Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

30. william s. burroughs - "bradley the buyer"

yall dont get it its like that comedy shit - if something isnt funny u just keep doin it and doin it eventually at like the mid-50s theres gonna be a wilco track and yall kill yourself laughing

I'm actually listening to Wilco right now, so there is sort of a Wilco soundtrack to this thread (at least for me). "Deeper Down," btw.

31. lamp - "♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (remix)"

anyways i just wanted to say - always sad that i missed the formative yrs of this msg board having been busy bein 15 and not h8ing myself - thanks 4 the xp

busy bein 15 and not h8ing myself

nice try

there's still plenty of time.

: : sigh : :

seems like you guys have the monopoly tho fyi

tho

fyi you guys hate yourselves. just in case you were wondering idk

lol

2 rite

and good nite ^+^

nite ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿

; )

Wow. What the hell is all this?

^ Pretty good summation of this thread so far. :-)

This is essentially message boarding 101:

Post a thread with the word "Pitchfork" in it, watch it swell to 250 posts by the end of the day

It's weird to think about people kshighway's age who view Pitchfork as this kind of "always been there" enterprise, while us old(er) folk remember when it popped up from nowhere and had many many growing pains.

I was the same age when SPIN started as kshighway was when Pitchfork started.

what a world, man.

i hear some fat limey idiot kid can't use a walkman either

we can help you out with that one

?

I was just giving myself perspective about it all (albeit in a public forum). No reason to punch my balls.

Yeah, Pitchfork was the first music website I really followed, starting back in the first half of 2005.

I read Rolling Stone and Spin before I started following music stuff online.

here's logo:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/decadeinmusic342_2.jpg

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com

I had no memory at all of the brown layouts in 2003/04.

best part of this thread is getting linked 2 wayback machine for this CLASSSSIC

Beanie Sigel [ft. Cam'ron]: "Dead or Alive"
Turning a Bon Jovi cowboy ballad into twisted funk, tempered by subtle synth and pitch-shifted vocals, Beanie Sigel takes to pirate radio to get his plea for freedom heard by the masses. The vocals sound like Catching a Case for Dummies: Beanie explains that you will fear for your life ("Clip your contacts, stay focused like contacts/ Your head's open for a contract") and your mother's life ("Can't go where mama at, the last place you wanna bring the drama at/ The first place they're gonna try, I promise"), but be sure to use history as a precursor for your escape ("Don't be scared like the red coats coming, nigga/ Stay underground and keep runnin' like Tubman"). Cam'ron appears like a subscriber to the program with his tales of success ("When the operation goes stale, ain't no jail/ I did my whole album on bail!") and references to fugitives of the past ("Read the paper, eggs and OJ/ Call CD The Head of the O.J.'s"). Here's hoping Sigel's spending all his time between court dates in the vocal booth. [Rollie Pemberton; June 4th, 2004] FIVE STARS

btw this song is awful

the review is fine but what a contradiction btween enthusiasm & quality

I'm betting on The Unicorns "Who will cut our hair when we're gone" placing somewhere in the top 30 albums. Kid A or Person Pitch will very likely end up hjacking the top spots.

Also Madvillainy will end up at number.... mmm let's see... 7.

Just wanted to say that kshighway kind of reminds me of me when I first started posting to ILX six years ago. That's all.

Oh, and this is OTM:

lol @ being far enough down some rabbithole that you are incredulous that ppl like kshighway exist.

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Keep doing your thing, man.

assuming kshighway is real, which i don't necessarily but don't care - half of me is really heartened by someone who appears to be so into the idea of music writing at all, the other half flinches when i see the examples of what he's into

I had no memory at all of the brown layouts in 2003/04.

me neither. i kinda like them

How many albums did they actually give 10/10 in this decade? I can think of Standards, which I somehow doubt will get a very high rating in the end of decade poll, and one of the Trail of Dead ones...

Also, has anyone mentioned Sophtware Slump?

Pretty sure that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot received the last 10.0 for a new album.

Here's their number one album's for each year of the decade so far for reference

Radiohead - Kid A
The Microphones - The Glow pt 2
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The Rapture - Echoes
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Knife - Silent Shout
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Fleet FOxes - Fleet Foxes

I wonder who'll suffer the largest fall from grace? The Rapture are probably in with a shout

I assume the writers were polled, so it'd depend on whether the ppl who repped for say The Glow Pt 2 back then are still reppin for it now. in any case, I appreciate the list, since I can now go to this thread whenever I forget who it is I have beef with

still dig the first three on that list

have only heard four of those records tbh

that is a truly woeful, woeful list

this isn't necessarily a judgment of any kind on pfork or indie rock or any of you guys but it seems to me that a lot of the albums ppl are mentioning have aged incredibly poorly.

of that list i only really like the knife and that interpol record; kid a and the microphones are decent i guess, illinoise is a couple notches below that, not a fan of the other four.

will Voodoo make the top 10? top 20?

why wait for Pitchfork

rateyourmusic.com: 2000s Top 1000 Albums
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000s

Kid A is number 1 rated album of the decade at the mo

why wait for Pitchfork

because it's more interesting than looking at an unannotated list on rateyourmusic?

Kid A is number 1 rated album of the decade at the mo

The "Amalie" soundtrack is rated #10. I don't think that's a list worth following.

Anomelie

amelie soundtrack is like the official european backpack alb tho