worst pitchfork album of the year (no 12 rods edition)

haven't heard many of these and liked the ones I have heard. going to predict Kanye or Sufjan win this, knowing ILX.

you're just trolling if you vote for Animal Collective or Kanye with some of the dogshit options available here

kid a deserves this for 'the national anthem' alone

man someone mercy FP this d00d pls

this was easy

http://causeequalstime.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/boniver.jpg

nah, i think you mean

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style820_546/public/130821-fleet-foxes-cover.jpg

Sufjan, but only because I never made it all the way through the Animal Collective record (or even bothered with the Bon Iver).

fleet foxes are alright. Bon iver more insidious, quietly ruining colin Stetson and Kathleen Edwards and bushmills.

Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes i have no idea how to separate, their names always pop up in the same places and i have an idea about how they wd sound but no real desire to listen and find out. not like i'm gonna vote cos this is all bottom-feeding tbh

just get Nilmar in to post "bands" and have done, really

xxpost

I was surprised by how much Bon Iver *didn't* ruin the last Kathleen Edwards record (which I think is her best since her debut).

fleet foxes easy

Well, Fleet Foxes are horrible as well, but Bon Iver kept Kaputt out of the top-spot iirc. So that one.

interpol. Echoes is the most recent of these ive heard btw

microphones is probably gonna get a free pass on this because it's unassuming and vaguely experimental, but it is the one i would be most loathe to listen to all the way through

i could listen to maybe 5 of these 14 records all the way through

hard not to vote for Funeral, to me it's like the worst traits of Modest Mouse and Sufjan Stevens mashed into one album

the knife are the most likely to receive 0 votes

panda bear, kendrick & kanye all great. the knife not 100% my thing but obvs very cool. of the hokey indie folk stuff i'm like fleet foxes > arcade fire >>>>>> bon iver. interpol the most unlistenable, bon iver/af have maybe done the most permanent damage to our culture

http://24.media.tumblr.com/fe764be9a1b8243156605349b8b02a02/tumblr_mvo6d580Ko1qdmmiqo1_400.gif

that gif is working perfectly with this re-edit of "groove me" by fern kinney im listening to, top work.

Not heard Kid A/Bon Iver/Good Kid...have no problem with the others really.

favorite to least favorite

person pitch
kid a
funeral
emergency and i
silent shout
good kid maad city
MPP
the glow pt 2
MBDTF
bon iver
fleet foxes

haven't heard/don't remember: the rest

thanks, kevin

lol

ended up voting bon iver

has there been much/any good kid maad city backlash yet?

any cunt w/beard

i once kissed a girl who looked just like dude from fleet foxes, she was grinding on me in a club to "you are in my system" by the system, she ended up passing out in my bed...MEMORIES

good kid beating channel orange is still a travesty

^chall operative

i'm voting for fleet foxes but the rapture and turn on the bright lights are two very underrated options

panda bear was so bad

Was gonna vote Sufjan but it gave rise to some excellent display names and ILM memes

panda bear was so bad

― Mordy , Sunday, November 17, 2013 2:13 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

aren't you a huge stoner?

ikr!!

Reflektor.

CARLOS D INTERPOL HERPES.... I'M FEELING LUCKY!!!

AnCo had My Girls. Iver/Foxes get a pass for ex-work reasons. Panda Bear has nothing redeemable so that one.

still haven't gotten my shock and outrage that in 2002 and 2003 people thought Interpol was worth a listen. An easy vote.

I listened to most of these.

Personally, I think Bon Iver's and Kendrick Lamar's album didn't deserve to be Album of the Year.

But I voted for Bon Iver.

I actually like Good Kid/M.A.A.D City, but naming it the best of the year was inaccurate for me.

But I also don't like quite a few of the other ones; e.g., that Interpol album.

Lamar's album is by far the best on this list.

The thing is, in 2012 I was listening to Cloud Nothings a lot more, even though I've heard Good Kid a handful of times.

