Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

197. Scout Niblett - Kidnapped by Neptune

xxp re: GAS, i'm not sure if this factors in, but i feel like gas's 'pop' is probably located in more peoples' minds as part of the 90s canon - it capped off a series of albums that felt like a whole statement that all appeared in the late 90s. maybe it didn't factor in that highly b/c people didn't even think of it that much as something from the 00s?

Good point, and I'm finding that a lot of stuff (not just techno) from 2000-2002 feels like it happened twenty years ago instead of ten. It's throwing me for a bit of a loop in trying to come up with my own best of the decade list.

I do think that The Field's high ranking will look a bit silly in 3-4 years, it's not so much that it was a high profile record in a fringe genre, but that it came out only two years ago and is still fresh in people's minds (and that's partly because The Field released a new album this year).

196. Thursday - War All the Time

195. Kano - Home Sweet Home

194. Ulf Lohmann - Because Before

193. A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. Weapons

192. Now It's Overhead - Now It's Overhead

Only the top 50 left. I hope we'll still see The Drift, Geogaddi, and Vocalcity in there.

191. Gene Defcon - Come Party With Me

489. Kano
"Reload It"
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― chutesy ladders (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:43 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

no worries dude this is still as clever and hilarious as when you did it for the tracks list.

You're right, we should all respond to all the cries of "Still no one's made a plain text version of the list?" with "I'LL GET RIGHT ON IT!"

which is why i did it lact time too

I'm too dum to get the joke anyway.

yeah youre right just ignoring something would be completely out of the question

I like Kano.

190. U2 - All that you can't leave behind

189. Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - Souljaboytellem.com

188. Daughtry - Daughtry

187. Bowling for Soup - The Great Burrito Extortion Case

186. Fieldy's Dreams - Rock 'n' Roll Gangster

185. Mick Jagger - Goddess in the Doorway

I can't believe Fieldy's Dreams didn't make the top 100!!! :'(

187. Bowling for Soup - The Great Burrito Extortion Case

I'm glad these guys are finally getting their due.

Rock on, Bowling for Soup.

100-51 just kicked my ass.

OTM for poster upthread who said "Sexy Back" will be used to embarrass people at weddings in 20 years.

50-21 is up now

fever to tell at number 24, wow

I honestly don't know maaaayne

― I'm the best maaaayne, I did it (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

can i just repost this to draw attention to how amazing it is thx

is the Phoenix album a surprise?

you know, people have been repping for phoenix all decade long, but i never noticed it until this year!

No Gimme Fiction or Sunlandic Twins.. not surprised.

Phoenix was their #50 album of 2006, and my #2 for that year.

good to see Alligator up there. that album's tite

Just in case none of you guys knew, "Paper Planes" was used in the trailer to Pineapple Express.. I'm not sure if that's been established as fact yet.

good to see Alligator up there. that album's tite

― wilter, Thursday, October 1, 2009 5:40 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's kind of a surprise, though. the 50-21 part of the list doesn't have many of them

what's left?

kid a
illinois
merriweather post pavilion
yankee hotel foxtrot wtc 9/11
turn on the bright lights
funeral
neon bible
discovery
white blood cells
person pitch
silent shout
sound of silver
stankonia
the blueprint
since i left you
bright like neon love

that's 16.

agaetis byrjun or whatever

Rated R should be there but won't be :(

SB/TLB???

Late Registration, Smile. has Since I Left You shown up yet?

the moon & antarctica!

scott pl wasn't kidding when he said there wouldn't be much from 2009. only two albums so far

bright like neon love

lol whut

The only reason why I think Relationship of Command might be top 20 is because atdi were mentioned in "the decade in news" but still somehow it doesn't feel like a typical shoe-in album.. And similarly, besides Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear, there aren't any 2009 albums that seem like they should receive lots of votes all at once. I'm surprised Dirty Projectors placed well.

Did 1999 get shafted during the initial best of the 90s run the way 2009 has been?

It certainly didn't help 1999's case that a) it took everybody a while to find the diamonds in the rough, like it always does b) 1999 was an exceptionally great year for songs but not albums

But then I might just be remembering 1999 through the lens of childhood and radio pop.

You just know, with crushing inevitability, that Kid A is going to win, purely because EVERYONE voting in this poll (maybe) has been waiting for ten years to put it at the top of their list in some kind of long-winded Pavlovian indie fuXXor conspiracy. None of them will actually love this record the most out of all the records of this decade, they'll just have been expecting to do this for so long that they can't comprehend doing anything else.

fever to tell at number 24, wow

Is that surprising? I've never liked YYY, so it's a genuine question. The high ranking makes me at least want to give the disc another listen.

None of them will actually love this record the most out of all the records of this decade, they'll just have been expecting to do this for so long that they can't comprehend doing anything else.

Not sure how you could know that. Seems like a lot of people love the disc, and the band (maxing out their 3 disc limit, all in the top 50). BTW, Anmesiac appearing today (and, presumably, Kid A tomorrow) means that HTTT won't be on the list.

I know that because it's a rubbish record. < / pseudo objectivity >