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.
Vivian Girls
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011#374 of 2725
2010 
2009#716 of 2591
2008#52 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Vivian Girls · Share the Joy2011#413283      
Bree Davies · Josh Levi · Mike Appelstein
Similar Albums
.0372Waxahatchee · Ivy Tripp  (2015)
.0342Gang Gang Dance · Eye Contact  (2011)
Vivian Girls · Everything Goes Wrong2009#744152      
Jason Toon · Mike Appelstein
Similar Albums
.1162Love Is All · A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night  (2008)
.0452Belle and Sebastian · Write About Love  (2010)
.0412Vivian Girls · Vivian Girls  (2008)
.0392Magnetic Fields · Distortion  (2008)
Vivian Girls · Vivian Girls2008#51204219.7.689.713.034.788 
Austin L. Ray · Brent Baldwin · Carla DeSantis · Chad Radford · Dana Bos · Deborah Sprague · Greg Kot · Jack Buehrer · Jason Toon · Joe Colly · John Elsasser · Kate Silver · Mike Appelstein · Mike McGonigal · Nathaniel Hawks · Nick Sylvester · Rachel Leibrock · Rebecca Raber · Robert Bishop · Ryan Schreiber · Zach Baron
Similar Albums
.1884Crystal Stilts · Alight of Night  (2008)
.1357No Age · Nouns  (2008)
.1284The Men · Open Your Heart  (2012)
.1137Deerhunter · Microcastle/Weird Era Continued  (2008)
.1053Thermals · Now We Can See  (2009)
.0992Jennifer O'Connor · Here With Me  (2008)
.0992Vivian Girls · Everything Goes Wrong  (2009)
.0944Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings · I Learned the Hard Way  (2010)
.0892Sun Ra and His Arkestra · In the Orbit of Ra  (2014)
.0892Ty Segall · Lemons  (2009)
.0875Best Coast · Crazy for You  (2010)
.0826Girls · Album  (2009)
.0812Gentleman Jesse · Leaving Atlanta  (2012)
.0812Gentleman Jesse & His Men · Gentleman Jesse & His Men  (2008)
.0812U.S. Girls · Half Free  (2015)
.0803Pains of Being Pure at Heart · Belong  (2011)
.0743Ariel Pink · Pom Pom  (2014)
.0742Cold Cave · Love Comes Close  (2009)
.0742Iron & Wine · Kiss Each Other Clean  (2011)
.0693Magnetic Fields · Distortion  (2008)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Vivian Girls · "I Heard You Say"2011#62710 
Jack Rabid
Vivian Girls · "The Other Girls"2011#62710 
J Neo Marvin
Vivian Girls · "Sixteen Ways"2011#62710 
Heather Muse
Vivian Girls · "Before I Start to Cry"2009#58510 
Chris Norton
Vivian Girls · "When I'm Gone"2009#58510 
Talya Cooper
Vivian Girls · "Where Do You Run To"2008#6880.625
Abby Everdell · Chris Toenes · Jesse Jarnow · John Elsasser · Justin Gage · Kurt B. Reighley · Mike Appelstein · Mike McGonigal
Similar Songs
.1572Crystal Stilts · "Love Is a Wave"  (2009)
.1162Best Coast · "Sun Was High (So Was I)"  (2009)
.1032No Age · "Eraser"  (2008)
.0563Fleet Foxes · "White Winter Hymnal"  (2008)
Vivian Girls · "Tell the World"2008#25420 
Cecile Cloutier · Susan Moll
Vivian Girls · "Wild Eyes"2008#25420 
Kenneth Partridge · Michael Crumsho
Vivian Girls · "I Believe in Nothing"2008#45010 
Phil Dellio
Similar Artists
.1828Santigold
.1555Crystal Stilts
.1484Grass Widow
.1304Wooden Shjips
.1283DJ Khaled
.12611No Age
.1226Jay Reatard
.1215Reigning Sound
.1206Raveonettes
.1116Crystal Castles
.1075Drums
.1058Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
.1048Dum Dum Girls
.1044Eddy Current Suppression Ring
.1036Magnetic Fields
.0939Pains of Being Pure at Heart
.0937Yo la Tengo
.0883Moon Duo
.0883Visqueen
.0874Total Control
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com