As you may have noticed, Pitchfork launched their P2K: The Decade In Music feature this week, opening the gate with The Top 500 Tracks Of The 2000s. Before you complain the decade isn’t done just yet, the folks at Pitchfork note “[I]n early 2010, if you aren’t sick to death of reading 10 million lists about the decade and the current year, come back and we’ll have added an addendum with a few of our favorite songs from the next few months.” No worries, we’ll never be sick of lists. As far as this one, the choices are simply listed for 500 to 201; you start getting those “short critical” blurbs at 200. (And if you pull the list’s top 15 tracks from this year — there are only 15 songs from 2009 in the entire 500 — you have at least a partial a preview of P4K’s Top 20 songs of 2009 for their impending year-end list … so far. Which we’ve done for you, of course.) Before we get into the choices, the entire thing also offers an interesting subtext to what’s happened to music in the last decade.
As Pitchfork notes, this massive roundup — which will also include three other lists, four essays, and a timeline — is “about what you’d get from a print magazine, but it’s free and you won’t throw it out the next time you move.” This is true. This is also why there are much fewer magazines now than when the site launched in 1995. Another reason: You can stream (and download for a small price) the majority of the songs, something you can’t do with an issue of Rolling Stone or SPIN. Instant gratification is a large (large) part of what’s made on-line publications more appealing to people than the paper kind. That, and as a reader, you’re allowed to voice your opinion to perfect strangers. Clearly.
Which brings us to the artists and songs represents on this Top 500. Chances are you’ve glanced at some of it. Chances are you’ve been overwhelmed by it. At the very least, it serves as a good reminder (in outline form) of what you might’ve been listening to in 2001: I, for one, pulled Unwound’s Leaves Turn Inside You from the shelf. (Same goes for Wolf Eyes’ more recently released Human Animal.) On a larger and purely objective scale, if you pay close attention, it offers a fun chance to unpack patterns and tendencies from a time we’ve all lived through (and listened to). There’s a lot of Belle & Sebastian. Radiohead beats out Coldplay 4-2. Kanye West, Animal Collective, Missy Elliott, OutKast, and Jay-Z clearly ruled the decade. (And the inclusion of Animal Collective in that lineup’s fascinating beyond a so and so is > than so and so thing.) Or, you’ll find great unspoken moments like Bat For Lashes’ “Daniel” at 206 and Lily Allen’s “Smile” at 205 or Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness Is The Move” at 115 and Aaliyah’s “We Need a Resolution” at 111. Seeing Elliott Smith a few spots from Pains Of Being Pure to make you realize 10 years is a longtime. Seeing “Hollaback Girl” at 180 and “Skinny Love” at 179 makes me think your record collection is more varied than your parent’s record collection. “Young Folks” only made it to 84. It’s a secret history for music nerds.
On a more subjective scale, there’s a lot I find confusing. As I’m sure you will, too. I like the surprises that show up in the dregs of the list — Comets On Fire, Lightning Bolt, Earth, Jesu. The problem here — and this happens often with these sorts of lists — as you get closer to the top 50, things get more conservative and predictable (unless they get unpredictable in a very predictable way, natch). Which is where we find this top 20. It’s ushered in by Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone,” which just misses out at 21. Oh, about that predictable unpredictability? The top track’s by a group you might expect at the top spot but via a different song. I’ve already said too much. Now it’s up to you:
Pitchfork’s 20 Greatest Songs Of The ’00s
20 The Walkman – “The Rat” (2004)
19 R. Kelly – “Ignition (Remix)”? (2002)
18 Hercules and Love Affair – “Blind” (2008)
17 Annie -”Heartbeat” (2004)
16 The Rapture – “House of Jealous Lovers” (2002)
15 The Knife – “Heartbeats” (2002)
14 Jay-Z – “99 Problems” (2003)
13 LCD Soundsystem – “Losing My Edge” (2002)
12 OutKast – “Hey Ya!” (2003)
11 Gnarls Barkley – “Crazy” (2005)
10 Arcade Fire – “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” (2004)
09 Animal Collective – “My Girls” (2009)
08 Radiohead – “Idioteque” (2000)
07 Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On” (2001)
06 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Maps” (2003)
05 Daft Punk – “One More Time” (2000)
04 Beyoncé [ft. Jay-Z] – “Crazy in Love” (2003)
03 M.I.A. (Feat. Bun B and Rich Boy) – “Paper Planes (Diplo Remix)” (2007)
02 LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (2007)
01 OutKast – “B.O.B.” (2000)
As far as this next one goes, “My Girls” cracked the Top 500′s Top 10. You have to go all the way to #115 to find the second song on the list (i.e. It’ll take one hell of a track to beat out AC for 2009′s top spot). All but the Top 3 are situated beyond the 200 mark.