With the exception of good kid, m.A.A.d city which I love and Turn on the Bright Lights, which is pretty close, most of this is just piles upon piles of IDGAF.

fleet foxes easy

― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:10 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

On one hand, Fleet Foxes is offensive just because it's such boring, lightweight, limp-dick music, but on the other hand interpol was

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/enchanted_black/3171449/64622/64622_original.jpg

interpol was capable of writing a song tho

but not singing them

much less of an issue

If I dislike a singer's voice it's gonna be impossible for me to like him or the band; Paul Banks sounds like doesn't stab himself in the neck enough.

i just want to point out that i have heard exactly none of these records

http://www.nashvillescene.com/binary/6711/1304364419-tumblr_ldau76hjbi1qadxo9o1_500.jpg

"sarahell, heaven restores you in liiiife"

interpol was capable of writing a song tho

― call all destroyer, Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:38 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

they were? i thought they had the sound, but no songs

there are zero good songs on turn on the bright lights

i just want to point out that i have heard exactly none of the beatles' records

― sarahell, Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:46 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

panda bear won't get as many votes as he should bcz it isn't as noticeable in its boring pointlessness or smth, i forgot that it ever happened, what the hell happened (or didn't happen) in 2007 to make everyone care abt that album so much

xp - hey Whiney, did you know, that I have been hearing the Beatles a lot more this year than in 2010-11

xp i still like that album

wario stephen ilxor brings another hot thread

they were? i thought they had the sound, but no songs

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:57 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk first and foremost they did absolutely have the sound, but i think there's enough songs on the first album to make it a keeper, if not anywhere near aoty material.

the panda bear album is something i don't even have the vocabulary to understand, i imagine it's possible to like it but i wouldn't know how to start.

smoke some pot

the lyrics alone should have put the interpol album 1,000 light years from aoty

or did paul banks speak for a generation when he said that god was in the kitchen with a culinary eye?

oh it was love not god right? THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING

fuck every single one of these records & you all

Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes i have no idea how to separate, their names always pop up in the same places and i have an idea about how they wd sound but no real desire to listen and find out. not like i'm gonna vote cos this is all bottom-feeding tbh

― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:06 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

✓

just get Nilmar in to post "bands" and have done, really

― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:07 (4 hours ago)

albums

That 12 Rods album is better than a lot of these

wario stephen ilxor brings another hot thread

― r|t|c, Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:05 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahahahaha

I like these records, in about this order:

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Radiohead - Kid A

(though I haven't listened to the latter two in years)

ums otm

wouldn't feel right voting for one i haven't heard, and out of the 4 i have heard i only dislike MBDTF

Want to say Illinois. But I need to relisten to that microphones album to be sure.

first to worst

silent shout
echoes
kid a
good kid
person pitch
the glow
mpp
funeral
illinois
mbdtf
turn on the bright lights
emergency & i
fleet foxes
bon iver

actually will deliberately listen to the first seven, actually will deliberately ask someone to turn off the last two.

"I was in a fugue state when I asked you to turn off Illinois. But please, turn off this Bon Iver record. I mean it."

een is right. Voting microphones. But not voting bc zing touch.

Dismemberment Plan - sounds like a ton of okay local indie bands circa 2000 that could headline small clubs on a good Friday or Saturday night; I think they even had a Moog?
Radiohead - all of their shit has aged so badly, except for "Creep."
Microphones - I think this is right when saddo shit started me on the path to not caring about indie rock at all
Tried to remember what Interpol sounded like, all I could come up with is "Mr. Brightside."
"House of Jealous Lovers" still sounds great, I was always confused how they could wait over a year to release an album to take advantage of it
Arcade Fire - boring
Sufjan might not be the worst of this shit thanks to Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver but he's easily the most annoying personality
The Knife are the least boring thus far
Panda Bear - guess I'd completely tuned out on PFork music at this point, I don't remember them at all
Fleet Foxes - earlier description of them as limp-dick completely accurate
Animal Collective - pretty much the same as Arcade Fire, right?
Kanye's worst album?
"Skinny Love" is the worst song I can remember from any of these; fuck that bullshit
Kendrick Lamar okay but not mind-blowing

2007: Panda Bear - Person Pitch

How did this even happen?

