Board 8 > Pitchfork top albums/songs of 2011 discussion topic

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Songs:

5. Real Estate: "It's Real"
4. Nicki Minaj: "Super Bass"
3. EMA: "California"
2. Bon Iver: "Holocene"
1. M83: "Midnight City"


Albums:

TBD



Pretty awful tbqh!

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4. Nicki Minaj: "Super Bass"

lol

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disappointed that room(s) didn't make it onto the list but I wasn't expecting much

just waiting for the fallout tonight when the king of limbs doesn't make the list

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TKOLAOTYTBQHIMO


last year's list was fantastic, for the record

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http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/60564277/683227983

also, midnight city easily deserved song of the year tbh

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Rusry posted...
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/60564277/683227983

also, midnight city easily deserved song of the year tbh

What does BNM mean?

Song of the year is Separator... I dont know how that or Lotus Flower didn't pop in the top 10 (especially over f***ing DJ Khaled and Nicki MInaj)

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best new music

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Wait wait wait wait wait

hold on


Radiohead didn't even get a track in the top 100... at all

but Britney Spears ft. Ke$ha did?




XFD Pitchfork. I can't wait for the QQing.

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radiohead will not show up on the list at all. the HM list and albums 50-21 have already been posted, and if it was anywhere, it'd be in one of those two posts

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bigger snub - no breaking bad for best dramatic tv show at the golden globes

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Icon Classic posted...
radiohead will not show up on the list at all. the HM list and albums 50-21 have already been posted, and if it was anywhere, it'd be in one of those two posts

I mean I figured TKOL would be left out due to the mediocre review, but I expected that Lotus Flower would at least break the top 20 tracks

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Icon Classic posted...
bigger snub - no breaking bad for best dramatic tv show at the golden globes

golden globes are a total joke so I'm not mad

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so uhh are they not linking to this list from the front page because I don't see it

judging from the top 5 this is amazingly terrible

well, I guess the bon iver song is nice

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I mean I figured TKOL would be left out due to the mediocre review

They did give it a 7.9, that's hardly a mediocre score!

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I like Real Estate, but that's not even close to being the best song on the album

for real though, if you still think of pitchfork as a serious source for music taste or criticism you need to stop. this site hasn't been viable in four years.

hard to miss, i know

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"for real though, if you still think of pitchfork as a serious source for music taste or criticism you need to stop. this site hasn't been viable in four years."

they have a handful of talented writers. it's not as if the site is completely without merit

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colliding posted...
for real though, if you still think of pitchfork as a serious source for music taste or criticism you need to stop. this site hasn't been viable in four years.

like I said, I thought the EOY stuff for 2010 was wonderful

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assuming bon iver will get album of the year from them

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their list for 2010 was very solid. this year not so much (songs)

you could make an argument to me that Midnight City deserves top 20, but I don't think top ten is viable for it.

should've been yonkers

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bon iver sucks

*gets egged*

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song of the year is ric flair IMO

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*eggs SephG*


I don't really care for the poser lists that pitchfork comes up with every year. Every time they shake their choices up for their list just to have that 'surprise' effect

ulti-esque conspiracy theory there, vince.

their EOY list is nothing more than a collection of writer's lists, which in the past have always been posted. the process is completely transparent.

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midnight city is good but it's not even a top 5 m83 song

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Did you just compare my opinion of pitchfork to ulti's opinion of the american government

that's a comparison blown out of proportion if I've ever seen one!


I STILL DONT CARE ABOUT PITCHFORKS LIST

no. i'm just saying that it's silly to think the pitchfork overlords switch around album placement to get one over on their readership. as i said, the process is completely transparent - there's no need to make wild assumptions about it.

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I can make wild assumptions if I want to! It doesn't make me right but WHATEVER ICON

For some reason the HUGE banner (that Icon screencapped) that linked to it has disappeared these last few days when I go there. Not sure what's happening.

But yeah, a bit disappointing this year. I listened to their spotify playlist of the top 100 and it was just okay - compared to last year at least.

Album Predictions:
3) James Blake
2) M83
1) Bon Iver

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album predix

5) The Weeknd
4) St. Vincent
3) James Blake
2) Girls
1) Bon Iver

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That seems like a bad list. Music critics are almost never any good though, so not surprising.

they'll definitely have m83 up there

i'll say

5) shabazz palaces
4) girls
3) real estate
2) m83
1) bon iver

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snubbing all of Born This Way's singles while including that second-rate TTWE remix is ****ing insulting

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Icon Classic posted...
no. i'm just saying that it's silly to think the pitchfork overlords switch around album placement to get one over on their readership. as i said, the process is completely transparent - there's no need to make wild assumptions about it.

They had to have done this last year with Round and Round. I mean that song REALLY grew on me, but I think the indie cred gained by putting that over Runaway was immense.