Pitchfork’s Top 15 Songs Of 2009 … So Far
15 The Big Pink – “Velvet”
14 Woods- “Rain On”
13 St. Vincent – “The Strangers”
12 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers – “Day ‘N Night (Remix)”
11 The Walkmen – “In the New Year”
10 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Young Adult Friction”
09 Camera Obscura – “French Navy”
08 Japandroids – “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
07 Antony and the Johnsons – “Aeon”
06 Grizzly Bear – “While You Wait for the Others”
05 Phoenix – “1901″
04 Bat for Lashes – “Daniel”
03 Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”
02 Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is The Move”
01 Animal Collective – “My Girls
You can dig into the list and find additional patterns at P4K.
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Sonic Youth’s “Empty Page” is on the list over “Rain On Tin”? Unless I missed it. But man. That’s a fault.
pitchfork is nothing more than online journalism, as evidenced by the quality of its writers, its pervasive amount of lists and the choices that go into those lists. it should never claim to be more than that.
Skinny Love at 179 is a travesty.
this list is too ridiculous. I can’t even read through it all let alone try to explain why this is < or > to that. This list should be a called “a bunch of random songs from the decade that we all liked at one time or another.”
agreed. aside from the top 150 or so, its like they put a bunch of songs in a barrel, dumped that barrel onto the floor and said, “HEY, HERE’S NUMBERS 300 – 500!”
TVotR’s “Wolf Like Me” should be in the top 20.
fuck missy elliot and that shit song
How many people think that come December, Pitchfork is actually going to say the 15 songs from 2009 in this list were the best of the year? I wouldn’t count on it.
…and by that, I mean in this exact same order.
Where’s One Armed Scissor?
#255
Animal Collective truly suck
It truly is. “Are you tweakin’?” Real talk.
“Got No Money” by Max and the Wild Things is the best song of 2009 so far
I know there’s been a serious backlash against them, but Oasis definitely deserve one in five hundred of the top songs. (The Importance of Being Idle maybe?). Also, some of the other older/more established acts deserve some kind of inclusion. Where’s all the 80s/90s alt-rockers who still continue to make good to great songs (Sonic Youth for one). I’m not sure how many other people will agree with me, but some older rock artists (Dylan, Neil Young, McCartney, Elvis Costello, Cash, etc.) put out some of their best material in decades in the 2000s.
JOHN WAYNE GACY, JR.
YEAH! I’ll second that – I expected that in the top 20. Shows what I know…
JWCJr was good, but not that good. I was very surprised Chicago beat out Casimir Pulaski Day though.
so, where’s the torrent? .zip? .rar? nothing?
Who cares. Pitchfork blows. (Unless they are pushing your band)
Predictions: Animal Collective MPP is the album of the year. Kid A is album of the decade. Bet on it.
I’m sorry, but the fact that there is not a single Robert Pollard song in either one of those lists, informs me that this is not a serious list
pitchfork, wake up.
I can’t abide that there is no Cut/Copy on the best of the decade list. That is just wrong.
