Needles & Grooves

Lorde is about 19 spots too low but I can live with that. I think I'm at about 25 owned, a lot just aren't my speed but are great

I only have 47 here! Easily over 100 that I should have but are missing in my collection

35 on wax

Only 20 on vinyl currently, sold 10 that I used to have on there. 42 more digitally or on CD. Maybe 10 more I really want on vinyl but are too $$$ and am waiting for repress. A lot of great albums on the list but only mayyyybe 40 on there would be in my top 200 from the last 25 years.

62, and zero of them are Kanye

133

75 on vinyl.

A list of the "Top 200" albums of the last 25 years with the first mention of Nick Cave at 174 tells me I don't need to bother counting anything. I'm on a totally different wavelength.

That list is weak. It’s a typically incoherent readers list (3 RH in the top 4 is odd even as a fan) but it’s also just a bit shit and while I suppose it’s fair given it’s pitchfork it is a bit US-centric.

We really need a snoring reaction for these two grumpy guses above me. Youre both very cool for hating on music.

The real snoring reaction would be for the world where we all agreed on what art speaks to us.

I mean clearly, but that doesn't make it any less boring to shit on something people are enjoying while lifting yourself up. A wavelength that can't find anything to enjoy in 200 albums? Doesn't sound exciting to me.

Oh I can find plenty of music to enjoy in that. I have nearly 100 of them between vinyl and CDs. Probably about 50-60 of those 100 I think are really good. I just don’t think it’s a great list or a fantastic representation of the last quarter of a century. It’s low on the early period and so has a recency bias and it’s a bit unbalanced geographically and in terms of top loading by one artist, and I love that artist!

Thank you for playing the game, that wasn't so hard. A list of 200 that you personally really like 50-60 sounds like a successful list imo

If I counted right, I have 86 on wax. Probably another 50 on CD. Overall a good list if I just treat it as a collection of 200 and try not to look at the individual rankings.

76 for me. Disappointed to not see My Morning Jacket, but pretty good list for sure.

I don’t think this list is by all means a definitive. I think it matches your “average pitchfork reader” (who are likely men who live in the USA, sorry @Joe Mac I would imagine there is an NME list out there somewhere for ya). I think if an alien landed down on earth and wanted to know what music was popular with indie kids during the last 25 years this list would be a great primer.

Haha! NME is dead. The internet killed it. Their website has never managed to come close to what the paper was.

That said I’m old and their job is to expose 18-30 year olds to exciting new music and scenes, not to pander to me

I have 65 of these (68 including unofficial vinyl pressings). Good overlap.

I have 25 of these. But I've owned 62 at one point or another. Actually not too bad.