Ah yes, a fine portrait, should be in the Tate Gallery if you ask me with all of its....lines. This is what you get when you punch in centricity and hit image 15 or 20 search pages in. Anyway, enough about the fine artwork by Schlemmer.As has been the case every year, this year's Pazz and Jop poll conducted by the Village Voice is an exercise for critics in seeing how one fits into the realm of music criticism. Or in the case of some, how far out in left field they can be.
Using different statistical analysis, this year's Voter Centricity list has already been created, with yours truly ranking in a tie for 435th overall out of 692 placings. All this means is that my choices for albums of the year are picked by a handful of others, whereas those with the most centricity tend to fall in with popular opinion of the whole lot of critics.
My pick for album of the year was deemed to be the 100th best album of 2009 whereas other picks (when cross-referenced) were picked by four, five and sometimes only two others. Part of this is explained by the dominant US based writers whereas Canadians only compose a small portion of the list, so albums by Metric, Alexisonfire and Joel Plaskett raved about in the Great White North are blips on the radar in Uncle Sam Land.
Regardless, it is my goal for 2010 to train hard, eat a balanced diet, and compete for 430th on the Voter Centricity List.
Here is a link to my picks for 2009 (Albums and singles, most of the singles being popular in the Northern coastal areas of Mali)
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2009/686233
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