things that are wrong with pitchfork's best of the 2000's polls: a formal complaint list

I feel like the other p4k threads have some fantastic, super-interesting complaints, but I don't trust anything that isn't in list form.

1. sexist

2. racist

3. that one thing I really liked was ranked way too low

4. that one thing I really hated was ranked way too high!

5. Not alphabetical

6. tl;dr

7. Kid A won.

8. utterly irrelevant

9. one album by the hold steady was ranked higher than the other album by the hold steady

10. i have never read this so-called pitchfork

11. badly misrepresents fans of non-pitchfork indie

12. is 100% indie rock. apart from the stuff that isn't.

13. by being a poll of albums it favours albums over things that are not albums.

14. i have never even heard any of these so-called bands. were they on top of the pops?

15. they make me feel old(er).

16. has a white dude reviewing rap albums

17. Should have been lists of funniest YouTube clips or celeb tweets.

18. I'm gonna let them finish but Stylus would have had the best list OF ALL TIME

*shoots self in face*

19. even after reading every blurb and essay, I still don't feel like I "get" the 00s

20. Isn't a number-perfect statistical reflection of the exact scores they gave records ten years ago

21. Aren't about pizza.

22. Don't reflect my musical needs as a consumer of music

11. badly misrepresents fans of non-pitchfork indie

― lorax & order (electricsound), Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:31 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Aren't they an indie rock publication? Why should they write for an audience that doesn't read them?

23. List format allows easy conversion into so-called "polls".

22. You probably had to play the Pitchfork Festival to get on the list. And even if you didn't, I'm going to assert loudly that you did.

25. Criminal lack of Kate Bush records

27. Nothing is in the right order!

28. fails to take seriously mariah carey and ashlee simpson's forms and values.

29. Failed to insert the acronym lol in front of all band names.

30. lol Vampire Weekend

31. amirite?

32. best-of lists - esp from pfk - should have 666 entries

33. No Super Mario Galaxy.

34. No Autechre! FUCK!!

35. Target audience was people who read lists of bands they already know then whine about lists

36. Music died the day the Stone Roses split up.

37. On the band name tip, no "Fagpile Weekend" and "Vampire Butt-end" either :(

37. Claims the records are good. They're not.

39. Still a good 84 days of the 2000s left for fascinating indie-rock records to be released in.

40. Site exists only to funnel traffic to American Apparel anyway

41. ffs there's people starving in the world y'know

42. they inspired this.

43. They inspired poster ilxor to play fantasy football for 40 posts

44. have spent whole month's budget on Haagen-Dazs

45. Inspired Haagen-Dazs to come up with hideous new "Animal Collective" flavored ice cream

46. the characterisation of r&b and pop as genres which throw up brilliant singles but no worthwhile albums is the no 1 way of implying that they're not important, significant genres compared to indie rock, and not to be taken as seriously in terms of their form or values

― lex pretend

47. otm. it's the LACK of many artists that i consider to be the elite of this decade that galls most than the inclusion of whatever band i dislike or don't care about. where are mariah carey, ellen allien, ce'cile, ashlee simpson, taylor swift, teedra moses, busy signal, young dro? where is the dubstep and grime and dancehall and techno and house and teenpop and funky?

― lex pretend

(where is the funky elite???)

48. Parents troubled by liberal use of "N-word" on high-ranking Jay-Z record

49. Not even one album recorded anywhere near a coal mine. What ever happened to authenticity?

50. Inevitable NPR feature on Nabisco's "Decade In Indie"

51. ...followed by major motion picture featuring that girl from Juno

52. Made readers click through several pages.

53. Not enough seeders for torrent.

54. Made ILX wags reflexively mock criticism of P-Fork list rather than confronting own critical blind spots.

55. Destined to fill up front page with polls.

okay massive lols at 54

56. can't believe I voted for something on Lex's "where are the" list

57. accidentally reminded non-Americans that Pitchfork is an American site

43. They inspired poster ilxor to play fantasy football for 40 posts

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58. Stole market share from Whiney's pointless, interminable stream of Twitter updates on albums enjoyed by Pitchfork readership.

59. inspired a pointless thread designed almost entirely with the aim of getting posters to hurt each others' feelings that was then locked by a mod.