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It is a great chorus.

sigh ilxor at the easy bait - jeff's a friend & the way people got all creepy let's-freak-a-dude-out worshipful is one of the saddest stories in all indieland

I don't "get" the worship/acclaim myself, really. On Avery Island is a great little fuzz-pop album but I think he went downhill with the over-earnest schtick on Aeroplane. I mean, it's a competent record, but...

Allmusic used to rate Aeroplane ** and Avery Island ***** but they've gone back and changed the ratings. The poor review of Aeroplane is still up though. It's pretty funny.

That Robyn song does have a great chorus, but it's not as good as the Robin S song of the same name AND it's not as good as any of Robyn's subsequent singles.

i'm confused, why is robyn's "show me love" being discussed now

"do you know what it takes" was deffo the better one imo...

anyway i was happy to see "fade into you" on their list thing but overall many of the choices confused me

even the review they gave for "gold soundz" for #1 is really bad (it's easily the least convincing description for the whole top 20 and it's #1!). They're just like, oh it's not particularly definitive for the 90s but it's pretty light and enjoyable, so yeah.

w/r/t the pop on the list: it's ridiculous there's no "...baby one more time"/"vogue"/"i want it that way"/"wannabe" present. i swear ...BOMT in particular had a huge amount of critical cred 10 yrs ago.

Madonna missing is weird, yeah, but Britney/Backstreet missing isn't weird at all; this IS still a Pitchfork list!

well they were all over "toxic" back in 2004.

lol at Pavement taking #1...

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

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, September 3, 2010 7:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

i think it's kind of charming. it's like pitchfork saying, "lol, no really, we're still pitchfork!" cute. maybe even read it as a bit tongue-in-cheek. a good look.

have we actually established that this was a manipulated outcome or are people reading a lot into this being the most liked ditty that made the shortlist?

well they were all over "toxic" back in 2004.

Britney in 2004 is not the same thing as Britney in 1999

Pavement was really the only band that could've topped the list--Nirvana's too obvious, My Bloody Valentine's too rote, Pulp's too British, Weezer too awful, and everything else too not rock.

They just picked the wrong song, is all.

Also, where Gold Soundz *really* fails as a number 1 choice, is when you hold it up to B.O.B. and God Only Knows--p4k's picks as the best songs of the 00's and 60's, respectively.

^^^
otm.

I would have also really liked to see a Ben Folds Five song make the list. I know it was like 15 years ago, but I'm pretty sure p4k gave the s/t a 9.6 when it first came out (because it was good, and still is). I know Ben Folds has travelled a similar path as Rivers Cuomo into truly embarrassing territories, but "Boxing" would've been a good pick for the 200-150 range.

that's a great point, the first two ben folds records walk a ton of shit that made the list

britney 1999 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> britney 2004 SORRY I HAD 2 SAY IT

i mean, clearly

IM SORRY BUT "I ONLY SAID" BY MY BLOODY VALENTINE IS THE GREATEST SONG OF THE DECADE IM SORRY BUT I HAD TO SAY IT WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS IM ANNOYING

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha suckas!

super proud to be from Baltimore!-

the hype master

― hype master, Sunday, May 19, 2002 7:00 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

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= 999

Yeah, "1979" is definitely the Pumpkins song that non-Pumpkins fans like. I owned Siamese Dream like most white Midwestern 14-year-olds at the time, but I'd probably go with "1979," too, for the same reason I'd go with "Lost in the Supermarket" over anything else on London Calling.

― jaymc

I'm actually curious about this one. 'Lost in the supermarket' is also my favorite Clash song but I didn't quite understood the comparison in here.

Dinosaur Jr "Start Choppin'" over "Freak Scene"

"Freak Scene" was '88.

what is the deal with the swedish fish

what is the deal with the polish dish

what is the deal with police on my back by the clash

seriously though this fish thing they're doin

seriously though what are you even talking about

the swedish fish kkvgz don't act like you don't know

kiddin but click through any review today, like the philip jeck one:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14724-an-ark-for-the-listener/

now look up to the right & at the masthead what do u see

http://ds.serving-sys.com/BurstingRes///Site-501/Type-0/6b0590f4-c5d8-4adf-b511-9468d3ea1078.gif

and to the right another little swedish fish fella all cute and gummy

the swedish fish have also been in magazines and stuff too

its the kind of viral campaign that makes you think there's more to it, but there actually isn't

oh ok

it's just an ad for swedish fish

I like that it doesn't link to anything though - it's a very old-fashioned ad, just an image

underrated aerosmith, you have been paid by fishpork to get us to refresh the philip jeck review 100 times in hopes of seeing candy

Maybe its something to do with this? http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/biebers_backstage_demands_swed.html

These aren't appearing for me... must be a US only thing? No Bigfoots either.

pitchbork

http://teamaltman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Muppets-Popcorn.jpg

fishfork

why does the roc marciano album get a 8.1 but not a bnm?

That swedish fish is just a red herring imo.

i don't see any fish

well the image I posted is an "open image in new tab" from the pitchfork site - there's three parts of one fish that are just stored images, not live links, and they occur on pages on the site today - I read two reviews & a news story and saw fish twice

hipsters luv candy

it's one thing that makes hipsters unique, everybody else is like "fuck candy"

NickB killin it

it's hard when someone's talking about animals you don't see and all you can do is tilt your head and curse the horrors of DTs
(no fish here)

starting a band called fuck candy right now

Fuck Chocolate Buttons

http://bit.ly/cGijp7

"Hear the New Bright Eyes Album Now"

no thanks