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

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http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/1e02e0e0/

only the top 15 are in anything like order.

pandemic, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:18 (thirteen years ago)

argh just looked at Tom's list and Dig Your Own Hole!

I am not getting any work done today

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:19 (thirteen years ago)

My list: https://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/2113a36f/

heiswagger (rennavate), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:26 (thirteen years ago)

As usual, the more interesting picks are toward the end.

heiswagger (rennavate), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

Fuck I forgot 'Reasonable Doubt'!

pandemic, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)

Uptown Saturday Night
Camp Lo

how the shit did i forget this???? damn you rennavate, i might have to go back and edit mine.

a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:33 (thirteen years ago)

I have been assuming WCC has been operating some sort of gothometer but I've no idea really.

Matt DC, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:34 (thirteen years ago)

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

― mr.raffles, Friday, August 17, 2012 8:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is Tilt eligible (by taking the US release year rather than the UK one?)

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:42 (thirteen years ago)

I have been assuming WCC has been operating some sort of gothometer but I've no idea really.

― Matt DC, Friday, 17 August 2012

women artists no?

coal, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:44 (thirteen years ago)

yeah

Number None, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

1. Denny Vertigo - Hanging On The Edge
2. Denny Lethargy - Can't Be Arsed


It's all about "Solar Cock" imo.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

I need to stop looking at other people's lists so I stop adding albums to mine

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

Oh come on. Given I'm such a single-issue poster in most people's eyes, what's my big chain-jerking issue like compression is to Sick and...

coal got it. Just start at the top and count until you hit a female artist. (I was trying to figure out if 1/3 of Portishead counted, I'd say they do if she's co-songwriter.)

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:48 (thirteen years ago)

I would love to put a Missy or TLC album on my list but, at this point, I honestly wouldn't remove any of the albums I have there for either; I feel them more as singles artists anyway

Mya's Moodring would have had a shot had I not relistened to it recently; parts of it just don't hold up (although the great songs are still great, luv u "Late" now and forever)

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:51 (thirteen years ago)

And now I've just started randomly checking Spodify for artists that DJP namedrops and nodding. Dude, what is your spodify username so I can just cut out the middleman and subscribe to your stream?

Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:54 (thirteen years ago)

Tim: Have you written about Iron Flag anywhere? What makes it yr #2/highest 96+ Wu record?

a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:56 (thirteen years ago)

I spent over an hour on my list, might as well share it.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/6260cf0b/

get you ass to mahs (abanana), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

without that much thought. order is kinda irrelevant : http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/f2a3948c/

rusty_allen, Friday, 17 August 2012 16:16 (thirteen years ago)

djperry1973

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

also I should probably swap out Santogold Top Ranking for Piracy Funds Terrorism, shouldn't I

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:22 (thirteen years ago)

If someone makes a massive Spotify list of all these Ilxorz' picks it might just get me back into pop music...

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

i am making a list of things ive not heard/am interested in but its not v poppy

http://open.spotify.com/user/sutrarama/playlist/39V9l2MXcBS1t19OF22QBn

a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 August 2012 16:27 (thirteen years ago)

oh shit Unwound

man I can't in good conscience put that album on my list because I haven't played it in like 10 years but I remember it being amazing

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:31 (thirteen years ago)

If someone makes a massive Spotify list of all these Ilxorz' picks it might just get me back into pop music...

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, August 17, 2012 12:24 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd check that playlist.

mr.raffles, Friday, 17 August 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

man i guess eventually i'll order this thing and add a few more albums at the bottom but this is basically it

https://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/1b34d33d/

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:54 (thirteen years ago)

oh shit New Order

ARGH

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 16:55 (thirteen years ago)

Wonder is it's possible to guess list-makers' ages by their selections:

via
a)importance given to their entry points into genres
b)slack given to lesser works by artists that meant much to them while young
c - z) ?

