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50 Best Albums of the Year
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Pitchforks 'End of the Year' lists [2015]
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50 Best Albums of the Year
The 100 Best Tracks of the Year
Albums of the Year - Honorable Mentions
20 Best Music Videos
OP to be updated as lists are updated.
Albums of the Year Honorable Mentions.
a few select choices (in no particular order).
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
a few select choices (in no particular order).
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
RunTheBrules
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Damn, glad that somebody finally recognizes how great Alright is. Definitely the song of the year given the current state of affairs in world.
CountBlack
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Kdot artist of the year idc idc
Right? And they hyped her up pretty good this year too.
RunTheBrules
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According to albumoftheyear's aggregate list, you're 100 percent right and it isn't even close. Honestly, anyone who doesn't have this album on their list is either biased against hip-hop or is just being a try hard. To Pimp A Butterfly really is that fantastic; it is the album of the year, definitively, and quite possibly the album of the decade.
Hotline Bling is awesome. Agreed on Tame Impala though.
I mean I can see liking it to a degree, but out of thousands and thousands of songs released in a given year if that's truly a top 5 then that's beyond depressing.
I also find it funny because Pitchfork used to be the mecca of pretentiousness. You can't be pretentious and pretend Hotline Bling is a great song.
It was a very strong year for female pop vocalists. I imagine Natalie Prass probably edged her out.
It was an incredibly strong record tho. Out of those thousands of songs I can't imagine any of those other ones leaving that kind of cultural landmark that hotline bling did. It might not be a great song for you, but the impact it had is undeniable and because of that they had to give up a top five spot. That and I think it's largely regarded as catchy as hell. It wouldn't have done the business it did if it wasn't.
has 39,000,000+ plays on Spotify. Are you arguing this song has flown under the radar?
You guys can bitch about Pitchfork having pretentious reviews, but every year I find tons of new bands through them. Looking forward to the top 50.
That is for sure. Wonder why her stuff isn't on Spotify anyway.
When does NPR release their best albums of the year? I've had a hard time finding music I like this year :0
also here's a spotify playlist of the top 100. most of them anyway
https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/3ws7xi/pitchforks_top_100_well_93_songs_of_2015/
also here's a spotify playlist of the top 100. most of them anyway
https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/3ws7xi/pitchforks_top_100_well_93_songs_of_2015/
Except the impact was largely people laughing at how fucking stupid the video was. I watched all the parody videos. The song fucking blows. Video was hilarious.We shouldn't be giving top 5 song of the years because a video is funny.
Stabby McSter
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can't feel my face FOH the hills is way better
MrS
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Yep, no question. List is BS.
Coded Heroin
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Do Song of the Year lists only include officially released singles? I think Momma and These Walls are far superior to Alright. Heck, Alight is the second weakest single after King Kunta off of TPAB.
It's Pitchfork man. Don't take it so personally. I mean, did you even look at the rest of the list? It's full of pop and rap songs. This has been Pitchforks style for a LONG time. And as far as pop songs go, it's one of the best.
edit: To add to that, Pitchfork puts a lot of stock into songs that had cultural impact, which Hotline Bling definitely did.
None of them?
ratcliffja
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I don't know any of these songs. I don't even know where people hear this stuff aside from random YouTube links.
Eh. I'm not even a hip hop fan and I think that TPAB is by far the best album of the year.
How? In the top 5 itself it's pretty popular shit
Possibly. That would make a lot of sense. Singles, promotional material for upcoming albums, and one offs.
Let it Happen is a dope song, album is boring though imo.
you don't know where people hear this stuff? This is a "Best of 2015" list from a website that posts 5 record reviews daily. That's where they hear it.
crooked spin
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that's like saying "i don't know how anyone hears about these obscure games that aren't Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed"
Perfect Blue
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This is even more annoying than people who come into threads about celebrities and just post "Who?".
You have to be completely out of touch with modern music to not recognize a single thing on the list
Bedameister
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Out of those 100 tracks I only heard one ever and that was Rihanna
Bitch Better Have My Money
Also I don't know most of those artists
Bitch Better Have My Money
Also I don't know most of those artists
cool
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
Clarence Clarity or Julien Baker got AOTY on lock.
Nastrodamous
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only one carly rae jespen song is a travesty.
Yep. It's really odd how the "us v them" mentality still gets dragged out of the school yard into adulthood where no one gives a shit what you listen to or experience. Especially nowadays where everything you could ever want to listen to is just a click away.
Dang, why are some of you so annoyed that the guy doesn't know any of this music? Yeah, it could be popular as shit, but it's entirely possible in this very "pick and choose" entertainment industry that he just never came across any of this music. And that's fine. Not everyone listens to the radio that plays this stuff all day long, or goes to department stores where they have it in the background. It's not like he phrased it like he was better than you or some shit.
I don't know most of them, either. I recognize the names, but I haven't gone out of my way to listen to them, and I honestly haven't heard them or wouldn't recognize them if I had.
I don't know most of them, either. I recognize the names, but I haven't gone out of my way to listen to them, and I honestly haven't heard them or wouldn't recognize them if I had.
I'm just mad none of the Blue Neighborhood music videos made top 20.
Perfect Blue
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It's almost like music is subjective.
Eh, honest question, but are most of these songs in the top 100 songs that are played on the radio and such? I guess the Drake, Rihanna, etc. stuff is right? I personally just browse Youtube for most music discovery or go through my old catalog and see if they've put out new stuff, so I'm way out of touch with most things in the musical spectrum.
Just curious, because I too have only heard one song from that list, and it's because it was played on the local college radio station.
David bowie? Dr Dre? Rick Ross? Kanye West? Kendrick Lamar? Drake? Janet Jackson? Missy Elliot? Carly Rae Jepsen? Adele? Rhianna?
Bedameister
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So mostly Hip-Hop, RnB and Pop. That list doesn't really cover that much music genres so I don't think it's a big deal if people don't really know those songs.
crooked spin
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It covers all genres of western-centric music apart from mainstream country...
pushingrocks
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I love kendrick but i can't stand Alright. It sounds like some Mark Mothersburg Rugrats joint with that DA DA sound effect.
Skiptastic
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That's an awful lot of hip hop and RnB at the top. I prefer King Kunta to Alright, but whatever.
Pretty obvious what will be Album of the Year.
Pretty obvious what will be Album of the Year.
John Kowalski
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depreston doing good
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