Deerhunter not P4K's #1, Gummy pics, Animal Collective leak

I'm just happy Lil' Wayne didn't finish in the top 3....I def thought P4k would've given "Weezy" #2. Holla!

how did Hot Chip make the top 25?

Also, they included all these DJ mixes and hip hop albums, but metal gets totally shafted and moved to honorable mention or not at all. Nachtmystium? Torche? Harvey Milk?

Bradford is nuts and I love him for it.

max silvestri--the east coast's handsomest comedian?

I really didn't think they were going to give it to Fleet Foxes. I figured all the mainstream attention the band has been getting would have disqualified them.

My guess is Animal Collective wants to strangle Bradford right about now

The Mae Shi shouldn't have been in the Top 25, maybe not even the Top 50. I'm also surprised at Hot Chip making the cut, but I guess that goes to show their reviews are subjective to just the person who wrote the review. (The Gaslight Anthem got an 8.6 this year = Doesn't count in Pitchfork Year End List land)

Department of Eagles got robbed yo

Mae Shi and DJ/Rupture were great albums but their placing undermined the whole honorable mentions ruling.

i was hoping to see Jucifer somewhere on the list. L'Autrichienne is top 10 for me

"I really didn't think they were going to give it to Fleet Foxes. I figured all the mainstream attention the band has been getting would have disqualified them."

Pitchfork is part of the mainstream.

How is it possibble that THE MAE Shi beat Crystal Stilts, The Walkmen, Atlas Sound, Titus Andronicus, Kanye West, Santogold, The Dodos, Torche, Harvey Milk, Department of Eagles, Times New Viking, The Bug, Nick Cave...

I predict Merriweather Post Pavillion will be #3 in 2009

Merriwather Post Pavillion should've been on dat list. Liek two of the songs are already amazing and released, it should be number one.

Pitchfork usually gives #1 to a pretty obvious pick. I knew they would give it to that shitty Fleet Foxes album. Actually there is nothing on the list that really surprised me other than Dodos not being in the Top 50 at all.

not surprised fleet foxes got it.... it is a great album.... though a little confused as to how kanye ended up on the list in spite of it getting a seven-point-something, while the dodos and department of eagles both recieve best new music honors and get mere honorable mentions.... it wouldn't annoy me so much if it wasn't kanye.... i hate that man.

"I'm also surprised at Hot Chip making the cut, but I guess that goes to show their reviews are subjective to just the person who wrote the review. (The Gaslight Anthem got an 8.6 this year = Doesn't count in Pitchfork Year End List land)"

I don't think the numerical ratings on individual albums are as subjective to the reviewer as you think. They don't let an 8.6 get out without a roundtable discussion for sure.

also, about deerhunter.... i love their new album, it's one of my faves for the year, and they are great live.... but does that new guitarist actually add anything to the band other than dress like a cheerleader sometimes and act annoying?

A lot of dance music on this list. Cut Copy over TVOTR is just stupid.

i totally agree with that comment above and who the fuck cares about this stupid drama about the leaking of the new animal collective?

shit's gonna be all over the internet in the next 24 hours anyways...morons.

yeah, for all the grief that Pitchfork gets for well everything...I still think they have they best overall taste/scope of current music and put out the most superb year end lists.....it may sound like i'm kissing their ass but I think now more than ever websites like Pitchfork go a long way in reaffirming that not everyone in this country is musically retarded.

Bradford is officially THE most annoying "personality" out there.

"Also, they included all these DJ mixes and hip hop albums, but metal gets totally shafted and moved to honorable mention or not at all. Nachtmystium? Torche? Harvey Milk?"

I think there were all of two hip hop albums on the list. Go drink a cup of Drano and bang your head against a wall loser.

"Go drink a cup of Drano and bang your head against a wall loser."

YOU ARE FUNNY AND SMART!

pattern is movement didn't even get an honorable mention? lame.

"though a little confused as to how kanye ended up on the list in spite of it getting a seven-point-something, while the dodos and department of eagles both recieve best new music honors and get mere honorable mentions"

Those reviews and ratings are just the opinion of one person. The end of year lists are compiled from a bunch of people's opinions.

"Department of Eagles got robbed yo"

nah yo, Destroyer got robbed. that album wasnt even on the honorable mention list!

SOME GLARING OMISSIONS:

1. They must've just forgot about BON IVER, because living that album off the list is ridiculous.
2. The HARVEY MILK album is fantastic.
3. ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO'S album was stellar.
4. MGMT - "Oracular Spectacular"
5. FRIENDLY FIRES - "S/T"
6. THE WEEK THAT WAS - "S/T"
7. LATE OF THE PIER - "Fantasy Black Channel"
8. GLASVEGAS - "S/T"... very little UK love here
9. FOALS - "Antidotes"
10. SPIRITUALIZED - "Songs in A+E"
11. ELBOW - "Seldom Seen Kid"
12. SUN KIL MOON - "April"
13. Whatever that SIGUR ROS album was called
14. THE DODOS - "Visiter"
15. SHE & HIM - "Vol. 1" -- cute as a button.

"They must've just forgot about BON IVER, because living that album off the list is ridiculous."

Bon Iver was out in 2007 and in their top 50 of 2007 as they noted at the beginning of the list

Atlas Sound was 26, not 25.

Just saying.

"A lot of dance music on this list. Cut Copy over TVOTR is just stupid."

