amazing
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I noticed DJ/Rupture voting for himself, too.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Ten favorite albums? What's an album?
Steve CiabattoniBrooklyn, NY
in which year was this comment cryogenically frozen
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I still maintain that people wouldn't care about OB4CL2 any more than The Lex Diamond Story if it weren't for the title.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't wait for Purple Haze 2 to be the only rap album in the top 10 of Pazz and Jop 2018
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, Rodney, I certainly agree that the Dre beats are BRICKS. They're terrible. I've actually had people try and defend them to me.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Does the 2003 long list still exist somewhere so I can see how many votes Raekwon's last (relatively equal in quality) album garnered?
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
this is better than lex diamond story
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
hes been on fire for awhile though, anyone who copped mixtapes he was dropping in like '06 knew he had this in him. i believe i even *pats self on back* wrote about it in '06
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Rev, your super-challopy argument about raekwon is fucking stupid and it would have done just as well if he called it "CRANK DAT RAEKWON" because it's a dope album and lex diamond was crap
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
Reverend: http://web.archive.org/web/20040221181050/http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/03/
If it's anywhere, it'd probably be there?
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:19 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney is that a note of triumph in your voice from the critical cabal around gucci mane u predicted
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Those who know me have heard the story a dozen times apiece. When the Strokes still played clubs right after Is This It? came out, I stood in the front row at the Casbah and got biffed in the bean by Julian Casablancas's microphone stand, producing an impressive golf-ball-size knot. Between the head injury and the revelation of hearing "Barely Legal" for the first time, I fell in love on the spot with what became one of my five favorite bands of the decade. Phrazes for the Young is the first time since Room on Fire that I felt a tingle in that phantom spot on my forehead.
Jennifer C. CookeChula Vista, CA
someone needed to inform this woman that the head is not the #1 body part associated with the word "bean"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I personally would've loved if he titled it CRANK DAT RAEKWON..The kids would've loved it.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
deej: good point about him having been killing it for a while prior, but I don't think it really translated to the album
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
gucci would have been higher if dude didn't split his vote between 17 mixtapes
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
with no critical on which was the best
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
My disinterest (beyond being annoyed at mediocrity from an artist I've liked a lot in the past) probably boils down to the fact that I've never been to or particularly cared about going to New York.
The NYC boosterism has nothing to do with why I like it.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
oh come on. do i have to go in & count how many people voted for him?
as far as i can tell, two of his mixtapes got votes, and his one album. also, one random dude voted for a mixtape from 2008. i doubt there were even 12 ppl voting for gucci long players
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxp to whiney
What works for me is that "Empire State of Mind" could conceivably be about ANY mega metropolis, EVEN with the very NY-specific references and such. Plus, the emotions it conjures aren't exclusive to NY. Any city you love makes you feel like that.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
its a good song bcuz of alicia but it never really resonated w/ me in a big way. i think its an odd #1
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Grizzly Bear, "Two Weeks" **Warp
if this song isnt about total recall then fuck indie rock imo
http://www.haaretz.com/hasite/images/iht_daily/D070902/ny_running110902_ap.jpg
Background: this threadForeground: every poster besides deej and whiney
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess someone needs to inform me, too. And Merriam Webster's should fix that fifth definition.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xps: gawwwd, the idea of "LEEETTTSHEARITFORSEAAAATTTTLLLEE" makes me even more nauseous
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
lol jordan
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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he wasnt taking the bait in the gucci thread \o_O/
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, you were being monster stupid on the swag thread coming up with some weird inverse critic venn diagram sitch where for every writer that cosigns drake a gucci loses his wings. And then some dude called me psycho on the hugitout thread. I'm just pretty much gonna let this one lie
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i just needed to i-told-you-so after yr shit about all the hipster critics who were overrating gucci cuz it really was you being a vayjayjay about admitting you just didnt agree with those of us on ilx who talk about him
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the essay about the-dream is really self-defeating in the way that it glosses over electrik red in one sentence by saying that it provides "cheap thrills" but finds ample space to chide people for not being totally up on the-dream
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
the same year that he got a feature 4-star review in rolling stone magazine
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
can someone find the 08 results? i want to see how many ppl voted for his first album
wanna say it placed in the 50s
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link
really? i wanna say it placed in the triple digits. i think there were at most ten votes for it or something but i could be imagining that
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:38 (fourteen years ago) link
or #91, rather
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ayo glenn can you do something like you did here?: Pazz & Jop 2008
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
thnx 2 noz for finding one of the funnier ballots to vote for 'trap goin ham'http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/685700
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
*smh*
lol @ one of the comments being on the douchiness of "actually". get this dude on 77
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
uh deej that allison stewart vote is kinda awesome in way that I simply cannot put into words.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
wait is thathttp://blacksnob.com/storage/msnbc_alisonstewart-big.jpg
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope so, she has hotness and we could have a totally awesome platonic but flirty relationship while listening to "White Lies".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/686367
interesting list
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link
snoop dogg smh .gif @ empire state of mind
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I kinda disapprove of any votes for Daniel Merriweather's "Impossible".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
its forks. what can u say.dap for voting "own step" though, i dig that song
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Lady Gaga had three singles in the top thirteen and scored votes for seventeen (!!) different songs (and nine of those seventeen were received multiple votes). There has to be a P&J record in there somewhere, right?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
lol I've only just seen these. thanks, australian open, for distracting me. horrendous. get better taste, critics.
btw, i hate it when people justify their love of "empire state of mind" by citing its huge hook, as though a) we didn't already know that it has a huge hook - it doesn't exactly hide this, b) no other songs had huge hooks in 2009. i mean yeah there's a hollow power there but one of the TEN best songs of the year? i mean, no way. even its boosters mostly admit that jay-z is shit on it!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
and you know, if you want big alicia keys drama, she did "try sleeping with a broken heart" herself in 2009 too.
biffed in the bean by Julian Casablancas's microphone stand
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link