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

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)

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?

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

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

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

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

djperry1973

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

oh shit New Order

ARGH

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!

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

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

i didn't take this very seriously.

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

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

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/

sweet list, wolves!

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.

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

items after #20 or so are unsorted more or less

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)

oh my god ordering this shit is excruciating

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

Awww, thanks pandemic!

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

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/

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/

how do you guys even come up with this, there are so many albums. i could come up with 100 i really like and then think of 100 more and hate myself

My basic formula was to throw down the ones I knew I'd vote for and then scroll through my iTunes favorites playlist and see which albums were most heavily represented. Some of which surprised me but made total sense.

i could not have done it if i'd started adding albums that weren't in the database and tried to actually make a definitive list

I went through their lists and picked off ones I liked, then scanned through my discogs account.

OK, why did I spend nearly my entire workday doing this

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/30e7a5a5/

I assumed Millions Now Living... must have been too early - I mean, I guess pre-2000 Pitchfork was not professional or comprehensive, but still...

OK, why did I spend nearly my entire workday doing this

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/30e7a5a5/

― doglatting (jaymc), Friday, August 17, 2012 4:51 PM (6 minutes ago)

^^^things no one was wondering

Yeah, it's '96. I thought it was weird that Pavement's Brighten the Corners wasn't in the database, but I think that's because the original review was taken down.

(xp)

Some sweet overlap with my own picks, jaymc. Camoufleur and Dots And Loops were high on my original list before my anal demand for album covers necessitated their unfortunate removal.

i figure it would be more fun to choose stuff outside of the pitchfork database..

my anal demand for album covers necessitated their unfortunate removal

So you'll not vote for things you like just so your list will look nicer, thereby lessening their chances of making the final results?

is this being used to compile the results somehow? it would be fun to see a few write-ins receiving multiple acknowledgements