The Tamale Kingpin (Big Chile
Wolf – Evil Star (Prosthetic)
The Living Things – Black Skies In Broad Daylight (Dreamworks promo)
Heart – Jupiter’s Darling (Sovereign Artists)
Nagg – Nagg (Dollar Record)
Blaine Larsen – Off To Join The World (BNA)
Onkel Tom – Bon Scott Hab Ich Noch Live Gesehen (Armageddon Music EP)
Gore Gore Girls – 7x4 (goregoregirls.com EP)
Ewigkeit – Radio Ixtlan (Earache)
Cargun – Deep Field South (Rift Valley)
Mannie Fresh – The Mind Of… (Cash Money/Universal)
DJ Thomas – Tropical Hot Dog (Myutopia mix album)
Daddy G – DJ-Kicks (!K7 mix album)
Billy Butcher – Penny Dreadful (Outlaw)
(Various) – I Like It Vol. 1 (Compost mix album)
Mr. Wonka?! – Codeine Rock (mistrwo✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧)
Federation – The Album (Virgin)
Last Days Of May – The First 7 Billion Miles (Doubling Cube)
Samantha Jo – Samantha Jo (samanthajomartin.com EP)
(Various) – Crunk Classics (TVT)
The Hiss – Panic Movement (Sanctuary)
M&R Rush –The Thrill Of The Chase (mandrrush.com)
Billy Don Burns – Heroes, Friends & Other Troubled Souls (IndieMafia)
Courtney Love – America’s Sweetheart (Virgin)
Tim McGraw – Live Like You Were Dying (Curb)
Lil’ Wayne – Tha Carter (Cash Money/Universal)
The Legendary Shack Shakers – Believe (Yep Roc)
Eluvium – An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death (Temporary Residence)
Gogol Bordello Vs. Tamir Muskat – J.U.F. (Stinky)
Black Lips – We Did Not Know The Forest Spirit Made The Flowers Grow (Bomp!)
Bley/Sheppard/Swallow/Drummond – The Lost Chords (Watt Works/ECM)
The Dragons – RockNRoll Kamikaze (Gearhead)
Pat Green – Lucky Ones (Republic/Universal)
(Various) – The Conet Project: Recordings Of Shortwave Numbers Stations (Irdial-Disc)
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Live In Paris With The Dennis Bovell Dub Band (Wrasse)
The Color Guard – Dark Pop (Suziblade)
Big & Rich – Super Galactic Fan Pak (Warner Bros. EP)
Kathy X – Ready For Anything (Cosmic)
DJ Enuf Featuring Thirst – Are You Thirsty? (Cornerstone Mixtape/Sprite mix album)
Dirty Halo – Damn Good Day (Indecent Media)
Fennesz – Venice (Touch)
Local H – Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles? (Studio E)
Povertyneck Hillbillies – Don’t Look Back (Cort)
Fisher – The Lovely Years (Iris)
Dionne Chinn – Where Does Love Go From Here (Salt-H20)
Clouddead – Ten (Mush)
Blood Duster – Blood Duster (Season Of Mist)
Cam’ron – Purple Haze (Roc-a-Fella)
Bathtub Shitter – Lifetime Shitlist (Shit Jam)

Dave Burrell Full-Blown Trio – Expansion (High Two)
Bobby Wayne – Hit That Thing! (Bonedog)
Akon – Trouble (Universal)
Navajo Code Talkers – Heavy Dirty Sounds (Boogie Van)
Kevin Lyttle – Kevin Lyttle (Atlantic)
DJ Lil Jay – Operation: Playtime (Club Kingz)
Fanny Grace – 321 Broadway (Windswept)
Red Masque – Feathers For Flesh (Big Balloon)
Deathprod – Deathprod (Rune Gramafon)
Break Bread – Break Bread EP (Peanuts & Corn EP)
The Mooney Suzuki – Alive & Amplified (Red Ink/Columbia)
Malibu Storm – Malibu Storm (Rounder)
McEnroe And Birdapres – Nothing Is Cool (Peanuts & Corn)
The Strines – Dog.Ger.El (INS)
Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra – Diverted Travels (ECM)
Ghost – Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
(Various) – Lif Up Yuh Leg An Trample (Honest Jon’s)
Jimmy Taylor – Experience (RSP)
Warsaw Village Band – Uprooting (World Village)
Sun City Girls – Carnival Folklore Resurrection 13: 98.6 Is Death (Abduction)

Some of those were probably technically reissues, actually. But here are 30 more reissues from 2004 anyway:

