Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

Roscoe already on the list somewhere.

If Trapped In The Closet makes it, I will be incredibly bloody happy.

Is Madvillain on the list already? I'd like to see something from them.

America's Most Blunted was in there somewhere

Here's the 24 I figured would have a chance (positions on previous Pitchfork lists in parens):

Kanye West – Through the Wire (#89, 2000-04)
Kanye West – Gold Digger (#25, 2005)
The Walkmen – The Rat (#6, 2004; #33, 2000-04)
Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On (#4, 2000-04)
Interpol – PDA (“Interpol EP” #32, 2000-04)
OutKast – B.O.B. (#1, 2000-04)
OutKast – Hey Ya (#1, 2003; #2, 2000-04)
Daft Punk – One More Time (#27, 2000-04)
Jay-Z – 99 Problems (#2, 2004; #22, 2000-04)
The Strokes – Last Nite (--)
Annie – Heartbeat (#1, 2004; #6, 2000-04)
The Knife – Heartbeats (--)
Beyonce – Crazy in Love (#2, 2003; #7, 2000-04)
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (#36, 2005)
Hercules and Love Affair – Blind (#1, 2008)
M.I.A. – Paper Planes (#4, 2007)
Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers (#4, 2003; #9, 2000-04)
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge (#3, 2000-04)
LCD Soundsystem – Yeah (#5, 2004; #19, 2000-04)
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends (#1, 2007)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps (#28, 2003; #10, 2000-04)
R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix) (#15, 2003; #12, 2000-04)
Nelly – Hot in Herre (#34, 2000-04)
Eminem – Stan (#58, 2000-04)

There are a couple of those that I wouldn't have predicted would be top 20 songs, but if they don't make the top 20, then I'll be surprised that they didn't make the top 500 at all.

Oh yeah and the entry for "Someday" says it's the highest Strokes song on the list so no Hard to Explain or Last Nite.

Ah, didn't see that. All right, scratch that. Three more to go.

That's a pretty pop/hip-hop heavy top 20 for an indie-focused music site.

I'm actually not complaining about that list. A lot of good songs on it.

Would love to see Annie's song in the top 5, but it's not gonna happen.

Has Animal Collective's My Girls made the list yet? If not, look for that one, I'd say.

I'd bet you'll lose "Yeah," "PDA," Eminem and Nelly at least. I wouldn't be surprised if "One More Time" didn't make the cut either. I'd bet they'll sneak in Portishead's "Machine Gun" and I wouldn't be surprised if Animal Collective's "My Girls" made it, too (though I'm holding out hope for "Happy House" by The Juan MacLean).

I really wish the first installment of We Are the World (as referenced here: Ryan Pitchfork crawls out of his indie cave) were archived on the Wayback Machine.

i thought p4k writers would be a little too self conscious to actually vote for my girls

Self-conscious in what sense?

I wouldn't be surprised if "One More Time" didn't make the cut either

you wouldn't be surprised if 'one more time' somehow didn't make it into their top 500 songs???

http://web.archive.org/web/20031206165508/http://pitchforkmedia.com/wearetheworld/

xp to jaymc

And how about a song from Twin Cinema? Maybe The Bleeding Heart Show or Sing Me Spanish Techno.

i just mean like, pre-empting the obvious canon building kneejerks

yeah no way is "Hot In Herre" gonna be up there

It's interesting to see which songs from 2009 have been considered great enough to make the list:

115 Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
162 Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
206 Bat For Lashes – Daniel
228 Phoenix – 1901
334 Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
345 Antony & The Johnsons – Aeon
357 Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
372 Camera Obscura – French Navy
374 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction
401 The Walkmen – In The New Year
475 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers – Day ‘N Night (remix)
492 St. Vincent – Strangers
497 Woods – Rain On
500 The Big Pink - Velvet

Kind of an odd list. I imagine that there are newer songs that would be included if there were more time for them to sink in.

Yeah, given that list, something from MPP's got to be in the top 20.

My Girls?

