Over the next two weeks I’ll feature the top ten songs on Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop poll that have not appeared on this blog already.

I love this poll because it appeals to my inner stats geek — the one who, when he had more time, used to aggregate my family members’ top ten movie lists into one master top ten list based on a complicated points system.

Pazz & Jop is the same thing done for music and on a much larger scale — 700 music lovers (mostly professional critics, I assume, though can it be that 700 people are employed as music critics in this economy?) ranked their favorite 2011 albums and songs and all those lists were combined into a master list of over 2,000 songs and 2,000 albums.

With a list that exhaustive, you’re bound to get interesting results. For example, I was happy to see that exactly one voter joined me in naming Brad Paisley’s ‘Working On a Tan’ as one of the year’s best songs. And more interesting, the same man chose Drake’s Take Care as his best album of the year, with Jay-Z and Kanye West’s collaboration Watch the Throne in the fourth spot. Now there’s a man with eclectic taste.

Two of the top ten songs on this year’s poll have already appeared on this blog so I won’t feature them, though I will note them when the time comes. Instead I’ll start with the song that came in at #12, ‘Bizness’ by tUnE-yArDs.

I know nothing about tUnE-yArDs other than they choose to spell their band name in the most annoying fashion possible. But apparently they have struck quite a nerve because, while ‘Bizness’ is their highest-ranking song on this list, the record from which it came — whokill — placed at the #1 spot on the albums list.

That’s an impressive feat given the exhaustive nature of this poll, so it merits at least a little more investigation into tUnE-yArDs, which (I learn from Wikipedia) is a “music project” by New Englander Merrill Garbus.

‘Bizness’ is an interesting mix of fun and annoying. I hear a lot of creativity and passion in the song even as I’m eager for it to end. If it’s representative of the rest of Garbus’ album, I might have to steer clear. But I’ll admit, I’m curious.