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Pazz & Jop
End Of Year Critic Lists





A US publication based in New York that polls up to 300 critics for their end of year lists. Considered the last word in music criticism. Album lists start at 1971. Singles and tracks from 1979. EP listings from 1981 to 1994.

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Village Voice - Pazz & Jop Lists

Albums 2008


Dear Science


1. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Portishead - Third
4. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt 1: 4th World War
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
7. Santogold - Santogold
8. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
10. kanYe West - 808s & Heartbreak
11. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
12. Randy Newman - Harps & Angels
13. Hold Steady - Stay Positive
14. No Age - Nouns
15. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
16. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
17. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
18. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
19. Raphael Saadiq - Way I See It
20. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006 (Bootleg Series Vol 8)
21. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
22. Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
23. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
24. Gaslight Anthem - ‘59 Sound
25. REM - Accelerate
26. Q-Tip - Renaissance
27. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
28. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
29. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
30. She & Him - Volume One
31. Torche - Meanderthal
32. Walkmen - You & Me
33. Hot Chip - Made In the Dark
34. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
35. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
36. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
37. Metallica - Death Magnetic
38. Fucked Up - Chemistry of Common Life
39. Roots - Rising Down
40. TI - Paper Trail
41. Beck - Modern Guilt
42. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
43. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
44. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
45. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
46. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
47. Al Green - Lay It Down
48. Young Jeezy - Recession
49. Magnetic Fields - Distortion
50. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
51. Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
52. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
53. Duffy - Rockferry
54. Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
55. Black Keys - Attack & Release
56. Jamey Johnson - That Lonesome Song
57. Estelle - Shine
58. Taylor Swift - Fearless
59. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
60. Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
61. James McMurtry - Just Us Kids
62. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
63. Beach House - Devotion
64. Nas - Untitled
65. Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
66. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
67. Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy
68. Dr Dog - Fate
69. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
70. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
71. Fennesz - Black Sea
72. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
73. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours
74. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
75. Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual!
76. Raveonettes - Lust! Lust! Lust!
77. Robyn - Robyn
78. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles ‘08
79. Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Momofuku
80. Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
81. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
82. Opeth - Watershed
83. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - Lie Down In the Light
84. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
85. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
86. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
87. Toumani Diabaté - Mandé Variations
88. Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She I
89. Orchestra Baobab - Made In Dakar
90. Franco - Francophonic Vol 1: 1953-1980
91. The-Dream - Love/Hate
92. Charlie Haden Family & Friends - Rambling Boy
93. Steinski - What Does it All Mean: Retrospective 1983-2006
94. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
95. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
96. Knux - Remind Me In 3 Days
97. Why? - Alopecia
98. Okkervil River - Stand Ins
99. Nada Surf - Lucky
100. Juana Molina - Un Día
101. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
102. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
103. Shelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin’
104. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part I
105. Dutchess & the Duke - She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke
106. Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
107. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
108. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
109. Breeders - Mountain Battles
110. Adele - 19
111. Bug - London Zoo
112. Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
113. Gnarls Barkley - Odd Couple
114. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
115. Sword - Gods of the Earth
116. DJ /Rupture - Uproot
117. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
118. Black Crowes - Warpaint
119. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night
120. Robert Forster - Evangelist
121. Harvey Milk - Life... Best Game In Town
122. Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
123. High Places - High Places
124. Kills - Midnight Boom
125. Wale - Mixtape About Nothing
126. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology
127. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
128. Joe Jackson - Rain
129. Solange Knowles - Sol-Angel & the Hadley St Dreams
130. Whigs - Mission Control
131. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
132. Shearwater - Rook
133. Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
134. Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House, 1968
135. Dodos - Visiter
136. Sun Kil Moon - April
137. Radiohead - In Rainbows
138. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
139. Cool Kids - Bake Sale
140. AC/DC - Black Ice
141. Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
142. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
143. Sloan - Parallel Play
144. Calexico - Carried To Dust
145. Fireman - Electric Arguments
146. BB King - One Kind Favor
147. Paul Westerberg - 49:00
148. El Guincho - Alegranza
149. Cat Power - Jukebox
150. Night Marchers - See You In Magic
151. Seun Kuti - & Fela’s Egypt 80
152. John Legend - Evolver
153. Janelle Monáe - Metropolis Suite I: The Chase
154. Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
155. Hank Williams - Unreleased Recordings
156. Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
157. Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit - ...Are the Very Best
158. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
159. Sam Amidon - All Is Well
160. Baseball Project - Volume 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails
161. Duke Spirit - Neptune
162. Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete
163. Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
164. Black Milk - Tronic
165. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
166. Earth - Bees Made Honey In the Lion’s Skull
167. Enslaved - Vertebrae
168. Black Mountain - In the Future
169. Ra Ra Riot - Rhumb Line
170. Sam Phillips - Don’t Do Anything
171. Air France - No Way Down
172. Sic Alps - US EZ
173. Jamie Lidell - Jim
174. Kaiser Chiefs - Off with Their Heads
175. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
176. Rodney Crowell - Sex & Gasoline
177. Ratatat - LP3
178. Gojira - Way of All Flesh
179. Made Out of Babies - Ruiner
180. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
181. Abigail Washburn - & the Sparrow Quartet
182. Rodriguez - Cold Fact
183. Killers - Day & Age
184. Little Joy - Little Joy
185. Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin’ Bones
186. Calle 13 - Los de Atrás Vienen Conmigo
187. Meshuggah - obZen
188. Ray Davies - Working Man’s Café
189. Jolie Holland - Living & the Dead
190. Man Man - Rabbit Habits
191. Punch Brothers - Punch
192. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
193. Darker My Love - 2
194. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
195. Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux
196. Jean Grae - Jeanius
197. War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
198. Britney Spears - Circus
199. Boris - Smile
200. Various Artists - Nigeria Special! Modern Highlife Afro Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-1976


