Sasha Frere Jones Perfect Recordings Volume 1 - Poll

What a villain

just kind of feel like the notion of a canon in general is just kind of dumb. more so when you are just arbitrarily throwing up your personal favorite songs

I think this "canon" thing comes from the title of this thread, the SFJ piece about this doesn't mention that word.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sasha-frere-jones/perfect-beat

fair enough

in any case though i feel like this thread needs this image

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/frerejones.png

I only hate 3 or 4 of these songs. Good effort.

Most of these lists is zzzz

needs more artists with dollar signs in their name, huh?

It's actually a very good list. My only quibble at a glance is that I think that's a boring, though perfectly fine, Joni Mitchell song to pick out of all of them.

Oh but hey we could aall be wetting ourselves over fkav Twigs

I was going to comment earlier but I vomited all over my keyboard when I saw this list. I thought ISIS was evil...

xp she's on the tracklist of Perfect Recordings 4

crazy isn't even one of my ten favorite pylon songs. getting your opinions on post-punk from michael stipe is like getting your opinions on jazz from wynton marsalis.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

It's essentially a list of famous, mostly downbeat and slow, pop songs from his lifetime. Yawn.

there are maybe 4 slow songs on there. also SFJ is 12 years old. You are wrong on all counts.

I am shocked to discover that "Warm Leatherette" was not a US pop hit...Racoon, you steered me wrong.

I think this "canon" thing comes from the title of this thread, the SFJ piece about this doesn't mention that word.

i feel like most canon-constructing exercises don't "mention that word" either... basically any Important List published by a prominent critic or publication can be assumed to be an attempt to add to the canon, especially if so much of what it includes is already acknowledged in the canon

Raccoon double c better check the spelling

that's my favorite travie mcscott lyric