Anyone know when their list is released? I know it will be full of the unual pretentious drivel but it does give you an idea of what the "cool kids" are listening to this year.

100 Tracks of the year on site today.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40070/Staff_List_The_Top_100_Tracks_of_2006

It seems that the Pitchfork's top albums of 2006 will be revealed tomorrow.

The Pipettes album had a very good Pitchfork's review. I hope it will be in their top 20, or maybe (let's dream a little) their top 10.

Just as a side comment, I'm loving how YouTube and MySpace have made most of these songs on year-end lists instantly available this year. I remember spending quite a bit of my holiday break at last year's end-of-list time searching all across the Internet for more obscure singles and albums. It was kind of fun to try all sorts of tricks to find songs, but mostly frustrating.

Stylus Magazine and Pitchfork's lists have all but a few of their songs linked this year. It's getting overwhelming to have so much access to so much interesting music!

It seems that "Black Sweat" is getting all the love that 3121 deserves. It's too bad- the album contains several better tracks and stands up very well as a whole.

Here's the list !

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40007/Staff_List_Top_50_Albums_of_2006

TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2006
1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Joanna Newsom - Ys
4. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
5. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
6. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
7. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
8. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
9. Boris - Pink
10. Scott Walker - The Drift
11. Junior Boys - So this Is Goodbye
12. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
13. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
14. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
15. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
16. Beach House - Beach House
17. The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
18. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
19. T.I. - King
20. Man Man - Six Demon Bag
21. Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
22. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
23. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your A**
24. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
25. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
26. Hot Chip - The Warning
27. Califone - Roots & Crowns
28. Cat Power - The Greatest
29. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
30. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
31. Danielson - Ships
32. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
33. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
34. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
35. Herbert - Scale
36. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light
37. DJ Drama & Lil Wayne - Dedication 2
38. J Dilla - Donuts
39. Fujiva & Miyagi - Transparent Things
40. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
41. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
42. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
43. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
44. The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
45. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
46. M. Ward - Post-War
47. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
48. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
49. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
50. Booka Shade - Movements

...wow, I was reading the countdown online (50 to #1), and I was expecting to see either Bob Dylan or Gnarls Barkley at #1, but neither are on the list at all!

2006 = rubbish year.

But at least they didnt put Arctic Monkeys on their list at all.

No Midlake in the list, what a shame !

No Gomez either. Have Gomez appeared on any lists yet?

22. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33

What is this? I haven't heard anything about it until the year-end lists began.

" 22. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33

What is this? I haven't heard anything about it until the year-end lists began."

I think it's something only released by i-tunes.

I would love to know what criteria people judge a year against? 2005, 1999, 1978, 1967? Throw all your CD's in the bin 2006 was rubbish. Why are we bothering talking about albums we enjoyed, secretly they are all rubbish. It's nice to have that kind of attitude. I'm glad some people

45:33 in a track by LCD Soundsystem commissioned by Nike that lasts 45mins 33 secs. It's like eight or nine tracks mixed together and it's designed to mirror the performance of a runner in a run. It's pretty damn good and the best bits of it (about 15 mins in) are used on "Someone Great" one of the best track in the forthcoming Sounds Of Silver ("All My Friends" is great too)

Mitchell people are quite entitled to say a year has been rubbish if there havent been any stand-out albums for them.

THE TOP 100 TRACKS OF 2006
[very strange that Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" is NOWHERE in the top 100]

