Die New Yorker Village Voice hat auch 2009 wieder ihren traditionsreichen Pazz & Jop Poll durchgeführt. Diesmal haben knapp 700 Teilnehmer ihre Listen eingereicht. Die Listen und die begleitenden Essays findet ihr hier: http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/
Top 100 Alben:
1 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (siehe auch den Essay dazu)
2 Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3 Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
4 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
5 Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
6 Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
7 The xx – xx
8 Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt. II
9 The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
10 Girls – Album
11 Mos Def – The Ecstatic
12 St. Vincent – Actor
13 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
14 Maxwell – BLACKsummer’s Night
15 The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
16 The-Dream – Love vs. Money
17 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
18 Mastodon – Crack the Skye
19 Baroness – Blue Record
20 Sonic Youth – The Eternal
21 Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
22 Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
23 Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
24 Converge – Axe to Fall
25 Miranda Lambert – Revolution
26 Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
27 Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
28 The Dead Weather – Horehound
29 The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
30 Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
31 Lady Gaga – The Fame/The Fame Monster
32 U2 – No Line on the Horizon
33 Japandroids – Post-Nothing
34 Brad Paisley – American Saturday Night
35 K’Naan – Troubadour
36 Passion Pit – Manners
37 Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
38 Micachu and The Shapes – Jewellery
39 Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
40 Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
41 Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
42 Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
43 Allen Toussaint – The Bright Mississippi
44 Doom – Born Like This
45 Rosanne Cash – The List
46 Levon Helm – Electric Dirt
47 Dam-Funk – Toeachizown
48 Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
49 Vijay Ayer Trio – Historicity
50 Atlas Sound – Logos
51 The Antlers – Hospice
52 Metric – Fantasies
53 Leonard Cohen – Live in London
54 Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans
55 Amadou & Mariam – Welcome to Mali
56 Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
57 Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream
58 Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
59 Tinariwen – Imidiwan: Companions
60 Pearl Jam – Backspacer
61 Ida Maria – Fortress Around My Heart
62 DJ Quik & Kurupt – Blaqkout
63 The Very Best – The Warm Heart of Africa
64 Oumou Sangare – Seya
65 The Horrors – Primary Colours
66 Big Star – Keep an Eye on the Sky
67 Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another
68 Florence and the Machine – Lungs
69 Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
70 tUnE-yArDs – BiRd-BrAiNs
71 Kylesa – Static Tensions
72 The Black Crowes – Before the Frost…Until the Freeze
73 Loudon Wainwright III – High, Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project
74 Paramore – Brand New Eyes
75 Art Brut – Art Brut vs. Satan
76 P.O.S. – Never Better
77 Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
78 Drake – So Far Gone
79 Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall
80 The Mountain Goats – The Life of the World to Come
81 Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
82 DJ Sprinkles – Midtown 120 Blues
83 Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
84 The Raveonettes – In and Out of Control
85 Dan Deacon – Bromst
86 Real Estate – Real Estate
87 Buddy & Julie Miller – Written in Chalk
88 Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
89 Regina Spektor – Far
90 Built to Spill – There is No Enemy
91 Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
92 HEALTH – Get Color
93 Kurt Vile and the Violators – Childish Prodigy
94 Nellie McKay – Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day
95 Clientele – Bonfires on the Heath
96 Brother Ali – Us
97 A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Ashes Grammar
98 Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D.
99 The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away
100 Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Die komplette Liste (insgesamt wurden 1934 Alben genannt).
Top 50 Singles:
1. Jay-Z (ft. Alicia Keys), „Empire State of Mind“ (Essay)
2. Phoenix, „1901“
3. Animal Collective, „My Girls“
4. Grizzly Bear, „Two Weeks“
5. Dirty Projectors, „Stillness Is the Move“
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, „Zero“
7. Lady Gaga, „Bad Romance“
8. Girls, „Lust for Life“
9. Phoenix, „Lisztomania“
10. Taylor Swift, „You Belong With Me“
11. Lady Gaga, „Paparazzi“
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, „Heads Will Roll“
13. Lady Gaga, „Poker Face“
14. Maxwell, „Pretty Wings“
15. Kings of Leon, „Use Somebody“
16. Bat for Lashes, „Daniel“
17. Atlas Sound (ft. Noah Lennox), „Walkabout“
18. Kid Cudi, „Day ‚N‘ Nite“
19. Black Eyed Peas, „I Gotta Feeling“
20. Joy Orbison, „Hyph Mngo“
21. Lily Allen, „The Fear“
22. Big Boi (ft. Gucci Mane), „Shine Blockas“
23. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, „Young Adult Friction“
24. The Avett Brothers, „I and Love and You“
25. The Big Pink, „Dominos“
26. Neko Case, „This Tornado Loves You“
27. Julian Casablancas, „11th Dimension“
28. Grizzly Bear (ft. Michael McDonald), „While You Wait for the Others“
29. Drake, „Best I Ever Had“
30. Camera Obscura, „French Navy“
31. Girls, „Hellhole Ratrace“
32. Das Racist, „Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell“
33. The xx, „Crystalised“
34. Jay-Z (ft. Rihanna and Kanye West), „Run This Town“
35. Black Eyed Peas, „Boom Boom Pow“
36. Neko Case, „People Got a Lotta Nerve“
37. Miley Cyrus, „Party in the USA“
38. Raekwon (ft. Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck and Method Man), „House of Flying Daggers“
39. Pearl Jam, „The Fixer“
40. Japandroids, „Young Hearts Spark Fire“
41. Animal Collective, „What Would I Want? Sky“
42. Jay-Z, „D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)“
43. St. Vincent, „Actor Out of Work“
44. Washed Out, „Feel It All Around“
45. La Roux, „Bulletproof“
46. Basement Jaxx, „Raindrops“
47. Beyoncé, „Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)“
48. Brad Paisley, „Welcome to the Future“
49. Jay Electronica, „Exhibit C“
50. Animal Collective, „Summertime Clothes“
Die komplette Liste (insgesamt wurden 2016 Singles genannt).
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