The problem with VV is it is such a pale facsimile of what it once was, it just… it is like when somebody has been really sick and while they are better they haven’t bounced back. The Village Voice haunts itself; it looks at itself in the mirror and it is gaunt and tired and shaky and a terrible read
I’ll take Illmatic at # 1, so fair enough. You can imagine, I dunno Stereogum, or we ourselves, compiling it. But the voice of socialist New York, up against the wall, left wing, stood up to Murdoch, world beater Voice. That is just sad.
“You can also check out individual ballots and read essays on Kanye, Miley, R Kelly, the emo revival, and others, not to mention loads of pithy blurbs and pie charts.”
Could the Village Voice Pazz And Jop Poll get any more irrelevant? If I wasn’t hitting deadline I don’t think I’d mention it at all but since we’re all here, this kinda is obvious
