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Village Voice Pazz & Jop Top 40 Albums

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Name the top 40 (or less pre-1979) albums according to the annual Village Voice Pazz & Jop survey since 1971 (no list in 72 & 73). Total points and artist shown. First two words accepted for longer titles.

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darin

3 years ago

updated this with the final list from 2018 – it ceased after that.

TTOMO

3 years ago

Doesn’t seem to accept Let’s Go by Rancid (1994) or I Against I by Bad Brains (1986).

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darin

3 years ago

Reply to TTOMO

fixing the Bad Brains one – the Rancid one is from 1995 not 94, and it’s not Let’s Go.

TTOMO

3 years ago

Reply to darin

Oh hey, so it is. For some reason, I thought it was under 1994. Definitely wouldn’t have guessed Let’s Go if I was paying better attention.

victor_pavao

7 years ago

I hope you add more time bonuses to this, I was pumping out answers at a pretty fast rate and still didn’t get 500 in time

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