The Pitchfork News/reviews thread

[SoulDischarge]

I think I need to change my Italian Do It Better release to Chromatics - Night Drive, but really it's a toss up. And I forgot Swans released albums before the reunion that were in that time frame.

[bmack86]

Yes I made one:

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/fac6db41/

I love the Kid Rock nod. I still enjoy that album.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/780ddc0a/

My top 15 or so are ranked, the rest are kinda just thrown in there.

Our lists are incredibly similar.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/2fa07d38/

Top 26 are ranked. Everything else needs to be sorted.

I need to check out Biosphere

I've only gotten 3 hours of sleep today and worked 14 hours so this is kinda just a rough draft. http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/7da65f70/

I FORGOT ATDI!!!

My list

[kreutz2112]

I am just starting mine. Has Aenima just not been listed yet? It doesn't come up when I search for Tool. It was released in Sept. '96 so it should qualify.

[kreutz2112]

Same with The Score. Does every album album released in 1996 count?

[ods..]

still working but i like it http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/67255d02/

[TallGuyCM]

still working but i like it http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/67255d02/

Damnit, how could I forget Godspeed?

[zircona1]

Does every album album released in 1996 count?

Yes, I believe so.

My list is already finished, but I was wondering if soundtracks would qualify - specifically, Magnolia - and live albums.

[Miroir Noir]

I think the database consists of albums P4K reviewed or named in one of their lists; anything else is fair game, you just have to input it yourself.

[suprefan]

I am just starting mine. Has Aenima just not been listed yet? It doesn't come up when I search for Tool. It was released in Sept. '96 so it should qualify.

Why don't you just add it? Theres going to be a lot of music thats not in their database. Do you really need the album cover on there?

[GolfWang]

this is fun
http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/d8112a09/

[algunz]

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/lis...88381481237582

That was hard

[Boourns]

I think the database consists of albums P4K reviewed or named in one of their lists; anything else is fair game, you just have to input it yourself.

Yeah, I had to enter a bunch myself. I also noticed that M83's self-titled was oddly not in the database even though it was reviewed, but I've not found any other such glitches.
http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/df344e1b/

[Miroir Noir]

Man, that original cover art for the Moon and Antarctica is so terrible. Unless it is an elaborate Pink Floyd joke, in which case it is actually awesome. I had forgotten about it until we all started putting together these lists.

[Miroir Noir]

Staff lists

Cohen's list reminded me that I had forgotten Adore. Yes, I will defend it.

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Adore is my favorite Smashing Pumpkins record. I still listen to it often.

[SoulDischarge]

I need to check out Biosphere

You really do. One of the most consistent electronic/ambient producers around, and one of my personal favorites. Substrata was kind of an arbitrary choice as any of his albums could stand in for it.

I finished mine. Stopped ranking somewhere in the 60s, and even then, pretty arbitrary obviously. I tried to keep additions outside of their "library" to a minimum, as this is more of the top albums covered by Pitchfork list more than anything, although I'm pretty sure everyone of my additions was reviewed by the site at one point. I tried to be as honest as possible in regards to including stuff that I actually actively listen to on the regular and am really intimately familiar with as opposed to albums I know are probably better but that I haven't invested as much in.

[bmack86]

Of the staff lists, unsurprisingly, Brandon Stosuy is the most interesting. And I fuckin' love the man for putting Unwound as his favorite album from that period.

Oh shit, and I forgot Iran - The Moon Boys.

Edit: I just made a few changes to my list. It's getting there. Out with the Hold Steady, in with Jamey Johnson.

[SoulDischarge]

Too bad Dominique Leone and Philip Sherburne aren't around any more to contribute lists, as I'd be very interested in theirs.

Mark Richardson's is pretty interesting too.

[bmack86]

Yup, and I really liked Stephen Deusner's as well. They're the three I most trust. And Stuart Berman, who does some of the good metal and experimental stuff.

[SoulDischarge]

Duesner's runs rather rootsy. Interesting to see everyone's genre biases bringing in fringe things that color the more obvious, sweeping choices that tend to make a majority of lists.

And I think I'm switching my first two around.

