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

"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.

it was a lame outkast choice so deserved imo

nice work voting in this thread ILM.

order looks about right for this board.

pretty lame poll from a pretty lame e-zine
but nice work

Dudes that's like no one's favorite OutKast song let alone someone's favorite song of an entire decade

otm

also it was going up against "juicy" + "nothin but a g thang" + a wu-tang clan song

it has no business finishing in last tho

yeah i wanna know who voted for that and not "juicy"

yeah but that's the problem w/ half the songs they picked. it's like an artist of the 90's poll dressed up as a singles poll. most of these songs are barley in the top 10 for each these bands. xxpost

i get hopping mad thinking about it

Dudes that's like no one's favorite OutKast song let alone someone's favorite song of an entire decade

― i sit alone in my three-cornered hat staring at candles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, September 9, 2010 10:53 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

― max skim (k3vin k.), Thursday, September 9, 2010 10:54 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is insanely rong

best closing time club track evar

spottieottie is amazing classic untouchable & way better than like choosing 'rosa parks'

are you saying that it's everyone's favorite song and the song of the decade?

yeah but that's the problem w/ half the songs they picked. it's like an artist of the 90's poll dressed up as a singles poll. most of these songs are barley in the top 10 for each these bands. xxpost

― Moreno, Thursday, September 9, 2010 10:57 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is otm

also it's the second best song on this list

are you saying that it's everyone's favorite song and the song of the decade?

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

? im saying its easily top 5 outkast track for me. i would have picked 'skew it on the bbq' first but barely

i was just saying what the inverse of whiney's statement was

I would have went Elevators tbh

i dont think im giving away any important staff secretes to suggest that it might have also been in the running

voted for spottie, but more in support of outkast than the song, rong as that may be. but shit, better that than NMH or whatever.

lol otm at Pavement beating Radiohead

I don't get why "Paranoid Android" is now considered uncool. I still think it's kinda perfect, and just as fresh sounding as the first time I heard it.. It's my favorite song of the 90's, and possibly ever.. And as long as they were occasionally choosing weird 2nd or 3rd or 12th most popular songs as their selections, I think "Aneurysm" would have been a stronger choice than "Teen Spirit."

But I voted for "Protect Ya Neck" because I think #1 should've been hiphop instead of Pavement. While any "best of the 90s" list without Pavement should be considered incomplete, I think NYC hiphop defines the 90's more than any other type of music.

glad to see NMH faring so well, but don't know what anyone sees in 'loser', which to my mind is beck at his obnoxious worst.

frankly shocked wu beat biggie

frank WHITEly shocked

smells like suggest ban

"i'm a loser so why don't you kill me?" - OK THEN, happily!

I don't think ILM hates pitchfork.

It doesn't. One or two very vocal posters do and everyone piling in for 300 posts when they say so kind of skews every discussion to look like it's somehow more hated than it actually is.

Wu beating Biggie is p otm. Juicy is a terrible pick imo. Also didn't Spottie win the Aquemini poll? Would have gone for only 3 'Kast tracks over it (Players Ball, Elevators, Return of the G).

Wu beating Biggie is p otm. Juicy is a terrible pick imo.

sb

its still a dece song but won't make my top 20 biggie tracks.

that's fucking insane

i mean, i generally prefer wu to biggie but still think that "juicy" is better than any wu-tang song or maybe all but a small handful of rap songs ever

yeah u r crazy dude

i mean