PAZZJOP

We take no satisfaction in intersecting the Dean’s list with Youssou N’Dour and Courtney Love, but how could I totally space out SMILE? Just put him up top. The Langford is on my wish list, way behind there, and I’ll have to check out Todd Snyder.


BIG CLICKS in the order that I checked off the complete ballots page:


Rob Sheffield (Hold Steady totally rocks… Rob you’re gonna LOVE Reigning Sounds…)


Greil Marcus (made me pull out PJ again, and swoon)


Ann Powers

Milo Miles [way ahead of us as usual, the lone critic voting for J.U.F.’s Gogol Bordello Vs. Tamir Muskat, placing it No. 1]

Leland Rucker

Charles R. Cross

Tom Smucker

Eric Weisbard

Douglas Wolk and

Jon Pareles (Juliana Hatfield? Bjork?)

Where have you gone Jimmy Guterman? Gil Asakawa? John Leland?



Only two critics voted for Dan Zanes’s PARADES AND PANORAMAS, which sucks but it came out really late, didn’t even make my list, but makes Lawrence Kay a weird co-conspirator. The click that satisfies is the Danger Mouse vote, you feel like you’re in good company. Richard Riegel is the only other critic to list Rocket from the Tombs, and he put it at No. 9, which means I gotta run out and snare Chi-Pig (his No. 1). I was the only one to place Bottle Rockets? That’s harsh. Maura Johnston shares my affection for Aveo’s BATTERY, and the first name of my sixth-grade girlfriend.