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

Chucks actually referenced in Strokes blurb

it's kinda amazing to me that this thread has gone this direction when there's that Interpol reader comment we could be talking about

― alpine static, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:14 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

i know right?

he likes espers and dexys midnight runners and triathlons

that interpol album fuckign blows, who likes that shit

as the number of alt weeklies who have posted something on their websites about this increases the mark of death spreads slowly across america ~~

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what interpol comment

I have not worn Docs since they destroyed my feet on an architectural walking tour of Oxford (hint: do not wear new shoes on architectural walking tours) but that compilation was seriously good. Also, it is on Spotify! (or it was a few months ago.)

that interpol album fuckign blows, who likes that shit

i dont think youre fully appreciating the albums tactical arrogance

i think the sufjan readers quote is the best of the top 20 tho

if you mouse over the albums in the top 20 theres a comment for each one.

my favourite thing about oxford is when you find someone peering neckbeardedly at semi-brutalist student accomodation from the 70s. recommended footwear: brogues

After all these years, I still have no fucking idea what Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" is about.

that is a great comment! whatever it is attached to!

what interpol comment

― max, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh i didnt see hungry4ass

thanks

lets poll how long it takes until we end up polling the comments on the top twenty

the one for 'amnesiac' calls it 'electro-jazzy' which is p good too

"electro-jizzy" iirc

no ok but really the wilco one is best

no comprendo. i'm too busy swirling in the deranged hippie rave that is my life from now on.

Because I assassin down the avenue, because my lies were always wishes, because you were right about the stars, because I've got reservations about so many things, and finally, because of Chicago.

lmfao. jesus christ

did the guy who wrote about his chucks in the strokes blurb make a chucks logo his twitter icon before he got his chucks blurb in the list sponsored by chucks?

no ok but really the wilco one is best

i think its just quotes from a wilco song so that felt like cheating.

the comments they chose to publish are like PF's way of saying "see why we don't do open calls for new writers anymore? stop asking"

Because I assassin down the avenue, because my lies were always wishes, because you were right about the stars, because I've got reservations about so many things, and finally, because of Chicago.

― thomp, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:32 PM

this is an Interpol lyric, guys

156 SILVER JEWS American Water
157 FUGAZI The Argument

Home run after home run. Perfect balance of style and substance, ambition and accessibility, intelligence and ignorance. An emotional roller coaster. Universal appeal but still so personal. Overlook the title and its as perfect as albums come.

kris dotson, music fan

SD's second comment can hardly be interpreted as 'not a dig,' since the only reason I felt inclined to say something was that it isn't the first time he has made ridiculously shitty comments about Mel's RH fandom (see: 1st Mad Men thread). It's hard to give a self-admitted tedious dick the benefit of the doubt. Jokes are for friends, iirc.

I think ultimately this was a great way to converse about music, and most things were a shoe-in yet there were some sneakers at the end of the list.

Not enough shoegazing, though.

well you just gaze at shoes, sneakers are stared at adoringly

xpost Love how Melissa's list is basically a very ILM list with the entire recorded work of Radiohead and bandmembers dropped at the beginning.

― Tim F, Friday, August 17, 2012 10:27 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

this was the post i was referencing (although i misremembered "very ILM list" as "very Pitchfork list") fwiw. we can keep talking about this if you want, but i think you can assume the people that need to hate me hate me already and move on. (xpost)

voter/gender/male/distinction index

no 1 is ween's 'quebec'

hating Ween is my tribute to feminism

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oh they had another go at restoring that Jesus portrait then?

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Pitchfork’s “People’s List” Is a Scandal
"In short, nothing about the list is surprising, and for those of us who love pop music in its many flavors and permutations—including pop music that is actually popular—the usual complaints apply."

People trying to shoehorn pop music into the pitchfork list is baffling to me. There's already a list for that. It's bad enough that six of the top ten albums are major label releases on a site that's supposedly "indie."

Did someone ask for a portrait of Jesus?

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that Slate piece makes a few statements that are offbase but in general it's pretty spot-on imho

slate really is amazing

Pitchyorke.

last paragraph is solid tho

yassss that slate piece

esp the bit about it being a NICHE PUBLICATION

lead picture is solid too

yeah. my quibbles are with the stuff about co-ed bands and the pop aside already mentioned but still

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