Pitchfork Top 200

[Kurosagi]

1 hour ago, Hugh Jass said:

I only tend to eat a couple of meals a day at GF. So picking from everything that's available is always a big deal, don't want to waste a meal and money on something rubbish when there could be something amazing around the corner.

I'm one of those sad spreadsheet types and I love spending the weeks before the festival creating a clashfinder once the lineup's been confirmed. So I usually turn up with a clear plan of what bands I'm running around the site to see and so over the years I've built up some preferred go-to stalls depending on where I am:

- Manic Organic if I'm West Holts, Glade or Green Fields area

- Thali if I'm up at Park

- Happy Maki if I'm at Williams Green/Acoustic etc.

- John Peel/Dance field I find problematic but happy to pick up a pasty near the Bandstand along the way to keep me going.

Later on I always try to grab a fried egg bap if passing near Croissant Neuf tent before it closes, best £1.50 you can spend when needing to plug a hunger hole in a rush.

But yeah, I'm never one to hang around a stall if the queues are long...fuck food, onto the next gig!

[Woffy]

No Trials of Van Occupanther or Sophtware Slump.

Hmmph.

[gigpusher]

A lot of my personal favourites from he last 25 years haven't made the list. It is as always fairly male centric but it's not the worst list. 

[blutarsky]

30/200 that I either owned, or think I owned, or at least streamed it over and over and over. 

[Hugh Jass]

I've got about 20 just through liking Radiohead, The National and Arcade Fire.

[maelzoid]

I quite often dive into this website:

https://www.besteveralbums.com

It's nothing if not democratic. Just looking at what they have ranked highly for the last 25 years, it is very similar to the pitchfork list, with the major omissions being the massive uncool acts (Muse, Coldplay, Killers).

I remain convinced that Radiohead do well in these lists because Radiohead fans are inclined to vote in them so much. Either that are they really are the greatest band of the last 25 years...

[maelzoid]

