Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

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"you guys realize that dude is not a puppy, right"

The only way you could know that is if he's your SOCKPUPPET, Dan! What do I win? What do I win?

That puppy looks somewhat distraught!

welcome to the fridge motherfucker

he's got nabisco's hand up his ass, for starters

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

^goddamn, how painful

I've only heard two of those all the way through.

I am not P4k approved.

I like all of those records bar FF (have not heard The Glow). I am p4k approved, also known as 21 y/o white boy.

good
haven't heard
ok
don't like
good
not bad
amazing
haven't heard
good

thanks omar!

or would you have preferred

7.1
--
6.2
3.6
7.3
6.6
9.5
--
7.0

3.6? ;_;

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y100/aireckoressal/gifs/dealwithit.gif

alternatively

haven't heard
haven't heard
haven't heard
this is ok
this is pretty good
i like this
undeniably awesome
pretty great imo
haven't heard

no you misunderstand, I am crying for you and the awesomeness you are missing out on for not liking NY hipsters who channel Robert Smith filtered over a rock/disco band

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

― lex pretend, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

this is almost incomprehensibly meta-snarky

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i actually like all the pitchfork year-enders. i think they all (except maybe the microphones) come out of a kind of 'so, what record did all the pitchfork writers have somewhere between places four and twelve on their individual list' place

Radiohead - Kid A <--- eh, haven't listened to it in years
The Microphones - The Glow pt 2<--- not since 03, as a freshman year alcoholic
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights<--- loved this record when it came out, was done with it by the end of 03
The Rapture - Echoes<--- jesus. january 04 was the last i heard this?
Arcade Fire - Funeral<--- don't know anything about it.
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois<--- ditto
The Knife - Silent Shout<--- was rapturous about it then, can't imagine listening to it now, but still great album etc.
Panda Bear - Person Pitch<--- i started the thread on this
Fleet FOxes - Fleet Foxes<--- who the fuck are fleet foxes?

also, i found my first post-- it was about the Magik Markers. lol.

i am making my own top 500 divided into 5 thus:

a) instrumentals (inc. hit singles)
b) uk top 40 singles (not inc. instrumentals or remixes of the 'a-side')
c) non-singles (albums and ep tracks but not remixes)
d) remixes, re-edits, mixtracts mash-ups and other combinations
e) other singles (not top 40)

cos i can

i'm kinda more interested in the token non indie that pitchfork, not tryin to deny them the right or anything, but what was crossover pitchfork-appealing?

WHOA. do any of you remember Mickey?

Of course.

Who's guessing this thing reaches 1000 posts before they even post the first song

i'm sorry, i 've gotten carried away looking at my history on ilx.

this would appear to be my first post:

free jazz (or at least the idea of it; it's not like i know what i'm talking about) seems not so far from the basic squawky noises already heard in rock; listening to older jazz means getting accustomed to following chord changes and working out what's happening = in some ways more genuinely foreign than the stuff that (apparentlysupposedly) seemed impossibly far-out in the 60s
(i don't think this process is anything to do with 'visceral emotion')

― t0m w3st, Monday, November 10, 2003 5:57 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also they write about it in the wire
― t0m w3st, Monday, November 10, 2003 6:00 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

although bizarrely someone else with my name posted this on the missy elliott / fremma neppe venette thread:

u are all dense u know! ever heard of a shitty little windows program called sound recorder?? well record the part of the song that u r all arguin about and then play it back using the reverse function........and it blatantly says: "I put my thang down flip it and reverse it" if u dont believe me try it....and listen to all the people that bin tellin u that the whole time!!
― T0m W3st, Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:18 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

It's like this thread is promising to be the culmination of ILM.

My own first post ever references a Pitchfork review :-/

seeing someone on here a little older than myself getting thrashed for his indie earnestness makes me wonder how I survived you cranks.

My favourite review of recent weeks has to be Cokemachineglow's staunch and beautifully-written defence of Bitter Tea. I'll get back to y'all with my all-time favourites... (and the winner, without a shadow of a doubt, is Pitchfork on Obie Trice, simultaneously the greatest and yet most awful single piece of music writing...ever)

I've written my own (IMO quite wittily-observed) spoof review but I'm not sure how I could post it here...

― L0uis J4gger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:30 (3 years ago) Bookmark

I thought ILM hated Pitchfork.

But I am sure Pitchfork will do the opposite you see on this thread. Just to piss ILM off. And then things go full circle

Uhhhh... like half of ILM writes for Pitchfork.

"And I will stir up ILXor against ILXor, brother will troll brother..."

i'm a BIG fan of kshighway! keep doing what you are doing as i'm doing just fine with my love of indie music on ILM.

this might be the first post i made on this thing called ILM:

slowdive: classic or dud?#

I’m still brand new but wanted to chime in, though I find it strange that you guys have all these classic or duds posts.

I would say classic but happen to really like a lot of stuff that came out around that time and would not put dud next to many bands except something like Curve. I also think its silly to compare Slowdive to Mojave 3 because they are very different bands. Mojave 3 are often overlooked because of the former but I think they are also really good. The best M3 album, IMO, happens to be Out Of Tune with the glorious “This Road I’m Travelling.” I will agree that Rachel’s album is just kind of there because I never listen to it. Neil’s album, on the other hand, is quite good though it does have a few fillers. I even think I listened to it more than the last M3 album. I was on slsk last week and Neil Halstead happened to be hanging out in one of the rooms. I joined the room after he was already chatting and was wondering why everyone was acting so strange. He was having computer problems and left. So I was writing about this on a music message board I usually post at, than low and behold he came back. He was saying that he is going to have a new solo album come out in February. I tried to say hi but his computer was having problems and I never got a word in edge wise.

Moose are brilliant and will have to disagree with most of you on this thread again. The reason I say that is because they became better once they put away their petals, though I love that stuff as well. Moose turned into one of the best bands of the 1990’s once they mellowed out.

-Bee

― BeeOK (BeeOK), Friday, November 26, 2004 8:37 PM (4 years ago)

Thanks, Bee OK, for the encouragement and for sharing your first post!

So they've put up 500 - 201 of the tracks list and they don't have commentary. Makes you wonder why they didn't just do a top 200 instead.

srsly stop this "aughts" nonsense

Wow. I thought that having the song samples right next to the list could have been cool, but then I have to "sign up to activate the music player"? No thanks.

even worse, i actually tried to sign up: "only available in the US" well f u then

The 500 song list seems a bit pointless. For a start it's too many songs for a "list", and the choices have obviously come from a huge range of people with totally different tastes. So there's no sense whatsoever of reasoning or unity... Is Yellow by Coldplay really better than Carry Me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon? They may as well have just picked 500 random songs. Yo.

yo?

Just thought I'd add a Yo, it was all getting a bit serious back there.

appreciate it

back there, 5 minutes ago, in a post

Callin' out by real names.

the choices have obviously come from a huge range of people with totally different tastes.

this is a really good thing tho

lots of great songs in 300-201. toss the first four pages.

Really? I kind of felt like it declined in quality as it went along, though I like it all so far.

The parlor game here is to figure out who gave each of the non-blurbed tracks their one nomination.

good luck with that?

OK it's really more like "which of my friends picked the tracks I actually like?"