That's my guess.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031206165508/http://pitchforkmedia.com/wearetheworld/

xp to jaymc

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That's not the first installment. The first installment had Ryan Schreiber presenting an 80-minute mix of pop and hip-hop songs to the Pitchfork readership, to ease them into the idea that the site would gradually start to cover that stuff. I dunno, I just think it'd be funny to look at in retrospect.

There are going to be some left field choices, otherwise what's the point of doing something like this. Obvious songs like Bombs Over Baghdad, Hey Ya, Crazy and Paper Planes will still be in there, but some will most likely get left out, too.

Since it's pitchfork, there has to be at least 1 animal collective and 1 radiohead in top 20. My Girls and Idioteque, I bet.

Another dark horse: Wilco, Heavy Metal Drummer

ohok, sorry

my top 20 guess:

99 problems
lcd - yeah
the rat
rehab
happy house
all my friends
summertime clothes
ignition remix
paper planes
annie - heartbeat
house of jealous lovers
maps
crazy in love
hey ya
bob
idioteque
crazy
get ur freak on
blind
losing my edge/beat connection

THe first installment of the We Are The World thing is under Inauguration in the bottom left of the sidebar.

Nice, thanks!

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alan sparhawk is the most punk

oof i forgot all about 'we are the world'

p4k also seem to be really into mentioning how junior senior are "gay/straight," its like this bizarre moment where people of different sexuality collaborate. Weird how grizzly bear aren't gay/straight or um, REM or Husker Du

Well if y'all assuming lcd soundsystem will end up with 2 songs in the top 20 I might as well throw in I expect to see both 'idioteque' and 'the national anthem' in there too.

to be fair, "I'm gay / he's straight" is genuinely part of Junior Senior's, like, schtick

(I don't mean "schtick" in a negative way)

Dark horse choices (unless they were already on the list and I missed them):

• Something from Destroyer's Rubies. I guess the title track is the showpiece, but I'd say Watercolors Into The Ocean
• The Knife, We Share Our Mother's Health. This normally wouldn't be such an unlikely choice, but since Silent Shout's already on the list . . .
• The Notwist, Pilot
• Something from Four Tet's Rounds album

Also, I'd love to see Studio on the list, but I'm not hopeful.

xp, really? around the time of "everybody" it was just 8bit graphics iirc, might be my persp tho

Oh, wait! Has Iron & Wine made the list? Maybe them, and rightly so!

this thread is still going on. without discussing the interesting stuff like albums capturing spirits of decades and stuff. never mind. go on. i'll try to abstain.

Sorry dood, I don't think you're going to get your wish on any of those. There are too many straight-up classics among the list I posted to be edged out by "something by Iron & Wine." I am starting to think that "My Girls" has a shot, though.

xpost - I seem to remember various lyrics on the first JS record that were kinda like "hey ladies, step my way" / "hey fellas, step mine."

alex it's entirely possible that people will start discussing albums when PF finishes posting the singles list and begins posting the albums list. that's just a theory, though.

xpost Yeah, I mean
http://lyricwiki.org/Junior_Senior:Chicks_And_Dicks

the hope dies last as we say in german.

german is really like english then?

Is Air France already on the list?

Sorry dood, I don't think you're going to get your wish on any of those. There are too many straight-up classics among the list I posted to be edged out by "something by Iron & Wine."

Well, then there's no hope for something from Jagged Little Pill Acoustic by Alanis Morissette.

kind of. i think it was first. english is a mixture of german, french and some weird celtic stuff, i guess.

(j/k). Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised to see Iron & Wine in the top 20. Not predicting it, by any means. Maybe Bird Stealing Bread.

Yeah Jaymc's list is pretty much what I'm expecting, minus Interpol, one or both of the Kanye's and The Strokes and plus My Girls, Maps, Machine Gun and maybe Happy House. I know that's still more than 20 but genuinely can't imagine them leaving any of these out of the 500.

i still think you have to factor in at least a little sef-conscious fear of playing exactly to type, but then that's pretty paranoid for a website I enjoy and try not to take the piss out of as much as alla u

I have no idea how you pick a single from an act like Iron & Wine (since, AFAIK, they don't really release them?), but "Naked as We Came" from Our Endless Numbered might be a good pick.