The “Village Voice” Remembers Amy Winehouse Put Out A Record In The Last 24 Months

Jess Harvell | January 23, 2008 9:30 am
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Well, that’s it. Tag it and bag it. Unless I happen to notice a late-breaking entry from the Burlington Community Times tomorrow while getting my coffee, the publication of the Village Voice‘s Pazz And Jop poll marks the last of 2007’s year-end lists, headed up by LCD Soundsystem (album) and Amy Winehouse (singles). Now let us never speak of either again.

THE GOOD: 2007 is over! Also Feist and Wilco were both kept out of the albums Top 10, plus an honestly surprising, kinda heartening Winehouse-over-Rihanna singles upset, if only by 4 mentions. (And even if No. 2 Rihanna spanked No. 3 “All My Friends” by a whopping 32 mentions.) THE BAD: As with the Idolator Pop Critics Poll, Peter Bjorn and John earn a Top 10 placing on the singles list despite the evil “Young Folks” first whistling its way into our lives in 2006. Damned twee Swedes. THE WHAAAA? Radiohead beats M.I.A. to the No. 2 albums spot despite an equal number of points, thanks to four more ballot mentions that break the tie. Not quite fraud at the polls, but clearly the electoral college is not the only voting system that needs reforming.

P.S. Psyche. Full lists not after the jump. Feel free to check out the results and come back here to argue them. Or not. It’s 2008 and we have plenty of Hannah Montana stories new things to discuss, even if I’m not 100 percent sure what they are yet. Maybe we’ll find out it was Rockwell that really killed Heath Ledger or Courtney Love will put out an album where every song features the Soulja Boy “YAHH!” or the bottom will drop out of Web 2.0 and we’ll all be forced to get real jobs. This year’s gonna be silly, I just know it.

Pazz And Jop 2007 [Village Voice]