# Best Pazz & Jop Crtics Poll Album 2010

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 20, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2010/710410 "2015-01-20T20:45:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2010/710410/1 "2015-01-20T20:45:28Z")

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Lots of good stuff this year - Kanye West’s best album (IMO); in fact the top 4 are all great, as are Big Boi, Beach House and Deerhunter, but my vote’s going to Robyn, because it’s the album I listen to most for pure pleasure.

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**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2010/710410/2 "2015-01-20T21:40:54Z")

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This one was easy for me: Janelle Monae. A unique creative talent, pointing the way forward. (Beautiful, too!) I liked how the Sound Opinions guys likened her series of albums to a “rock opera” in the broadest sense, albeit one informed by the strain of African American futurism of Sun Ra and George Clinton.

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**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2010/710410/3 "2015-01-20T23:09:09Z")

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I had Kanye in 2008 (“808s and Heartbreak”) , so I went for Arcade Fire here–and I probably would have anyway.

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2010/710410/4 "2015-01-21T00:49:03Z")

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Titus Andronicus - I love The Monitor, and actually listened to it today.

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2010/710410/5 "2015-01-21T08:24:55Z")

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Grinderman - Nick Cave has still got it.