Best Ever Albums top 200 albums from 1996 to present

1	OK Computer	Radiohead
5	Kid A	Radiohead
7	In Rainbows	Radiohead
13	Funeral	Arcade Fire
15	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea	Neutral Milk Hotel
22	To Pimp A Butterfly	Kendrick Lamar
23	Is This It	The Strokes
32	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Kanye West
38	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City	Kendrick Lamar
44	The Suburbs	Arcade Fire
45	Illinois	Sufjan Stevens
48	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	Wilco
52	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	Arctic Monkeys
64	Ãgætis Byrjun	Sigur Rós
66	Lonerism	Tame Impala
75	Carrie & Lowell	Sufjan Stevens
82	A Moon Shaped Pool	Radiohead
84	Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven	Godspeed You! Black Emperor
85	Turn On The Bright Lights	Interpol
86	Madvillainy	Madvillain
90	Sound Of Silver	LCD Soundsystem
91	A Rush Of Blood To The Head	Coldplay
93	Pinkerton	Weezer
95	For Emma, Forever Ago	Bon Iver
99	Homogenic	Björk
104	Elephant	The White Stripes
105	The Soft Bulletin	The Flaming Lips
106	Blonde	Frank Ocean
111	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots	The Flaming Lips
115	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Animal Collective
117	If You're Feeling Sinister	Belle And Sebastian
119	Demon Days	Gorillaz
120	Amnesiac	Radiohead
122	Modern Vampires Of The City	Vampire Weekend
127	High Violet	The National
131	Songs For The Deaf	Queens Of The Stone Age
132	★ (Blackstar)	David Bowie
133	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes
136	The Moon & Antarctica	Modest Mouse
137	Either/Or	Elliott Smith
138	Discovery	Daft Punk
139	Boxer	The National
140	Endtroducing.....	DJ Shadow
141	Teen Dream	Beach House
143	Neon Bible	Arcade Fire
152	Mezzanine	Massive Attack
153	American Idiot	Green Day
156	Channel Orange	Frank Ocean
158	Currents	Tame Impala
162	Lost In The Dream	The War On Drugs
164	Helplessness Blues	Fleet Foxes
166	Hail To The Thief	Radiohead
169	Bon Iver	Bon Iver
172	Since I Left You	The Avalanches
175	The Lonesome Crowded West	Modest Mouse
176	The College Dropout	Kanye West
177	Absolution	Muse
179	Lateralus	Tool
182	The Glow Pt. 2	The Microphones
184	Ys	Joanna Newsom
185	Origin Of Symmetry	Muse
186	This Is Happening	LCD Soundsystem
188	Hot Fuss	The Killers (US)
191	Yeezus	Kanye West
198	AM	Arctic Monkeys
199	Bloom	Beach House
200	Reflektor	Arcade Fire
203	Vespertine	Björk
205	...Like Clockwork	Queens Of The Stone Age
209	Teens Of Denial	Car Seat Headrest
210	The Money Store	Death Grips
211	Parachutes	Coldplay
216	Californication	Red Hot Chili Peppers
219	Vampire Weekend	Vampire Weekend
220	An Awesome Wave	alt-J
222	Random Access Memories	Daft Punk
227	Back To Black	Amy Winehouse
228	Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space	Spiritualized
235	Odelay	Beck
236	Hospice	The Antlers
239	Ænima	Tool
240	Plastic Beach	Gorillaz
241	Black Holes And Revelations	Muse
243	F♯A♯∞	Godspeed You! Black Emperor
245	Favourite Worst Nightmare	Arctic Monkeys
248	Moon Safari	Air (FR)
251	Late Registration	Kanye West
253	Halcyon Digest	Deerhunter
256	To Be Kind	Swans
262	The Marshall Mathers LP	Eminem
269	You Forgot It In People	Broken Social Scene
270	The Smile Sessions	The Beach Boys
272	Oracular Spectacular	MGMT
273	Room On Fire	The Strokes
274	Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends	Coldplay
280	Aquemini	OutKast
281	I Love You, Honeybear	Father John Misty
283	Urban Hymns	The Verve
291	Trouble Will Find Me	The National
294	Damn.	Kendrick Lamar
295	xx	The xx
297	Perfect From Now On	Built To Spill
298	Music Has The Right To Children	Boards Of Canada
301	Let England Shake	PJ Harvey
304	White Blood Cells	The White Stripes
310	Toxicity	System Of A Down
314	Atrocity Exhibition	Danny Brown
315	Brothers	The Black Keys
317	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face)	Car Seat Headrest
319	The Age Of Adz	Sufjan Stevens
321	Sea Change	Beck
326	Igor	Tyler, The Creator
327	The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do	Fiona Apple
328	98.12.28 ç”·é”ã®åˆ¥ã‚Œ [98.12.28 Otokotachi No Wakare]	フィッシュマンズ [Fishmans]
331	Strawberry Jam	Animal Collective
333	Untrue	Burial
335	Long Season	フィッシュマンズ [Fishmans]
336	Melodrama	Lorde
337	Chutes Too Narrow	The Shins
340	The King Of Limbs	Radiohead
345	The Black Parade	My Chemical Romance
346	The Colour And The Shape	Foo Fighters
348	Silent Alarm	Bloc Party
349	Innerspeaker	Tame Impala
351	Third	Portishead
352	Benji	Sun Kil Moon
353	13	Blur
355	The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me	Brand New
357	Norman Fucking Rockwell!	Lana Del Rey
358	Takk...	Sigur Rós
362	Emergency & I	The Dismemberment Plan
363	Good News For People Who Love Bad News	Modest Mouse
366	Veckatimest	Grizzly Bear
367	El Camino	The Black Keys
368	Flower Boy	Tyler, The Creator
370	Transatlanticism	Death Cab For Cutie
371	Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea	PJ Harvey
373	Titanic Rising	Weyes Blood
376	( )	Sigur Rós
377	Have One On Me	Joanna Newsom
382	Stankonia	OutKast
383	The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill	Lauryn Hill
384	The Boatman's Call	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
386	Run The Jewels 2	Run The Jewels
388	Kids See Ghosts	Kids See Ghosts
392	Person Pitch	Panda Bear
393	Contra	Vampire Weekend
399	Alligator	The National
400	Deathconsciousness	Have A Nice Life
401	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	Bright Eyes
404	Soundtracks For The Blind	Swans
405	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand
406	69 Love Songs	The Magnetic Fields
409	Give Up	The Postal Service
410	Born To Die	Lana Del Rey
416	22, A Million	Bon Iver
417	By The Way	Red Hot Chili Peppers
418	The Life Of Pablo	Kanye West
419	Art Angels	Grimes
421	Graduation	Kanye West
423	Skeleton Tree	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
428	American Football	American Football
430	Summerteeth	Wilco
432	Fear Of A Blank Planet	Porcupine Tree
435	Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	Phoenix (FR)
437	Donuts	J Dilla
439	A Deeper Understanding	The War On Drugs
440	The Seer	Swans
442	I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One	Yo La Tengo
445	Keep It Like A Secret	Built To Spill
446	Salad Days	Mac DeMarco
452	X&Y	Coldplay
456	Play	Moby
457	The Mollusk	Ween
458	St. Vincent	St. Vincent
459	Kaputt	Destroyer
463	Feels	Animal Collective
466	The ArchAndroid	Janelle Monáe
470	Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?	of Montreal
472	XO	Elliott Smith
475	Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit	Courtney Barnett
477	Antics	Interpol
482	De-Loused In The Comatorium	The Mars Volta
485	Relationship Of Command	At The Drive-In
487	In Absentia	Porcupine Tree
488	Sunbather	Deafheaven
489	Hurry Up, We're Dreaming	M83
497	Black Messiah	D'Angelo And The Vanguard
502	21	Adele
511	The Blueprint	Jay-Z
514	The Seldom Seen Kid	Elbow
515	The Fat Of The Land	The Prodigy
516	White Pony	Deftones
517	Wasting Light	Foo Fighters
520	Lemonade	Beyoncé
521	Stadium Arcadium	Red Hot Chili Peppers
522	E•MO•TION	Carly Rae Jepsen
526	When The Pawn...	Fiona Apple
531	Up The Bracket	The Libertines
533	Oh, Inverted World	The Shin

