A List Of All Of Pitchfork’s Perfect 10′s

November 22, 2010 10:10 PM

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A List Of All Of Pitchforks Perfect 10s

Someone put together a neat little list with all the albums that Pitchfork has given a perfect 10 to.
The reason why this sucks is because it was prompted by Kanye West receiving a 10 for an album that I’m not even going to name.
I love Pitchfork (sometimes) but I hate Kanye (all the time).

Ugh.

A TEN ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH!

Me thinks he’s paying for it. Seriously.

Kanye’s currency isn’t music it’s canned controversy.
So when jerks like me flip out that he’s in league with Coltrane and Otis Redding, guess what happens?

Kanye wins. Which means everyone but morons lose.

But hey, that’s life kids. If you want to make a lot of money in America.
Rip people off and be an asshat!

(And if you’re wondering. Yes. Pitchfork has taken money to review albums before.)

What do you think?
I seriously think that there has been a problem with rating and quantifying rap records for a long time.
If you think Kanye is awesome but only in the Black Eyed Peas sense – fine.
It’s throw away trash that you shouldn’t think twice about. Run to it with headphones on. Dance to it at a club that you’ll whine about tomorrow. That’s what it’s for.
But seriously….how are you going to compare any Kanye album to James Brown?

EXPLAIN THAT TO ME??????????

Here’s the link to the List (again) that was found on Buzzfeed.

joey

Kanye douche-ally sitting next to Neutral Milk Hotel…Sonic Youth…but hey, even the 5s look like 10s when you artificially get your flacid, drooping (ahem) pitchfork to rise to the occasion…yuck.
Michael

Wow, you’re pretty butthurt. Ever consider that this is a genuinely brilliant album fully deservant of a 10/10 review score?
toadfrizzles

You’re just closed minded. If your head wasn’t filled with so many prejudices against rap music, maybe you’d go have a good listen-through of Kanye’s album. The lyrics (rap) are absolutely genius; the sampling and instrumentation is abolutely genius and absolutely IMMACULATE. But hey, if you want to go agaisnt Rolling Stone, Slant magazine, Spin, NME, Entertainment weekly, The guardian, Robert Christagu AND Metacritic, be my guest. Just if you’re curious, I’m also a fan of Coltrane, Otis, James Brown…. so you know, i’m listening to philip glass right now. If someone could like all these things AND like Kanye West, I think you could at least give it a try.
Tom

I was so with you until you mentioned James Brown. Come on man, he was a fun guy and he laid down a lot of methods people still rip off today. But he was not Coltrane. James Brown was an entertainer you “danced to it at a club that you’ll whine about tomorrow.” It is not deep music. It;s certainly in the same league as Kanye – repetitive, ego-centric fun. Whether it’ Kanye programming a simplistic drum beat or hitting one, single piano note on Runaway, or James Brown repeating how he’s a sex machine with the same horn blast… repetitive. What I hate about rap nowadays is it follow the James Brown recipe to its faulty end: Be witty lyrically over a very repetitive beat. Just repeat a 5 second clip you came up with for a 3 minute song.