How is "limp-dick" even a valid criticism of anything in 2013?

can we just poll milo's post? so many favorites

Radiohead - all of their shit has aged so badly, except for "Creep."

i endorse this comment. don't really get the bon iver hate all over this thread. i think people are responding to what they think he represents rather than the album itself.

can't stand Radiohead but Idioteque >>>>>>> Creep

^for real. SNL dance alone justifies this

oh yeah, i supported the comment as a hyperbolic statement that has a ring of truth to it. creep is my favorite radiohead song, but there are definitely other things in their catalog i still like, idiotheque included

I'd guess that the bon iver comments are also hyperbolic

hey milo treeship endorses yr comment

fine w/ bon iver as a 'personality' (as if he were fucking truman capote or something), was fine w/ the woodshack album, actually liked 'blood bank', bon iver was fucking hideous

i have heard all of 1999-2004 and then i started college and stopped reading pf due to indie guilt or something and then i became even older and stopped listening to music and why am i even still here

saw bon iver on snl and im like who the fuck, voting him

^^^ now that's Truman Capote.

2007: Panda Bear - Person Pitch

How did this even happen?

Beach Boys being heavily in the air at the time, it seemed like an accomplished modern update. That's my theory.

Other than Kanye and Thom Yorke I don't feel like anyone on this list can be talked about as a personality.

polls that should be on the quid ag of ilm thread

person pitch is a pretty beloved album, whatever you might think of it.

i don't mind the bon iver record, it reminds me of pleasant watercolor landscapes and shit like that

that's not a defense of the album (although i like it) but just like, i don't think it's an aberration that it was picked that year xp

person pitch was a big crossover hit between my indie friends and my techno friends and my weirdo friends, the levels of disdain it's picked up on ilx has always been a bit confusing to me. though i should know better than to underestimate ilx's ability to hate things.

ppl got feelings bout things, the fuck u expect

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3357/3424786345_6ff2e01995_z.jpg?zz=1

think i've seen all of em except maybe waistcoat in wdyll tbf.

dude on the right needs to transplant some of that greasy mane onto his chest, or at least on no-beard's face
middle dude looks like a lost gasol brother

fine w/ bon iver as a 'personality' (as if he were fucking truman capote or something), was fine w/ the woodshack album, actually liked 'blood bank', bon iver was fucking hideous

Funny, Bon Iver is the only thing about Bon Iver that I care a whit about.

Funny!

These records seem a lot worse than they actually are, when you line them all up next to each other and contemplate a terrible decade for music

it certainly is a piss poor response to the times we've lived through on a political level

i don't particularly mind the fleet foxes record tbh but they do sort of remind me of the guy that got expelled from my school for allegedly bunking off PE to go and hump a log in the woods behind the sports hall

I remember feeling vindicated when The Microphones won because I love that record, love that band, love that guy, love that attitude, then I lost "real" interest when the website started pushing Vice and NME bands. I sent Amy an e-mail with the opinion that too much emphasis on quantitative evaluation (0.0-10.0, endless lists) was gonna create a false culture-- entry-level musicians, faced with no other real metric to measure their viability for touring, selling albums, getting reviews, would start creating music specifically designed toward Pitchfork's tastes, and the natural preference toward digestibility that a quantitative scale would create. She was like "you actually think that bands are gonna start making creative decisions specifically to get good Pitchfork reviews? preposterous!" lol well, look at this list

^bang

in all seriousness this is one of the worst & shittiest lists of albums I've ever seen and frankly Pitchfork deserves all the ire it can get

this all truly is the rampantly, triumphantly beige music a Pitchfork reader deserves

maybe a couple of exceptions (the knife, dunno the microphones rly, kid a's fine)

you would like wind's poem

When Sunburned Hand of Man got a 9.0 in 2002? 2003? I thought for a minute that the quantitative system was just a smokescreen for getting me into fun new stuff.

