http://www.idolator.com/jackinpop2006/

Top Albums of 2006

1. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (1338 points in 125 votes)
2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (1247 points in 118 votes)
3. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (1073 points in 95 votes)
4. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (1057 points in 102 votes)
5. Joanna Newsom - Ys (883 points in 84 votes)
6. Bob Dylan - Modern Times (749 points in 70 votes)
7. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (623 points in 61 votes)
8. The Knife - Silent Shout (607 points in 56 votes)
9. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (588 points in 58 votes)
10. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (586 points in 54 votes)
11. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (571 points in 53 votes)
12. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (565 points in 57 votes)
13. Hot Chip - The Warning (529 points in 54 votes)
14. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (470 points in 44 votes)
15. Cat Power - The Greatest (444 points in 44 votes)
16. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (434 points in 42 votes)
17. Girl Talk - Night Ripper (420 points in 38 votes)
18. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (395 points in 37 votes)
19. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (387 points in 38 votes)
20. Jay Dee aka J Dilla - Donuts (384 points in 35 votes)
21. T.I. - King (367 points in 36 votes)
22. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (364 points in 33 votes)
23. Scott Walker - The Drift (350 points in 31 votes)
24. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (342 points in 30 votes)
25. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (341 points in 32 votes)
26. The Roots - Game Theory (326 points in 32 votes)
27. The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine (315 points in 29 votes)
28. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (303 points in 33 votes)
29. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (301 points in 31 votes)
30. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (293 points in 31 votes)
31. Lily Allen - Alright, Still (291 points in 30 votes)
32. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (284 points in 28 votes)
33. The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon (276 points in 28 votes)
34. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (274 points in 29 votes)
35. Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way (274 points in 26 votes)
36. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (271 points in 29 votes)
37. Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer (259 points in 23 votes)
38. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (235 points in 22 votes)
39. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (228 points in 21 votes)
40. DJ Drama & Lil Wayne - Dedication 2 (226 points in 24 votes)
41. Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song (226 points in 23 votes)
42. Liars - Drum's Not Dead (226 points in 20 votes)
43. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (218 points in 23 votes)
44. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (208 points in 22 votes)
45. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (206 points in 19 votes)
46. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (200 points in 20 votes)
47. M. Ward - Post-War (181 points in 17 votes)
48. Peter, Bjorn & John - Writer's Block (175 points in 18 votes)
49. Burial - Burial (175 points in 15 votes)
50. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (174 points in 18 votes)
51. Ali Farka Toure - Savane (172 points in 17 votes)
52. Califone - Roots and Crowns (172 points in 16 votes)
53. CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy (164 points in 17 votes)
54. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (159 points in 15 votes)
55. Beck - The Information (157 points in 17 votes)
56. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light (156 points in 15 votes)
57. Neil Young - Living with War (153 points in 15 votes)
58. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet (151 points in 15 votes)
59. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (147 points in 14 votes)
60. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (140 points in 14 votes)
61. Todd Snider - The Devil You Know (140 points in 13 votes)
62. Boris - Pink (137 points in 14 votes)
63. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo (136 points in 13 votes)
64. Islands - Return to the Sea (134 points in 14 votes)
65. Tom Ze - Estudando O Pagode (134 points in 12 votes)
66. The Blow - Paper Television (133 points in 14 votes)
67. The Game - Doctor's Advocate (132 points in 15 votes)
68. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (130 points in 13 votes)
69. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth (130 points in 13 votes)
70. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (122 points in 12 votes)
71. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock 'n' Roll (121 points in 11 votes)
72. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That (120 points in 13 votes)
73. Herbert - Scale (113 points in 11 votes)
74. Danielson - Ships (111 points in 11 votes)
75. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home (111 points in 11 votes)
76. Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (109 points in 12 votes)
77. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds (108 points in 11 votes)
78. New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (106 points in 9 votes)
79. Nas - Hip-Hop Is Dead (105 points in 9 votes)
80. The Black Angels - Passover (102 points in 11 votes)
81. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah (100 points in 11 votes)
82. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely (98 points in 9 votes)
83. Man Man - Six Demon Bag (97 points in 9 votes)
84. The Ark - State of the Ark (97 points in 8 votes)
85. Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac (94 points in 9 votes)
86. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (92 points in 10 votes)
87. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (92 points in 9 votes)
88. Comets on Fire - Avatar (91 points in 10 votes)
89. Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Cruse (91 points in 10 votes)
90. Kelis - Kelis Was Here (90 points in 9 votes)
91. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (90 points in 7 votes)
92. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam (89 points in 9 votes)
93. Wolfmother - Wolfmother (89 points in 9 votes)
94. Pernice Brothers - Live a Little (89 points in 8 votes)
95. Booka Shade - Movements (88 points in 9 votes)
96. Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard de l'Independence (87 points in 9 votes)
97. Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet (86 points in 9 votes)
98. Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin (86 points in 9 votes)
99. Juana Molina - Son (84 points in 9 votes)
100. The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love (84 points in 9 votes)


