e-mail me when we start talking about the animal collective.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Email me when we've won the war on terror.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
more like pazz and get a job
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"the" animal collective
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"pazz and nod off"
man, i need to change my screen name, like, last week - i'm sick of this thing
Pazz is the teacher, Job is the preacher.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think they're doing pazz and jop this year. budget cuts.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 November 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe they'll just do pazz.
― STRATE IN2 DAKRNESS (tipsy mothra), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
would prefer jop tbh
― tylerw, Friday, 6 November 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't want to be one of those ppl who are like "every songs a single in the digital age, maaaaan" but i'm having the hardest time trying to find 10 honest-to-god singles i really loved this year
― LJ 1214b (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
And like every year, I didn't bother voting for singles.
Here's the Top Ten I submitted, btw.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i36.tinypic.com/wbvxv5.gif
― shartin jort (am0n), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
there were so many good singles this year! more than in '08 anyway.
― The Plieslight Saga: New Goon (some dude), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Various Artists, Sí, Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Vol. 2
Interesting to see this on yr ballot. It's been out for a few months, at least. Aside from a Dusted Magazine review I spotted this week, I hadn't heard anything about the disc (by contrast, Vol. I seemed to get lots of attention). I'm going to give it a listen now, so thx.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2009 to Village Voice Media (which will show up on the Voice's blog, as well as the blogs of numerous other VVM papers across the U.S.A.)
First I've heard of this. Are they doing other genre-specific polls as well? (The jazz one goes back a few years, I realize.)
Btw, re P&J, I asked this on another thread yesterday but nobody noticed: Are people who voted eventually getting an automatic confirmation email back? (I didn't, at least not yet.) Weird that you don't even get to a page where you can doublecheck your votes after you press submit, before you absolutely confirm your ballot (which was always the way the site worked in the past, at least a few years ago.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
First I've heard of this. Are they doing other genre-specific polls as well?
I don't know. Last year, one of their editorial high-ups emailed me asking if I'd want to do a metal Top Ten for which I'd be paid a flat fee, and which would run throughout the chain, on the various papers' blogs. I said sure. It got a pretty decent response - varying numbers of comments depending on the paper. This year, I emailed him and asked if he wanted another one, and he said yeah.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard so many good singles in the last four weeks that my ballot runneth over.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
pazz & job = why do good things happen to bad records?
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hey look:http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Go nuts.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahah simultaneous posts ahoy.
well lookee here
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
1 Animal Collective, Merriweather Post PavilionDomino Points: 1794Mentions: 1542 Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixGlassnote Points: 1463Mentions: 1393 Neko Case, Middle CycloneAnti Points: 1201Mentions: 1064 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz!DGC/Interscope Points: 1199Mentions: 1145 Dirty Projectors, Bitte OrcaDomino Points: 1169Mentions: 1086 Grizzly Bear, VeckatimestWarp Points: 1073Mentions: 1067 The xx, xxYoung Turks Points: 977Mentions: 938 Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Part IIIce H2O/EMI Points: 857Mentions: 859 The Flaming Lips, EmbryonicWarner Points: 681Mentions: 6510 Girls, AlbumTrue Panther Points: 652Mentions: 6311 Mos Def, The EcstaticDowntown Points: 613Mentions: 5912 St. Vincent, Actor4AD Points: 573Mentions: 6213 Fever Ray, Fever RayRabid Points: 551Mentions: 5314 Maxwell, BLACKsummers'nightColumbia Points: 525Mentions: 4915 The Avett Brothers, I and Love and YouAmerican/Columbia Points: 497Mentions: 42
(this will surely look a mess when I submit the post... but damn, what a lazy top 15)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Lots of overlap between the albums/singles top 10: six songs in the singles top 10 (Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dirty Projectors, and Phoenix [x 2]) come from albums in the albums top 10. That's gotta be a record, no?
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel robbed of the fact that no one associated w/ ilx got the inevitable dream essay
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The The-Dream essay mentions that he got the highest point-average. The lowest (among albums with 10+ votes) was the Decemberists.
