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.
Derk Richardson
Overall
Centricity.202#904 of 1281
Breadth.508#377 of 1297
Metalism.000#425 of 1297
2012 original ballot
Centricity.162#320 of 485
Metalism.000#94 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Loudon Wainwright III · Older Than My Old Man Now1315
Lambchop · Mr. M136
Wadada Leo Smith · Ten Freedom Summers136
Beth Orton · Sugaring Season114
Henry Threadgill Zooid · Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, SPP111
Miles Davis Quintet · Live in Europe 1967110
Bob Dylan · Tempest732
Leonard Cohen · Old Ideas730
Mountain Goats · Transcendental Youth722
Mary Halvorson · Bending Bridges72
SongOther Votes
Carolina Chocolate Drops · "Leaving Eden"1
Leonard Cohen · "Going Home"1
Antony · "Landslide"0
Bettye LaVette · "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"0
Bob Dylan · "Long and Wasted Years"0
Lambchop · "The Good Life (Is Wasted)"0
Neil Young & Crazy Horse · "High Flyin' Bird"0
Norah Jones With Rodney Crowell · "If the Law Don't Want You"0
Ry Cooder · "The Wall Street Part of Town"0
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings · "This Land Is Your Land"0

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.1606Bob Townsend · 2012
.1467Larry King · 2012
.1196Joey Daniewicz · 2012
.1004Steve Hochman · 2012
.0905Robert Christgau · 2012
.0864David Menconi · 2012
.0855Max Berry · 2012
.0855Michael Tatum · 2012
.0835Bob Grossweiner · 2012
.0835Daniel Sargeant · 2012
.0834Jeff Tamarkin · 2012
.0614Christopher Monsen · 2012
.0604Will Hermes · 2012
.0594Jason Gubbels · 2012
.0594Leland Rucker · 2012
.0584Dan Weiss · 2012
.0584Jesse Jarnow · 2012
.0584Jim Testa · 2012
.0574Roy Trakin · 2012
.0564Jon Bream · 2012
2011 original ballot
Centricity.275#379 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Tom Waits · Bad As Me1095
Paul Simon · So Beautiful or So What1060
Gillian Welch · The Harrow and the Harvest1041
Bill Callahan · Apocalypse1033
Ry Cooder · Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down107
Joe Henry · Reverie105
Meg Baird · Seasons on Earth105
Thurston Moore · Demolished Thoughts105
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra · MTO Plays Sly101
Parkington Sisters · Till Voices Wake Us100
SongOther Votes
Adele · "Rolling in the Deep"109
tUnE-yArDs · "Bizness"37
Pistol Annies · "Hell on Heels"17
Wilco · "I Might"12
TV on the Radio · "Will Do"5
Ry Cooder · "No Banker Left Behind"3
Paul Simon · "Rewrite"2
Tom Waits · "Satisfied"2
Ry Cooder · "Wall Street Side of Town"0
Tinariwen · "Tenere Taqqim Tossam"0

Similar Ballots
.2518Buzz Poole · 2011
.18510Phil Gallo · 2011
.1729Brent Baldwin · 2011
.1699George Varga · 2011
.1696Nathan Hogan · 2011
.1659Gary Graff · 2011
.1659J. Anthony Ware · 2011
.1619Chris Herrington · 2011
.1566Tad Hendrickson · 2011
.1558Max Berry · 2011
.1546Paul Robicheau · 2011
.1536Thor Christensen · 2011
.1516Steve Matteo · 2011
.1466Allen St John · 2011
.1436Carlo Wolff · 2011
.1416Salvatore Caputo · 2011
.1388Daniel Durchholz · 2011
.1298Jim Sullivan · 2011
.1297Bob Townsend · 2011
.1277Rick Mitchell · 2011
.1277Ted Cox · 2011
2010 original ballot
Centricity.055#615 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Nels Cline · Dirty Baby152
Laurie Anderson · Homeland137
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan · Hawk126
James Blackshaw · All Is Falling102
Clogs · The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton101
Mavis Staples · You Are Not Alone826
Richard Thompson · Dream Attic86
Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté · Ali & Toumani85
Antony & the Johnsons · Swanlights85
Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon, Ros Stephen · For the Ghosts Within83
SongOther Votes
The National · "Bloodbuzz Ohio"40
Arcade Fire · "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"36
Aloe Blacc · "I Need a Dollar"16
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings · "I Learned the Hard Way"6
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan · "Come Undone"1
Bettye LaVette · "Salt of the Earth"0
Bonnie "Prince" Billy & the Cairo Gang · "That's What Our Love Is"0
Jimi Hendrix · "Tears of Rage"0
Rolling Stones · "Loving Cup (Alternate Take)"0
Trombone Shorty · "On Your Way Down"0

