The First (and last) Joint P&J / JP Albums Poll!

I voted for the Larry Levan comp not on this list; my second choice was Scritti Politti.

Ghostface then, Ghostface now, Ghostface always.

No Hinder, no credibility.

Did they make it onto any year-end lists, though? Rolling Stone's, say?

Girl Talk.

Polls are gonna me those year-end list so much easier.

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I forgot to put Clipse on my list this year. So Clipse it is here.

Reissue of the year:

Queer Noises 1961-1978: From The Closet To The Charts (Trikont) - What first came off as mere cheese just keeps accruing depth with every listen. Or maybe what makes it work is how winningly it replaces camp with cheese as a gay aesthetic. Pick to click: Chairman of the Board Harrison Kennedy's ebullient "Closet Queen." (I know it's not literally a reissue just like the Larry Levan comp which despite lacking the conceptual/historical thrust of the Tom Moulton disc had much better music on it.)

Silent Shout

No Who, no credibility. Best of '06 by far.

Seriously? I had the Who album in the first top 10 list I submitted to a publication last year, and even I think that's a kind of ridiculous statement.

Liked the T.I. and the Roots and the Lupe and the Sonic Youth, heard the Justin and Wayne and MCR but didn't like them enough to put them on year-end lists. Don't really like any of them now as much as I did at the time, though.

the knife should win

would have voted be your own pet. in lieu i'm voting girl talk.

honorables to t.i., destroyer, drama/wayne, hot chip, band of horses.

mastadon

Going for Mastodon over Scott Walker just because I think Scott will get plenty of ILM votes that the former wont.

Ghostface Killah

Junior Boys at #61, tss...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

God, Mastadon in a walk.

Seriously? I had the Who album in the first top 10 list I submitted to a publication last year, and even I think that's a kind of ridiculous statement.

OK, Endless Wire wasn't better than Fox Confessor, Fishscale, Modern Times, or The Drift BY FAR, but it certainly sits comfortably in that company. And there was no more socially awkward record than Endless Wire released in 2006. It's like their version of Jerry Lewis' Hardly Working, when film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum characterized Lewis as "infantile, hysterical, uncontrolled, giddy, uninhibited, tacky, energetic, inarticulate, obnoxious, sentimental, overbearing, socially and sexually maladjusted, and all over the place... It's not so much a matter of necessarily loving all these qualities as it is envying or admiring or identifying with some of them and being horrified by others."

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

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

what's going on

hahahaha

lol

o_O

Didn't see this. Would have given another point to Girl Talk, although I would have voted Timberlake at the time. The Ghostface & T.I. albums are great, too. Most of this: zzzzz.

Can we stop acting all shocked at the rigging, btw?

rev not want indie.

i like the crane wife btw.

Hooray for listlessness!

the Arctic Monkeys wuz robbed, man!

i LOL'ed at this

lol

Didn't see this until now, and it's possible there hasn't been a P&J year with fewer albums I care about (which is odd, both because I like tons of albums from 2006, and because I assume -- given that the list is drawn from both polls -- that there are more than 40 albums to choose from this time.)

I would have picked Hold Steady, then Lily Allen, though I didn't hear her album until it came out in the U.S. in '07 (and it won't make my top ten list this year, though it came close.) Runner-ups would be Justin Timberlake and the Dixie Chicks and the Clipse, all of which I've got reservations about.

Still have never heard either Girl Talk or that Lil Wayne mix tape. (I have heard Burial now though! Though they are not up there; didn't they come close? And though I didn't hear their '06 album yet; only their new one. Which kind of sounds like early Faithless with the songs taken out. Which is okay, though I don't get what's supposed to make them amazing.) (Though I guess people who loved the first one think the new one is a sellout? Not sure though.)

Maybe I should go back and listen to Hot Chip again someday. (Ghostface Killah and T.I. and Mastadon never seemed anywhere near as good to me as everybody seemed to be saying they were. I vaguely remember thinking Love Is All weren't awful.)

haw!

fwiw, xhuxk, the first Burial did nothing for me whatsoever. I like the new one alright, probably for the same reasons fans of the first one hate it.

You sound like you're coming down with something!

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JP - 49. Burial - Burial (175 points in 15 votes)
P&J - 89. Burial - Burial points: 99(10)