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.
Mountain Goats
Ranks
2016 
2015#98 of 2068
2014 
2013 
2012#37 of 2213
2011#68 of 2725
2010#1035 of 2582
2009#86 of 2591
2008#113 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Mountain Goats · Beat the Champ2015#9292910.2.633.761.008 .163
Chaz Kangas · Doug Wallen · Ian Mathers · Jason Gargano · Jessica Gentile · Mark Deming · Mike Berick · Stephen Haag · Steve Erickson
Similar Albums
.1782Cory Branan · The No-Hit Wonder  (2014)
.1272Mark Eitzel · Don't Be a Stranger  (2012)
.1112Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears · Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!  (2009)
.1003Protomartyr · The Agent Intellect  (2015)
.0892Belle and Sebastian · Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance  (2015)
.0742Lucero · 1372 Overton Park  (2009)
.0633El-P · Cancer 4 Cure  (2012)
.0492Nick Lowe · The Old Magic  (2011)
.0472Jay Reatard · Watch Me Fall  (2009)
.0472Lambchop · Flotus  (2016)
.0442Hayes Carll · Trouble in Mind  (2008)
.0422Low · C'mon  (2011)
.0404Car Seat Headrest · Teens of Denial  (2016)
.0403Neko Case · The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You  (2013)
.0333Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Skeleton Tree  (2016)
.0333Sturgill Simpson · A Sailor's Guide to Earth  (2016)
.0312Hot Chip · Made in the Dark  (2008)
.0302Parquet Courts · Human Performance  (2016)
.0282Wussy · Attica!  (2014)
.0272Margo Price · Midwest Farmer's Daughter  (2016)
Mountain Goats · Transcendental Youth2012#32215239.3.692.747.005.824 
Andrew Hall · Anthony Lombardi · Britt Robson · Charles Johnson · Chris Conaton · Christopher Monsen · Daniel Sargeant · Derk Richardson · Don Allred · Douglas Wolk · Evan Sawdey · Evie Nagy · Jer Fairall · J Neo Marvin · Joey Daniewicz · Josh Timmermann · Keith Harris · Liz Riley · Michael Tatum · Nick Minichino · Robert Christgau · Rob Tannenbaum · Ryan Maffei
Similar Albums
.2847Mountain Goats · All Eternals Deck  (2011)
.2525Wussy · Strawberry  (2011)
.1885Loudon Wainwright III · Older Than My Old Man Now  (2012)
.1883Rachid Taha · Bonjour  (2010)
.1634Heems · Eat Pray Thug  (2015)
.1446tUnE-yArDs · Nikki Nack  (2014)
.1414Old 97's · Most Messed Up  (2014)
.1287Neko Case · The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You  (2013)
.1283Bonnie Raitt · Slipstream  (2012)
.1283Spoek Mathambo · Father Creeper  (2012)
.1283Withered Hand · New Gods  (2014)
.1215Wussy · Attica!  (2014)
.1203Franco & le Tout Puissant OK Jazz · Francophonic  (2008)
.1203Laurie Anderson · Heart of a Dog  (2015)
.1147Miranda Lambert · Platinum  (2014)
.1133Elle Varner · Perfectly Imperfect  (2012)
.1133Neil Young & Crazy Horse · Americana  (2012)
.1084Tegan and Sara · Heartthrob  (2013)
.1073Pink · The Truth About Love  (2012)
.1023Young Thug & Bloody Jay · Black Portland  (2014)
Mountain Goats · All Eternals Deck2011#651801710.6.710.818.015.852 
Alfred Soto · Andrew Hall · Anthony Easton · Anthony Lombardi · Brian Block · Dave Heaton · Douglas Wolk · Evie Nagy · Jer Fairall · J Neo Marvin · Josh Timmermann · Mike Appelstein · Ned Raggett · Ryan Wasoba · Stephen Bush · Tobias Carroll · Wayne Bledsoe
Similar Albums
.2447Mountain Goats · Transcendental Youth  (2012)
.1162Cold Beat · Over Me  (2014)
.1162Makthaverskan · Ii  (2014)
.1073Toni Braxton & Babyface · Love, Marriage & Divorce  (2014)
.1032Adam Lambert · Trespassing  (2012)
.1032Extra Lens · Undercard  (2010)
.1032Orlando Julius With the Heliocentrics · Jaiyede Afro  (2014)
.1032Tunde Olaniran · Transgressor  (2015)
.0922Planningtorock · W  (2011)
.0853Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come  (2009)
.0832K. Michelle · Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?  (2014)
.0783Owen Pallett · In Conflict  (2014)
.0762Aesop Rock · Skelethon  (2012)
.0762Britney Spears · Circus  (2008)
.0762Frankie Cosmos · Next Thing  (2016)
.0723Tegan and Sara · Heartthrob  (2013)
.0704Joanna Newsom · Divers  (2015)
.0702Belle and Sebastian · Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance  (2015)
.0702Handsome Furs · Sound Kapital  (2011)
.0702Matana Roberts · Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee  (2015)
.0702Pastels · Slow Summits  (2013)
.0702Rae Sremmurd · SremmLife 2  (2016)
.0702They Might Be Giants · Join Us  (2011)
.0702Uncluded · Hokey Fright  (2013)
Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come2010#878101      
 2009#82153179.0.720.765.008.871 
