I shut down the RT20 List after 25 years last year. But I'm somehow still a Village Voice Pazz & Jop voter, so I decided to assemble Top 10 albums and singles to submit and I figured I'd share them here. Enjoy. (Or criticize, whatever.)
Albums
1) Telekinesis – Ad Infinitum (Merge)
2) Courtney Barrnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom & Pop)
3) Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
4) Mac McCaughan – Non-Believers (Merge)
5) Wilco – Star Wars (dpm)
6) Guster – Evermotion (Ocho Mule/Nettwerk)
7) Dwight Yoakum – Second Hand Heart (Warner Bros.)
8) FFS – FFS (Domino)
9) Unlikely Friends – Solid Gold Cowboys (Jigsaw Recordings)
10) The Figgs – Other Planes of Here (Stomper Music)
Singles
1) Alessia Cara – “Here” (Def Jam)
2) John Grant – “Disappointing” (Partisan)
3) Adele – “Hello” (XL/Columbia)
4) Best Coast – “Feeling Okay” (Harvest)
5) Beck – “Dreams” (Capitol)
6) Dawes – “All Your Favorite Bands” (Hub Records)
7) The Weeknd – “Can’t Feel My Face” (Republic)
8) Ryan Adams – “Bad Blood” (Pax Am/Blue Note)
9) EL VY – “Return to the Moon” (4AD)
10) The Chemical Brothers – “Go” (Astralwerks)
Thursday, December 10, 2015
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Stone Temple
Pilots
– “Wicked Garden”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Vasoline”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Dancing Days”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Big Bang Baby”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Sour Girl”
Urge Overkill – “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon”
White Town – “Your Woman”
Lemonheads – “Into Your Arms”
Dave Matthews Band – “Stay”
Rusted Root – “Send Me On My Way”
Better Than Ezra – “Good”
Gin Blossoms – “Hey Jealousy”
Eagle-Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight”
Sublime – “Date Rape”
Reel Big Fish – “Sell Out”
Squirrel Nut Zippers – “Hell”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “The Impression That I Get”
No Doubt – “Sunday Morning”
Letters to Cleo – “Cruel to Be Kind”
Meredith Brooks – “Bitch”
Natalie Imbruglia – “Torn”
Mariah Carey – “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
Mariah Carey – “Honey”
Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre – “No Diggity”
Salt-N-Pepa – “Shoop”
Notorious B.I.G. – “Hypnotize”
Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Ma$e – “Mo Money, Mo Problems”
Will Smith – “Getting Jiggy Wit It”
Will Smith – “Fresh Prince Theme”
Bell Biv Devoe – “Poison”
Kris Kross – “Jump”
Michael Jackson – “Black or White”
Sir Mix-A-Lot – “Baby Got Back”
Juvenile – “Back That Azz Up”
2Pac and Dr. Dre – “California Love”
DMX – “Party Up (Up in Here)”
Snoop Dogg – “Gin and Juice”
TLC – “No Scrubs”
Mariah Carey – “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
Mariah Carey – “Fantasy”
Pras featuring Michel, Mya and ODB – “Ghetto Supastar”
Janet Jackson – “Escapade”
Britney Spears – “(You Drive Me) Crazy”
Spice Girls – “Wannabe”
Spice Girls – “Spice Up Your Life”
Ace of Base – “Beautiful Life”
Nikki French – “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
La Bouche – “Be My Lover”
Reel 2 Real – “I Like to Move It”
Quad City DJ’s – “Space Jam”
69 Boyz – “Tootsie Roll”
Eiffel 65 – “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”
Right Said Fred – “I’m Too Sexy”
C + C Music Factory – “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
Kid N Play – “Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody”
Boyz II Men – “Motownphilly”
Mariah Carey – “Emotions”
Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z – “Heartbreaker”
N’ Sync – “Tearing Up My Heart”
Backstreet Boys – “Larger Than Life”
Aqua – “Barbie Girl”
Chumbawamba – “Tubthumping”
Hanson – “Mmmbop”
Green Day – “Basket Case”
Lit – “My Own Worst Enemy”
Third Eye Blind – “Semi-Charmed Life”
Weezer – “Buddy Holly”
Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Sponge – “Molly”
Sugar Ray – “Fly”
Len – “Steal My Sunshine”
Ini Kamoze – “Here Comes the Hotstepper”
Beenie Man – “Who Ami I (Sim Simma)”
Ginuwine – “Pony”
Destiny’s Child – “Say My Name”
Aaliyah – “Are You That Somebody”
Coolio featuring LV – “Gangsta’s Paradise”
Warren G and Nate Dogg – “Regulate”
Lil’ Kim – “Crush on You (Remix)”
Wu-Tang Clan – “C.R.E.A.M.”
