Main Poop Analysis 2017



January 2018
Dear POOPster:
It’s the end of the world as we know it . . . please help me I’m falling . . . don’t they know, it’s the end of the world . . .nuclear error but I have no fear. . . just a few lines from songs that have assumed the stature of existential dread in the past year. Lately I feel that the whole country is drowning and I / live by the river. So, do we need POOP right about now or what? So with that as impetus, I present the 31st annual musings of the POmpous and OPinionated. Remember when WE were the self-important bloviating blowhards? Ah, nostalgia. To the 25 pompoids who have contributed this year, it’s time to break out the tiki torches and behold the collective pith amid the pandemonium. And if I’ve offended anyone with my political vitriol, to you I say, “Go deep. I’ve got some paper towels for you.”

The crystal methodology explained: As usual, I’ve used our time-honored tabulation system, utilizing the customary What-The-Hell’s-He-Talking-About methodology. One more time, I’ve given 2 points to each pompoid’s Top 10 choices and 1 point to each title beyond a Top 10 or in the variously designated ‘honorable mention’ categories (up to 25 titles in all; more than 25 means half-points).
And the winner is “La La Land,” I mean “Moonlighting.”

Buy Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile / Lotta Sea Lice New or Used via Amazon
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Rent via iTunes [?]
Buy WAXAHATCHEE – Out In the Storm New or Used via Amazon
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Buy Hüsker Dü Savage Young Dü New or Used via Amazon
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Rent via iTunes [?]
Buy The National - Sleep No More Beast  New or Used via Amazon
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Buy THE REPLACEMENTS — FOR SALE  New or Used via Amazon
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Buy Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound New or Used via Amazon
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Rent via iTunes [?]
Buy SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS — SOUL OF A WOMAN New or Used via Amazon
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Buy Queens of the Stone Age – Villains New or Used via Amazon
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Buy New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions New or Used via Amazon
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1. COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE – Lotta Sea Lice 12½ points (appearing on 8 out of 25 lists)
2. WAXAHATCHEE – Out In the Storm 9½ (7)
3. HUSKER DÜ – Savage Young Dü 7½ (5)
4= THE NATIONAL – Sleep Well Beast 7 (4)
4= THE REPLACEMENTS – For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986 7 (4)
6= JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT – The Nashville Sound 6½ (4)
6= SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS – Soul Of a Woman 6½ (4)
6= QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – Villains 6½ (4)
8= THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Whiteout Conditions 6 (4)
8= ROBERT PLANT – Carry Fire 6 (4)

Enjoy the analog POOP you hold in your hands. Mark Zip has posted the gorgeous, utilitarian and handsomely appointed digital POOP at www.pooplist.net. Check out links to most of the albums listed on these pages and explore POOPs past going back to kinder, gentler times.

Hopefully ever after,

Mark Rosen
Minister of POOPaganda


A couple of records which did not make the PoOPlist this year:


CONTRIBUTORS
Richard Allen – Sayville, NY /// Ken Beck – Cranford, NJ /// Duncan Clark – Milton, NY /// Don Cohen – New York, NY /// Scott Dell’amore – Poughkeepsie, NY /// Kevin Falahee – Astoria, Queens /// Eric Fine – New York, NY /// Jim Finnigan – New Hamburg, NY /// Michael Fix – Mendocino, CA /// Stephen Gritzan – Jersey City, NJ /// Ron Hart – Ringwood, NJ /// Mike Jurkovic – Wallkill, NY /// John Lefsky – New Paltz, NY /// Bob Lukomski – New Paltz, NY /// Andrew Martin – Eddyville, NY /// Jim Meyers – Kingston, NY /// Matt Nerney – Grafton, NH /// Barack Obama – Washington, DC /// Mark Rosen – New Paltz, NY /// A Mystery Contributor – Hyogo,Kobe,Japan /// Andrew Stewart – Rhinebeck, NY /// John Stewart – Bloomington, NY /// Tom Whelan – New Paltz, NY /// Dan Wilmer – Alexandria, VA /// Mark Zip – Woodstock, NY