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Chris K.

Did I miss something? How are albums like Red and Pop 2 showing up on so many lists when they received very little acclaim when they came out (they aren't even bubbling under on AM)? I could ask the same question, to a lessor degree, about EMOTION and Anti. It's almost like the same writers write fo...

Chris K.

I'm not telling everything here is acclaim-worthy (though I think they're at least interesting or offering other sounds). But I didn't learn about all these people reading Pitchfork. I wouldn't have if I did. Does Pitchfork's readership look around too? What I meant with "uninteresting" i...

Chris K.

Just for fun, the readers' poll results. I like this list better than the writer list. Albums: 1. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly 3. Frank Ocean: Blonde 4. Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d city 5. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange 6. Kanye West: Yeezus...

Chris K.

https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/10/9ca10ee95f3302/100-greatest-albums-of-the-2010s.html Single author list, so probably not eligible. 100. Taylor Swift - "1989" (2014) 99. Nipsey Hussle - "Victory Lap" (2018) 98. Bruno Mars - "24K Magic" (2016) 97....

Chris K.

I'm not at all surprised by the fact that I'm not that into this list, despite the fact that I do appreciate many of the albums towards the top. I used to have a love/hate relationship with P4. I think now it's just leaning towards hate. The list just feels incredibly arbitrary (especially in the co...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane 2. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 3. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden 4. Pixies - Surfer Rosa 5. R.E.M. - Green 6. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything 7. House of Love - House of Love 8. Morrissey - Viva Hate 9. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff 10. Jane's Addiction ...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest 2. Sufjan Stevens, Carrie and Lowell 3. The National, High Violet 4. Frank Ocean, Channel Orange 5. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City 6. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs 7. St. Vincent, Strange Mercy 8. Julia Holter, Have You In My Wilderness 9. Bon Iver, Bon...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. U2 - The Joshua Tree 2. Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come 3. Sonic Youth - Sister 4. R.E.M. - Document 5. Spaceman 3 - The Perfect Perscription 6. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses 7. Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands 8. Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra 9. Prince - Sign 'O' the ...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 2. XTC - Skylarking 3. R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant 4. Crowded House - Crowded House 5. Go Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express 6. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration 7. Paul Simon - Graceland 8. Sonic Youth - Evol 9. Peter Gabriel - So 10. Prince...

Chris K.

I’m not sure I can really convey what makes R.E.M. so special to me, especially to someone who doesn’t feel the same way but since they're in my top 3, I'll give it a shot. A lot of it has to do with the sheer breadth of their catalog. Murmur and Automatic for the People are two of the most haunting...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 2. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy 3. The Smiths - Meat is Murder 4. New Order - Low Life 5. Tears For Fears - Songs From the Big Chair 6. Replacements - Tim 7. The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace 8. Mekons - Fear and Whiskey 9. Husker Du - New Day Rising 10...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Prince - Purple Rain 2. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain 3. Replacements - Let It Be 4. Smiths - The Smiths 5. Cocteau Twins - Treasure 6. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire 7. Smiths - Hatful of Hollow 8. R.E.M. - Reckoning 9. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward 10. Bruce Springsteen - Born In t...

Chris K.

1. Radiohead 2. Pearl Jam 3. R.E.M. 4. David Bowie 5. U2 6. The Smiths 7. Nirvana 8. Blur 9. Beck 10. Velvet Underground 11. Arcade Fire 12. St. Vincent 13. Smashing Pumpkins 14. Julia Holter 15. Roxy Music 16. Super Furry Animals 17. The Beatles 18. Deerhunter 19. Depeche Mode 20. Soundgarden 21. B...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. R.E.M. - Murmur 2. New Order - Power, Lies, and Corruption 3. U2 - War 4. The Police - Synchronicity 5. Tears For Fears - The Hurting 6. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones 7. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes 8. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual 9. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain 10. Madonna ...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom 2. XTC - English Settlement 3. Duran Duran - Rio 4. Roxy Music - Avalon 5. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska 6. The dbs - Repercussion 7. Michael Jackson - Thriller 8. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour 9. Kate Bush - The Dreaming 10. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. This Heat - Deceit 2. Television Personalities - …And Don't the Kids Just Love It 3. The dbs - Stands for Decibels 4. The Cure - Faith 5. The Police - Ghost in the Machine 6. Human League - Dare 7. Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 8. Kraftwerk - Computer World 9. ...