I’m pretty sure there were two Cut Copy songs on the list; ‘Hearts On Fire’ was reasonably high. Do all these people think Pitchfork only published a top 20 songs of the decade list? There was 500 songs!
I agree with earlier poster. What the f is this list. Lame azz stupid no originality wrong list. Pitchfork sucks.
Tegan and Sara, Metric, The Kills, Holly Miranda, The Jealous Girlfriends, Lykke Li, Alexisonfire, City and Colour, La Roux??
Where’s all this good music?
seems they really mostly put singles on the list. and the list weighs heavily towards 2009. why so much animal collective? seems like they minimized a lot of the earlier stuff from the decade. the strokes and interpol being so low on the list is a good example. also interesting to look at which of these bands were really broken by pitchfork, hip-hop aside, its a ton of them. and then ones who weren’t, don’t make it very far up the list, no surpise there.
Say what you want about the list, but they definitely did not weigh heavily toward 2009. On average, you’d expect 50 songs per year to make it on to the big list, 10 in the top 100, and 2 in the top 20. But 2009 gets only 1 in the top 20, 2 in the top 100, and only 15 in the top 500. That is not weighted heavily towards 2009. Maths.
Sometimes I just don’t understand you Pitchfork.
Fun read, stupid list. Predictably no A.R.E. Weapons (the Fork never really understood thee, uh, sense of humor – which they still seem to have not grasped) The critics are silenced, but for years and years to come we must all follow thy words: ‘Don’t Be Scared’.
If radio still existed and I was a DJ and I wanted to knock some version of myself that hadn’t heard of them yet on his ass …I’d play something from Talking Head 77(or earlier),,,and then Knotty Pine followed by “cannibal” and then “no intention”…and then onto the Byrds…
One Big Holiday should be on this list
Just one thing. What about The Flaming Lips. Not one song. i find that to be rediculous
Do you Realize is number 142 I think…
I meant in the top 100. my bad
Thank you Pitchfork. For barely ever leaving your comfort zone of indie rock.
Reading Stereogum is akin to placing one’s face in a blender.
Best Surprise: The Knife’s ‘Heatbeats’ in the top 20. This is a moment of genius. It’s something I wouldn’t of thought of, but yet, makes perfect sense.
Where were these songs?
Everyone’s got this list of should-of-beens. Anyways, what about Phantom Planet’s ‘California’. This deserves a place somewhere in the top 500. Also Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Kick Push’ was a fairly big indie hit with some cultural impact.
‘Kick Push’ was #246.
Top 20 by the years:
2000 -3
2001 – 1
2002 – 4
2003 – 4
2004 – 3
2005 – 1
2006 – 0
2007 – 2
2008 – 1
2009 – 1
Interesting that only 5 in the last 5 years, 15 in the first five years. And nothing from 2006. Bad year, apparently. 2002-2003 was a good two years, with 8.
Its interesting that 2006 has 0 tracks. I remember it was an awful year for both singles and albums. I couldn’t even pull a top 10 albums together that year.
Needs more Okkervil River
WHERE”S METRIC!?!?!?
They’re the best band ever…99 Problems is on there and no Metric. Seriously, whoever wrote this should quit their job and do sometihng else with their lives.
I’m sorry. This list is ridiculous. And as someone that was actually reading Pitchfork waaaay back in 1996, I think their “we’re-gonna-have-it-both-ways-just-to-show-you-we’re-NOT-elitists” crap is sadly transparent…. Does anyone REALLY think the almost entirely image-driven R&B / hip-pop of this decade DESERVES the amount of mannered scrutiny and exaltation they give it??? Alongside the truly brilliant and moving music that’s been made this decade?? A far more interesting list would’ve been the couple-hundred songs that will still matter 10 years from now…….
God damn. I need to go through that 500-song list again (I am not going through that 500-song list again) because hip hop got it bad.
Where’s Madvillain? I saw Saliva on there, but no MV? Raid? Accordion? I don’t think I saw a single Madlib joint on that list.
