Every year, top music critics compile a massive poll on the best music from the previous year. This year’s Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll tallies votes from 494 music writers to come up with a list of the best albums and singles of 2006. From the involvement of local writers Chris Riemenschneider and Jon Bream (both from the Star Tribune) to Minnesota-born Bob Dylan taking top album honors for Modern Times, our fair state gets its due.
Bands with Minnesota connections getting top album votes include: The Hold Steady at number four (featuring members of the former TC band Lifter Puller) for Boys and Girls in America; at 137, Tapes ‘n Tapes for their breakthrough album The Loon; and, fresh off his Super Bowl rockfest, Minneapolis’ finest, Prince at #142 for 3121.
Other locally affiliated vote-getters for best album:
154. Golden Smog, featuring members of Soul Asylum and The Jayhawks, for Another Fine Day
161. P.O.S., a Rhymesayers up-and-comer, for Audition
399. (TIE) Soul Asylum, The Silver Lining
530. (TIE) Paul Westerberg, Music for Open Season; and Alan Sparhawk of Low for Solo Guitar
720. (TIE) Zebulon Pike, Zebulon Pike II: The Deafening Twilight
756. (TIE) Jessy Greene, A Demon and Her Lovers; and STNNNG, who played at the Walker’s Summer Music & Movies in ‘06, for Fake Fake
Plenty of others making the Pazz and Jop list have been to the Walker recently or--in the case of Matmos, at #107, who play the McGuire stage with So Percussion and Kitundu May 19--will be here soon:
12. Sonic Youth (who played Rock the Garden 200o and dropped by for a gallery visit last summer) for Rather Ripped
21. Ornette Coleman (who played his 75th-birthday concert here in 2005) for Sound Grammar
59. Tom Zé (who collaborated with Tortoise back in ‘99) for Estudando o Pagode
76. Boris, Pink (see #373)
107. Matmos, The Rose has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast
111. Melvins (who scored Cameron Jamie’s three films, shown here in fall 2006) for A Senile Animal
135. Juana Molina (she sang here in fall 2005), Son
373. (TIE) Sunn0)) and Boris, who played a concert at the Walker in fall 2006, Altar
391. Carla Bozulich (she performed here in March ‘06) for Evangelista
530. (TIE) Stereolab (Rock the Garden 2000) for Fab Four Suture
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