pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

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.

by harnessing the power of big data, we will use analytics to drive decision-making in key sectors

for all this list's problems, if you compare just the 1996-2011 results of this one to the previous list, this one is a significant improvement

Really disappointed Pfork’s review of the new live Coltrane set makes no mention of how much drum-n-bass is derived from this music.

how many shitcats did they give it?

lol at calling the very vanilla new charli track 'avant-garde', like there are certainly charli tracks where that's a bit less of a stretch but ... ?

did they call her "the future of pop" for the 7th year in a row?

no but she's not even aspiring to that here for once

Yes, the two recent singles are less "avant-garde" than anything she's done bar "Sucker", and more anonymous than that album too.

10 + 9.0 = 9.2… guess the math works out

Glad Pitchfork finally weighed in on Kid A

Like Bob Dylan post-motorcycle crash, doing everything he could to discourage the press and his fan’s interest only to increase his enigmatic appeal, Yorke struggled against the straitjacket of his band’s grandness only to feel it pull tighter.

Like Bob Dylan post-motorcycle crash, doing everything she could to discourage the press and her voters' interest only to increase her enigmatic appeal, Sinema struggled against the straitjacket of her maverickness only to feel it pull tighter.

hahahaha nooooooo

wait bob dylan wore a straitjacket on a motorcycle? i hope it was listed as a contributing factor in the investigation

https://pitchfork.com/news/vote-now-for-your-favorite-albums-and-songs-of-2021/

Dude… it’s November 9

Like Xmas, now the season starts after Halloween

the year's not over for me until next Friday when a fantastic British musician with a one-word name drops their latest album. that's right, I'm a pretty big STING fan

GAZCOOMBES

lmao, both Elbow and Oasis are dropping records next Friday