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Pitchfork Perfect 10s

Albums Pitchfork scored a perfect 10.0. Order by the year each was originally released. You place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the Pitchfork Perfect 10s timeline game works

Each card is an album Pitchfork gave a perfect score, the artist named under the title, and you order them by the year each was originally released. One album starts on the timeline with its year shown. Every new card goes into the gap you think fits. Guess the gap and the year is yours; a wrong pick still puts the album in its place and costs you one of your three lives.

Many of these scores were handed out on reissues, so you're dating the original record, not the review. The picks lean on shoegaze, post-rock, indie, golden-age hip-hop and art rock, with a handful of pop and classic-rock landmarks. Cult records from the same short stretch are the hardest to separate, and the artist name is often your only anchor.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 19 times. An average run places 11.2 cards, and 82% of all placements land in the right spot. 26% of runs place every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Spirit of Eden missed 50% of the time, usually by about 5 places
  • In the Aeroplane Over the Sea missed 40% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Slanted and Enchanted missed 36% of the time, usually by about 3 places

The safest card is The Beatles (White Album), placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Pet Sounds The Beach Boys
  • The Beatles (White Album) The Beatles
  • Low David Bowie
  • Rumours Fleetwood Mac
  • Sign o' the Times Prince
  • Daydream Nation Sonic Youth
  • It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy
  • Spirit of Eden Talk Talk
  • Disintegration The Cure
  • Loveless My Bloody Valentine
  • Spiderland Slint
  • Slanted and Enchanted Pavement
  • Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Wu-Tang Clan
  • Illmatic Nas
  • The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails
  • Dummy Portishead
  • OK Computer Radiohead
  • Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Spiritualized
  • In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Kid A Radiohead
  • Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  • The Moon & Antarctica Modest Mouse
  • The Glow Pt. 2 The Microphones
  • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco
  • My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West
  • Fetch the Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple

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