# Best Pazz & Jop Critics Poll Album 1971

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 10, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253 "2014-11-10T17:52:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253/21 "2014-11-11T13:39:41Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> Was the title intentionally dyslexic? 😕

Read the second sentence of the OP. Or look [here](http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/).

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**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253/22 "2014-11-11T22:21:06Z")

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Being the fan of Prince that I am, it must not surprise that I’m also a pretty damn sizable Joni Mitchell fan, too (she’s actually my favorite female pop/rock/folk artist ever). So of course, **Blue** got my vote.

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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253/23 "2014-11-11T23:34:55Z")

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Could have gone any of four or five ways, but in the end I think _Sticky Fingers_ is probably the Stones at close to their best.

Good list.

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**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253/24 "2014-11-24T18:58:07Z")

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Forgot to vote and comment for 1971, so I cast for Rolling Stones. Why no polls for 1972-1973?

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**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253/25 "2014-11-24T19:06:17Z")

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Don’t know why there were no polls for those years.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253/26 "2014-11-24T20:35:18Z")

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I missed this thread when it was started. This is a surprisingly weak group of albums for 1971; the stuff we’ve been voting on in the late 1970s is a lot better, IMHO. There’s a lot of stuff here that hasn’t worn well, and John Lennon’s “Imagine” could be used as a sleep aid, AFAIAC.

Anyhow, I went with “Who’s Next.”

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1971/704253/27 "2014-11-24T20:57:20Z")

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Another vote for Who’s Next. The great songs on the album have been played to death but that doesn’t minimize the stature of the work.

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