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

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

birthdays were the worst days/ now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay

but then again you hate bone thugs n harmony so i take your opinions on rap music anyway

with a grain of salt anyway

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

ILX's coolness toward "Rosa Parks" is so disappointing.

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

fixed

"rosa parks" is great but a way more boring (and somewhat inferior) choice

Inferior as a choice maybe, not inferior as a song imo.

party & bullshit
gimme the loot
things done changed
warning
the what
unbelievable
big poppa
who shot ya
somebodys gotta die
hypnotize
kick in the door
ten crack commandments
whats beef
notorious thugs
dead wrong
hope u n sleep
dangerous mcs

how many is that? all would pick them all over juicy

17...

the way i voted into this was imagining that i only got to hear one of these songs ever again. and it would not be cool to never hear the spottieotte horns again.

that track has always kicked my ass

isn't it a sample/interpolation from some funk song? you could always listen to that instead

the way i voted into this was imagining that i only got to hear one of these songs ever again.

Precisely the reason "Enjoy the Silence" is the right answer here.

isn't it a sample/interpolation from some funk song? you could always listen to that instead

― the mid- '80s vein of hellmusic we love to hate (bernard snowy), Friday, September 10, 2010 Suggest Ban Permalink
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pretty sure it is not

i mean, i personally like "warning" and "hypnotize" and "dead wrong" more than "juicy" but you'd have to be pretty daft to think any of those are actually "better songs"

in terms of "entire house parties will stop whatever theyre doing and start rapping along" power there are very few songs that can beat juicy--big poppa and california love maybe

"Gimme the loot" is the best biggie & "shame on a nuh" is the best wu

WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU

But I would've took a few 2pac songs over all of these.

"Gimme the loot" is the best biggie & "shame on a nuh" "4th Chamber" from Liquid Swords is the best wu

yeah wtf sam

i think the only genuine contenders on this list for "artist's best song" are the pavement, bjork and dj shadow tracks. but i don't really care much about dj shadow and couldn't really be bothered championing pavement at the moment, so on that logic might have voted bjork.

"shame on a nun"

SHAME ON A NUN WHO TRY TO RUN GAME ON A NUN

i think the only genuine contenders on this list for "artist's best song" are the pavement, bjork and dj shadow tracks

Agree with Bjork and Shadow, disagree with Pavement.

I'd also submit for consideration of "best song" status: Wu-Tang, MBV, Aaliyah (this just won the Aaliyah singles poll on ILM ffs!) and Aphex Twin -- tough to say what's "best" for any of these guys, but their tunes in this poll are waaaayy up there.

i understand being a bit tired of "juicy" but saying that it's not even in the top 20 biggie tracks is........................

i'll say this: sam would've been walking to brooklyn to get diddy a piece of cheesecake

to me "Juicy" is by far the best Biggie pop jam and I applaud any list that has it and not "Hypnotize"

i'll say this: sam would've been walking to brooklyn to get diddy a piece of cheesecake

― J0rdan S., Friday, September 10, 2010 4:00 PM (3 minutes ago)

haaaa

best biggie pop jam = "one more chance"
best biggie non-pop jam = "you're nobody (til somebody kills you)"

nahhhh "juicy" is so much better than "one more chance"