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[Diprosalic]

Thanks for the list. I almost never agree with Pitchfork, so I know what 50 albums to avoid now.

2edgy5me

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Perfect #1

A seat at the table made me shed a few tears

 

[entremet]

Good list.

Don't care for Beyoncé tho.

 

[Squalor]

A Seat at the Table is better than Lemonade.

Kanye deserved top ten, but I think top five is a little high. Still laughing at the haters, though.

Surprised Car Seat Headrest didn't make the top twenty and that Anti did.

Rest of that list is okay.

 

[Servbot24]

I don't quite get why people are using Chance as their token rap album rather than Danny.

 

[Bladenic]

Anti <3

 

[Sarcastic Poster]

Solange's album was deffo better than Beyonce's album. Overall though, not really enamoured with this year. All my hyped releases disappointed (Radiohead, Frank, Aphex Twin, to a much lesser extent Danny Brown) and no real new artists I was turned onto.

 

[shoelacer]

Damn. I bet you wouldn't say that to his face.

What would he do, mope in a flannel at you?

 

[Infinite]

How the fuck is TLOP in the top 20 but Views isn't? Feel No Ways is one of Drakes best songs EVER and I still listen to childs play. These homies is whack but I already knew daaat

Views is fucking trash.

Agree with the top 5 and happy to see the #1 at #1

 

[Fury451]

As someone who enjoys Bon Iver, I don't get the high praise for 22, A Million.

A Tribe Called Quest, Angel Olsen, and Bowie are all solid choices for the top 10

Got some albums to check out from this list though.

 

[Anth0ny]

Tlop should be #1

 

[Infinite]

I don't quite get why people are using Chance as their token rap album rather than Danny.

They both made the top twenty lol. "Token"

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

As much as I hate that site, I always think their end of the year lists are great, at least since they turned me onto Grimes (2012?).

 

[RDreamer]

TLOP was so ridiculously bad. Any list that has it on the top 30 needs to re evaluate...

As someone who enjoys Bon Iver, I don't get the high praise for 22, A Million.

Yeah I don't get it either. The album sounds like self sabotage. The helium vocals were just too much.

 

[Fallout-NL]

#1 not really my thing, but happy to see A Tribe Called Quest and Radiohead on there. Both great albums.

 

[Bacon]

I don't quite get why people are using Chance as their token rap album rather than Danny.

Because chance is a nice happy approachable rap guy

 

[Zabka]

Good for Mitski! I like Mitski. The name and her music.

Mitski.

 

[thestopsign]

Thanks for the list. I almost never agree with Pitchfork, so I know what 50 albums to avoid now.

You would be missing out on a lot of good albums, I think they did a good job of putting key albums in the Top 20 that I see, even if the order isn't always agreed upon (order is never agreed upon anyways).

 

[krazen]

Not a single metal album on the list. Not that these aren't 50 great albums, but lol

It kills me because Pitchfork does an alright job of keeping tabs on metal through the year all things considered...

...then they are no shows in the end of the year lists. Even when blessed with the elusive 'Best New Music'

 

[akileese]

Weird that Pitchfork seemed super enthusiastic about Touche Amore's Stage Four but left it off their top 50.

 

[thestopsign]

I don't quite get why people are using Chance as their token rap album rather than Danny.

Danny is right there with him on the list.

 

[Squalor]

Danny is right there with him on the list.

He's upset Chance is higher/lower on the list.

 

[Sarcastic Poster]

Weird that Pitchfork seemed super enthusiastic about Touche Amore's Stage Four but left it off their top 50.

Looking for consistency with Pitchfork is a pointless endeavour.

 

[shnurgleton]

It's criminal that Pitchfork didn't even review Andy Shauf's The Party.

TLoP is a disjointed mess that wouldve been better released as a mixtape. There is no way it should win out over Freetown Sound.

Edit 1: Blond put me to sleep.

Edit 2: Japanese Breakfast is unbelievably underrated. Went to see them/her here in Madison a few months back. Phenomenal show.

 

[Jakoo]

Snublist:

Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Tegan and Sara - Love U To Death
Mayer Hawthorne - Man About Town
Animal Collective - Painting With

and you know, what, fuck it:

Weezer - The White Album

 

[Eidan]

Thanks for the list. I almost never agree with Pitchfork, so I know what 50 albums to avoid now.

You're trying too hard.

 

[olympia]

lmao. TLOP is actually great. I listened to it like every day for the first half of the year and I still spin it at least once a week

I'm glad views is getting zero looks. That album is fucking lame

 

[wenis]

My list is better, but they picked the better Knowles album of the year.

 

[Bacon]

TLOP is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine but I don't think it belongs anywhere near a top ten. It doesn't hold up to his earlier projects and it doesn't hold up to many other rap albums released this year and putting it ahead of ATCQ's stellar album is pretty crazy to me. I can see putting it in the middle of the list but top 5 is a bit much for such an unfocused and inconsistent album.

