Posts Tagged ‘Pitchfork Media’

Pitchfork Media’s Top 100 Songs of 2008

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Pitchfork Media is known for giving props to most hipster bands of the day, but with their top 100 list I think they’ve gone too far.

Check out the entire list here, for a good laugh. Lists are always retarded, but I’ve never seen one worse than this. There are TWO Cut Copy songs in the top 20. It also makes you wonder, what does being listed as number 74 really mean? 

The top 20 alone is enough to dismiss the whole list, check it out:

20 The Juan MacLean - “Happy House”
19 Vivian Girls - “Where Do You Run To”
18 Women - “Black Rice”
17 Wiley - “Wearing My Rolex”
16 The Mae Shi - “Run to Your Grave”
15 Amadou and Mariam - “Sabali”
14 Lil Wayne - “A Milli”
13 Kanye West - “Flashing Lights” 
12 Cut Copy - “Out There on the Ice”
11 David Byrne and Brian Eno - “Strange Overtones”
10 Estelle [ft. Kanye West] - “American Boy”
09 Portishead - “Machine Gun”
08 Air France - “Collapsing at Your Doorstep”
07 Cut Copy - “Hearts on Fire”
06 Deerhunter - “Nothing Ever Happened”
05 M83 - “Kim & Jessie”
04 Santogold - “L.E.S. Artistes”
03 Hot Chip - “Ready for the Floor”
02 Fleet Foxes - “White Winter Hymnal”
01 Hercules and Love Affair - “Blind”

Pitchfork Media’s Top 500 Songs

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Every year we have to be subjected to countless lists, everything from “The Top 10 Dance Singles of 2008″ to stuff like “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” To put it bluntly, lists suck. 

So we should be overjoyed that the people responsible for Pitchfork Media have created not just a list, but a book of their top 500 songs. The book will be released on November 11th, it is entitled “The Pitchfork 500” and is a list of the 500 best songs of the past three decades. 

The kind guy at the From Closer To Near blog listed out the entire thing as he received the book two weeks early from Amazon. As you can see from the list, it looks like the standard selections except a few inexplicable exceptions. For example: Scentless Apprentice as the best song Nirvana put out in 1993? So many better songs are on “In Utero” it’s not even funny. Also, Kelly Clarkson. Really? Hipster irony is too far advanced, or behind for me to even follow this logic. 

Many people are of course going to have their differing viewpoints on the book, but my main point is don’t waste your money. If you really want to check out this lame-ass list, click the link above.