Wednesday, January 20, 2010
National Skyline Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, The Dead Weather and More Chart in Pazz and Jop 2009
Posted by Steve Haruch on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Yesterday, the Village Voice's yearly Pazz and Jop poll results went live. (Remember when D.P.R. was filling out his ballot?) To the shock and amazement of this one guy who lives in Jersey, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion topped the albums chart. If you've been near an Internet in the past year, most of the Top 10 probably won't surprise you much: Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, The xx, Dirty Projectors and so forth. Meanwhile, to the mild shock and bemusement of this critic, Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" topped the singles. (Chris Weingarten probably put it best when he referred to "Empire" as "the musical equivalent of a tourist trap.") Did the Pazz and Jop poll really line up with the Billboard Hot 100? For that song? Tevs.
Nashville artists -- and not necessarily the usual suspects -- did make a respectable showing in the poll, so let's break that down a bit, shall we?
Albums
Miranda Lambert was the highest-charting Nashvillian at No. 25, one of five locals to crack the Top 100 albums. I was surprised not to see KOL further up the list (I mean, Asher Roth received votes in this poll -- just sayin'), but I guess now Chuck Mead has one more thing to brag about when he's hanging out at Family Wash. Nashville's most well-received albums skewed country-ish, or at least Americana-ish, but we did land two rock albums in the upper 100, so that's something. Brendan Benson, Superdrag, Those Darlins and everybody's favorite Motown band, Paper Route, also added to the non-country count.
Miranda Lambert, Revolution (25)
The Dead Weather, Horehound (28)
Brad Paisley, American Saturday Night (34)
Paramore, Brand New Eyes (74)
Buddy and Julie Miller, Written in Chalk (87)
Dave Rawlings Machine, A Friend of a Friend (168)
Taylor Swift, Fearless (186)
Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies (197)
Brendan Benson, My Old, Familiar Friend (305)
Those Darlins, Those Darlins (334)
Chuck Mead, Journeyman's Wager (No. 509)
Kings of Leon, Only by the Night (No. 515)
Keith Urban, Defying Gravity (706)
Superdrag, Industry Giants (711)
Roman Candle, Oh Tall Tree in the Ear (923)
Paper Route, Absence (1079)
Jason Ringenberg, New Tracks and Sidetracks (1427)
Non-Commissioned Officers, Make-Out With Violence OST (1676)
Paul Burch, Still Your Man (1754)
Cortney Tidwell, Boys (1893)
Black Diamond Heavies, Alive as Fuck (1902)
Singles
Taylor Swift hit Nashville's highest mark on the singles chart with the song about the girl who wears short skirts, which she sometimes sings while wearing a short skirt, but Miranda Lambert and The Dead Weather charted three songs each, with our fair city notching a total of five Top 100 singles. KOL's "Use Somebody" did about as well as I would have expected, considering all the currency it got this year, not to mention all the actual currency.
Taylor Swift, "You Belong With Me" (10); "Love Story" (220)
Kings of Leon, "Use Somebody" (15)
Brad Paisley, "Welcome to the Future" (47); "Then" (92)
Miranda Lambert, "Dead Flowers" (58); "White Liar" (132); "Me and Your Cigarettes" (463)
Ke$ha, "Tik Tok" (126)
The Dead Weather, "Hang You From the Heavens" (130); "Treat Me Like Your Mother" (160); "So Far From Your Weapon" (489)
Jamey Johnson, "High Cost of Living" (140)
JEFF the Brotherhood, "Bone Jam" (271)
Paramore, "Ignorance" (282)
Brendan Benson, "A Whole Lot Better" (301)
Carrie Underwood, "Cowboy Casanova" (449)
Those Darlins, "Red Light Love" (508)
Check out the complete 2009 Pazz and Jop poll over at the Voice, and Maura Johnston's essay on "music-racism" in particular.
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