auto

I love the idea of you listening to Kanye West.

Jason

At some point in time, I had three of them, but they've all been sold off/traded.

UAIOE

One album I wouldn't mind, but 3 is excessive.

I agree that "Colour and the Shape" should have been on there.

Andalusia

A disturbing lack of Sleater-Kinney.

RagingBull80

I only own 7 of those albums and I work at a record store. I guess I'm not a hipster.

Robot Rock

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.

Tarantino

I have 72 of those in my collection, more than I thought I did. 5 of the top 10.

beyond

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

The Bus

For KC, I have some ideas, but for the other guys... What would you consider your Top 10 from 1996–2011?

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).

UAIOE

I don't think I have an issue with including numerous albums from a particular artist on a sizable list (more than 25 entries), but if you say "Top 10" and then fill it up close to a third of it with <insert artist name>, all you're really saying is "these others guys are pretty good, but I think _______ is da bomb and all their stuff is great so I'll list it all."


I'll start by saying that I'm not a Radiohead fan, I don't like Thom Yorke's voice.

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.

auto

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.

starman9000

I don't think anybody would put an artist multiple times on list of favorite artists.

The Bus

The list is albums, though.

starman9000

I know, just didn't get UAIOEs point.

GenPion

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.

The Bus

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.

wendersfan

Some people with "broad" taste in music quit listening to anything new in 1975.

covenant

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?

orangecrush

If you said you only listen to symphonic death metal, I would say no, but hard rock might.

covenant

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

CRM114

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.

Tracer Bullet

I listened to this for the first time in years and was blown away. How did I forget how good it is?

Radiohead is the most overrated band of the 21st Century.

CRM114

I'll have to listen to that Strokes album again. I remember really liking it at the time. Forgot all about it.

Randy Miller III

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.

Tracer Bullet

I just mentally divide the band into 1997-2000 and 2001-present.

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.