Pitchfork's "The People's List - Top Albums 1996-2011"
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I have the top 10, and probably about half the entire list. Doesn't mean I like them all, however. For example, I loathe Sufjan Steven's music. I mean, I really, really hate it. I'm talking Uriah Heep-level hatred. But my wife's a fan, so I never traded in those CDs.
ETA: The first Strokes album is genius. A classic. You guys are wrong.
ETA: The first Strokes album is genius. A classic. You guys are wrong.
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Poor Foo Fighters...not one album in the top 200. The Colour and the Shape is probably in my top 20 albums of all time. It's one of those albums that my friends and I listened to constantly the first summer it was released. One of the reasons why I probably think of it so highly is that whenever I listen to it all of those great memories come rushing back to me.
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I wonder if the people thinking 3 Radiohead albums in the top ten is excessive are the same people that love that the Beatles have 3-4 albums in Rolling Stone's greatest albums of all time list. This list is terrible. Just further proves that the only people that read Pitchfork are whitey. The only hip hop artists on the list are the ones that Pitchfork's calls "essential" which just makes their readers just seem like sheep. I like that the Strokes are in the top 5 though. It's a great rock and roll album.
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It's Pitchfork, I'm surprised they didn't make up Radiohead albums to put in the Top 10.
Disappointed to see the staggeringly great "New Adventures in Hi Fi" by R.E.M. is absent
Disappointed to see the staggeringly great "New Adventures in Hi Fi" by R.E.M. is absent
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I'm genuinely curious. I wonder if it's a matter of different tastes, or just completely different genres. (KC, I imagine, would be in the latter).
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That being said, if I were to compile a Top 10 1996-2011 of artists I *do* like, there would only be a single entry per artist. I mean, I like Daft Punk, but only one album is getting on there.
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Aren't you just imposing a limitation that goes against the idea of a top albums list? We can argue the order, but few would disagree that Kid A and OKC belong on a top 200 from that timeframe.
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I've heard about 80 of these albums. Only around 60 of which really seemed to appeal to me... but those albums are some of my personal favorites. It's nice to see so much Animal Collective, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Radiohead, etc.
Lots of amazing music on the list.
Lots of amazing music on the list.
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Still no response from those saying they don't own or don't have any of the albums on the list. I would assume anyone with a broad taste in music would have some of those records.
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*Edit to add*
I don't have a broad taste in music. I lean specifically to hard rock and metal. Knowing that, will a top ten list from me add anything to the conversation?
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come on man, I'm gutting and refinishing a bathroom! It not like I live on dvdtalk. give me some time and I'll compile my top 10
*Edit to add*
I don't have a broad taste in music. I lean specifically to hard rock and metal. Knowing that, will a top ten list from me add anything to the conversation?
*Edit to add*
I don't have a broad taste in music. I lean specifically to hard rock and metal. Knowing that, will a top ten list from me add anything to the conversation?
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okie dokie, a quick and dirty list, just throwing out some titles in no particular order:
Evil Empire - Rage Against the machine
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Sacrament - Lamb of God
The Colour and The Shape - Foo Fighters
Audioslave - Audioslave
American Idiot - Green Day
Witchkrieg - Witchery
Down on the Upside - Soundgarden
Blood Mountain - Mastodon
Battle of L.A. - Rage Against the Machine
Evil Empire - Rage Against the machine
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Sacrament - Lamb of God
The Colour and The Shape - Foo Fighters
Audioslave - Audioslave
American Idiot - Green Day
Witchkrieg - Witchery
Down on the Upside - Soundgarden
Blood Mountain - Mastodon
Battle of L.A. - Rage Against the Machine
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Belle and Sebastian's The Life Pursuit is TEN times the album as If You're Feeling Sinister. One Decemberists album and it's 170?
A decent list of good albums but by no means any sort of definitive list of anything.
Animal Collective - top 10? Puleeaze.
And enough with Radiohead. I like their compositions and their contributions to music for the most part but Thom Yorke's voice is enough to make me jump off a bridge. It's as if no one combined electonica and guitars before Radiohead. It's as if Roxy Music never existed to these pinheads.
A decent list of good albums but by no means any sort of definitive list of anything.
Animal Collective - top 10? Puleeaze.
And enough with Radiohead. I like their compositions and their contributions to music for the most part but Thom Yorke's voice is enough to make me jump off a bridge. It's as if no one combined electonica and guitars before Radiohead. It's as if Roxy Music never existed to these pinheads.
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No way. B&S really fell off once they traded in the quieter, folk-driven sound of the first three albums for the louder, "Technicolor" sound of just about everything from Dear Catastrophe Waitress onward. They still write great songs on occasion and none of their albums are complete failures (Storytelling, if that counts?), but I really prefer the band before they got so...democratic.
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No way. B&S really fell off once they traded in the quieter, folk-driven sound of the first three albums for the louder, "Technicolor" sound of just about everything from Dear Catastrophe Waitress onward. They still write great songs on occasion and none of their albums are complete failures (Storytelling, if that counts?), but I really prefer the band before they got so...democratic.
I mean, before 2000 they were pretty much a backing band for Stuart Murdoch anyway.
I really liked The Life Pursuit when it came out, but it never had legs for me--strangely enough, that album is Dear Catastrophe Waitress.
The less said about Write About Love the better. I literally have not listened to it since it came out.