pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

SPIN really was a not-terrible mainstream music mag for a while there, sort of half-way between Rolling Stone and CMJ in their coverage

make one dawg xp

I learned a fuckton from the stable of writers in the '90s xpost

Yeah Spin (I think even in the same issue!) introduced me to Basic Channel and Neil Hamburger, can’t be all bad.

xpost: speaking of new threads. This thread deserves to be archived and continued in a new thread. It's a pain to open it and show all messages on mobile. There's 18,000+ posts right now.

no locking this thread til the number of posts matches the number in the thread title

the 34,985,859,340,293,849,494th pitchfork post celebration and physical fighting thread

Spin in the early 90s was my Bible

And the Source, a golden age!

This isn't Pitchfork-specific, but re: their new feature in which musicians name their favorite albums of the past 25 years:

Hamilton Leithauser

Royal Trux’s Accelerator (1998)

(...)On Accelerator, they really struck a remarkable balance between structure and chaos. Every single song is good… I would say it is a “no-skipper.”

This translated to the live show as well. I’ve seen them more than any other band, and the Accelerator tour show at the Cooler in NYC was undoubtedly the top.(...)

I hadn't heard of Hamilton Leithauser (just looked him up), but thought this was a funny/cool detail. I was at that show, and there are comments on the YouTube vid (that someone uploaded), with others saying that they were there... it was a fairly packed room, but I didn't guess at the time it would be one of those "I was there!" shows, like Woodstock, lol

i liked this one by far the best, bun b on ok computer and esp zach hill on the mighty u.s. maple's acre thrills

Hamilton Leithauser isn’t really my style but he has some cool music in him.

Kudos for giving Royal Trux the respect they deserve.

This feature is good. Someone should poll these selections.

Would also be interesting to see how ILXers respond to the prompt

ahh right on ham, accelerator rules! that’s cool!

Pitchfork readers are dumb too!

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/peoples-list-25th-anniversary/

If Radiohead doesn't make top ten 200 I'm done with these guys

The top 20 is similar to every single “haul” post on vinyl subreddits (aside from older albums of course), and that demographic is younger. So nothing is shocking me here.

wait why do pfork's archives only go back to 1999?

to get to the other slide

xxp very apt

It's kind of like when Rolling Stone did their 25th anniversary but burnt every copy printed between 1967 and 1969

I think that the fact that Phoebe fucking Bridgers made it to the top 30 is enough to make me never want to be associated with "pitchfork readers," even in a loose sense, ever again.

the readers list is a way more accurate reflection of the pitchfork over the years than any of the editorial lists

"Use the filters to see which albums people like you voted for."

its potentially interesting to be able to sort the list by demographic info, but framing it that way creeps me out a little bit

MBDTF very popular amongst 25-34 year olds

I just adjusted it for my demo, and I wouldn't have voted for a single album listed lol

Kind of funny that Madvillain was the most voted for album in Alaska

that divvy-up-by-demo thing is... bizarre

Kind of funny that Madvillain was the most voted for album in Alaska

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for some reason i find this totally plausible.

when i lived in an isolated rural place, all the "cooler" people listened to a lot of Madvillain and that kind of thing.

Depression Cherry by Beach House is the #1 choice in Indonesia. Sophie apparently huge in West Virginia.

imagine looking at that list and picking out Phoebe Bridgers as the bad thing

Imagine having 25 years of music to choose from and thinking a Phoebe Bridgers record is among the best.

Like sorry, that's some cloth-eared bullshit

"45+" is such a drag lmao

Anyone older than Schrieber, get on the iceberg

It all looks like different combos of the same shit(?)

the data is not worth this wealth of filters

I think 69 Love Songs is the only album on my ballot that made the list... I thought that was a super-Pitchforky choice, but it came in pretty low (#108).

i actually don't think there's that striking a difference between the age groups really, it's all very "pitchfork stuff" to me

https://www.34st.com/article/2021/10/pitchfork-music-album-reviews-spin-rolling-stone-the-independent-peppa-pig-born-to-die-taylor-swift-folklore

re: phoebe bridgers ranking that high, she's huge among young people so it's not surprising at all?

really, if anything, the results are just boring. i love a lot of the records here so i'd feel a little silly (and condescending) criticizing the website's readership, but there aren't many interesting surprises. i was about to say something like "at least it's not as male dominated as the 2012 people's list!" and then I noticed the top 16 are all men

oh, there’s another album I voted for (Big Thief)

lana & lorde being the highest placing female artists is just proof that p4k's version of "poptimism" or whatever is pretty boring

was surprised to see voters in Hungary went for Vespertine and Untrue, two of my favorite albums of all time

Taylor/Kacey in the top 100 is something that wouldn't have happened a couple of years ago I think?

why do I have thoughts idk

the geographic breakdown is pretty funny. except for hawaii, literally just the same ten records in different orders

Xpost: I mean you’re pretty much warranted boring results the bigger the sample size.