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"Ray of Light" as a See Also pick?

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I still don't remember, was there any Madonna at all??

hahahaha i'm not even bothered about this list so these ridiculous omissions are just funny to me. smh

Really this is just as hilarious as it was last night when I first saw the list. I mean, if you just took Pavement down from #1 and swapped their entry with Biggie (#14), Nirvana (#13), Bjork (#11), MBV (#6) or Wu-Tang (#5), I think the top 20 would make a hell of a lot more sense. Pavement deserves to be in the top 20. All of those other folks would make fantastic #1 picks. But really, "Gold Soundz" is #1 of the decade?? O_O

RIP polls

existence needs a hide polls option that we can turn on for as long as we need to

it's not surprising that Pavement is #1 on this list, and for Pitchfork, having Pavement there makes sense. although the song choice is, of course, debatable

mass debatable

Really and truly, though, I think U2 deserved an entry -- "One," "Mysterious Ways," "The Fly," "Stay (Faraway, So Close)," "Numb," "Staring at the Sun," "Please" -- all are light years better than anything Pavement ever did.

Was that Passengers album from 1990? If so, add "Your Blue Room" and "Miss Sarajevo" to the above list...

Are there really people out there who think Gold Soundz is the best pavement song?

has crooked rain ever been polled on ilx?

Really and truly, though, I think U2 deserved an entry -- "One," "Mysterious Ways," "The Fly," "Stay (Faraway, So Close)," "Numb," "Staring at the Sun," "Please" -- all are light years better than anything Pavement ever did.

don't like all of these u2 tracks but that effing glam rock batman one pisses over the whole pavement catalogue so... yeah basically

"Ultraviolet", "So Cruel"?

i am beginning to understand the "lol [insert nationality]" mindset ilm has devolved to over the last few years.

man I was sure the #1 spot belonged to me this time, wtf, had booked a table at le bernardin

First reaction: *smh*... ;)

Really though, I'm surprised that given the wealth of Mtn G0ats love in the last 10 years, Pfork didn't find any room in the 101-200 range for "Cubs in Five," "Going to Georgia," or something along those lines.

I've never heard anything by Pavement. I guess they don't make dance or rap or techno or any other type of good music?

stfu moron

they're rap

^^^

I'm listening to "Gold Soundz" now... It sounds kinda like Soul Asylum, but with less gift for melody. Weren't these kind of bands dime a dozen in the 90s? What makes this one so special?

I think it's really funny pavement is at #1 - it's like p4k was all "we've really changed guys, we're trying to cover a lot more bases and acknowledge a lot of music we know we haven't really covered before.... SYKE"

at which point they dump the bucket full of pig's blood onto carrie.

And what's with the "z"? Clearly they're not rap.

Tuomas to thread: "I wish you were many thousands of posts longer"

haha actually "Gold Soundz" vs. "Runaway Train" would have been a good poll too

"It sounds kinda like Soul Asylum, but with less gift for melody"

this would be A+ trolling if tuomas wasn't the kindly incontinent uncle everyone pats on the head of ilx trolls.

Tuomas to thread: "I wish you were many thousands of posts longer"

New board description.

haha actually "Gold Soundz" vs. "Runaway Train" would have been a good poll too

I can still hum "Runaway Train" even though it's been 15 years since I last heard it - I doubt "Gold Soundz" would have the same quality. Basically, when you sound like a million other rock bands and your lyrics are just a bunch of forgettable metaphors, catchy melodies are the only thing that make you stand out. At least Soul Asylum had that.

tuomas killin it itt

I can still hum "Runaway Train" even though it's been 15 years since I last heard it

I can still remember what it felt like when I was riding my skateboard on my belly and I ended up eating the curb, but I hope I never actually experience that again just like I hope I never hear "Runaway Train" again even though yeah I can still hum it

tuomas i can still sing every word to gold soundz whereas all i remember of soul asylum at this point is that dave pirner's dick drove winona ryder to shoplifting so ymmv.

I'm not trying troll here, I'm genuinely interested if there was some special quality that made this band stand out? Because I don't here any in this song, supposedly the #1 of the decade.

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There's no such thing as a #1 song of any decade. Polls apply an inappropriate model to reality so the estimates are always going to be off. Woah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blb-d0rSmg

this is by far the most fun of any of the threads related to this topic today

I was a lot happier before I knew that Runaway Train wasn't about an actual runaway train Tuommy you fucking monster

one thing i just remembered about runaway train is seeing the video for the first time on 120 minutes sandwiched between like the rollins band and ministry's "just one fix"

now there's the '90s for you

Frustrated, incorporated... | Yr Winona Ryders Rock

I'm genuinely interested if there was some special quality that made this band stand out?

yeah, there was - no one will be able to explain it to you - sorry :(

I was playing the above MMC video just now (JC's hat! The sad sclown!) and asked my wife if she knew who was singing. She said (not seeing the screen) "Bon Jovi?" I asked if she knew who the original artist was and she said, "Bon Jovi?"

women wanted to be with them, men wanted to be them

it' se-cret-cret-cret-cret

uh, it's

yeah, there was - no one will be able to explain it to you - sorry :(

― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, September 3, 2010 10:13 AM

one of those sad internet truths

"As of 2007, the album has sold almost 500,000 copies."

you know, i'm kinda surprised by this actually.

tuomas i can still sing every word to gold soundz whereas all i remember of soul asylum at this point is that dave pirner's dick drove winona ryder to shoplifting so ymmv.

http://www.wordcat.co.uk/articles/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/love4.jpg

"Gold Soundz" just seems like a compromised twist ending. I could actually imagine, like, "Nuthin But a G Thang" winning on a straight vote, and then the editors shuffling things around for branding or whatever.

It does suck to be so stoked about the majority of this list and then see Weezer > Nirvana. That's such a goofy move that it kinda taints the top 20 for me. I could see Nirvana as not #1, but 13??

Funny thing is I feel like "Summer Babe" would've been a satisfying/appropriate #1.

Common People beaten yet again to the Number 1 spot!

I think you could put the top 20 in any randomised order without changing the proportion of people who think it's good/bad.

Gold Soundz at #1 makes a kind of sense to me because it's so obviously not the #1 song of the 90s (or of Pavement's 90s or of that one album) it makes explicit that assigning that position to any song at all is just arbitrary and ridiculous.

Pavement's just not a superlative band, it's a poor choice. Nothing about them begs or can command canonization this absolute.