pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Quick glance at the top 20, seems to be too much on there (and I presume the top 200 list as a whole) that's there because it's "important" rather than because it's the "best" or even particularly good. That is, in many cases albums much better represented through individual songs and singles lists rather than as albums. I do like seeing Sade up there and even Disintegration, both of which represent a shifting canon, but man, I still don't dig that NWA album (obvious canonical songs aside), and if anything I think its estimation has shifted too much. And sure, Thriller was an epochal event. (It was the first LP I ever bought with my own money, at Sears or Pathmark or something; I want to say it cost $5?). But the idea that it's just one slot below Purple Rain is nuts as anything more than making a weird symbolic point. Both are clearly important albums, but I can't think of the last time I listened to Thriller, let alone all the way through. Probably back when I first bought it.

Also, no 90125 or moving pictures no credibility.

You don't need to listen to Thriller because Thriller is everywhere.

Sade in the top 10 is definitely my favourite thing about this list.

Love seeing Tango in the Night

yeah, nearly every song from Thriller still pops up on radio. It doesn't matter when you stopped playing the album.

Thriller is not everywhere. The hits from Thriller (some of them) are everywhere, and I don't really want to hear the rest. Or even a couple of the hits either. Really, Michael Jackson is everywhere, more so than Prince, but that does not make Thriller a good album.

xpost What radio are you listening to? I hear Billie Jean and Wanna Be and Beat It out and about pretty regularly. Title track only around Halloween or children's school performance. PYT rarely. Girl is mine, etc. never. Human Nature not as much as I'd like; I hear the SWV version more. Couple of the other tracks never.

you're right. what makes it a good album is the music they chose to put on it.

dude, I heard "Baby Be Mine" on adult R&B yesterday and at least two of the seven singles once a week. It's woven into the culture.

Piecing together a playlist for this, still a long way to go.

https://open.spotify.com/user/olken2000/playlist/3FT4IqZf9kXh7APS5rCIZr?si=22NvmFrWSbS2wNkOV6i5QA

i.e. the hits from Thriller are seven of the nine tracks

By that standard there are other albums that should be way up there. Right?

It's clearly an important record, I just don't like it that much as a record. But obviously others do!

It's that high because it placed on just about every submitted list.

weirdest thing about the list to me is The Sensual World placing but not The Dreaming

if you’re listening for just the songs from thriller in toto* you’re missing a lot of the reason it’s still regarded so highly. the pyt sample on kanye’s “good life,” etc

* lol no pun intended

Wait for it...

are there any 9/11 references in this list or no

Love seeing Tango in the Night

― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), 10. september 2018 15:27 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes! That's one of my favorite reevaluations.

weirdest thing about the list to me is The Sensual World placing but not The Dreaming

― ufo, 10. september 2018 15:38 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is weird.

weirdest thing about the list to me is The Sensual World placing but not The Dreaming

― ufo, Monday, September 10, 2018 8:38 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed, The Dreaming is sort of the Kate fan's Kate record in so many ways

fourth'd but also not mad that my favorite kate record made it

I feel like "This Woman's Work" has been having a bit of a moment over the last couple of years

Might be a factor

do you mean eighteen years?

Culturally, like

Obviously it's a masterpiece

I listened to Minor Threat this weekend. No idea why anyone thinks it should be that high.

Yeah, I'd say that's another good case of "important" vs. good.

There should just be a list of "angriest albums of the '80s."

"this woman's work" is always having a moment

Can’t load this thread to see if anyone’s said this already but they did this one already in 2002. The list is still up.

i think a lot of that is prob due to the aftershock of the maxwell cover which also still seems to be relevant and beloved xp

You underestimate ILM.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdHgq3oBD8

weirdest thing about the list to me is The Sensual World placing but not The Dreaming

― ufo, Monday, September 10, 2018 9:38 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is partially my fault

Also, what do you think are the reasons for the decline in Tom Waits stock? Rain Dogs down to 42, and Swordfishtrombone gone completely.

― triggercut, Monday, September 10, 2018 8:24 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is also partially my fault

lol just saw the bottom of the list described as "a bunch of dance and dance-adjacent acts that they let brad nelson write about"

(I failed to vote for a lot of things I would have voted for)

lol just saw the bottom of the list described as "a bunch of dance and dance-adjacent acts that they let brad nelson write about"

― lowercase (eric), Monday, September 10, 2018 7:23 AM (fifty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's upppp

wish i had gotten the virgo blurb tbh

Also, what do you think are the reasons for the decline in Tom Waits stock?

The Best Show, maybe?

i've notice a pretty big tom waits backlash in the last couple years

Yeah Tom Waits coolness stock is way down right now as far as I can see

Nice to see Music For The Masses sneak in a list for once.

Hounds Of Love was 92 lol in the previous 80s list.

Hey, Don't Break the Oath got in. Guess I can't complain too much.

you know, I hate to nitpick, but goddamnit, the B-52's led the way for REM, not "alongside".

it's all been downhill for waits since he had a song on the shrek 2 soundtrack

How come everyone outside of ILM thinks Blue Bell Knoll is the best 80s Cocteaus album? I honestly though we'd seen the back of such nonsense.

part of it might be too that people caught on to waits essentially doing the exact same thing for 30 years

Hey, Don't Break the Oath got in. Guess I can't complain too much.

― jmm, Monday, September 10, 2018 7:31 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was thrilled that all four of the metal records i voted for made it in (oath, to mega therion, altars of madness, streetcleaner)

Hey, Don't Break the Oath got in. Guess I can't complain too much.

― jmm, 10. september 2018 16:31 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah! Think it's the first Danish album to ever show up on one of these lists. Anne Linnet still got robbed, though.

xxp Blue Bell Knoll is the best CT album fyi

(best ct album still being debated as of last week on here, on some other thread)