When we looked at Pitchfork’s 20 Greatest Songs Of The ’00s, we also went through the entire list and found the 15 songs they included from 2009, noting that Animal Collective was far and away the the highest placer from our current 12 months. A great song doesn’t always equal a great album, but in this case, it worked out for Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist: Merriweather Post Pavillion did very well in Pitchfork’s 20 Greatest Albums Of The ’00s, too. (Actually, A.C. and A.C.-related projects placed multiple times across the Top 200 list — two in the Top 20 — basically winning the > contest by a landslide.) Since Merriweather Post Pavillion is the only ’09 album in the Top 20, those of you with short memories will have lots of rediscoveries. (As far as other buzzed about ’09 records, Bitte Orca made it to 56, Veckatimest to 42.) Fans of a certain kind of rap should be happy. Your Dad might be, too. Fans of any kind of metal will weep bitter tears. Finally, if we’re to believe the folks at Pitchfork, 2002 and 2000 were pretty good years and 2001 wasn’t any slouch either.
20 Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights [Matador, 2002]
19 Spoon – Kill The Moonlight [Merge, 2002]
18 Kanye West – Late Registration [Roc-A-Fella, 2002]
17 LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver [EMI/DFA, 2007]
16 Sufjan Stevens – Illinois [Asthmatic Kitty, 2005]
15 The Knife – Silent Shout [Mute/Rabid, 2006]
14 Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion [Domino, 2009]
13 OutKast – Stankonia [La Face, 2000]
12 The White Stripes – White Blood Cells [Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2001]
11 Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele [Sony, 2000]
10 The Avalanches – Since I Left You [Modular/Interscope, 2000]
09 Panda Bear – Person Pitch [Paw Tracks, 2007]
08 Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun [Smekkleysa; 2000]
07 The Strokes – Is This It [RCA, 2001]
06 Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica [Epic, 2000]
05 Jay-Z – The Blueprint [Roc-A-Fella, 2001]
04 Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot [Nonesuch, 2002]
03 Daft Punk – Discovery [Virgin, 2001]
02 Arcade Fire – Funeral [Merge, 2004]
01 Radiohead – Kid A [Capitol, 2000]
Most of the writeups cover what you’d expect them to cover, but I like what Ian Cohen writes in his blurb on Funeral. Even if I don’t necessarily agree, it does raise some interesting (and appropriately dramatic) questions:
Will there ever be another album like Funeral? Sounds silly considering the second half of this decade has seen plenty of bands establish nice careers by ripping off the communal euphoria that Arcade Fire made fresh after four years of rock records that boasted metropolitan chic, emotional austerity, or lyrical removal– the music was amazing, but it was all kind of a downer. It’s debatable that Funeral itself is even original– considering they share a label, love of archaic brass and string instruments, and an undeniable ability to wring life affirmation in the face of personal tragedy, it might just be a crossover version of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
But besides being a turning point for indie rock, Funeral was one for the indie community as well. Whether it’s due to increasingly fractious listening habits or the increased ability for dissenters to be heard, Funeral keeps on feeling like the last of its kind, an indie record that sounded capable of conquering the universe and then going on to do just that. The consensus hyperbole that met Funeral resulted in any record that threatened to reach that level becoming met with severe scrutiny or even outright derision. And still, we wonder if there will ever be anything quite like Funeral — something tells me that as music becomes even more readily available to us in the next decade, we’ll still go through it all in the hopes we can find something with the unifying force and astounding emotional payload that only albums like Funeral can provide.
Not one pun on the word “funeral”? You can read the rest of those Top 20 blurbs at Pitchfork.
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Nine years ago this month, Brent DiCrescenzo reviewed Radiohead’s Kid A for this website. As he sat down in front of his laptop, he knew, of course he did, that history was unfolding before him. The last strains of Motion Picture Soundtrack rang out from his tinny laptop speakers, and he nodded thoughtfully, his hands poised above the keys, his fingers tingling with the electricity of one who is about to hold forth. The coming missive had travelled up from deep within him while he carried out his morning ritual of weeing and eating cereal and now pressed against the inside of his fingertips, forcing them slowly downwards onto the hungry keys.
