ok everybody make predictions to what p4k puts number one at the year end. if you dont like this thread, dont respond. if you think a thread saying what your favorite album of the year is would be better, go to the best of 2008 thread, there are many. anyways, i think this will be the forks top 5-
1. No Age-Nouns
2. Deerhunter-Microcastles/Weird Era Cont
3. Portishead-Third
4. TV on the Radio-Dear Science,
5. The Dodos-Visiter

I think TV on the Radio or Deerhunter will take it. Fleet Foxes are also not a bad bet.

im almost 100% sure it wont be fleet foxes. i doubt they will even be in the top 10. idk why, but watever.

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Originally posted by EerieGhoul75:
I think TV on the Radio or Deerhunter will take it. Fleet Foxes are also not a bad bet.

Agree 100%, I also think is Microcastle vs Dear Science question, although they are not on my top 5 positions. I think they overrated Nouns a bit.

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Originally posted by Physical Combat:
ok everybody make predictions to what p4k puts number one at the year end. if you dont like this thread, dont respond. if you think a thread saying what your favorite album of the year is would be better, go to the best of 2008 thread, there are many. anyways, i think this will be the forks top 5-
1. No Age-Nouns
2. Deerhunter-Microcastles/Weird Era Cont
3. Portishead-Third
4. TV on the Radio-Dear Science,
5. The Dodos-Visiter

Haven't picked up Deerhunter yet, but I wouldn't write off Fleet Foxes as a top 5 contender...like it, love it, or hate it...it's probably the most original album I've heard this year, even if it is a total throwback...the idea of mixing a Pet Sounds style production ascetic with hippie-folk harmonies is a truly fresh one - and given Pitchfork's regular championing of Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective,Besnard Lakes, and last year's number one choice Person Pitch, I wouldn't want to underestimate any solid effort with a Pet Sounds angle.

For me, it should be between Dear Science and the incredibly personal/ introspective For Emma, Forever Ago...which I've come to view as an Astral Weeks or Pink Moon for this era...but I've always felt Pitchfork veers away from works that in the end of the day are more straightforwardly emotional...seems they always need some kind of intellectualized angle...not as bad as cokemachineglow, but still a problem with their criticism.

Of titles you list, I hope it's not Third or Nouns...neither do much for me...so given my impressions of pitchfork lists from year's back, they'll probably end up 1 and 2.

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They had For Emma on their last list, somewhere in the 30s or so.

I'm going to say maybe... TV on the Radio or Fleet Foxes.

Or Vampire Weekend to get everyone really riled up.

nouns would be my numero uno

Can't argue too much with that top 5 Waldo. I agree Fleet Foxes don't have much of a chance, lacks originality, and also isn't good enough I think - I've grown fairly bored by it. Then again, I'm not Pitchfork.

Third has a pretty good chance as the slightly left field #1 surprise Silent Shout like choice. I think that's what they'll do, yeah.

Given their No Age and Lil Wayne fetish, here's what I have their top 10 looking like.

1. Nouns - No Age
2. Dear Science - TV On The Radio
3. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
4. Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. - Deerhunter
5. Third - Portishead
6. Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP - Fleet Foxes
7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
8. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
9. London Zoo - The Bug
10. Saturdays=Youth - M83

I'm feeling that Microcastle will be their number one. Especially with all those Radiohead references in the review and whatnot.

I think No Age or Microcastle. If I had to bet, I'd probably say Microcastle.

In related context, which album gets suprisingly left off, ala 'Ships' in 2006?

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Originally posted by Nibbish:
I think No Age or Microcastle. If I had to bet, I'd probably say Microcastle.

In related context, which album gets suprisingly left off, ala 'Ships' in 2006?

Right and Random Spirit Lover last year.

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Originally posted by Nibbish:
I think No Age or Microcastle. If I had to bet, I'd probably say Microcastle.

I would also go with these two. Fleet Foxes as well. I don't know if I'm in the minority or not but I still really like the Vampire Weekend record. I wonder if their staff will have cooled on it by the time the make their list.

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Originally posted by buckeye99:

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Originally posted by Nibbish:
I think No Age or Microcastle. If I had to bet, I'd probably say Microcastle.

I would also go with these two. Fleet Foxes as well. I don't know if I'm in the minority or not but I still really like the Vampire Weekend record. I wonder if their staff will have cooled on it by the time the make their list.

I'm thinking they will have to the point where it becomes the answer to my question.

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Originally posted by Lawrence_Of_Suburbia:
Given their No Age and Lil Wayne fetish, here's what I have their top 10 looking like.

1. Nouns - No Age
2. Dear Science - TV On The Radio
3. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
4. Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. - Deerhunter
5. Third - Portishead
6. Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP - Fleet Foxes
7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
8. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
9. London Zoo - The Bug
10. Saturdays=Youth - M83

I think this is probably a very accurate prediction. I would just make a few minor alterations to it:

1. Dear Science - TV On The Radio
2. Third - Portishead
3. Nouns - No Age
4. Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. - Deerhunter
5. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
7. Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP - Fleet Foxes
8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
9. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
10. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park

Also, I think Dear Science will actually win it to the point of absolutley no contest.

i just cant see lil wayne or vampire weekend in the top 10.

Judging by their ratings, the top four would be:

"Dear Science" -- TVOTR (9.2)
"Nouns" -- No Age (9.2)
"Microcastle" -- Deerhunter (9.2)
"Hercules & Love Affair" -- Hercules & Love Affair (9.1)

I think it is quite deliberate on their part that their three top albums all got the same rating. I suspect they'll choose Deerhunter as the more avant garde pick. I still choose Dear Science for myself, but every time I listen to Microcastle I like it more.

Their #1 is not always the highest rated of the year:

2007: "Person Pitch" -- Panda Bear (9.4)

2006: "Silent Shout" -- The Knife (8.6), beating TVOTR's "Return to Cookie Mountain" (9.1) and Joanna Newsom's "Ys" (9.4) and others

2005: "Illinois" -- Sufjan Stevens (9.2), beating "Late Registration" -- Kanye West (9.5)

2004: "Funeral" -- Arcade Fire (9.7)

2003: "Echoes" -- The Rapture (9.0), beating "Hail to the Thief" -- Rediohead (9.3) and "One Word Extinguisher" -- Prefuse 73 (9.1)

2002: "Turn on the Bright Lights" -- Interpol (9.5), beating "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" -- Wilco (10.0) and "Source Tags and Codes" -- And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

2001: "The Glow Pt. 2" -- Microphones (9.2), beating "Endless Summer" -- Fennesz (9.4) and "Since I Left You" -- Avalanches (9.5)

2000: "Kid A" -- Radiohead (10.0)

1999: "Emergency and I" -- The Dismemberment Plan (9.6), beating "The Soft Bulletin" -- Flaming Lips (10.0)

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I would put my money on dear science.

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Originally posted by Thisheregiraffe:
I think this is probably a very accurate prediction. I would just make a few minor alterations to it:

1. Dear Science - TV On The Radio
2. Third - Portishead
3. Nouns - No Age
4. Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. - Deerhunter
5. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
7. Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP - Fleet Foxes
8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
9. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
10. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park

Also, I think Dear Science will actually win it to the point of absolutley no contest.

good call on cut copy, i agree with it being in the top 10. and dear science will be number 1.

I think it says a lot about how Pitchfork and I have diverted over the years, in that I really don't like most of the albums being mentioned here.

I used to eat out of Pitchforks hand maybe 8 years ago.

My gut thinks they will go with Microcastles.