Top Tracks of 2006

1. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (169 votes)
2. T.I. - What You Know (89 votes)
3. Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. - My Love (79 votes)
4. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man (51 votes)
5. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (49 votes)
6. Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland - Promiscuous (45 votes)
7. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (35 votes)
7. The Raconteurs - Steady, as She Goes (35 votes)
8. Hot Chip - Over and Over (33 votes) 1 for Solid Groove Remix
10. Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push (32 votes)
10. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks (32 votes)
12. The Killers - When You Were Young (29 votes)
13. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (28 votes)
14. Beyonce - Irreplaceable (26 votes)
14. Rihanna - SOS (26 votes)
16. Clipse - Wamp Wamp (What It Do) (24 votes)
17. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken (23 votes)
18. Kelis - Bossy (22 votes) 1 for Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix
19. Band of Horses - The Funeral (21 votes)
19. Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin' (21 votes) 1 for NYPD Remix ft. Papoose & Jae Millz
19. Lily Allen - LDN (21 votes)
22. CSS - Let's Make Love (and Listen to Death From Above) (20 votes)
23. Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice (19 votes)
23. Junior Boys ft. Andi Toma - In the Morning (19 votes)
23. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (19 votes)
26. Cassie - Me & U (18 votes)
26. Clipse - Mr. Me Too (18 votes)
26. Lily Allen - Smile (18 votes)
26. Nelly Furtado - Maneater (18 votes) 2 for remix ft. Lil Wayne
30. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor (17 votes)
30. Prince - Black Sweat (17 votes)
32. Beyonce - Ring the Alarm (16 votes)
32. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 Nike/Original Run (16 votes)
32. The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (16 votes) 1 for Trentemoeller Remix
32. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion (16 votes)
36. Cat Power - The Greatest (15 votes)
36. Rick Ross - Hustlin' (15 votes) 1 for remix ft. Jay-Z & Young Jeezy
38. Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate Me (14 votes) 2 for remix ft. Missy Elliott
38. The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy! (14 votes)
40. Lil Wayne ft. Robin Thicke - Shooter (13 votes)
40. The Knife - Silent Shout (13 votes)
42. Cham - Ghetto Story (12 votes)
42. E-40 - Tell Me When to Go (12 votes)
42. Regina Spektor - Fidelity (12 votes) 1 for Infidelity; dbl chk
42. Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Ziheuer (12 votes)
42. Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie (12 votes)
47. Beirut - Postcards From Italy (11 votes)
47. The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations (11 votes)
47. The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt (11 votes)
50. Amy Winehouse - Rehab (10 votes)
50. Danielson - Did I Step on Your Trumpet? (10 votes)
50. Ghostface Killah ft. Ne-Yo - Back Like That (10 votes)
50. Midlake - Roscoe (10 votes)
50. Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (10 votes)
50. The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (10 votes) 3 for Soulwax Nite Version
56. Ciara - Promise (9 votes)
56. Dixie Chicks - The Long Way Around (9 votes)
56. Grizzly Bear - Knife (9 votes)
56. Hot Chip - Boy From School (9 votes) 2 for Erol Alkan's Extended Re-Work
56. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rise Up with Fists!! (9 votes)
56. Justice - Waters of Nazareth (9 votes)
56. Killer Mike - That's Life (9 votes)
56. Ne-Yo - So Sick (9 votes)
56. The Rapture - Get Myself Into It (9 votes) 1 for Serge Santiago Mix
56. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts (9 votes)
66. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - RelevŽe (Carl Craig Remix) (8 votes)
66. Guillemots - Train to Brazil (8 votes)
66. Rhythm & Sound - Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix) (8 votes) 1 for original version
66. Sonic Youth - Incinerate (8 votes)
66. The Blow - Parentheses (8 votes)
66. The Game - It's Okay (One Blood) (8 votes)
72. Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down (7 votes)
72. Beyonce - DŽjˆ Vu (7 votes)
72. CSS - Alala (7 votes)
72. Fergie - London Bridge (7 votes)
72. Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces (7 votes)
72. Juvenile - Get Ya Hustle On (7 votes)
72. Marit Larsen - DonÕt Save Me (7 votes)
72. Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On (7 votes)
72. New York Dolls - Dance Like a Monkey (7 votes)
72. Sally Shapiro - I'll Be By Your Side (7 votes) 1 for Club Mix
72. Spank Rock - Sweet Talk (7 votes)
72. Weird Al Yankovic - White & Nerdy (7 votes)
84. Audion - Mouth to Mouth (6 votes)
84. Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day (6 votes)
84. Birdman & Lil Wayne - Stuntin' Like My Daddy (6 votes)
84. Escort - Starlight (6 votes)
84. Ghostface Killah ft. Raekwon - Kilo (6 votes)
84. Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up (6 votes)
84. Jay-Z - Show Me What You Got (6 votes)
84. Mary J. Blige - Be Without You (6 votes)
84. Neko Case - Star Witness (6 votes)
84. OutKast - Morris Brown (6 votes)
84. Panic! At the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies (6 votes)
84. Phoenix - Long Distance Call (6 votes)
84. The Coup ft. Black Thought & Talib Kweli - My Favorite Mutiny (6 votes)
84. The Pack - Vans (6 votes) 1 for Diplo Vans Til Infinity Remix
84. Thom Yorke - Black Swan (6 votes)
84. Todd Snider - You Got Away with It (6 votes)
84. Turbulence - Notorious (6 votes)
84. TV on the Radio - I Was a Lover (6 votes)
84. Veronicas - 4Ever (6 votes)
103. Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance (5 votes)

