The Pitchfork People's List - top albums 1996-2012

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I like Tim's list a lot - gutted I forgot about Platinum Breakz!

Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 17 August 2012 12:40 (9 months ago) Permalink

This is fun!

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/090a03f3/

Even tho it's so new, gonna rep hard for DJ Rashad... and gotta have those Sparks records in there. What an Indian Summer they've had.

mr.raffles, Friday, 17 August 2012 12:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

Nice to see "The Drift" turnin up on lists. What an album.

mr.raffles, Friday, 17 August 2012 12:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

it's supposed to be to 2011 !

ogmor, Friday, 17 August 2012 12:54 (9 months ago) Permalink

oh drat!

mr.raffles, Friday, 17 August 2012 12:57 (9 months ago) Permalink

this is actually a lot of fun. I have liberal anxiety & aging-dude sadness that there's no rap in my top 25 tho :(

steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

My list!

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/188fd797/

The top twenty more or less accurately reflects the last thirteen years.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:08 (9 months ago) Permalink

The Drift and Discovery'll do well if ILX has anything to do with it.

Yes please, I'll have a pint, and another one for this asshole here (dog latin), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:08 (9 months ago) Permalink

Argh shit Fugazi!

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:09 (9 months ago) Permalink

haha, now Tom and Alfred are tied on my "Pitchfork People's List Game."

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:12 (9 months ago) Permalink

Where's Tom's?

Tim F, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:13 (9 months ago) Permalink

Oh, he posted it on Twitter this morning.

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:14 (9 months ago) Permalink

The Drift and Discovery'll do well if ILX has anything to do with it.

― Yes please, I'll have a pint, and another one for this asshole here (dog latin), Friday, August 17, 2012 9:08 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And "White Bread, Black Beer," it seems.

Nice to see "Oceans Apart" poppin up too!

mr.raffles, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:15 (9 months ago) Permalink

Apart from the distinct lack of Yorke, there's a lot to love on Tom E's list

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/2eecd8bc/

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:17 (9 months ago) Permalink

(Apologies if he didn't want that posted here, but I did enjoy reading it this morning.)

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

Radiohead barely sneaked into mine.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:21 (9 months ago) Permalink

What's the game then?

Tim F, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

Radiohead were on mine originally but fell off as i remembered other stuff i listen to more that I'd forgotten to include.

Tim F, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

I'd probably put the solo Yorke album on before a ~Radiohead album~ at number 100 just to be ornery.

It would just take me too long. And my list would be too all over the place and "Sugababes! School of Seven Bells! Ellen Allien! Missy E!" maybe I'll give it a try later tonight.

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah i want to know what the game is too.

i'm terrified i've missed something off mine. it's funny when i do lists like this because around the 30-50 mark I start thinking "There must be at least some other OUTSTANDING albums I can think of from the last 15 years" but no, it's like your Facebook friendslist, you might have 600 of them, but only about 10 you might consider to be true friends.

Julian Asshole (dog latin), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:28 (9 months ago) Permalink

You lot have known me for 12 years and you can't figure out what the game is?

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

I think OK Computer would probably be top 10 in any list I put together but any other Radiohead is unlikely. It feels really weird to be comparing anything that old to, say, the Katy B album and putting them in the same list.

Matt DC, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, I mean Katy B is so obviously completely superior it would be an insult to her to stick something as stale as OK Computer next to her.

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:32 (9 months ago) Permalink

Also there's like four albums from 1996 that I'd put in there but that might has well be prehistoric.

Matt DC, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:33 (9 months ago) Permalink

It does. I can appreciate an "albums of all time" type thing, but these are records that came out within my lifetime. That said I had very different tastes in 1996 as I did in 2004 as I do now, and trying to work out where Pearl Jam's Yield fits in compared to Nicolas Jaar is just o_O

Julian Asshole (dog latin), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:40 (9 months ago) Permalink

Just put'em side by side.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:42 (9 months ago) Permalink

1996 stuff like Reasonable Doubt and ATLiens is missing from the list but it's probably because p4k didn't review that kind of thing back then

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:43 (9 months ago) Permalink

I was just about to post my list and then I refreshed this thread.

