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

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

yeah are there any non-rap write ins that could place? i have no concept of that

pretty sure Kanye depends on critlove for moral propulsion these days

i'm not sure if that's true either

his world seems incredibly isolated to me

Pitchfork is big enough for Kanye to keep tabs, I'd think. You don't have festivals on two different continents and still fly under the radar.

i don't know if someone getting perfect marks from every pub really cares more about one than the other but if so i kinda imagine 5 stars in rolling stone is a bigger feather in his cap (while still meaning a fraction of what his various grammys mean to him)

if kanye gave a fuck about pitchfork cool points he probably would've played the festival at some point

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

― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:02 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh i highly doubt this

as for what will place/write-ins specifically, we should remember this is not an ilx poll, actual pitchfork readers are allowed to vote in this

i just came to terms with mbdtf being my favorite of ye's when doing this. hasn't fully sunk in yet.

creeping #peopleslist on twitter and the only album i've seen more frequently listed (highly) than mbdtf is voodoo.

Pretty sure that Brighten the Corners is a lock for one of the write-in placements.

xp Voodoo is all over the place on these ballots. Year 2000 Pitchfork wouldn't know what to make of that.

i'm sure kanye has clicked on pitchfork for a few seconds before spending another hour looking at hypebeast or whatever

i'm sure kanye KNOWS what pitchfork is, obviously. but i don't think you'll hear him saying "kim's a 10.0 and so is my last album" on 'cruel summer'