More stats:
http://furia.com/all-idols/2009
Even more, and the whole data-set in the system used for tabulating it this year:
http://www.needlebase.com/pj2009
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Hoison/jaymc, you left out Girls, which makes 7. Ties a record; I wrote about it in there somewhere.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Crazy Cousinz, This Is UK Funky House, Vol. 1Warner Points: 5Mentions: 1
:(
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Already read Chuck Eddy's essay complaining about too much indie rock in the top 40. Thought I'd show y'all where my all-Latin ballot turned up in the total.
Bebe - #1384 (I was the only vote)Graciela Beltran - #1207 (me on my own again)Bomba Estereo - #501 (one other person voted for them)Don Omar - #1387 (alone again, naturally)Girl In A Coma - #645 (one person with me on this one)Natalia Lafourcade - #180 (THREE other voters!)Paulina Rubio - #1093 (just me)V/A - Si, Para Usted: The Funky Beats Of Revolutionary Cuba Vol. 2 - #654 (two votes)Los Tigres del Norte - #599 (two votes)Wisin y Yandel - #616 (two votes)
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I think these are the worst P&J results I've ever seen.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i think that was the worst phil freeman post i've ever seen
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
For some reason I'm shocked to see that many "more eccentric" voters than Scott Seward.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
The fact that Ryan Schrieber is the 5th-most centric voter says everything you need to know.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
rev otm
anyone have any comments?
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i like xhucx's essay about how boring and predictable the results are
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ 2009 header being up & having a link up to the 07 poll (?)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
My comments weren't printed; you can read them here.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a comment printed (on lol Animal Collective)
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
also: on lol Adam Lambert.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah you're right.
I actually just spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure this out! Should've just read your essay first, xhuxk.
But since I've got the stats on hand, these are the years in which there was a lot of overlap between the singles and albums lists:
2009, 1987 (7 songs in the top 10 singles were by artists in the top 10 albums)1984 (6)2000, 1994, 1991 (5)2004, 1993, 1988, 1985, 1983, 1980 (4)
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
favorite ballot: http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/684580
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
good comments unperson.
it's funny i was thinking of a list of all-decade albums if i was actually a rock critic or something and a surprising number of them were local minneapolis bands that pressed in quantities of <1000, like just people i know and stuff but make great music IMO...and part of it was just tied to having had the bands be more a part of my life like seeing them on a regular basis
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
miles marshall lewis needs a 77 invite
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked metal thread denizen J3ff T's comments on the futility of it all.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
though i am glad ol' man raekwon got on the top 10
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
It's almost reassuring that this is the worst consensus of my lifetime.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
idk i'm too young to really have a deep emotional connection with michael but that ballot is a bit OKAY WE GET IT *APPLAUSE* for my taste -- it's like a ballot that justin timberlake would've sent in
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
2009 was the year of Gucci's World—we were just living in it.2009 was the year of Gucci's World—we were just living in it.2009 was the year of Gucci's World—we were just living in it.2009 was the year of Gucci's World—we were just living in it.2009 was the year of Gucci's World—we were just living in it.2009 was the year of Gucci's World—we were just living in it.2009 was the year of Gucci's World—we were just living in it.
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyway, I've got theories. First off: Lazy indie voters turning a fun exercise into a dutiful one by listing random "singles" off albums they also voted for are the new version of lazy AOR voters who used to vote for perfunctory tracks off albums they also voted for.
I don't think it's as random as you think, xhuxk. I think these days, it's much more obvious what the "singles" are from indie-rock albums, because they're the promotional mp3s that labels release in advance of the album, they're the songs that Pitchfork posts on its Forkcast, they're the videos that make it onto countless blogs, etc. All of this online chatter codifies certain songs as the ones to pay attention to, and I bet there are even people who voted for Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks" without even having heard the album, just because that's the one that you could download for free on the band's website, or that's the one that was recommended by NPR's All Songs Considered blog, or whatever.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly has anyone really listened to da grizz? Seriously, Daniel Rossen's guitar work and chords are far more adventurous than Wilco. They may now appear to be the "next wilco" which means many will declare them as "boring americana" but honestly, me thinks they are so much more
― Emily's Cheese, Sunday, 24 January 2010 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
ps. I also think there's a lot of people on here that dislike bands like Grizzly Bear primarily because they 1: don't like their bio/look 2: don't like their fans or people they perceive to be their fans and 3: they like to be contrary and say Brad Paisley is amazing.
