Dripping With Gemstones? (Very Very Preliminary Top Singles List For 2019)
Not remotely ready with my list, and faithful readers will note that I still haven't posted my list for 2018 either. But here we are, 2019, 82 or so, needs to be reordered, many more will be added and some of these will drop off. I'm trying to keep up with Cameroonian hip-hop and Korean pop and I'm six months behind with each. I checked the ILM
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PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - July 2019
YEA: Maggotron: No Vinyl For Old Men Part One (Jamarc) 7; Rahsaan Patterson: Heroes & Gods (Shanachie) 5; Dionne Warwick: She's Back (eOne) 5; Mexstep: Resistir (Mexstep) 5; Tank and the Bangas: Green Balloon (Verve) 5; Lizzo: Cuz I Love You (Nice Life/Atlantic) 5; Blaque: Torch (The Move Entertainment) 5; Sinkane: Dépaysé (City Slang) 3; Philip Bailey: Love Will Find a Way (Verve) 3; Ciara: Beauty Marks (Beauty Marks Entertainment) 3.
NAY: Jayda G: Significant Changes (Ninja Tune) -1; Steve Lacy: Apollo XXI (3qtr) -1; Izzy Bizu: Glita (RCA EP) -1; Khalid: Free Spirit (RCA) -1; Jane Handcock: Where's Jane ? Series 2 (Kemani Entertainment) -2.
PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - August 2019
YEA: Mekons: Deserted (Bloodshot) 3; Daddy Long Legs: Lowdown Ways (Yep Rock) 3; Blanco Brown: Blanco Brown (Broken Bow EP) 3; Runaway June: Blue Roses (Wheelhouse) 3; Boo Ray: Tennessee Alabama ( ... )
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YEA: Test Dept.: Disturbance (One Little Indian) 5; The Dream Syndicate: These Times (Anti/Epitaph) 3; Big Stick: LP (Drag Racing Underground) 3; Pere Ubu: The Long Goodbye (Cherry Red) 3; The Rubinoos: From Home (Yep Roc) 3; Tacocat: This Mess is a Place (Sub Pop) 3; 100 Gecs: 1000 Gecs (Dog Show EP) 2; Buck Gooter: Finer Thorns (Ramp Local) 2; 3 x 4 - The Bangles, The Three O'Clock, The Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade (Yep Roc) 2; Redd Kross: Beyond the Door (Merge) 2.
NAY: Tool: Fear Inoculum (RCA) -1; Dinosaur Pile-Up: Celebrity Mansions (Parlophone UK) -1; Ezra Furman: Twelve Nudes (Bella Union) -1; Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe (ATO) -1; Bon Iver: i,i (Jagjaguwar) -3.
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YEA: Art Ensemble of Chicago: We Are On The Edge - A 50th Anniversary Celebration (Pi) 8; Ezra Collective: You Can't Steal My Joy (Enter The Jungle) 8; Louis Sclavis: Characters on a Wall (ECM) 7; James Carter Organ Trio: Live From Newport Jazz (Blue Note) 7; Heroes Are Gang Leaders: The Amiri Baraka Sessions (Flat Langston's Arkeyes) 7; JD Allen: Barracoon (Savant) 7; Quinsin Nachoff's Flux: Path of Totality (Whirlwind) 7; The Comet is Coming: The Afterlife (Impulse!) 7; James Brandon Lewis: An Unruly Manifesto (Relative Pitch) 7; Miles Davis: Rubberband (Rhino/Warner Bros.) 7.
NAY: Bryony Jarman-Pinto: Cage and Aviary (Tru Thoughts) -1; Moonchild: Little Ghost (eOne) -1; Wstrn: Wstrn Season, Vol. 2 (Atlantic UK) -1; Hot Club of Cowtown: Wild Kingdom (Gold Strike) -1; The Jazzual Suspects: The Jazzual Suspects (Om) -1.
PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - late October 2019
YEA: Santana: Africa Speaks (Concord) 8; Rachid Taha: Je Suis Africain (Naive) 7; Guillermo Klein: Los Guachos Kristal ( ( ... )
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Amen to Art Ensemble (looking fwd to Nov release by their guest Moor Mother) and Ezra Collective, been meaning to check James Carter and several other Yays. Distressed to see new Hot Club among nays, especially because I just ordered it, before I saw this.
