Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

Animal Collective was pretty noise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lip9f0tyDU

I'm actively surprised Max Tundra didn't rank higher --

I was mostly just surprised you didn't write the blurb.

k3vin k, the page won't open for me when I use internet explorer (not sure why) but opens fine with mozilla firefox

Daft Punk and Justice reveled in gloriously superficial properties of rock, the Aqua-Net and motivational platitudes. But Vitalic came first

Bzzzt.

I assume that's considering Daft Punk not to have dug in that direction until Human After All

Or, well ... I don't know about that description or those reference points, but if you don't much care about DJ Hell or anything, I can definitely see thinking of those earlier Vitalic singles as the early missing link between new electro and mid-decade rock-bangers stuff, I guess?

haha it's flat-out wrong, Nabisco.

can't wait to see how this "posts very much in character" battle is gonna play out.

lol

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I honestly don't know about "flat-out," Matos: Vitalic released "Poney" / "La Rock" in 2001, same year as Discovery, which had DP reveling in the gloriously superficial properties of, like, more AM pop than "rock," no?

He didn't say "did it first," he said "came first."

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Or sometimes not at all...

color me confused now

[Sizzling Inset Graph Proving Album Format is a Syncope]

thanks for the new screen name, dogg

I read it literally, that Vitalic preceded Daft Punk chronologically. Your point is probably what he's trying to say, but it's misleadingly put.

Poor Armand Van Helden, no-one remembers "Little Black Spiders".

haha I've spent a decade trying to forget "Little Black Spiders"

True history of rock house:

"Rolling & Scratching"/"Rock'n'Roll" --> "Spin Spin Sugar (Armand Van Helden Remix)" --> "Alienz" --> "Yo-Yo"/"Don't Give Up" --> "Little Black Spiders" --> "Where's Your Head At" --> "I'm So Crazy" --> various Subliminal Records efforts --> "Shiny Disco Balls" --> populist electro-house (Deep Dish/Bodyrockers/Rogue Traders etc.)

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7707-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-150-100/

Moby?!

Whiney, I like your suggestion that "Discovery" will be named the album of the decade. I'm hoping you're right. One of the defining themes of the decade has been finding ways of conflating electronic/dance music with rock, and Daft Punk gave us the best example of that with "Discovery". Radiohead approaced it from a rock perspective and made a series of great albums, and as such, Kid A at least deserves a high placement. Daft Punk came to it from the side of electronic music and made, I think, one of the most perfect albums ever. I'm not sure how much influence they've had on other music, but that album is indisputably a masterpiece, imo.

ryan p4k's discovery review

Whiney, I like your suggestion that "Discovery" will be named the album of the decade. I'm hoping you're right. One of the defining themes of the decade has been finding ways of conflating electronic/dance music with rock, and Daft Punk gave us the best example of that with "Discovery". Radiohead approaced it from a rock perspective and made a series of great albums, and as such, Kid A at least deserves a high placement. Daft Punk came to it from the side of electronic music and made, I think, one of the most perfect albums ever. I'm not sure how much influence they've had on other music, but that album is indisputably a masterpiece, imo.

This is maybe my favourite album of the decade too, but these "defining themes of the decade" style justifications are really offputting i think.

Top 25 predictions off the top of my head (no order):

Kid A
The Blueprint
Funeral
Discovery
Merriweather
Yankee
Stankonia
Bright Lights
Untrue
White Blood Cells
Person Pitch
Sung Tongs
Sound of Silver
Silent Shout
Kala
Agaetis
Smile
Madvillainy
Original Pirate
Cookie Mountain
Illinois
Late Registration
Since I Left You

That's only 23... oh well.

Tim, I was hoping you or someone else could better articulate why "Discoery" might be a great choice, and what might give it its place as the album of the decade.

Top 150-101 is posted now.

Surprises:

#149 Tough Alliance New Chance - didn't expect to see this at all
#145 Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat - wasn't this top 2-3 the year it came out? much lower than expected
#140 TVOTR Dear Science - low low low......... but i'll take it
#129 The Streets A Grand Don't... - this was top 2-3 as well, wasn't it? great album, too low
#117 Low Things We Lost... - very happy this is on the list
#116 Michael Mayer Immer - likewise
#102 The Mountain Goats Sunset Tree - was expecting this to land top 50 or so..... disappointing

Can't believe that Michael Mayer placed ahead of TVOTR. Awesome.

"lightening in a bottle"

Wow, the Clipse mixtape ahead of Lord Willin, looks like we've got another 3-album-max group on the list.

is that mixtape really that good, btw? I remember having some of the mp3s but none really blew me away iirc.

It's a shame Clipse's legendary fourth album couldn't make it, Whitey! Have you ever heard it?

I had forgotten how negative that Ryan Schreiber review of "Discovery" was

i mean, i like hell hath no fury a lot, but why is p4k so enamored with rappers who come up with endless clever ways to say, "I sell drugs"? Some of my favorite albums of all time (OB4CL, Fishscale, Ready to Die) deal largely with the drug game, but they're more about emotion and actual vivid stories than the "I push caine like a cripple" side of things. Or Wayne's "so much weight in the trunk make the car pop a wheelie" or whatever that they actually quote in the Carter II blurb.

that 4th album is fire tho.

but why is

p4k

rappers

those were supposed to be strikethroughs lol

but why is p4k white people so enamored with rappers anyone who comes up with endless clever ways to say, "I sell drugs"?

it looked better the first way! very book-cover graphic.

lol

WTF @ that Discovery review

Let's not tiptoe around the subject: The National are a little boring.

how did this band make it ahead of King then?

Really! Discovery needs a reissue fast to correct that! xp

Also, can we put to death "folktronica" - I've read it like a million times in these blurbs.

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or they could just get Tim F to re-review it!

OTM times 1000 Dan S

indie albums from 2000-2002 had the ugliest covers, jesus christ