Pazz and Jop.

I emailed them wrt my log-in issues just a few days ago and they had me straightened out in a matter of a few hours.

*fingers crossed*

error here, just emailed them

evol j - did they just say "try again" or did they tell you to do something different, like, idk, "type your number, don't copy/paste it" or something like that?

they gave me a new ID number.

Now that I read this thread, I think they are sending out new ID numbers although I have an apostrophe in my name which often fouls up internet forms such as this.

Yeah, a new ID did the trick. Go me.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSjRCkTWkAI4bE0.jpg:large

my ID doesn't work either -- hopefully it isn't too late to get it fixed

i wrote them like 3 hours ago and got it fixed, you'll be fine

yeah, they just emailed back

(six minutes ago)

Sorry, I thought you were more involved. Never mind.

you guys could still be friends tho

Well, my friend request was still there.

No pressure though.

I emailed on Xmas evening, got a response the next morning.

Anyone know when it's running? I threw out my email which might have had that information and I am too lazy to scroll up and see if someone mentioned it.

Film ballots were due last week, so I'm not really sure. I expected that poll's results this week.

I got an email about an unveiling event in New York this coming Thursday. Instead of canceling the poll they're going all out! Complimentary beverages will be served.

Took a quick look to see if the poll was up, and I was baffled by the current layout. I had to go through three screens to find a music piece. Unless I'm not navigating correctly, there doesn't seem to be a music section anymore. There doesn't seem to be sections of any kind anymore.

hover over "the culture" >> click on "music" in the subnav >> music stories

granted, they should really move that subnav w/ "film tv music theater" up above the three features articles. that would make a lot more sense (to me, who is not a website designer)

*featured not features

lmao

as a former social media editor, just posting the number ones on twitter is such a boring move. thread the respective top tens, or release some saucy ballots ahead of time even.

olol

blahdak yellow

yello > bodak yellow

boDAMN yellow

as a former social media editor, just posting the number ones on twitter is such a boring move. thread the respective top tens, or release some saucy ballots ahead of time even.

― austinb, Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:56 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2.5 hours ago, and these tweets only have like 5 retweets and 5 likes. I don't know if that says something about the Village Voice these days, or the state of music criticism, or what. Also, the #sonosstorenyc hashtag is super lame.

I went to the thing because it's about two blocks from my office and why not, and the vibe was super weird, starting with the whole thing taking place beneath a large alexa ad

what was "the thing"

there was a “launch event” panel discussion

they got christgau, surprisingly(?)

Not with a Bangs, but with a Twitter.

Hi Katherine, Maura, did the thingers happen to mention when the results will be posted? Found Music Event etc. listings just now pretty easily, but didn't see anything about issue (or whatever we should call it now) date---seems like if it's worth a launch event, worth mentioning on site---a video coming at me or whatever.

a facebook post from another attendee indicated that the results would be up early next week.

they said monday, no idea if that means "actually monday" or "we're gonna try"

^guess it was the latter

Wow, Girlpool didn't even make the top 100.

Participation must've been low? "Damn" was the clear favorite and still won with the least points since "whokill." "Bodak Yellow" won with the least # of votes since... Quad City DJs!

spoke too soon! https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/01/22/pazz-jop-the-top-albums-and-singles-of-2017/

Nice to see Slowdive make the Top Ten!

is this going to be the first time in 20 years that they don't allow the results to be fully explored online? (i.e. browsing full ballots, seeing who voted for each song/album, etc.)

"allow"

Poring over ballots is the only thrill I get from P+J.

Seems like there have been times when elements gradually appeared online----but meanwhile, screw it here's mine (post y'alls!)

Albums (10 points each, listed just in the order they came to mind):

Allen Ginsberg: The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience (Omnivore)

Jane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline)

Algiers: The Underside of Power (Matador)

Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda:The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)

Harriet Tubman: Araminta (Sunnyside)

JLin: Black Origami (Planet Mu)

Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die (International Anthem)

Les Amazones d’Afrique: Republique Amazone (Real World)

Ornette Coleman: Ornette At 12/Crisis (Real Gone)

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber: All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity (Avantgroidd)

Singles:
Willie Nelson/Tony Joe White/Leon Russell/Jamey Johnson: “God’s Problem Child” (Legacy)

Whitney Rose: “Can’t Stop Shakin’” (Six Shooter)

Arto Lindsay: “Grain By Grain” (Northern Spy)

A. Savage: “What Do I Do” (Dull Tools)

Chuck Berry: “She Still Loves You” (Duotone)

Caroline Spence: “Southern Accident” (Tone Tree)

Lee Ann Womack: “Hollywood” (ATO)

Amanda Anne Platt/Honeycutters: “Eden” (Organic/Crossroads)

Amanda Anne Platt/Honeycutters: “Learning How To Love Him”(Organic/Crossroads)

Rodney Crowell: “Life Without Susanna” (New West)

that's a good ballot imo, even tho i have minimal overlap.

Albums:
Stokley - Introducing Stokley
Gabriel Garzòn-Montano - Jardin
Syd - Fin
SZA - Ctrl
Ibeyi - Ash
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics
Bicep - Bicep
Cecile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers
Daniel Caesar - Freudian

Singles:
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Sun-EL Musician with Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif3
Vince Staples - Bagbak
Black Thought - #FREESTYLE087
Charli XCX - Boys
Migos - T-Shirt
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
Cam - Diane
The Black Madonna - He Is the Voice I Hear

waxahatchee in the top 10 is very surprising, that album was pleasant but fairly unremarkable and didn't seem to show up much in EOY lists at all

OK, I found my ballot (10 points for each album, and I never vote for singles):

Jaimie Branch, Fly Or Die (International Anthem)
Christian Scott, The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope)
Elder, Reflections Of A Floating World (Stickman)
Kamasi Washington, Harmony Of Difference (Young Turks)
Cavalera Conspiracy, Psychosis (Napalm)
Rødhåd, Anxious (Dystopian)
Immolation, Atonement (Nuclear Blast)
Prurient, Rainbow Mirror (Profound Lore)
Big K.R.I.T., 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time (Multi Alumni)
Lana Del Rey, Lust For Life (Interscope)

Any idea how many ballots were cast? I like to compare points-per-ballot figures from year to year.

I wish they'd just stop with the charade that they're still open to printing random comments. (Maybe they're there and I missed them--all I see are the two commissioned pieces.) I went back and checked if that was still part of the e-mail they send out, and indeed it is ("As always, we also welcome (i.e., encourage) comments, be they one-liners or novellas, on any and all music-related matters." That line goes back at least to 2009, the earliest one that's still in my in-box. They have eliminated "We'll publish a great deal of these -- some in print, and a great many more only online -- and pay a small fee for their use in either case" in the intervening eight years, but maybe they ought to scrap the other half too.

i just hope they get individual ballots up at some point. if anyone has a connex there, let 'em know that's the best part of this whole thing.

That too, of course--that's the bare minimum to justify its continued existence. I mean, I can't believe anybody actually cares about the results in a world with 37,000 year-end lists.