Contest!

mr.raffles, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:06 (thirteen years ago)

https://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/3e922c58/

not very accurate or thought out (outside of the top 9), but w/e.

Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

i didn't take this very seriously.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/a8a3acc8/

hamlisch kilgour (get bent), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:08 (thirteen years ago)

Oddly, I think the Brand New album might be the one I've seen the most write-ins for. (It made mine, too.)

Simon H., Friday, 17 August 2012 18:09 (thirteen years ago)

the kind of (ridiculous) authority this thing aspires to is amusing at best but I guess the data mining should improve the music they cover. I am daydreaming that with enough techno votes they will give sherburne back his column or something? anyways, couldn't resist.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/55fbbef4/

wolves lacan, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:16 (thirteen years ago)

sweet list, wolves!

your native bacon (mh), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:17 (thirteen years ago)

i regret leaving off aerial; i just didn't think to add it. i spent a lot of time with that record when it came out. it's better than 50 words for snow.

hamlisch kilgour (get bent), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:20 (thirteen years ago)

here's mine just for fun: http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/ee2058a1/

items after #20 or so are unsorted more or less

diamonddave85, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:20 (thirteen years ago)

FYI my list is absolutely sorted 1 - 100, which is why things keep dropping off the bottom as I remember other albums I love (sorry Spiritualized, Beta Band, TV on the Radio, Santogold mix tape)

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:25 (thirteen years ago)

oh my god ordering this shit is excruciating

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:56 (thirteen years ago)

eh, it's not so bad in Chrome, you do have to do a kind of sprain-inducing wiggle once you hit the upper or lower boundary to get the list to scroll effectively tho

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:58 (thirteen years ago)

here's 25 from me. a bit thrown together but i'm fine with it. i may expand it to 50 at some point.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/4d6d80f5/

jed_, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:41 (thirteen years ago)

voting for this ends tonight. any p4k writers know when the rollout/proceeding clusterfuck is?

a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:42 (thirteen years ago)

if voting end tonight i won't expand it then!

jed_, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:47 (thirteen years ago)

argh wolves has reminded me that insen should be on mine.

jed_, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:52 (thirteen years ago)

i really wish we could've added album art to our written-in entries... i hate how the blank covers look ugh

heiswagger (rennavate), Friday, 17 August 2012 19:52 (thirteen years ago)

I got bored of going through my discogs collection at 90 albums.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/4fe2326c/

emil.y, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

here's mine. did not take this very seriously and if something wasn't in the system i sure as fuck wasn't going to bother typing it in. also went heavy indie cuz it's pfork. also went heavy nostalgia cuz i'm old. http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/a1df4e15/

balls, Friday, 17 August 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)

emil.y your lists always consist of 30% things i've heard and really like and 70% things i've never heard, There's never stuff I've heard but don't like. Which usually makes me think I should check out these unheard albums, but 60+ albums is too much to check out so I give up. I am useless. This time I will at least check out the unheard of the top 20

pandemic, Friday, 17 August 2012 20:00 (thirteen years ago)

oh fuck theres only a few hours left for this... ima do this now

billstevejim, Friday, 17 August 2012 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

Awww, thanks pandemic!

emil.y, Friday, 17 August 2012 20:07 (thirteen years ago)

Took it semi-seriously, but I'm sure I forgot some things:
http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/d8319955/

Spencer Chow, Friday, 17 August 2012 20:10 (thirteen years ago)

Kinda wondered if someone was gonna start a thread for this.

About 2/3 of my original picks weren't in Pitchfork's database, and I ultimately got rid of all of those except for my #1 because I couldn't stand the absence of album covers. So my compromised list, then:

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/351fd856/

Old Lunch, Friday, 17 August 2012 20:13 (thirteen years ago)

didn't take this too seriously and only picked stuff from the database, but everyone's doin it so:

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/63477b18/

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 August 2012 20:27 (thirteen years ago)


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