This is a statistical index to the Village Voice Pazz & Jop music critics poll, generated in the process of its tabulation for the last few years.
 
Click any linked column-heading to sort a table by that column. Click any album or song for an artist profile, or any voter for a voter profile.
 
Some explanation of the various esoteric metrics:
Similarity is calculated for albums, songs and artists based on voter overlap, and for ballots and voters based on album+song+artist overlap. The ballot and voter scores are weighted by album/song/artist popularity.
Cure
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2008#288 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Cure · 4:13 Dream2008#287353      
George A. Paul · Ken Scrudato · Matt Sebastian
Similar Albums
.0632Divine Fits · A Thing Called Divine Fits  (2012)
.0522Blur · The Magic Whip  (2015)
.0362Glasvegas · Glasvegas  (2009)
.0302David Byrne and Brian Eno · Everything That Happens Will Happen Today  (2008)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Cure · "The Only One"2008#25420 
Spencer Kaufman · Will McClain
Similar Songs
.0702Killers · "Human"  (2008)
.0502Kings of Leon · "Sex on Fire"  (2008)
Similar Artists
.1332Lloyd Cole
.0703Killers
.0352Divine Fits
.0332Glasvegas
.0293Kings of Leon
.0262Blur
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com