― Emily's Cheese, Sunday, 24 January 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean that they're the equivalent of Wilco in the sense of how they fit in discursively - not referring to their strict sound, which is usually one of the less important things in issue when people decide not to check something out.
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on ILX in terms of rather liking Yellow House but then finding it difficult to motivate myself to listen to the new one.
― Tim F, Sunday, 24 January 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
people on here that dislike bands like Grizzly Bear primarily because...they like to be contrary and say Brad Paisley is amazing
Or, why contrarians have more fun, volume 4,276. Not that I like Paisely beyond a couple singles, but I've had more fun trying to get into him than trying to get into Grizzly Bear.
― MumblestheRevelator, Sunday, 24 January 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on ILX in terms of rather liking Yellow House but then finding it difficult to motivate myself to listen to the new one."
this is me! i loved yellow house. so did lots of people on ilm. there are raves galore about it here. but, yeah, didn't go out of my way to hear the new album. i'm sure its fine.
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
do any rock critics work at Other Music? and write for EW? i want names.
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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― the not-metal one (Ioannis), Sunday, 24 January 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the "problem" with Grizzly Bear that
Grizzly Bear brings out the red state asshole in me. I want to beat them up and take their lunch money and then go listen to Skynyrd or AC/DC and maybe even vote republican. Well not the republican part but you understand...
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 24 January 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I like neither Brad Paisley nor Grizzly Bear. (I live in a place where the dreadful C&W stuff some of you have taken to fetishizing is as ubiquitous and unavoidable as indie music is in the worlds some of you seem to inhabit and loathe.) "Grizzly Bear brings out the red state asshole in me" is a bracing and honest admission, but not a very persuasive argument.
― M.V., Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
People who regard anyone who likes, say, contemporary country (or anything, really) as big fake fronting fetishists come off like douchebags, imo. Take people at face value that they like what they say they like.
― some dude, Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
(Actually, I don't know that it's an honest admission, do I? But I assume it is.)
xp to myself
― M.V., Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Are you kidding? Regarding anyone who likes GAPDY as a big fake fronting indie fetishist is an ILM raison d'etre.
― M.V., Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
lol wtf does that even mean?
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
m.v., shut up
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I really don't think the typical knock here against insular indie rock listening habits is that it's all an elaborate put-on and nobody actually likes that stuff, but if you can find some posts that put forward that sentiment, I'd love to see them.
― some dude, Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
The perils of living in a red state.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/suzanne-jung/files/2008/11/obama2004.jpg
"We got friends in red states who dig Grizzly Bear, we got friends in blue ones who love Brad Paisley. Over there's my friend Chuck Eddy, the embodiment of what it means to be truly purple."
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"Fetishizing" GAPDY vs "Fetishizing" Brad Paisley
fetish - 12 definitions - 1. An object thought to have magical, especially magically sexual, powers
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
mmmm then I could definitely fetishize Brad Paisley.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
haw!
― the not-GAPDY one (Ioannis), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously, I'm tired of people using red-vs-blue state bullshit to explain why people like a band.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
plus, grizzly bear's yellow house is in massachusetts where they elect republican male models.
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"i'm scott brown and i approve of the hairy bears. i mean grizzly bear!"
http://thepoliticalclass.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b6e9e8970b0120a791e534970b-pi
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously, I'm tired of people using red-vs-blue state bullshit
Oh man, I was gonna say LOL about your Obama purple state thing until I realized you're sick of bullshitters like me.
Removing the red state joke from it, Grizzly Bear are too wimpy and respectable for me. I'm sure plenty of smart people like them and they're great at what they do, but for me personally, it's barf city bro.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
would people who like those records really choose not to vote for them because of ILX stigma? if so that's pretty fucked up.
