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Enjoy the silence & pictures of you I think might qualify for this

And see also: ordinary world

The real question is, will they choose One in a million or Are you that somebody?

Ice cream got fuckin robbed.. shoulda been top 20 imo

Ice Cream-->Got Your Money-->Daytona 500-->something off 36 Chambers-->seems like a pretty solid Wu-progression to me

Bring The Pain, doy

I'll tell ya who wuz/will be robbed: Busta!

Probably cream but they might choose shame on a nuh

Bring da Ruckus and Protect Ya Neck also legit choices

In other words: Damn.

any guesses for mbv? they're not really "hit single" kind of guys.

"Soon." And I'm gonna guess it'll be top 5.

everyone forgets "to here knows when" was a single u_u

wu track in the top 50 has to be either cream or triumph doesn't it? anything else is kinda challops

Wasn't "This Is How We Do It" listed as a "see also" track to something?

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yep

who gets the highest track: pavement or biggie

thkw? i was thinking only shallow, at least. i'd puke if they pulled up 'sometimes', even tho i enjoy the song immensely. only for reason of it being in lost in translation and thus the new baby of adoring indie girls worldwide.

fuck biggie, pavement's got it cinched.

everyone forgets "to here knows when" was a single u_u

I think I'd pick "Only Shallow", personally

would like to see shook ones but i dunno if that's part of the Rap For Pitchfork Readers canon

"in the mouth a desert" gets my personal pavement pick (triple p)

god hope 'spit on a stranger' lands nowhere on the list

i wouldn't be surprised if "soon" is #1.

Perpetua breaks it down:

We had a nomination process in which we suggested songs and talked about what was important in a range of genres and categories which were determined in advance to keep things diverse. When it came to artists with many great songs, we worked toward consensus in narrowing it down to one to three iconic songs. A shortlist of something like 600 songs was established, and we each had to pick 100 for our ballot. After voting was complete, the editors chose to bring it down to one song per artist, which was done in the interest of covering more ground.

which was done in the interest of covering more ground

i wonder if perpetua gets voted off the island now that he's revealed the sinister inner workings of tristeropitchfork

I read that a bit ago and thought "600?" If we were doing this poll on ILM, we'd have 600 nominations in about an hour.

"in the mouth a desert" gets my personal pavement pick (triple p)

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the only pavement song I ever fawned over
everything else I've ever heard by them never packed a punch - nothing I ever wanted to own

We had a nomination process in which we suggested songs and talked about what was important in a range of genres and categories

= every shade of dance music imaginable and practically zero heavy metal

there was metal on the shortlist, i know that much.

a range is a range

good point

man, I hope "The Memory Remains" wins the poll

== every shade of dance music imaginable and practically zero heavy metal salsa music

I for one am bitterly disappointed in the lack of plena

oh here we go with this one

SOMEONE just got back from p.r. didn't they

yeah I have some bombass vids to upload to Facebook later

a range is a range life

we could settle down y'all

Top 50 predictions list (feel free to c/p and add. some might end up in the See Also)

Bjork
Beck
Cake
Talk Talk (The Ascension hasn't been mentioned yet has it?)
Radiohead
Built to Spill
My Bloody Valentine
Depeche Mode
Metallica (I know the were mentioned once in see also)
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
NiN
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots

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Red Hot Chili Peppers
U2
Coldplay
The Goo Goo Dolls

^^warning^^typos^^

Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots

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STP are already on the list iirc

ahhhh, I thought STP wouldnt get anything besides a see also

I had real trouble putting enough context in my blurbs b/c I just kinda blithely assumed on some level that "The Angels Fell" and "Beau Mot Plage" and "Love Stepping Out" were universally acknowledged classics that everyone already knew and loved. Of course that couldn't be further from the truth ;_;

I feel like my notion of "what mattered in the 90s" is actually much more cloistered within an ILM worldview than my sense of the 00s, oddly.

Alice In Chains "Would" was already on the list.

lol history mayne you just gave me the best lol <3

thkw? i was thinking only shallow, at least. i'd puke if they pulled up 'sometimes', even tho i enjoy the song immensely. only for reason of it being in lost in translation and thus the new baby of adoring indie girls worldwide.

Whatever... "Sometimes" is so sick. I would love to see it place.

Still, Kevin Shields did so much more than have a droning guitar overlay acoustic. Sometimes is the song that can get somebody from the "mainstream" into MBV, the rest of the discography is where the real genius lies.

And I make it sound like sometimes is the weakest song from mbv, fuck no, i love the song and it really has this aural nostalgia about it i love. i just think mbv has much more deserving songs than the one that is the most popular download off itunes (again, that would be "sometimes").