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.
 
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Lee Zimmerman
Overall
Centricity.038#1269 of 1313
Breadth.433#506 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.014#526 of 542
Metalism.000#75 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Dawes · We're All Gonna Die105
The Low Anthem · Eyeland101
Blind Pilot · And the Like Lions100
Bob Delevante · Valley of Days100
Clarence Bucaro · Pendulum100
Dylan LeBlanc · Cautionary Tale100
Fallon Cush · Bee in Your Bonnet100
Jack Ingram · Midnight Motel100
Reckless Kelly · Sunset Motel100
Winterlings · Poems That Live As People100

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.0342Jeff Tamarkin · 2016
.0262Jim Farber · 2016
.0222Chris Willman · 2016
.0222Mike Seely · 2016
.0212Bud Scoppa · 2016
.0212Daniel Kohn · 2016
2015 original ballot
Centricity.028#455 of 480
Metalism.000#85 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Dave Rawlings Machine · Nashville Obsolete107
Dawes · All Your Favorite Bands105
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell · The Traveling Kind102
Corb Lund · Things That Can't Be Undone101
Don Henley · Cass County101
Lone Bellow · Then Came Morning101
Tommy Keene · Laugh in the Dark101
Adam Levy · Naubinway100
American Aquarium · Wolves100
Falls · Omaha100

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.1284Larry King · 2015
.0342Chris Gray · 2015
.0342Zeth Lundy · 2015
.0332Jim Allen · 2015
.0332Matt Gewolb · 2015
.0332Matt Hickey · 2015
.0332Tom Cheyney · 2015
.0322Mike Berick · 2015
.0322Tom Finkel · 2015
.0312Matt Hickey · 2011
.0222Gary Graff · 2015
.0222Mike Seely · 2015
.0212Chuck Campbell · 2015
.0212Stephen M. Deusner · 2015
.0202Peter Blackstock · 2015
.0202Tom Lane · 2015
.0192Chris M. Junior · 2013
.0192George A. Paul · 2015
.0192Jesse Jarnow · 2015
2014 original ballot
Centricity.046#550 of 601
Metalism.000#102 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Rodney Crowell · Tarpaper Sky162
Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread1527
Sons of Bill · Love and Logic130
John Mellencamp · Plain Spoken110
Ken Will Morton · Slow Burn100
Ellis Paul · Chasin' Beauty90
Chris Smither · Still on the Levee81
Peter Himmelman · The Boat That Carries Us70
Sean Watkins · All I Do Is Lie60
Loudon Wainwright III · Haven't Got the Blues (Yet)53

Similar Ballots
.1174Mike Berick · 2014
.0352Curtis Schieber · 2014
.0332Lee Zimmerman · 2008
.0332Lee Zimmerman · 2010
.0332Peter Gerstenzang · 2014
.0332Salvatore Caputo · 2014
.0322Allen St John · 2014
.0322Steve Horowitz · 2014
.0322Steve Klinge · 2014
.0312Allen St John · 2009
.0312Jay Ruttenberg · 2014
.0312Larry King · 2014
.0312Meredith Ochs · 2014
.0312Steve Rosen · 2014
.0302Derk Richardson · 2009
.0302Jeff Tamarkin · 2014
.0302Justin Cober-Lake · 2014
.0302Roy Kasten · 2014
.0292Jim Bessman · 2014
.0252Carlo Wolff · 2014
2013 original ballot
Centricity.064#398 of 453
Metalism.000#115 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Jason Isbell · Southeastern1033
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell · Old Yellow Moon102
Milk Carton Kids · The Ash & Clay102
Avett Brothers · Magpie & the Dandelion100
David Berkeley · The Fire in My HeadD100
Harmed Brothers · Better Days100
Kim Richey · Thorn in My Side100
Scott Miller · Big Bg World100
Steep Canyon Rangers · Tell the Ones That I Love100
(various artists) · High Cotton: Tribute to Alabama100

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.0433Wayne Bledsoe · 2013
.0342Etan Rosenbloom · 2013
.0322Jeff Tamarkin · 2013
.0312Jeff Vrabel · 2013
.0292David Peisner · 2013
.0292Laura Leebove · 2013
.0292Michael Deeds · 2013
.0282Andrew Bartlett · 2013
.0282Deborah Sprague · 2013
.0263Larry King · 2013
.0212Ellis Widner · 2013
.0212Mark Deming · 2013
.0202Mike Seely · 2013
.0192Geoffrey Himes · 2013
.0192James Barber · 2013
.0192J. Anthony Ware · 2013
.0192Jon Solomon · 2013
.0192Max Berry · 2013
.0192Richard Skanse · 2013
.0183Bill Holdship · 2013
2012 original ballot
Centricity.014#480 of 485
Metalism.000#95 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Maldives · Muscle for the Wing250
Malcolm Holcombe · Down the River200
Glen Hansard · Rhythm and Repose151
Susanna Hoffs · Someday100
Charlie Peacock · No Man's Land50
Hayley Reardon · Where the Artists Go50
Jason Collett · Reckon50
Kevin Bowe & the Okemah Prophets · Natchez Trace50
Scott Miller/Rayna Gellert · CoDependents50
Steve Almaas · Trailer Songs50

