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.
Loudon Wainwright III
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014#348 of 2567
2013 
2012#39 of 2213
2011 
2010 
2009#90 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Loudon Wainwright III · Haven't Got the Blues (Yet)2014#309324      
Jim Testa · Lee Zimmerman · Peter Gerstenzang · Steve Horowitz
Similar Albums
.1402Slaid Cleaves · Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away ...  (2009)
.1212Ian Hunter · Man Overboard  (2009)
.0862The dB's · Falling Off the Sky  (2012)
.0622Hold Steady · Heaven Is Whenever  (2010)
.0382Savages · Adore Life  (2016)
.0262Bob Dylan · Tempest  (2012)
Loudon Wainwright III · Older Than My Old Man Now2012#332101613.1.771.848.000.954 
Bob Townsend · Chris Herrington · Christopher Monsen · Dan Weiss · Derk Richardson · Jason Gubbels · Jim Farber · Jim Testa · Joey Daniewicz · Kevin John · Leland Rucker · Max Berry · Michael Tatum · Robert Christgau · Tom Hull · Wayne Bledsoe
Similar Albums
.3736Wussy · Strawberry  (2011)
.3306Heems · Eat Pray Thug  (2015)
.2816Old 97's · Most Messed Up  (2014)
.2725Pink · The Truth About Love  (2012)
.2594Jason Derulo · Talk Dirty  (2014)
.2428Wussy · Attica!  (2014)
.2404Rachid Taha · Zoom  (2013)
.2403Tom Zé · Tropicalia Lixo Logico  (2012)
.2305Todd Snider · Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables  (2012)
.2143Craig Finn · Clear Heart, Full Eyes  (2012)
.2094Neil Young & Crazy Horse · Americana  (2012)
.1964Lady Gaga · Artpop  (2013)
.1943M.I.A. · Aim  (2016)
.1943Steve Lehman Trio · Dialect Fluorescent  (2012)
.1623Dismemberment Plan · Uncanney Valley  (2013)
.1623Mekons · Ancient & Modern  (2011)
.1575Mountain Goats · Transcendental Youth  (2012)
.1536tUnE-yArDs · Nikki Nack  (2014)
.1503Lily Allen · Sheezus  (2014)
.1503Withered Hand · New Gods  (2014)
Loudon Wainwright III · High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project2009#751611411.5.841.649.0001.000 
A.D. Amorosi · Allen St John · Arsenio Orteza · Curtis Schieber · Derk Richardson · Doug Wallen · Ellis Widner · Jim Macnie · Ken Tucker · Larry Birnbaum · Leslie Berman · Milo Miles · Robert Christgau · Tom Hull
Similar Albums
.1883Allen Toussaint · American Tunes  (2016)
.1805Leonard Cohen · Live in London  (2009)
.1713Tom Zé · Estudando a Bossa  (2010)
.1484Oumou Sangaré · Seya  (2009)
.1463Franco & le Tout Puissant OK Jazz · Francophonic, Vol. 2  (2009)
.1332Henry Threadgill Zooid · Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, SPP  (2012)
.1332Sam Rivers/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul · Reunion: Live in New York  (2012)
.1283Nellie McKay · Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day  (2009)
.1162Bruno Mars · Doo-Wops & Hooligans  (2010)
.1162Richard Thompson · Electric  (2013)
.1032Marianne Faithfull · Easy Come, Easy Go  (2009)
.1032Melody Gardot · My One and Only Thrill  (2009)
.1032Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon, Ros Stephen · For the Ghosts Within  (2010)
.0973Loudon Wainwright III · Older Than My Old Man Now  (2012)
.0922Henry Threadgill Zooid · In for a Penny, in for a Pound  (2015)
.0922The Jayhawks · Mockingbird Time  (2011)
.0922Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden · Jasmine  (2010)
.0922Mekons · Existentialism  (2016)
.0904Leonard Cohen · Old Ideas  (2012)
.0845Randy Newman · Harps and Angels  (2008)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Loudon Wainwright III · "Brand New Dance"2014#55810 
Jim Testa
Loudon Wainwright III · "In C"2012#25320 
Max Berry · Ryan Maffei
Similar Songs
.1902Allo Darlin' · "Tallulah"  (2012)
Similar Artists
.3105Mariah Carey
.2824Missy Elliott
.2729Heems
.2686Tom Zé
.2594Gotye
.2594Mark Ronson
.2397Iris DeMent
.2358Old 97's
.2358Todd Snider
.2195Rachid Taha
.20810Wussy
.1987Jason Derulo
.1754Teddy Thompson
.1695Marianne Faithfull
.1664Mary Halvorson Octet
.15811Pistol Annies
.15313Paul Simon
.1504Withered Hand
.1503Barry Altschul
.1503Over the Rhine
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com