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

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

forgot tons of stuff :(

I like the psychedelic swirl in the middle of that.

― emil.y, Friday, August 17, 2012 5:15 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thx it was sort of an obscure write in by me

here's mine http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/4601c9da/

(SORRY WHINEY)

Some artists I like who didn't make the cut -- Phoenix, Kanye West, Air, Cut Copy, Spoon, Blonde Redhead, LCD Soundsystem.

But I guess it's my own fault for including four Jim O'Rourke albums.

(Also, I suspect at least a couple of those won't need my votes.)

strictly albums, i guess, huh? or can i vote for the Eluvium box set?

like j0rdan's list, although the presence of three Erykah Badu albums but not 4th World War is puzzling

think you can vote for anything. i included my cat.

^ not true

Okay this was worth whatever time I spent on it as it led me to listening to Comet Gain on youtube for the last hour thanks to them appearing at #2 on emil.y's list. So wonderful!

:D

i mean, i'm really a "stick to proper albums" kind of dude on year-end lists, etc. i tend to leave out EPs, mixes ... though that has been shifting in recent years.

don't know that i can go as far to include a 7xLP, comprehensive box, though. doesn't seem right.

looks like some 2012 albums might show up... i included one.

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

― a hoy hoy, Friday, August 17, 2012 3:56 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's Wu's party album.

pitchfork never reviewed/acknowledged ironman apparently..

Pre-2003 era.

my list. http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/822fb186/

Picking albums was fun, but ordering them was A REAL DRAG ohoho

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/3dc2e6f2/

Double Leopards deserve higher than 88.

yeah see i forgot wolf eyes entirely. and yura yura teikoku.

Oh shit, I forgot the Conet Project.

at this point i'm most interested in the results of this to see if it confirms that MBDTF is now kanye's "canon" album amongst rock-leaning fans

figure it has an outside shot at the top 10

ugh, I hope you are wrong

i've been kind of hoping those guys are slightly embarrassed of the MBDTF hysteria and just want to quietly forget about it

forgot dalek too, dammit. filthy tongues at least should have been on there.

seriously side-eyeing so many people (not on here) whose only rap album on their list is MBDTF. It's almost certainly going to be voted the best rap album of the past 16 years on this list which is yeah, so embarrassing. the whole thing still feels like some inside joke to me.

i'm most looking forward to the lists broken down by what ppl say is their genre of choice (well at least I hope they do this) - want to know what the results are for self-professed pop/r&b/dance/hip-hop heads and not the main indie list where the results are gonna be the most predictable thing ever.

here's mine -- thanks to tim f, alfred, deej, alex in mon for helping me remember things

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/cb9c83e5/

Please predict the top ten indie.

I'm not willing to put money on it yet, but I think Arcade Fire's Funeral is nearly a lock for #1 (if it's not In the Aeroplane Over the Sea).

...OK Computer?

Oh shit, forgot about Radiohead.

Who reads Pitchfork most and who would be most inclined to take the time to vote? If it's youngs, Arcade Fire wins. If it's not-so-youngs, Radiohead or NMH win.