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Sugar Minott “Please Be True” – What I find amazing about Sugar Minott is that he seems to effortlessly convey this feeling of profound contentment that makes almost all of his music feel like a sort of back-to-the-womb experience. There is something in his voice that never fails to express this very real, unaffected sentiment of peace and love. Maybe it’s all the weed. I don’t know. Even still, it doesn’t get much lovelier than this. (Click here to buy it from Soul Jazz.)

Crispin J. Glover (featuring Princess Julia) “This Is Not A Love Song” – No, this is not that Crispin Glover, sorry. Also: this is most emphatically not a love song, though it is a PiL cover made over as a “leftfield” disco number. It’s not exactly radical, but it gets the adrenaline pumping. (Click here to buy it from One Little Indian.)

The Pazz & Jop Poll ’04 results are in. I’m not a fan of lists or polling, but I’m more interested than usual because I was invited to vote in the poll this year. This is my ballot. It was a tricky thing for me to do, since I haven’t made a year end list since back when I was in high school and I heard no more than thirty albums in a year. My albums list wasn’t very difficult to make, mostly because there weren’t that many full length records that held my attention in 2004. I do regret not including Ghostface and Mclusky – I wasn’t thinking. Though I do like the record a lot, I wish that I had dropped U2 and put another underdog on the albums list. My singles list is kinda arbitrary – I had about fifty other songs that could just as well have been in that top 10, which I suppose is obvious since I run a daily singles review site. I’m pretty ecstatic that Annie charted so highly on the singles poll, and that the Fiery Furnaces, Scissor Sisters, M.I.A., and Dizzee Rascal placed well on the albums chart. Good to see that my vote counted for something. I didn’t submit any comments, mostly because I didn’t know what to say and I had bronchitis when I had to get it done. Maybe next year.