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Way too little conversation going on in MusicTalk lately so let's dissect a list!

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Before this turns into a Pitchfork bitchfest please note that this list was put together by their readers. So feel free to bitch about them!

Here's the whole 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

auto

I never considered myself very pitchforky but I own the top 55 plus 142 out of 200.

So I guess I was wrong.

sniper007

I do not have a single album in that list. (maybe I need some radiohead)

bootsy

I participated in it. It's a good list although some of it would be in a different order IMO. A lot of these artists like Radiohead, Bon Iver, Daft Punk I just started listening to a couple of years ago. Definitely broadened my mind about music. Now I listen to just about every type of music.

UAIOE

There sure is a lot of Radiohead on that list.

Three spots in the top 10? Really?

Obey The D

Three in the top 10 is a bit much, but I can't really complain about OK Computer being #1. Airbag & Paranoid Android might be my favorite one-two punch to open an album.

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.

Tarantino

In Rainbows in the top 10? Hell no. Other than that, I can't complain. I haven't heard a lot of the albums on the list.

The Bus

I probably have almost all of those albums.

covenant

Don't have and haven't heard anything listed. Closest thing is Japandroids Celebration Rock....meh

starseed1981

Wow. I actually own about 75 of those....despite my incredible disdain for Pitchfork and their indie hipsterism.

orangecrush

Pitchfork readers really love them some Radiohead and Kanye West. Weezer and Fugazi comming in at 100+ is a travesty. Also, no Sunny Day Real Estate? Did the readers only discover indie bands in the last 6 years?

orangecrush

Also, Obey the D is 100% right that The Colour and the Shape should be on there.

islandclaws

This reads like the playlist if I were sent to hell.

auto

I would say Pinkerton fell right about where it should.

What Sunny Day Real Estate would you have included? What Fugazi? Those omissions seem right.

I agree The Colour and the Shape is an odd choice to not have been included. Seems like a popular album even if you don't like Foo Fighters all that much.

Hiro11

Let's set aside that this list in entirely indie/alt stuff and very white boy. It is Pitchfork.

Also, I'll caveat this by saying I've "owned" or at least heard every single album on the list.

Strokes, Animal Collective and In Rainbows don't belong in the top ten, although they all belong on the list somewhere. The other Strokes and Animal Collective albums on the list kinda suck.

Sufjan, Bon Iver and the XX should be much lower, if not entirely excluded.

Beach House, Girls and Franz Ferdinand don't belong on this list.

Homogenic, Being There, Fever Ray, Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Battles are far too low.

Too little from the late ninties in general.

If I had to pick a number one on that list for me personally, it's probably Neutral Milk Hotel. That album is a timeless classic, utterly American (in that it particularly resonates as American), made with total conviction and hits you right in the heart.

starman9000

Yeah, if the list is limited to 1996+ I don't think I'd have included any Sunny Day either.

Oliver Clothesoff

How It Feels To Be Something On should be on that list no doubt.

freshticles

I own the Fugazi stuff and that's it. Considering it's a Pitchfork reader list, I'm pretty happy about that.

orangecrush

I must be older than I realize. I had to look it up and most of Fugazi's records are pre 96' and Diary would be an obvious choice, but it was pre '96 as well. Personally, I love me some How It Feels to Be Something On and think it would be worthy of this list, but I am not sure how popular it is amoung the pitchfork folk.

cdollaz

I only have 20 of them. That there is no Sonic Youth on there is sad.

wendersfan

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.

The Antipodean

I'm glad to see Kid A has been rising in the consensus over the years, as I actually like it MORE than the somewhat overhyped Ok Computer.

The Antipodean

I own 20 of the top 25, so far. "hipster bashing" has become as much of a cliche as calling something "PC", there's a lot of great music on this list.

wishbone

One album on the list.

auto

Great point. Although almost always critically acclaimed, they never did truly cross over to even the somewhat mainstream.