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

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.

pretty funny that the suggested search for an album is "e.g. Grimes"

is scott pl not involved with p4k anymore?

seriously side-eyeing so many people (not on here) whose only rap album on their list is MBDTF.

Haha the only rap album on mine is Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Came very close to putting on one of the first three Kanyes but couldn't decide which one and it seemed kind of tokenistic. For better or worse, S/TLB was an Important Album for me at the time.

Nice to see "Oceans Apart" poppin up too!

― mr.raffles

Oh shit, this should have been on my list. I did find room for the Robert Forster album though.

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

― billstevejim, Friday, August 17, 2012 6:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

everything says "1996-2011" though

is scott pl not involved with p4k anymore?

― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Friday, August 17, 2012 11:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah he left a while back. Replaced by ILM's own Mark Richardson.

richardson had been there since forever too tho?

tim your list is awesome btw. want to make one myself but not really feeling up to the task atm - can you still do this after the voting closes?

I did one here. Tricksy. Happy with the first 25, for definite.

Yeah I mean Mark took Scott's old role.

And thanks.

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

― Old Lunch

Another Charlotte Hatherley fan. I love those albums.

my guess is that pitchfork's audience skews young enough to the point where radiohead will be passed up for no. 1 -- my bet would be something like funeral or yankee hotel foxtrot or w/e

still expect them to have 2 albums in the top 10 tho

nah radiohead will definitely place over arcade fire and wilco

think i'm done fussing with mine:

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/179a6412/

I wonder if we added up all lists posted on this thread which albums would come out on top. Homogenic, Emperor Tomato Ketchup, The Drift, Sound Of Silver, Aquemini, New Amerykah and Voodoo would all be up there I think.

oh yeah -- the year retrospectives on some dude's blog were vital to me being able to put this list together while maintaining my sanity

XD

think/hope you're wrong about anyone really preferring Dark Twisted Fanta Girls to College Dropout but historically PF reader poll results are pretty insane so who knows

Another Charlotte Hatherley fan. I love those albums.

Right!? The first two are among the most criminally underrated albums of the '00s, and seem to be practically unknown/nonexistent in the US.

I like Charlotte fine, but don't love her albums. Coolest thing I've ever seen her do is play guitar with Bat for Lashes on Jimmy Fallon's show. She was INTO IT.

Right!? The first two are among the most criminally underrated albums of the '00s, and seem to be practically unknown/nonexistent in the US.

― Old Lunch

They're hardly that known in the UK either, it's a real shame. New Worlds is pretty good too but the first two are just so good. I was never an Ash fan but she's turned into one of the best songwriters around.

Hey Johnny Fever have you done your list yet? Would be really interested to see it.

I think the potential winners are: Kid A, OK Computer, Funeral, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. I would be shocked if anything else took the top spot.

Yeah, here's my list (I pretty much sorted the top 10 or 15 into an order, and then just lumped a bunch of others on there in no order at all): http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/9e677131/

NMH is pretty likely imo

i'm confident that in time this will be accepted as the true canon http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/17a105ed/

Yeah, here's my list (I pretty much sorted the top 10 or 15 into an order, and then just lumped a bunch of others on there in no order at all): http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/9e677131/

― Johnny Fever

Good list, is there a chance you forgot the Portishead album? I seem to remember you had that as your number one in the 2005-09 list.

The act which suffered the most from my decision to avoid write-ins was Capsule, who would've easily gotten four spots in my top 100 and probably two in the top 25.

realizing that I could mess around with this forever and I need to figure out how to refrain: http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/35b5599a/

I'm down with about half of your list, ogmor, and probably need to listen to the half I haven't heard.

think/hope you're wrong about anyone really preferring Dark Twisted Fanta Girls to College Dropout but historically PF reader poll results are pretty insane so who knows

― some dude, Friday, August 17, 2012 8:22 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

i've seen MBDTF rated really highly on a number of lists... plenty of people on staff have it in the top 10/15 i think

ah i didn't look at all the staff lists but i feel like i've seen it like twice out of the couple dozen lists i've seen so far

PF reader poll results are pretty insane so who knows

How many reader polls have there been?

Maybe they do it every year and I just don't pay attention.

i think every year or almost every year lately there's been some sort of reader poll component to the year-end rundowns

yeah they're done every year... honestly the readers polls are maybe even slightly indier than you would expect, but not unexpected given the exercise

childish gambino is probably going to make an insane showing in this poll, just fyi

well every year for the last 3 or so years i think

Anybody know if they've got staffers writing blurbs this weekend or are they just going to throw up the results and leave it at that?

they're going to make people buy Chuck Taylors with the results printed on the soles

think/hope you're wrong about anyone really preferring Dark Twisted Fanta Girls to College Dropout but historically PF reader poll results are pretty insane so who knows

― some dude, Friday, August 17, 2012 8:22 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please tell me this is a personal coinage