Archive for November 2009
Pitchfork and Me: Top Albums of 2000-10
It is going to be 2010 in a little over a month. Time for all the critical glances in the rear-view mirror to begin.
Pitchfork was on the ball: by early October, they had implicitly decided that no new music from 2009 would rock their socks and they presented a list of the top 200 albums of the decade. They have graphs and everything. I guess someone finally figured out how to use Excel!
Looking over their list, there is a lot that I agree on. From their top 10, I would definitely have on my list:
#6 Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
#4 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
#2 Arcade Fire Funeral
I am on the fence about #1 Radiohead Kid A and #7 The Strokes Is This It. What I am not on the fence about is bumping up something from Sufjan (#16 Sufjan Stevens Illinois) into the top 10.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be starting to say goodbye to this decade of music by filling in this list to create my own Top 10 and writing a short piece on each album in turn.
What did we call this decade anyways? ~LL
