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

http://lindsayzoladz.tumblr.com/post/29966963774/dont-blame-us-four-women-talk-about-why-they-didnt

Friend #1: “Yes, make sure that you leave in that I hate Spoon though.”

HAHA!

haha the end of that is fantastic

xp!

Honestly I think it takes some things to have the energy to make one of those: a) some degree of narcissism to assume that literally anyone cares what albums you like b) enough self esteem to believe your choices are correct or to not care if people disagree with you or think less of you because of which albums you like c) the fastidious patience to actually complete a task that is based mainly in narcissism.

I have some of these things, and there are many women who also have these things, but I would say in general that men are more apt to have all of them.

Top 50 from the ILM 2000-2004 poll (conducted in mid-2004):

1. Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
2. Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
3. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (2002)
4. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (2003)
5. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2001)
6. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (1008)
7. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (983)
8. Jay-Z - The Blueprint (948)
9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (904)
10. Basement Jaxx - Rooty (830)
11. Radiohead - Amnesiac (804)
12. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (751)
13. Kanye West - The College Dropout (703)
14. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (682)
15. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (681)
16. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (679)
17. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive (573)
18. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi (566)
19. The Rapture - Echoes (554)
20. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City Stories From The Sea (545)
21. The Junior Boys - Last Exit (536)
22. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (529)
23. The White Stripes - Elephant (517)
24. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (513)
25. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (494)
26. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of... (486)
27. The Notwist - Neon Golden (479)
28. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (469)
29. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (466)
30. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (465)
31. The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird Bark (440)
32. Justin Timberlake - Justified (437)
33. Le Tigre - Le Tigre (436)
34. Fugazi - The Argument (403)
35. Broadcast - Haha Sound (401)
36. Lambchop - Nixon (398)
37. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR (398)
38. Fennesz - Endless Summer (394)
39. The Scissor Sisters - The Scissor Sisters (381)
40. Cat Power - You Are Free (365)
41. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (364)
42. The Clientele - Suburban Light (3??)
43. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire (352)
44. Richard X presents - X-Factor Vol. 1 (337)
45. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (337)
46. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance (335)
47. Luomo - Vocalcity (327)
48. Ladytron - Light And Magic (326)
49. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (321)
50. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz (311)

The RS analogue to this poll would probably be pretty similar except that it would have a lot of late-period Dylan and Young albums sprinkled throughout.

and Goddess in the Doorway.

love that the #1 album in the distinction index for my age group is NO FUCKIN CODE!

er wait no it isn't, i'm a few months shy of that age group. but still!

Pearl Jam - The Distinction Index

this radiohead shit is getting out of control, y'all

― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:39 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^ This.

omg I just read the user-submitted blurb for The xx album someone mentioned upthread. *RAGE*

Man, right now I am hating LCD Soundsystem, Magnetic Fields, Kanye, Beyonce and anyone else who had an album whose name started with a number. :-/

Ginuwine and Dre, too.

Still, this data is in better shape than most of the fund managers that submit :-/

Radiohead and Kanye have imo such typical career arcs of diminishing returns that it kinda horrifies me that there's such a strong consensus that they're the only acts with 5 good/great albums in the past however many years

Minneapolis one of the only cities that didn't lead with OK Computer.

... We chose Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. :-/

lol joke's on u

also that the older albums > younger albums (maybe not so much the case w/ radiohead, tho i think 'in rainbows' is creeping up there)

xxp

i love that neutral milk hotel record and have adored it since release but it's not even the best elephant 6 album

I do wonder how many contributors questioned the tastes and assumptions of their youth – do Radiohead voters still think Amnesiac is awesome? I hovered over Blur and Roni Size a couple times before deciding that nostalgia sucks.

Nothing in the list even half as surprising as the revelation that DJP ran track in converse. I felt a twinge of sympathy pain in my own feet upon reading that.

198 THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

lol

and i say that even though i even like a few songs on that album!

ouch

i think that made my list!