Flying Lotus? Come on, that dude inspired a whole slew of burgeoning hip hop producers…
Also… where’s Dilla?
It’s not that they aren’t including these specific artists that makes me confused, but it’s like they just straight up missed out a really big side of hip hop in the last decade. Am I missing something here?
Amen, Pelican. I actually don’t mind recognizing the commercial, top 10 rap songs, as I’ve said already.
But I agree very much so with you about the less known rap you barely even hear on Sirius. That new Slick Rick/Def collab over the Madlib beat from the Beat Konducta in India album on Def’s new one? Awesome.
Accordian is a great call. I liked plenty of Jaylib tracks, too, and of course MF Doom solo stuff.
A couple of the Jackson Conti songs would have been very welcome.
If they’re branching into rap and turntablism, don’t just have Shadow and Madvillain near the bottom for 99 Problems to be near the top. Mix it up.
Thank god for Pitchfork! Now that the ‘purveyors of cool’ have consented to the schlockiest song on the Dirty Projectors’ newest album — I too can like it. And here I thought it was the worst song on a great album. Long live Imogen Heap!
It’s by no means schlocky…it just as a few extra steps or something…
I’m glad Grizzly Bear is up there with the song 2 Weeks.
beyonc
e is a great singer and performer….and as far as pop goes…Crazy in Love is really good…
oh and i got 247 songs out of 500, for 49.40 percent cool
for all the pitchfork haters…what is an acceptable and good music site to discover music?
and if none of this music is good than what is….if ur going to shit on things, show ur work please.
i myslef love pitchfork…they are not perfect….and the writing style is a little overwrought, but they are well intentioned, well organized, and free and have helped me dicover alot of shit….took me from listening to garbage and orgy to well…better stuff…..so no bitching will come from me senor
idioteque should be number 1. and i can garauntee Kid A is album number 1
oh and no mars volta on any list ever!
and to those who say they didnt shout out country…the best country album of the decade is represented with the lovely “Portland, Oregon” by Lorretta Lynn
New Pornographers’ “Bleeding Heart Show” isn’t on there, which is a fucking crime.
When i saw my girls at #9 i started to think this have been a really shitty decade. If they really wanted to force AnCo into the top ten at least they should have picked brothersport or purple bottle or win a rabbit. Seriously, my girls just fails and don’t even makes me think merriweather is stil the best album of the year.
uh…fake empire?
Can someone explain to me why we still need music critics to tell us what to like when we have access to a vast decentralized database of musical knowledge via the internet? All music’s free, nothing’s underground or obscure anymore, and you still won’t bother developing your own taste? Cattle.
yes yes and yes.
I’m actually surprised there were NO songs off of The New Pornographers’ Twin Cinema or Belle & Sebastian’s The Life Pursuit. Seriously, Pitchfork?!
Let’s face it, the 00s will go down as the WORST decade for music. How Pitchfork can come up with a list of 500 songs for this decade is beyond me. Only about 20 songs from this era are worth a damn. Speaking of which, how come Muse isn’t on Pitchfork’s list? Or Kings of Leon? Yet Missy Elliot and Kanye “Gayfish” West make the cut? Something tells me that the people who compiled the list are former Rolling Stone employees.
it makes perfect sense that kanye and missy elliott made the list and not muse. They are two of the most successful artists both in terms of popularity and critical acclaim. Kings of Leon are bland indie music and Muse wrote a couple nice songs that sounded like Radiohead b-sides and songs that even Queen would be ashamed of
you’re a idiot. go back to listening to dirty projectors, and pretending to be an artist. muse has written some of the best music this decade. try “the groove” for one. now seriously, go back to ranking your favorite songs from one to ten, but try not to use the pitchfork track rankings as a guide if you can. you probably know them by heart anyway..
I think you meant to say “you’re an idiot” and not “you’re a idiot”. That`s cool though, no one`s judging.