He resists, and places his hands down on either side of the laptop, the power and magnitude of the Moment momentarily consuming him, the Brent DiCrescenzo, thus taking it away from him. He smiled, somehow, at his future-bound foe – Nine years from now, when these dry, sobering minutes are long smothered in the warm ooze of the past, they will know who was in control.
He stared out across the New York skyline from his roomy yet cosy loft apartment as the Moment took place and the clatter of life-changing reviewing rippled from his laptop keyboard. He read it back to himself: “I dig it. Esp Optimistic.”
He scratched his chin and got up for a wee.
Wrens and Feist are on there.
(Intended to be a reply to jeff s)
What about Iron & Wine? I never see Sam Beam on any of these lists and I wonder why….for the past few years, Creek Drank the Cradle and Woman King have been in my regular rotation, but no one ever talks about these albums…
Their hip hop picks anger me even though I agree with them. Does that make sense to anyone else?
The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone.
Why? – Elephant Eyelash.
Why? – Alopecia.
Stephen Malkmus – Stephen Malkmus.
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Pig Lib.
Stephen Malkmus – Facing The Truth.
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash.
Jason Anderson – The Wreath.
Jason Anderson – New England.
Islands – Return To Sea.
Ozma – Double Donkey Disc.
Apples In Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder.
Of Montreal – Sunlandic Twins.
Of Montreal – Satanic Panic In The Attic.
The Microphones – It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water.
Mount Eerie – Seven New Songs Of Mount Eerie.
Mount Eerie – Lost Wisdom.
Grandaddy – Sumday.
Grandaddy – The Software Slump.
Ben Folds – Rockin’ The Suburbs.
Fruit Bats – Mouthfuls.
The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas.
I could go on and name tons of albums that should have been on this. Pitchfork is too predictable, and therefore seldom a good reference. At least that’s my opinion…
And does anyone else think that radiohead is ridiculously overrated? I mean, they’re talented guys, but… pitchfork gives them the best album of the 1990′s and of 2000′s. That’s an awfully high honor. I definitely don’t think they deserve it. And I’m sure everyone here is gonna disagree with that too, and probably say I’m an idiot, I don’t get it, or whatever. But I feel I know music pretty well, and I don’t think they are that deserving.
nice to see Ozma in there ( although I would’ve gone with Rock and Roll Part III )
Can’t believe Circulatory System is not on there.
Neutral Milk Hotel……how is that not on the list. Rediculous.
yeah! and, while we’re at it, where’s talking heads: 77, and magical mystery tour, and black star, and kind of blue? where’s the dixieland jazz band, for god’s sake?!
FYI… NMH’s only significant release was in 1998
The biggest WTF: Andrew WK. Yeah, 0.6? I admit to looking forward to lists like this, and this was the biggest shocker on any music list I’ve ever read. In a lot of ways I think Pitchfork’s original review went a long way to stunting Andrew WK’s success. It’s things like this that shake the foundation of music criticism – it basically says our reviews don’t mean anything, because to truly review music, you need time and perspective; it’s all revisionist history. That’s just the way it is. We’ve all come around to music we initially didn’t like months or years after the fact.
Or you spotlight the fact that the original review is one writer’s point of view, and the writers that wrote so many of the early decade’s reviews have moved on and different people are voting now. For these lists, all their writers probably made a top 50, and they scored them. I could put Andrew WK as my #1 album to give it a bump, while 10 writers have Grandaddy on their lists, and it misses out. 200-151 was fairly weak, and I think that’s beacuse you had a bunch of albums that were on the bottom of a lot of writers’ lists, but quantity beat quality.
Most pleasant surprise: QOTSA’s Songs for the Deaf. It was nice to see a hard rock album that wasn’t by Mastodon.
I still say Fishscale is better tham Supreme Clientele.
Did we really need Graduation with College Dropout and Late Registration on the list?
