No Wings on the list, right?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
No solo McCartney at all.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
bottom reaches of this list are dollar bin as fuck lol
― flopson, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
Cat Stevens at least has film sdtks in his corner to keep his fortunes/critical rep alive, Denver has nothing but Muppets specials.
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― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
Also, he isn't dead.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
death is usually a great career move!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Millenials hate "Imagine."
― billstevejim, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, but he died too early into the internet age to likely ever benefit from any kind of critical reappraisal, not that he seemed headed for any kind of get-back-to-my-roots turnaround at the time of his death. He'd probably just keep making albums that were continuously worse until he EARNED his asterisk in 70s folklore.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
I just realized Carly Simon made the 80s list (for a non-hit remix) and not the 70s list where she was a megastar.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
The only point in their favor so far.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
J.D. Considine5 mins · I suppose I should be grateful that Pitchfork managed to include jazz in its "200 Best Songs of the 1970s," given how many other genres got the short shrift. But at the risk of sounding like the Jazz Police, is it asking too much that they at least get their facts straight? In entry 128, Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon," Jeremy Larson writes, "...and it all marches around Paul Jackson's iconic six-note bass line, so sticky it would gum up any other engine but this."First of all, the line is 12 notes, not six. Secondly, that's not Jackson's bass, it's Hancock's synth playing the line. Jackson enters about 24 bars in, playing a funky, string-bending counterpoint up the neck which he maintains until the riff disappears, about halfway through.Amateurs....
― scott seward, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
i dig the randomness of lists like this. it's how my brain works. kinda hard to believe it wouldn't come with a spotify playlist though. corporate synergy is a thing. the random shuffle generation is okay by me.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
there are apple music and spotify links at the end of the intro
― rob, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
The "sequenced loop" referred to in the "Baba O'Riley" entry is neither sequenced nor a loop. It's the Marimba Repeat setting on a Lowrey home organ.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
Besides prog, wonder how much folk is in this list? Going to guess pretty much zero
― imago, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Wasn't there an indie rock tribute to John Denver a while back? Low was on it and some other bands?
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
you could make a different list this way for every day of the year that would be as good. they should just make a different list every day of the year. and i feel love should just be number one every time.
― scott seward, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
"there are apple music and spotify links at the end of the intro"
oh okay i missed that!
― scott seward, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
why no youtube playlist?
― nashwan, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
wow that chameleon fuckup is p egregious
― the enigma of dagmar krause (wins), Monday, 22 August 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
― imago
well hammond song is folk + prog guitar
― salthigh, Monday, 22 August 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Fripp is awesome in that song. I don't know how I'd never heard it before today.
― jmm, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
colour field version of hammond song is also tops!
― scott seward, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
no John Prine, right?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
Sorry Alfred Dinosaur completely belongs on that list. Classic 12"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
I said I loved it!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
bu to me it's like overrating the importance of Arthur Russell. I suppose you can make the argument that he's important because of the people he's influenced now, not on his colleagues or his times.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Roches 4ever
― geoffreyess, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
It is pretty light on folk. Nick Drake's on there of course. Karen Dalton. Judee Sill (although it's "The Kiss", which is kind of it's own thing)
― Number None, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
The Pitchfork crowd really need to get up on "One World"
― Number None, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
I don't usually look at these things, but it's on my FB wall three or four times, and I have strong feelings about the decade, so I did. As such things go, it seemed generally okay--saw some stuff that surprised and gratified me. Oblivious to K-Tel one-shots, but most any '70s list from any publication would be. The most egregious omission for me--apologies if I missed him--was Rod Stewart between 1970 and 1972.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
didn't expect to see a john denver argument today. i agree with my man shakes up there, denver is a little weird as a phenomenon. i feel like there were a lot of similar musical figures in the '70s whose fame was crossing over onto all kinds of formats (and usually the Muppets were involved somehow iirc!) for some reason i feel like it was mostly country artists actually...like kenny rogers, dolly parton, johnny cash.
― nomar, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
denver was even more odd as an icon than any of them obviously and he was practically an honorary muppet.
― nomar, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
Paul Simon is my personal pet "wtf" exclusion
Alfred I still disagree. That's the stuff Arthur Russell was actually known for, that was the stuff that actually got pressed to vinyl and played at the paradise garage. It's his tape experiment shit that wasn't discovered til the 90s that feels more like being about the "Arthur Russell legacy" than song quality imo, doesn't really apply to his disco records
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
The argument that something that wasn't actually popular in the 70s doesn't belong on the list - that's a moot point, isn't? This isn't a document of how people in the 70s experienced the 70s; it's a document of how people in 2016 experience the 70s.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, August 22, 2016 11:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
how did pitchfork not fit my personal favorite 200 songs of the 1970s into their list of 200 best songs from the 1970s
― J0rdan S., Monday, August 22, 2016 11:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Of course. I never expect John Denver to get within spitting distance of this list. It's just weird that history has diminished him so much (probably because he died before the internet was a real thing). xp
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, August 22, 2016 11:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if we all know how consensus polls work why do people need to keep saying it
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, August 22, 2016 11:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 August 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
At least a Randy Newman song made the cut
― Edd Hurt, Monday, 22 August 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
He "pours on the melodrama" in his version? Hmm.
― geoffreyess, Monday, 22 August 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40)
You're right.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
look guys I know you all wanted to see all this dad rock on the list but no can do because dad rock is appropr
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 22 August 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
does dad disco exist yet
― imago, Monday, 22 August 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Does "Baker Street" count as dad rock? Because even if it does, shame on every voter who didn't vote for it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
one thing that sucks about this list is that they don't always state the date of the song
― marcos, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
if you are making a list of songs from a given decade i think you should provide the year each song came in out in that decade
― marcos, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
is that too much to ask
It's listed by the album/single art
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
ha ok it is very tiny and i missed it thanks!
― marcos, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
lol katherine
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
I thot Baker Street was 80s and made the 80s list
― flopson, Monday, 22 August 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
no, it was played to death in the '80s
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
I was up late late last night when the list went up and had a grand ol' time listening to all the tracks that I hadn't heard before. The top 50 (100?) was always going to be pretty predictable, but it's more fun to focus on the stuff that's new to you. Unless you're one of those people that knows all songs
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 August 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link