there ought to be one or more congressional hearings on the all-round lack of French pop but such is the world we live in I guess
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
im sure an 80s poll now would be different (ie have more new order songs)
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
any specific tracks?
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
I've just been informed that Pitchfork have done a list of the best songs of the '80s. I love the music of that decade and will defend a lot of it like crazy when I come across folks (and I still do, incredibly) who (wrongly) think that the '80s is the decade that taste forgot. However, I haven't read this list and I probably won't because it's Pitchfork and I don't give a fuck.
(See also: Pazz & Jop, Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone and various other things that mean absolutely nothing to me)
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
xp specific french pop tracks, that is
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, August 24, 2015 10:11 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh vienna
― da croupier, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
Man, you are an iconoclast, one who mocks institutions!
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
i feel like if you post on a thread on a subject it must mean something to you
― da croupier, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
Not that guy! He is a nihilist, one who believes in nothing.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
he loves 80s synth pop
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
ban all lists
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, August 24, 2015 2:59 PM (33 minutes ago)
agreed
― dyl, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
wait so is this list actually important enough for p4k's pageviews that they hosted a "launch party" for it or was that just an internet troll being funny
― dyl, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
pretty canonical thread: supreme 80's French pop/new wave videos
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
(for katherine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOkad9CkmEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSQ-6xU8mPA
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
why are the french so bad at music?
(only sorta kidding - I do like Rita Mitsuoko)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
I can't even understand that question
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
Pourquoi les français sont-ils si mauvais à la musique?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 August 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
Before taking anyone's opinions on this thread seriously I need to know what 10 songs they'd add to the list and ten they'd remove
Sorry thems the rules
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Monday, 24 August 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
guilty bleats have got no rhythm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 August 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
For the record, I nominated a Debarge song.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Good work.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
is Frankie Beverly & Maze "Back in Stride Again" on the list? I'm not clicking through the whole damn list but I'm assuming love will tear us apart is in there somewhere. throw that one off and put "back in stride again" on instead
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
"oh vienna"
which reminds me, where is "vienna calling"?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 00:47 (eight years ago) link
officially robbed by pitchfork:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXZanbZ6PWs
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
remove: david bowie's "let's dance"michael jackson, "human nature"janet jackson's "love will never do without you" (it was released as a single in the fall of '90 so come on)new order, "ceremony"tears for fears - whichever the fork doesn't mind reducing to an honorable mentionthe cure, "pictures of you" the clash, "the magnificent seven"prince, "i would die 4 u"the pixies, "where is my mind?"de la soul, "eye know"
replace with: george michael, "one more try"go-go's "vacation"the psychedelic furs "pretty in pink"bauhaus, "kick in the eye"def leppard, "photograph"terence trent d'arby, "wishing well"van halen, "jump"don henley, "boys of summer"mudhoney, "touch me i'm sick"bobby brown "every little step"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link
and that's like, diplomatic suggestions to allow for more diverse in artists. i could also suggest one less new order spot to acknowledge hayzee fantayzee
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
otm
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
janet jackson's "love will never do without you" (it was released as a single in the fall of '90 so come on
this bugged the hell out of me. if this qualified where is escapade
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
lol Maze and Rene & Angela are part of that unfortunate breed of huge-on-R&B-radio artists who don't mean shit to anyone else unless you seek them out (A Street Named Desire one of my favorite '80s albums though).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
tbf the list is called songs and not singles.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
Including a Don Henley song would require, I don't know, more liberal definitions of what's acceptable in the Pitchfork mind. Michael McDonald gets cool points because he appears on Holy Ghost! tracks.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
Don was in the pitchfork 500
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:07 (eight years ago) link
Also, the MMcD song chosen is far more famous to 90s kids as the basis for Regulate.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzX8lpXXdEI
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
I've spent so much time going back and forth with people in the comments at Slicing Up Eyeballs all day I forgot to see what people on Pitchfork's own fb page had to say. hoo boy
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
would add:debarge: i like itrene and angela: i'll be goodthe blue nile: the downtown lightschaka khan: cloudsscritti politti: perfect wayteena marie: square bizdonald fagen: igyimagination: music and lightsthe jets: crush on you anita baker: sweet love
this was off the top of my head so it's probably missing amazingly crucial stuff
idk i'd probably remove all the sonic youth, pixies, joy division, and cure songs, and at least one new order single
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
I try to avoid the comments there, it's a cluster.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link
I nominated "Pick Me Up Before You Go Go," but I realize that's not a consensus pick.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah see i now want to replace something on my list with "you dropped a bomb on me"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
anyway of all those "square biz" would've looked great on the pfork list imo
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link
Would add:
Swing Out Sister - BreakoutRene & Angela - I'll Be GoodRick James - Coldblooded Dazz Band - Let It WhipFrank Beverley & Maze - Too Many GamesStevie Nicks - Stand BackLevel 42 - Something About YouEnglish Beat - Save It For LaterPeter Gabriel - Games Without FrontiersSteve Arrington - Dancin' in the Key of Life
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah fuckin let it whip
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:21 (eight years ago) link
English Beat - Save It For Later
Next to Relax, this was the single most glaring omission imo. Lots of songs in the list are interchangeable with others, but that's one that needed to be there.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:21 (eight years ago) link
i have no idea what is on or not on the list, but would add "since yesterday" by strawberry switchblade and remove, ummmm.... motorhead?
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:23 (eight years ago) link
if it is already on the list, add it anyway so it is listed twice
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
japan "ghosts" also
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
killer adds Brad, esp. Anita Baker - her first two albums played a big part in my life in the mid-80s
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
a sentimental favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttR9Hek6MyA
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
is "I Feel For You" on the list though? I can really get properly enraged if that's not high on the list
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link