In Rainbows – overrated
Cookie Mountain – underrated
It seems that Grandaddy’s Sophtware Slump is the big miss, and I agree. Other albums I was surprised didn’t show up (that haven’t been mentioned):
Prefuse 73′s One Word Extinguisher (the other biggest miss)
Liars’ They Threw Us in a Trench…
Missy’s Under Construction
El-P’s Fantastic Damage
MMJ’s It Still Moves
Moz’s You are the Quarry
Be Your Own Pet’s debut
and they couldn’t slip Rae’s Cuban Linx pt. II on there at the last minute?
I personally would’ve liked to see QOTSA’s Rated R, The Futureheads’ debut, and The Walkmen’s You & Me.
….i guess if pitchfork didn’t hear ‘Worst Debut Album Ever’ then it wasn’t ever released
and subsequently does not even warrant consideration on best albums of july ’09…
Would’ve loved to have seen The Clientele’s The Violet Hour on here, but it was nice that Suburban Light got some love. Kid A is spot on, Grizzly Bear will work their way up on these lists eventually (I hope), and yes, no Sophtware Slump is a travesty.
It looks like the Rapture’s “Echoes” has taken a big tumble from their initial analysis as the best of 2003, it was in the 50s on the overall list now.
WHERE IS ‘PERSON PITCH’ ON THIS LIST???? ON HOW COULD THEY OMIT ‘FUNERAL’???!!!!
Sarcasm is more effective when you don’t misspell two-letter words.
I know this is when we are all supposed to bash Pitchfork for leaving our favorite albums off of their best of the decade list, but they did an excellent job. The top 20 is exactly what it should be: a look at the most important albums of the decade. While I may not personally love each of these albums, they are very influential on those, including myself, making the music of the next decade. (I acknowledge how cliche that sounds). So I say good job Pitchfork, you took an impossible task and did your best…
…except I’m still bitter about Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River.
Wow the 2000s really sucked cock
Overall, the list is pretty solid… I would have liked to have seen less of the electronic stuff, but that’s just my personal taste in music coming through. Just re-listened to Turn on the Bright Lights, and it holds up really well… good call on that being ranked so high. A few omissions I would have liked to have seen though:
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command (it still sounds innovative today)
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South
The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound (this is a really strong record I still stand by)
The Gaslight Anthem – Sink or Swim (not a lot of people heard this, especially at Pitchfork, but it is really strong and visceral)
Brand New – The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (not really Pitchfork’s cup of tea, but a great record)
Bob Dylan – Modern Times (someone mentioned Love and Theft, but this one can stand next to most of Dylan’s catalog IMO, it really kind of captures a moment in time too)
Death Cab for Cutie – We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes (“No Joy in Mudville” alone could put this in the top 200)
Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (All the things said about Funeral in the blurb could be said about this album, it does what Funeral does, Death Cab just went on to a degree of mainstream success that kind of muddies the original feelings… give it another spin if you don’t believe me… “Transatlanticism” = “Wake Up” on the emotionally epic scale)
where the fuck is strawberry jam.
not cool pitchfork, s j is better than feels. fact.
Although #23 is pretty good, You Forgot It In People is definitely in the top 5 of the decade (for me, at least).
There are plenty of influential albums not on this list. Probably two of the most important albums of this decase, Brian Wilson’s Smile and U2′s All That You Can’t Leave Behind, were left off due to demographic. History won’t forgot albums that important, even if Pitchfork and its readers hates them for whatever reason.
I had plenty of favorites that didn’t permeate the indie kid’s consciousness.
Ben Folds
Tori
They Might Be Giants
Neko Case
The Chemical Brothers
MC Lars
Astronautalis
The Unicorns
Islands
Foo Fighters
Fatlip
The Miniature Tigers
Amanda Palmer
Barenaked Ladies
The Blood Arm
Cake
Self
The Postal Service
Eels
Plus/Minus
Grandaddy
The Rumble Strips
Moldy Peaches
OkGo
The Weakerthans
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Regina Spektor
Scissor Sisters
The Starlight Mints
Totally Michael
Ween
The White Rabbits
These artists had some of my favorite albums released throughout the decade. A lot of it is completely off the radar of Pitchforks, Stereogums, and most other indie sites’ readers. That said, this is a relatively decent list of what hip kids listened to this year, but extremely narrow otherwise.