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.0352David Peisner · 2012
2011 original ballot
Centricity.038#646 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Fountains of Wayne · Sky Full of Holes1017
Dawes · Nothing Is Wrong105
Middle Brother · Middle Brother103
Amos Lee · Mission Bell101
(various artists) · This One's for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark101
Avett Brothers · I and Love and You100
Ken Will Morton · Contenders100
Ron Sexsmith · Long Player Late Bloomer100
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers · Gift Horse100
Will Sexton · Move the Balance100

Similar Ballots
.0453Philip Martin · 2011
.0352Anthony DeCurtis · 2011
.0352Parke Puterbaugh · 2011
.0342Lee Zimmerman · 2008
.0332Andrew Nash · 2011
.0332Edd Hurt · 2011
.0332Larry King · 2011
.0332Steve Simels · 2011
.0322Bill Holmes · 2011
.0322Bobby Tanzilo · 2011
.0322Matt Hickey · 2011
.0302Chris Parker · 2009
.0302Joan Anderman · 2009
.0293Steve Rosen · 2009
.0292Allen St John · 2009
.0292Anthony DeCurtis · 2009
.0292Dan Aloi · 2009
.0292David Menconi · 2009
.0292Jed Gottlieb · 2009
.0292Jeff Vrabel · 2009
2010 original ballot
Centricity.036#639 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Mumford & Sons · Sigh No More1022
Band of Horses · Infinite Arms1012
Johnny Flynn · Been Listening101
Peter Himmelman · The Mystery and the Hum101
Blue Rodeo · The Things We Left Behind100
Carrie Rodriguez · Love and Circumstance100
Edward Rogers · Sparkle Lane100
Greg Laswell · Take a Bow100
Ken Will Morton · True Grit100
Truth & Salvage Company · Truth & Salvage Company100

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.0463Kelly Dearmore · 2010
.0453Ben Salmon · 2010
.0423Mike Greenhaus · 2010
.0362Jonah Flicker · 2010
.0352Martin Cizmar · 2010
.0332Jeff Vrabel · 2010
.0332Jim Bessman · 2010
.0332Lee Zimmerman · 2014
.0322Allen St John · 2010
.0322Bobby Tanzilo · 2010
.0322Brian Smith · 2010
.0322David Peisner · 2010
.0322Eddie Fleisher · 2010
.0322Scott Holter · 2010
.0312Eric Broome · 2010
.0302Mike Berick · 2010
.0262Bill Holdship · 2010
.0242David A Cobb · 2010
.0232Nick Duerden · 2009
.0222Lindsey Holder · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.077#583 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Avett Brothers · I and Love and You1041
Monsters of Folk · Monsters of Folk1017
Ian Hunter · Man Overboard105
Slaid Cleaves · Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away ...104
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard · One Fast Move or I'm Gone103
Carolyn Mark and NQ Arbuckle · Let's Just Stay Here101
Jeff Larson · Heart of the Valley100
Michelle Shocked · Soul of My Soul100
Nanci Griffith · The Loving Kind100
Patrick Bloom · Ghosts of Radio100

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.1154Matt Gewolb · 2009
.1134Christopher Lopez · 2009
.0974Dan Ferguson · 2009
.0844Richard Skanse · 2009
.0453Eric Danton · 2009
.0453Roy Kasten · 2009
.0433Paul Robicheau · 2009
.0433Philip Booth · 2009
.0413Mike Greenhaus · 2009
.0352Steve Ciabattoni · 2009
.0342Peter Gerstenzang · 2009
.0342Rob O'Connor · 2009
.0342Steve Horowitz · 2009
.0332Jay Lustig · 2009
.0332Jayson Harsin · 2009
.0332Meredith Ochs · 2009
.0332Rick Petreycik · 2009
.0332Steve Pick · 2009
.0322Holly George-Warren · 2009
.0312Billy Altman · 2009
2008 original ballot
Centricity.021#555 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Rodney Crowell · Sex & Gasoline106
Carlene Carter · Stronger101
Jeremy Messersmith · The Silver City101
Jeff Larson · Left of a Dream100
Ken Will Morton · Kickin' Out the Rungs100
Matt Keating · Quixotic100
Richard X. Heyman · Intakes100
Ron Sexsmith · Exit Strategy of the Soul100
Sandra McCracken · Red Balloon100
Thea Gilmore · Liejacker100

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.0352Lee Zimmerman · 2011
.0342Scott Holter · 2008
.0332Jim Bessman · 2008
.0332Lee Zimmerman · 2014
.0332Michael Point · 2008
.0332Randy Lewis · 2008
.0232Will McClain · 2008
.0222Richard Skanse · 2008
.0202Gary Graff · 2008
.0202Holly Gleason · 2008
Similar Voters
.06311Mike Berick
.05513Larry King
.05014Richard Skanse
.0496Anthony DeCurtis
.0426Jeff Vrabel
.04110Bob Townsend
.0408Allen St John
.0388Meredith Ochs
.0384Christopher Lopez
.0347Jim Bessman
.0337Jeff Tamarkin
.0327David Peisner
.0316Matt Gewolb
.0307Steve Leftridge
.02911Gary Graff
.0294Chris Gray
.0289Bill Holdship
.0284Scott Holter
.0276Roy Kasten
.0266Mike Seely
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