A year-end best albums list seems like a fixed thing. A critic spends months absorbing as much available music as possible, then puts it all in order of greatness. Simple enough, right?
In truth, the outcome is some combination of that process and how a critic felt on one particular day. The lists are up for revision and reflection. They might look different, even regrettable, with the benefit of hindsight.
On this week’s Popcast, The New York Times pop music reporter Joe Coscarelli digs back into the past decade’s worth of lists from The Times’s two pop music critics, Jon Pareles and Jon Caramanica, to ask them how their points of view have or haven’t changed, whether their picks hold up and which ones they’d take back if they could.
Up for discussion: Drake, Feist, Tune-Yards, Björk, Future, St. Vincent, Julien Baker, Emeli Sandé, Taylor Swift and more.
On the Popcast:
Jon Pareles, The New York Times’s chief pop music critic
Joe Coscarelli, The New York Times’s pop music reporter
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