This is our third readers' poll. Once again, we had more than 30,000 responses. This feature is always particularly interesting for the Pitchfork staff, especially as a point of comparison with our year-end coverage. There are always both a lot of overlap and some intriguing differences. Here's how it broke down.

Top 50 Albums

01. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

02. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

03. The National: High Violet

04. Beach House: Teen Dream

05. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

06. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest

07. Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz

08. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me

09. Sleigh Bells: Treats

10. Vampire Weekend: Contra

11. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor

12. Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

13. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today

14. Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

15. Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma

16. The Black Keys: Brothers

17. Janelle Monáe: The ArchAndroid

18. The Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild Hunt

19. Caribou: Swim

20. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles

21. Local Natives: Gorilla Manor

22. Tame Impala: Innerspeaker

23. Best Coast: Crazy For You

24. The Walkmen: Lisbon

25. MGMT: Congratulations

26. Surfer Blood: Astro Coast

27. Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record

28. Yeasayer: Odd Blood

29. Wavves: King of the Beach

30. Twin Shadow: Forget

31. Wild Nothing: Gemini

32. No Age: Everything in Between

33. Owen Pallett: Heartland

34. Spoon: Transference

35. Four Tet: There Is Love in You

36. Foals: Total Life Forever

37. Robyn: Body Talk

38. The Dillinger Escape Plan: Option Paralysis

39. Broken Bells: Broken Bells

40. The Radio Dept.: Clinging to a Scheme

41. Wolf Parade: *Expo 86

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42. Toro Y Moi: Causers of This

43. Los Campesinos!: Romance Is Boring

44. Menomena: Mines

45. Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More

46. Baths: Cerulean

47. The Morning Benders: Big Echo

48. Girls: Broken Dreams Club EP

49. Women: Public Strain

50. Grinderman: Grinderman 2

Pitchfork readers still love Arcade Fire apparently-- who knew? AF and Kanye rolled away as easy winners here.

Top 10 Metal Albums

01. Kylesa: Spiral Shadow

02. Deftones: Diamond Eyes

03. High on Fire: Snakes for the Divine

04. Alcest: Écailles de Lune

05. Shining: Blackjazz

06. The Body: All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood

07. Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit

08. Nachtmystium: Addicts: Black Meddle, Part II

09. Watain: Lawless Darkness

10. Harvey Milk: A Small Turn of Human Kindness

Only Kylesa from here placed on our lists.

Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums

01. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

02. Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

03. The Roots: How I Got Over

04. Das Racist: Sit Down, Man

05. Curren$y: Pilot Talk

06. Drake: Thank Me Later

07. kiD CuDi: Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager

08. Das Racist: Shut Up, Dude

09. Eminem: Recovery

10. MellowHype: BLACKENEDWHITE

Just like they did on our own list, Kanye and Big Boi ran away with this category; readers preferred the Roots over many of our favorite second-tier hip-hop records, and alas people aren't that into Rick Ross (yet?).

Top 10 Dance/Electronic Albums

01. Four Tet: There Is Love in You

02. Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma

03. Gonjasufi: A Sufi and a Killer

04. Pantha du Prince: Black Noise

05. Gold Panda: Lucky Shiner

06. Mount Kimbie: Crooks & Lovers

07. James Blake: Klavierwerke EP

08. James Blake: CMYK EP

09. Teebs: Ardour

10. Autechre: Oversteps

Like the category below, this is loosely defined: Records that were more track-y than song-based were generally what's included, since obviously Kanye West, everything on the radio, Sufjan Stevens, etc., etc., is all electronic (as opposed to "acoustic" or "electronic.") Not many of these are actual dance records though-- much more for the head than the hips.

Top 20 Left-field Albums

01. Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here?

02. The Books: The Way Out

03. Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal

04. Forest Swords: Dagger Paths

05. The Knife / Planningtorock / Mt. Sims: Tomorrow, in a Year

06. Brian Eno: Small Craft on a Milk Sea

07. Balam Acab: See Birds EP

08. Prince Rama: Shadow Temple

09. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Kollaps Tradixionales

10. Yellow Swans: Going Places

11. Sun City Girls: Funeral Mariachi

12. Max Richter: Infra

13. Mark McGuire: Living With Yourself

14. oOoOO: oOoOO EP

15. Infinite Body: Carve Out the Face of My God

16. Zs: New Slaves

17. Ben Frost: By the Throat

18. Brian McBride: The Effective Disconnect

19. The Seven Fields Of Aphelion: Periphery

20. Dustin Wong: Infinite Love

"Left-field" is, of course, a highly subjective designation. As we are using it here, it basically means "veering away from pop song form, while not dance music." So that includes ambient records, music in the more experimental end of dubstep, drone, and so on. Emeralds won this by a pretty healthy margin.*

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Most Underrated Album

01. MGMT: Congratulations

02. Yeasayer: Odd Blood

03. Spoon: Transference

04. Wolf Parade: Expo 86

05. M.I.A.: */ \ / \ / \ Y / *

06. Tame Impala: Innerspeaker

07. Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz

08. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor

09. Avey Tare: Down There

10. Interpol: Interpol

The top two were pretty easy for us to guess. Both MGMT and Yeasayer put out expansive new albums that lots of fans loved and we mostly didn't, and we heard about it from readers all year long. Nice to see Spoon here at No. 3-- they are very easy to underrate because they are so consistently good. Wolf Parade was another one that readers couldn't believe didn't make our year-end LP lists, and of course many people thought M.I.A.'s album wasn't nearly as bad as we thought. But what's Titus doing on here?

Most Overrated Album

01. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

02. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

03. Best Coast: Crazy For You

04. Vampire Weekend: Contra

05. Sleigh Bells: Treats

06. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

07. Wavves: King of the Beach

08. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest

09. Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz

10. The National: High Violet

11. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today

12. Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster

13. Eminem: Recovery

14. MGMT: Congratulations

15. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me

16. Beach House: Teen Dream

17. Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown

18. Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

19. Robyn: Body Talk Pt. 1

20. Drake: Thank Me Later

Just as Kanye and Arcade Fire are your favorite records, they're also the most overrated...which seems to happen every year. The rest of the list is well-reviewed records mixed with popular albums. Not sure who was actually hyping that Kings of Leon one though.

This chart shows the highest percentage of total votes cast for the album that were in the #1 position. Meaning, the people who liked these albums really liked them. We set a minimum number of votes here at 200. The big surprises way at the top here, of course, are Dillinger Escape Plan, Swans, Women, and Toro Y Moi. Given the huge number for DEP, we suspect a coordinated ballot-box stuffing measure by fans, which is fair. Also interesting to see how devoted Future Islands fans are here.