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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Pogo Pazz & Jop / Jackin' Pop

Kudos this year to Idolator for challenging the Voice. Until their poll results come in, acquaint yrself with the Pogo equivalent. This year's ballot, like last year's, aims to showcase those artists and records so groundbreaking, so inventive, so unfairly overlooked and ignored that they don't technically exist. Because as everyone knows, the quality of a song is inversely proportional to the number of people who know about it. And according to this law of music crit, the following releases truly are

THE BEST MUSIC OF 2006

Albums

1. Mr. Fistopheles, Bend Over Backwards
2. The Oliver Cromwells, No Irony Here
3. Lil' Tiny, Serendickity
4. The Pallbearers, It's Your Funeral
5. Socratease, Maybe I'd Rather Just Go Home After All
6. Stupider Every Year, Stupider Every Year
7. Lionel Bennett-Jones, Not Bloody Likely
8. Pamplemousse!?, A Little Death (Goes a Long Way)
9. Linzeylee Carter, Linzeylee Doesn't Pole Dance Here Anymore
10. Black Wolf, Swan Parade Mother and the Hot-Eyed Dice Chip Snakes, Critical Acclaim

Singles
1. The Oliver Cromwells, "All Our STDs"
2. Dirrtee Duchess feat. Vanity Fairy, "Emancideclapatriation"
3. Gross Domestic Product, "Eat My Economix"
4. The Near-Sighted Nepalese Stock Brokers, "Hanging In There (The Sherpa Song)"
5. Mourning Becomes Electro, "If Only We Were Actually From A Slum in Rio" (DJ Dirigible Remix)
6. Jim Henson Folk Catastrophe, "Me & Miss Piggy"
7. The Sad Sacks, "Screamotional Is A State of Mind"
8. Lil' Tiny, "In My Pants" (Radio Edit)
9. Kittens Not Cadavers, "Tell Me a Bedtime Story Without Bacon In It"
10. The Perverted Soccer Referees, "Halftime in the Equipment Shed"

I will be in Minneapolis with Pants for the next two weeks; reports may ebb. Don't forget to keep pogoing while I'm gone.

6 comments:

christopher higgs said...

I'm visiting for the first time. I got here by one of your earlier posts, one on Zizek. I like what you're doing.

Mairead said...

What? No TVOTR? You hipster.

smelly mcsmellsmell said...

5. Mourning Becomes Electro, "If Only We Were Actually From A Slum in Rio" (DJ Dirigible Remix)



oh princess. brillance.

Unknown said...

Now I have homework...tracking down these tunes...

Mpls, eh? Have a great time!

xoxo.

Anonymous said...

I don't know any of these darned bands. This distresses me.

Anyway, I'm coming back to a dedicated readership after living away from the Interweb for a long time. Get pumped.

-jamisonlikewhat

Anonymous said...

Hey everyone, the bands are all made up. That's why I said in the beginning of my post that they don't exist. I fear for the sanity of my readers when they believe that there is an actual band out there called the Perverted Soccer Referees.