The Miniature Tigers!!
I never thought I’d see that, that’s awesome. I really think they deserve to make it big. I used to know Charlie (the brains of MT) back in the day, I actually played bass for the band for their first show a few years ago w/ casper and the cookies.
I definitely agree that Tell It To The Volcano should be on this. And if you don’t have any really old Miniature Tigers, you should try and locate some. When he was just making songs on Garage Band out of his bedroom, it was the best.
I met lead vox briefly when the tigers opened up for ben folds in pittsburgh, actually. He was very kind.
Tell it to the volcano is actually my favorite album of 2009. Too bad its not hip enough for people to like it.
I’m surprised not only that CYHSY’s debut wasn’t even in the top 200, but that nobody seems to care. It seems Pitchfork places indie-cultural import over the actual music, anyway, so it’s surprising that such a defining album of the decade (in that sense) is nowhere to be found.
What’s with The Strokes and White Stripes? They’re ok but not better better than Animal Collective, TVOTR, Grizzly Bear, or … just about anybody in the top 100.
Are you kidding? Sure Animal Collective, Grizzly Beat etc. have made some amazing albums but I wouldn’t discount the White Stripes and the Strokes. They are some of the most important bands of the decade without a doubt.
^^ just started listening to music two years ago
First off, Late Registration came out in ’05. Secondly, that’s Kanye’s second worst album. Finally, I am a lil wayne fan and I know he doesn’t belong on any top album list of any year.
I think I must’ve been living in a different decade to you guys. I only really agree with one of these! Was anybody else listening to my top 20…
01) Daft Punk – Discovery
02) Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
03) Justice – Cross
04) Metronomy – Nights Out
05) Ariel Pink – Worn Copy
06) Late of the Peer – Fantasy Black Channel
07) Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia
08) The Go! Team – Thunder Lightning Strike
09) Metric – Old World Underground
10) Muse – Origin of Symetry
11) Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
12) Charlotte Hatherley – Grey Will Fade
13) Clor- Clor
14) N.E.R.D – In Search of
15) Phoenix – Alphabetical
16) Foo Fighters – One by One
17) Maximo Park – A Certain Trigger
18) So Cow – Self Titled
19) Basement Jaxx – Rooty
20) Datarock – Datarock
….?
Honorable mentions go to:
Mr. Oizo – Lambs Anger, To my Boy – Messages, Best Fwends – Alphabetically Arranged, Castles – st, Cassius – Au Reve, The Blow – Paper Television, The Avalanches – Since I Left You, Calvin Harris – Ready For the Weekend, M.I.A – Kala, Simian Mobile Disco – Attack Decay Sustain Release, Outkast – Stankonia, Scissor Sisters – st, Lilly Allen – It’s Not You It’s Me, R. Stevie Moore – Love Compartment, Polyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army, Arcade Fire – Funeral, Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam, Jim Noir – Tower of Love, MGMT – Oracular Spectacular, Vampire Weekend – St, The Fratellis – Costello Music.
Not many women on this list.
Bjork’s Vespertine is my #1 album of the decade. (I know it made the list, but it’s lower than I expected.)
Here are some of my nominees for pitchforks final draft of their top 200-
Andrew Bird- The Swimming Hour
Band Of Horses- Cease to Begin
Built to Spill- You in Reverse
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-st
Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism
Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Format- Dog Problems
Jets to Brazil- Four Cornered Night
Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther
Nada Surf- Let Go
Ra Ra Riot- The Rhumb Line
Sufjan Stevens- Seven Swans
Silversun Pickups- Carnavas
I’m a Filipino, living in the Philippines, and i rely on sites such as PF and SG for new music out of the confines of pop and modern rock as heard here. When PF came up with this list, I was looking for some great finds from this decade that I might have missed, and that after hearing majority of the albums on this list, I can’t help but disagree with some of their top 20 selections.
Personally, I’d have put Interpol higher, TVOTR’s Cookie Mountain and Vampire Weekend on the top 20 and have AC and PB a little bit lower. I did also notice that PF has like some sort of fetish for AC, so that I just passively ignore since I know more albums deserve better.
