Found on robotfilter, Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the Decade's First Half.
Bands I've never heard of: 72%
Albums I don't own: 98%
Man, I am so old. And don't even get me started on Pazz & Jop.
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Before you go beating yourself up, Mike, be informed that Pitchfork is the enfent terrible collective of rock criticism – a bunch of snarky New York indie-rock snobs (and before you make a crack: believe me, I am a big-hearted populist compared to these guys).
If the year were 1995 (you'd be 24–25), and you were perusing Pitchfork's "Top 100 albums of the first half of the '90s" (which you wouldn't be, because Pitchfork is only six or seven years old, but anyway...), you'd still probably only recognize about 25% of that list.
I own about half of these of these records – to be exact, 48 – and I am generally aware of probably 80%. The rest sound familiar, but there's several here that I know nothing about at all. And I get paid (um...intemittently) to know about records like these. You don't.
To offer props to the Pitchforkers, they do name some pretty indisputable records toward the top. Not to use my (ahem) excellent taste as a proxy, but it's no accident that I own 15 of their top 16.
Then again, it figures that I'd own all the big consensus records. I am a statistically established rock-critic tool, as proven by my Pazz and Jop top-three "alignment" ranking.
Comment #1 :: link :: March 16, 2005 11:05 AM
