MetaFilter posts tagged with lists and albums

The Best Music of 2007 According to

Soup — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:13:53 -0800

The best music of 2007 according to Stereogum, Pitchfork, All Music, NME, PopMatters, The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, TIME, MTV, the Guardian, eMusic, Amazon, Spin Magazine, Q, Largehearted Boy, and more. Among the most frequently listed are Radiohead, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Of Montreal, Feist, and The National.

The Mother of All Lists

Man-Thing — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:58:45 -0800

WXPN listeners have picked the 885 best albums of all time. In a follow-up to last year's list of the 885 best songs of all time (commented on here), Philadelphia's WXPN has polled its listeners to come up with the top 885 albums and is playing three tracks from each. The countdown is continuing as I type this. I have no doubt the entire Metafilter community will agree on the selections. Here's my prediction for #1.

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

LinusMines — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:50:51 -0800

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s (dis|cuss|discuss).

Top 50 albums of 2002

mathowie — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:38 -0800

And so it begins: while I've already seen half a dozen "best ___ of 2002" lists, the year end list I look forward to, Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums list is out for 2002. It's just the right mix between "so mainstream there are no surprises" and "so indie even your second cousin's girlfriend's brother in that band hasn't heard of them" though perhaps they're leaning towards the latter this year, seeing how I've only heard about a quarter of all the albums listed.