Here is Fast 'n' Bulbous list:

http://www.idolator.com/?op=jp_showpoll&user_id=42861

I can't see how anyone would feel confident in their year-end list before the year is up. I spend the entire month of December tracking down albums I missed earlier in the year, and revisiting ones I hadn't heard in a few months. No matter how hard I try, there are always another handful of albums I discover in the following years that would have made my top 50 and usually at least one that cracks the top 10. Alas, today is the deadline, and I've done my best, absorbing over 100 albums in the last five days. Ooh, head stuffed with music, eyes swirling...

edit in list:

Top 10 Albums of 2006

1.
TV On The Radio
Return To Cookie Mountain
(4AD/Interscope)

2.
Mastodon
Blood Mountain
(Reprise)

3.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Show Your Bones
(Interscope)

4.
Kassin +2
Futurismo
(Video Arts Japan)

5.
The Hold Steady
Boys And Girls In America
(Vagrant)

6.
The Knife
Silent Shout
(Rabid/Mute)

7.
Fujiya & Miyagi
Transparent Things
(Tirk)

8.
Neko Case
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
(Anti)

9.
Miho Hatori
Ecdysis
(Rykodisc)

10.
Joanna Newsom
Ys
(Drag City)


Top 10 Singles/Tracks of 2006

1.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cheated Hearts
(Interscope)

2.
The Horror The Horror
Sound Of Sirens
(Tapete Records)

3.
Neko Case
Hold On, Hold On
(Anti)

4.
The Dirty Pretty Things
Bang Bang You're Dead
(Universal)

5.
Hot Chip
Boy From School
(DFA/Astralwerks)

6.
Lily Allen
Smile
(Regal)

7.
The Hold Steady
Chips Ahoy!
(Vagrant)

8.
The Rakes
All Too Human
(V2)

9.
Ladyfuzz
Bouncy Ball
(Transgressive)

10.
Gwen Stefani
Yummy
(Interscope)

Top 5 Reissues of 2006

1.
Talking Heads
Remain In Light
(Sire/Rhino)

2.
Wire
154
(Harvest/Pink Flag)

3.
Talking Heads
Fear Of Music
(Sire/Rhino)

4.
Wire
Pink Flag
(Harvest/Pink Flag)

5.
Amon D¨¨l II
Tanz der Lemminge
(Revisited)

Top 5 Artists of 2006
1.
TV On The Radio

2.
Mastodon

3.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4.
Kassin +2

5.
The Knife

Anyone else on obner contribute? Post your list and link please.

