Where can I see records of past pazz and jop polls?

Awesome that xgau's been keeping track of it though.

Thanks btw.

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Roxanne Shanté "Live On Stage"
Cynthia "Change On Me"
Bam-Bam "Where's Your Child"
Housemaster Baldwin f. Paris Grey "Don't Lead Me (Mike 'Hitman' Wilson Remix)"
Kix "Blow My Fuse"
Pajama Party "Over and Over"
Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance"
Bang Tango "Someone Like You"
Pajama Party "Yo No Sé"
Young MC "Bust a Move"

Here's the full Pazz & Jop list for 1999.

Take my Pazz and Jop album poll quiz!

Brilliant work, jaymc. I scored 23/36, quit with about 1:30 left to go. (Not surprisingly, got completely lost in the '90s/00s... could remember bands but not always LP titles.)

Cool, glad you liked it, Scott. Btw, I thought about including the artist as a hint but thought that might make it too easy.

Yeah, I think it's more challenging the way you've done it.

Wow. I got them all right with 6:41 remaining. I don't even vote in the thing...I need to get a life, man.

Would have been quicker if it accepted sign "of" the times instead of o

only 14 for me...really smacked my head about some of them when the answers came up.

like i thought of one of the Dylans but not the others, one Outkast but not the other...man

i saw this on another site and lolled when i saw

This game contributed by jaymc on 09/23/2009

games very much in character

Wow. I got them all right with 6:41 remaining.

Jesus. I'm in awe. I think!

30/36. Oddly enough, I missed every single Dylan win save for The Basement Tapes (1997 was sooooooo not a Dylan year, spiritually speaking). I could have sworn Sea Change won but it just seemed that way in the worst Pazz albums list ever.

And I sorta cheated on Arrested Development. I knew very well that they won in 1992 but I looked up the exact amount of their years, months, days, nanoseconds, etc.

Thanx jaymc!

i saw this on another site

Really? It's not a public quiz on Sporcle, and the only other place I've mentioned it is Facebook.

I only got a 22! And in fact missed most of the ones from when I was actually running the poll -- must have blocked those from my brain. Didn't get 1971 or 1974 either, though I could have sworn I typed in Court And Spark at one point. Did perfect for 1975 through 1989, though I couldn't remember the name of the stupid Talking Heads album from 1985 and cheated by looking it up in the Joel Whitburn book on my desk. Totally sporadic after that -- got 1991, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004; missed the rest, including the last four, the last couple titles of which I couldn't have named if you'd held a gun to my head (though I knew TV On The Radio won one of them with, uh, something.) Also had no idea what Arrested Development's dumb album was called.

Thing is, this is obviously not a valid Pazz & Jop poll! Fist off: No Singles, which I bet I would have done better at. In fact, a real poll would just have us name, say, the top 25 singles from 1979. I'd score 100 percent on that for sure! Or you'd list a bunch of random LPs from the '80s, and we'd have to mark Y/N on whether they finished in the P&J Top 40. Which is to say that not all trivia is created equal.

Also, the interesting thing about Pazz & Jop is almost never who actually wins, but all the weird unexpected also-rans. Still, a neat quiz (and I'm just sore because I sucked at it, obviously.)

I could create all those other quizzes, but I think I'm limited to only seven quizzes per month for some reason.

I just took the quiz, got 5 out of 36, lol. But I've never seen any of the years prior to 2007, so it was just trying to guess which of the more popular, critically acclaimed albums came out for a given year.

Now that I seen the results, I can't believe some of the albums that one (Love and Theft, really?).

But I can't believe I missed a few of the year's albums.

Or you'd list a bunch of random LPs from the '80s, and we'd have to mark Y/N on whether they finished in the P&J Top 40.

that was the kind of thing i was kinda hoping this would be when i first clicked on it. still, pretty cool.

Going through some of the past poll results, it seems that Bobby Dylan gets a top-ten nod for any album he releases, even live albums (3rd place in the 1998 poll for Bob Dylan: Live 1966).

19/36

i only got 8 but completely forgot outkast and dylan existed i guess

I forgot that Radiohead has never won this. They got Dylan'ed in the two years with their most legitimate shot.

Except they didn't. Kid A was from 2000, duh.

haha yeah i typed in every radiohead album and was more and more shocked each time it didnt work

Scored 16 but under pressure completely forgot about Outkast and Elvis Costello. Great quiz.

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29/36, couldn't remember 76, 79, 86, 88, 90, 96, 98. I should have guessed all except 79 and 90, which really surprised me.

i did cheat by looking up the exact title of 92

it seems that Bobby Dylan gets a top-ten nod for any album he releases

Together Through Life may break that streak. But the last Dylan album of original material that didn't win the poll was Under the Red Sky in 1990.

I got them all in two minutes, though for some reason it wouldn't let me type in either Sandanista or Sandanista!

That's because it's Sandinista!

But the last Dylan album of original material that didn't win the poll was Under the Red Sky in 1990.

and Saved, Shot of Love, Infidels, Empire Burlesque, Oh Mercy...

That's why he said "last," not "only."

I don't see the difference, but whatever.

Big difference, actually.

Was Shot Of Love the last one that didn't even place in the P&J Top 40? (I could check for myself, but I'm too lazy.)

lol at Matos. 31 for me. totally blanked on four of the past five years. ain't old age grand?

Alfred, r u drunk?

Down In the Groove ate it in '88, Chuck (deservedly).

No, just cranky after yelling at someone.

I got them all (with 4:27 remaining) except '71, '74, and '82.

Now that over 60 people have taken this quiz, I'm finding the statistics to be pretty interesting. For instance, there's a big drop-off between the most correctly guessed album and the runner-up.

26, although I'm giving myself credit for 27--I tried Yankee Foxtrot Hotel and Hotel Yankee Foxtrot, and got nothin' for it. Missed 76/79/82/95/98/02/04/05/06/07 (Kayne West hasn't been in the news much lately, so it was easy to forget him). Shameful admission: I got a little help from Wikipedia to jog my memory on three or four album titles ("what the hell was that Arrested Development album called?...right, right"). I'm positive you can market a home-version of this and make millions--great family fun.

If you noticed, I allowed it to accept "3 Years, 5 Months" because I figured if you got that far, you knew it.

Of course, in typing that, I initially wrote "3 Months, 5 Days," lol.

whoa, more people remembered the Arrested Development than the NY? that's kinda nutty.

I'm shocked that I remembered Squeezing Out Sparks won and not Imperial Boredom.

I kept trying "Three Days" for Arrested Development, or something like that.

Kind of amazed I missed Love and Theft given 2001's importance in the world-historical scheme of things (plus, unlike Time Out Of Mind, I actually voted for Dylan myself that year.)

jaymc, you do realize that the more people read this thread, the more thei scores will go up, right?

Surprised Speakerbox/Whatever The Other Part Is Called is so remembered (because of its single, I guess), and Songs In The Key Of Life so un-remembered. (Also don't think it had ever even occurred to me that Who's Next actually won the poll until today.)

i completely blanked on the last word of Stevie's record and kept trying Songs In The Key Of ... Silence?