Parsing The Pop: Lining The Critics Up In A Row
Let the fantasy baseball comparisons continue: Thanks to master statistician Glenn McDonald, numbers obsessives can now pore over the critical alignment ratings for the inaugural Jackin’ Pop Critics’ Poll. The critical alignment ratings compare each writer’s ballot to the overall album rankings, then rank the ballots from those that are most in tune with the charts on down. (McDonald’s ballot ranked 449th out of the 476 aligned ballots.)
2006 Jackin’ Pop critical alignment ratings [The War Against Silence]
Jackin’ Pop Critics’ Poll 2006
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Yes, but how do the ballots of right-handed non-smokers stack up against those of ambidextrous heroin users? Does everyone really love TVOTR that much, or are righties more inclined to oversell?
Wow. Allow me to introduce myself: the only critic among most critically aligned for three years running. Yep, you read that right: between Pazz & Jop ‘04 and ‘05 and Jackin’ Pop ‘06, I have Threepeated in Glenn’s Top 10.
(Yeah, I know I’m not supposed to be proud of this. Humor me, okay?)
I’m surprised I placed in the upper tier again, given that I didn’t vote for Return to Cookie Mountain at all. But I guess the rest… did…um, kinda tow the party line a bit.
I prefer to think of myself as a good barometer of refined critical opinion. Or a complete tool. Take your pick.
Yay! Dead last! To be fair, though, I only put one album on my ballot.
If I rank higher than Chuck Eddy and Jack Rabid on the list does that make me cooler than them? Probably not…but I’going to pretend it does…