That new Portishead might be worth checking out
According to Last Week's Poll
Proud black man that I am, you fruits know it's not my m.o. to work unless I absolutely have to. But I figured I might as well get this shit out of the way, so I won't have to deal with it tomorrow, and so people in foreign countries (they don't have Memorial Day in foreign countries, do they?) can have something to do today.
Periodically, I've been running these polls where I list several recent rap albums and let you - the customer - decide which is best. Since I don't even listen to that much rap music, I figured I might as well also run a similar poll, with non-rap albums.
So that's what this was. Here are the results.
Best new non-rap album?
- Portishead - Third (48.8%)
- Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords (26.7%)
- Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head (14.5%)
- Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs (12.2%)
- My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (9.3%)
- No Age - Nouns (7.6%)
- Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (7.6%)
- The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement (6.4%)
- Islands - Arm's Way (4.7%)
- Shearwater - Rook (2.3%)
Again, you'll have to forgive the fact that the percentages don't seem to make sense. I'm not sure exactly how they work, and I might need five more years in college before I can figure it out. And I just plain can't afford that.
As far as the results... well, it'd be easy to explain these away as '90s nostalgia like I did last week's rap poll, which the Roots won. But I heard the new Portishead is actually good. I haven't had a chance to check it out myself. I think I did listen to it once, but the one I had was that weird, unmastered version.
Out of the rest of the list, of which I've heard pretty much all of it, I ended up rolling with the new Death Cab, the new My Morning Jacket, and Islands.
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This week's poll, which I just put up a couple of hours ago, has to do with the Kennedy family, which has been in the news a lot lately, what with Teddy having that brain tumor and Hillary Clinton suggesting Barack Obama might be the next Bobby Kennedy.
I should note - because my guess is that some of you are prone to confusion - that this week's poll is a return to old school, American-style voting, where you can only pick one. I know it might be difficult, given how many important people there are in the Kennedy family, but you're just gonna have to man up.
