Slacy’s Blog

I saw that Pitchfork released their staff’s picks for the top 25 albums of the year. The problem is, I have no idea who these people are, and which ones are interesting. So I sucked the whole thing in, and counted up which albums were most referenced in the list. Here’s the composite top-25 albums from the staff’s picks. The second number is the count of times that album appeared in someone’s top-25 list. Note: There were 36 contributing staff members.

1. 26 LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
2. 24 M.I.A.: Kala
3. 21 Radiohead: In Rainbows
4. 18 Panda Bear: Person Pitch
5. 17 Burial: Untrue
6. 15 Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
7. 15 Jay-Z: American Gangster
8. 14 Battles: Mirrored
9. 14 Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10. 12 Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
11. 12 The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
12. 11 Kanye West: Graduation
13. 11 Lil Wayne: Da Drought 3
14. 10 Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
15. 9 Deerhunter: Cryptograms / Fluorescent Grey EP
16. 8 Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
17. 8 Feist: The Reminder
18. 8 The National: Boxer
19. 7 Caribou: Andorra
20. 7 Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond
21. 7 No Age: Weirdo Rippers
22. 7 Sally Shapiro: Disco Romance
23. 7 Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release
24. 7 Various Artists: After Dark
25. 7 Wu-Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams