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.
Clutch
Ranks
2016 
2015#1149 of 2068
2014 
2013#320 of 2104
2012 
2011 
2010 
2009#2056 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Clutch · Psychic Warfare2015#117051      
Mike R. Meyer
Clutch · Earth Rocker2013#299253      
Mike R. Meyer · Roger Lotring · Zena Tsarfin
Similar Albums
.1782Anthrax · Worship Music  (2011)
.1272Eyehategod · Eyehategod  (2014)
.0492Carcass · Surgical Steel  (2013)
.0422Pallbearer · Foundations of Burden  (2014)
.0392Foo Fighters · Wasting Light  (2011)
.0392Mastodon · The Hunter  (2011)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Clutch · "A Quick Death in Texas"2015#46510 
Adrien Begrand
Clutch · "Gone Cold"2013#44010 
Mike R. Meyer
Clutch · "50,000 Unstoppable Watts"2009#58510 
Jeanne Fury
Similar Artists
.1902Katzenjammer
.133240 Watt Sun
.1332Disfear
.1162Eyehategod
.1162Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
.1032Anthrax
.1032Ratt
.1023Carcass
.0922Pig Destroyer
.0832Nails
.0832Royal Thunder
.0673Pallbearer
.0652Rush
.0583Kylesa
.0572Killing Joke
.0482Opeth
.0473Converge
.0432Ghost
.0382Black Mountain
.0352Austra
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com