Damnit, I love dirty projectors
you are a fool.
i wish i could unread what you said and be happier, but i cannot, so all that i can do is respond angrily.
straight up the best decade of music ever.
I quite honestly don’t care what Pitchfork thinks… it seems to me that what they think matters far too much to today’s youth, if I may be so bold. To compile a “best of” list is entirely subjective – that might be obvious, but I still think a lot of folks miss that point – and even to rank music, in my mind, is to rob the music of its substance. For that reason it is hard for me to do such a thing – I hope I don’t sound too elitist. Nothing against Pitchfork, and nothing wrong with entertainment (for those who want to be entertained) but I guess I just march to a different beat.
I have my own favorite records and songs, etc etc., and I am happy with that.
damn straight nucca
reggae music!
uhh where’s, The Von Bondies “C’mon C’mon” ??????
WORD! That was a hit, and I was wondering the same thing when I recently stumbled upon it on my iTunes. Undeniable fun.
animal collective sucks. lyrics are terrible and meaningless. music is made for stoners and honestly has no soul. if you worship at their altar you are a poser.
Way to be tuff guy!
thank you stereogum for being so much cooler than pitchfork, actually letting listeners have a say about what they like, and not treating yourself as the end all be all of what is good in music. and to pitchfork.. get over yourselves, no one can grade music to the degree that you do. you manufacture sheep., and just because we haven’t heard of a band doesn’t mean that they are good, because good means much more than a bunch of staffers sitting around with their ipods out ranking songs to impress each other. your list sucks.
Yeah, and look at all the thoughtful, intelligent discussions that have resulted from *that*. The other day people used this web site to spread (false) rumors that Daniel Rossen does coke, for the love of God. Power to the people right-on, yeah!!!
Time to face the truth: Pitchfork writers are better at talking about music than any of you because that’s what they’re *paid* to do. As the comments of this website clearly demonstrates, if you let just anyone give their opinion the majority of them are going to be completely retarded.
Seriously, no one here is “better” than anybody writing for pitchfork simply by virtue of being “one of the people.” I mean, at least it’s their job to be nerds. Y’all, on the other hand….
so glad the knife ‘heartbeats’ made that list!
I <3 the live version even more. and what’s the deal with no fever ray on the 2009 list? “when i grow up” HELLO?
This is a list, and some people get to worked up because it is Pitchfork and they don’t like your favorite band. There are tons of great tracks on here and people are bound to get upset for stupid reasons. Sure Wake Up, Brother Sport, Purple Bottle, Fake Empire should have all been included (Fever Ray, too) but it will all be okay, trust me…I like the list personally and agree with My Girls if it is the track of the year.
Must just know Pitchfork too well at this point. Nothing about either of these lists surprises me in the least.
Pretty sure it’s “The Walkmen,” not The walkman.
Seriously.
animal collective and daft punk … hear hear
no beulah?
They gave Discovery a 6.4 (basically a C) yet give em three tracks in the top 500 songs of the decade. Half the review panned the opening track as being repetitive and dull, yet now place it #5 in the list. They are so backwards sometimes.
The thing about pitchfork is that each review is written by one person, whereas the lists are a combination of everyone’s opinions. Plenty of poorly rated albums have risen to the top of their lists because the reviewers opinion didn’t represent the opinion of the whole staff.
Also, discover came out so long ago, the reviewer probably doesn’t even work there anymore.
I can see merit in what you’re saying – but I honestly believe they work under a group-think methodology.
Am I the only one that thought Summertime Clothes was by far the best track on MPP?
F-ck lists. They please no one, probably not even the Pitchfork staff who wrote it. Trying to define the cultural zeitgeist of one year is an lighter task than that of ten years – which is an impossibility that not even Rolling Stone has been able to achieve.
