Last month Tom Ewing ran a World Cup Of 1990 on Twitter and nearing the end asked, "For voters here, I'm interested - has the relatively deep dive of this poll changed your opinion of 1990 at all? (assuming you had one!)" My basic response is too long for 280 characters, or even 2800, so I'm blogging it here, also referring to and embedding a ( Read more... )

Chuck Eddy on K-pop:

http://www.spin.com/articles/k-pop

Chuck wrote this over a year ago, told me he didn't think Spin had made it available online so I didn't look, but it turns out they had. Excerpts ( Read more... )

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"Here's Frank Kogan, here's Chuck Eddy, and here's this dude!"

Dave Moore has posted a transcript of his rockcritics.com interview - had originally been a podcast (Scott Woods the interviewer):

(When I saw there was a third vote for I Am Me, I said to myself, "Must be the father of a couple of pre-teen girls. What other critics listen to this ( Read more... )

In two unrelated incidents, Chuck Eddy and I mention Metropolis Records within the same 24-hour period.

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2678

http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/786913.html

FK (You make me wanna reblog, in the kitchen on the floor):

My Dylan blurb for Paste. It only makes a passing reference to Ashlee, but she was saturating my mind when I wrote it, so I feel she inhabits every word, including the words I lifted from Mark Sinker.Not to mention the words I lifted from Greil Marcus ( Read more... )

Lotsa convos on Tumblr today somewhat inspired by Xhuxk's P&J essay, e.g., this one and this one and this one and this one. The problem that I'm having with them, and that Tom recognizes better than the other posters, is that the words "consensus" and "populist" and "contrarian" don't take care of themselves without elaboration. [EDIT: Chuck didn't ( Read more... )

Over on his own Pazz & Jop ballot, Josh Langhoff recommends that we list the "gatekeepers" who introduced us to our favorite music. Someone named "Chuck Eddy" recurs on his list. In any event, here's my P&J ballot again, this time with the added info of who or what first led me to the music. (I don't think "gatekeeper" is the right term, really ( Read more... )

Chuck Eddy and Matt Cibula and Andrew Unterberger join the Jukebox! I'm not actually sure who Andrew is, but I look forward to some haiku from Matt, and Chuck has already compared "Battlefield" to Battles and The Field. (They'd joined Jukebox one track earlier, but I like the writeups more on this one.)

New link for Chuck Eddy's "Chuck It All In" column. (It's all still there, only the URL has changed.)