I'm with "Crazy" being the top single. I mean, it's my ringtone. the rest....meh.

what is Jackin' Pop?

http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id= ... sue_num=14

The Village Voice's famous Pazz and Jop poll -- minus Christgau
BY KIMBERLY CHUN


SONIC REDUCER Icons come and go, with all the fanfare, dressers, and folderol that legends demand, you know — with a wiggle of a ruddy nose, the flash of a cape, a blast of TNT, the slam of the estate gates. Goodbye, James Brown (RIP Godfather of Soul, Dec. 25, 2006), may you work a little less in heaven than

you did on earth. Fare thee well, Village Music (music geeks' vinyl treasure trove), readying to close Sept. 30, due to the high rent demanded in Mill Valley. Next?

I was ready to say hasta luego to that mammoth warhorse of all critics' polls, the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop. The massive compendium of top 10 album and song lists and legitimizer of toiling, stinking music crit midgets the nation over, the creature seemed to be next on the list of endangered species when creator-caretaker Robert Christgau (dean of American rock critics) and Voice music editor Chuck Eddy were fired last year after the New Times' purchase of Village Voice Media.

Still, the yearly e-mail appeared again early last month — "Hello. You are one of the 1,500-odd critics we'd like to include ..." — this time signed by the Voice's new music editor, Rob Harvilla, who got the NT corporate relocation orders from the East Bay Express.

Is it the same poll without Christgau keeping tempo? Honestly, few envy Harvilla, who has had a tough shoe to polish in pleasing Voice readers and filling his well-established predecessors' boots while boasting little of sheer record-reviewing chops and logging a fraction of the critical thought that has gone into the careers of Eddy and Christgau. The latter for good reason dubbed his graded music review column Consumer's Guide. Ever the idealistic, outraged, yet overthinking lot, music writers were conflicted — torn between their loyalty to the old Voice editors and the scent of a continuing or future paycheck. The notion of alternate polls was batted around on the blogosphere.

Still, when Gawker Media actually began one, who suspected the brouhaha that would ensue? Gawker's music blog, Idolator, announced its startlingly similar Jackin' Pop Critics Poll with the cheeky, gauntlet-tossing headline "Time to Raze the Village," called out Christgau's and Eddy's cannings, and issued the salvo "For those who had long turned to the Voice to help guide them through the realm of pop, rock, and hip-hop, the 51-year-old alt-weekly now had about as much musical credibility as, say, a three-month-old blog." Shortly after that, Idolator poll editor and ex–Seattle Weekly music editor Michaelangelo Matos was informed, through a multiple-source grapevine at the NT-VV Media–owned Minneapolis–St. Paul City Pages (the alt-weekly at which he began his career) that he has been banned from that paper.

Gawker-Idolator later reported that word quickly went out to NT-VV music staffers that they're not allowed to vote in the Idolator poll. "When we announced the poll, that day, I saw an e-mail from John Lomax, who is the Houston Press music editor — he's head of New Times music editors — instructing all music editors and staff writers that hourly and salaried staffers of New Times were not allowed to vote in the Idolator poll," Matos told me from Seattle.

Matos added that despite NT-VV being "obviously hardball kind of guys," he took umbrage at the fact that "they didn't tell me I was banned. I heard it from somebody else. I think the way they handled it was chickenshit, but from the way I can tell, that's one way they operate, through fear and imprecation." At press time, Lomax and City Pages music editor Sarah Askari had not responded to inquiries.

Is this just a matter of new media versus New Times? Corporate print media fending off the pricks of a million busy blogging digits? To make matters even more complicated, Christgau himself, whose Consumer Guide was recently picked up by MSN, has voted in both polls. "I have told people who've asked to do what they wish," he e-mailed me, adding that Eddy, now at Billboard, is not voting in P&J.