On Monday, October 14, 2019, 7:55:47 PM CDT, Don Allred wrote:
I like the Rachid Taha too, been wondering about Santana's Africa Speaks, with the North African(?) diva (whose style some have associated with flamenco).
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YEA: Miranda Lambert: Wildcard (Vanner/RCA) 7; Taylor Swift: Lover (Taylor Swift) 5; The Rails: Cancel The Sun (Psychonaut Sounds) 5; Kalie Shorr: Open Book (Kalie Shorr) 5; The Highwomen: The Highwomen (Low Country Sound/Elektra) 5; Michaela Anne: Desert Dove (Yep Roc) 3; Maddie Poppe: Whirlwind (Hollywood) 3; Tanya Tucker: While I'm Livin' (Fantasy) 3; Brittany Howard: Jaime (Ato) 2; Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor) 1.
NAY: Irene Kelly: Benny's TV Repair (Mountain Fever) -1; Sheryl Crow: Threads (Valory Music Co.) -1; Lillie Mae: Other Girls (Third Man) -1; Kacy & Clayton: Carrying On (New West) -1; Madonna: Madame X (Boy Toy Inc.) -2.
PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - late November 2019
YEA: Opeth: In Cauda Venenum (Nuclear Blast) 8; Crypt Sermon: The Ruins of Fading Light (Dark Descent) 7; Ancient VVisdom: Mundus (Argonauta) 7; Bison Machine: Seas of Titan (Small Stone) 5; Mustasch: Killing It for Life (Tritonus) 5; The Lord Weird Slough Feg: New Organon (Cruz Del Sur) 3; ( ... )
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I second most of your yays, although am surprised to not like the Miranda more - well I do like most of it, track by track, but the meh ones somehow seem like bigger potholes than they should? I mean I didn't like "Tin Man" etc., but those didn't interfere w overall momentum of their surrounding albums. Then again have only listened to Wildcard once, though previously that's all she needed. Oh well will try again, also looking fwd to Kalie Shorr next up tonight.
What did you not like about Sheryl Crow, Lillie Mae? Would have thought those were right up yr alley.
From: Chuck Eddy
Sent: Fri, Nov 8, 2019 9:12 am
Hey Don - Biggest Miranda potholes for me have been "Settling Down" (which a couple people tell me I'm underrating - may need to force-feed it more), "Holy Water," "Locomotive" (token generic obligatory loud train metaphor going nowhere), especially "How Dare You Love" (which nobody I've talked to likes) and maybe "Fire Escape ( ... )
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YEA: Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (Constellation) 7; Imagination: Retropia (Lj Music Entertainment Limited) 7; One Way: # New Old School (Expansion) 5; Raphael Saadiq: Jimmy Lee (Columbia) 5; Charlotte Adigéry: Zandoli (Deewee EP) 3; Tanika Charles: The Gumption (Record Kicks) 3; Georgia Anne Muldrow: Vweto II (Mello Music Group) 2; Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! (Jagjaguwar) 2; G&D: Black Love & War (Someothaship/eOne) 1; Rapsody: Eve (Jamla) 1.
NAY: Missy Elliott: Iconology (Goldmind/Atlantic EP) -1; Mariah the Scientist: Master (One Umbrella/RCA) -1; Becky G: Mala Santa (Kemosabe/RCA/Sony Latin) -1; Jordin Sparks & Elijah Blake: 1990 Forever (Rkeytek/DF Media EP) -2; Nikki Jean: Beautiful Prison (Rhymesayers EP) -3.
PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - late December 2019
YEA: Skyzoo: Retropolitan (Mello Music Group) 5; Yelawolf: Ghetto Cowboy (Slumerican) 5; Third Root: Trill Pedagogy - Spring Semester (Third Root EP) 5; The Mighty Rhino: A Joy Which Nothing Can Erase (Hand' ( ... )
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Sent: Sun, Dec 22, 2019 9:46 pm
Subject: Re: PS!!! re: My 2018 music ballots/lists
Look forward to listening to the Matana Roberts. I liked the first two COIN COINs a lot ( ... )
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