Music tastemakers of a certain vintage still go crazy over The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz & Jop poll. The poll asks a who’s who of music critics for their favorites in music over the previous year. The results for 2010 were published recently, and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was voted the best album of 2010 by a landslide, receiving almost double the votes of the runner-up, LCD Soundsystem’s This is Happening. Yeezy then ran roughshod over the […]
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Village Voice Pazz & Jop Goes Gaga Over Kanye
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Popblerd! Presents: The Top 40 Albums of 2010 (35-31)
Check out #40-#36 here . 35. Jamie Cullum, The Pursuit (Verve) We Americans had to wait a little longer for The Pursuit than his native Brits, the singer/songwriter’s third major-label album was a 2009 release in Jamie’s homeland. Turns out the album was worth the wait. Cullum is equally at home with poignant ballads as he is with energetic pop tunes, which is what separates him from supposed contemporaries like Michael Boring Buble. Extra points for his caffeinated supper-club version of […]
Popblerd! Presents: The Top 40 Albums of 2010 (40-35)
We’re counting down the Top 40 albums of 2010 on Popblerd. The first installment looks at albums by artists ranging from Rihanna to The XX.