I don't go in for this kind of music for pleasure-listening but, like I said, these are all really good albums if you measure albums on a 0-10 scale

probably worth conceding that Pitchfork votes for its AOTY presumably by staff ballot poll so of course the lowest common denominator crap (although curiously not LCD Soundsystem themselves) will rise to the top, as often happens with ILX year-end polls

pitchfork will be forever venerable for giving an 8.1 rating to massimo's 'hello dirty', thereby introducing me to one of the great lp's of the 2000s

Keith Fullerton-Whitman, for me.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5132-hello-dirty/

don't judge a 2002 mego record on its cover

Bon Iver. Obviously.

haha xp

fp for ile
Kid a obv

terrible thread semi-redeemed

really looking forward to the stereogum/brooklyn vegan/popmatters/tiny mix tapes lists, it will be exciting to learn how awful music writers think all other music writers are and and oh god everything is just the *worst* and look at their clothes lol

some of these bands have songs and others just have sounds amirite? almost none of them have women, but one would never notice amidst the handwringing over limp-dickness. bring back wcc i guess

Funeral

I don't go in for this kind of music for pleasure-listening but,

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, November 18, 2013 5:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol u so crazy

person pitch was a big crossover hit between my indie friends and my techno friends and my weirdo friends, the levels of disdain it's picked up on ilx has always been a bit confusing to me. though i should know better than to underestimate ilx's ability to hate things.

When the adulations poured in, a good friend bought the record on Amazon. Horrified, he returned it after a couple of days. A buyer left a polite but baffled note after buying the mind condition album, something like "wtf dude? how can you not like this masterpiece?"

lol @ this terrible list. kanye's worst album is the third best thing on it!

basically all but like two of these albums are pretty reprehensible or completely boring or both but you can't look past panda bear/animal collective for sheer gross-sounding punchable unlistenability. i don't know which one is worst, will assume merriweather

fleet foxes and bon iver both make me think that at least coldplay aren't THAT bad

who are the microphones though? literally never even come across their name.

(and fuck radiohead forever)

while i love kendrick, pfork's taste in rap will never not be sad to me, and it's even sadder to think that there are people whose idea of rap has been shaped by it

although really i feel v sorry for people whose taste was shaped by this lamentable aesthetic at all

and this is obvious but needs pointing out every time: lol @ the male/female ratio of artists here

Wait, I thought everyone loved that Person Pitch record even though it's bobbins.

probably worth conceding that Pitchfork votes for its AOTY presumably by staff ballot poll so of course the lowest common denominator crap (although curiously not LCD Soundsystem themselves) will rise to the top, as often happens with ILX year-end polls

in a new tumblr tell-all, a former staffer reveals that the end of the year list is created during a 2-day retreat by a consulting firm that considers marketing inputs, the vitality of the pitchfork brand, and extensive focus group testing. the final list is then sent out to the pitchfork writers, who are told that they won't get their latest paycheck unless they acknowledge that it's a great list. value is added by asking the writers to write about the albums on the list that they hate the least.

is the panda bear animosity a generational thing? how do y'all feel about washed out? ducktails? memory tapes?

they're all terrible

Millennials

I think bart simpson said it best

are you talking about the time bart simpson talked about the role of nostalgia in late-2000s indie music, and how it's interesting at least that so many millennials are making art that seems to be *about* the experience of approaching the cultural products of a previous generation at a filtered remove, rather than just trying to recreate these cultural products?

IF THE MUSIC IS TOO CHILL YOU'RE TOO OLD

y xp

i think one reason people hate bon iver and panda bear is that their aesthetic is self-consciously a dead-end. it's hard to come to terms with the fact that *this* is what people are getting excited about, because the aesthetic is by its nature removed, indirect, non-confrontational. that's what i think.

also the songs suck

also no one cares about aesthetics

music is really good

absosmurfly

Panda Bear is awesome fuck you all

i like tomboy just as much as person pitch

Tomboy's really good. Last time I properly enjoyed an AC release.

Panda Bear sucks get new ears

waterface

Arcade fire vs Interpol

Both so terrible that this might be a sock worthy poll

I still like Funeral. Neon Bible was dreadful though. Gotta say I'm warming to parts of Reflektor although I still think Murphy must have fallen asleep at the wheel when mixing it.

really glad I could bring the world another round of waterface and treeship gently rolling a ball between each other on a rainy day

lol.

lmao

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1107932/thumbs/o-BABY-SLOTH-PILE-facebook.jpg

I prefer Avey Tare to Panda Bear, but Person Pitch is a really good album, what is wrong with you people? Also, 12 min songs and stuff called Take Pills* is hardly Bon Iver-boring.

* though I hate the actual lyrics to that song.