[kreutz2112]

It is taking too long to move my albums around so I am saying fuck it, but albums 1-16 are set in stone.

http://peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/c1f8e109/

[TallGuyCM]

Ariel Pink lands an 8.5

I concur.

[wmgaretjax]

Schnitzel Boogie is throwaway? one of my favorite tracks.

[Miroir Noir]

The People's List:

1 RADIOHEAD OK Computer
2 RADIOHEAD Kid A
3 ARCADE FIRE Funeral
4 NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5 THE STROKES Is This It
6 RADIOHEAD In Rainbows
7 WILCO Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
8 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Merriweather Post Pavilion
9 KANYE WEST My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
10 SUFJAN STEVENS Illinois
11 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound of Silver
12 INTERPOL Turn On the Bright Lights
13 BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
14 THE FLAMING LIPS The Soft Bulletin
15 THE XX The xx
16 ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs
17 MODEST MOUSE The Moon & Antarctica
18 FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
19 THE FLAMING LIPS Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
20 RADIOHEAD Amnesiac
21 THE WHITE STRIPES Elephant
22 THE WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells
23 GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest
24 THE NATIONAL Boxer
25 BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE You Forgot It in People
26 DAFT PUNK Discovery
27 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
28 BON IVER Bon Iver
29 DJ SHADOW ...Endtroducing
30 BECK Odelay
31 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN If You're Feeling Sinister
32 BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream
33 MODEST MOUSE The Lonesome Crowded West
34 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM This Is Happening
35 OUTKAST Stankonia
36 PHOENIX Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
37 ELLIOTT SMITH Either/Or
38 ARCADE FIRE Neon Bible
39 KANYE WEST The College Dropout
40 RADIOHEAD Hail to the Thief
41 PANDA BEAR Person Pitch
42 MADVILLAIN Madvillainy
43 THE POSTAL SERVICE Give Up
44 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam
45 SIGUR RÓS Ágætis Byrjun
46 THE AVALANCHES Since I Left You
47 THE SHINS Chutes Too Narrow
48 DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca
49 SPIRITUALIZED Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space
50 BECK Sea Change
51 BJÖRK Homogenic
52 THE MAGNETIC FIELDS 69 Love Songs
53 MODEST MOUSE Good News for People Who Love Bad News
54 THE NATIONAL High Violet
55 THE SHINS Oh, Inverted World
56 ARCTIC MONKEYS Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
57 YO LA TENGO I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
58 KANYE WEST Late Registration
59 MASSIVE ATTACK Mezzanine
60 BURIAL Untrue
61 YEAH YEAH YEAHS Fever to Tell
62 BOARDS OF CANADA Music Has the Right to Children
63 DEERHUNTER Halcyon Digest
64 BLOC PARTY Silent Alarm
65 M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
66 JAY-Z The Blueprint
67 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Feels
68 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Songs for the Deaf
69 SIGUR RÓS ( )
70 FRANZ FERDINAND Franz Ferdinand
71 JAMES BLAKE James Blake
72 DAFT PUNK Homework
73 PORTISHEAD Third
74 THE NATIONAL Alligator
75 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Sung Tongs
76 THE STROKES Room on Fire
77 WILCO Summerteeth
78 ELLIOTT SMITH XO
79 JUSTICE †
80 DEERHUNTER Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
81 TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
82 FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues
83 THE KNIFE Silent Shout
84 OUTKAST Aquemini
85 TV ON THE RADIO Return to Cookie Mountain
86 BUILT TO SPILL Keep it Like a Secret
87 AIR Moon Safari
88 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra
89 OUTKAST Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
90 KANYE WEST Graduation
91 WOLF PARADE Apologies to the Queen Mary
92 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem
93 THE ANTLERS Hospice
94 JAY-Z The Black Album
95 OF MONTREAL Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
96 SPOON Kill the Moonlight
97 SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
98 M.I.A. Kala
99 GIRLS Album
100 THE MICROPHONES The Glow, Pt. 2
101 JOANNA NEWSOM Ys
102 APHEX TWIN The Richard D. James Album
103 THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN Emergency and I
