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

i always think ilx is better than to agree w/pfork ;_;

well, you know, broken clocks telling the correct time twice a day and all that...

i mean, pfork loved the bug record, which i also loved, and so i think did you... so even you agree with pfork sometimes?

more like pfork agrees with me sometimes.

i mean, occasional agreement w/anyone isn't surprising, it's more...i'm constantly surprised, though, i shouldn't be, by how much of ilx self-identifies as, uh, pitchfolk.

They've actually pitched up outside his house, next to the man who sells hotdogs on matchdays.

we got rid of that man.

Really, how?

our landlord's secretary wrote him a Stern Letter

Lex, a good chunk of the people who currently write for Pitchfork are posters from this board dating back to its inception! It would be weird if there WASN'T any overlap or interest between ILM and Pitchfork, all things considered.

"i'm disappointed a message board of people likes stuff i don't like" is a sentiment i just can't grasp!

nah I feel that way about the motherfucking Beatles

based on the general response to Joanna Newsom and AnCo/AnCo-related threads, I think that ILM still has connections to the indie world. And any message boards with connections to the indie world is going to acknowledge and discuss pitchfork, as it should. also, disagreeing with pitchfork just because it's pitchfork is just as bad as agreeing with pitchfork just because it's pitchfork.

I don't think this list is very revisionist. It's a pretty accurate top 20 of my 90s, especially ages 12-18.

It's not revisionist of how the '90s played out as much as it's revisionist of what Pfork covered in the '90s (e.g., there's no way the site would've given Aaliyah or BIG the time of day during the actual '90s).

oh yeah totally agree with that.

But, you know, gave Discovery a bad review etc etc

and animal collective iirc

ha I went to look just because I couldn't believe it and they gave Danse Manatee a 3.9

everything else got a 7.1 or higher though

Well that makes sense, though -- Danse Manatee was awful.

It's not revisionist of how the '90s played out as much as it's revisionist of what Pfork covered in the '90s

Not all that surprising, though, since only three staffers from 2000 are still on board today: Schreiber, Richardson, LeMay.

From the archives.

"It's embarrasing to admit to liking this record, but somebody's got to do it. I feel pretty confident there are others just like me out there."

Thank you Ryan Schreiber, I am not alone in my Pet Sho Boys guilty-pleasure love.

I think Bilingual is the only PSB album I still haven't heard

i think this tangent deserves its own thread

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I know they are obvious but I still have a special place in my heart for "Rosa Parks" and "Miss Jackson".

Catchall feature today roundly bests the actual list, compleat nonshocka.

sorry miss jackson.... i am for reeeeeeaaaaaaaall

lol fine. but by all standards this is pretty underwhelming to me, esp for a first single. like taylor swift "mine"-level underwhelming.

wtf lol WRONG THREAD. need to stop opening tabs.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

went with "Only Shallow"

ditto

DEPECHE MODEEEE

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

OutKast - "Spottieottedopalicious" 3

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH?

lol. this board hates p4k oh let's all vote.

I don't hate em.

lol at Pavement beating Radiohead

what is this pulp track common people?

"Gold Sounds" pffft

237 votes! That's the most I can think of on any ilx poll.

While they're essentially the same thing this top 20 makes way more sense to me than the original one.

I don't think ILM hates pitchfork. Speaking for myself I think they're pretty good at what they do, I just get a tad annoyed when they try to force their alt indie cred by giving high review scores to frankly mediocre and forgettable artists just before realizing how crap they actually are and backlashing their careers to death on their future releases - or you know placing 'gold soundz' as the best song of the 90s.

Gold Soundz

OutKast - "Spottieottedopalicious" 3

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH?

― a hoy hoy, Thursday, September 9, 2010 7:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this makes me fucking nauseous.

Half of the Pitchfork writers regularly contribute to ilm? And I think we can all agree nabisco otm. Even lex and geir.

plz say you mean the song coming last and not the song itself is what makes you nauseous?

it doesnt make you nauseous it makes you <em>nauseated</em>

thankig u max

i'm tempted to start a meta thread where max thinks he's posting on gawker instead of ilx

the opposite would be funnier

to you

html is hard to keep track of yall

LOL @ OutKast losing this poll, totally undeserved.