Not Pazz & Jop 2016

I voted for one of the tracks but not the album

Wiliam Bell, old-school soul singer got 10 votes; chitlin circuit/southern soul singer Ms. Jody got 2; and Xchuckx voted for the "My Sidepiece" southern soul soundtrack

Not really seeing any reggae or dancehall

It was also a really shitty year for metal

wish there was a way to write a fake ballot and some genius calculus/coding lets you know which writers have the highest compatibility with your taste

the genius calculus/coding is already in place. find a writer whose ballot looks close to what you'd submit and then find 'em on here: http://furia.com/pjs/

i realize that's not exactly what you're asking for, but it's something.

yeah I'm aware of that (although I didn't remember the url so thanks for reminding me) but that implies checking out hundreds of ballots one by one

but it is something and it is helpful indeed, you're right

I bet it's going to come down to Marc Masters again anyway

My tabulation notes are here:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/pazz-and-jop-the-village-voice-music-critics-poll-this-years-tabulation-notes-9607137

xp yeah, not perfect. although if you start at, say, Marc and poke around his most compatible, perhaps you could cut down considerably on the number of ballots you'd feel like you need to look at. unless you're the "better look at all of them, the perfect one may be just around the corner" type.

glenn, i'm curious: how hard/easy would it be to do something like what Dinsdale wants? make a public-facing feature where people can input their 10 favorite albums and see what writers are their closest match? might be cool...

cool notes, glenn!

yeah, glenn's notes and the furia site are always the best part of this whole thing :D

I agree that that matching feature would be cool, but I can't currently do it. It's not algorithmically difficult (as you say, I'm already doing the same math), but the stats site is hosted on a regular personal web-server account, so I can't really do any live analysis there. Thus I do all the analysis offline and generate static web pages for the site...

Monolithity re-scores albums by the percentage of their voters who didn't also vote for any songs by the same artist (but who did vote for songs). Eight albums got all their votes from people who didn't also vote for songs by those artists, but the only ones with more than ten voters were Michael Kiwanuka's Love & Hate and Nicolas Jaar's Sirens, which I will not describe for you because the whole point of this is that you have to listen to them properly, meaning alone, at night, with extremely expensive audio cables.

lmao

It was also a really shitty year for metal

nah

i was going to disagree with that too. personally i had a great time

Glenn, these notes are so much fun. Thank you for doing these!

yeah, great year for metal

thx for the reply, glenn! what you already do for this is greatly appreciated.

P.S.: The prize for the best voting typo of the year goes to former Voice music editor Rob Harvilla, who voted not for YG's mordant anti-Trump rant "FDT," but instead for "FTD", his instantly timeless and viscerally vituperative takedown of corporatized floral-delivery. Fight the Flower.

ha

inevitably I'm surprised by some of the albums/tracks I'm alone in voting for but I did not expect to be literally the only kristin hersh voter http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2016/katherine-st-asaph-6596429

(christ, that spacing)

I don't know if I realized I was #1 in "Metalism" last year. This year I was #14 despite the fact that I consider Khemmis the only metal album on my ballot. Despite fewer albums at top, I still think it was a good year for metal.

I guess my love for psych prog is deeply unfashionable, to the point where I felt the urge to friend the three people who also voted for Wolf People and Syd Arthur (there were no other votes for Lola Colt, Blood Ceremony and Purson).

No ballot in there for me this year.

The interface kept failing, so I sent my votes in a Word file that must've gotten lost along the way.

Ah well.

The New York nerderati's deep affection for 75 Dollar Bill is baffling to me

drone for podcast listeners

seems fine, forgettable tho

I like 75 Dollar Bill but can never quite make the leap to loving it. Someday, maybe.

how did Weyes Blood only get 7 album votes in this thing

Less contributors to the poll than in certain prior years, although more than last year