Those numbers show the all-time ranking.

[blutarsky]

15 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

Best Ever Albums top 200 albums from 1996 to present

1	OK Computer	Radiohead
5	Kid A	Radiohead
7	In Rainbows	Radiohead
13	Funeral	Arcade Fire
15	In The Aeroplane Over The Sea	Neutral Milk Hotel
22	To Pimp A Butterfly	Kendrick Lamar
23	Is This It	The Strokes
32	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Kanye West
38	Good Kid, M.A.A.D City	Kendrick Lamar
44	The Suburbs	Arcade Fire
45	Illinois	Sufjan Stevens
48	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	Wilco
52	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	Arctic Monkeys
64	Ãgætis Byrjun	Sigur Rós
66	Lonerism	Tame Impala
75	Carrie & Lowell	Sufjan Stevens
82	A Moon Shaped Pool	Radiohead
84	Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven	Godspeed You! Black Emperor
85	Turn On The Bright Lights	Interpol
86	Madvillainy	Madvillain
90	Sound Of Silver	LCD Soundsystem
91	A Rush Of Blood To The Head	Coldplay
93	Pinkerton	Weezer
95	For Emma, Forever Ago	Bon Iver
99	Homogenic	Björk
104	Elephant	The White Stripes
105	The Soft Bulletin	The Flaming Lips
106	Blonde	Frank Ocean
111	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots	The Flaming Lips
115	Merriweather Post Pavilion	Animal Collective
117	If You're Feeling Sinister	Belle And Sebastian
119	Demon Days	Gorillaz
120	Amnesiac	Radiohead
122	Modern Vampires Of The City	Vampire Weekend
127	High Violet	The National
131	Songs For The Deaf	Queens Of The Stone Age
132	★ (Blackstar)	David Bowie
133	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes
136	The Moon & Antarctica	Modest Mouse
137	Either/Or	Elliott Smith
138	Discovery	Daft Punk
139	Boxer	The National
140	Endtroducing.....	DJ Shadow
141	Teen Dream	Beach House
143	Neon Bible	Arcade Fire
152	Mezzanine	Massive Attack
153	American Idiot	Green Day
156	Channel Orange	Frank Ocean
158	Currents	Tame Impala
162	Lost In The Dream	The War On Drugs
164	Helplessness Blues	Fleet Foxes
166	Hail To The Thief	Radiohead
169	Bon Iver	Bon Iver
172	Since I Left You	The Avalanches
175	The Lonesome Crowded West	Modest Mouse
176	The College Dropout	Kanye West
177	Absolution	Muse
179	Lateralus	Tool
182	The Glow Pt. 2	The Microphones
184	Ys	Joanna Newsom
185	Origin Of Symmetry	Muse
186	This Is Happening	LCD Soundsystem
188	Hot Fuss	The Killers (US)
191	Yeezus	Kanye West
198	AM	Arctic Monkeys
199	Bloom	Beach House
200	Reflektor	Arcade Fire
203	Vespertine	Björk
205	...Like Clockwork	Queens Of The Stone Age
209	Teens Of Denial	Car Seat Headrest
210	The Money Store	Death Grips
211	Parachutes	Coldplay
216	Californication	Red Hot Chili Peppers
219	Vampire Weekend	Vampire Weekend
220	An Awesome Wave	alt-J
222	Random Access Memories	Daft Punk
227	Back To Black	Amy Winehouse
228	Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space	Spiritualized
235	Odelay	Beck
236	Hospice	The Antlers
239	Ænima	Tool
240	Plastic Beach	Gorillaz
241	Black Holes And Revelations	Muse
243	F♯A♯∞	Godspeed You! Black Emperor
245	Favourite Worst Nightmare	Arctic Monkeys
248	Moon Safari	Air (FR)
251	Late Registration	Kanye West
253	Halcyon Digest	Deerhunter
256	To Be Kind	Swans
262	The Marshall Mathers LP	Eminem
269	You Forgot It In People	Broken Social Scene
270	The Smile Sessions	The Beach Boys
272	Oracular Spectacular	MGMT
273	Room On Fire	The Strokes
274	Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends	Coldplay
280	Aquemini	OutKast
281	I Love You, Honeybear	Father John Misty
283	Urban Hymns	The Verve
291	Trouble Will Find Me	The National
294	Damn.	Kendrick Lamar
295	xx	The xx
