The Pazz & Jop Poll added two more names to The Frank Kogan Affinity List, 2007 (everyone who had three or more items on his Idolator or Pazz & Jop ballot that were also on mine; the Taylor Swift and the Lily Allen albums were on my ballot last year):

Three:
--Anthony Easton (Britney Spears Blackout, Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad, Taylor Swift Taylor ( Read more... )

Here's the Frank Kogan Affinity List for 2007 (i.e., a list of everyone who had three or more items on his Idolator ballot that were also on mine; the Taylor Swift alb was on my ballot last year). Ascending order:

Three:
--Jon Caramanica (Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Taylor Swift Taylor Swift, Lloyd f. Lil Wayne "You")
--Josh Love (Crazy ( Read more... )

( My Pazz & Jop Comments 2007 )

( My Country Music Critics Poll ballot 2007 )

( My Top 20 Country Singles for 2007 )

( My Top 80 Singles for 2007 )

Here's my Idolator ballot. My comments are basically Thursday's post on Britney-Stooges-Aly'n'AJ-NYDolls with a few words changed and some new pretentious ones at the end.

( I get my name correct (and rate a few albums)! )

Eliminating the Tisdale from my album ballot didn't get her out of my head, since (for example) I'd be listening to M.I.A.'s Kala and saying "Yes, this is nice, but Ashley Tisdale has three tracks on her album that are better than any track on your album." So Ashley Tisdale haunts the balloting process ( Read more... )

( Late night calm before next day's poll storm? )

Right. I finally capitulated. Blackout is the album of the year. Blackout vs. Insomniatic is like Raw Power vs. New York Dolls once was, and what my decision finally came down to then and now was force (power, wantonness, viscera seizing you by the throat, insinuatingly nervy sexiness) vs. love (passion, vulnerability, warmth, sympathy, desperation ( Read more... )