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

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.

i thought it was pretty funny as well... pulp, even tho i realize they "won" the britpop war, was one of those bands i cared little if at all for and thought the same for the majority of ilxors (in the same way none of us truly like blur/oasis/etc). i'd suspect a lot of p4k writers peruse here for inspiration.

My favorite is the one that's still causing people to lose their shit 15 years on. Ranked from favorite to most detested.

Pulp - "Common People"
Daft Punk - "Da Funk"
OutKast - "Spottieottedopalicious"
Pavement - "Gold Soundz"
The Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy"
Belle and Sebastian - "The State I Am In"
My Bloody Valentine - "Only Shallow"
Wu-Tang Clan - "Protect Ya Neck"
Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"
Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence"
Dr. Dre [ft. Snoop Doggy Dogg] - "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang"
Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945"
Beck - "Loser"
Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?"
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
Weezer - "Say It Ain't So"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World"
Björk - "Hyperballad"

i voted shadow.

Whoops. I can only apologize for the sensitivities I've discombobulated with what I thought was quite clearly a joke.

Am I really the only person who prefers Hypnotize to Juicy?

no

And I should say I really like Kate as a poster here, I like the way she sets her stall out now matter how anti-canonical the stuff she has to say it's always well thought out and she's never looking round nervously to see if anyone else agrees with her or not. I'm not surprised that she comes across as slightly embattled sometimes the amount of yapping tools she gets on her back.

But I still think hers is a pretty clear misreading of Common People.

No one else think that Beers, Steers and Queers (remix) should be at number one?

just gave gold soundz a relistening....and much as i love pavement, this was the pinnacle of the entire decade? a sloppy, self referential song? it innovates in fucking nothing. i suspect a rewrite, a la the greatest albums of the 90's list.

Thanks, I appreciate that, Doran.

But I think it's a bit ironic to call my personal response to a song "a pretty clear misreading" when you haven't even grasped what I think about it accurately enough to lampoon it. <- this was my issue with what you wrote, not whether it was a "horribly formed" "joke" or not.