Joyful Noises Finding the bright side of 2011 By Maura Johnston
Suffering from Realness The spotlight shines on Adele's heartbreak By Katherine St. Asaph
Written on the Body tUnE-yArds, PJ Harvey, and St. Vincent get physical By Eric Harvey
Guarding the Throne Jay-Z and Kanye West try to bring back the group listen By Mike Barthel
Games People Play Lana Del Rey lights up the Internet By Tom Ewing
Riding the Bummer Drake and the Weeknd wallow in their miseries By Nick Murray
The Incredible Shrinking Album Pazz & Jop's album results get Soundscanned By Chris Molanphy
Confuse the Market Post-crossover, indie retreats By Scott Plagenhoef
California Demise Tyler, the Creator and EMA feel the bad vibes By Jessica Hopper
Most Valuable Supporting Player André 3000 has a great year without a single starring role By Andy Hutchins
Just Dance The year ravers and pop fans learned to (file) share By Michaelangelo Matos
Top 10-Plus The year's big albums, from tUnE-yArDs on down
Singles Going Steady Rolling down from "The Deep"
Raves and Rants Making cases for the great and the grating
The Personals Feelings, whoa-whoa-whoa
The Top 25 Album Covers A lovingly hand-assembled gallery
The Pazz & Jop Playlist: 2011's Top 43 Singles on Spotify Stream the top 40 (and then some)
Annotated Ballot: Seth Colter Walls On being an album's only Pazz & Jop acolyte
Annotated Ballot: Nick Minichino Why Funk Flex's ALL-CAPS premiere of "Otis" was 2011's best song
Annotated Ballot: Nick Murray Shuffling through LMFAO, Liturgy, and Mr. Collipark's crunk revivalism
Annotated Ballot: Michael Tedder The grandiosity of Fucked Up and the power outros of the Joy Formidable
Annotated Ballot: Carol Cooper Disco revivalism, gospel virtuosity, and the international language of pop
Annotated Ballot: Alex Macpherson On Pistol Annies, PJ Harvey, and why you should always trust Diddy
Annotated Ballot: Laina Dawes On Tombs and other metal bands that shake you to the core
Annotated Ballot: Brad Nelson On why Lou Reed and Metallica's Lulu was 2011's best album
Music Editor Maura Johnston Managing Editor Nick Murray Head Designer Jesus Diaz Web Development Manager Mike Uchtman Copy Editor Amanda Woytus Online Editors Camille Dodero, Nick Greene Fact-checkers Martika Finch, Milo McBride, Kevin Pierson
Poll tabulated by Glenn McDonald - http://furia.com/pjs/
Thanks to all 700 voters, commenters, and essayists.
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