# Best Pazz & Jop Critics Poll Album of the '10s

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 29, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-of-the-10s/711237 "2015-01-29T16:39:41Z")\
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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:** [January 29, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-of-the-10s/711237/1 "2015-01-29T16:39:41Z")

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There was a tie for 2012, so there are 6 options for the poll. Between MBV and St. Vincent for me - still trying to decide.

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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:** [January 29, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-of-the-10s/711237/2 "2015-01-29T21:56:43Z")

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Voted for Adele but don’t care either way.

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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:** [January 30, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-of-the-10s/711237/3 "2015-01-30T05:04:02Z")

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Well, hopefully some people who _do_ care will vote before I put up the final “Best of All Time” poll tomorrow because - no offense to Adele or her fans - her album is easily the weakest on this list.

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**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 30, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-of-the-10s/711237/4 "2015-01-30T10:55:24Z")

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The only one I’ve heard more than one or two songs from is Kendrick Lamar’s, and it’s pretty good (astute wordplay, cool jazzy sounds alternating with harder stuff), so I guess I’ll have to go with that.

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**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-of-the-10s/711237/5 "2015-01-30T13:00:54Z")

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m b v is a strong album, but… choosing it as best album of the 10s feels so very wrong and sad. It would be like choosing a rockabilly album for the 70s, or a psychedelic album for the 80s.

So I ended up going for St. Vincent because it’s pretty good, and it feels, I don’t know, more right.

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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:** [January 30, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-of-the-10s/711237/6 "2015-01-30T14:49:26Z")

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I went with _mbv_ here, since _Loveless_ was not available on the “Best of the 90s” poll. It’s forward looking enough that I could place it in the 2010s if I heard it, 2000s at the earliest. And it is my favorite album of the ones listed.