This is funny: http://www.buddyhead.com/lil-wayne-2000-pitchfork-snorts-a-decade/
I actually don’t think the list was that bad,i just turned 18 and not really sure what i am yet(really don’t wanna be a hipster) but I love every genre of music as long as it’s good,I wouldn’t have ever liked county if it weren’t for Wilco or Loretta. Which is why I actually liked the list,i just thought some songs were just placed too damn high,I live in an a very “urban neighborhood” when we moved back from africa and hearing that same pop crap they put on the freaking radio every single day just got me! But can’t wait for their best albums of the decade
Well nevermind, im pretty sure even I and everyone on stereogum can guess atleast the top 5 albums of the decade by pitchfork.
1.Kid A
2.Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3.Stankonia
4.Blueprints
5.Sung Tongs/Strawberry Jam
again all guesses.
Are Uzi & Ari on there? If not, they should be.
First of all, if you got mad at this list, you need help. It’s a discussion starter. The point is to reminisce, enjoy and debate. There was a lot I thought they missed, a lot they got I forgot about, a lot they got right (BOB, for ex.) and a lot I think is overrated (any and all Animal Collective). But will I check out some of the things other people posted? Sure will. Unless you wrote like an angry d-bag. Then, grow up.
To the Daft Punk discussion: I think at the time, Discovery and DP in general were written off because of the robot shtick. Discovery also didn’t fit in with the more aggressive style of music that was emerging at the time, and it seemed hokey and cheesy, especially sampling the songs it did. But as years passed – I think as P4k itself noted – the robots helped the band stand the test of time, whereas the Prodigy, Chems and Crystal Method visibly aged and began to look more ridiculous in their context. Never mind that the songs emerged as not hokey but true blasts of originality and fun (certainly the Alive 2007 tour helped remind people of this). Remember, RS blasted Led Zep’s first albums; now, they’re regarded as gods. Greatness isn’t always recognized in its time; this covers music, books, art and the sciences.
“BOB” No. 1?? Because of its cultural relevance??? Groovy maaaan which way to the sit-in?
If 00s music was/is about anything it’s retroism and disposable trends. Why “Last Night” is in the top five is beyond me.
wow, let’s all complain and yell songs we like.
I can’t imagine being at a party with a bunch of douche bags who work for Pitchfork. I would have to kick just a few of their asses for being the definition of a hipster turd. The sad thing is there are good songs on these lists, but top 20? I think I’m most irritated to see LCD sound system in there twice…that’s just silly. There must’ve been one asshole dude that the rest of the frail, ironic Pitchforkers were too scared to stand up to…or they finally started sharing a brain between them and have had all their tastes melded together into one tight clothed hive mind.
Though I would say that they peaked with American Water in 1998, the SIlver Jews had a few pretty incredible post-2000 songs, which I would’ve liked to see somewhere on this list.
I think you meant with out pitchfork you’d have no discernable opinion.
I miss brent dicrescenzo.
This is a staff list so accrues different members’ interests, I’m sure. Besides, Pitchfork’s musical taste isn’t the end-all be-all and neither is Stereogum’s. Make your own lists.
LCD Soundsystem has two songs in the top 20… really? and no fleet foxes or grizzly bear. seriously?
The top 20 is comprised of stuff you will only find on the radio (minus Radiohead). None of the bands, besides them, I have never liked. The lone fact that this music is played on the radio means it will be on the “top whatever” list at any given time. These lists are made up of music that are hits on the radio,no matter the station, with Animal Collective on the alternative stations and Jay-z on the hip hop stations. Its really anything that people will listen to and not look for something better in a given genre. Instead of Animal Collective, try Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and, although i don’t listen to hiphop, you could try Nas.
rejected, sir. the radio isn’t instantly indicative of bad music. there used to be good radio stations, and there are still a few around.
Los Campesinos is the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard.
I was really hoping Metric or Tegan and Sara would be up there. Both bands really deserve it.
This list is pretty good altogether, but predictable(I am now the 500th person to point this out, lucky me!). I do think that lcd soundsystem do not need to be seen twice in the top 20,once is perfect(500th again!). Also, where are the magnetic fields, though they are past their prime, they still deserve some recognition.