― some dude, Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:43 (18 hours ago)
my ballot was probably somewhat influenced by this. not that i'm shy to vote for them because of people hating on them, but more that even though i love GADY a lot (not huge on P) i voted largely for albums that i was exposed to through ilm this year, and not so much other places. i think a lot of people who post as little as i do still vote in the poll, and i do feel a certain responsibility not to obscure the results away from being representative of the albums that were actually a big deal here. it would be kind of lame if dozens of lurkers all voted GAPDY and then those ended up all being top ten, since they're not all necessarily albums that were widely loved by the actively posting crowd. i still voted dirty projectors, and nominated a few albums that i'm sure no one else voted for, but there was definitely an element of strategy to my ballot.
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
kornrulez supports one of my claims that people on here dont' like it for my reason #1, they don't like the bio or how they look. Wimpy is an obnoxious reason to hate a band, but it's still a reason.
Also, the "I loved yellow house" but couldn't motivate to listen to the new one is strange to me. Not sure I follow, if You love an album wouldnt' you want to check out the latest one?Knee jerk reaction to hype/exposure if you ask me. People on here are too self aware.
― Emily's Cheese, Sunday, 24 January 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
how they look.
If the hair's wrong, I am more skeptical, sure.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, less pop garbage than usual this year, huh? good work, kidz.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
how many haven't you heard!?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
tops is Mt Goats at #80!
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
pissed jeans?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
saw em, didn't hear the record (ditto Grizzly Bear & YLT)
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
& godawful Wilco
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
kornrulez supports one of my claims ...they don't like the bio or how they look.
I'm sure their bio is dynamite stuff. And no doubt they're all handsome young lads. But in refute to your presumptuous (some would say bratty) assumption, I'm basing my opinion on how they sound.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm about a week late to this, but re: the relative size of Pfork to other sites/blogs: here are some approximate monthly stats for some of the more well-known sites:
(Audience/Pageviews)---------------------Pitchfork: 1,500,000 / 30,000,000Hypem: 1,300,000 / 12,000,000GVSB: 85,000 / 485,000Fluxblog: 17,000 / 50,00099.9% of remaining blogs: way lower
Stereogum keeps traffic data private, ditto for Brooklyn Vegan, but I estimate those at about:
Stereogum: 1,250,000 / 6,000,000Brooklynvegan: 750,000 / 4,500,000
― Catbird (mbvrc), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Catbird, where'd you get those numbers from?
― ekaloudis, Saturday, 30 January 2010 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/pitchfork-editor-takes-public-forum-defend-its-greatness-i-think-you-underestimate-how-much-bigger-we-are/
wtf
― ksh, Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Music critics Chuck Eddy, Christopher Weingarten, Maura Johnson, Scott Seward, Ned Raggett and others offered their assessments of the poll
...I did?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Go nuts.― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:41 PM
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:41 PM
^^
― ksh, Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Now the whole internet knows how much Ned loves polls!
― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Thrills.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
@ekaloudis, a combination of Quantcast data and cross-referencing/relative size data from other public data sources (Compete, et. al.)
― Catbird (mbvrc), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
P&J parallel: 2009 vs 1990
The-Dream = Guy
Maxwell = Neville Bros
― zvincter (The Reverend), Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure what you mean by "parallel". the-dream and max did considerably better in 2009 than those two in 1990, and the Nevilles had a top 5 p'n'j album the year before.
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
just that they filled v similar niches
― zvincter (The Reverend), Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess, though the neville brothers were far more of a critics band, with little to no pop/r&b chart action
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Roots-rock-type voters way more likely to go for Nevilles than Maxwell - no comparison at all, as far as I can tell.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Somebody speculated, somewhere, that since the voting instructions for the first time this year didn't spell out the 15-14-13-12-11-9-8-7-6-5 weighting pattern, there would be a lot more unweighted 10-points-each album ballots. This didn't turn out to be the case, but I was waiting for a minor display-bug in the stats software to get fixed before adding the point-pattern breakdown to my list of slices. It's there now, for anybody really interested in numbers:
Point Patterns
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 12 February 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for reading my blog, Scott & Christopher ;-)
― ederblog, Saturday, 20 February 2010 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link