Winners
#votesalbum
1 154 Animal Collective · Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 139 Phoenix · Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3 114 Yeah Yeah Yeahs · It's Blitz!
4 108 Dirty Projectors · Bitte Orca
5 106 Grizzly Bear · Veckatimest
Neko Case · Middle Cyclone
7 93 The xx · The xx
8 85 Raekwon · Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Part II
9 65 The Flaming Lips · Embryonic
10 63 Girls · Album
11 62 St. Vincent · Actor
12 59 Mos Def · The Ecstatic
13 53 Fever Ray · Fever Ray
14 49 Maxwell · BLACKsummers'night
15 48 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart · The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
16 44 Mastodon · Crack the Skye
Wilco · Wilco (The Album)
18 42 The Avett Brothers · I and Love and You
Sonic Youth · The Eternal
20 40 Bat for Lashes · Two Suns
21 39 Baroness · The Blue Record
22 37 Lily Allen · It's Not Me, It's You
The-Dream · Love vs. Money
24 34 Converge · Axe to Fall
25 33 The Decemberists · The Hazards of Love
 
Scale
6831 votes from 696 voters
1933 albums by 1847 artists
 
Most Cultish Albums
0.935   Béla Fleck · Throw Down Your Heart   #196 · 6 votes
0.922   Group Bombino · Guitars From Agadez, Vol 2   #196 · 6 votes
0.921   Ian Hunter · Man Overboard   #196 · 6 votes
0.904   Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara · Tell No Lies   #171 · 7 votes
0.896   Alasdair Roberts · Spoils   #196 · 6 votes
0.867   Alice in Chains · Black Gives Way to Blue   #150 · 8 votes
0.864   Dethklok · Dethalbum II   #196 · 6 votes
0.862   A.A. Bondy · When the Devil's Loose   #171 · 7 votes
0.861   Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens · What Have You Done, My Brother?   #196 · 6 votes
0.855   Porcupine Tree · The Incident   #196 · 6 votes
0.854   Patterson Hood · Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)   #196 · 6 votes
0.853   Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band · Between My Head and the Sky   #196 · 6 votes
0.851   Slayer · World Painted Blood   #133 · 9 votes
0.849   Loudon Wainwright III · High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project   #82 · 14 votes
0.848   Megafaun · Gather, Form, & Fly   #196 · 6 votes
0.846   Wolfmother · Cosmic Egg   #196 · 6 votes
0.845   Pastels & Tenniscoats · Two Sunsets   #196 · 6 votes
0.840   New York Dolls · 'Cause I Sez So   #107 · 11 votes
0.840   Pet Shop Boys · Yes   #196 · 6 votes
0.839   Blues Control · Local Flavor   #171 · 7 votes
0.839   Clean · Mister Pop   #133 · 9 votes
0.839   Lucero · 1372 Overton Park   #133 · 9 votes
0.839   Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics · Inspiration Information, Vol. 3   #107 · 11 votes
0.839   Telekinesis · Telekinesis!   #196 · 6 votes
0.837   David Sylvian · Manafon   #150 · 8 votes
 
Least Cultish Albums
0.519   Grizzly Bear · Veckatimest   #5 · 106 votes
0.533   Dirty Projectors · Bitte Orca   #4 · 108 votes
0.538   Animal Collective · Merriweather Post Pavilion   #1 · 154 votes
0.550   Phoenix · Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix   #2 · 139 votes
0.556   The xx · The xx   #7 · 93 votes
0.569   Bat for Lashes · Two Suns   #20 · 40 votes
0.578   The Antlers · Hospice   #49 · 21 votes
0.582   Handsome Furs · Face Control   #171 · 7 votes
0.589   Bonnie "Prince" Billy · Beware   #196 · 6 votes
0.591   Girls · Album   #10 · 63 votes
0.593   St. Vincent · Actor   #11 · 62 votes
0.600   Fever Ray · Fever Ray   #13 · 53 votes
0.600   Yeah Yeah Yeahs · It's Blitz!   #3 · 114 votes
0.602   Passion Pit · Manners   #30 · 29 votes
0.610   Neko Case · Middle Cyclone   #5 · 106 votes
0.612   Japandroids · Post-Nothing   #33 · 27 votes
0.613   Atlas Sound · Logos   #44 · 23 votes
0.616   Wild Beasts · Two Dancers   #133 · 9 votes
0.619   The Flaming Lips · Embryonic   #9 · 65 votes
0.620   Paramore · Brand New Eyes   #72 · 16 votes
0.625   Neon Indian · Psychic Chasms   #80 · 15 votes
0.627   BLK JKS · After Robots   #150 · 8 votes
0.628   Bill Callahan · Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle   #54 · 19 votes
0.628   The Very Best · Warm Heart of Africa   #58 · 18 votes
0.630   The Pains of Being Pure at Heart · The Pains of Being Pure at Heart   #15 · 48 votes
 
