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.
 
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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.
Brian Block
Overall
Centricity.120#1109 of 1313
Breadth.788#45 of 1329
Metalism.025#260 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.210#376 of 542
Metalism.000#75 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Esperanza Spalding · Emily's D+Evolution1820
Shearwater · Jet Plane and Oxbow125
Deerhoof · The Magic124
Saul Williams · MartyrLoserKing111
Emma Pollock · In Search of Harperfield104
Regina Spektor · Remember Us to Life90
Aesop Rock · The Impossible Kid810
Mike Keneally · Scambot 280
David Bowie · Blackstar6208
Shamblemaths · Shamblemaths60
SongOther Votes
Kanye West · "30 Hours"2
Elza Soares · "Benedita"0
Field Music · "The Noisy Days Are Over"0
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard · "Robot Stop"0
Knifeworld · "High/ Aflame"0
Mamma Non Piagere · "Ai Confini Della Realtà"0
New Model Army · "Devil"0
Sole & DJ Pain · "Capitalism Is Tearing Us Apart"0
Thank You Scientist · "Mr. Invisible"0
Tonedeff · "Demon"0

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.0704Jeff Tamarkin · 2016
.0544Darrell M. McNeill · 2016
.0535Zach Schonfeld · 2016
.0534Eugene Holley, Jr. · 2016
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.0504Peter Blackstock · 2016
.0494Mark Zepezauer · 2016
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.0474John Wenzel · 2016
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.0444Drew Millard · 2016
.0403Todd Kristel · 2016
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.0393Mallory O'Donnell · 2016
2015 original ballot
Centricity.071#423 of 480
Metalism.000#85 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Belle and Sebastian · Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance166
Seven Steps to the Green Door · Fetish120
Joanna Newsom · Divers1139
Joe Jackson · Fast Forward112
Tunde Olaniran · Transgressor112
The Decemberists · What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World97
Django Django · Born Under Saturn92
Ben Folds · So There91
Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing · Not Your Typical Victorians60
William D. Drake · Revere Reach60
SongOther Votes
Dawn Richard · "Calypso"2
Front Bottoms · "Help"1
James McMurtry · "How'm I Gonna Find You Now?"1
Art Melody · "Na Kiend Songo"0
Fight Likes Apes · "Pretty Keen on Centerfolds"0
Mind Brains · "Bouncy Clock"0
Refused · "Old Friends / New War"0
Seeming · "Worldburners Unite"0
Tal National · "Zoy Zoy"0
Vennart · "Operate"0

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.0855Peter Blackstock · 2015
.0583Geoffrey Himes · 2015
.0413Mike Appelstein · 2015
.0373Dave Heaton · 2015
.0363J. Anthony Ware · 2015
.0353Ian Mathers · 2015
.0353Makkada B. Selah · 2015
.0343Geoffrey Stueven · 2015
.0343Steven Horowitz · 2015
.0333K. Ross Hoffman · 2015
.0323Alfred Soto · 2015
.0282Ashley Zlatopolsky · 2015
.0282Parke Puterbaugh · 2008
.0272J. R. Taylor · 2015
.0252Craig Carson · 2015
.0232Jill Ettinger · 2015
.0232Kyle Ryan · 2015
.0222Laurence Station · 2015
.0222Max Berry · 2015
.0212Jay Ruttenberg · 2015
.0212Richard Gehr · 2015
2014 original ballot
Centricity.043#554 of 601
Metalism.000#102 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Ian Anderson · Homo Erraticus160
Seeming · Madness & Extinction120
Neneh Cherry · Blank Project1117
Sage Francis · Copper Gone112
Knifeworld · The Unravelling110
MoeTar · Entropy of the Century110
Great Big World · Is There Anybody Out There?100
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks · Wig Out at Jagbags611
Charlotte Martin · Water Breaks Stone60
Vacationist · The Vacationist60
SongOther Votes
St. Vincent · "Digital Witness"30
tUnE-yArDs · "Water Fountain"25
Bastille · "Pompeii"3
Andrew Jackson Jihad · "Temple Grandin"0
Cold Specks · "Bodies at Bay"0
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard · "Don't Believe"0
Kristeen Young · "Pearl of a Girl"0
Lindsey Sterling · "Shatter Me"0
People · "The Lyrics Are Simultaneously About How the Song Starts and What the Lyrics Are About"0
Stars in Battledress · "Buy One Now"0

