Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

going through my old mp3s really makes me hope someone at Pitchfork goes for gonzo laughs and slides Marissa Marchant into the top 10 somehow

kshighway-types

Speaking of which, whatever happened to this dude? I'd have thought he'd be all over this.

either he didn't actually exist or he decided he didn't want to put up with assholes

too many people were nice to kshighway and sock master got bored

― mark cl, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:39 PM

samosa, I am in total agreement that Neon Bible was a disappointment, and it certainly wouldn't be in my personal top 20 or even 100 of the decade, but it does surprise me that it would be in their top 200.

Statistically, these will most likely be included in the top 20 albums:

Radiohead – Kid A (#1, 2000; #1, 2000-04)
Jay-Z – The Blueprint (#2, 2000-04)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (#1, 2002; #3, 2000-04)
Outkast – Stankonia (#4, 2000-04)
The Avalanches – Since I Left You (#3, 2001; #5, 2000-04)
Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun (#2, 2000; #6, 2000-04)
Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica (#3, 2000; #7, 2000-04)
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (#8, 2001; #8, 2000-04)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (#2, 2002; #11, 2000-04)
Daft Punk – Discovery (#12, 2000-04)
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight (#6, 2002; #14, 2000-04)
The Strokes – Is This It (#15, 2001; #16, 2000-04)
Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele (#19, 2000-04)
The Arcade Fire – Funeral (#1, 2004; #45, 2000-04)
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (#1, 2005)
Kanye West – Late Registration (#2, 2005)
The Knife – Silent Shout (#1, 2006)
Panda Bear – Person Pitch (#1, 2007)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver (#2, 2007)
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (projected #1, 2009)

Sad, but these are the close outliers:

The Books – The Lemon of Pink (#2, 2003; #20, 2000-04)
Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher (#6, 2003; #51, 2000-04)
The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? (#10, 2003)
Brian Wilson – Smile (#5, 2004; #25, 2000-04)
Deerhoof – The Runners Four (#6, 2005)
Boris – Pink (#9, 2006)
Scott Walker – The Drift (#10, 2006)
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III (#11, 2008)

And, c'mon guys, as much as I'd love to see Kish Kash or Under Construction be included... it just isn't going to happen at this point. Too many other albums that "deserve" inclusion, based on these past rankings.

Tomorrow is gonna be like christmas day for ilxor

i hope pitchfork gets him at least *one* sweater

Let's go back to posting the funniest excerpts from the album blurbs, that Clipse one is pure gold.

<I AM NOT JUDGING YOU>God the fucking Avalanches, who gives a shit. Who said that piece of shit crate-digging abortion mattered at all? Did "Motoring Britain" make your top 500,000 songs of the decade?</I AM NOT JUDGING YOU>

The Books – The Lemon of Pink (#2, 2003; #20, 2000-04)

These guys seem genuinely nice, and this disc is fantastic (and pretty forward thinking/innovative). I'd like to see this disc in the top 20, but I'm not hopeful.

Statistically, these will most likely be included in the top 20 albums:

I had to check the bottom of this post to make sure this wasn't me.

xp yea it is a pretty awesome album - might be in the top 20 - the first one made it in & it's kind of accepted that 'lemon of pink' is the more polished, complete statement, more or less their best work

The Books aged as well as Four Tet and Hrvatski. Which is to say not well in the extreme.

I still love their albums. Not sure why their sound wouldn't age well.

<I AM NOT JUDGING YOU>God the fucking Avalanches, who gives a shit. Who said that piece of shit crate-digging abortion mattered at all? Did "Motoring Britain" make your top 500,000 songs of the decade?</I AM NOT JUDGING YOU>

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, October 1, 2009 12:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Talk to me about Burial in nine years

might be in the top 20 - the first one made it in & it's kind of accepted that 'lemon of pink' is the more polished, complete statement, more or less their best work

If Lemon makes it into the top 20 (which I'd also enjoy), then I'd be curious to know what would be excluded from its place.

i don't know who hrvatski is but i don't really think the books sound 'dated' at all. maybe they haven't 'aged well' in terms of their popularity (tho this probably has a lot more to do w/ the fact that they haven't released an album since 2005) but there's nothing about their sound that makes me think "totally early 00s, wow shit sounds old as hell now"

Hrvatski/Kid606 has aged better than the Books/Four Tet since they kind of have the abrasiveness/simplicity of punk on their side

I'll post about Safety Scissors some more

New one early next yr, I believe. (xp re: Books disc)

That whole microcosm (lol u still call it "lap-pop" Rob Mitchum) is just the sound of mice pooping.