Busta Rhymes – “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See”
ODB – “Got Your Money”
Lou Bega – “Mambo #5”
Ricky Martin – “Living La Vida Loca”
Enrique Iglesias – “Bailamos”
Jennifer Lopez – “If You Had MY Love”
Jade – “Don’t Walk Away”
Brandy and Monica – “The Boy Is Mine”
Counting Crows – “A Long December”
Lisa Loeb – “Stay (I Missed You)”
Seal – “Kiss From a Rose”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Vasoline”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Dancing Days”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Big Bang Baby”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Sour Girl”
Urge Overkill – “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon”
White Town – “Your Woman”
Lemonheads – “Into Your Arms”
Dave Matthews Band – “Stay”
Rusted Root – “Send Me On My Way”
Better Than Ezra – “Good”
Gin Blossoms – “Hey Jealousy”
Eagle-Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight”
Sublime – “Date Rape”
Reel Big Fish – “Sell Out”
Squirrel Nut Zippers – “Hell”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “The Impression That I Get”
No Doubt – “Sunday Morning”
Letters to Cleo – “Cruel to Be Kind”
Meredith Brooks – “Bitch”
Natalie Imbruglia – “Torn”
Mariah Carey – “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
Mariah Carey – “Honey”
Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre – “No Diggity”
Salt-N-Pepa – “Shoop”
Notorious B.I.G. – “Hypnotize”
Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Ma$e – “Mo Money, Mo Problems”
Will Smith – “Getting Jiggy Wit It”
Will Smith – “Fresh Prince Theme”
Bell Biv Devoe – “Poison”
Kris Kross – “Jump”
Michael Jackson – “Black or White”
Sir Mix-A-Lot – “Baby Got Back”
Juvenile – “Back That Azz Up”
2Pac and Dr. Dre – “California Love”
DMX – “Party Up (Up in Here)”
Snoop Dogg – “Gin and Juice”
TLC – “No Scrubs”
Mariah Carey – “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
Mariah Carey – “Fantasy”
Pras featuring Michel, Mya and ODB – “Ghetto Supastar”
Janet Jackson – “Escapade”
Britney Spears – “(You Drive Me) Crazy”
Spice Girls – “Wannabe”
Spice Girls – “Spice Up Your Life”
Ace of Base – “Beautiful Life”
Nikki French – “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
La Bouche – “Be My Lover”
Reel 2 Real – “I Like to Move It”
Quad City DJ’s – “Space Jam”
69 Boyz – “Tootsie Roll”
Eiffel 65 – “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”
Right Said Fred – “I’m Too Sexy”
C + C Music Factory – “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
Kid N Play – “Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody”
Boyz II Men – “Motownphilly”
Mariah Carey – “Emotions”
Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z – “Heartbreaker”
N’ Sync – “Tearing Up My Heart”
Backstreet Boys – “Larger Than Life”
Aqua – “Barbie Girl”
Chumbawamba – “Tubthumping”
Hanson – “Mmmbop”
Green Day – “Basket Case”
Lit – “My Own Worst Enemy”
Third Eye Blind – “Semi-Charmed Life”
Weezer – “Buddy Holly”
Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Sponge – “Molly”
Sugar Ray – “Fly”
Len – “Steal My Sunshine”
Ini Kamoze – “Here Comes the Hotstepper”
Beenie Man – “Who Ami I (Sim Simma)”
Ginuwine – “Pony”
Destiny’s Child – “Say My Name”
Aaliyah – “Are You That Somebody”
Coolio featuring LV – “Gangsta’s Paradise”
Warren G and Nate Dogg – “Regulate”
Lil’ Kim – “Crush on You (Remix)”
Wu-Tang Clan – “C.R.E.A.M.”
Busta Rhymes – “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See”
ODB – “Got Your Money”
Lou Bega – “Mambo #5”
Ricky Martin – “Living La Vida Loca”
Enrique Iglesias – “Bailamos”
Jennifer Lopez – “If You Had MY Love”
Jade – “Don’t Walk Away”
Brandy and Monica – “The Boy Is Mine”
Counting Crows – “A Long December”
Lisa Loeb – “Stay (I Missed You)”
Seal – “Kiss From a Rose”
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