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.
James McMurtry
Ranks
2016 
2015#53 of 2068
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011 
2010 
2009#1118 of 2591
2008#66 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
James McMurtry · Complicated Game2015#51163179.6.596.706.000.896.067
Brian J. Peterson · Cam Patterson · Chris Herrington · Geoffrey Himes · J. Anthony Ware · Jon LaFollette · Mark Deming · Matt Rice · Michael Lach · Michael Tatum · Mike Seely · Robert Christgau · Roy Kasten · Steve Knopper · Ted Cox · Tim Grierson · Tom Hull
Similar Albums
.39112Wussy · Attica!  (2014)
.3906Laurie Anderson · Heart of a Dog  (2015)
.3004M.I.A. · Aim  (2016)
.2766Drive-By Truckers · English Oceans  (2014)
.2675Pink · The Truth About Love  (2012)
.2525Heems · Eat Pray Thug  (2015)
.2344Withered Hand · New Gods  (2014)
.2265Todd Snider · Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables  (2012)
.2155Elizabeth Cook · Welder  (2010)
.1965Angaleena Presley · American Middle Class  (2014)
.1924Wussy · Wussy  (2009)
.1814Yo la Tengo · Stuff Like That There  (2015)
.1814Young Thug & Bloody Jay · Black Portland  (2014)
.1805Robbie Fulks · Upland Stories  (2016)
.17710Drive-By Truckers · American Band  (2016)
.1713Wussy · Forever Sounds  (2016)
.1634Julie Ruin · Run Fast  (2013)
.1583Uncluded · Hokey Fright  (2013)
.1484Loudon Wainwright III · Older Than My Old Man Now  (2012)
.1477Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment · Surf  (2015)
James McMurtry · James McMurtry Live in Europe2009#960101      
Michael Ross
James McMurtry · Just Us Kids2008#591651411.8.778.524.012  
Chris Riemenschneider · Dan Ferguson · Don Allred · Geoffrey Himes · Jason Gross · Josh Freedom du Lac · Matt Gewolb · Michael Deeds · Michael Hoinski · Michael Point · Rick Cornell · Rick Mitchell · Tom Cheyney · Wayne Bledsoe
Similar Albums
.2073Booker T. · Potato Hole  (2009)
.1583Heartless Bastards · The Mountain  (2009)
.1332Buddy Guy · Living Proof  (2010)
.1162Brian Blade Fellowship · Season of Changes  (2008)
.1162Cave Singers · No Witch  (2011)
.1162Old Crow Medicine Show · Remedy  (2014)
.1032Deer Tick · The Black Dirt Sessions  (2010)
.1032Felice Brothers · The Felice Brothers  (2008)
.1032(various artists) · God Don't Never Change: the Songs of Blind Willie Johnson  (2016)
.0922Death Grips · Government Plates  (2013)
.0922(various artists) · Miles From India  (2008)
.0832Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba · I Speak Fula  (2010)
.0813Jamey Johnson · That Lonesome Song  (2008)
.0762Béla Fleck · Throw Down Your Heart  (2009)
.0762Lupe Fiasco · Lasers  (2011)
.0753Allen Toussaint · The Bright Mississippi  (2009)
.0723Alejandro Escovedo · Real Animal  (2008)
.0702Dave Rawlings Machine · Nashville Obsolete  (2015)
.0702Deer Tick · Born on Flag Day  (2009)
.0702Dessa · A Badly Broken Code  (2010)
.0702Gary Clark Jr. · Blak and Blu  (2012)
.0702Young Fathers · White Men Are Black Men Too  (2015)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
James McMurtry · "How'm I Gonna Find You Now?"2015#23320 
Brian Block · Richard Skanse
James McMurtry · "You Got to Me"2015#23320 
Christopher Monsen · Mike Seely
James McMurtry · "Carlisle's Haul"2015#46510 
Peter Blackstock
James McMurtry · "South Dakota"2015#46510 
Mike Seely
James McMurtry · "Cheney's Toy"2008#25420 
Geoffrey Himes · Phillip Overeem
Similar Songs
.1032Hayes Carll · "KMAG YOYO"  (2011)
James McMurtry · "Hurricane Party"2008#45010 
Wayne Bledsoe
James McMurtry · "Just Us Kids"2008#45010 
Richard Skanse
James McMurtry · "Ruby and Carlos"2008#45010 
Michael Lach
James McMurtry · "Ruins of the Realm"2008#45010 
Rick Mitchell
Similar Artists
.34916Wussy
.2599Old 97's
.2599Todd Snider
.2486Withered Hand
.2206Willie Nelson
.2197Angaleena Presley
.2134Booker T. Jones
.2067Robbie Fulks
.2007Laurie Anderson
.19620Drive-By Truckers
.1897Heems
.18810Hayes Carll
.1846Elizabeth Cook
.1819Lydia Loveless
.1784Coathangers
.1715Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba
.1686Julie Ruin
.1684Uncluded
.1655Heartless Bastards
.1636Deer Tick
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com