1. Justin Timberlake [ft. T.I.] - "My Love"
2. The Knife - "Silent Shout"
3. T.I. - "What You Know"
4. TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
5. Peter Bjorn and John - "Young Folks"
6. Clipse - "Trill"
7. Hot Chip - "Boy from School"
8. Beach House - "Apple Orchard"
9. Joanna Newsom - "Emily"
10. Christian Falk [ft. Robyn & Ola Salo] - "Dream On"
11. The Hold Steady - "Stuck Between Stations"
12. Killer Mike - "That's Life"
13. Junior Boys [ft. Andi Toma] - "In the Morning"
14. The Knife - "We Share Our Mothers' Health"
15. Lupe Fiasco - "Kick Push"
16. Hot Chip - "Over and Over"
17. Herbert - "Something Isn't Right"
18. Band of Horses - "The Funeral"
19. Ghostface Killah - "Shakey Dog"
20. Clipse [ft. Pharrell] - "Mr. Me Too"
21. The Pipettes - "Pull Shapes"
22. Luomo - "Really Don't Mind (Radio Edit)"
23. Phoenix - "Long Distance Call"
24. Califone - "The Orchids"
25. Guillemots - "Trains to Brazil"
26. Camera Obscura - "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken"
27. Sally Shapiro - "I'll Be By Your Side"
28. Man Man - "Van Helsing Boombox"
29. Beirut - "Postcards from Italy"
30. Cat Power - "Lived in Bars"
31. Matmos - "Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan"
32. Christina Aguilera - "Ain't No Other Man"
33. Turbulence - "Notorious"
34. Kelis - "Bossy (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)"
35. Justice - "Waters of Nazareth"
36. Love Is All - "Busy Doing Nothing"
37. Jarvis Cocker - "Running the World"
38. Brightblack Morning Light - "Everybody Daylight"
39. Lil Wayne - "Georgia...Bush"
40. Lily Allen - "LDN"
41. Ghostface Killah [ft. Trife] - "Be Easy"
42. Ciara - "Promise"
43. Fujiya & Miyagi - "Collarbone"
44. Arthur Russell - "Springfield (DFA Remix)"
45. Beyoncé - "Irreplaceable"
46. Liars - "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack"
47. The Rapture - "Whoo! Alright-Yeah...Uh-Huh"
48. Cassie - "Me & U"
49. The Game - "It's Okay (One Blood)"
50. Voxtrot - "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, and Wives"
51. Scott Walker - "A Lover Loves"
52. Barbara Morgenstern - "The Operator"
53. Asobi Seksu - "Thursday"
54. Lily Allen - "Smile"
55. The Blow - "Parentheses"
56. Booka Shade - "In White Rooms"
57. Kleerup [ft. Robyn] - "With Every Heartbeat"
58. Girl Talk - "Smash Your Head"
59. Nelly Furtado - "Maneater"
60. Zeigeist - "Tar Heart"
61. The Mountain Goats - "Woke Up New"
62. The Field - "Over the Ice"
63. Figurines - "The Wonder"
64. Prince - "Black Sweat"
65. Liars - "Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack"
66. Swan Lake - "All Fires"
67. E-40 [ft. Keak Da Sneak] - "Tell Me When to Go"
68. Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow"
69. Oneida - "Up with People"
70. El Perro del Mar - "God Knows (You Got to Give to Get)"
71. Candi Staton, "His Hands"
72. Built to Spill - "Goin' Against Your Mind"
73. Poni Hoax - "Budapest"
74. The Pipettes - "Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me"
75. The Killers - "When You Were Young"
76. Baby Cham [ft. Akon] - "Ghetto Story (Remix)"
77. Jamie Lidell - "Multiply (In a Minor Key)"
78. Be Your Own Pet - "Adventure"
79. Cam'ron - "Weekend Girl"
80. Nelly Furtado [ft. Timbaland] - "Promiscuous"
81. My Robot Friend [ft. Antony] - "One More Try"
82. Kris Menace Presents Stars on 33 - "I Feel Music in Your Heart (Lifelike and Kris Menace Remix)"
83. Cansei de Ser Sexy - "Alala"
84. Boris - "Farewell"
85. Beyoncé - "Ring the Alarm"
86. Spank Rock - "Sweet Talk"
87. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Cheated Hearts"
88. Geiger - "Good Evening (SuperMayer Remix)"
89. Annuals - "Brother"
90. Arctic Monkeys - "A Certain Romance"
91. Escort - "Starlight"
92. Mew - "The Zookeeper's Boy"
93. The Thermals - "Here's Your Future"
94. Scritti Politti - "The Boom Boom Bap"
95. Rihanna - "S.O.S."
96. Oxford Collapse - "Please Visit Your National Parks"
97. Midlake - "Roscoe"
98. Chelonis R. Jones - "Deer in the Headlights (Radio Slave Remix)"
99. The Divine Comedy - "A Lady of a Certain Age"
100. Burial - "Southern Comfort"

Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" is nowhere to be found on the list because Pitchfork, in a fit of premature ejaculation, placed it at 36 on their list last year.

Sorry to say, but it's becoming more and more obvious how fake & paranoid the so-called cool critics are.
I could've said this about a lot of other lists, but I know how Pitchfork is full of smartasses that would praise something just for sounding very alternative or difficult, while they write a lot of insulting reviews without any good reason. Sometimes their decade lists are alright, but it's mainly today's music that they play too many games with. They try to be cool, then they make certain picks so they won't get complaints about racism or not understanding today's pop. It ends up looking like
albums/songs being picked at random. I hate it when critics pick albums from genres they aren't familiar with just for credibility. It happens way more times
than it should, and they end up picking albums based on 1 popular song on it. Right now I'm talking about most critics & lists in general.