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TimJab posted...
they'll definitely have m83 up there

i'll say

5) shabazz palaces
4) girls
3) real estate
2) m83
1) bon iver

man did this year suck for music or what

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oh wut midnight city is that song from the car commercials xfd

I didn't even realize that until now

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i can't think of many stronger years in recent memory than 2011

you've done something wrong if you're judging the quality of the year by pitchfork's EOY list


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Icon Tang posted...
i can't think of many stronger years in recent memory than 2011

you've done something wrong if you're judging the quality of the year by pitchfork's EOY list

2010 was probably the best year for music in my lifetime with the exceptions of maybe 94 and 01

TKOL was literally the best album of the year and it wasn't even a 9 in my book.

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And I'm not one of those douchey curmugeons that say every year sucked at the end of the year-- I really liked last year from beginning to end with movies, TV, and music.

This year only TV has been stellar imo.

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movies have been down this year but hollywood only has itself to blame. i'm sure there's some great foreign 2011 movies but I won't see those until next year when they hit the festival market.

this year saw the release of SMiLE. ignoring the ridiculous depth and variety in music from 2011, that's the best release since Untrue. this may have been a down year in hip-hop compared to the last two years (it's easy to create a solid top 5 that compares but after that there's a bit of a drop), and there's only been a handful of good rock albums, but everything else this year has been excellent.

if the king of limbs is the best thing you've heard this year, you should probably listen to more music.


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Pitchfork is terrible...the root of all evil known as the hipster.

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Icon Tang posted...
movies have been down this year but hollywood only has itself to blame. i'm sure there's some great foreign 2011 movies but I won't see those until next year when they hit the festival market.

this year saw the release of SMiLE. ignoring the ridiculous depth and variety in music from 2011, that's the best release since Untrue. this may have been a down year in hip-hop compared to the last two years (it's easy to create a solid top 5 that compares but after that there's a bit of a drop), and there's only been a handful of good rock albums, but everything else this year has been excellent.

if the king of limbs is the best thing you've heard this year, you should probably listen to more music.


An album from 1966 cant be the best album of 2011.

Hip-hop kinda sucked this year, but that's mostly because nothing major was really released-- which bodes well for 2012 (Andre 3k may have the GOAT next year).

Rock, as you said, was nothing special either.

And to be honest I am getting sick of this indie electronic dance **** that Pitchfork and iconsience have been really latching onto these past few years. Some of it is phenomenal, but Christ there's too much of it and it can't sate my musical needs for an entire year. Same with folk.

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Hip-hop kinda sucked this year

There were some great rap releases this year: Undun (strong contender for AOTY), The Dreamer/The Believer, Section.80, Elmatic, Returnof4Eva, Take Care, Cole World, Cats & Dogs, Book of David, OG Hindu Kush - In 3D, The One...Cohesive, Oneirology, etc.

Not a lot of big names on that list, but some very good albums.

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An album from 1966 cant be the best album of 2011.

this is true. but smile is a 2011 release.

but that's mostly because nothing major was really released

K.R.I.T, Roots, Lamar, Cunninlynguists, ASAP Rocky. Those top five could hold their own against the best of the last two years. After that, there's a big drop of quality. 2010 didn't have that, but 2010 was a ridiculous year for hip-hop.

And to be honest I am getting sick of this indie electronic dance **** that Pitchfork and iconsience have been really latching onto these past few years.

what 'indie electronic dance ****' is that? and iconsience hasn't really latched on to anything. i have, but it's not the same stuff championed by pitchfork.


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i bought my dad the mega smile boxset for christmas, came today

cost me $130 but it looks awesome

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man did this year suck for music or what

yup

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hard to miss, i know

what, that's not showing up for me

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albums is up.

5) Girls
4) PJ Harvey
3) M83
2) Destroyer
1) Bon Iver

bon iver was a given but i'm pleasantly surprised to see danny brown at 19 and destroyer at 2. weeknd and st. vincent got jobbed a little.

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12. Jay-Z / Kanye West: "N***** in Paris" [Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella/Roc Nation]

"Got my n***** in Paris and they goin' gorillas, hah?!" There it is: hah?! Go ahead. Say it. Out loud. It's fun. And there's nothing that summarizes the wonderfully obnoxious platinum-crusted one-percent-ness of Watch the Throne better than Kanye West's go-to ad lib. Hah?! is funny, memorable, annoying, dumb, genius, earth, water, sky-- it's the entire known universe in one impossibly indignant syllable. Nobody knows what it means because it means everything.

Kanye actually says hah?! in "N***** in Paris", but this instant new stadium-rap blueprint is also the closest Mr. West and Jay-Z came to translating hah?! into song form on Watch the Throne. It is essentially one long hah?! The raps are on super-stunt, always. This is one of those tracks where a mere mention-- Olson twins, Margiela jackets, Audemar watches, motherf****** fish fillet sandwiches-- is akin to being knighted with relevance both actual and meme-based. Co-producer Hit-Boy's instrumental isn't shy either as it hurdles asteroids upon some tranced space-invader s*** handed down from Bambaataa's "Planet Rock". On a scale of hah? to hah! the beat is HAH! No question.

i love this write-up

or should i say

HAH?!

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destroyer at 2?

this is what cokes must feel whenever he finds someone who doesn't hate ted leo.


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