Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

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

getting a tattoo > > getting a tattoo while listening to Kid A

list made me listen to In Rainbows again. Turns out it's pretty good!

weird fishes...

no way @ electric version

the rest look right though

Yeah, take that one off and replace it with the avalanches. That record is so far from what I listen to, it completely slipped my mind.

I did like Mark's blurb for that record, because it strikes me as true for me personally and probably true in general -- there was something about the album (and possibly its timing) that I think managed to rope in plenty of folks who'd never entirely bought the band's alleged greatness in the past. It seemed to shrug off Being-Radiohead, somehow, and just be good in some more general way.

sorry, xpost -- that's re: In Rainbows, obv

it's my fave Radiohead album -- i like the band, but am not a superfan though.

Yeah, probably mine, too.

Mine, too. As I've said before, I prefer warm, personable Radiohead to cold, robotic Radiohead.

I like warm, unreasonable Radiohead, which is probably why I like Hail to the Thief so much.

I like Amnesiac a lot. Kid A is probably my 2nd favorite. I hate Animal Collective (no offense).

HTTT has really grown on me (tho I've always loved There There, one of the decade's best rock songs).

Never cared for HTTT, which is why I never really gave In Rainbows a chance. I can try to reassess, but it's absence from this definitive list confirms my initial response so I see no need to. I tried MPP again today, but just can't make it past Blueish. 'My Girls' (specifically, the AAAOOOWWW) might be the musical moment of the year, but a lot of it is snoozeville.

HTTT/In Rainbows: Very -- very -- different vibe.

I never quite understood all the relative dislike for Hail To The Thief. It's got some clunkers like We Suck Young Blood, but the majority of it is totally awesome, as the kids say.

I'm trying with Animal Collective. And there are half a dozen songs by them I love. The rest, not so much. My favorite song is Cuckoo Cuckoo.

I decided a couple years ago that I just like Sung Tongs, and it has nothing to do with Animal Collective really, and that simplified the whole thing for me.

I am a little bit that way -- Sung Tongs is by far my favorite of theirs -- but I do really like plenty of their other stuff as well.

^^^^ This.

They'll have a killer greatest hits record pretty soon (as long as I get to choose the songs)

1. YOUR COMPUTER

It had better have Fitter Happier on it, or it's no greatest hits record.

hah xp

lol whiney

NO REALLY, IT'S YOUR COMPUTER

^^by this do you mean they're going to do a SPIN and not put an album in first place?

no, he's just addressing dominique leone

I am pretty sure Foetopsy's In the Bathroom is the #1. No inside information or anything, just a very strong hunch.

I have issues with how HTTT was mixed. Like in Sit Down. Stand Up. The centrality of the beats on that is RONG, as it's the PIANO that makes the song. Or like the guitar solo in There There which sounds kind of brittle compared to the way it sounds live. etc.

I am pretty sure Foetopsy's In the Bathroom is the #1. No inside information or anything, just a very strong hunch.

That's funny. My mole from deep inside PFM headquarters tell me that The Garden State soundtrack is #1, and that upon reaching the end of the list a virus makes your computer freeze. I plan on looking at 20-1 from a friend's computer.

revised full top twenty prediction in no partic order. allowing there are no big surprises and those missy and ghostface albums got on the list at all i think this is going to be it.

arcade fire - funeral
mia - kala
lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
outkast - stankonia
ghostface killah - supreme clientele
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
radiohead - kid a
jay z - the blueprint
missy elliot - under construction
the srokes - is this it
white stripes - white blood cells
the knife - silent shout
animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
panda bear - person pitch
interpol debut
lil wayne - carter 3
sigur ros - agaetis byrjun
avalanches - since i left you
kanye west - late registration
daft punk - discovery

i love the srokes

kala already charted.

back to the drawing board, samosa gibreel

lol whiney

back to the drowning broad

oh dear, C3 hasn't placed yet? Thats's really in anyone's top 20?

I don't think "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" placed.

i don't think it will

That is an outrage!

we're all forgetting about this seminal and era-defining work:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7155/stardustweare.jpg