“LCD Soundsystem does not need to be seen twice in the top 20.” Amen. In fact, “Get Innocuous!” is his only track I’d think include in a top 500 list. (Just because it reminds me of Bowie.)
this list turned my brain to shit. i can’t even hope to comment intelligently about it, 500 songs from one decade is just too insane to comprehend. i like that “Crazy” made the top 20, though it’d be closer to 1 on my personal list.
and is anyone ever going to explain animal collective’s appeal to me?
Yes, and B.O.B. was written about ‘bombs over Baghdad’. My point is that neither song was written specifically about the major events with which they were later indelibly linked, but rather that they crucially foreshadowed these events. Furthermore, the cultural significance they acquired thereafter cemented them as more than just excellent songs; they were/are part and parcel of the events themselves.
for all the people getting mad a pitchfork, you are completely playing into their hand. It’s pretty obvious what pitchfork does to keep up their hype.
Of course they’re not putting any rock up.
But I’d hardly think that Pitchfork is KILLING rock music like so many whiney people on here want to put out. The day that pitchfork is the deciding factor for ANY kind of music, be it indie rock or mainstream rap, I’ll jump off a bridge.
The only ones to let music die are ourselves.
So i found about about this really cool site the other day called Pitchfork.com. They review bands on there. It is a pretty cool website to help me find out about new music. I have a joba nd a life and I do not try to find new music for a living, so when people who do that for a lving make lists of their favorite songs, it is fun to read what they have to say. But then I usually go to other wbsites or watch tv or go to shows to find out about bands. There sure are a lto of musical bands out there. It is really pretty easy for me to tell what i like and do not by listening to it. But I feel really bad when people make recomendations to me and i act like a fucking asshole because i can’t just be happy happy haviong my own opinion. I feel angry when I try to influence a bunch of angry dip shits who have made their minds up already that my opioions are more imortant than theirs. Some day i am going to have kids and lost ouch with music and look back at this time and think it was funny that i cared so much. Music is pointless. Then I am going to die. and none of it will mean anything.
But yeah pichfork is pretty cool.
Why are people that like music so angry? If there’s music people don’t like, just shut the fuck about it.
I really like a lot of their choices ? “B.O.B.,” “Heartbeats,” “Neighborhood #1,” “Maps,” “Crazy in Love,” “Crazy” ? but seriously, “All My Friends”?! That song’s seemingly universal appeal totally baffles me. What makes it so damn special? I demand answers! (shakes fist)
As for ’09, my #1 is a toss up between “While You Wait for the Others” and “1901″ ? both tunes floored me (in different ways).
Including 3 Arcade Fire songs, and none of them being ‘Keep The Car Running’ is absolutely ridiculous.
Okay so, Pitchfork rated While You Wait For the Others 10 and Two Weeks 9 yet Two Weeks is ahead of While You Wait For the Others on their list for 2009 thus far.
Makes zero sense. Is it because Two Weeks is clearly the better song and the general public has been more receptive to it?
Okay, your comment makes sense, somewhat, except that ‘While You Wait for the Others’ is clearly the better song…but you get the idea. To each his own, I suppose…..except not in this case because like I said, ‘While You Wait for the Others’ is clearly a superior track than ‘Two Weeks’, which is fine and pretty sounding and has a nice pop charm and aesthetic…but the things is, the vocal harmonies on ‘While You Wait for the Others’ was probably the best thing I heard this year in new music. Also, Atlas Sound’s “Shelia” should crack their list of the best tracks of 2009, as well.
I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY LEFT OUT MY FAVORITE SONG BY MY FAVORITE BANDS GOD DAMN IT
They’re a half-assed Gang of Four wannabe with a lead singer who sucks at singing, and not in a good way. And the lyrics? “1,2,3,4,5,6,7 I’m floating in a constant heaven?” I don’t care who you are, that’s flat-out fucking retarded.
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