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.1006Christopher Barton · 2014
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.0504Travis Hay · 2014
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.0343Marc Hirsh · 2014
.0323Don Allred · 2014
.0313Andy Hermann · 2014
.0303Josh Bis · 2014
.0303Ken Capobianco · 2014
.0303Nate Chinen · 2014
.0293Randall Roberts · 2014
.0273Tom Murphy · 2014
.0263Derek Barber · 2014
.0263Gabriel Rosenberg · 2014
.0262Andy Battaglia · 2014
.0252Richard Gehr · 2014
.0243Dan DeLuca · 2014
.0243Douglas Wolk · 2014
.0243JD Swerzenski · 2014
.0243Matthew Perpetua · 2011
.0243Shannon Carlin · 2014
2013 original ballot
Centricity.030#430 of 453
Metalism.000#115 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Uncluded · Hokey Fright136
Front Bottoms · Talon of the Hawk124
Cloud Cult · Love111
Ford Pier Vengeance Trio · Huzzah!110
Sean Nelson · Make Good Choices110
New Model Army · Between Dog and Wolf101
Vienna Teng · Aims101
Half Past Four · Good Things100
Lost World Band · Solar Power70
Magma · Felicite Thosz50
SongOther Votes
Ylvis · "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"7
A Great Big World · "This Is the New Year"0
Babe the Blue Ox · "Self-Evident"0
Bob Wiseman · "The Reform Party at Burning Man"0
Haken · "Cockroach King"0
Indelicates · "Class"0
Jack O'the Clock · "A Lot of People Are Dead Wrong Most of the Time"0
Joan Armatrading · "Tell Me"0
Streetlight Manifesto · "If Only for Memories"0
Xenia Rubinos · "Help"0

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.0925Tris McCall · 2013
.0282Robert Christgau · 2013
.0252Tom Hull · 2013
.0202Forrest Wickman · 2013
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.0202Ross Raihala · 2013
.0192Gustavo Turner · 2013
.0192Jim Testa · 2013
.0192Matt Thomas · 2011
.0192Ryan Maffei · 2013
.0182Alan Ranta · 2013
.0182Jennifer Vineyard · 2013
.0182Mark Zepezauer · 2013
.0182Matt Rice · 2013
.0182Michael Azerrad · 2013
.0172Al Shipley · 2013
.0172Brian Block · 2011
.0172Dave Heaton · 2013
.0172Evan Sawdey · 2013
.0172Jack Rabid · 2013
.0172Mike Greenhaus · 2013
2012 original ballot
Centricity.029#464 of 485
Metalism.100#38 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra · Theatre Is Evil154
Extra Life · Dream Seeds140
Agony Family · Earth!130
Verlaines · Untimely Meditations120
Kate Miller-Heidke · Nightflight112
Aesop Rock · Skelethon85
Decomposure · Eating Chicken80
Mars Volta · Noctourniquet80
Of Montreal · Paralytic Stalks62
Sigh · In Somniphobia50
SongOther Votes
Passion Pit · "Take a Walk"11
Fiona Apple · "Left Alone"1
Ani DiFranco · "Which Side Are You On?"0
Birdeatsbaby · "Incitatus"0
Dar Williams · "I Am the One Who Remembers Everything"0
Extra Life · "Righteous Seed"0
Jesca Hoop · "Peacemaker"0
Serj Tankian · "Ching Chime"0
Squonk Opera · "Shimmy and Shake"0
Stew & the Negro Problem · "Black Men Ski"0