Yet other aboveboard and down-low boycotts of P&J abound, Matos said. Ex–Voice staffer and current Pop Conference organizer Eric Weisbard is skipping the poll because, the former P&J pooh-bah e-mailed, "participating in Pazz & Jop validates the New Times neanderthals who now run Village Voice Media. They may want to keep alive a poll that generates more Web hits than anything else they do, but in all other ways, they hate and are trying to eradicate everything that the Village Voice music section stood for: intellectual discussion of popular music and popular culture."

"A number of people who aren't voting in the Voice poll are older and better established," added Matos, describing an argument he recently had with a friend. "I heatedly called it a labor issue, and my friend said, 'If I vote in the Voice poll, am I a scab?' It's probably not that cut-and-dried.... Everyone in New York knows how bad the Voice has gotten, but for a lot of people, the Voice still represents a decent paycheck. It's a hard thing to argue with. People who don't want to piss off the Village Voice, and frankly, till this poll came along, I was one of them."

Vote in both, don't vote in P&J, or vote in P&J and pen protest too? I've always internally chafed against the voice of critical authority, inclusive yet contentious, implied with P&J. Perhaps that sense of center is a bastion of the past, along with traditional music industry models. Yet even the first P&J Matos ever read — from 1990, with De La Soul on the cover — included an essay by a writer who refused to participate in the group grope. The gathering was that quirky and open to dissent.

An alien concert in the new order of NT-VV? "Good going, champions of the free press!" Idolator crowed after announcing the NT-VV response, excerpting a supposed example e-mail from a NT-VV music editor to writer. "To get revenge, we plan to not patronize the porn ads in the back of your magazines for the next week. You have no idea how much that's ton the cover — included an essay by a writer who refused to participate in the group grope. The gathering was that quirky and open to dissent."

One long-tenured P&J pooh-bah continues to watch over the proceedings, if from afar. "I look forward with considerable curiosity to both polls," Christgau wrote to me. "I very much doubt either will be as good as the last PJ, but we shall see." Nonetheless, it seems unlikely the boycotted and participation-by-dictate P&J will, as Matos put it, "open things up for you," as good critics and past polls have. *

I was thinking the Jackin' Pop list looked like Pazz and Jop... and then there is the sad story of the Village Voice. The Pazz and Jop has been kinda like the final word for many years. The chaos at VV means that the there is no longer a center... entropy and dissolution across the land.

WhineyPTW

http://www.idolator.com/?op=jp_showpoll&user_id=32097

Top 10 Albums of 2006

1.
Girl Talk
Night Ripper
(Illegal Art)

2.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Lisbon
(Kranky)

3.
Ghostface Killah
Fishscale
(Def Jam)

4.
T.I.
King
(Atlantic)

5.
The Melvins
(A) Senile Animal
(Ipecac)

6.
My Chemical Romans
The Black Parade
(Reprise)

7.
Young Dro
Best Thang Smokin'
(Atlantic)

8.
Prurient
Pleasure Ground
(Load)

9.
Lavender Diamond
The Calvary Of Light
(self-released)

10.
Ecstatic Sunshine
Freckle Wars
(Carpark)


Top 10 Singles/Tracks of 2006

1.
T.I.
"What You Know"
(Atlantic)

2.
Grizzly Bear
"Knife"
(Warp)

3.
Young Dro
"Shoulder Lean"
(Atlantic)

4.
Fergie
"London Bridge"
()

5.
E-40 ft. Keak Da Sneak
"Tell Me When To Go"
()

6.
The Pack
"Vans"
(Jive)

7.
Clipse ft. Pharrell
"Mr. Me Too"
(Zomba)

8.
Rhymes ft. Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliot, Rah Digga, Lloyd Banks, Papoose and DMX
"Touch It (Remix)"
(Aftermath-Interscope)

9.
Shawnna
"Gettin' Some"
(DTP-Def Jam South)

10.
Kill The Vultures
"Moonshine"
(Jib Door)

[lquote]98. Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin (86 points in 9 votes) [/quote]
I really do need to hear this.

here's mine

http://www.idolator.com/?op=jp_showpoll&user_id=17376