25. "Yep I remember..VV held more weight imho" In response to In response to 24
>Pazz & Jop is/was a survey of critical response to a given >album or song. SOTT was the winner (the single won too) which >means it was the best-reviewed album of 1987. and Prince was >still hot shit in 1987 - 3 top 10 Pop singles, i think. the >SOTT album wasn't lighting the stores or charts on fire but it >was doing well enough. of course, the Grammy award for Album >of the Year doesn't reward sales or popularity - it's about >artistic merit. so all of that sales stuff aside and getting >back to the critics - i dunno what the Grammy voters were on. >the critics preferred SOTT over Joshua Tree but those old >fogey Rockist NARAS ppl weren't as impressed i guess. or, >hell, they didn't HEAR the album. LOL