they still really love that jaime xx album, huh
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
kinda takes the suspense away from their Best Songs of 2019 list, doesn't it? maybe that doesn't matter, idk.
― alpine static, Monday, 7 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
reminded of that "angry yawns" gag from simpsons.
the death of lists can't come soon enough. what an asbolute bore.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
would be curious to see how many of these have less than 1 million streams on spotify
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
garbage decade
― billstevejim, Monday, 7 October 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
No way Visions doesn't make top 5 albums
Glad to see Girlpool in there even if it's in the low 100s
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
xp Nah, just garbage list
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
you're right. the scope represented here feels so narrow and unexciting and predictable. i love many of these songs, but the landscape of 2010s music did not feel like this to me at all.
― billstevejim, Monday, 7 October 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
I know whining about specific artists on a best of list is unproductive etc but the Jessie Ware shutout is a bit shocking
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
the scope represented here feels so narrow and unexciting and predictable.
Grimes embodies this for me. Completely uninteresting music elevated to canonical for some reason
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
while it is dumbshit as hell that Alfred and Brad weren't polled, I have a hard time seeing any significant broad oversights here. obviously this list isn't going to include much pop-country, metal or jazz but hopefully after 20+ years or whatever people have made their peace with that.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
They shutout several artists that were hyped on their eoy lists like Janelle Monae, Sufjan Stevens, Julia Holter, Carseat Headrest, War on Drugs, Pusha T, Earl Sweatshirt, Run the Jewels, Death Grips...
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
expect to see them on albums list
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
i guess they could have limited it to one song (or two) per artist? idk, it's just funny to me how predictable and knee-jerk these takes are, if I didn't look at the list itself I would've thought the top 5 was like Radiohead, Deerhunter, Japandroids, Arcade Fire, and Bon Iver.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
the deerhunter song on that list is like the best thing on it lol
― imago, Monday, 7 October 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
they had to make room for 7 drake tracks somehow
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
a former staff member did remark on Twitter that seeing "Chinatown" and a Charli XCX track from this year showed how far the site has evolved.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 October 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Latin/Spanish: 3Dancehall: 2 (3 if I’d include “Good Times” because of Popcaan, but I won’t)Afropop: 1K-pop: 03% of the 2010s, checks out.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 7 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
197. Icona Pop: “I Love It” [ft. Charli XCX] (2012)
so there were 196 songs better than this released in the last 10 years? ok lol
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
this list is simultaneously too poptimist and not poptimist enough
yep
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
A lot of the song choices feel very "Let's look at what we voted for in past lists/tagged with 'Best New Track' for ideas of what to vote for", but with placements that are a bit more reflective of current opinions.
― MarkoP, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
"imagine it was us" was in my top 10 for what it's worth (very little, but)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
179. Rich Kidz: “My Life” [ft. Waka Flocka Flame] (2012)
one of the great goon thread classics
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili)
he was the best singles artist of the decade...
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
poptimism can fuck off.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
157. Waka Flocka Flame: “Hard in da Paint” (2010)
so u tryna tell me there were 156 better songs released this decade?? 😂 😂
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, October 7, 2019 1:09 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it’s good actually
as someone said the gen of writers who wrote this list grew up reading pitchfork and it shows
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
sorry but ‘alright’ is a terrible number 1
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, October 7, 2019 12:08 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
he was definitely the most popular
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
81. Cass McCombs: “County Line” (2011)
this should be top 5. consequences of Alfred getting disenfranchised
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
re: 'alright' @ #1 — seems like it was a collective / representative pick. saw it coming. list is boring as fuck.
whoever said "fuck canonization" last week was absolutely right.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
LOL @ including CRJ but not “call me maybe.” pop cultural amnesia!
― blows with the wind donors (crüt), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
xp crut- ya that’s a perfect distillation of the middlebrow poptimist sensibility that occupies 2/3 of this list
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
feels like it was chosen to write a corny blurb about
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Barring @ the earnest political millenialism in some of the write ups
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
33. LCD Soundsystem: “Dance Yrself Clean” (2010)
🤮
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
*Barfing
i mean, it's certainly kl's most well-known tune. it does feel very disingenuous at the #1 spot.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
does it? i mean people were literally chanting the chorus at BLM rallies. it's not my favorite kendrick song by a long shot, but it definitely had an impact. and like people have said, they're canonizing, they're not picking favorites. i personally think that's a crappy way to make a list, but it totally makes sense as number one with the framework they're working with.
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
"Alright" peaked at #81 on the Hot 100 and #20 on the rap chart. "Humble" actually went to #1 and is by far his biggest chart hit.
― jaymc, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
― flopson, Monday, October 7, 2019 1:20 PM
lol besos
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
You know, it's tough to narrow an entire decade's worth of music into a list of 200 songs, so it feels silly to complain about some artists or songs getting shut out.
but there is absolutely ZERO excuses for not including Grimes' realiti demo
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
did anyone read this? i might need to have my eyes surgically re-rolled back into proper position after reading, but it does explain a lot.
https://pitchfork.com/news/a-note-from-pitchfork-editor-in-chief-puja-patel-about-our-2010s-project/
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
What does it explain?
― jaymc, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
"Runaway with Me" is a better CRJ song.
"Call Me Maybe" just sounds like a Marianas Trench leftover.
― MarkoP, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
it explains why the list looks like it was focus-grouped to oblivion--cause it was!
xp
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
I mean, I guess I don't expect anything different from Pitchfork. (I also don't see it as an inherent problem.)
― jaymc, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
poptimism can fuck off.― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, October 7, 2019 5:09 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, October 7, 2019 5:09 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
When poptimism bubbles up actually cool pop songs it's great, but it has come to just mean "liking pop" which like, take that shit to TigerBeat you fucks. There is not a single Stephen Malkmus song up in this bitch.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 7 October 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link