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

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

― dark twisted fanta girl (some dude), Wednesday, August 11, 2010 8:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah i thought this was gonna be another bone to their readers since they don't do comments, etc (good call btw), they do a readers poll every year for a few years now but the results are just released under the radar, certainly not promoted like their big lists. i assumed this would be the same but it definitely looks like they're gonna make it their big list this year. and then what next year? start cycling thru the decades again? come up w/ a fresh idea?

of course. god bless

xp

Yep, also did a Pitchfork list. Probably missed some, but it's okay, for something I did real quick.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/bf3ec758/

highest ranking album from past five years - vampire weekend? animal collective? mbdtf? something i'm horrified by and have forgotten? also, call me crazy, but i bet discovery tops yhf. and i think the winner is definitely either a merge release or a radiohead album.

Last 5 years? Probably MBDTF, but maybe MPP is just as likely.

nah MPP will smash kanye -- i wouldn't be at all shocked if MBDTF was the highest rated rap album, period

it will def be the highest rated rap album of the last 5 years

It's so weird to me that MBDTF is held in such high regard. I mean, it's fine, but even the first time I heard it, I thought a lot of it was awfully tl;dr. And it certainly falls short of his first two albums.

a lot of it was awfully tl;dr

Yes, this is the best description of it ever.

are there really that many people besides the douchebag that wrote "we are young" who started to appreciate this rap music thing as more than a fad because of MBDTF? i mean i'm sure there are a few but what the hell

tbh mbdtf getting top kanye wouldn't make me rmde smh and maybe even kmt as much as yhf beating summerteeth and being there for top wilco (a certainty).

I gave myself some restrictions (1 album per artist, everything recorded for release in the period) otherwise it'd be 100 albums of Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Arthur Russell & Lungfish.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/939da9bd/

As seems to be the way, all rankings beyond the top 10 everything are somewhat arbitrary.

What are the top ten rap albums likely to be?

1. MBDTF
2. Hello Nasty
3. College Dropout
4. SB/TLB
5. The Black Album

??

Please don't tell me Watch The Throne will crack top ten.

Stankonia will be in there. Blueprint 2 as well.

stankonia (bet it wins even), graduation, aquemini, blueprint, carter III

Should I try to fill mine out to 100? Dunno, maybe, ok. Also went for the 1 album per artist idea, no write-ins.

I'd love to know the albums people rated highly at the time but realized while composing this list were actually kinda shitty/didn't age all well.

Won't other Outkast albums be higher than the double? I have seen Aquemini on a lot of peoples lists.

The Blueprint and maybe Reasonable Doubt will do well. The Marshall Mathers LP will be up there too.

curious to see where marshall mathers lp ends up

Re: top 10 rap albums, I feel like I've seen The Cold Vein in several people's lists. Maybe a little too backpacky to make the top 10.

i do not as highly rate endtroducing as i did at the time

o jesus christ guys

i just remembered something that may well be top ten pfork hip hop

http://www.thedailyspin.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Gorillaz_-_Feel_Good_Inc.jpg

wouldn't be at all surprised. i even voted for it!

A post-Blur retrospective box set of Damon Albarn projects would rate quite highly on my list, if such a thing were to exist. Demon Days made it onto the tail-end of my list, anyway.