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.
Manic Street Preachers
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014#729 of 2567
2013 
2012 
2011 
2010#501 of 2582
2009#163 of 2591
2008#1749 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Manic Street Preachers · Futurology2014#744131      
Dorian Lynskey
Manic Street Preachers · Postcards From a Young Man2010#490233      
Arsenio Orteza · Jason MacNeil · MacKenzie Wilson
Similar Albums
.1272Manic Street Preachers · Journal for Plague Lovers  (2009)
.0422Metric · Fantasies  (2009)
.0302Dead Weather · Horehound  (2009)
.0242Coldplay · Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends  (2008)
.0202New Pornographers · Brill Bruisers  (2014)
Manic Street Preachers · Journal for Plague Lovers2009#15682613.7.724.695.018  
David Goldstein · Ed Condran · Jason MacNeil · John Walker · MacKenzie Wilson · Thomas Inskeep
Similar Albums
.1782Manic Street Preachers · Postcards From a Young Man  (2010)
.1112Killing Joke · Absolute Dissent  (2010)
.0742Mark Lanegan Band · Blues Funeral  (2012)
.0632The Big Pink · A Brief History of Love  (2009)
.0492Jarvis Cocker · Further Complications  (2009)
.0402Ryan Adams · Ryan Adams  (2014)
.0402Them Crooked Vultures · Them Crooked Vultures  (2009)
.0372Savages · Adore Life  (2016)
.0324The National · High Violet  (2010)
.0323Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!  (2008)
.0322Rolling Stones · Blue & Lonesome  (2016)
.0322Walkmen · You & Me  (2008)
.0292Dead Weather · Horehound  (2009)
.0282The National · Trouble Will Find Me  (2013)
.0252Gorillaz · Plastic Beach  (2010)
.0232Coldplay · Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends  (2008)
.0202Disclosure · Settle  (2013)
.0202Sonic Youth · The Eternal  (2009)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Manic Street Preachers · "Walk Me to the Bridge"2014#55810 
Jason MacNeil
Manic Street Preachers · "It's Not War (Just the End of Love)"2010#57710 
Colin Fleming
Manic Street Preachers · "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time"2009#58510 
Colin Fleming
Manic Street Preachers · "Marlon J.D."2009#58510 
John Walker
Manic Street Preachers · "Peeled Apples"2009#58510 
Rod Smith
Manic Street Preachers · "Umbrella"2008#45010 
Jason MacNeil
Similar Artists
.1672Mark Ronson
.1672Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
.1303Mark Lanegan Band
.0985The Horrors
.0855Arctic Monkeys
.0782Doves
.0722Kate Tempest
.0672The Beatles
.0512Killing Joke
.0463Pet Shop Boys
.0462Kira Isabella
.0462Underworld
.0443Ryan Adams
.0422AC/DC
.0413Metric
.0393Bruno Mars
.0393Sonic Youth
.0352The Strokes
.0343Pusha T
.0342Jarvis Cocker
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com