Ежегодный опрос музыкальных релизов Pazz & Jop

Annual poll of top musical releases

Pazz & Jop was an annual poll of top musical releases, compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice and created by music critic Robert Christgau. It published lists of the year's top releases for 1971 and, after Christgau's two year absence from the Voice, each year from 1974 onward. The polls are tabulated from the submitted year end top 10 lists of hundreds of music critics. It was named in acknowledgement of the defunct magazine Jazz & Pop, and adopted the ratings system used in that publication's annual critics poll.

The Pazz & Jop was introduced by The Village Voice in 1971 as an album only poll; it was expanded to include votes for singles in 1979. music videos, album re issues, and compilation albums—all of which were discontinued after only a few years. The Pazz & Jop albums poll uses a points system to formulate list rankings. Participating critics assigned a number value, ranging from 5 to 30, to each of the albums on their top 10 list, with all 10 albums totaling 100 points. The idea behind its name (a spoonerism of Jazz & Pop) was that, since the words "pazz" and "jop" do not exist, participating critics would judge a musical work on its own merits rather than be distracted by categories and genres. and the poll was not conducted again until 1974, when Christgau returned to the Voice and the poll "became an institution", according to fellow Voice critic Chris Molanphy. Bob Dylan and Kanye West topped the albums poll the most number of times, with four number one albums each. West, in addition, won the singles poll of 2005. Christgau oversaw the Pazz & Jop poll for more than thirty years; he also wrote an accompanying essay that discussed the poll's contents. Writing in 2002, author Bernard Gendron cited the lack of overlap between the 1999 poll results and that year's best selling albums on Billboards US charts—whereby only five of Pazz & Jop's top 40 appeared in the Billboard list—as indicative of a continued division between the avant garde aesthetic of cultural accreditation and commercial considerations. Although Pazz & Jop established itself as a critics' poll with a clear identity, it has attracted criticism, particularly for its methodology. Addressing the participants in 2001, Mike Doughty of the New York Press complained: "In the guise of a love of music, you've taken the most beautiful nebulous form of human expression, squeezed it through an asinine points scoring system specially cooked up for this pointless perennial, and forced it into this baffling, heinous chart system." In response to his dismissal, several prominent critics publicly announced that they would no longer be turning in their lists for the poll; Sasha Frere Jones of The New Yorker described Christgau's firing as "a slap in the face to so many of us [critics] in so many ways". Regardless, The Village Voice continued to run the feature, with Rob Harvilla succeeding Christgau as music editor and overseer of the poll. Christgau's annual Pazz & Jop overview essay was discontinued and substituted with multiple retrospective articles of the year's music written by a selection of critics. In 2016, the poll's name was changed from Pazz & Jop to the Village Voice Music Critics Poll by the new owners of the newspaper. Christgau, who had continued to vote in the poll since his departure from the newspaper, expressed dismay at the name change. The Village Voice ceased publication altogether in August 2018. Despite the closure of the newspaper, a Pazz & Jop poll for 2018 was announced on December 20, with Christgau confirming its legitimacy on Twitter. The 2018 poll was published on the Village Voice's website on February 6, 2019. As a continuation of the poll, Glenn Boothe and Keith Artin organised a "Village Voice Pazz & Jop Rip Off Poll" in 2019. The poll was conducted via private Facebook group and included over 1,100 members—music writers, business execs, or artists themselves. Purple Mountains' eponymous album was voted the best album of 2019. Uproxx also launched an annual music critic poll in 2018.

Year Artist Album Mentions Points Ref. 1971 Who's Next 540 1974 Court and Spark 14 186 1975 and 23 285 1976 Songs in the Key of Life 25 292 1977 Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols 32 412 1978 and This Year's Model 58 783 1979 Squeezing Out Sparks 63 767 1980 London Calling 89 1,347 1981 Sandinista! 67 862 1982 and Imperial Bedroom 87 1,061 1983 Thriller 100 1,305 1984 Born in the U. S. A. 136 1,757 1985 Talking Heads Little Creatures 99 1,078 1986 Graceland 96 1,131 1987 Prince Sign o' the Times 118 1,491 1988 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 79 1,011 1989 De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising 89 1,050 1990 and Crazy Horse Ragged Glory 104 1,282 1991 Nirvana Nevermind 134 1,699 1992 Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of 97 1,050 1993 Exile in Guyville 108 1,383 1994 Hole Live Through This 121 1,552 1995 To Bring You My Love 120 1,492 1996 Beck Odelay 110 1,134 1997 Time Out of Mind 135 1,655 1998 Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 167 2,129 1999 Moby Play 134 1,548 2000 Outkast Stankonia 220 2,660 2001 Love and Theft 235 3,010 2002 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 201 2,328 2003 Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 305 3,554 2004 245 2,826 2005 Late Registration 227 2,525 2006 Modern Times 95 1,123 2007 LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver 141 1,662 2008 TV on the Radio Dear Science 154 1,744 2009 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 154 1,794 2010 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 266 3,250 2011 Tune Yards Whokill 135 1,645 2012 Channel Orange 170 1,952 2013 Yeezus 160 1,991 2014 D'Angelo and the Vanguard Black Messiah 163 2,008 2015 To Pimp a Butterfly 210 2,639 2016 Blackstar 209 2,367 2017 Damn 1,756 2018 Golden Hour 100 1,155

Year Artist Single Mentions Ref. 1979 and "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"/"Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" 29 2009 Jay Z featuring "Empire State of Mind" 89 2010 "Fuck You" 187 2011 Adele "Rolling in the Deep" 116 2012 "Call Me Maybe" 94 2013 Daft Punk featuring "Get Lucky" 117 2014 Future Islands "Seasons (Waiting on You)" 75 2015 Drake "Hotline Bling" 76 2016 Beyoncé "Formation" 99 2017 Cardi B "Bodak Yellow" 62

Year Artist Album Mentions Ref. 1995 Various artists Macro Dub Infection: Volume One 28 1996 Logical Progression 11

Year Artist Album Mentions Ref. 1986 Treacherous: A History of the Neville Brothers (1955–1985) 43 1987 At the Dark End of the Street 35 1988 35 1989 65 1990 108 1991 Star Time 84 1992 Songs of Freedom 51 1993 Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys 42 1994 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1923–1934) 34 1995 Peel Slowly and See 57 1996 25 1997 Various artists Anthology of American Folk Music 100 1998 Various artists Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 111 1999 Os Mutantes Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes 31 Various artists Loud, Fast and Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of '50s Rock

Year Artist Album Mentions Ref. 1981 Ghost Town 44 1982 Trap Door 75 1983 Los Lobos And a Time to Dance 54 1984 Places That Are Gone 32 1985 Feudalist Tarts 32 1986 No Sex 27 1988 Chimes of Freedom 13 1989 Passionate Kisses 17 1990 F. U. N. '90 27 1991 Pavement Perfect Sound Forever 26 1992 Pavement Watery, Domestic 23 1993 Luscious Jackson In Search of Manny 31 1994 Pizzicato Five Five by Five 15

Year Artist Music video Director(s) Mentions Ref. 1983 "Beat It" 63 1984 Art of Noise "Close (To the Edit)" 35 1985 Artists United Against Apartheid "Sun City" , Godley & Creme 68 1986 "Sledgehammer" 87 1987 Squeeze "Hourglass" 12 1990 Deee Lite "Groove Is in the Heart" 35 Madonna "Justify My Love" 1991 Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 59 1992 Nirvana "In Bloom" 23 1993 Nirvana "Heart Shaped Box" 34 1994 Beastie Boys "Sabotage" 66 1995 Björk "It's Oh So Quiet" 33