The Jackin' Pop reissues poll was handily won by the deluxe edition of Pavement's
Wowee Zowee, and while its upper reaches were filled with familiar names—David Byrne, Brian Eno, R.E.M., The Clash—we were pleasantly surprised by a few of the results.
· The long-overdue compilation of recordings by the all-female post-punk outfit Delta 5,
Singles And Sessions 1979-1981, came in at No. 16. One interesting wrinkle; it tied for first in the reissue race among female critics with Karen Dalton's
In My Own Time, which placed second overall.
· The essentials-compilers at the UK label Soul Jazz had a strong showing:
Tropicália! A Brazilian Revolution In Sound, its 20-track, meticulously annotated overview of the Brazilian artistic movement, came in at No. 5, and
Big Apple Rappin', two discs full of early New York City hip-hop, reached No. 21.
· And, since we are contractually obligated to mention Jarvis Cocker at least once a week, you should know that the deluxe reissue of Pulp's
Different Class—an import-only release in the States, which meant that a lot of our voters had to work to get it—tied for No. 27 on the reissues list.
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Jon Savage is best known as the author of two excellent books on youth culture (last year's Teenage and the punk-history classic England's Dreaming), but he's also put together a handful of good compilation CDs (Queer Noises and England's Dreaming for Trikont) and is about to release another: 
Live albums from the halcyon days of Danny Whitten are great and all, but its a look at those aborted studio sessions that Neil heads like myself have been waiting for. So while, as with most of Neil's Archives projects, there's no release date and no real promise that we'll see one, it's great that his people are even bothering to mention the possibility of hearing Toast, an album of outtakes from a "depressing" 2000 session with Crazy Horse in a run down San Francisco studio of the same name.
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