If you are not yet quite sick of critics’ polls, two of the biggest and best are out at our sister papers. The venerable Pazz and Jop poll is up at the Village Voice, while the less venerable, more focused country music list is up on the Nashville Scene‘s site. — John Nova Lomax

This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2008.

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