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

god i remember reading '80s rolling stones on microfilm in like 7th grade, already noting how critics had short memory spans

I dunno what you guys are all arguing about just popping in to say the posted results are embarassing/confirm existence of PFork indie strawman in a sad way

christ, knock first, dad!

non-white 10 year old girls are really misrepresented here

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 and Tapes'n'Tapes led your Distinction Index

That would take manipulating their facebook if that's what you mean

That might make it less likely, although the number of 99+-year-olds on Myspace is pretty impressive.

99% of people aren't going to dig into the site to really make a list of their favorites. The best case scenario is putting the albums pitchfork suggested in a cool order.

I'm surprised that no Broadcast or Boredoms albums placed. I could see how Broadcast would be a victim of vote splitting though as there's no real consensus album. Also surprised not to see Caribou- Andorra.

I would like to see a list of the album reviews that have the most hits on Pitchfork's site and see if it's at all different from this list.

more recent reviews would have more hits than old ones as the readership has grown innit

The top two albums in the Distinction Index for Los Angeles are by Pulp and Morrissey.

more recent reviews would have more hits than old ones as the readership has grown innit

I don't know, how much of their readership actually looks at all of the reviews on the front page every day vs. googling to see what p4k said about their favorite artists? Older albums might have accumulated more hits over time.

I was just thinking that the kind of data collection available with the internet basically makes a boring list like this unnecessary. What about letting last fm users login through facebook and creating a list based on what pitchfork readers actually listen to the most?

oh nah the most read reviews would definitely all be from the last few years

The list results also make me lol at Ad Hoc's "We'll cover emerging artists and musical movements from ALL OVER THE GLOBE-- not just Brooklyn." zing.

no doubt the original Kid A review still gets exhumed.

these results are fucking hilarious. peace.

What about letting last fm users login through facebook and creating a list based on what pitchfork readers actually listen to the most?

My own argument against that tack would be that Dolly Parton and Garrison Keillor are still among my personal top ten most-played artists on last.fm, five years after whatever those particular fevered sprees were about.

yeah. I think everyone here agrees that the list results were ridiculously predictable. So I was just idly pondering how that prediction could be automated to save everyone some time.

When did Beach House become so popular?

top 2 on the distinctive index for boston are King Gheedorah - Take Me To Your Leader and DOOM - Born Like This.

Yeah, those geographic Distinction Indexes are kind of fascinating, tbh. Love the one for the USA as an entire country, which reveals that no one gives a shit about Ted Leo and Dr. Dog outside of these borders.

When did Beach House become so popular?

― squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:17 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag

haven't all 4 of their albums had big Pitchfork year-end love (3 best new musics), each one selling more than the last? not a surprise at all imo

Yeah, that's true ... I guess it's been building. Still, #32 for Teen Dream seemed high. Didn't realize they'd advanced to the level of Animal Collective/Bon Iver/Fleet Foxes/Vampire Weekend in terms of contemporary indie bands.

you're slipping, dude

tbf 2010 is tied for the year w/ the highest number of albums in the list (xpost)

you're slipping, dude

Eh, I guess part of it is that I barely hear anyone I know talk about them vs. the other bands I mentioned. But that's obviously anecdotal. I guess if they're good enough for Entertainment Weekly...

xpost

Kinda why I feel like there should be a five-year lag on polls like this to give people a little perspective. I feel like I could delineate my favorite albums from '06 with a lot more perspective than I could with my faves from '11. Mostly because I know the shit from '06 that I'm totally over and could do without ever hearing again at this point.

uh, where are folks finding the distinction indices by location?

underneath the big green map graphic

haha Ween is #1 in Baltimore, fuck me

blarg, i missed the % symbol

we go crazy for the antlers here in seattle, or so it seems. and the oh sees, moreso even than they do down san francisco way.

T.I.'s King #1 in Atlanta is heartwearming

just looked @ this and it's pfork

shoes buy a ticket
sneakers put on the show
-converse

I'm not sure what lists you guys are looking at. What I'm looking at shows distinction index #1's of In Rainbows for Atlanta (no King on the list), Odelay for Baltimore (no Ween), Sound of Silver for Seattle (no Antlers or Oh Sees), XX for SF, and no Pulp or Morrissey in LA's list

Click on the % next to the #.

T.I.'s King #1 in Atlanta is heartwearming

― some dude, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:59 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

that just means of the people who voted for King, the highest percentage were from atlanta, right

yah

Four SMOG/Callahan joints on the Brooklyn list.

does he get mobbed walking down the street there or something?

no love for the first two Le Tigre albums. I still love both of those.

everyone involved in this should seriously consider killing themselves

if your posting here counts as involvement i'm down

id be willing to make that sacrfice

for the future

guys guys let's not get all Heaven's Gate here

I can't figure out which 10 albums they're counting as being from L.A. Beck x3, Weezer, Flying Lotus, Tom Waits, Frank Ocean, Ariel Pink. Then what, Madvillainy? Elliot Smith maybe? Or QOTSA? J Dilla I guess?

I think Madvillainy, Donuts, XO, and Figure 8 should count, but that would make it 12.

If you add in QOTSA, DJ Shadow, Granddaddy, Girls (x2), and Joanna Newsom (x3) then the list includes 20 California albums vs. 43 New York albums. Ridiculous.

xps Le Tigre wasn't in the database iirc? I remember searching for it.

hasnt pitchfork deleted a bunch of their old reviews. the embarrassing ones