Melissa W, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

Just given mine another edit after reminding myself of some more stuff via old lists. The sins of fading memory.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

I am having big cognitive dissonance putting late 90s favourites on a list with stuff from last year. The world is different. I am different. Magical World of The Strands!

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:46 (9 months ago) Permalink

In Rainbows has totally cemented itself as my favourite Radiohead over the last 2 years.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:46 (9 months ago) Permalink

i can't find my old lists/ballots for some reason

Julian Asshole (dog latin), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

The past does not exist.

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

It's a different country.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

if i have to look something up then it isn't a current fav

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:52 (9 months ago) Permalink

This isn't saying "what are your ten favourite records right now" though, it's asking what are your 100 from the last 16 years... I'm vaguely trying to weight long-term affection alongside 'just this minute' excitement.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:54 (9 months ago) Permalink

it isn't what are you fav records right now that were released in the last 16 years?

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:56 (9 months ago) Permalink

i have to make a composite of me at different stages of my life?

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:57 (9 months ago) Permalink

if i liked something a lot for 18 months in 2006 but don't like now, what percentage weighting should that be given?

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

i mean, ok, it was closer to 2 years than 18 months but do i really want to admit that

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 13:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

.345

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 17 August 2012 13:59 (9 months ago) Permalink

Here's my list. So many missing album covers...

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/3122a1e0

Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2012 14:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

I don't even want to ~know~ what 1996 me would want to put on this list.

(Apart from Kenickie but I'd probably still agree with her on that.)

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 14:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

i make it .09375

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 14:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

One thing that surprised me about my own list was the relative lack of capital-P Pop albums.

I mean I love 'Blackout' and 'Chemistry' and 'The Fame Monster' and 'Robyn' and so on and so forth but somehow none cracked top 100. The closest was Sugababes' 'Three' which like two dozen albums it saddened me to leave off.

Tim F, Friday, 17 August 2012 14:02 (9 months ago) Permalink

tho that presumes all months or years are equal this stuff is tough!

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 14:02 (9 months ago) Permalink

You use whatever internal algorithm you like, coal.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 14:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

Tuomas comes in second in my game. (Alfred and Tom still tied for winning.)

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 14:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

Capital-P Pop albums, in my mind, burn brightly and then fade quickly; that's part of their appeal. There are loads of albums by the likes of Timberlake, Sugababes, Missy, Neptunes, etc etc, that I loved at the time and still have favourite songs from, but which I never go back to "as an album" and take in the whole thing; consequently pretty much none of them are on my list. Whether that speaks to anything about me, or whether it speaks to anything about the nature of art and personal canons and musical longevity, is a thing people have been trying to unravel for aeons. But I don't go back to that second Sugababes album anymore than I go back to World Clique by Deee-Lite, even if each album has individual song/s I will love forever on it.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 August 2012 14:06 (9 months ago) Permalink

I included no album on which I didn't love without reservations at least six tracks.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 August 2012 14:07 (9 months ago) Permalink

67.

I shoulda stuck this in there, somewhere:

Michael Daddino, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

did pitchfork weigh the #1's and the #100's all the same or differently? just wondering

billstevejim, Monday, 27 August 2012 04:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

differently? like one person's #1 would count for more than someone else's? how would that even work?

some dude, Monday, 27 August 2012 04:10 (8 months ago) Permalink

michael, that is a serious fucking list.

choom gangnam style (get bent), Monday, 27 August 2012 04:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

no i mean like, when they tallied up the submissions, did the people's #1's count more than their #2's and so on? or did the placements not matter? so like if someone had OK Computer at #1 it would count just as much as someone who had the same record at #99..

billstevejim, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they did - number 1 gets 100 points, 2 99, etc etc etc.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

if only that question had been adressed in the info

young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 18:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

kind of curious what other lists i&others wld have devised if this had been framed differently: 'top 100 albums 96-11 selected after you've gone for a run /when yr watching Transformers 3/when yr v cold and need the toilet'

my week of listening to 100% women (mb 98% in practice) has been pretty banging though! v pleased to discover lena platonos

ogmor, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:41 (8 months ago) Permalink


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