 
Singles 2008

1. MIA - Paper Planes
2. Estelle featuring kanYe West - American Boy
3. Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
4. MGMT - Time To Pretend
5. Lil’ Wayne - A Milli
6. Santogold - LES Artistes
7. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
8. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
9. kanYe West - Love Lockdown
10. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
11. Portishead - Machine Gun
12. Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
13. TI featuring Rihanna - Live Your Life
14. TI - Whatever You Like
15. Rihanna - Disturbia
16. Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
17. Adele - Chasing Pavements
18. MGMT - Electric Feel
19. Pink - So What
20. Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
21. TV On the Radio - Golden Age
22. Young Jeezy - Put On
23. Lykke Li - Little Bit
24. Duffy - Mercy
25. Ne-Yo - Closer
26. Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
27. TI featuring Jay-Z, kanYe West & Lil Wayne - Swagger Like Us
28. Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name
29. Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
30. M83 - Kim & Jessie
31. Lil Wayne - Lollipop
32. Hayes Carll - She Left Me for Jesus
33. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
34. Britney Spears - Womanizer
35. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
36. Black Kids - I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance with You
37. Juan MacLean - Happy House
38. Katy Perry - Hot ‘n’ Cold
39. Beyoncé - If I Were a Boy
40. Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
41. Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
42. Killers - Human
43. Santogold - Lights Out
44. Weezer - Pork & Beans
45. Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
46. Be Your Own Pet - Becky
47. Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
48. M83 - Graveyard Girl
49. Taylor Swift - Love Story
50. Goldfrapp - A&E
51. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
52. Alphabeat - Fascination
53. Beck - Gamma Ray
54. Q-Tip - Gettin’ Up
55. kanYe West - Heartless
56. MGMT - Kids
57. Usher - Love In This Club
58. Jazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad
59. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
60. David Bryne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
61. REM - Supernatural Superserious
62. Knux - Cappuccino
63. John Legend featuring André 3000 - Green Light
64. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
65. Al Green - Lay It Down
66. Ida Maria - Oh, My God
67. Gaslight Anthem - ‘59 Sound
68. Kid Rock - All Summer Long
69. Beck - Chemtrails
70. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
71. Ting Tings - Great DJ
72. Walkmen - In the New Year
73. Lee Ann Womack - Last Call
74. Young Jeezy featuring Nas - My President
75. Jordin Sparks featuring Chris Brown - No Air
76. Miley Cyrus - See You Again
77. Drive-By Truckers - Righteous Path
78. Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To
79. Nas - Black President
80. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
81. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
82. Jamey Johnson - High Cost of Living
83. Erykah Badu - Honey
84. My Morning Jacket - I’m Amazed
85. Coldplay - Lost!
86. Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
87. Lil Wayne - Mrs Officer
88. Bug - Poison Dart
89. She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
90. Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend
91. Jazmine Sullivan - Bust Your Windows
92. Magnetic Fields - California Girls
93. Lykke Li - Dance, Dance, Dance
94. TV On the Radio - Dancing Choose
95. Campesinos! - Death To los Campesinos!
96. Busta Rhymes - Don’t Touch Me (Throw da Water On ‘Em)
97. No Age - Eraser
98. Annie - I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me
99. Jamey Johnson - In Color
100. Flo-Rida featuring T Pain - Low
101. Vampire Weekend - M79
102. Janelle Monáe - Many Moons
103. AC/DC - Rock ‘n’ Roll Train
104. Duffy - Rockferry
105. Big Boi featuring André 3000 & Raekwon - Royal Flush
106. Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave
107. Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
108. Solange Knowles - Sandcastle Disco
109. Ting Tings - Shut Up & Let Me Go
110. Erykah Badu - Healer
111. Wiley - Wearing My Rolex (What Would We Do)
112. Gnarls Barkley - Who’s Gonna Save My Soul?
113. Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash
114. Randy Newman - A Few Words In Defense of Our Country
115. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
116. T-Pain featuring Lil Wayne - Can’t Believe It
117. Air France - Collapsing at Your Doorstep
118. TV On the Radio - Family Tree
119. Glasvegas - Geraldine
120. Lil Wayne featuring T-Pain - Got Money
121. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules’ Theme
122. Maino featuring TI, Swizz Beatz, Plies, Jadakiss & Fabolous - Hi Hater [Remix]
123. Kills - Last Day of Magic
124. Robin Thicke - Magic
125. Jolie Holland - Mexico City
126. Matias Aguayo - Minimal [DJ Koze Mix]
127. TI - No Matter What
128. Wire - One of Us
129. Cut Copy - Out There On the Ice
130. Lucinda Williams - Real Love
131. Lupe Fiasco - Superstar
132. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
133. Love Is All - Wishing Well
134. Will.I.Am - Yes We Can
135. Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes
136. Guns N’ Roses - Better
137. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed
138. Santogold - Creator
139. Danity Kane - Damaged
140. N*E*R*D - Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing In the Line for the Bathroom)
141. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Gardenia
142. Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder & Lead
143. Flobots - Handlebars
144. Lady GaGa featuring Colby O’Donis - Just Dance
145. Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches
146. Kevin Rudolf - Let It Rock
147. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
148. Q-Tip - Move
149. Panic At the Disco - Nine In the Afternoon
150. Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
151. Ashlee Simpson - Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)
152. kanYe West - Paranoid
153. Bon Iver - Re: Stacks
154. Gnarls Barkley - Run
155. Jay Reatrard - See Saw
156. Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
157. Killers - Spaceman
158. Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight
159. Animal Collective - Street Flash
160. Be Your Own Pet - Kelly Affair
161. Frightened Rabbit - Modern Leper
162. Nico Muhly featuring Sam Amidon - Only Tune
163. Portishead - The Rip
164. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Which Way To Go
165. Times New Viking - (My Head)
166. Raveonettes - Aly, Walk with Me
167. Of Montreal - An Eluardian Instance
168. Jamie Lidell - Another Day
169. Antony & the Johnsons - Another World
170. Busta Rhymes featuring Ron Browz - Arab Money
171. Spiritualized - Baby, I’m Just a Fool
172. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Bag of Hammers
173. Knux - Bang! Bang!
174. LCD Soundsystem - Big Ideas
175. Sam Sparro - Black & Gold
176. Women - Black Rice
177. Pretenders - Boots of Chinese Plastic
178. Charles Hamilton - Brooklyn Girls
179. Kills - Cheap & Cheerful
180. T-Pain featuring Ludacris - Chopped & Skrewed
181. Britney Spears - Circus
182. Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
183. Crystal Castles - Crimewave [Crystal Castles vs HEALTH]
184. September - Cry for You
185. KiD CuDi - Day ‘n’ Nite
186. Ryan Leslie - Diamond Girl
187. Taylor Swift - Fifteen
188. Miley Cyrus - Fly On the Wall
189. Kate Nash - Foundations
190. BOB featuring Lil Boosie & DG Yola - Fuck You
191. Lloyd featuring Lil Wayne - Girls Around the World
192. Dido - Grafton Street
193. Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
194. My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
195. Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
196. Arthur Russell - I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face
197. Conor Oberst - I Don’t Want To Die (In the Hospital)
198. Moby - I Love To Move In Here
199. Kathleen Edwards - I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory
200. Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone