January 2011
42 posts
WatchMy friend Josh made this pretty great video of some of his 2010 memories. Probably less meaningful to those of you who dont know the people here, but there are quick cuts of Jazzy Jeff & Ryan Leslie. (Also myself)
A friend of mine wrote about his musical... →
Serg & I are spinning some mp3s in the shrimp... →
join the 'swag' listening room & jam out w/ us on... →
still here, chillin w/ fakeshoredrive & whoever Fantastic Pumpkin is. Also like 40 other people??
join the 'swag' listening room & jam out w/ us on... →
Pazz & Jop Ballot: Andrew Nosnitsky →
tumblinerb:
Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll is live. This is my ballot. I was the only person on Earth to vote for my number one album and that makes me sad. If I could change one thing I would add a vote for the Diddy album.
Glad you came around on that E-40!
David Drake's Pazz & Jop Ballot 2010 →
SURVIVAL THEMES: Top 100 Charting Singles of... →
survivalthemes:
1. Amerie - “1 Thing” [Columbia 2005] 2. Aaliyah - “Rock the Boat” [Blackground 2001] 3. Sade - “Soldier of Love” [Epic 2009] 4. R. Kelly - “Step in the Name of Love” [Jive 2003] 5. Anthony Hamilton - “Charlene” [So So Def 2003] 6. Alicia Keys - “You Don’t Know My Name” [J 2003] 7. Aaliyah - “Try…
This new Cut Copy record
is the shit.
“As I noted to T, Kanye is like Montaigne, who said of himself that he doesn’t...”
– Can we get much ______er? (via rustbelts)
This is often true in rap but doesnt really make things much more defensible. Especially since folks like this aren’t likely to do similar hoop-jumping for artists that dont signal as middle-class aspirational-friendly the way Kanye does. (I guess I...
Borges argued that every writer creates his or her... →
Im reblogging this again, because I think this quote is both very instructive in the way it explains hip-hop as seen from a particular, specific angle, one that is very much cultivated at Wax Poetics and is historically interesting to me. But for my own taste, they have the plant growing upside-down.
Borges argued that every writer creates his or her... →
2009
Albums
1 Gucci Mane, The Burrprint: 3D DJ Drama Points: 30 2 Maxwell, BLACKsummers’night Columbia Points: 10 3 DJ Quik and Kurupt, Blaqkout Mad Science Points: 10 4 Marcus Nasty, Rinse 10 Rinse FM Points: 10 5 Mungolian Jet Set, We Gave It All Away…Now We Are Taking It Back Smalltown Supersound Points: 10 6 Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Part II Ice H2O/EMI Points: 10 ...
2008
Ballots — David Drake
Albums 1 The-Dream, Love/Hate 2 Young Jeezy, The Recession 3 Scarface, Emeritus 4 Gucci Mane, Back to the Traphouse 5 Frankie Knuckles, The Gift 6 Dubb Union, Snoop Dogg Presents Dubb Union 7 Rebirth Brass Band, 25th Anniversary 8 Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War 9 Q-Tip, The Renaissance 10 Peven Everett, Sincerely Yours Singles...
2007
No Pazz and Jop ballot evidence from this year either, but we had the rival “Jackin Pop” poll, where I emailed my ballot
Albums 1. UGK - Underground Kingz - Jive 2. Prodigy - Return of the Mac - Koch 15 3. Styles P - Ghost Sessions - Streetcore 10 4. Freeway - Free At Last - Def Jam 10 5. Trae - Life Goes On - Asylum 10 6. Scarface - Made - Rap-A-Lot 5 7. Beanie Sigel - The Solution...
2006
only evidence of my list is this one from my chat logs in dec. 2006. My ballot probably looked pretty close to this. Sadly, no idea about what I voted for singles-wise
1. Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind 2. T.I. - King 3. Mary J. Blige - The Breakthrough 4. Trae - Restless 5. Lindstrom - Its a Feedelity Affair 6. The Dogg Pound - Cali Iz Active 7. J Dilla - The Shining 8. Yo Gotti -...
Two changes
These ballots arent bad, Robyn & Trina aside. Robyn’s style of fauxpop doesnt really vibe with my aesthetic worldview, esp these days & even on the cheesier end, & I dont think I ended up listening to that Trina record more than twice after ‘05.
2005
Dear David Drake: Thank you for your submission - your votes have been recorded. Your Pazz & Jop albums ballot was submitted as follows: 1. T.O.K. - Unknown Language - VP/Universal (20) 2. Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming - Def Jam (20) 3. OG Ron C - F-Action 40 - Brickmade (15) 4. Three-6 Mafia - Most Known Unknowns - Sony (10) 5. M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language - Get Physical (10) 6. DJ Quik...
double-disc comp for my brother, xmas 2010
Disc 1
1. Maurice Fulton presents UP - Revenge Of The Orange (6:43) 2. Arto Lindsay - Combustive (4:55) 3. Jamie Woon - Night Air (4:23) 4. Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven (7:22) 5. Destroyer - Kaputt (6:18) 6. Raiders Of The Lost ARP - Crashing (Original Mix) (4:08) 7. Groove Armada - Paper Romance (6:18) 8. Thelma Houston - I’d Rather Spend The Bad Times With You Than Spend The Good Times...
“If [a musician] is trying to earn his living by attempting to intrigue and win...”
– Duke Ellington, 1939
SURVIVAL THEMES: January 1, 2011 →
survivalthemes:
79. Trey Songz, “Love Faces” [Atlantic]. They’re pulled to comic effect during the chorus, and there cannot be a worse (or better) way to word the sentiment expressed with “Imagined the faces you would make if we ever made love.” An edit that eliminates these features would make the song a six or…
Andy Kellman is one of the best music writers out & he just started a...
Sometimes I DJ in Chicago →
somanyshrimp:
Become a fan on facebook & ill generally keep you updated. I also post a steady stream of quality youtubes.
Politico: Media chaos over Giffords’s status →
barthel:
I would like to officially congratulate Politico for writing the stupidest news story of all time: a four-paragraph article detailing the different ways in which we don’t know what’s going on, posted in the midst of us not knowing what’s going on. Would it have been more useful to do some reporting and find out whether or not Giffords is still alive? Sure! But that news hole has to...
Reviewed Tensnake's "In The House" for pitchfork →
I greatly appreciate this piece →
…for just coming out & saying some shit about how the biggest problem with Kanye’s album is his general unlike-ability, his offensively boring offensiveness, a stand that feels less driven by a self-promoting contrarian agenda & by the actual disappointment with who Kanye is on this really dark, not really that enjoyable record.
PUT YOUR IPOD ON SHUFFLE AND THE FIRST SONG THAT...
oldtobegin:
andrewtsks:
jonathanbogart:
fannybaws:
I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
God, don’t I wish.
The Sundays, “My Finest Hour.”
Well goodness me.
The Drive By Truckers - Let There Be Rock.
Fuck yeah, I can TOTALLY live with that.
Ghostface Killah, “Mighty Healthy (Mighty Deadly)”
FUCK. YES. happy 2011.
notorious b.i.g / junior mafia - playas anthem remix B-)