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

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.

i made a list, missing plenty canon stuff but Ø\(∞_o)/Ø - http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/64066fb2/

ah fugg, i forgot spank rock

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Watch out, we got a badass over here.

went a little over 100, but I'm guessing they'll just trim that off

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/a78213a2/

Okay I'm seeing Homogenic on a lot of lists, I'm thinking this might do very well.

As it should, tbh.

yeah, i'm not a fan, but i'd be very surprised if it didn't score high

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One seems to be another old-timey favorite.

and damn. just got my list down to 100 by ruthlessly enforcing a 1-per-artist rule. cutting stankonia and white chalk in favor of stuff that could never possibly make the top 1000 just about killed me, but i did what had to be done. down from nearly 150 when i first looked up from adding stuff...

kind of astonishes me that i had to write in for hello nasty when 22 albums with the word "hello" in the title are there for the clicking.

*sighs*

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/9cbc1ca0/

hi

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

^ more or less unsorted

thanks mh!

xps Nice, except you picked the wrong Hot Snakes album.

Top Pick
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West

oh

i'm sayin

i truly don't understand a viewpoint where that's kanye's best album. it would be like telling me my mom is an alien or some shit.

*sighs*

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/9cbc1ca0/

― ships and chicks, Friday, August 17, 2012 11:26 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

nice to see someone else with makaveli and flockaveli

Also, can you imagine Kanye's ego explosion if he were to win a poll like this where "the people have spoken"?

My only Kanye album was Graduation but I've accepted I'm alone about it.

i wonder what write-in votes, if any, will place. don't see any consensus appearing to form around any.

reasonable doubt is the big one

as far as rap i mean

i don't think kanye has much of an idea of what pitchfork is tbh

he def does, esp since the 10.0