GUSH OR BORE? Over at the Village Voice's iconic (though not as much as it once was) Pazz & Jop poll they're calling this year's results the equivalent of Florida in 2000 as Bob Dylan's "Modern Times" lost the popular vote to TV on the Radio's "Return to Cookie Mountain" but won the election due the fact that voters are allowed to assign a value to their votes (they pick 10 albums and have 100 points [30 max, 5 min] to assign to each album. I like both albums and can't really argue with the somewhat predictable result. Albums a little further down that I enjoyed more than either include The Decemberist's "The Crane Wife" (13) , Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twin's "Rabbit Fur Coat" (15), Springsteen's "We Shall Overcome" (19), and Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint's "The River in Reverse" (32).
As for the singles, Gnarls Barkley's still sublime "Crazy" rightfully took top honors in a Reaganesque landslide (each vote in the singles category counts as a single vote), topping TI's "What You Know" by 101 votes. Two of my favorite singles of the year did not fare as well: Gwen Stefani's oft-derided "Wind it Up" (113) and Regina Spektor's jaunty "Fidelity" (153).
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