What’s with all the Kanye hatin’? Yeah, he fucked up, but let’s stick to the music people.
Anybody ever heard of the band Urbandub here in the Phils.? I think they’re the only noteworthy Filipino act that could make an impact internationally, albeit too modern rock-ey though for all the hipsters and critics out there.
By the way, I can’t seem to get what’s all the hubbub for noise rock acts like No Age and Abe Vigoda. I’m not sure if they’re trying to revisit shoegaze days, but MBV’s music is much more tolerable than that.
I actually smiled when i saw Since I Left You in the list. In my opinion, the record of the decade.
Feist-the reminder
yeahh? anyone? bueller?
The best thing about Pitchfork? It’s lack of caring one damn about its readers. I love how there is no way you can comment or interact on the site at all.
Tell me about it, Steve. We should be heard! This is the worldwide web, for christ’s sake.
They should allow us to talk back and then change their list as a result of our likes and dislikes on what they initially present. It would be a more accurate depiction of what Pitchfork is all about, and everybody would go on to their next internet destination feeling great about their musical opinion.
Where are Cat Power’s “The Greatest” and MMJ’s “Z”?? Both highly exposed albums, but for good reason. Kanye’s “College Drop Out” should supplant “Late Registration.” Also, “A Ghost is Born” and “Hail to the Thief” should somehow wriggle into the top 20.
I think what this list demonstrates is that Pitchfork was founded by a man who doesn’t know good music when it first comes to him. Albums like Daft Punk’s Discover and Andrew WK’s I Get Wet were both given low ratings upon inital release and were both initially reviewed by Pitchfork found Ryan Schrieber.
Ryan Schrieber was also one of the main contributers to the Best Videos of the decade, which was mainly just filled with silly novelty videos with a goofy gimick to them.
Satudays=Youth, and Beck’s Sea Change album need to be in the top 20.
No they don’t
The strangest thing about this list is the rule that artists can only have 3 albums each for the sake of “diversity.” Essentially, this rule only affects Animal Collective and possibly Radiohead and Spoon. Who wouldn’t be willing to drop that Jay Reatard album at 200 to see where Strawberry Jam ranks?
bands with a killer release in the 00′s (a working list with no hierarchy):
avalanches
bullion
panda bear
phoenix
band of horses
appleseed cast
brother kite
rapture
future islands
dan deacon
mf doom
forms
anco
pinback
dr. dog
malajube
unicorns
cut copy
vhs or beta
modest mouse – moon and antartica / good news
women
go team
the stills
strokes
the changes
death cab – we have the facts
dirty projectors
dr. rubberfunk – first cut
mew
Mew’s last three albums are incredible, but as a huge fan of the band I have pretty much accepted the fact that they’re not likely to resonate with Pitchfork types in the way they do with the fans (or “frengers” as we call ourselves). It might have something to do with the band’s absolute lack of interest in appealing to scenesters, or it might be that people are turned off by the notion of listening to a “prog” band (which seems silly with Radiohead taking the top slot on this list, but for some reason Radiohead gets a free pass).
AVERAGEINDIAN on TWITTER! MLIA+music daily..! awesomeness.. hey new indie bands.. SHE launched us into our pro career.. send some stuff to her! new twitter.. but i bet she’ll build up followers fast..
Most shocked about Daft Punk at #3 (with original 6.5 rating), and completely baffled that Vespertine is not in the top #20.
I’d love to see Vespertine and Third there, but oh well, you can’t have everything.
And a couple of things, Late Registration was released 2005 not 2002, and why do I keep seeing Ágaetis Byrjun listed as 2001 or 2000, in fact in the lists at all, when it was released in 1999?
Maybe it was released in the US or something in the 2000′s, but it’s still a 90′s album no matter how close it made it to the new millenium. () is fantastic too.
I hate when people make these “best of” lists.
Stereogum: Pitchfork’s comment section since 2005.
Where the fuck is Thunder, Lightning, Strike in the top 20?
