Pazz and Jop.

I voted! In previous years I have always basically treated the album list as The Main Thing, and the songs list as Honorable Mention for smaller achievements. I didn't vote last year, but this year find myself voting the other way around: the song list came first, and the album list is kind of things that seemed great to me, but never quite reached the heights of individual perfection necessary to make the top 10 song list.

Just voted.

What are you guys all fighting about?

Whether to listen to 10 or 1200 new albums each year

and which is better

deadline is noon tomorrow, 9 fuckin a.m. on the West Coast so best to get it done tonight ... in case anyone needed prodding

i did. working on it

i missed it last year because ... i dunno, i guess i thought it was due by midnight or something, like most of these things? anyway.

reminder: this closes in about an hour and a half

(just submitted mine; also, one of the other useful things about glenn's stats is remembering how the fuck I did my score tiers the last time, although every year I change them because the distribution feels wrong)

songs list was rough to make this year, i have about 50-70 tracks i really enjoyed but a real ranking/top ten has yet to clarify itself

I switched up my scoring for the first time and went 12-12-11-11-10-10-9-9-8-8. Seemed cool to do and also appropriate.

Sent!

I think this year I went 17-14-14-10-10-10-10-5-5-5 -- I wanted a clear #1 but 21/12 points seemed too big a gap for the first and second tier, and I didn't want to knock any albums into the bottom tier, especially since giving a sub-10 score is kind of punishing them in the rankings.

obviously I am way overthinking this because very few other people are going to vote for some of these

i did 16-11-10-9-9-9-9-9-9-9

unless something is utterly killing it for me, i tend to go unweighted and i did this year

If anybody else votes for any of my albums other than CHVRCHES, I'll be mildly shocked. If anybody else votes for any of my songs other than Robyn, I'll be stunned. Unless Maura was being coy in Slate and actually voted for "Strange Embrace" after all.

Plus, I only changed my mind on 2 things since voting! So far...

25 25 10 10 5 5 5 5 5 5 here ... I think. I know I ended up with six 5s. Maybe it was 20 20 15 15

Shit! I meant to screenshot before submitting.

i really only had 3-5ish albums i hated to leave out this year ... that's much lower than usual.

Hello all!
Happy new year and thank you for your patience with us. The critic's poll was an enormous success with many more voters than we could've possibly anticipated, and wrestling the data took us a bit longer than we hoped. But, thanks to all who took the time out to participate, that is a good problem to have.

The results will be published this week, with the albums list on Wednesday, Jan 9 and the songs list on Thursday, Jan 10. Accompanying essays will be running alongside the polls.

Side note: If you sent a pitch for the poll it was deeply appreciated, but many excellent ideas pitched didn't correspond to the poll data and so were not accepted. If you're interested in re-tooling these ideas for a Grammys package Uproxx is running, please re-send to caitlin.white (at) uproxx.com as soon as possible.

Thanks again and looking forward to sharing the results with our community,

Caitlin White + Uproxx Music Team

critic's poll

they were only expecting one voter to respond

they were only expecting one voter to respond

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--JqnVnm_u--/getnvb6ucfffvtfqupf4.jpg

https://uproxx.com/critic-polls/uproxx-music-critics-poll-2018-albums/

a somewhat odd list for a consensus critics poll, leaning fairly indie especially compared to the EOY aggregates etc.

nice to see foxing get some love at least i guess

Aviary at #193?????

yeah that was especially strange to me, it unfortunately hasn't been anywhere near the critical favourite that have you in my wilderness was, but only getting a single vote there is still shocking

is there not a page that shows all the singles results? I eventually figured out "thank u, next" was #1 just by clicking on it and finding its individual page, but surely there's a ranking page I'm overlooking.

i think those are going up properly tomorrow

My Uproxx ballot if anyone cares...

https://uproxx.com/critics/brian-oneill/

someone start an Uproxx Poll thread and keep that major-label-tainted shit outta here

lol

Just Gimmee Indie Polls!

I looked at the VV site for the first time in months to see if there was anything about Pazz & Jop yet (no), but what they do have is a whole bunch of Christgau's essays, accompanied by scans of the whole insert for that year. You can get the essays on Christgau's own site, but the scans would be worth looking at for anyone who doesn't have the original copies.

http://www.villagevoice.com/

looks like they're posting one year per day, with 2002 having been posted most recently with 2003 coming up sometime tomorrow(/today)

It's here.

First time there's been an all female top 5?

if the essay had been less of a j/o session that might have been more deeply explored

Pazz and J/op

Are there any comments? I won't start whining yet--last year it took a couple of extra days before comments were posted. But I'm ready to start whining at a moment's notice if need be.

To my ears, and maybe mine alone, Musgraves has finally (started making CDs for CD Baby in middle school or something) reduced herself to a complete nonentity---but the melts-in-your-mind effect-noneffect seems meant as solace, and is perhaps taken that way, once daily or whatever, in this churning time. If so, cool, whatever gets you through the night, and past that, a lot of good stuff here, far as I've scrolled so far. (Musgraves also topped the Nashville Scene poll.)

I'm skimming the "Pazz & Jop: The Top 50 Singles of 2018" piece, and it's "I, I, I"--"The first time I voted in this poll I was 18 years old..."--with a "by the Editors" byline. I don't get that at all.

Musgraves has finally (started making CDs for CD Baby in middle school or something) reduced herself to a complete nonentity---but the melts-in-your-mind effect-noneffect seems meant as solace, and is perhaps taken that way, once daily or whatever, in this churning time.

Thanks for nailing what I can't like this record.

You and I may have been the only ones who called her re the sub-standard greeting card verse of the previous offering. I dunno---I never got into Moby or New Pornographers either (even though one New P was Neko, whom I usually like).

Nice to see the 'Black Genius' essay completely overlook Kamasi Washington, Makaya McCraven, and Shabaka Hutchings, all of whom had albums in the top 40...

i dislike and regret that i contributed to something that gave an essay to someone i consider horrible and abusive

also the results are super boring

interesting to see high placements for artists who probably won't even crack the 77 here (some regrettably!)

"someone i consider horrible and abusive"

I gotta ask: Christgau?

nope but also sure why not xgau is certainly a shithead who sucks too

I'm skimming the "Pazz & Jop: The Top 50 Singles of 2018" piece, and it's "I, I, I"--"The first time I voted in this poll I was 18 years old..."--with a "by the Editors" byline. I don't get that at all.

― clemenza, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:49 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That line is in Jessica Hopper's essay, which is bylined.

Now I see, thanks--misread that because of the embedded link.