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Originally Posted by jerf

500 tracks, and not one Mars Volta song? For shame, Pitchfork...

Hahahaha!

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Originally Posted by dirty bunny

I think I posted in here already. But I just wanted to say kudos to Pitchfork for making this list. But I have some issues with it.

The first half of the list, the lower-down part, I recognized a lot of songs I hadn't heard in a while. So that made me smile. But the closer I got to the top half of the list, the fewer songs I'd heard.

Question: why is LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip featured so prominently, particularly in the top half? I've barely even heard of the former, and what I've heard of the latter has left me completely unimpressed. The lads at pitchfork obviously have a yen for synth pop. And I'm not sure that Daft Punk even got a couple songs. Weird. And another thing: there's one track that's a mash-up of a Strokes song with Christina Arugala's "Genie In A Bottle" (one of the most cringe-inducing attempts at a pop song) that's ranked like #148 or something. The mind boggles.

At the end of it all though, I'm left thinking if this is the best of the singles of this decade, what a shit decade this has been.

Pitchfork loves that dancy-punk crap

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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss

3. Transplants: "Diamonds and Guns"

I love the Transplants! Too bad Haunted Cities turned out to be such crap, because that first album was so good!

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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

I only really take a look when people post links

I don't have a problem with people admitting to reading it or looking at it every now and then. It's just the people who say "I hate Pitchfork. I don't pay attention to it at all. The ratings are stupid because they use decimal points and I don't agree with the reviews. I was reading this article and..." that annoy me.

there was far too much reliance on singles, as opposed to songs. for instance, The Streets song they chose "Weak Becomes Heroes" is a pretty sad representation of Skinner's debut...for me it's no question that lead-off track "Turn The Page" is the most brilliant thing he's ever done...the rising strings, the tempo, but esp the words. utter magic. still sends chills when i hear it.

45th generation Roman, indeed. Brace yourself, because this goes deep.