Now they need to release a list of the best bands of the decade. I know what the first two would be. 1.) Radiohead 2.) Animal Collective
I love lists.
no-one agrees on a single list.
never had never will.
Some great albums in there.
I’ve always remembered 2001 for being a great album year.
Shocked to my very core that there is no Elbow on this list. Boooo! Doves ‘The Last Broadcast’ would be near the top of my list too, but as with Elbow, Manchester melancholy clearly doesn’t do much for the good ol’ USofA. ‘Vespertine’ and ‘Stories by the city, Stories by the sea’ both deserve top 20 easy. And I’m probably in a minority of one in preferring ‘Anitics’ to ‘Turn on the Bright Lights’.
Hope this isn’t spamming, but I just thought Radiohead fans might be interested that in honor of Kid A’s win there are covers of every song off the album here:
http://covermesongs.blogspot.com/2009/10/full-albums-radioheads-kid.html
I don’t really get the shit talking on this list. The entire thing is the condensed opinions of a handful of writers with the sole purpose of getting people talking and discussing. Who gives a shit if they didn’t perfectly peg your personal list.
Kind of suprised that Arcade Fire – Neon Bible, Common – Be, CYHSY – CYHSY, and Brian Wilson – SMiLE are not in the list.
It also could of used more Decemberists.
man, wasn’t that an unexpected group of artists. no
Obviously no one will agree with every selection, just seems like the best albums from some artists were rated lower than other albums by the same artists
ie:
The Shins -Oh, Inverted World is one of the most perfect pop records this decade, much bettar that Chutes Too Narrow
Boxer>Alligator
Strawberry Jam>Feels
Reasonable list from 150 on.
Strokes and Interpol in the Top 20? Bullshit.
THE AVALANCHES?!?!?!?! Yeah we all liked the wacky song they did, ‘that boy needs therapy!’ but WHAT?!?! odd odd odd choice.
Avalanches fukkn’ sound like Mozart compared to the Strokes..
WHERE ARE THE KILLERS??!!
Where’s John Adams’ _On the Transmigration of Souls_? What is the value of this list? What is the point? The only interesting discussion this list should inspire is ‘why the hell do we need to rank these albums anyway’. And by what criteria are these albums judged? Why does pitchfork have any authority as far as ranking what is the ‘best’? Has there ever been any article on pitchfork that leads us to believe any of their writers have any sense of an aesthetic philosophy? Aren’t they really just identifying scenes that are popular? Isn’t this kind of music criticism rather incestuous: everyone citing some source of authority, as if the simple fact that someone agrees with you makes your point valid. “Well, pitchfork says it’s good, and i agree, so i’ll cite pitchfork as an authority on the matter to justify my own opinion, however primitive my musical tastes/perceptions might be.”
no one has yet justified or explained any criteria for judging kid a against the blueprint or either against disintegration loops. you shouldn’t be arguing why or why not something is present in the top 20. you should be arguing about why the hell we need a top 20 and how a top 20 should be decided. that debate is much more interesting and of greater importance. it actually carries some political weight–our obsession with hierarchies. and it’s not something that can be adequately discussed on a message board.
Because geeks like to make lists, and there are many geeks on the internet. I’m working on quite a few lists myself at the moment.
Late Reg came out in 05 not 02, kanye didnt even debut till 04
What’s with Pitchfork’s new Vincent Moon rip-off video series?
Ghostface is a good rapper. His albums, Fishscale and Supreme Clientele, are not always great but they are solid. Pitchfork made a decision when they started reviewing rap albums to back certain rappers and they have had the continuity to stick with it. Which is why almost anyone from Wu-Tang gets high scores. Jay-Z gets high scores too, as does Kanye and Lil Wayne. However, really interesting great rap like that of Common, Lupe Fiasco, the Game, Nas, and Talib Kweli, among others, get regularly overlooked. Pitchfork doesnt love rap.
From what I know, that’s untrue.
