Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

i kinda feel like when doing lists like this, where you know a key singles artist of the era like Missy is going to be represented more than once, you still have to be selective and include only their very best. i don't think that song's among her very best by a long shot.

ILM disagrees with you!

This Is Not A Poll!: The Missy Elliott Singles Poll.

I mean, as soon as any song leaks--even something as benign as Das Racist--blogs fight to stake claim to the "best" remix

it's meme economy tactics

and i'm not singling out pfork. everyone does this now.

x(...)post

Also, according to my knowledge + Wikipedia, "Handshake Drugs" was never formally released as a single. Guessing that doesn't matter so much here.

i'm glad they used the lego sleeve for the B&S song

I really love how you can stream all the embedded songs. "Fake Palindromes!" Yes 2005!

spotify playlist: http://bit.ly/vSElp

@kshighway: It's probably my favorite song on A Ghost Is Born, fwiw. (Although I did listen to "At Least That's What You Said" the other day because of you -- I'd forgotten how good the guitar solo is.)

Handshake Drugs is my favourite Wilco song period (well, IATTBYH and Poor Places give it a good run) and I'm glad it's here.

@jaymc: "Handshake Drugs" is such a good song!

And that's so awesome that you re-listened to ALTWYS and liked the guitar solo. It's one of my favorite songs, ever.

seriously I will smack you guys if you keep doing tweet-style referencing of each other

It's THE NOW, man.

HAHAHA. @HI DERE: Will comply, sir!

I guess including the album version of Handshake Drugs means the live version on the Kicking Television album won't be on the list. That's a shame, because it's a very different song in that live performance. Both versions are good.

Daniel, I had come to accept your italicizing of song titles as a personal affectation, but I hadn't realized that you put album titles in roman. I just don't know about that.

haha a couple months ago i saw someone on ilx do a twitter-style reply to someone and was like "please god no please don't let this become standard"

I try to be consistent with formatting, but I often forget how I'd done it before and default to whatever I think looks right at the moment. It's one of my many -- many, many -- failings. (xp).

Heh, no big deal, I'm a copy editor, so I probably notice these things more than most.

u gais are sooo cute :)

lol

I like a lot of the things on this list and am intrugied by many of the things I've not heard = it's going to be better than most end of decade lists I'll see. People seem to just be complaining for the sake of complaining.

ILM disagrees with you!

This Is Not A Poll!: The Missy Elliott Singles Poll.

― it's like i have a couple worked up vadges under my arms (HI DERE), Monday, August 17, 2009 12:20 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't understand how a poll where "Pass That Dutch" got one vote contradicts my view that it's not her best wrok

failed mainstreaming of indie music imo

476. Ward 21
"Petrol"

nice

222. Three 6 Mafia
"Sippin' on Some Syrup"
[Loud/Relativity; 2000]

this is way way way too low

219. Lil Mama
"Lip Gloss"
[Zomba; 2007]

i mean i liked this song but three ahead of 'sippin'??

thank god it was not four

not to be all "placements don't matter w/ any big list" but i think you're better off not really paying attention to those numbers and just asking whether something is on the list at all or not.

So, a surprising amount of stuff I like in the top 300, and a surprising amount of stuff I have never and hopefully will never hear. A few notes:

- J0hn D., "Death Metal Band.." got #230 !!! that and "No Children" were the first of your songs i ever heard. i still sing both in the shower all the time.

- ugh, the fact that they picked something from We Are Monster, and "Schrapnell" at that, is incredibly disappointing. Western Store and Rest are about a million times better as albums.

- lol at two Villalobos drops in the top 300.

- WHY ARE THERE NO TRACKS BY LOW? if they don't put something from Things We Lost in the Fire or Trust in the top 200, i will be totally shocked and disappointed.

yeah let's not do any "NO TRACKS BY ____" posts until the whole thing is up

sorry. i just was slightly shocked.

WHY ARE THERE NO TRACKS BY LOW?
Because the list is aesthetically retarded so far.

"- ugh, the fact that they picked something from We Are Monster, and "Schrapnell" at that, is incredibly disappointing. Western Store and Rest are about a million times better as albums."

... this is not a list of albums...?

yeah let's not do any "NO TRACKS BY ____" posts until the whole thing is up

― some dude, Monday, August 17, 2009 2:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

deej, i know. but if i'm right, there won't be another Isolee track on the list. and if any track should be on it, i would say "I Owe You" or "Lost".

Well, sure, I'm going to glance with interest at the ballots of writers I know and like. But the iTunes playlist I make will be Pitchfork's Best of the 2000s, not nabisco.'s Best of the 2000s.

― jaymc,

jaymc is making a playlist about pitchfork's best of the 2000s.

who isn't!

No Nate Dogg, no credibility.

Yeah, I have playlists for Pitchfork's top songs for every year since 2004, Stylus's top songs from 2003 to 2007, Stylus's top 50 of 2000-04, the Pitchfork 500, etc. (Not all are completely filled out, but I usually make an attempt to download the stuff I don't have.)

No Nate Dogg, no credibility.

tbh i will cry foul if there's no "The Next Episode" or "Can't Deny It"

I also made Stylus playlists. Makes me really sad they're gone. They should try and reunite the staff for a non paid one time only end of the decade feature.

306. Dr. Dre [ft. Kurupt, Snoop Dogg, and Nate Dogg]
"The Next Episode"
[Aftermath/Interscope; 2000]

That'll teach me to actually look at p4k. Or not.

my bad, saw that earlier but forgot it

I just happened to be reading the list as you started complaining about lack of nate dogg. don't really care that much either way. it's a good list, i can't name a solo nate dogg single, not really deserving a giant bloody thread imo but it's pitchfork and some folks gotta get annoyed at what other folks on the same message board they talk to about music every day make a list about.

most people can't name a solo nate dogg single, that's not what he's known for

I also made Stylus playlists. Makes me really sad they're gone. They should try and reunite the staff for a non paid one time only end of the decade feature.

Careful what you wish for.

nate dogg is a feeling

thanking u