winner: albums
Kanye West
The College Dropout
winner: singles
Franz Ferdinand
"Take Me Out"
essays
Freedom for Every-Which-Where!
Hey hey hey, a serious uptick in the Republic of Crunk Guitar
by Robert Christgau

'Louie Louie' and Jaws
Transcendence isn't eternal
by Kevin John

Before the After-Party
by Josh Goldfein


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Alien Nation
Vote for change, break your damn heart, get ready for action

Crunk Guitar! (Psych!)
Rap frenzy, indie dancing, layered feeling—here's the freak parade

Econ 301
Cashcrops meet fantasies of interzone solidarity

Protestant Ethics
Jesus talks, Allah walks, all others pay retail

Top 10 Plus
Smile, idiot people, drop out of the grand gray atomic funeral

Personals
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pazz & jop team 2004
MINORITY LEADER Robert Christgau
MINORITY WHIP Chuck Eddy
DEPUTY WHIP Amy Phillips
IMAGE COORDINATORS Ted Keller, Jesus Diaz, Minh Uong
IMAGE CONSULTANTS Staci Schwartz, Tina Zimmer, Tamara Rosenblum
CHIEF STRATEGIST Akash Goyal
POLICY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Don Rainwater
STEERING AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE Danial Adkison, Phyllis Fong, Luis H. Francia, Pamela Grossman, Janet Kim, Joshua Land, Jorge Morales, Bruce Novack, Elizabeth Zimmer
CONFERENCE SECRETARY Nick Sylvester
ENVELOPE STUFFERS Adam Ganderson, Nick Sylvester
CANVASSERS Geeta Dayal, Zoe Gemelli, Jessica Grose, Adam Ganderson, Dave Hughes, Rajiv Jaswa, Joseph McCombs, Amy Phillips, Nick Sylvester
EMERGENCY POLLSTER Tom Hull

Thanks to all the critics who voted for this year's Pazz & Jop