Pitchfork's Best Albums List: What It Got Right, and What It Got Wrong (So Far), in 10 Sentences
Categories: 2010 Music Lists, Critic's Notebook
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Things We Can Agree On
1. S.F. locals The Fresh & Onlys' Play it Strange (No. 29; "a non-stop hit parade") deserves to be among the best 30 albums of the year.
2. S.F.'s Girls' Broken Dreams Club (No. 22) is (far) superior to Hot Chip's One Life Stand.
3. Grinderman 2 (honorable mention) is ridiculously enjoyable, but certainly not one of the year's 50 best albums.
5. "If it were allowable, we could've just put 'everything Das Racist did this year' in this slot" -- heartily agreed. (Sit Down, Man rated No. 23.)
Points of Contention
1. Hot Chip's One Life Stand (No. 24) doesn't belong anywhere in the top albums of the year.
2. The Fresh & Onlys' Play it Strange (No. 29) is better, not worse, than the National's High Violet (No. 28) -- really.
3. The Walkmen's Lisbon at No. 21: Pretty sure we slept through that album. More than once.
4. Get out of here, Wavves. (Buzzy-as-hell -- but rather boring -- King of the Beach rated No. 50)
5. Liars' Sisterworld belongs in the Top 50, not on the honorable mention list.
So that's where we stand (not with Hot Chip, obviously.) What do you think of the Pitchfork list so far? Tell us in the comments.
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