Chris K.

Wow, very pleasantly surprised to see Ten jump into the top 5!

Chris K.

This is good news! Especially MegaMan has some of the best 8 bit tunes out there. When I was kid, I loved the music off of the first five MegaMan games to the point where I taped the music off each level to listen to it when I wasn't playing (and I wasn't even *that* into video games). I still thin...

Chris K.

This is good news! Especially MegaMan has some of the best 8 bit tunes out there. When I was kid, I loved the music off of the first five MegaMan games to the point where I taped the music off each level to listen to it when I wasn't playing. I still think they're excellent. I'm pretty excited it's...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Joy Division - Closer 2. David Bowie - Scary Monsters 3. The Jam - Sound Affects 4. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels 5. Talking Heads - Remain in Light 6. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight 7. Elvis Costello - Get Happy 8. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms 9. U2 -...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Mitski, Be the Cowboy 2. Amen Dunes, Freedom 3. Low, Double Negative 4. Julia Holter, Aviary 5. Beach House, 7 6. U.S. Girls, In a Poem Unlimited 7. Father John Misty, God's Favorite Customer 8. Parquet Courts, Wide Awake! 9. Kamasi Washington, Heaven and Earth 10. Kacey Musgraves, Golden...

Chris K.

We'll agree to disagree there. Dirty Computer Is extremely radical politically If you pay close attention to the lyrics. She's describing what It's like to be a minority In America In this very impressionistic way that's laced with realism, and musically It's extremely strong and tight-knit. IDK, s...

Chris K.

It's interesting that Dirty Computer is #1 but isn't #1 in any of the three regions. TBH, I'm really hoping Be the Cowboy eventually overtakes DC. I love Janelle Monae's first two albums, but I really don't care for Dirty Computer. Musically, it seems a little more generic to me than its predecessor...

Chris K.

Sooo am I the only one who seems to think that this represents a potential return to Pitchfork's indie rock roots? 2018 was just as strong of a year In Hip Hop & R&B as It was In 2017, but It's not dominating Pitchfork's songs list the way It did last year (or the last five years, for that ...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Blur - 13 2. Sigur Ros - ágætis byrjun 3. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 4. Wilco - Summer Teeth 5. Supergrass - Supergrass 6. Travis - The Man Who 7. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs 8. XTC - Apple Venus 1 9. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn… 10. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret 11. Ni...

Chris K.

I really don't get this album (but I wish I did!). On paper, I understand why it's important, but when I listen to it I end up getting bored. I guess that's true of a lot of 80's and early 90's hip hip. It doesn't engage me like Kendrick, Kanye, Vince Staples or countless other rap albums from the ...

Chris K.

I really don't get this album (but I wish I did!). On paper, I understand why it's important, but when I listen to it I end up getting bored. I guess that's true of a lot of 80's and early 90's hip hip. It doesn't engage me like Kendrick, Kanye, Vince Staples or countless other rap albums from the l...

Chris K.

DaveC wrote:
Chris K. wrote:13. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A#Infinity

Already qualified for the decade poll as a 1997 album.[/quote

Fixed, thanks!

Chris K.

I don't generally think of 1998 as a great year for music, but this was pretty difficult to narrow down. Albums: 1. Air - Moon Safari 2. The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s 3. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs 4. Beck - Mutations 5. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children 6. Lauryn Hill - The M...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Radiohead - OK Computer 2. The Verve - Urban Hymns 3. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We're Floating In Space 4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or 5. Bjork - Homogenic 6. Blur - Blur 7. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On 8. Yo La Tengo - I Can the Heart Beating as One 9. Supergrass - In It ...

Chris K.

I've never looked forward to their lists on past decades because I've always felt, more than any other magazine or website, that Pitchfork's rankings of era's before their time are carefully cultivated to reinforce whatever vision they are selling us now as to what constitutes "Great" mus...

Chris K.