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.0905Brian Block · 2010
.0644Tris McCall · 2012
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.0353Melissa Fossum · 2012
.0252Jason Pettigrew · 2012
.0212Thorin Klosowski · 2012
.0182Dom Sinacola · 2012
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.0172Jeff Weiss · 2012
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.0172Ken Rayes · 2012
.0172Marianne Meyer · 2012
.0172M.J. Fine · 2012
.0172Vijith Assar · 2012
.0162Daniel Durchholz · 2012
.0162Dave Gil de Rubio · 2012
.0162Gary Graff · 2012
.0162Jere Pilapil · 2012
.0162Kory Grow · 2012
.0162Ross Raihala · 2012
.0162Ryan Maffei · 2012
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2011 original ballot
Centricity.204#469 of 693
Metalism.050#88 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Mountain Goats · All Eternals Deck1316
Charlotte Martin · Dancing on Needles130
Jack O'the Clock · How Are We Doing and Who Will Tell Us?130
tUnE-yArDs · w h o k i l l11134
Spottiswoode & His Enemies · Wild Goosechase Expedition110
They Might Be Giants · Join Us96
Felice Brothers · Celebration, Florida92
Cheer-Accident · No Ifs, Ands or Dogs91
TV on the Radio · Nine Types of Light727
Indelicates · David Koresh Superstar50
SongOther Votes
Bad Lip Reading · "Gang Fight!"0
Becoming the Archetype · "Cardiac Rebellion"0
Count Zero · "Cry for Sugar"0
Gabriel Kahane · "Last Dance"0
Hooray for Earth · "No Love"0
Paul Simon · "Love Is Eternal Sacred Light"0
Reminding Ideas · "Good Clown, Bad Clown"0
Royal Bangs · "Bull Elk"0
Seether · "Country Song"0
Yes · "Madman at the Screens"0

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.0484Doree Shafrir · 2011
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.0463Gavin Edwards · 2011
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2010 original ballot
Centricity.212#429 of 699
Metalism.050#78 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Kate Miller-Heidke · Curiouser152
Extra Life · Made Flesh140
Ben Folds & Nick Hornby · Lonely Avenue115
Agony Family · Yourself United110
Verlaines · Corporate Moronic110
Kaipa · In the Wake of Evolution90
Reign of Kindo · This Is What Happens80
Kanye West · My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy7265
Flobots · Survival Story70
Sigh · Scenes From Hell70
SongOther Votes
Janelle Monáe · "Cold War"23
Yeasayer · "Ambling Alp"13
Kate Miller-Heidke · "Caught in the Crowd"1
Aloha · "Everything Goes My Way"0
Cloud Cult · "The Exploding People"0
District 97 · "I Can't Take You With Me"0
Extra Life · "Head Shrinker"0
Monkey Typing Pool · "Little Audio Sparkler and the Slightly Scary Gentlemen of Rock"0
Mystery Fix · "Syllogismobile"0
OK Go · "WTF?"0

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.0935Chris Conaton · 2010
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.0545Julia Simon · 2010
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.0453Matt Thomas · 2010
.0383Corey Moss · 2010
.0363Jenny Kratz · 2010
.0344Dan Gibson · 2010
.0344Tobias Carroll · 2010
.0343Caitlin Dewey · 2010
.0334Michael Gallucci · 2010
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.0304Allison Stewart · 2010
.0304Doug Brod · 2010
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2009 original ballot
Centricity.162#449 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet · The Secret Language of Subways210
Tris McCall · Let the Night Fall142
Tori Amos · Abnormally Attracted to Sin100
Dirty Projectors · Bitte Orca9107
Regina Spektor · Far913
Cheer-Accident · Fear Draws Misfortune91
Camille · Music Hole80
The Decemberists · The Hazards of Love732
Mike Keneally · Scambot 172
Propagandhi · Supporting Caste61
SongOther Votes
Dirty Projectors · "Stillness Is the Move"63
Mika · "We Are Golden"2
Rural Alberta Advantage · "Don't Haunt This Place"1
Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet · "Difficult"0
Camille · "Money Note"0
Cary Judd · "The Apocalyptic Love Song"0
Ford Pier · "My New Bar"0
Hellsongs · "Symphony of Destruction"0
Kissy Sell Out · "Go Explode"0
U2 · "Get on Your Boots"0

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.05313Tris McCall
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