dm-gthb/pitchfork-list-mcp

Pitchfork List MCP Server

An MCP server for music discovery, based on Pitchfork’s critically acclaimed Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.

Features

• Curated dataset: 200 albums with rank, artist, title, year (2000–2009), and genre tags
• MCP tools: search by text, filter by year/genre/artist/rank, and compute stats
• Built-in prompts: decade overview and year-specific context
• Resource endpoint: quick access to the complete genre list as plain text
• Cloudflare-native: Workers + Durable Object McpAgent + Workers KV

Available tools

• list_albums: all 200 albums sorted by rank (1–200)
• list_genres: unique genres
• search_albums(query): case-insensitive search by artist/title
• get_album_by_rank(rank): album at a specific rank
• get_albums_by_year(year): albums from a year (2000–2009)
• get_albums_by_artist(artist): exact artist match
• get_albums_by_genre(genre): albums including a genre/tag
• get_year_statistics(sortBy?): counts per year
• get_genre_statistics(sortBy?, minCount?): counts per genre
• get_artist_statistics(sortBy?, minAlbums?, showSummary?): artist distribution

Prompts and resources

• Prompts
  • analyze_year_context(year): context for a specific year
  • 2000s_overview(): decade overview from the dataset
• Resources
  • genres: plain-text list of all genres

Example usage

• Search and filter

  • "Search albums for Radiohead"
  • "Show albums from 2005"
  • "Find albums with genre noise pop"
  • "What album is at rank 37?"

• Stats and summaries

  • "Which year has the most albums?"
  • "Show genre counts sorted by count"
  • "Only show genres that appear on at least 5 albums"
  • "Which artists appear more than once?"

• Exploration

  • "List all genres"
  • "Show the top 10 albums"

• Deep-dive prompts

  • "Give me an overview of 2000s music based on this list"
  • "Analyze the year 2007 in music using the dataset"

Connect an MCP client

https://pitchfork-list-mcp-server.dmamonov.workers.dev/

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pitchfork-list": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://pitchfork-list-mcp-server.dmamonov.workers.dev/sse"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Credits

• Dataset derived from Pitchfork’s “200 Best Albums of the 2000s”. This project is for educational and hobby purposes.