My best friend's a butcher, he has sixteen knives
He carries them all over the town at least he tries,
Oh look it stopped snowing
My best friend's from Poland and, um, he has a beard.
But they caught him with his case in that public place
That is what we had feared

He severed segments secretly you like that
He always took the time to speak with me
I liked him for that.
He severed segments so secretly you like that
He always took the time, he always took the time

My best friend's a butcher, he has sixteen knives
He carries them all over the town at least he tries,
Oh look it stopped snowing
My best friend's from Poland and, um, he has a beard.
But they caught him with his case in that public place
That is what we had feared

He severed segments secretly you like that
He always took the time to speak with me,
I liked him for that
He severed segments so secretly you like that.
He was growing on me.
He was growing on me.

Christ this is impossible. It's one of the bearded folky cunts but I can't decide which for the life of me.

I've never heard more than 1 Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver song because I hated them so much, so while those are my two frontrunners it's pretty unfair to vote for them considering I would never, ever, EVER listen to either of my own free will.

Of the ones I've heard, this is Interpol vs AnCo

really want to vote for Fleet Foxes though, because they are doubly offensive to me for being very, very good at music I find wholly unlikeable

I always get Fleet Foxes confused with Phoenix. Much like how I often mixed up my high school's Medieval club and Middle Ages club.

i really love person pitch. tomboy isn't very good though

i'll probably vote sufjan, his music is not significantly more boring than bon iver or fleet foxes but i find him kind of intolerable.

He's much more affectedly whimsical than the other acts but one song on that illinois album, "casmir polanski day", is unlistenably sad

what about the song where he's brave enough to romanticize and relate to the actions of a serial rapist/murderer?

"Hey man, we all got secrets!"

voted sufjan

still listen to dplan & kid a once in a while

i'm guessing the Microphones will be the last pitchfork #1 album that has album sales less than 20,000 or so

the list of second best albums of the year is significantly better (Third, Kaputt, Sound of Silver)... but still really dire (AnCo, Sigur Ros, Bitte Orca).

I'm betting Vampire Weekend this year.

i'm guessing the Microphones will be the last pitchfork #1 album that has album sales less than 20,000 or so

Surely he broke 50K?

yeah i don't know, i have absolutely no facts to back that up, just a wild guess. but my point is that it just seems impossible now for a pitchfork fave #1 album kind of thing come from an artist that can't sell out 1000 capacity venues and appear on jimmy kimmel live

voted arcade fire. that singing is really unfortunate.

I accidentally bought the Fleet Foxes album, and it's possible I was influenced by Pitchfork's praise, and the cocktail of shame and bitterness will stay with me for the rest of my life, so that. Can't remember ever knowingly hearing Bon Iver.

bon iver is probably the best record on here

yeah and those fleet foxes guys sing like angels

the Fleet Foxes guys have great voices, I just wish they were singing something that didn't make me want to murder them

I used to think the same about CSN until I actually sat through one of their albums.

The melodies? xp

fine w/ bon iver as a 'personality' (as if he were fucking truman capote or something), was fine w/ the woodshack album, actually liked 'blood bank', bon iver was fucking hideous

I have this reflex to defend bon iver and then I remember that I didn't hear it at all, I just thought "blood bank" was a fuckin awesome song

Surely he broke 50K?

I would be completely and utterly shocked if this were true, btw

You should at least listen to "Calgary"

tbf Bon Iver is a really good band if you never listen to them

Hm you don't think Microphones sold 50K? in 2002? I hope he did. I like Panda Bear's records too. I dunno, I'm grossed out as anybody by Pitchfork As A Lifestyle Choice, but when it comes to looking back on their favourite records with a withering eye, I'm more inclined to vilify the writers they employ / format they've chosen / business model they've embraced than the albums that have causally benefitted from their haymaking but of course I'd say that

50k is a ton of records, indie-wise.

Fleet Foxes was cute.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

MPP

might be something else if i had the patience, but AC are grating enough for me to feel confident about my choice

animal collective, or dismemberment plan. I like the rest of these albums well enough (maybe not Sufjan, haven't lsitened to it since it came out, but it didn't offend me by it's existence).

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Yes! The worthy loser!

plus yeah that post pavilion is assy