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

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