>if you're going to claim you're selective about letting in indie critics, you shouldn't bring up James Blount. anyway, yeah, george has the right idea - next year, unless your ballot is all unsigned bands, you're dead meat. i was kind of hoping the christian-rock specialists i sent ballots to (there were a couple, but damned if i remember their names) had voted, but i don't think they did. deadline for ballots was a week earlier than ever this year - between xmas and new years - which hurt us some (we actually accepted late ballots for about a week without telling anybody), but not as much as i would have predicted.
Xp: definitely more added than dropped, but i can't give you exact numbers. It can mean anything to anyone if you stare at it long enough. Neither are precisely categorizable, although both lend themselves to all kinds of demographic discussions. And the avalanche of music is growing faster than the avalanche of "critics."
It's an avalanche of critics, of people, dealing with an even larger avalanche of released music. Doing a shopper is incidental a lot of the time.ĭo you believe that all the critics in this poll, or any poll, or any set of lists, always write in WHAT THEIR TOP LISTENS REALLY ARE? Or do you believe that some people, not all, practice herd mentality, or tweak a ballot so they think it will look good to someone else? And how do you tell who does it, when, and who doesn't? Who says? This sounds like a recipe for nothing more than a shopper. Saunders is so indie he's gotta go, too.Īfter all, critics (collectively, especially) are supposed to listen to tons of music from all kinds of genres and think about it and care about and thus the collective opinions of a bunch of music critics should be of interest to listeners Yah, it's time to end the hegemony of music critics with tastes that run to the Povertneck Hillbillies and M&R Rush.
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