Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

I thought ILM hated Pitchfork.

But I am sure Pitchfork will do the opposite you see on this thread. Just to piss ILM off. And then things go full circle

Uhhhh... like half of ILM writes for Pitchfork.

"And I will stir up ILXor against ILXor, brother will troll brother..."

i'm a BIG fan of kshighway! keep doing what you are doing as i'm doing just fine with my love of indie music on ILM.

this might be the first post i made on this thing called ILM:

slowdive: classic or dud?#

I’m still brand new but wanted to chime in, though I find it strange that you guys have all these classic or duds posts.

I would say classic but happen to really like a lot of stuff that came out around that time and would not put dud next to many bands except something like Curve. I also think its silly to compare Slowdive to Mojave 3 because they are very different bands. Mojave 3 are often overlooked because of the former but I think they are also really good. The best M3 album, IMO, happens to be Out Of Tune with the glorious “This Road I’m Travelling.” I will agree that Rachel’s album is just kind of there because I never listen to it. Neil’s album, on the other hand, is quite good though it does have a few fillers. I even think I listened to it more than the last M3 album. I was on slsk last week and Neil Halstead happened to be hanging out in one of the rooms. I joined the room after he was already chatting and was wondering why everyone was acting so strange. He was having computer problems and left. So I was writing about this on a music message board I usually post at, than low and behold he came back. He was saying that he is going to have a new solo album come out in February. I tried to say hi but his computer was having problems and I never got a word in edge wise.

Moose are brilliant and will have to disagree with most of you on this thread again. The reason I say that is because they became better once they put away their petals, though I love that stuff as well. Moose turned into one of the best bands of the 1990’s once they mellowed out.

-Bee

― BeeOK (BeeOK), Friday, November 26, 2004 8:37 PM (4 years ago)

Thanks, Bee OK, for the encouragement and for sharing your first post!

So they've put up 500 - 201 of the tracks list and they don't have commentary. Makes you wonder why they didn't just do a top 200 instead.

srsly stop this "aughts" nonsense

Wow. I thought that having the song samples right next to the list could have been cool, but then I have to "sign up to activate the music player"? No thanks.

even worse, i actually tried to sign up: "only available in the US" well f u then

The 500 song list seems a bit pointless. For a start it's too many songs for a "list", and the choices have obviously come from a huge range of people with totally different tastes. So there's no sense whatsoever of reasoning or unity... Is Yellow by Coldplay really better than Carry Me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon? They may as well have just picked 500 random songs. Yo.

yo?

Just thought I'd add a Yo, it was all getting a bit serious back there.

appreciate it

back there, 5 minutes ago, in a post

Callin' out by real names.

the choices have obviously come from a huge range of people with totally different tastes.

this is a really good thing tho

lots of great songs in 300-201. toss the first four pages.

Really? I kind of felt like it declined in quality as it went along, though I like it all so far.

The parlor game here is to figure out who gave each of the non-blurbed tracks their one nomination.

good luck with that?

OK it's really more like "which of my friends picked the tracks I actually like?"

though I really do hope we get to see individual contributors' lists at the end of this; they're always more interesting.

The 500 song list seems a bit pointless. For a start it's too many songs for a "list", and the choices have obviously come from a huge range of people with totally different tastes. So there's no sense whatsoever of reasoning or unity...

Maybe, but I don't see the problem. I mean, it isn't as though including Track Nos. 500 -- 201 somehow adversely impacted the selection of the Top 200 Tracks. And seeing the rest of the list identified songs I had overlooked, some of which I'll sample and maybe love.

Is Yellow by Coldplay really better than Carry Me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon?

NO.

god, what a boring decade.

Is Yellow by Coldplay really better than Carry Me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon?

Actually, yes it is.

Anyone want to venture a guess at which songs will make the top ten?

though I really do hope we get to see individual contributors' lists at the end of this; they're always more interesting.

― Matos W.K., Monday, August 17, 2009 10:11 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

HAPPY FOURTH TIME SOMEONE'S SAID THAT IN THIS THREAD!!!!

http://pages.prodigy.net/rallenmiller/balloons.jpg

Immediate thoughts:

Battles - Atlas
Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
JT - My Love

xpost

I can't believe how bored this list made me.

Top 10 will include:

Hey Ya
Paper Planes

Something from Ys, and something from Kid A...

If Paper Planes makes the top 10 then good lord I'll be speechless with indignation

Haagan-Dazs is better than Ys.

I can't believe how bored this list made me.

lol I was just thinking how good a decade it's been for music. De gustibus non est disputandum.

You guys can complain all day, but the list has Baby's "What Happened To That Boy" in my head all morning, so I have no problem with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6rC1krGp0

PR-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R

guys this list is SO BORING that billstevejim might actually post a THIRD TIME about it

I enjoyed lots of music this decade, but only a small percentage of it was represented between 500 and 201 on this thing.

The lala clips are significantly slowing down my computer and I can't even listen to them.

tbh i just care about individual writers' lists

these boring lala clips on this page that i keep refreshing are so boring that i'm vacillating between my rabid desire to hear them and comment and how bored I am

― billstevejim, Monday, August 17, 2009 10:58 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

only a small percentage of the music i like is ever represented on a list made by someone else. i'd have to make the list for it to have all stuff i like.

I'm happy "Uzi" made the cut.

I'm sorry that my boredom offends you.

this thread is already depressing and is going to get worse but i just can't look away.

Awww, Whiney's on a "tear" again.

will whiney have his list posted on the individual writers' lists?

gah i'm not doing very well with this joke guys

maybe whiney can just start a thread about his 500 favorite songs of the decade and we'll see who it bores.

should only be allowed if he does it in his twitter style imo

TRUE CONFESSIONS:

I actually really want to be listening to some of these P2k Lala tracks that I didn't hear/don't remember, but I'm so far behind on my Twitter project that I have to listen to Fabolous and Thrice instead today
#zerothworldproblems

That list has some good stuff on it. Especially delighted by that Twilight Sad song...it's incendiary and more people need to hear it.

Fabolous just said, "I'm not that pregnant white girl but Ju-know" #fuckmylife