Wow, this list illustrates just have far P4's tastes have drifted from mine (in what seems like just two or three years). So many of the albums that are missing on this list (Underwater Moonlight, Stands for Decibels, The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll, etc) were albums they turned me on to with their origina...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Beck - Odelay 2. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister 3. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 4. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go 5. Pearl Jam - No Code 6. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi 7. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup 8. Soundgarden - Down on the Upside 9. Failure - Fa...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 2. Radiohead - The Bends 3. Pulp - Different Class 4. Bjork - Post 5. The Verve - A Northern Soul 6. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love 7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 8. Blur - The Great Escape 9. Tricky - Maxinquaye 1...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Pearl Jam - Vitology 2. Jeff Buckley - Grace 3. Blur - Parklife 4. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 5. Soundgarden - Superunknown 6. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand 7. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 8. Beck - Mellow Gold 9. Suede - Dog Star Man 10. Nirvana - Unplugged In NY 11. Nine Inch N...

Chris K.

Is this list available online anywhere?

Chris K.

DaveC wrote:
Chris K. wrote: 8. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
#4 in our 1992 poll, and you voted for it last month.

Chris K. wrote: 6. Beck - Mellow Gold
1994: Vote for it next month.

I hesitate to say this given my track record, but it's fixed now.

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Pearl Jam - Vs. 2. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 3. Nirvana - In Utero 4. Suede - Suede 5. Slowdive - Souvlaki 6. Breeders - Last Splash 7. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville 8. U2 - Zooropa 9. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 10. Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish 11. Bjork - Deb...

Chris K.

DaveC wrote:
Ah so the missing #7 was a diversion to get in 2 votes for Your Arsenal!

Haha, some days I feel like it's the 8th best album of 1992, other days I feel like it's the 10th best so obviously I have to cover my bases.

Perhaps I was a little hasty when I posted my list initially.

Chris K.

Rob wrote:
DaveC wrote:
Chris K. wrote:Albums:
6. Alice In Chains - Dirt
8. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Maybe a missing 7.
He told me that his #7 is Michael Bolton - Timeless: The Classics.

It's actually a little embarrassing that Timeless is *only* my #7

Fixed!

Chris K.

Albums: 1. R.E.M. - Automatic For the People 2. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted 3. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head 4. Spiritualized - Lazer-Guided Melodies 5. PJ Harvey - Dry 6. Alice In Chains - Dirt 7. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 8. Morrissey - Your Arsenal 9. Tori Amos - Little Eart...

Chris K.

Albums: 1. Pearl Jam - Ten 2. Nirvana - Nevermind 3. U2 - Achtung Baby 4. R.E.M. - Out of Time 5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 6. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock 7. Primal Scream - Screamadelica 8. Slint - Spiderland 9. Massive Attack - Blue Lines 10. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque 11. Smashing Pumpk...

Chris K.

I guess I'm in the minority here that loves Cookie Mountain, more so than Dear Science. I absolutely love the production, funny enough. To each his/her own I suppose.

Chris K.

Thank you for everything, Henrik! I discovered this site and forum about a dozen years ago and it has been one of the greatest resources in my musical journey! I'm not the most active poster around here but I am still a huge fan.

Chris K.

Probably too late to be included, but I'll post anyway: 1. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream 2. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 3. St. Vincent - Masseduction 4. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up 5. King Krule - The OOZ 6. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism 7. Fever Ray - Plunge 8. Slowdive - Slowdive 9. Vince Staples - Big Fis...

Chris K.

IMO, 2017 was a pretty boring year for music. I like DAMN. a lot but it pales in comparison to TPABF or GKMC. The rest of the top 10 isn't really that exciting to me either though. American Dream, Masseduction and Melodrama are great as well, but I prefer Blond, A Seat at the Table, A Moon Shaped Po...

Chris K.

Chris K.

Thank you for all of the work you put into this notbrianeno! Can you post the spreadsheet when you have a chance? I can't wait to pour through the data.

Chris K.

The biggest problem with a poll full of mainstream albums is when people are voting mainstream because they only know very few albums or never listened to "unusual" records more than a couple of times. That will make mainstream albums artificially place better, not because they deserve it...

Chris K.

Jackson wrote:I love or at least appreciate most of the albums at this point, but Morning Glory and Ten stick out to me as albums that belong at least 100 places back.

I love the jumps these two albums made, they're two of my favorite 90's albums. It helped cushion the blow of Murmur falling out of the top 100.

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