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.20010Steve Rosen · 2010
.1759Steve Klinge · 2010
.1115Will Layman · 2010
.0944Larry King · 2010
.0835Ted Cox · 2010
.0784Allen St John · 2010
.0765Brian Orloff · 2010
.0764Jeff Vrabel · 2010
.0754Steve Simels · 2010
.0745Omar Kholeif · 2010
.0734Anthony DeCurtis · 2010
.0704Stephen M. Deusner · 2010
.0675Marianne Meyer · 2010
.0624Andy Odom · 2010
.0613Brad Cohan · 2010
.0584Bret Gladstone · 2010
.0564Jon Solomon · 2010
.0554Chris Riemenschneider · 2010
.0544Jeremiah McNeil · 2010
.0534David Cantwell · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.126#512 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Leonard Cohen · Live in London1519
Henry Threadgill Zooid · This Brings Us To, Volume 1154
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet · Spiritual Dimensions152
Rokia Traoré · Tchamantché107
Nels Cline · Coward104
Marianne Faithfull · Easy Come, Easy Go103
Kronos Quartet · Floodplain101
Wilco · Wilco (The Album)543
Rosanne Cash · The List523
Loudon Wainwright III · High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project513

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.1674Larry Birnbaum · 2009
.1314Steve Klinge · 2009
.1214Allen St John · 2009
.1164Dan Ouellette · 2009
.1164Mark Keresman · 2009
.1144Steve Horowitz · 2009
.1124Tom Hull · 2009
.1104Buzz Poole · 2009
.1094David Adler · 2009
.1084Michael Ross · 2009
.1084Rick Petreycik · 2009
.1074Max Berry · 2009
.1054Bill Holdship · 2009
.1054Holly George-Warren · 2009
.1054Ken Rayes · 2009
.1044Steve Simels · 2009
.0994Leslie Berman · 2009
.0764Robert Christgau · 2009
.0734Jim Macnie · 2009
.0664Ellis Widner · 2009
.0664Jason MacNeil · 2009
2008 original ballot
Centricity.394#161 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Jim White · Transnormal Skiperoo201
Fleet Foxes · Fleet Foxes1087
Randy Newman · Harps and Angels1047
Bob Dylan · The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-20061035
Orchestra Baobab · Made in Dakar1012
Joan As Police Woman · To Survive101
Steven Bernstein · Diaspora Suite101
Suarasama · Fajar Di Atas Awan100
TV on the Radio · Dear Science5153
Fern Knight · Fern Knight50
SongOther Votes
Adele · "Chasing Pavements"19
TV on the Radio · "Golden Age"17
Al Green (ft. Anthony Hamilton) · "Lay It Down"8
Randy Newman · "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country"4
Bob Dylan · "Mississippi"2
Duffy · "Warwick Avenue"2
Bill Frisell · "A Change Is Gonna Come"0
Jim White · "Jailbird"0
Ry Cooder · "Pink-O-Boogie"0
Teddy Thompson · "Don't Know What I Was Thinking"0

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.1809Jason Fine · 2008
.1546Brent Baldwin · 2008
.1496Jeff Tamarkin · 2008
.1357Rick Mitchell · 2008
.1337Scott Mervis · 2008
.1247Brian Braiker · 2008
.1225Steve Simels · 2008
.1215Charles R. Cross · 2008
.1187Roy Trakin · 2008
.1177Ken Rayes · 2008
.1117Edna Gundersen · 2008
.1116Holly George-Warren · 2008
.1086Jack Buehrer · 2008
.1025Dominic Salerno · 2008
.1014Edd Hurt · 2008
.0996Richard Gehr · 2008
.0986Bret Gladstone · 2008
.0976Christian Hoard · 2008
.0974Jon Young · 2008
.0946Joe Tangari · 2008
.0946Preston Jones · 2008
Similar Voters
.13520Allen St John
.13216Buzz Poole
.10819Rick Mitchell
.10521Larry King
.10418Holly George-Warren
.10315David Menconi
.10025Steve Klinge
.09517Jeff Tamarkin
.0949Jason Fine
.09113Billy Altman
.08819Max Berry
.08716Steve Simels
.08712Jim Sullivan
.08421Steve Rosen
.08211George Varga
.08119Charles R. Cross
.08110Anthony DeCurtis
.08017Bob Townsend
.08012Thor Christensen
.07412Bret Gladstone
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