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

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.

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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

This is the only thing being used to compile the results, iirc. It's THE PEOPLE'S LIST.

haha at the idea of write in votes making the final results

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?

Ha, I was only vaguely aware when I put it together that the results were being used for anything other than my own amusement. So, yeah.

I would be interested to see if any write-ins make it, I imagine a lot of people will just pick from their lists.

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I mean, my #1 is a write-in, and there's no way it even makes it into the top 1,000 of any compiled list. So besides the fact that I never even look at Pitchfork, I'm not personally too concerned about omitted write-ins.

my guess (willing to hear other possibilities) most likely write in to make it: le tigre - s/t

Mostly likely is Hello Nasty imo.

I think Brighten the Corners and Terror Twilight both stand a chance.

heres mine http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sze9mWNOy4g/TqYseVEt93I/AAAAAAAAA4w/8SAYpd7s7AI/s1600/middle+finger.jpg

I like the psychedelic swirl in the middle of that.

I voted for Brighten. I wouldn't have voted for Terror Twilight if I had 1000 places.

and tbh willing to bet le tigre or hello nasty doesn't make it. also willing to bet most of the ppl's list will come off the staff lists. http://yalepress.yale.edu/images/full13/9780300122237.jpg

also kinda odd looking at staff's lists (even ryan pfork's) and seeing write in's (of super super prominent indie records too) - i get that say tom ewing maybe can't get something added to the database but ryan pfork? indicative of how half assed this affair is

where are the staff lists? link?

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.

― doglatting (jaymc), Friday, August 17, 2012 5:00 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol my first published review was of that album in the high school paper, so it's strangely comforting to see one that's even worse

http://pitchfork.com/news/47538-the-peoples-list-our-staffs-picks/

heres mine: http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/02ce3abb/

I got to 50 and then got bored and gave up. I also made it hard for myself by saying I couldn't pick any more than one album by any artist which sometimes made for some weird choices. The moment I hit submit I will think of 100 things I should have picked instead and forgot.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/e7f160ee/

Don't blame me for number 2, my vagina picked that one, not me. I have really boring and predictable taste in music blah blah blah, the end.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/a2dbd57c/

pretty much random (order added) after the first few