Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

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

but the rateyourmusic top 100 will be superior to Pitchfork

i.e albums from: Ulver, Negura Bunget, Porcupine Tree, Neurosis, Isis, Drudkh, Rosetta, Primordial, Disillusion, Agalloch, maudlin of the Well, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Arcturus, Opeth

Two bands I've heard and liked bookending a bunch of shit I don't care about! You're right, clearly superior!

^was waiting for this post before I posted, cheers

xp

ayo j0hn I really like The Fix too, lemme know if you need an intern or something

stuffing envelopes and threatening p4k staffers sounds like just the thing I need to cure my obamalaise

Two bands I've heard and liked bookending a bunch of shit I don't care about! You're right, clearly superior!

For a second I thought you were talking about the Pitchfork list of number ones for the decade and I'm all "I thought you liked the Knife..."

in what fucked-up dimension would I EVER proclaim myself to be a Fleet Foxes fan

Hey you said you liked them on SNL! I figured something weird had happened.

that Knife album has aged super well, fwiw. I probably like it even more now than I did when it came out.

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

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I will rep for Radiohead, The Rapture and The Knife any time, any place. And Ned, I said that Fleet Foxes did a good job but were really boring; not exactly ringing endorsement!

(pro-tip: Silent Shout makes an awesome soundtrack for Wipeout HD)

sufjan stevens will suffer from a combination of too-big-too-fast/what-have-you-done-for-me-lately?, but one of my stoner buddies is convinced he's gonna totally reinvent himself and drop "the merriweather post pavilion of 2010"

^^^^zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i guess i should stfu and get off this thread but seriously, i think we should all aim a little higher than the merriweather post pavilion of 2010

making total sense on a pitchfork thread in '09

So have we officially given up on Sufjan doing all 50 states? I wish I would've put money on it way back when.

You know, I don't know that I have knowingly heard Sufjan Stevens; if I have, it wasn't memorable at all.

Isn't Stevens' next opus a concept album on the health care debates raging in rural Congressional districts?

one man's merriweather post pavilion of 2010 is another man's "freebird" of 1998

sufjanized medicine

enuff about other people's lists, when can we start the rolling ILM decade nominations thread? it'd be nice to have it around for people to lob things at (and for people like me, who have missed 88 percent of all of the interesting music this decade, to sample from). i assume there won't be a poll til early next year, but it's not too early to start the chin-stroking, is it?

("that's not your chin" jokes here...)

there's a semi thread somewhere for this iirc

From an ILM list, I expect at least one if not two MG albums, Portishead, The Knife, Radiohead, and then a bunch of stuff that I won't really care about one way or another.

Beaches And Canyons btw

there's a semi thread somewhere for this iirc

there's a few things -- "hit of the decade," "anti-hit of the decade," etc. nothing comprehensive tho.

true that the final ilm list might not be much more interesting than anyone else's, but the nomination discussion could be.

Your Top Ten Fave Singles/Albums of This Decade

musically handles the year-end lists and I guess should have first say in what'll happen regarding a decade list (even if just to say someone else do it.)

oh right the top 10 thread, forgot about that.

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.

― wishes to be referred under the pseudonym of kronos (call all destroyer), Monday, August 10, 2009 10:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Keep doing your thing, man.

― jaymc, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Thanks, jaymc.

Also, I'm just curious: How do I remind you of what you were like when you first started posting, and why do some people have a hard time believing I exist? Serious questions.

you changed man
you used to be about the posting
what happened
?

This is like Alex in NYC trolling again, right? Mods can still do IP checks, can't they?

Alex in SF, hello again!

LOL

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

― lex pretend, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I'm not a gimmick. Why would I waste time coming here to talk about indie music if I didn't really like it? As some sort of performance just to mock indie kids? Well, I'm not doing that. I've spent the past five years exploring indie music and other stuff like some postpunk, and I'm sure I'll branch out from here, but so far I've spent most of my time just focusing on getting into indie. And there's nothing wrong with that. It may not be hip to some of you here that I like this stuff, and some of you seem to think I'm too earnest, but I am the way I am and I like what I like. I also like posting here because it is rewarding to talk to a lot of you, and I learn a lot about music and other things.

i meant the examples of music writing you bring up! all that horribly verbose pitchfork purple prose crap.

you can like whatever music you like obv (tho) if ilm inspires you to check out stuff beyond indie then i'm sure everyone here will be v happy, like we were when LJ did it

"Why would I waste time coming here to talk about indie music if I didn't really like it?"

Why do trolls do what they do? It's a deep existential question. We should have a thread about it.

I mean, if he is a real person, why would he post on a board full of jaded cranks and not, like, the Saddle Creek board?

Thank you, Whiney.