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Each year since 1974 (plus 1971, maybe?) Robert Christgau and the Village Voice run a Critics Poll. Here are Christgau's year-end essays, the Critics Poll results, and Christgau's own "Dean's List" year-end lists.

1971:	What Does It All Mean? Critics Poll Dean's List
1974:	Our Own Critics' Poll Critics Poll Dean's List
1975:	It's Been a Soft Year for Hard Rock Critics Poll Dean's List
1976:	Critics Cheer Debut Albums Critics Poll Dean's List
1977:	Pazz & Joppers Dig Pistols--What Else Is New? Critics Poll Dean's List
1978:	New Wave Hegemony and the Bebop Question Critics Poll Dean's List
1979:	The Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll (Almost) Grows Up Critics Poll Dean's List
1980:	The Year of the Lollapalooza Critics Poll Dean's List
1981:	The Year the Rolling Stones Lost the Pennant Critics Poll Dean's List
1982:	Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome Critics Poll Dean's List
1983:	Who Else? A Goddamn Critics Band, That's Who Else Critics Poll Dean's List
1984:	The Rise of the Corporate Single Critics Poll Dean's List
1985:	Virtue Rewarded Critics Poll Dean's List
1986:	Township Jive Conquers the World Critics Poll Dean's List
1987:	Significance and Its Discontents in the Year of the Blip Critics Poll Dean's List
1988:	Dancing on a Logjam Critics Poll Dean's List
1989:	New Kids on the Block Critics Poll Dean's List
1990:	Hard News in a Soft Year Critics Poll Dean's List
1991:	Reality Used to Be a Friend of Ours Critics Poll Dean's List
1992:	Between a Rock and a Hard Place Critics Poll Dean's List
1993:	Playing to Win Critics Poll Dean's List
1994:	Hegemony Sez Who? Critics Poll Dean's List
1995:	Lost in the Soundscape Critics Poll Dean's List
1996:	Don't Believe the Gripe Critics Poll Dean's List
1997:	The Year of No Next Big Thing Critics Poll Dean's List
1998:	La-Di-Da-Di-Di? Or La-Di-Da-Di-Da? Critics Poll Dean's List
1999:	Flak on Both Sides Critics Poll Dean's List
2000:	Albums While They Last Critics Poll Dean's List
2001:	Not Just Your Old Man's Takeover Critics Poll Dean's List
2002:	Party in Hard Times Critics Poll Dean's List
2003:	Reasons to Bother Critics Poll Dean's List
2004:	Freedom for Every-Which-Where! Critics Poll Dean's List
2005:	Listening in Real Time Critics Poll Dean's List
2006:	Critics Poll Dean's List
2007:	Critics Poll Dean's List
2008:	Dean's List
2009:	Dean's List
2010:	Dean's List
2011:	Dean's List
2012:	Dean's List
2013:	Dean's List
2014:	Dean's List
2015:	Dean's List
2016:	Dean's List
2017:	Personal, Political, and Otherwise Dean's List
2018:	The Dean's List Dean's List
2019:	The Dean's List Dean's List
2020:	The Dean's List Dean's List
2021:	The Dean's List Dean's List
2022:	The Dean's List Dean's List
2023:	The Dean's List Dean's List

Note that the year-end lists published here are as they were published at the time. These lists have been subsequently revised in the Consumer Guide books.

The Pazz & Jop polls were a logical successor to the polls published by Jazz & Pop magazine in the late 1960s.