Alan Ranta · Andrew Gilstrap · Andrew Hall · Anthony Easton · Dave Heaton · Heidi Vanderlee · Ian Mathers · Jaan Uhelszki · Jed Lipinski · Justin Cober-Lake · Lindsay Zoladz · Makkada B. Selah · Michael Goldberg · Michael Lach · Rob O'Connor · Theon Weber · Zach Baron
Similar Albums
.2003Rickie Lee Jones · Balm in Gilead  (2009)
.0992Rihanna · Unapologetic  (2013)
.0873Mountain Goats · All Eternals Deck  (2011)
.0693Sharon Van Etten · Epic  (2010)
.0685EMA · Past Life Martyred Saints  (2011)
.0682Damien Jurado · Saint Bartlett  (2010)
.0682Ghostface Killah · Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City  (2009)
.0682Uncluded · Hokey Fright  (2013)
.0632Laurie Anderson · Homeland  (2010)
.0592Matana Roberts · Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile  (2013)
.0592Neil Young · Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968  (2008)
.0562Low · The Invisible Way  (2013)
.0562Radio Dept. · Clinging to a Scheme  (2010)
.0562Thee Oh Sees · Carrion Crawler/The Dream  (2011)
.0503Bill Callahan · Apocalypse  (2011)
.0492A Sunny Day in Glasgow · Ashes Grammar  (2009)
.0464Girls · Album  (2009)
.0454The Flaming Lips · Embryonic  (2009)
.0422Julianna Barwick · The Magic Place  (2011)
.0413Pistol Annies · Hell on Heels  (2011)
Mountain Goats · Heretic Pride2008#102105119.5.749.792.028.838 
David Raposa · Grant Moser · Jason Gross · Jer Fairall · Josh Timmermann · Mark J. Lepage · Matt Sonzala · Rob Trucks · Spencer Kornhaber · Tom Hull · Zach Baron
Similar Albums
.2313M.I.A. · Vicki Leekx  (2011)
.1572Lyrics Born · Real People  (2015)
.1162Deltron 3030 · Event 2  (2013)
.1162V.V. Brown · Travelling Like the Light  (2010)
.1032Betty Who · Take Me When You Go  (2014)
.0832Fidlar · Fidlar  (2013)
.0832Lupe Fiasco · Lasers  (2011)
.0832Mekons · Ancient & Modern  (2011)
.0723Protomartyr · Under Color of Official Right  (2014)
.0612Wale · The Mixtape About Nothing  (2008)
.0532Afghan Whigs · Do to the Beast  (2014)
.0532Lana Del Rey · Born to Die  (2012)
.0502Girl Talk · All Day  (2010)
.0482Carly Rae Jepsen · Kiss  (2012)
.0443Sonic Youth · The Eternal  (2009)
.0432Mountain Goats · All Eternals Deck  (2011)
.0415Neko Case · Middle Cyclone  (2009)
.0393Neko Case · The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You  (2013)
.0382Metric · Fantasies  (2009)
.0382Wilco · Star Wars  (2015)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Mountain Goats · "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero"2015#15730 
Chaz Kangas · Jessica Gentile · Nick Spacek
Similar Songs
.0283Kendrick Lamar · "King Kunta"  (2015)
Mountain Goats · "Heel Turn 2"2015#46510 
John Tryneski
Mountain Goats · "Southwestern Territory"2015#46510 
Saul Austerlitz
Mountain Goats · "Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1"2012#25320 
Rob Tannenbaum · Ryan Maffei
Similar Songs
.2422Kylie Minogue · "Timebomb"  (2012)
.0202Taylor Swift · "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"  (2012)
Mountain Goats · "Cry for Judas"2012#44910 
Dave Heaton
Mountain Goats · "The Diaz Brothers"2012#44910 
Andrew Dansby
Mountain Goats · "Harlem Roulette"2012#44910 
Dan Weiss
Mountain Goats · "Night Light"2012#44910 
Michael Tatum
Mountain Goats · "Estate Sale Sign"2011#18740 
Patrick Rapa · Stephen Thompson · Theon Weber · Todd Kristel
Mountain Goats · "Damn These Vampires"2011#35520 
Lindsay Zoladz · Wayne Bledsoe
Mountain Goats · "Birth of the Serpents"2011#62710 
Ryan Wasoba
Mountain Goats · "For Charles Bronson"2011#62710 
Tobias Carroll
Mountain Goats · "High Hawk Season"2011#62710 
Jeremy D. Larson
Mountain Goats · "Liza Forever Minnelli"2011#62710 
Nick Minichino
Mountain Goats · "Genesis 30:3"2009#23530 
Alan Ranta · Matt Fiander · Rachel Brodsky
Similar Songs
.0742Matt and Kim · "Daylight"  (2009)
.0302Caribou · "Odessa"  (2010)
Mountain Goats · "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace"2009#58510 
Andrew Gilstrap
Mountain Goats · "Genesis 3:23"2009#58510 
Joe Tangari
Mountain Goats · "Psalm 4:02"2009#58510 
Joel Elliott
Mountain Goats · "Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident"2008#45010 
glenn mcdonald
Mountain Goats · "Michael Myers Resplendent"2008#45010 
Rebecca Raber
Mountain Goats · "San Bernadino"2008#45010 
Rob Trucks
Similar Artists
.27716Wussy
.22310Laurie Anderson
.2126Missy Elliott
.2046Gotye
.19111The Knife
.19110Loudon Wainwright III
.1906Mariah Carey
.18812Belle and Sebastian
.18633tUnE-yArDs
.18510Santigold
.1859Jens Lekman
.17920Sleater-Kinney
.1797They Might Be Giants
.17720Fiona Apple
.17610James McMurtry
.1736Uncluded
.16826Neko Case
.1655DJ Snake
.16425Nicki Minaj
.1638Heems
.1638Todd Snider
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com