Your Pazz & Jop albums ballot was submitted as follows:

1. Hold Steady - Separation Sunday - French Kiss (25)
2. Kanye West - Late Registration - Roc-A-Fella (15)
3. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire - Arts & Crafts (15)
4. Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike - Columbia (10)
5. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Naturally - Daptone (10)
6. Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back - Atlantic (5)
7. Ghosty - Grow Up or Sleep In - Future Farmer (5)
8. Metric - Live It Out - Last Gang (5)
9. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better - Domino/Epic (5)
10. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll - Fierce Panda (5)

Your Pazz & Jop singles ballot was submitted as follows:

1. Kanye West - Gold Digger - Roc-A-Fella
2. Go! Team - Bottle Rocket - Columbia
3. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone - RCA
4. Hold Steady - Little Hoodrat Friend - French Kiss
5. Beck - Girl - Geffen
6. Amerie - 1 Thing - Columbia
7. Will Smith - Switch - Interscope
8. Madonna - Hung Up - Warner Bros
9. The Game - Hate It or Love It - Universal
10. Hal - Play the Hits - Rough Trade

Here's my ballot for the Strib's local music poll. As you can see, my top 10 albums haven't changed in the week since I first came up with them. Amazing, no? (Here's a shot of the dance party that erupted during a set by Haunted House at Brother and Sister's Summer Camp in July.)

Albums
Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
The Birthday Suits Cherry Blue
The Blind Shake Rizzograph
Dessa False Hopes
Chris Koza Exit Pesce
Halloween, Alaska Two Tall to Hide
Mint Condition Livin' the Luxury Brown
STNNNG Dignified Sissy
Vicious Vicious Don't Look So Surprised
White Light Riot The Dark Is Light Enough

Songs
Brother and Sister "B-E-S-T S-I-S-T-E-R E-V-E-R"
Gay Beast "Multi-Purpose Anti-Form"
Fitzgerald "How Far North?"
Mike Gunther and His Restless Souls "No Leg to Stand On"
Vicious Vicious "Here Come Tha Police"

Live acts
The Birthday Suits
Brother and Sister
Gay Beast
The Plastic Constellations
STNNNG

This week my big brother joins in the fun. Hey hermano, we need to get you some non-Japanese music recorded within the last five years.

1. "Eight Line Poem" - David Bowie
2. "Black Cadillacs" - Modest Mouse
3. "Slow Hands" - Interpol
4. "Recycled Air" - The Postal Service
5. "Say It Ain't So" - Weezer
6. "When You Sleep" - My Bloody Valentine
7. "Lions" - Tones on Tail
8. "Nude on the Moon" - Tipsy
9. "Statecontrol" - the Hives
10. "Late" - Kanye West

Thanks to some friendly pestering on Corey Anderson's part, I'm bringing back my Friday shuffle. I spent last night frantically entering song titles into iTunes (something I'm usually too lazy to bother with) so as not to bore you with entries like "Track 7" - Kanye West. In other news, I'm a Lostoholic. I'm not sure what will happen when I run out of season one episodes, but I think it will be something akin to Charlie's heroin withdrawal.

1. "Let's Kill Ourselves" - the Ponys
2. "Road Movie to Berlin" - They Might Be Giants
3. "Police and the Private" - Metric
4. "The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore" - PJ Harvey
5. "Calendar Girl" - Stars
6. "Imperial Teen" - Imperial Teen
7. "The National Anthem" - Radiohead
8. "It's the End of the World as We Know It" - REM
9. "Kissing the Lipless" - the Shins
10. "Holland, 1945" - Neutral Milk Hotel