Gulag Orkestar should have been in the Top 5. After all, it produced scores of so-called Balkan-inspired bands which were actually Beirut-inspired bands. Zach Condon created a very original rapport with an unexpectedly large audience and also I think he maintains his unpredictability and novelty still. Having said that, I also would have liked to see the Libertines somewhere on that list, especially Up the Bracket, since Pete Doherty and Carl Barat were, for many, this decade’s Marr/Morrissey and they were also single-handedly (well not really, but almost) responsible for the post-punk revival. If we are not talking about sheer popularity but resonance, I think we’ll see them last a lot longer than… I don’t know, Kanye West.
I am also bothered by the way Pitchfork reviews rap. When the pains of pure at heart get more
converage than indie rap, you know what somethings wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aixptcz2n74
WHOA! What is [ALBUM] doing on there, [ARTIST] is terrible!
And it’s a crime [ALBUM] was left off!
P-fork should really think about shutting it down…Indie doesn’t need a rolling stone for indie
NEON BIBLE???!!!!! Aaghhh!!!!
Here’s a better list:
#1 Neon Bible
#2-5 Radiohead
#6-8 AC
#9-10 Wu-Tang
Hmmm…………seems shady there isn’t even one alubm on there by Hot Hot Heat
after all ‘Bandages’ puts the strkes, interpol yyy’s to shame.
Money talks you know what they say…
Pretty good list, all things considered. At least it’s better than most lists of this type will be (e.g., Uncut Mag’s crappy new list).
musically and lyrically, funeral is an obnoxious joke.
I’m Chinese, P4K is my main source to know about modern popular music
Yes, P4k’s coverage is narrow, but people outside US. just need it
Let me see if I’ve got this straight: You’re Chinese, and P4K is your main source to know about modern popular music?
Yes,the most direct way
Cos our local medias are too slow for the new trends in music
No Flaming Lips? No Camera Obscura? No Brian Wilson? No BNL? WTF Pitchfork??!!!
You can count from 1990 to 1999 or from 1991 to 2000. It all depends whether you acknowledge the year 0 or the year 1 has the beginning.
Zwan’s Mary Star of the Sea is the best album of the decade because it smashes against the pretentious hipster vibe present at Pitchfork and to a watered down extent at Stereogum, a vibe which has plagued indie/alternative music during the 00s.
I don’t think this list could be any more random than if they put Barbara Streisand, Bob Dylan and The Yeah Yeahs. Once again proving the urban hipster monopoly on actually good music versus the crap they consider good. Cheers!
dang, I really wish “Kill the Moonlight” and “Turn on the Bright Lights” were ranked better, and I don’t know what Daft Punk is doing there but other than those, this is a really good collection.
Lots of people like to diss on Pitchfork, but even if I think this list has some major omissions (some big mainstream bands that objectively did make some pretty good and important albums, i.e. Coldplay “A Rush of Blood to the Head” or “Viva la Vida” and U2 “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”), classic artists who made work not matching their best but still pretty damn good (Bob Dylan “Love and Theft”…Springsteen if “The Rising” was 5 tracks shorter…dammit! Mostly just Dylan) and some odd ranking choices (“Separation Sunday” over “Boys and Girls in America?” Please…) Pitchfork has led me to discover more music than any other publication. I’m excited to check out and enjoy a lot of their choices and I’m loving revisiting some albums that I may not have previously given enough of a chance (“Discovery” and “Moon and Antartica” for starters…both of which I’m really enjoying). Thanks Pitchfork for a list that I will continue digesting for months…
I think “exploring” would have been a better word choice than “digesting”
I hate the number of people here who say “they didn’t have thisthis or this, blurrrgagdsajgiodaj” when in fact it is in the list.
Well here are a few that would be on my list that are missing from this one…
BT – This Binary Universe
Mos Def – The Ecstatic
Ladytron ? Witching Hour
Slum Village ? Fantastic Vol. 2
Kings of Convenience ? Riot on an Empty Street
Aloe Blacc ? Shine Through
Little Brother ? The Listening
What ever happened to Isis’s Oceanic? I know they don’t like to rank metal but that album got a ton of acclaim when it came out and it hasn’t been on ANY blog’s list.
Where’s Lateralus by Tool? What a shame to don’t have include this one
Personally I’ve listed to either of those albums more than I have Kid A in the past 10 years. But that’s just me
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