297	Perfect From Now On	Built To Spill
298	Music Has The Right To Children	Boards Of Canada
301	Let England Shake	PJ Harvey
304	White Blood Cells	The White Stripes
310	Toxicity	System Of A Down
314	Atrocity Exhibition	Danny Brown
315	Brothers	The Black Keys
317	Twin Fantasy (Face To Face)	Car Seat Headrest
319	The Age Of Adz	Sufjan Stevens
321	Sea Change	Beck
326	Igor	Tyler, The Creator
327	The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do	Fiona Apple
328	98.12.28 ç”·é”ã®åˆ¥ã‚Œ [98.12.28 Otokotachi No Wakare]	フィッシュマンズ [Fishmans]
331	Strawberry Jam	Animal Collective
333	Untrue	Burial
335	Long Season	フィッシュマンズ [Fishmans]
336	Melodrama	Lorde
337	Chutes Too Narrow	The Shins
340	The King Of Limbs	Radiohead
345	The Black Parade	My Chemical Romance
346	The Colour And The Shape	Foo Fighters
348	Silent Alarm	Bloc Party
349	Innerspeaker	Tame Impala
351	Third	Portishead
352	Benji	Sun Kil Moon
353	13	Blur
355	The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me	Brand New
357	Norman Fucking Rockwell!	Lana Del Rey
358	Takk...	Sigur Rós
362	Emergency & I	The Dismemberment Plan
363	Good News For People Who Love Bad News	Modest Mouse
366	Veckatimest	Grizzly Bear
367	El Camino	The Black Keys
368	Flower Boy	Tyler, The Creator
370	Transatlanticism	Death Cab For Cutie
371	Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea	PJ Harvey
373	Titanic Rising	Weyes Blood
376	( )	Sigur Rós
377	Have One On Me	Joanna Newsom
382	Stankonia	OutKast
383	The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill	Lauryn Hill
384	The Boatman's Call	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
386	Run The Jewels 2	Run The Jewels
388	Kids See Ghosts	Kids See Ghosts
392	Person Pitch	Panda Bear
393	Contra	Vampire Weekend
399	Alligator	The National
400	Deathconsciousness	Have A Nice Life
401	I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	Bright Eyes
404	Soundtracks For The Blind	Swans
405	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand
406	69 Love Songs	The Magnetic Fields
409	Give Up	The Postal Service
410	Born To Die	Lana Del Rey
416	22, A Million	Bon Iver
417	By The Way	Red Hot Chili Peppers
418	The Life Of Pablo	Kanye West
419	Art Angels	Grimes
421	Graduation	Kanye West
423	Skeleton Tree	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
428	American Football	American Football
430	Summerteeth	Wilco
432	Fear Of A Blank Planet	Porcupine Tree
435	Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	Phoenix (FR)
437	Donuts	J Dilla
439	A Deeper Understanding	The War On Drugs
440	The Seer	Swans
442	I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One	Yo La Tengo
445	Keep It Like A Secret	Built To Spill
446	Salad Days	Mac DeMarco
452	X&Y	Coldplay
456	Play	Moby
457	The Mollusk	Ween
458	St. Vincent	St. Vincent
459	Kaputt	Destroyer
463	Feels	Animal Collective
466	The ArchAndroid	Janelle Monáe
470	Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?	of Montreal
472	XO	Elliott Smith
475	Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit	Courtney Barnett
477	Antics	Interpol
482	De-Loused In The Comatorium	The Mars Volta
485	Relationship Of Command	At The Drive-In
487	In Absentia	Porcupine Tree
488	Sunbather	Deafheaven
489	Hurry Up, We're Dreaming	M83
497	Black Messiah	D'Angelo And The Vanguard
502	21	Adele
511	The Blueprint	Jay-Z
514	The Seldom Seen Kid	Elbow
515	The Fat Of The Land	The Prodigy
516	White Pony	Deftones
517	Wasting Light	Foo Fighters
520	Lemonade	Beyoncé
521	Stadium Arcadium	Red Hot Chili Peppers
522	E•MO•TION	Carly Rae Jepsen
526	When The Pawn...	Fiona Apple
531	Up The Bracket	The Libertines
533	Oh, Inverted World	The Shin

