hey, what's that sound?

The Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop poll came out this week (while I wasn’t looking). My ballot for the best songs and albums of the year is here. (My favorite song was the Magnetic Fields’ “The Nun’s Litany”; my favorite album was Arthur Russell’s Love Is Overtaking Me; my favorite album of newly recorded music was the Hercules & Love Affair record, which surprised me a little.)

I also point the curious toward Glenn MacDonald’s annual Pazz & Jop stats-crunching here. I’m voter #443 out of 577 on the “centricity” index (and I’m amused that Melissa Maerz and Chris Molanphy, both of whom I’ve known for years, are #1 and #2).