Every year the Village Voice does their music critic round-up of best albums and the result is the Pazz and Jop Poll. Wilco took #1 this year, Beck #2. Here’s the full list.
Robert Christgau, the guy who puts it together (I think), was pretty upset that Wilco came in on top:
Which brings us?God have I been dreading this?to our underwhelming winner-by-a-mile and surprise runner-up. Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Beck’s Sea Change didn’t amass near the support of Dylan and the Strokes in 2001 or OutKast-Harvey-Radiohead-Eminem in 2000; with voting up 12 percent to 695, they pulled markedly fewer points. But they’re Pazz & Jop albums of the year regardless, and I wish they were easier to tell apart.
Boo hoo hoo!
At any rate, Wilco also came in @ #1 on The dw20: donewaiting.com’s favorite albums of 2002 list.
We’re a lot happier to see it at number one than the Village Voice.