Could the Village Voice Pazz And Jop Poll get any more irrelevant? If I wasn’t hitting deadline I don’t think I’d mention it at all but since we’re all here, this kinda is obvious. I guess we might expect that the most popular with critics would be, well, the most popular with critics but still there should be something we haven’t heard of a million times all year.
This is the mainstreaming of pop tastes, and while I loved West’s album myself (and concur with him winning three previous times, I am not thrill by all this. PS. THREE SONGS IN THE TOP SINGLES!!!
Well, congrats now the rock critics are as homogenized as anything else.
Pazz & Jop – Top 20 Albums of 2013
1 Kanye West, Yeezus
2 Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
3 Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
4 Beyoncé, Beyoncé
5 Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap
6 My Bloody Valentine, m b v
7 Haim, Days Are Gone
8 Janelle Monáe, The Electric Lady
9 Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze
10 Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park
11 Neko Case, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
12 Savages, Silence Yourself
13 Disclosure, Settle
14 Arcade Fire, Reflektor
15 David Bowie, The Next Day
16 Sky Ferreira, Night Time, My Time
17 Jason Isbell, Southeastern
18 Drake, Nothing Was the Same
19 Deafheaven, Sunbather
20 The National, Trouble Will Find Me
Pazz & Jop – Top 20 Singles of 2013
1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell), “Get Lucky”
3 Haim, “The Wire”
4 Kanye West, “New Slaves”
4 Robin Thicke (ft. T.I. and Pharrell), “Blurred Lines”
6 Drake (ft. Majid Jordan), “Hold On, We’re Going Home”
7 Kanye West, “Black Skinhead”
8 Icona Pop (ft. Charli XCX), “I Love It”
9 Miley Cyrus, “We Can’t Stop”
10 Kanye West, “Bound 2”
11 Arcade Fire, “Reflektor”
11 Justin Timberlake, “Mirrors”
13 Tegan and Sara, “Closer”
14 Ciara, “Body Party”
15 Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball”
15 Phosphorescent, “Song for Zula”
17 Kacey Musgraves, “Follow Your Arrow”
18 Vampire Weekend, “Diane Young”
19 Janelle Monáe (ft. Erykah Badu), “Q.U.E.E.N.”
20 James Blake, “Retrograde”