 

[Squalor]

Weird that Pitchfork seemed super enthusiastic about Touche Amore's Stage Four but left it off their top 50.

Not really. One person reviewed it and gave it an 8.1.

The overall list is a compilation off all the writers. It didn't show up on enough lists.

 

[Jakoo]

I'm glad views is getting zero looks. That album is fucking lame

I was so hyped for VIEWS after IYRTITL and Hotling Bling/Back to Back. Wow did he squander that momentum. Spun VIEWS for two weeks and haven't gone back.

 

[olympia]

Weird that Pitchfork seemed super enthusiastic about Touche Amore's Stage Four but left it off their top 50.

they rated it .1 higher than is survived by. idk if "enthusiastic" is the word i would used to describe their reception to that album. I do agree that it should be on there though

I'm glad noname hit the list. pretty great mixtape (or whatever)

 

[Silver Arrows]

No Thrice?

 

[Anndrej]

Anti <3

Thank you.

I really don't get the ANTI hate. I've never been a big Rihanna fan but that album floored me.

Turn your noses up all you want but that shit is qua-li-tee.

I'm pretty OK with the whole list, tbf.

 

[kingocfs]

Tribe Called Quest robbed.

 

[Squalor]

I was so hyped for VIEWS after IFRTITL and Hotling Bling/Back to Back. Wow did he squander that momentum. Spun VIEWS for two weeks and haven't gone back.

His verse on 2 Chainz's "Big Amount" is better than the whole of Views.

 

[dimb]

Glad Pitchfork can expose me to upcoming underground artists like Beyonce and Kanye West.

 

[Merkunt]

Between all of NPR's, Pitchfork's, and Rolling Stone's top 50 lists, there was 1 metal album. Metallica at like 30-something for RS.

barf

 

[Servbot24]

Danny is right there with him on the list.

Oh, my bad, completely skimmed over that somehow.

 

[thabiz]

Wow I'm shocked pitchfork put together a pretty competent list. Maybe the site isn't done after all

 

[Galang]

Shame Japanese Breakfast went so under the radar. Maybe it's just me, but I found the album to be super dreamy in all the right ways. Just a hunch, but I feel like the follow-up album will make some waves. My fave album of 2016.

 

[pokeystaples]

TLOP and Blonde are a little high for me, but this is a really good list.

 

[peppermints]

Shame Japanese Breakfast went so under the radar. Maybe it's just me, but I found the album to be super dreamy in all the right ways. Just a hunch, but I feel like the follow-up album will make some waves. My fave album of 2016.

It's really, really good.

Feel like Ian Cohen didn't have as much influence on this list as he should have.

 

[Jakoo]

Shame Japanese Breakfast went so under the radar. Maybe it's just me, but I found the album to be super dreamy in all the right ways. Just a hunch, but I feel like the follow-up album will make some waves. My fave album of 2016.

My favorite new (to me) artist this year by far.

Her old band Little Big League is also amazing. I hope she does more with that project as well.

 

[whatevermort]

I don't get the Mitski love. It's pretty good, I guess, but not even close to being one of my 2016 favorites.

It's easily one of my favourites of the year. Your Best American Girl is my favourite song of 2016, hands down.

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

People really need to stop making Bon Iver happen. New album is trash after many listens. Such a vapid mess of an album.

That being said, this is a fairly predictable list, and I do like most of the top 10. Would've liked Skeleton Tree in place of Chance or Kanye, since Coloring Book was OK at best and TLOP was pretty mediocre to me.

 

[vatstep]

Glad Pitchfork can expose me to upcoming underground artists like Beyonce and Kanye West.

That's what I used to like about Pitchfork's year end lists; even if I didn't follow the site consistently during the year I could get an overview of things I may have missed out on. Now their top 10~ just reads like any other major music publication; I mean, I heard about all of that music just from being a person that's somewhat in-tune with pop culture. I'm not questioning the quality of those albums, but I guess I'm just an old hipster or whatever and have fond memories of when Pitchfork was an alternative/indie site.

 

[Onemic]

Surprised James Blake didnt get in.

Happy TLOP placed where it did because it is easily a top 10 album of 2016.

Not a single metal album on the list. Not that these aren't 50 great albums, but lol

I feel that Pitchfork usually doesnt have a lot of internal writers that cover metal, that's why you rarely see them unless they are big names. Usually they'll do a metal top 20 soon after their top 50 list releases.

 

[whatevermort]

Not a single metal album on the list. Not that these aren't 50 great albums, but lol

I'm actually quite surprised Alcest didn't make their top 20. They do love metal that slips into that shoegaze mode, and it's a superb example of the form.

 

[Onemic]

I'm actually quite surprised Alcest didn't make their top 20. They do love metal that slips into that shoegaze mode, and it's a superb example of the form.

Im interested....