Pitchfork's Top 50

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:01 am

splates Wrote:

man Phoenix is like my number 1

I don't know what song I heard, but it was on this terrible comp I got for free. Maybe it was just bad context.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:15 am

splates Wrote:

Drinky Wrote:

That Tim Hecker album is great. I really should have bought that by now.

I've only listened to that Fujiya & Miyagi album once so far, but I was seriously disappointed in it.

Also, I've only heard one song by Phoenix, and I thought it was pretty bad.

Beach House & Mastodon will both be in my top 20.

man Phoenix is like my number 1

its solidly in my top 10. great fucking record.

shmoo · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:57 am

This thread is funny. It started off as an anti-Pitchfork backlash thread and then turned into an anti-anti-Pitchfork backlash thread. Even people who don't realize it are saying the list isn't bad (shiverhead says that "only" 11 albums from their list will be in his top 20... that seems like a lot of overlap to me).

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:14 pm

the only backlash i hold for them rests in the knowledge that they were once the indie site breaking the rules of the man and now they are the indie man setting the trends and creating some sort of unspoken pressure on other indie sites to do things the pfm way. of course, that doesn't make much sense so i should just leave this topic alone.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:14 pm

I have 5 of the 50 from their list.

FT · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:45 pm

paladisiac Wrote:

the only backlash i hold for them rests in the knowledge that they were once the indie site breaking the rules of the man and now they are the indie man setting the trends and creating some sort of unspoken pressure on other indie sites to do things the pfm way. of course, that doesn't make much sense so i should just leave this topic alone.

Makes TOTAL sense and I agree with you 100%. McSweeney's Syndrome. Outsider website turned trendsetter. Going from making fun of what's in vogue to dictating it.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:46 pm

thats how indie becomes the mainstream.

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:53 pm

shmoo Wrote:

This thread is funny. It started off as an anti-Pitchfork backlash thread and then turned into an anti-anti-Pitchfork backlash thread. Even people who don't realize it are saying the list isn't bad (shiverhead says that "only" 11 albums from their list will be in his top 20... that seems like a lot of overlap to me).

what are you talking about? i was just saying which albums from the list would make it into mine. i wasn't bashing the list. :wanker:

ElGuapo · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:05 pm

I own 15 of the 50 most of which would be in my top 50..which really does not say much because I only purchased around 65 cds this year, as I'm fairly old school in that I don't download music or even own an ipod. Give me an open road and a loud car stereo and I'm gone.

shmoo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:21 am

old st. nikita khrushchev Wrote:

what are you talking about? i was just saying which albums from the list would make it into mine. i wasn't bashing the list. :wanker:

I didn't mean to imply that you were (I also wasn't wanking), but your use of the word "only" made me think you were saying that the overlap was small.

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:25 am

shmoo Wrote:

old st. nikita khrushchev Wrote:

what are you talking about? i was just saying which albums from the list would make it into mine. i wasn't bashing the list. :wanker:

I also wasn't wanking.

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thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:28 am

The first time I visited PF's web site this year was to read their top 50. I rely on the obnizzle for practically all of my recommendations.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

splates Wrote:

man Phoenix is like my number 1

My number 3.

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