Vote Distribution
votesalbums%↑%↓%
154 1 0.05 0.05 100.00
139 1 0.05 0.10 99.95
114 1 0.05 0.16 99.90
108 1 0.05 0.21 99.84
106 2 0.10 0.31 99.79
93 1 0.05 0.36 99.69
85 1 0.05 0.41 99.64
65 1 0.05 0.47 99.59
63 1 0.05 0.52 99.53
62 1 0.05 0.57 99.48
59 1 0.05 0.62 99.43
53 1 0.05 0.67 99.38
49 1 0.05 0.72 99.33
48 1 0.05 0.78 99.28
44 2 0.10 0.88 99.22
42 2 0.10 0.98 99.12
40 1 0.05 1.03 99.02
39 1 0.05 1.09 98.97
37 2 0.10 1.19 98.91
34 1 0.05 1.24 98.81
33 1 0.05 1.29 98.76
32 1 0.05 1.35 98.71
31 2 0.10 1.45 98.65
30 1 0.05 1.50 98.55
29 2 0.10 1.60 98.50
28 1 0.05 1.66 98.40
27 3 0.16 1.81 98.34
26 5 0.26 2.07 98.19
25 2 0.10 2.17 97.93
24 1 0.05 2.22 97.83
23 2 0.10 2.33 97.78
22 3 0.16 2.48 97.67
21 1 0.05 2.53 97.52
20 4 0.21 2.74 97.47
19 4 0.21 2.95 97.26
18 7 0.36 3.31 97.05
17 7 0.36 3.67 96.69
16 8 0.41 4.09 96.33
15 2 0.10 4.19 95.91
14 6 0.31 4.50 95.81
13 7 0.36 4.86 95.50
12 12 0.62 5.48 95.14
11 16 0.83 6.31 94.52
10 10 0.52 6.83 93.69
9 17 0.88 7.71 93.17
8 21 1.09 8.79 92.29
7 25 1.29 10.09 91.21
6 41 2.12 12.21 89.91
5 47 2.43 14.64 87.79
4 67 3.47 18.11 85.36
3 115 5.95 24.06 81.89
2 295 15.26 39.32 75.94
1 1173 60.68 100.00 60.68
 
1-Vote Album Distribution
1-vote albumsvoters
10 3
9 3
8 6
7 11
6 12
5 26
4 48
3 69
2 110
1 170
0 238
 
Most Centric Voters
0.880   Jennifer Vineyard
0.849   Julie Seabaugh
0.826   Julia Simon
0.794   Barry Walters
0.778   Ryan Schreiber
0.773   Brooke Foster
0.771   Stephen M Deusner
0.765   Luke Hackney
0.746   Byron Crawford
0.730   Jim Fouratt
0.723   Melissa Maerz
0.718   Laura Barcella
0.709   Rodney Dugue
0.691   Lindsay Zoladz
0.674   Ben Schumer
0.674   Bret Gladstone
0.664   Althea Legaspi
0.664   Todd McKenzie
0.658   Caitlin Dewey
0.653   Ron Mashate
0.646   Chris Norton
0.638   Jim Tremayne
0.637   Adam Mazmanian
0.635   John Bush
0.632   Liz Colville
 
Most Eccentric Voters
0.000   Kerry Dexter
0.000   Nana Brew-Hammond
0.000   Todd Burns
0.000   Viva Las Vegas
0.000   William Ruhlmann
0.001   David Royko
0.001   J Poet
0.002   Angela Sawyer
0.002   Scott Seward
0.004   Justin Farrar
0.004   Ken Roseman
0.004   Nathan Birk
0.005   Stewart Voegtlin
0.006   Carol Cooper
0.006   Glenn McDonald
0.007   Miles Marshall Lewis
0.008   David M Snyder
0.008   Phil Freeman
0.009   Mike Wolf
0.010   Anthony Mariani
0.010   Bryan Reesman
0.012   Jace Clayton
0.012   Will Romano
0.013   Eric Arnold
 
Most Similar Voters
0.805   Jean-Stephane Beriot · Carlos Reyes
0.681   Damien Lemon · Alvin Aqua Boogie Blanco
0.654   Derek Barber · Dan Raper
0.638   Frank Kogan · David Moore
0.630   Sean Fennessey · Damien Lemon
0.627   Anthony DeCurtis · Allen St John
0.612   Chris Herrington · Alfred Soto
0.597   Sam Hockley-Smith · Justin Chun
0.593   Kristal Hawkins · Andrew Gaerig
0.591   Zach Kelly · Ian Cohen
 
 
All·Idols is an autopsy of the album ballots from the 2009 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll. For All·Idols purposes all ranking and point-weighting is ignored; a vote is a vote.
 
glenn mcdonald · www.furia.com