phanan
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Also, are we going to do the points thing again this year? I think impy ran it last time.
The first half of Pitchfork's top 50 albums is up, 50 to 25. 25 to 1 will be online tomorrow.
The 50 Best Albums of 2008 | Pitchfork
The rest of the list is up. At least the top 9 is solid.
LoL at Pitchfork's "Let's try and be as obscure as possible" Top 50 and effort to throw in as many artists as possible who call themselves "Fuck" this and "Fuck" that. How bold!
Even the honorable mentions was full of no-namers, almost as if they made a concerted effort to avoid your Coldplay's, Kaiser's and Verve's.
Even the honorable mentions was full of no-namers, almost as if they made a concerted effort to avoid your Coldplay's, Kaiser's and Verve's.
Or maybe they just have a more diverse and acute range of taste than you do.
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
The Killers - Day & Age
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Fleet Foxes is stunningly good. Lovely album.
A part of me hates agreeing with Pitchfork, but it may just be my #1 of 2008 as well.
It's an indie music website! Of course they favor smaller, obscure bands! .
It's an indie music website! Of course they favor smaller, obscure bands! But the point is that they aren't championing a bunch of shit over good music. Now granted everyone's not going to like every album on their list, but as it's made up of selections from their editorial/review group it probably represents a diverse assortment of taste under the umbrella of what they cover.
You want to see love for U2, Coldplay, Oasis, The Verve, whatever, go read Rolling Stone's website, where they kiss ass and give a positive, 3-stars or more review to almost every veteran act.
Well if Indie is their forte, why do they insist on reviewing Coldplay and Killers and co....just so that they can regurgitate anti-mainstream, tried, tested and failed anti-Chris Martin and anti-Noel Gallagher rants...
That's almost my point, they have no reason to review those bands...they don't need Pitchfork, and Pitchfork doesn't need them.
The other one is....the extremly stupid reviews that show up from time to time on Pitchfork and that make me angry....a lot
Pitchfork NEEDS Coldplay's and Killers and Keane's to ensure it's profitability. Still no excuse to be all anti-mainstream about it though.
I'm sorry people, but Pitchfork's top 10 was hardly "obscure" this year. We've had threads here for essentially every artist in the top 10 for months, does that mean we're all "as obscure as possible"? Actually, going through the entire list, I know for certain that I've seen threads or discussions on at least 32 of the artists in their top 50 here this year. Music is only "obscure" if you sit and wait for it to come to you. I've never understood how a list or an artist would be "less valid" just because someone doesn't know who that artist is yet. If that isn't the type of music you like, fine, don't pay any attention to it. Why get bent out of shape because they aren't going to review something mainstream favorably? I similarly wouldn't expect to see some of the artists I enjoy reviewed well (or at all) on Rollingstone or Spin, it's just how different circles work in the music biz.
I'm sorry people, but Pitchfork's top 10 was hardly "obscure" this year. We've had threads here for essentially every artist in the top 10 for months, does that mean we're all "as obscure as possible"? Actually, going through the entire list, I know for certain that I've seen threads or discussions on at least 32 of the artists in their top 50 here this year. Music is only "obscure" if you sit and wait for it to come to you. I've never understood how a list or an artist would be "less valid" just because someone doesn't know who that artist is yet. If that isn't the type of music you like, fine, don't pay any attention to it. Why get bent out of shape because they aren't going to review something mainstream favorably? I similarly wouldn't expect to see some of the artists I enjoy reviewed well (or at all) on Rollingstone or Spin, it's just how different circles work in the music biz.
Music is only "obscure" if you sit and wait for it to come to you.