Whiney you are OTM re: Burial but I think that's sort of the Cure's Faith for this decade and will hold up. At least as well as Squarepusher's debut, or Seefeel's Succour. Beloved by a select few.

Four Tet has aged very, very well.

I think Burial (and dubstep) will age just fine, too.

i'm sure the three people that actually listen to it will agree

you stfu now

the only reason it's not gonna be a punchline funnier than "grime" in two years is because Vice didn't jump on it

I think the problem with the Books, at least vis a vis lists like this, is that they've never released a front-to-back Great Album. I really like all three of the ones they've released, but they all feel sort of minor. (Possibly this has something to do with their technique -- each album has all these wonderful fragments, but the whole rarely adds up to more than the sum of its parts.)

Untrue really felt like Blue Lines to me when it was happening. Great crossover moment.

This is some great comments baiting btw, bloggas take note

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/how_many_of_the.html

I love that every time I expand this thread it goes directly to this:

loving kshighway tbh

― crutboard dudes get subway, totally (J0rdan S.), Monday, August 10, 2009 4:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Thanks, J0rdan! :-D One of the few times someone has said something nice to me instead of trying to chase me off a thread. I really appreciate it.

― kshighway, Monday, August 10, 2009 4:40 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

"...is waylaid by an empirical notion: that the internet is somehow a phenomenological bootstrap for Animal Collective's success. This is an easy mistake, because the band has thrived along- and inside the internet. The reality is that the members of this band can better afford to embody the independence critics and suspicious listeners so often equate with authenticity. And the longer an act is able to sustain said independence, the more credit and credibility they are extended. This was true in the print era, and it's true today, but it is a more difficult trick, because there is almost no money generated by the cycle of performing, recording and releasing music. With a somehow ever-expanding discography reinforcing their status as a Real Band, and a subtly commercial musical evolution expanding their audience with each release, Animal Collective's brilliant career is a masterstroke in long-tail marketing: the only example yet of a band buying out the venue in the digital age."

MPP #1 4EVA

Wavves #1 album of the decade

-- Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009

You heard it here first.

Untrue will age approximately as well as Blue Lines, Dummy, Boy in Da Corner... all stand as the premiere album-length statement for a once-fashionable genre.

guys lemon of pink isn't making it the thought for food blurb said that that was their best record and it was right

i think MPP will be #1

My assumed dark horses for #1 (if Kid A happens to slip down the list):

Discovery
Funeral
Silent Shout
Person Pitch
Sound of Silver
Merriweather

single of 00s from 2000 and album of 00s from 2009, think about it yeah

But see, Merriweather isn't as good as Kid A -- undeserved.

Discovery and Silent Shout are both better albums, and I would be thrilled if either (or both) managed to pull off the upset.

that's like, your opinion man

I think this would make a killer (and well ranked) top five:

1) Silent Shout
2) Kid A
3) Discovery
4) The Blueprint
5) Funeral

how many more times are you gonna post the names of those albums on this thread?

fucking seriously

"Whiney," indeed...

I think they should make Fluorescent Grey EP #1 just for an hour to fuck with everyone

i really have never been sure what this thread is for but i love it anyway

I don't have any prior knowledge of the outcomes here, but Books-wise, think of it from a voting standpoint: they're not quite the type of act where lots of people will put two of their albums on a ballot, right? This is sort of what I was alluding to upthread, about how it's never just personal taste versus some "objective" ranking -- there are all these considerations of how likely the thing is to get on the list either way, and what "type" of record/act you're thinking about and where you'd normally see it fitting in, and subconscious consensus issues about what feels like a useful vote versus a weird or "wasted" vote, and mild strategy in terms of what votes will do ... this stuff inevitably goes into ballots, not in any weird or vexed or sinister way, but just such that lots of people who like the Books might simply pick which of those albums they like better, stump for that one, and feel satisfied that the group made the list.

(haha and I say that as someone who put in honest but totally irrelevant votes for stuff like tatu and Brandy!)

aw, tatu

every TATU album >> "Kid A"

I couldn't be more serious