That's just, like, your opinion, man...

yeah he really is annoying, isn't he? trying to inspire fans to be creative rather than pushy about having an album leak early - what is that! fuck that Bradford with his thinking.

"Atlas Sound was 26, not 25. "

fixed, thanks!

Pattern Is Movement is the most glaring omission. I don't understand how PIM continue to make such great music and get robbed by critics and fans alike.

Mt. EERIE

Hey, why wasn't my favorite band #1 and instead some other band was rated as the top album of the year? It is some sort of injustice and shows that everyone really has no clue about music and I think you shouldn't sell out. Rap music is not good but my favorite genre is the best. It's just a popularity contest and no one cares about the music. I think.

"Pattern Is Movement is the most glaring omission. I don't understand how PIM continue to make such great music and get robbed by critics and fans alike."

i am not sure how fans can rob PIM, by being fans, i would argue they are automatically helping them, you buying their music, supporting their shows, making posts on blogs raising awareness to how they get robbed on 'top album lists'...

The Walkmen - you & me , by far the best of the year.

Bon Iver's album came out February '08... This is actual release dates and not "leak dates" right?

"Bon Iver's album came out February '08... This is actual release dates and not "leak dates" right? "

wrong. It was REISSUED in February 2008. It came out in 2007.

31 albums better than Nick Cave in 2008? Wrong.

whoa, I'm pretty happy P3 is #2 - especially since it's not that easy going down the ears if you weren't a fan already. it also goes to show older folks can make great music too!

I love that Vampire Weekend writeup. "They're not that bad... people like them..."

@Marlow ...If you want to get super-technical, MGMT's Oracular Spectacular came out *last* year. They released it digitally in October (when P4K reviewed it with a 6.8 rating).

I am one of Hot Chip's biggest supporters, but Made in the Dark hasn't really held up for me (wheras the Warning still does). And Cut Copy at #4???? The Metronomy record crushes both of those.

Agree with the rest of your list of ommissions, especially LotP, The Week That Was, and Elbow.

And I like Vivian Girls, but the Crystal Stilts album is way better.

"Mt. EERIE"

He did have three amazing releases all out this year.

no Black Kids?

Yeah that Vivian Girls album is good but not as good as people say it is. I don't think they are a band with very much staying power. I imagine their next album will sound exactly the same as this one.

Crystal Stilts > Vivian Girls

Since Fleet Foxes won this year, do you think Peter Paul and Mary have a shot next year?

right on 1140.

Crosby > Stills < Nash

Yeah the Mt.Eerie records are sooooooo good. Dawn is definitely one of my favorites of the year.

ahhhhhh i forgot.

TORCHE GOT SHAFTED!!! Really?! You guys couldn't put ONE metal album on the list?! Insted over hyped shitty bands like Crystal Skulls, Hot Chip, Fuck Button and bunch of bands who's names sound like types of scented candles.
Fleetfoxes is ok at best. To put it above a masterpeice like Portishead's Third is a joke to me.

"bunch of bands who's names sound like types of scented candles."

Not quite laughing out loud, but definitely chuckling under my breath - good one.

this list is really awful...no excuse

New Day Rising can't be #1 every year guys

Spiritualized gets no love...where is Fucked Up?

i didn't like any records this year.

prolly won't like any next year either.

Alopecia!

If Pitchfork was around in 1985 New Day Rising would probably come in around 42. The top 5 would be Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Lone Justice, Talking Heads, Run-DMC and Sade.

The Mae Shi was really strong. They deserve the nod for (finally) making a great record.

I liked that new Cobralegs album.

Pitchfork Media Top Ten (Mt. Eerie) Albums of 2008:

1. Black Wooden Ceiling Opening
2. Lost Wisdom
3. Dawn
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1:10..... wasn't fucked up like #12 or something?

the dodos and department of eagles should have made it into the top 50.

cant we all just be cool enough to not give a shit.

no, no we can't! none of us are!

anon @ 10:50

I wouldn't call that inspiring.

hardly....

Yeah, of course the popular will out. How else can that MGMT song shoot up 60-odd places from one year to another? Groupthink is as groupthink does.

But hey, at least they (mostly) got the right albums, even if they are in the "wrong" order.

(I mean, personally I would've liked to see more metal [Torche/Disfear/etc] and techno [Move D + Benjamin Brunn/Shed/etc] on there, but can you really argue the lack of quality of what's actually there? It may not fit your personal aesthetic tastes, but that doesn't diminish the quality of most of the stuff on this list.)

Hey, I wanna spread Whitney's legs and mount her, too!

lol everybody has their opinions and their favorites. Pitchfork is just picking the top albums based of a general consensus of their staff's opinion. Pitchfork is somewhat "mainstream" in the world of Music lovers, but in the general scheme of the world it is not mainstream at all. It is not a source like MTV that truly is directly mainstream. Pitchfork does a pretty damn good job of showcasing good solid artists. Some of their stuff is directly mainstream and some is really underground. Some is in the middle of both. You can't hate them for doing what they are doing. It's nothing like a mainstream source though. "mainstream" is relative because some people think that if you can sell out shows then your mainstream. With the internet you can reach a VAT audience without ever being in the mainstream spotlight

dept. of eagles was a top twenty album this year.

everything grizzly bear touches makes me fall asleep

^you sound pretty lame

The vocalist looks like a real deer. Maybe that's why they've called themselves Deerhunter.=)