I should probably give NMH another try; at the time, it was the antithesis of what I wanted to hear in music (which was basically Arular)

I had pretty much the opposite reaction towards Roni Size (New Forms) lately than I did with Gus Gus: listened to it for the first time in forever and found it mostly stultifying and really unnoteworthy.

I think I've listened to In the Aeroplane... exactly once. That's not fair to it, really, and I know some albums are "growers," but I'm a pretty good judge of whether or not something is a thing I (n)ever want to hear again.

New Forms is an album I've always admired more than I liked, aside from "Brown Paper Bag" and "New Forms"

i think maybe i just hate consensus, especially when it reflects the tastes of so large a group of people. everything that might interest me is in the individual particularities.

then again, if there were even a small handful of albums i really felt strongly about in the top of the results pool, i might feel a bit more invested.

i like the Neutral Milk Hotel fine, not enough to vote for it or feel like a part of its crazed following but i'm more okay with it than anything else in the top 25 besides OK Computer

xxpost

Yeah, there's a handful of decent and innovative vocal tracks, but the bulk of it sounds like someone playing the 'jungle' track on a Casio.

For a second I was all "Hmm, I don't recall the NMH album sounding like that."

I should probably give NMH another try; at the time, it was the antithesis of what I wanted to hear in music (which was basically Arular)

do not give NMH another try.

I've heard On Avery Island (and kept "Song Against Sex" and one or two more) but I actually don't know I've heard In An Aeorplane aside from a guy yelling I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST on a bar jukebox.

I've had the appeal of the Roni Size album explained to me before - very succinctly in fact - by Tim F and the bobbins crew, and I still find it kinda tepid on the whole. Maybe just not for me.

On Avery Island

is this where Pitchfork apostates were sent in the early 2000's?

i HATED ITAOTS first time i heard it. Caterwauling and hard strummed acoustic guitar are among my least favourite sounds in music. But I really like it now. There's kind of a beautiful, delicate underlay beneath the spiky ugly exterior. It really does require a go or two.

read that as I HATED IHOP

Honestly I think it takes some things to have the energy to make one of those: a) some degree of narcissism to assume that literally anyone cares what albums you like b) enough self esteem to believe your choices are correct or to not care if people disagree with you or think less of you because of which albums you like c) the fastidious patience to actually complete a task that is based mainly in narcissism.

I have some of these things, and there are many women who also have these things, but I would say in general that men are more apt to have all of them.

― da croupier, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:20 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is p dumb imo

xpost FUCK YOU ROOTY TOOTY FRESH AND FRUITY

this is p dumb imo

Unless you have a professional reason to make a list like this, it makes sense to me.

exactly

i also dig the idea that your top 10 can change like everyday--i get that making lists is fun, but it's pretty meaningless and dumb

why do anything, its all so narcissistic

fashion = you are narcissistic for thinking anyone cares how you look

I really wish that either NMH managed to capture the sense I got from their live performance that Jeff Mangum is possessed or channeling something wholly outside of himself. It was mesmerizing in person, much less so on record.

eh I don't really care what she thinks, people should really see my list imo

i also dig the idea that your top 10 can change like everyday--i get that making lists is fun, but it's pretty meaningless and dumb

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:57 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course, as mine could. but ... you're also describing listmaking as 'fun'

i should have put fun in quotes

idk i think that sharing what music you like is fun without quotes. its only corny & narcissistic when ppl get all "this is the right way things should be" or w/e about it. but i dont think making a list in itself is a narcissistic exercise at all & that her trying to shame men & other women from participating is corny

ANYWAY the point is that I love making things like that and I went to make mine and I had 70 albums and got overwhelmed with ranking them and forgot and never published it. Honestly I think it takes some things to have the energy to make one of those: a) some degree of narcissism to assume that literally anyone cares what albums you like b) enough self esteem to believe your choices are correct or to not care if people disagree with you or think less of you because of which albums you like c) the fastidious patience to actually complete a task that is based mainly in narcissism.

she admits she loves making lists, too! but ultimately it's pretty stupid