Spoonie Gee – Godfather Of Hip-Hop (Ol’ Skool Flava/Tuff City reissue)
(Various) – England’s Dreaming: Compiled By Jon Savage (Trikont reissue)
David Allan Coe – The Essential (Columbia/Legacy reissue)
The Animals – Retrospective (Abkco reissue)
Crime – San Francisco’s Still Doomed (Swami reissue)
M – The History: Pop Muzik The 25th Anniversary (Metro reissue)
The Gizmos – Rock & Roll Don’t Come From New York! (Gulcher reissue)
The Fall – 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong…30 Golden Greats (Beggars Banquet reissue)
DNA – DNA On DNA (No More reissue)
Death Comet Crew – This Is Riphop (Troubleman Unlimited reissue)
Eric Dolphy – The Best Of (Prestige reissue)
(Various) – Joey & Norman Jay MBE Present Good Times 4 (Resist Music mix album)
Albert Ayler – ‘Trane Was The Father Pharoah Was The Sun I Was The Holy Ghost (Revenant promo reissue)
John Coltrane – The Best Of (Prestige reissue)
Cheap Trick – The Essential (Epic/Legacy reissue)
Mirrors – Another Nail In The Remodeled Coffin (ROIR reissue)
Terri Clark – Greatest Hits: 1994-2004 (Mercury reissue)
Chet Baker – The Best Of (Riverside reissue)
Couch Flambeau – I Did A Power Slide In The Taco Stand: Anthology 1982-2001 (couchflambeau.com reissue)
Chi-Pig – Miami (Chi-Pig reissue)
The Bunnybrains – Box The Bunny (Narnack reissue)
Jackie McLean – The Best Of (Prestige reissue)
Stiv Bators – L.A. Confidential (Bomp! reissue)
Notekillers – 1977-1981 (Escstatic Peace reissue)
Metal Boys – Tokio Aiport (Carport reissue)
Mississippi Shieks – Honey Babe Let The Deal Go Down: The Best Of (Columbia/Legacy reissue)
(Various) – Haunted Weather (Staubgold reissue)
Deep Edmunds – From Small Things: The Best Of (Columbia/Legacy reissue)
Henry Mancini – Midnight, Moonlight & Magic: The Very Best Of (RCA/BMG Heritage reissue)
The Beakers – Four Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution (K reissue)

I think I'll go for Pretty Toney, as it's the one I could most easily convince myself to listen to again.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

hahahahaha

"lol indie"

OOOH LEFT HOOK

always one step ahead...

All for swinging you all around...

Who the fuck is A.C. Newman????

God...of sorts. Not on this record, though.

Brain behind New Pornographers.

Hahahah--man, I don't even need to check the results anymore; I can tell what's up just by reading the first couple of post-ILX System remarks. Nice to see that our resident jokerz weren't quite of one mind this time out, tho--xhuxk will be happy that they threw a few votes to B&R. Maybe. Still, I gotta say that it's probably not as "funny" as the last couple of landslide wins were. C'mon, guyz--surely can do better than a token New Pornographer!?!

surely you, that iz.

Oh, nice to see Egypt get a couple of votes, too. Was that partly your doing, Matt?

I just figured the B&R votes were legit.

Me too -- maybe I was just being optimistic. JN$OT, what makes you so sure some B&R votes were jokes?

With AC Newman, I had no frigging idea, though.

Oh, I don't know--I'm sure a couple of them are legit, but five votes seem a bit much for ILM.

Also, this:

can't wait for big & rich to win by 22 votes.

-- J0rdan S., Monday, November 19, 2007 7:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, but Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

Terrific thread, but I don't think any of those guys voted here (other than Chuck, of course).

And Matos--who voted for SY.

I was surprised nobody voted for Blueberry Boat. Isn't that an ILM favorite?

And Joanna, too.

I did vote for Joanna - or thought I did anyway. Something fishy in the state of Denmark?

A.C. Newman does have one very good track on it - "On the Table".

i didn't actually think big & rich was going to win, i was just making a joke about how the darkness won the other poll by a billion votes, so i was looking for a random outsider album in the bottom 5 but i forgot that ppl on here actually like big & rich.

i think a lot of ppl on here forgot they actually liked big & rich at one point too

STILL get chills when I hear Rollin' and Save A Horse. Real honest to goodness CHILLS. That doesn't happen that often to me.

-- scott seward

there's five or so songs on that album that are CLASSIC but some of the quirk is just quirk and the jesus songs don't do anything for me.

Amen, Brudder!