Winners
#votesalbum
1 154 TV on the Radio · Dear Science
2 105 Vampire Weekend · Vampire Weekend
3 102 Portishead · Third
4 87 Fleet Foxes · Fleet Foxes
5 80 Erykah Badu · New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
6 79 Santogold · Santogold
7 78 Lil Wayne · Tha Carter III
8 73 Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago
9 61 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
10 57 Kanye West · 808s and Heartbreak
11 55 Deerhunter · Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
12 54 Hold Steady · Stay Positive
13 48 Randy Newman · Harps and Angels
14 45 No Age · Nouns
Raphael Saadiq · Way I See It
16 43 Girl Talk · Feed the Animals
My Morning Jacket · Evil Urges
18 42 Hercules and Love Affair · Hercules and Love Affair
19 41 MGMT · Oracular Spectacular
20 36 Bob Dylan · Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Coldplay · Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends
22 32 Los Campesinos! · Hold on Now, Youngster...
Q-Tip · Renaissance
24 30 Cut Copy · In Ghost Colours
25 29 R.E.M. · Accelerate
 
Scale
5695 votes from 577 voters
1670 albums by 1587 artists
 
Most Cultish Albums
0.942   Amanda Palmer · Who Killed Amanda Palmer   #143 · 7 votes
0.927   Enslaved · Vertebrae   #166 · 6 votes
0.893   Rodriguez · Cold Fact   #166 · 6 votes
0.873   Brian Wilson · That Lucky Old Sun   #143 · 7 votes
0.873   Sic Alps · U.S. EZ   #143 · 7 votes
0.859   AC/DC · Black Ice   #143 · 7 votes
0.857   Rodney Crowell · Sex and Gasoline   #143 · 7 votes
0.852   Opeth · Watershed   #115 · 9 votes
0.850   Joe Jackson · Rain   #128 · 8 votes
0.847   Sloan · Parallel Play   #143 · 7 votes
 
Least Cultish Albums
0.507   TV on the Radio · Dear Science   #1 · 154 votes
0.536   Vampire Weekend · Vampire Weekend   #2 · 105 votes
0.549   Laura Marling · Alas I Cannot Swim   #105 · 10 votes
0.557   Robyn · Robyn   #82 · 12 votes
0.558   Lil Wayne · Tha Carter III   #7 · 78 votes
0.561   Okkervil River · Stand Ins   #128 · 8 votes
0.563   Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago   #8 · 73 votes
0.564   Conor Oberst · Conor Oberst   #62 · 15 votes
0.566   Santogold · Santogold   #6 · 79 votes
0.567   Fleet Foxes · Fleet Foxes   #4 · 87 votes
 
Vote Distribution
votesalbums%↑%↓%
154 1 0.06 0.06 100.00
105 1 0.06 0.12 99.94
102 1 0.06 0.18 99.88
87 1 0.06 0.24 99.82
80 1 0.06 0.30 99.76
79 1 0.06 0.36 99.70
78 1 0.06 0.42 99.64
73 1 0.06 0.48 99.58
61 1 0.06 0.54 99.52
57 1 0.06 0.60 99.46
55 1 0.06 0.66 99.40
54 1 0.06 0.72 99.34
48 1 0.06 0.78 99.28
45 2 0.12 0.90 99.22
43 2 0.12 1.02 99.10
42 1 0.06 1.08 98.98
41 1 0.06 1.14 98.92
36 2 0.12 1.26 98.86
32 2 0.12 1.38 98.74
30 1 0.06 1.44 98.62
29 1 0.06 1.50 98.56
28 5 0.30 1.80 98.50
26 3 0.18 1.98 98.20
25 4 0.24 2.22 98.02
24 2 0.12 2.34 97.78
23 3 0.18 2.51 97.66
22 6 0.36 2.87 97.49
21 2 0.12 2.99 97.13
20 2 0.12 3.11 97.01
19 1 0.06 3.17 96.89
18 5 0.30 3.47 96.83
17 2 0.12 3.59 96.53
16 1 0.06 3.65 96.41
15 3 0.18 3.83 96.35
14 9 0.54 4.37 96.17
13 8 0.48 4.85 95.63
12 8 0.48 5.33 95.15
11 15 0.90 6.23 94.67
10 10 0.60 6.83 93.77
9 13 0.78 7.60 93.17
8 15 0.90 8.50 92.40
7 23 1.38 9.88 91.50
6 26 1.56 11.44 90.12
5 33 1.98 13.41 88.56
4 60 3.59 17.01 86.59
3 88 5.27 22.28 82.99
2 243 14.55 36.83 77.72
1 1055 63.17 100.00 63.17
 
1-Vote Album Distribution
1-vote albumsvoters
10 1
9 1
8 8
7 8
6 17
5 24
4 47
3 61
2 89
1 145
0 176
 
Most Centric Voters
0.796   Melissa Maerz
0.786   Chris Molanphy
0.785   Charles Aaron
0.766   Julia Simon
0.737   Michael Endelman
0.736   Preston Jones
0.716   Steve Knopper
0.710   Michael Gallucci
0.694   Corey du Browa
0.685   Jonathan Lundeen
 
Most Eccentric Voters
0.000   Angela Sawyer
0.000   Olivia Flores Alvarez
0.001   Bryan Reesman
0.002   Kerry Dexter
0.002   Nathan Birk
0.002   Stewart Voegtlin
0.003   Will York
0.005   Jordan Mamone
0.005   Justin Farrar
0.006   Jeffrey Morgan
0.006   Stacy Meyn
 
 
All·Idols is an autopsy of the album ballots from the 2008 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll. For All·Idols purposes all ranking and point-weighting is ignored; a vote is a vote. All results and statistics here are my own calculations, and may differ from the Voice's own tallies, either from methodological variance or simple errors, theirs or mine. But I have tried to make sure that my errors, at least, are complicated.
 
glenn mcdonald · www.furia.com