Macaca Music Poll: The Time Is NOW

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You dandies must be too busy shopping for lipstick or fretting about your naughty bits, because the volume of submissions to the Macaca Music Poll has been shamefully low. Don’t get me wrong: the quality has been high, and I’m going to need a couple of days to track down some of the picks and pull together a wrap-up post worthy of the contributions. However, there are a LOT of regulars who have yet to submit entries — yeah, y’all know who you are — and I know some of you lurkers have some cool picks to share as well.

So here it is: Last Call for the poll. Send me a list of up to five songs or albums that did it for you this year. Need inspiration? Here are my choices for the Boston Globe and for WNYC. You’ll also find picks in all categories from my colleagues at both outlets here and here. Email your suggestions here. I’ll post results by the weekend. Peace and humptiness forevah!

55 thoughts on “Macaca Music Poll: The Time Is NOW”

  2. I think that Gnarles Barkley’s “Crazy” was an awesome song for this year. The following lyrics really got to me:

    “My heroes have the heart to live the lives I want to live. And all I remember is thinking I want to be like them”

    This is a cool anthem. It would be nice to see it included. Incidentally, I am getting some really good tips from the comments.

  3. I have Hindi Writer

    Thanks, Shruti.

    http://www.quillpad.com/hindi/ Try this out, people. A friend of mine developed it. They have 12 or so other Indian languages too. Seems to work very well, although it is Windows specific, I think. On a Mac, it’s working great with the Safari browser for me for Hindi. Not so great with Firefox (I haven’t set up fonts yet).

  4. hairy_d, I cherish my car minutes too, for the same reason.

    so.. there you go – as i said – music is not a reflection of taste, but a reflection of one’s life – and there is no reason it should fit the top 40’s – but to have a life is to have a preference – and thusly you got to be in the game .

    It doesn’t get any more convincing than this. I’ve sent Siddhartha a small list. He’ll probably throw them out for being outdated anyway :). Tumhe bhi Baba din (Christmas) mubarak.

  5. “As far as I am concerned it is nothing of the sort. Are you threatened by a floating signifier?”

    How can you trivialize it to being a “floating signifier” when the context of origin was racially dehumanizing? Like I said before, its usage can continue, but to me its more of an exercise in futility and silliness rather than an irritation or threat.