104 BUILT TO SPILL Perfect from Now On
105 GRIZZLY BEAR Yellow House
106 INTERPOL Antics
107 M83 Saturdays=Youth
108 THE WEEKND House of Balloons
109 BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY I See a Darkness
110 BLUR 13
111 SUFJAN STEVENS Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
112 J DILLA Donuts
113 ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy
114 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FutureSex/LoveSounds
115 DESTROYER Kaputt
116 FEIST The Reminder
117 RYAN ADAMS Heartbreaker
118 WEEZER Pinkerton
119 IRON & WINE Our Endless Numbered Days
120 REAL ESTATE Days
121 EMINEM The Marshall Mathers LP
122 GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost
123 FLYING LOTUS Cosmogramma
124 ELLIOTT SMITH Figure 8
125 PJ HARVEY Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
126 CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
127 JAY-Z / KANYE WEST Watch the Throne
128 SUFJAN STEVENS The Age of Adz
129 CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles
130 BAND OF HORSES Everything All the Time
131 SLEIGH BELLS Treats
132 JAPANDROIDS Post-Nothing
133 YO LA TENGO And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
134 BATTLES Mirrored
135 MY MORNING JACKET Z
136 BJÖRK Vespertine
137 TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor
138 GORILLAZ Plastic Beach
139 SUFJAN STEVENS Seven Swans
140 PJ HARVEY Let England Shake
141 ST. VINCENT Actor
142 TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l
143 JOANNA NEWSOM The Milk-Eyed Mender
144 THE UNICORNS Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
145 CARIBOU Swim
146 PASSION PIT Manners
147 THE HOLD STEADY Boys and Girls in America
148 TAME IMPALA Innerspeaker
149 CAT POWER You Are Free
150 THE WALKMEN Bows and Arrows
151 SPOON Gimme Fiction
152 BECK Midnite Vultures
153 BEACH HOUSE Devotion
154 YEAH YEAH YEAHS It's Blitz
155 WILCO Being There
156 SILVER JEWS American Water
157 FUGAZI The Argument
158 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Twin Cinema
159 FEVER RAY Fever Ray
160 GRANDADDY The Sophtware Slump
161 D'ANGELO VooDoo
162 ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Before Today
163 BEIRUT The Flying Club Cup
164 THE STREETS Original Pirate Material
165 MOGWAI Young Team
166 ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD Source Tags & Codes
167 M.I.A. Arular
168 TOM WAITS Mule Variations
169 JOANNA NEWSOM Have One on Me
170 THE DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife
171 BOARDS OF CANADA Geogaddi
172 FRANK OCEAN Nostalgia, Ultra.
173 GHOSTFACE KILLAH Supreme Clientele
174 THE LIBERTINES Up the Bracket
175 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Wild Hunt
176 ROBYN Body Talk
177 JANELLE MONÁE The ArchAndroid
178 KURT VILE Smoke Ring For My Halo
179 THE RAPTURE Echoes
180 ANDREW BIRD Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
181 KANYE WEST 808s and Heartbreak
182 CLIPSE Hell Hath No Fury
183 BIG BOI Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
184 TV ON THE RADIO Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
185 STEREOLAB Emperor Tomato Ketchup
186 THE WRENS The Meadowlands
187 MY MORNING JACKET It Still Moves
188 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Mass Romantic
189 GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
190 DEERHUNTER Cryptograms
191 SPOON Girls Can Tell
192 M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
193 BRIGHT EYES Fevers and Mirrors
194 GIRL TALK Feed the Animals
195 SANTOGOLD Santogold
196 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit
197 CUT COPY In Ghost Colours
198 THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
199 DRAKE Take Care
200 JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala

[kreutz2112]

[bmack86]

So tired of Radiohead. So bored.

[bmack86]

Also, can someone show the guy who wrote the comment for The xx album some Young Marble Giants please?

[suprefan]

Well if it wasn't rigged enough, right? Anyone want to compare the results to what P4k had readily available when you compiled your list? Just the stuff they had as suggestions. Its pretty much all of this. They knew what they were doing when attempting to make something look like ''the people'' voted for.

[amyzzz]

I really don't get Neutral Milk Hotel. Guy can't sing. I suppose this goes in hype thread. Massive Attack should be much higher.

[bmack86]

Well, and there shouldn't be three albums by the same act in the top 10. Rolling Stone/Beatles much?