pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Karl - sorry I wasn't clear - I was actually against private press stuff really, like when we're leaving off really great bands like ZZ Top, the Meters, Gapp Band, Richard & Linda Thompson, James Gang etc etc like why the hell does like oh gee it's a neat song and I'm glad these kids could kinda play and they had a cool dad that made them a studio and it's fine enough but seriously I'd rather fucking "Thunder Island" by Jay Ferguson or "Fantasy" by Aldo Nova or shit like that was on the list as an actual representation of what the 70s really was instead of like some shit that no one cared abt and kinda reminded ppl of some precursor to 00s lo fi indie shit

also i'm pissed at whatever money i've wasted at record stores or garage sales on "rare" private press stuff that's usually limp dan fogelberg crap anyway

― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 24, 2016 10:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otmmmmmmmm

also no smokey robinson? no paul simon? no barry white?

also the cars is a band that i can't understand why anyone gives a shit about

catchy tunes, cool sounds? i'm not a huge fan or anything, but i understand why people like 'em.

cars rule.

each list is an overcorrection of the last, which at least is more interesting than ossification

if someone put a gun to my head and made me choose between the cars debut and pretenders debut and b-52s debut i would go ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just shoot me!

I love The Cars' first two records and a handful of post-1980 moments w/out being passionate about them; I'm pretty sure that's the reaction they wanted or expected.

after 1980 their albums are...touch and go

It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's [Lenin's] on sale again

Banksy's done it again

lmao

I think my biggest complaint with this list is how it completely ignores Prog Rock. If you were to gauge the 70's by this list, you'd just assume Prog Rock had no impact on the music of the decade at all.

yeah but prog didn't really get *good* until the first battles album

who did battles sample?

non-disco Blondie

surprised that "dreaming" qualifies as disco blondie

anyway sorry to make you check the '80s list again whiney i just for some reason had a weird memory of "freedom of choice" being on there

I was probably remembering the ancient '80s album list

Yes' "America" and "Siberian Khatru" and Genesis' "Battle of Epping Forest" pretty much sum up prog for me in the '70s, that and Flash's "Small Beginnings." Unless Henry Cow counts.

prog

please watch your language

i really wanted "roundabout" to make the list

Just realized, no Yoko on the list. That seems wrong.

Whiney complaining about white rock bands getting knocked off in favor of r&b is hilarious when the top 100 is disproportionately cbgb bullshit & x Ray spex are hella high but anita ward doesn't even place

Point being, get some perspective

or because new wave/punk is the new cis white male corny ass dickbeater dad "real music" like the Beatles/Stones were or all of the above

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck outta here dude new wave punk is most of this list esp top 100

d40 otm

devo rules dude

they deserve to be on the list

yeah you would expect the token "Roundabout" or "Starless" or maybe even "Supper's Ready"

hell it's tough to make an argument for "rock lobster" as radical queer music because everybody likes the song for reasons that have nothing to do with most of the band being queer.

I'd have two prog/art-rock songs (interchangeable terminology for me--maybe they're not) on a Top 100 for sure: "Roundabout" and a Jethro Tull song (many candidates). Also something from ELO before they became big on Top 40, if they count. Maybe "Tubular Bells" too, the Exorcist section.

I wish every song I don't like were off the list and replaced by songs that I do like.

That said Roundabout wuz robbed

"roundabout" sorta has a second life rn as an anime theme song/vine meme so it would've been fun to view it from 2016

Mentioned in School of Rock, too--"homework" for one of the kids.

why is this list provoking such strong emotion? i'll never understand ;_;

people love music

t/s: psychoanalyzing pitchfork listmakers vs talking about how great your taste is

xp dog c'mon

can't believe a hipster/indie website didn't put Aldo Nova on their list

sorry, i don't really care, it's just silly. and i'm silly.

"t/s: psychoanalyzing pitchfork listmakers vs talking about how great your taste is"

you are so not new here! i mean,come on, you know how we do.

would rather read about how list is invalid because it lacks aldo nova and yoko ono than read about how list is invalid because there are some sabbath songs that aren't on it

aldo nova for pitchfork fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOalSzYpsdE

the whole point of lists is for people to argue about them and talk about them online that's why every outlet does them

I wish every song I don't like were off the list and replaced by songs that I do like.

same

i'm as guilty as anyone else it's cool

i planned on yipping about no Spinners but they got one on there

honestly I think this list should be replaced with a list of every Aldo Nova song in chronological order

xr7 is all time

and post-punk is still cool

the whole point of lists is for people to argue about them and talk about them online that's why every outlet does them

Something I honestly don't know--does the attention such a list gets increase readership, or ad revenue, or something? I say that because one time I'm guessing such a list did increase readership (goes back a ways, and I have no actual proof) was the Top 100 Spin did in the late '80s. Whatever you thought about the list itself--a mix of great picks and empty/silly provocation, as I recall--it was sufficiently different from a Rolling Stone list at the time, and Spin was new enough, that they might have actually picked up readers. These lists are ubiquitous now (music and film).

Chris complaining about white rock bands getting knocked off in favor of r&b is hilarious when the top 100 is disproportionately cbgb bullshit & x Ray spex are hella high but anita ward doesn't even place

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, August 24, 2016 2:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Again, I don't think this is "wrong" or "bad," I just think it's funny/interesting how tastes are changing

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all i'm saying is if the 80s list doesn't have Quarterflash.. hell to pay

xpost Point being, learn to read