Pitchfork 500 - the ALBUM

...EXCLUSIVE CARPMEISTER COMPILATION!!!...
...In The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, Pitchfork offers up their take on the 500 best songs of the past three decades. Focusing on indie rock (Arcade Fire, the Shins), hip-hop (Public Enemy, Jay-Z), electronic (Daft Punk, Boards of Canada), pop (Madonna, Justin Timberlake), metal (Metallica, Boris), and experimental underground music (Suicide, Boredoms), The Pitchfork 500 features all-new essays and reviews written with the sharp wit and insight for which the site is known...
...inspired by such a fine book, the carpmeister decides to embark upon a journey through blood, sweat and tears to bring you the album that they couldn't release if they wanted, (not enough of these stars are dead enough for the MAN to collect such a dizzying array of musical history together in one place) just check out the tracklist HERE, soo many flashbacks man.
PLEASE NOTE - these are not yer regular 192k and under mp3's as found elsewhere, THESE ARE LOSSLESS files culled from many personal collections, and NOT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE...

...pt1 1977-79 download HERE...
...pt2 1980-82 download HERE...
...pt3 1983-86 download HERE...
...pt4 1987-90 download HERE...
...pt5 1991-93 download HERE...
...pt6 1994-96 download HERE...
...pt7 1997-99 download HERE...
...pt8 2000-2 download HERE...
...pt9 2003-6 download HERE...

...message from the carpmeister - ive had the list on random on my hifi whilst ive been putting the whole thing together and it's a cracking list of music, i do recommend the book if you haven't got it. Anyway enjoy the list and play LOUD!!!!!!

...i had it on random for a while, but i've bitten the bullet and cleared the schedule and i'm goin chronological!...
...wow, this playlist is 40 hrs plus!, i'm a couple of hours in and we're still in '78! but what a trip, songs so ingrained in my brain that eno's 17 minutes felt like 3 and lou reeds street hassle makes me wonder what kind of uncles THIS 9 year old boy had...
...such an evocative selection, ANY list is subject to criticism on taste alone, on paper it's easy to say NO WAY!, why THIS? why not THAT? - BUT in the listening, it really comes alive as genres skip and merge in interesting ways such as the way the donna summer groove morphs thru chic and camp anthems and the splendid parliament before returning via public image to a new wave spiky disco punk of gang of four...
...had to go and borrow the book off the good carpmeister himself to check a few facts regarding the order and now i'm hooked - it REALLY IS a good read, but with the ALBUM as well this is HEAVEN...
...i'm into 1980 now and my dna is so synchronous to the damn thing i've turned into that 12 year old brat, i just wanna get a guitar and punish my parents for bringin me into this whole charade, i storm out to the strains of joy division, fight with my girl, drink too much, bug my friends - NO-ONE UNDERSTANDS ME!!!...
...well, kiddies, i haven't been on a trip like this since some friends and i sat and watched the whole of the Beatles Anthology documentary series (Special Edition Directors Cut extra footage version) in ONE SITTING! something like 15 hrs that was, IN ONE DAY...by the end of it we were distraught at the litigation and broken dreams etc and wanted to just like RING people up and TELL 'em the Beatles just split up man, heavy trip. But that was NOTHIN'...
...JEEZ! this is better than therapy, it should be available on the national health, a binaural regression therapy session, 40 HOURS and no dollar down!!! (although i heartily recommend buying the book) ...anyhoo, i'm outta school now, burnt my first guitar and bought my first drum box, the music is WITH me and WITHIN me, protectin me from the paranoia of the cold war years i got Run DMC i got KRS-1 and i got NEW ORDER! i got the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, i got Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, the WEDDOES ferchrissakes! this list is UNCANNY, they've got this list from my HEAD, from my RECORD BOX...i can see it now, battered and worn, and stolen many years ago, stolen by PITCHFORK it seems, a crime at the time i blamed on local scuzzballs, solved, after all these years...

...by Pancho Be Gubbins...

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