the one time i saw marcy playground in concert most of their songs reminded me of archers of loaf. also "sex and candy" is good imo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 7 October 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
that song never actually made the hot 100 but did hit #2 in the uk and #1 in australia
And, regardless of whatever its quality may be, it's tuneful and lively and makes total sense in a 2001 chart context.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
It actually kept Last Resort at #3 and was released just as Rollin' slipped from number one. Give the Feeder and Ash classics (for they are classics) in the top 10 as well around that time early 2001 was maybe the most powerful Kerrang! had ever been on the singles chart.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
In the UK this is not AUS
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
Shame it was pure shite era Kerrang
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 7 October 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Yet the 'pure shite era' is what Kerrang treats now as the totem age. Helps matters that many of their key bands of the time are popular with Gen Z.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
the period after is actually when they got peak sales and over 50% of readership was female. I don't really know what they were covering though (Brad emo?) as I stopped buying it because of the pure shite era beforehand.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 7 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
White Stripes were getting coverage in that so called totem age. Along with the darkness and the hives + the remains of nu metal.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 7 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
Sex and Candy is a lazy groove banger. It was huge here in Aotearoa NZ and I can see why. Nobody can convince me it isn't a great song.
― The Ghost Club, Friday, 7 October 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
Oh god Maroon 5 covered it... Travesty
― The Ghost Club, Friday, 7 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
don't love the song but if there's a musical moment to it that hooks it's his kind kind of slinky dragging behind the beat phrasing and nice descending guitar lick of after a quick rest in the chorus the *pause* i smell sex and can....day then *pause* "who's that loung....in" partnot really enough to make it a good song but that is the musical thing that made the song popular imo― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 7, 2022 1:00 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
not really enough to make it a good song but that is the musical thing that made the song popular imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 7, 2022 1:00 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
like disco lemonayyyyyde
― flopson, Saturday, 8 October 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
― The Ghost Club
Adam & the Levines would know.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 October 2022 02:07 (one year ago) link
Let me tell you about Wheatus
Today I learned that "Teenage Dirtbag" is my ten-year-old niece's favourite song.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 9 October 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
“Here Comes the Hotstepper” = notable omission from the One Hit Wonders list (even if it wasn’t deemed worthy of Best Songs).
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Sunday, 9 October 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
(checks site idly post-12am EDT Sunday)Whoa… did Wu-Tang die or something?
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Sunday, 9 October 2022 04:32 (one year ago) link
how a 90s song list that doesn't include sugar ray's "fly" is criminal.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 9 October 2022 07:07 (one year ago) link
proto-Fleet Foxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtVORaI-f0s
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 9 October 2022 07:13 (one year ago) link
Their 90’s house list is agreeable for the most part.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 13 October 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
The music doesn’t begin so much as surface, as if “Around the World” arises from some great depth, that lowpass filter cutting out the high-end without obscuring the “fundamental” signal. And then the song fully emerges, the bass suddenly going like something stolen out from under Bernard Edwards’ fingertips, the hi-hat doing that bright, open chhh business on the offbeat. The up-from-underground stuff turns out to have been sort of poignantly appropriate. “Around the World” was an exhumation, disco as reworked in post-industrial Chicago and Detroit, then adapted anew by two blessed weirdos from Montmartre, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
Who says dance music isn't exciting?
― hi hole im dad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
damn another classic by that guy
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
i've said it before and i'll say it again–"da funk" destroys "around the world" any day of the week
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
agree 1000%
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Thursday, 13 October 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
1000000000000%
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 13 October 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
what if they are both good songs?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 13 October 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
they only picked one
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
My only complaint about this list is that they picked a bunch of songs that they already wrote up blurbs about in the top 250 songs list.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 13 October 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
missing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1vf854aUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwda46cNMg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSpLqmY6K0
― fpsa, Thursday, 13 October 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
Hard pass on the David Morales and there are much much better AVH productions. The Bucketheads was pretty much peak Kenny Gonzalez though true.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 13 October 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
oh yeah, didn't even realize "the bomb" wasn't on there! damn
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 October 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
Fly Life in its Brix Mix is a top 10 record of the 90s
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 13 October 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
and the Extra mix is a stunning catwalk of bass and freeform white noise
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 13 October 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Pitchfork doesn’t really have any authority to run such a list, afaic— why would I pay attention to it?
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 14 October 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
What does authority have to do with it? It's just some people's opinions about music.
― jaymc, Friday, 14 October 2022 13:06 (one year ago) link
Pitchfork let their music opinion license lapse.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 14 October 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
What does authority have to do with it?
well they call it "The 30 Best House Tracks of the ’90s" so you might think they were experts on the genre
don't imagine people who care deeply abt 90s house look to p4k for coverage
enjoyed the list
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 14 October 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
are there reasons to assert Sherburne and Cardew aren't experts here? I'm no expert, so I genuinely don't know
― rob, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
I meant merely what corrs understood— P4k is not a site that has much to do with the genre, and p4k wasn’t even around during much of that decade. Sherburne is a fine writer and a nice person, from mymemories, but it just seems like a primer that has been done before by publications that come from the culture. Yeah, it’s a boring ‘authenticity’ argument, but oh well— that’s what a site is subject to when it is a clearinghouse for criticism of every genre of music.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 14 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's fair; I feel similarly when they turn their attention to Jamaican music. Plus there is something undeniably opportunistic or just trend-chasing about big-upping house in particular right now
(my q was based on the fact that Sherburne is the primary reason I read their reviews these days, but I hear you)
― rob, Friday, 14 October 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
I really enjoyed Rich Juzwiak on Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope today.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
I’m pretty sure Pitchfork is a business, not a… idk individual person or whatever. I don’t think the business is trying to be hip or authentic or something with a list of house records I think they’re just trying to get clicks. And I agree that’s wrong.
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Saturday, 15 October 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
There are other ways to get clicks, you know. I hear tell of this Kanye guy.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Well I've been saying for years Pitchfork should open an unaccredited academy
― Vinnie, Saturday, 15 October 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
finally got around to this onehttps://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/great-records-you-may-have-missed-spring-summer-2022/
so much good stuff in there, weird that it's kind of hidden away
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 21 October 2022 08:35 (one year ago) link
not sure what the point of having a rating system is if every album gets a 7.8
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
oh cool, a new Sloan album.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
oh yes i was looking forward to another dose of "Ferguson's power-pop wimpiness" lol... yeah ok pretty much
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
― na (NA), Tuesday, October 25, 2022 9:02 AM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jmm,
lol, before i checked, i thought "but doesn't Sloan always score in the 6.8 to 7.2 range?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
i guess they've ranged across the 7s before
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
my post wasn't about a specific album, it was about how any time i actually open a review on their site it's always a 7.8
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
Probably because 7.8 is low enough they don't have to think about tagging it "Best New Music" but also high enough that they don't have to deal with the rabid, angry fanbases that see anything less than a 7.6 as a career destroying pan.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link