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Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Coldplay
The Goo Goo Dolls

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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").

Good to see George Michael get a bit of respect, you tell em Pitchfork. Freedom 90 is easy one of the best singles of that decade.

the CEO of pitchfork just told me the top 5 5. hey jealousy 4. summer girls 3. good vibrations 2. little black backpack 1. windowlicker

Well certainly "Windowlicker" would be a shock #1 but I think we're all expecting "Little Black Backpack" to be waaaaaayy up there.

windowlicker is hardly THE VERY BEST SONG of the 90's. maybe in the top 50. but for fucks sake.

and there is your Oasis.

wtf Enjoy The Silence is really not gonna make the cut? Really?

rollie pimperton was hating on 'check the rhime' in hipinion ... idg that its totally a classic & perfect representation of what they did well

I'm no Smashing Pumpkins die hard in the first place, but if you're only going to represent their spot in the '90s with one song, WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE "1979"?!

it's what i would choose

It's their most beloved song, and it's awesome.

ok, whatever dudes.

I mean, not considering some of the garbage Corgan has recorded under that name recently, "1979" is probably the most atypical unrepresentative S.P. song there is. I don't hate it, but it's an anomaly.

yeah, no

song kicks ass also. and gets votes from ppl like me who arent about to put 'cherub rock' above adina howard

rollie pimperton was hating on 'check the rhime' in hipinion ... idg that its totally a classic & perfect representation of what they did well
--the embrace of waka flocka is v pertinent (deej)

It's basically the big atcq song with no gimmicks--can i kick it had Lou reed, segundo had a story, Bonita had the luv angle, scenario had busta, award tour had de la, sucka n---- had politics... This was just Tribe doin Tribe. If it was their best song is up for debate (it's maybe their fifth best IMO) but it's certainly a simple capturing of what they do best

Also 1979 was a piece of terrible shit even in like 1996 when I was a fucking smashing pumpkins fan

buggin' out

My friend used to sing 1979 as

"ner ner nernerner TUNA FISH"

1979 is a jam, no doubt, but also bullet w butterfly wangs

Electric Relaxation

Both accurate re: atcq but rime was a bigger hit

electric relaxation is the only one fuckin w/ check the rhime but the latter def better captured the vibe better & the chorus was discernable

I would have went "scenario" tbh

^^^ plus yeah

I kinda love that Electric Relaxation has no discernible chorus..

There really isn't any reason to deny the awesomeness of scenario for real

i agree re: electric relaxation i mean its a goofy fun track for that reason but it also disqualifies it as coolest tribe track to me for some reason
scenario is awesome. but idk, for a one-track-per-artist list i totally get why it wd get a pass

btw was just watching 'the hip hop shop' ad on fuse @ my girls place & rakim says he likes drake. :-/ to end all :-/

check the rhime has my all-time fave tip verse "if knowledge is the key then just show me the lock"

it's basically impossible to pick just one best tribe song, all of the 7 or 8 top contenders are unimpeachable

really enjoying this list/writing/youtube searches, would bit-torr3nt these 200 songs

it's a damn good list, but i'm wondering what the big deal is. seems pitchfork-ish, though slightly more tilted towards dance/pop/rap/r&b inclusiveness than one might expect. but not enough to seem like a radical about-face in terms of editorial taste or anything.

what's the big deal about anything really

I never noticed before but they're right: 'Autumn Sweater' is an amazing makeout song.

do tell

The real gem for me in the whole Smashing Pumpkings catalogue is 1979's b-side 'set the ray to jerry'.

deej, the one guest rapper on rakim's last album was.......maino :-/

picking Check the Rhime = :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

wish they included emusic/insound links for these songs (or at least identify the album on which each song appears). tracking down the correct album can be a chore.

deej, the one guest rapper on rakim's last album was.......maino :-/

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thats not that bad really, i mean, at least no one is celebrating that dude for saving rap.

"Car" really changed the world forever, didn't it. "Kicked it in the Sun" #1?