what did Pitchfork rate your top 5 albums?

[one time beauty queen 18,411]

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 i just saw this on twitter n thought it would be fun to do here too #imbored

!they don't have every album i noticed during my own search so you might not be able to get your exact top 5 but you can do other albums you rly like!

 

 

 

(not in order btw)

Blue Banisters - 7.7//Songs of Leonard Cohen - 9.6//Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg - 8.8//Blood On The Tracks - 10//Blue - 10

[Mer 61,735]

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell!: 9.4

2. folklore: 8.0 

3. Ray Of Light: 8.1

4. Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1: 8.8

5. Dance Fever: 7.1 (criminal) 

[lili 3,177]

• Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence 7.1
• Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen 9.6
• Hole - Live Through This 10
• Nirvana - In Utero - 10
• Elliott Smith - Either/Or 10

        (also Fiona Apple - Tidal 9, The Doors debut album and Tori Amos' Boys for Pele but I couldn't find reviews for the last two?)

 

 

[Blossom 8,976]

So many of my faves weren't reviewed bc they're old so these are my more recent faves of all time <3

1. Grace by Jeff Buckley 9.0/10

2. Either/ Or by Elliott Smith 10/10 (okay slay)

3. Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens 9.3/10 

4. For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver 8.1/10 

5. Norman Fucking Rockwell! 9.4/10, Honeymoon 7.5/10 

 

[evalionisameme 13,889]

Sneaker Pimps- Becoming X: 6.4-

 

the review is really positive so IDK why this is so low 

 

Lana Del Rey- Ultraviolence: 7.1

 

Charli XCX- True Romance: 8.3- Deserved 

 

Lana Del Rey- Honeymoon: 7.5

 

NIN- With Teeth: 6.5 

 

 

 

[evalionisameme 13,889]

I would have liked to see a butterfly review by Mariah Carey but they don’t really care about her 💀

[imbennett 1,224]

1. kitty - rose gold 5.4 (idk wtf their problem is they are batshit insane)

2. ultraviolence 7.1 (too low ofc but high for the time considering how music journalism was with her)

3. eartheater - phoenix: flames are dew upon my skin 7.8 (i obv rate it higher but fair)

4. sophie - oil of every pearl's un-insides 8.6 (this is a 9 imo so fair)

5. let's eat grandma - i'm all ears 8.6 (same)

4 minutes ago, evalionisameme said:

I would have liked to see a butterfly review by Mariah Carey but they don’t really care about her 💀

they def love butterfly tho, they talked about it in the best of the 90s list + gave fantasy (different album i know) best song of the 90s point blank

[DownhillLullaby 5,122]

Charli XCX, True Romance 8.3
Sky Ferreira, Night Time, My Time 8.1
Carly Rae Jepsen, Emotion  7.4
Kesha, Animal 7.3
Kilo Kish, American Gurl 7.3

Bonus:

Spoiler

 

 

[evalionisameme 13,889]

3 minutes ago, imbennett said:

1. kitty - rose gold 5.4 (idk wtf their problem is they are batshit insane)

2. ultraviolence 7.1 (too low ofc but high for the time considering how music journalism was with her)

3. eartheater - phoenix: flames are dew upon my skin 7.8 (i obv rate it higher but fair)

4. sophie - oil of every pearl's un-insides 8.6 (this is a 9 imo so fair)

5. let's eat grandma - i'm all ears 8.6 (same)

they def love butterfly tho, they talked about it in the best of the 90s list + gave fantasy (different album i know) best song of the 90s point blank

I mean it’s interesting that they acknowledge it when their retrospective reviews of her are just non existent 

[bff 2,462]

1. ultraviolence (ldr) - 7.1

2. broke with expensive taste (azealia banks) - 8.0

3. natural born losers (nicole dollanganger) - 6.6

4. motomami (rosalia) - 8.4

5. honey (robyn) - 8.5

they need to rate details by frou frou and give imogen her flowers

 

not mad at any of these scores, see when u have TASTE

[one time beauty queen 18,411]

I just noticed that for some artists, they pack all the reviews into the same page.. idk how to explain but they did this for Joni anyway  

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17269-the-studio-albums-1968-1979/

can completely fly over your head at first glace bc it kinda looks like a compilation album at first

 

 

[evalionisameme 13,889]

2 minutes ago, bff said:

1. ultraviolence (ldr) - 7.1

2. broke with expensive taste (azealia banks) - 8.0

3. natural born losers (nicole dollanganger) - 6.6

4. motomami (rosalia) - 8.4

5. honey (robyn) - 8.5

they need to rate details by frou frou and give imogen her flowers

 

not mad at any of these scores, see when u have TASTE

UV is atleast an 8-cmon 

[sadness is a butterfly 5,795]

In no particular order, and just five I really like, top 5 of all time is too hard to pick. 
 

1989- Taylor Swift 7.7

Lust for Life - Lana 7.7

Pony - Rex Orange County 5.0 

BFIAFL - The 1975 8.0 

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves 8.7 

 

[evalionisameme 13,889]

Interestingly enough-they reviewed blackout without a score and compared it to twin peaks:

 

https://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/6734-poptimist-10/

[bff 2,462]

2 minutes ago, evalionisameme said:

UV is atleast an 8-cmon 

duhhh but i wont get mad at it pitchfork giving it .9 lower than it should be :p

[violentvioletsky 1,427]

1. Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen (7.4)

2. Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira (8.1)

3. Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers (8.7)

4. Ctrl - SZA (8.4)

5. Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey (7.1)

[Eugene 26,669]

1. Lana Del Rey: "Honeymoon" - 7.5

2. Joanna Newsom: "Ys" - 9.4

3. Weyes Blood: "Titanic Rising" - 8.5

4. Father John Misty: "God's Favorite Customer" - 8.5

5. Joni Mitchell: "Ladies of the Canyon" - 7.8

[DeadSeaOfMercury 22,939]

I have a top 10, I refuse to go lower.

I’ll check in a little bit…

[Lasso 13,197]

1 hour ago, Mer said:

3. Ray Of Light: 8.1

 

 

Excuse me, this is a crime 

[viktoria 3,176]

1. Arca - KiCk i - 7.5
2. Taylor Swift - folklore - 8.0
3. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails - 7.5
4. Lady Gaga - Chromatica - 7.3
5. NCT 127 - 2 Baddies - Not Rated