# Best Pazz & Jop Critics Poll Album 2000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685 "2015-01-01T17:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 1, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/1 "2015-01-01T17:11:26Z")
Now that the holidays are over, let’s get back into i. Having voted for Outkast and PJ Harvey in previous polls, I’m going with Sleater-Kinney here, with Yo La Tengo a close second. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/2 "2015-01-01T17:53:24Z")
Yo La Tengo. I’m still fond of that album - very atmospheric. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/3 "2015-01-01T18:15:09Z")
Slim Shady for me. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/4 "2015-01-02T00:24:09Z")
Voted for Travis just ahead of Eminem. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/5 "2015-01-02T00:31:48Z")
I went with Eminem here. I like the S-K album, but it’s a kind of an average S-K album to me (although they set a high bar for “average” within their repertoire, and I already voted for them with “Call The Doctor,” although it is not unlikely I will vote for them again, depending on what competition we see in the upcoming years and if they appear again, which I assume is a given). My number two would probably be Yo La Tengo, and third, most likely Radiohead, even though that is not an album I listen to, it still sounds to me like a great album, just not one I particularly have gotten around to fully appreciate yet. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/6 "2015-01-02T01:42:37Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I’m going with Sleater-Kinney here, with Yo La Tengo a close second. This! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/7 "2015-01-02T05:48:26Z")
PJ Harvey ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/8 "2015-01-02T11:13:51Z")
_All That You Can’t Leave Behind_ is, IMHO, U2’s best album since _The Joshua Tree_. Easy vote for me. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/9 "2015-01-02T17:35:41Z")
Went with Kid A, but Stankonia, Slim Shady, and Shelby Lynne weren’t far behind. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-2000/708685/10 "2015-01-03T01:19:26Z")
Voted for Eminem, but Yo La Tengo is great, too – mellow, atmospheric, yet musical.