Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

Fuck you, k3v. Like me pointing that out is more tedious than posting guesses of the top 20 of PFM's list eight hours before they just post the fucking thing?

no it's not more tiring than hassling over rules that they themselves imposed because hey it's their site!

callin a dude out by his GOOGLE-PROOFED name when shit gets heated

It's his posting name, dude?

Look, guys, I know we're all really hot about the new results list, but let's take a step back and some few breaths and give out some bro-hugs. We can't let PF top singles of decade List get between us.

i meant as opposed to callin a dude out by his ACTUAL name when shit gets heated

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

I wouldn't be surprised if it *was* in there, either. It just seems like they're trying to slim down some of the selections from the mid-decade countdown, and "Digital Love" is chillin at number 23 (or 22?) I also doubt that Kanye will snag two slots--I'll bet that "Gone" took "Gold Digger"s place.

I don't know how "The Rat" snuck into the Top 20, but I can't imagine them wholly leaving it off--especially since it's mentioned in one of the blurbs.

Also, it's interesting that all the songs on the list from 2009 are rock songs. Where's "9x Outta 10"?

i feel like most of their pop/rap choices gathered consensus over time. "Blame It" or something might be on the year-end singles list, but it's not gonna be anywhere here yet.

There are going to be some left field choices, otherwise what's the point of doing something like this.

Depends on how they compiled the list. If it was a straight vote, probably note. If it was composed, you're right, there'll probably be a curve ball or two (here's hoping it's "Happy House").

it's hard for me to get up in arms about lists like this...

just because it's not like this is ACTUALLY the best music of the decade it's just "sort of the best music that a website like pitchfork would put in its best music of the decade list"

just like rolling stone "best albums of all time" are just "the best 100 albums of the sort that rolling stone would generally put in a list like this"

I'm kinda more interested in what RS would pick as their best 100 albums. I feel like it'd be a bit more surprising maybe?

I agree, M@tt. It's interesting to me from an intellectual standpoint; I don't really get people who are like "I can't BELIEVE so-and-so didn't make the list! This is an OUTRAGE!!"

I'm kinda more interested in what RS would pick as their best 100 albums. I feel like it'd be a bit more surprising maybe?

Only if its top 20 wasn't filled with, say, various comeback discs from Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, The Eagles, zzzzzzzzzz . . . .

Has Foghat had a comeback album this decade?

I'm pretty sure Bruce Springsteen is the only act out of that few that would place on RS's top 20.

Tomorrow's top 10 today:

10. Tori Alamaze - Don't Cha (fuck a Pussycat Dolls)
9. Avalanches - Since I Left You
8. Bon Jovi - It's My Life
7. Qb's Finest - Oochie Wally
6. Drowning Pool - Bodies (gets me pretty pumped)
5. Boredoms - 77 Boadrum (even though I got a nasty sunburn)
4. Three 6 Mafia feat. UGK and Project Pat - Sippin' On Some Syrup
3. Daft Punk - One More Time
2. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
1. Santana feat. Michelle Branch - The Game of Love

I have this on good authority.

Mordy: Yeah, that may be. I'm really not looking forward to the Rolling Stone list, tho. It will certainly be more surprising to me than Pitchfork's list, but only because I expect so little from Rolling Stone at this point.

I think songs like "9X Outta 10" and "Pretty Wings" would have made this list if they had come out earlier this year.

or in 2003

That Santana/Branch mention reminds me that I really, really like "They-Say Vision" by Res. That's quite definitely one of my 500 favorite songs of the decade. This is why I suck at lists, I think: it's really hard to mentally sort through the stuff that isn't important or era-defining or super-memorable enough to leap into your memory at the right moment.

Springsteen is the only act out of that few that would place on RS's top 20.

Love and Theft and Modern Times will both be on many decade-end lists. Dylan's on a prolonged hot streak.

Dylan wasn't listed in "that few"

That Santana/Branch mention reminds me that I really, really like "They-Say Vision" by Res. That's quite definitely one of my 500 favorite songs of the decade. This is why I suck at lists, I think: it's really hard to mentally sort through the stuff that isn't important or era-defining or super-memorable enough to leap into your memory at the right moment.

― don't kill children, don't run 'em over (nabisco), Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:52 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did you vote for her album?

I didn't -- the reason I'm mentioning it is because Res somehow never popped into my head during the whole process.

Dylan wasn't listed in "that few"

Yeeaaahhhh, but I should have mentioned him. Dylan will be to Rolling Stone's best-album-of-the-decade list what Radiohead will be to Pitchfork's best-album-of-the-decade list.

So far (this might be wrong):
5 DFA
11 rough trade
8 songs that have kanye in them some way. (Anyone have a count on Timbaland?)
19 from XL
12 Domino
11 Virgin
48 from 2000
14 from 2009
3 from Modular, go Modular, heh.
etc

9 on 4AD (10 if you count staring at the sun), not bad

only 2 songs from 2009 in 200-21

One more's coming up.

8. Bon Jovi - It's My Life

haha this would make the list worth it IMO

8 songs that have kanye in them some way. (Anyone have a count on Timbaland?)

9 Timbaland, 9 Neptunes, 7 Jay-Z, 5 Dr. Dre, 4 Lil Wayne, 4 T.I.

you counting the Alicia Keys remix in the Kanye column or not?

Wait wait, here's the fact I want: how many songs have appeared on an American "Now What's What I Call Music" compilation?

and its up

Booya to whoever it was backthread who didn't believe me outkast would get #1

And no, no black horseys.

lol I missed this at first: It goes without saying that "Blind" captivates any dancefloor.

All of my many caveats aside, it's a good list, and there's some very good writing attached.

It was fun to read. I hadn't read pitchfork regularly since 2004, so it was fun to return to it for the review.

DFA has four in the last twenty.

Great song, but I hate how he writes: "and product placements ("Yo quiero Taco Bell") that read like the world's first Twitter feed.", as if that is an inspiring reason it is ahead of its time (kind of a stretch too as an example). I feel like he is subtly hinting at Twitter as an important cultural phenomenon. I just hate Twitter- it is the worst example of our cultural need to spew digital brain vomit.

lol @ My Girls being top 10. It's not even in the top 5 on MPP.

How exactly in the hell did "All My Friends" place higher than "Losing My Edge"?

the bettersongness aspect prolly

who cares

the 99 problemz blurb is wacky. i normally like mark p but ... his 'real' crossover???

who cares

― butthurt (deej), Friday, August 21, 2009 1:13 AM (4 minutes ago)

With respect to "Hard Knock Life", this was Jay-Z's real crossover moment, the single that catapulted him out of hip-hop superstardom and into the real mainstream vernacular.

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2471208/2/istockphoto_2471208_bewildered_businessman_mchipster228.jpg

i cant wait until next decade is over

i mean i know mark p. is from london and all but what... the... fuck...

With respect to "P2K", this was Pitchfork's real crossover moment, the list that catapulted them out of internet magazine superstardom and into the real ILX vernacular.

The list is pretty damn solid. If I was gonna make my own list, it would pretty much look like their hip-hop choices minus the mid-decade stumping for trap-rap and dipset

I can see the "99 Problems" thing. None of my white friends were into Jay-Z until that came out.