Perfect 10 on Pitchfork

63%) Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
[Columbia; 1959; r: 1997] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Ryan Schreiber

(63%) Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
[Columbia; 1959; r: 1997] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Ryan Schreiber

(63%) James Brown: Live at the Apollo [Expanded Edition]
[King; 1963; r: Polygram; 2004] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Dominique Leone

(63%) Velvet Underground: Loaded
[Atlantic; 1970; r: Rhino; 1997] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Ryan Schreiber

(63%) Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power
[Columbia; 1973; r: 1996] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Jason Josephes

(63%) Television: Marquee Moon / Adventure
[Elektra; 1977; 1978; r: Rhino; 2003] Rating: 10.0 / 7.7 - Review by: Chris Dahlen

(63%) Elvis Costello & The Attractions: This Year's Model
[Columbia; 1979; r: Rhino; 2002] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Matt LeMay

(63%) Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
[Matador; 1992; r: 2002] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Chris Ott

(63%) 12 Rods: Gay?
[V2; 1996] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Jason Josephes

(63%) Bonnie "Prince" Billy: I See a Darkness
[Palace; 1999] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Samir Khan

(63%) John Coltrane: The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
[Impulse!; 2001] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Luke Buckman

(63%) Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
[Nonesuch; 2002] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Brent S. Sirota

(63%) And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Source Tags and Codes
[Interscope; 2002] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Matt LeMay

(63%) The Clash: The Essential Clash
[Epic; 2003] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Chris Ott

(63%) Glenn Branca: The Ascension
[Acute; 2003] Rating: 10.0-- Review by: Andy Beta

(63%) Various Artists: No Thanks!: The 70s Punk Rebellion
[Rhino; 2004] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Eric Carr

(63%) The Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace
[eggars Banquet; 1985; r: 1997] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Bruce Tiffee

(63%) The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
[Warner Bros; 1999] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Jason Josephes

(63%) XTC: 'Go 2', 'Black Sea' and 'English Settlement'
[Virgin] Rating: 6.9 / 9.2 / 10.0 - Review by: Chris Dahlen

(63%) Walt Mink: El Producto
[Atlantic] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Ryan Schreiber

(63%) Radiohead: Kid A
[Capitol] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Brent DiCrescenzo

(63%) Radiohead: OK Computer
[Capitol] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Ryan Schreiber

(63%) Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966: The Royal Albert Hall Concert
[Columbia/Legacy] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Neil Lieberman

(63%) Pink Floyd: Animals
[Columbia Reissues] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: James P. Wisdom

(63%) The Who: Odds and Sods
[MCA Remasters] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Jason Josephes

(63%) Kiss: Alive!
[Mercury Remasters Series] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Jason Josephes

(63%) Amon Tobin: Bricolage
[Ninja Tune] Rating: 10.0 - Review by: Ryan Schreiber

but Pink Floyd Animals? and I'm a longtime old-school Pink Floyd fan, but Animals gets a ten?

yeah, because it's their best album. :) (mind you I always thought this was a personal preference)

(The Amon Tobin ranking is completely OTM, though.)

Odds and Sods is not a ten!!!!!!!

i think at a certain point pfork should adopt the richter scale or something: so that a 8.0 is ten times better than an 7.0, and a 9.0 is ten times better than an 8.0. that'll weed out those spurious 10.0 albums real fast.

But it is interesting that we haven't given out a 10.0 to a new album for a couple years. Maybe the rating is too inaccessible/canonical ... Trail of Dead doesn't hold up to my ears, but I like that Ryan took a chance on it.

So Chris Dahlen do you all have some kind of conference call when 10s are decided?

Ha - no, it's not that sacred. It's all up to Ryan. I sent in my 10.0's and he went with them.

This should be obvious, but I've never set a rating based on anything but what I thought it deserved, and Ryan has almost never disagreed with or tried to sway a rating, especially for financial reasons.

10 out 100? you mean a 1.0 out of 10.0, right? what's with the decimals, anyway? is there that much nuance between a 6 and a 7?

You're cousin to the Olcotts? Small world! (I know Evan slightly through the MBV list he ran, which is actually how I heard about 12 Rods in the first place -- I still get random mailouts.)

We should put together some kind of multi-media world tour...

Otherwise, they are worth less than you paid for them, I'd bet.

"Dance music is pretty gay.

Let's not beat around bush, my stalwart indie-rocking comrades: In our world, lyrics can be heartfelt, songs can be ironic, albums can be post-grammatological, and occasionally, guitars can be acoustic. But unless there's some punk behind that disco, we aren't likely to indulge in dance music too often-- let alone dance to it. Because unlike indie rock, dance music's all the same, it's gay, and if it's in Massachusetts, its equal marriage rights are probably going to be denied.

Wait a second: Is it 1998 again? Because I remember more than a few of us thought the same thing about IDM, until we were all persuaded to pick up Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right to Children. It was electronica and it was taboo, but we purchased in good faith because it was on Matador, a label we trusted. Boy, did we love the shit out of it-- and there weren't even guitars!"

boards of canada was NOT a gateway electronic act for EVERYONE.

this actually made laugh out loud. I'd like to thank whoever wrote that for my first good chuckle of the day.

Like Mark says, I think it's meant to be tongue in cheek.

anyway, if ppl want a PFM dance music-related abomination, it's elsewhere on the page...I'm off to stick my head into a hole in the ground.

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