Those numbers show the all-time ranking.

Highest woman on there is Bjork at 99... 

[maelzoid]

5 minutes ago, blutarsky said:

Highest woman on there is Bjork at 99... 

Considering the list is compiled of a huge number of published lists and those of users, it's hard to know who to complain to about this...

[Brave Sir Robin]

1 hour ago, maelzoid said:

I quite often dive into this website:

https://www.besteveralbums.com

It's nothing if not democratic. Just looking at what they have ranked highly for the last 25 years, it is very similar to the pitchfork list, with the major omissions being the massive uncool acts (Muse, Coldplay, Killers).

I remain convinced that Radiohead do well in these lists because Radiohead fans are inclined to vote in them so much. Either that are they really are the greatest band of the last 25 years...

Interesting. This website, which someone on here once mentioned and is the same concept, comes up with quite a different list: https://acclaimedmusic.net/year/alltime_albums.htm. It also has a list of the top 10,000 songs of all time (according to the critics' lists), both of which you can explore by genre or year/decade, and Spotify playlists of the same which are great to dip into.

[maelzoid]

1 hour ago, Florian Saucer Attack said:

Arcade fire and LCD soundsystem have female members

On record though, isn't LCD just that one guy?

Either way, it hardly reverses the massive imbalance.

The only consolation I will take is that the percentage of female artists in these lists seems to be trending upwards over the years.