Pitchfork: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01

hands up if you're tired of shitty analogies

Would easily have voted for MBV if the choice was "Soon." I'm also not British so "Common People" means nothing more to me than just a good song. I also lived in Silver Lake during the 90s, so I'm fine with all the "Loser" hatred.

Voted Mazzy because I like the song, however I would have voted "Cannonball" over all of these.

actually that's a pretty good analogy

I'm working class and I understand the deep hurt caused to others by Common People. I feel the same way about The Chauffeur by Duran Duran, Smooth Operator by Sade, Country House by Blur, How To Be A Millionaire by ABC, I've Never Been To Me be Charlene and many other songs that rub the restrictions of my damn class in my face! I could only dream of visiting Niece, and the Isles of Greece and sipping champagne on a yacht! When will these people think of the emotional turmoil they're wreaking on the listeners! But at least I had the class solidarity of my brothers in arms Wham! on such socialist sons of toil classics as Everything She Wants and Young Guns! I can only dream of what it must be like to be on the other side of the fence... to not be invited to be part of Jarvis Cocker's gang of misfits... whom I imagine to be slightly like the cast of the Breakfast Club but with odd teeth and jackets from Oxfam.

Loser is such a shit song.

Doran: go fuck yourself, you unpleasant dickwad.

jesus christ this thread cannot die fast enough

wow!!

Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?" classic song obv but definitely not her best single of the 90s
Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker" cool song but i guess i dont 'get' how important it was so it being in the top 20 is kinda confusing
Beck - "Loser" annoying
Belle and Sebastian - "The State I Am In" never heard
Björk - "Hyperballad" love bjork, but NO she has soooooooooo many better singles from he 90s
Daft Punk - "Da Funk" classique
Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence" yesssssssss
DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World" eh i guess
Dr. Dre [ft. Snoop Doggy Dogg] - "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" played out but obv classic
Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" i think i heard this once
My Bloody Valentine - "Only Shallow" - fucks with this
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945" i like this song but no
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" obv
The Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy" never gets old, still he has much better singles from 90s but i guess this is his most seminal...
OutKast - "Spottieottedopalicious" - rosa parks, elevators, playas ball, art of storytelin etc. >>>
Pavement - "Gold Soundz" - never heard this
Pulp - "Common People" - never heard this, i am not a britishes so don't care about ur boring ass class conflicts or boring indie bands
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android" - yep
Weezer - "Say It Ain't So" - um, "buddy holly" pwnz this song
Wu-Tang Clan - "Protect Ya Neck" - not a top 20 single or even the best wu single from that album but i guess

voted for depeche mode

which is weird because if i made a top 100 of the 90s list that probbaly wouldn't crack it all even tho its an amazing song

i would have voted for juicy but that feels to obvious

The crudeness might be regretable but seriously. His reading comprehension is so low and his level of projection of things that were never actually said was so high that I just wanted to make sure my response was absolutely unequivocaly clear.

ummm, no problem in that regard, KDT

but you may have mistaken light whimsy for a declaration of war...

how long until kate is banned again

hopefully not too long

i am always so amazed i am not banned

wait ur name is kate

does that mean ur a girl

hai guys! I'm back from happy hour and I ordered pizza. What class warfare did I miss?

jesus christ this thread cannot die fast enough

― call all destroyer, Friday, September 3, 2010 6:18 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what r u talkin about this thread is hilar

just walked by north coast fest in chicago, the one being headlined by the chem bros, nas, damien marley & umphreys mcgee. i can confirm that, contrary to reports, everyone is not 'a hipster'

also, baggy cargo pants & shell toes = still a thing

I'm wearing baggy cargo shorts. Would I be a thing?

what r u talkin about this thread is hilar HITLER

oops good catch crut

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/25/weekinreview/chotiner-600.jpg

juicy. i like some of these other songs, but c'mon

Alfred - is that a photo of Pulp? Being an American I don't understand what they're supposed to look like.

LAWLZ

Alfred - is that a photo of Pulp? Being an American I don't understand what they're supposed to look like.

The one on the left is Jarvis Cocker, meeting Beck (right) at Pitchfork '95.

http://news-political.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Hitler_laughing.jpg

Oh - so "Loser" is the song Hitler sang to Eva Braun! Now it all makes sense.

no, that was "Holland, 1945"

Ha!

hitlar

Daft Punk - "Da Funk"
Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence"
My Bloody Valentine - "Only Shallow"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945"
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"

One of these. "Enjoy" is the best track I suppose, but it feels like the 80s in spite of its release date.

lolser

Only Stalin

haha

could it be that only shallow is a reference to stalinist death camps and the lack of human respect for even a proper burial - hence the size of the graves, ONLY SHALLOW? could it be?

let us contemplate this

Lots of songs by bands I like that aren't necessarily songs I like - Gold Soundz isn't even that great a song.

For real -- I am one of those "Pavement, best band of the 90s, I love every record" people and probably always will be. And I don't think Gold Soundz is even in the top half of that record. I feel like "coming to the chorus now" is the kind of self-referential the-song-is-about-the-song business that they carry off so gracefully elsewhere. Here it clunks.

fade into you is my favorite of these tbh

just wanted to pop in and say that I really enjoyed stevie's post upthread about NMH.

yeah, me too, and i'm not even a fan

I am a pretty big fan of that album - and I'll just say that for me, the way in was the lyrics. they are pretty special.

bet Anne Frank would've verbally skewered Mangum for trying to slum it in her attic.

'slum in her attic' is a potentially great euphemism imo

slum in her attic and not long until there's one in the oven

slummin it in her attic makes me think there's something anatomically wrong with the girl

haven't read the previous 10000 responses because I'm sure people are butthurtz for no reason, but gotta go with Windowlicker. I was just listening to it yesterday again for the first time in a while, and the little blurb on the pitchfork list (sounded way ahead of its time in 1999...STILL sounds way ahead of its time in 2010) is spot on.

1. Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
2. Daft Punk - "Da Funk"
3. Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence"
4. Pulp - "Common People"
5. Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"

My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel and even Pavement work better as albums than songs. "Paranoid Android" to me is a remarkable song. gets my vote just because it's cool and so uncool these day (no that's a lie, i can care less about the latter).

i started this, "Please Understand. We don't want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. That's all." PULP - D.I.F.F.E.R.E.N.T.C.L.A.S.S poll before bumping pitchfork 's 90's countdown thread. just a bit ironic that i decided to do that album this week.

gotta admit if they were going to include snoop dogg & dre, they should've placed "hit me baby one more time" somewhere along the top 10 as well. not joking here when i say that song is a classic.