The Village Voice’s “Pazz & Jop” rock critics’ poll is out, and it’s a split decision, with Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” taking the album prize, and Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out” winning the singles poll (Outkast swept last year). While I love the Kanye disc, I think it’s a travesty for anything other than “American Idiot” to be called the best album of ’04.
In the quotes section, we’ve got the same combination of preening snark and obsessive loathing of Bush that was present in the film critics poll a few weeks ago, when one guy infamously talked about how he sat through Lars Von Trier’s US-bashing “Dogville” three times, but didn’t really understand it until election night. Some gems on the music side:
-Amy Phillips: “Like communism, the Unfinished Business tour, and 24-hour erections, ‘The Grey Album’ is great only in theory.”
-Chris Baldwin: “What, you mean Hollywood and superstar musicians couldn’t convince red Americans that a liberal, smooth-talking, windsurfing millionaire had their best interests in mind? You mean they felt safer with the blubbering hick and his rocket launcher? Surprise, surprise.”
-Todd S. Inoue: “I wanted bulletproof street anthems- soundtracks to storming the voting booth, chucking tear gas, incinerating politicians, and stomping a mudhole in Toby Keith’s cornhole. But when they sent in the HoobaMaroon5ForFightingStankCockblocking Division, the march detoured toward the veal locker.”
-Max Berry: “No one who bought ‘The College Dropout’ voted for Bush. I have a mathematician friend who can prove this.” (Actually, my ex-roommate proves this theorem false).
-Nick Catucci: “Now that U2 have released ‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” can we send them to North Korea?
-Jonah Weiner: “The Jay-Z-Linkin Park mash-up album was better than it had any right to be—especially since Chester Bennington has 9,999 problems and a bitch is at least 9,987 of them.”
-And the grand prize winner, Rob Sheffield: “I can't remember if I came/When I read about her latest flame/Britney up and changed her name/The day the music died/So bye-bye, Mrs. Kevin Federline/Our libidos and our Cheetos will forever be thine/And Cameron was choppin' Justin a line/Singin', Hit me baby, one more time/Hit me baby, one more time.”
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