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Old 08.22.2009, 03:46 AM   #61
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Old 08.22.2009, 05:43 AM   #62
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Old 08.22.2009, 06:19 AM   #63
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486. Spiller [ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor]
"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)"
[Positiva; 2000]

489. Kano
"Reload It"
[679; 2005]

483. Platinum 45 [ft. More Fire Crew]
"Oi!"
[Go! Beat/FTL; 2002]


476. Ward 21
"Petrol"
[Greensleeves; 2003]

466. Saint Etienne
"How We Used to Live"
[Mantra; 2000]

451. Scissor Sisters
"Mary"
[Polydor; 2004]

445. Ricardo Villalobos
"Que Belle Epoque"
[Frisbee Tracks; 2000]

438. Lady Sovereign
"Ch-Ching (Cheque 1, 2 Remix)"
[Chocolate Industries; 2005]

432. Sugababes
"Overload"
[London/Warner; 2000]

423. The Delgados
"All You Need Is Hate"
[Mantra; 2003]

422. Santogold
"Lights Out"
[Downtown; 2008]

Ok, I'm bored of that game now. This seems like a pretty good list to me. I would suggest that a lot of you have shit for ears if you don't think Umbrella or Missy or whatever are utterly astonishing singles. RnB might turn out legions of shite (I'm thinking early-90s Boys2Men or RKelly) but when it's on it blows most other things out of the water.

Also, a lot of you go for albums rather than singles, which is an entirely different thing. I wouldn't say that SY, for instance, have had a genuinely great single since Dirty, but they've had a few great albums since then.
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Old 08.22.2009, 06:20 AM   #64
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I'm still going through this list -

394. The Streets
"Blinded by the Lights"
[679/Warner; 2004]

Would be a top tenner for me.
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Old 08.22.2009, 06:24 AM   #65
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Most of those songs couldn't stand a chance when it came to universal agreement. Parochial crap made ''some'' good. I like that.
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Old 08.22.2009, 07:01 AM   #66
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do the people who wrote that list listen to anything outside the top 40?
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Old 08.22.2009, 07:03 AM   #67
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along with the 18-part music video.

it's 22 part, and there are 10 more coming out at the end of this year, i can't wait
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Old 08.22.2009, 07:20 AM   #68
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it's struck me reading through the list that I've listened to next to no new music this decade, and what new stuff i have listened to is apparently shit.
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there are some really nice picks (mainly in the more "pop" department) in there, but, as with every superlong list, basically, I think it's a bit pointless and lacking... I'd have thrown in some Black Heart Procession. some cLOUDDEAD, Why?, lots of stuff..so, yeh, big deal, uh?
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Old 08.22.2009, 08:55 AM   #70
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394. The Streets
"Blinded by the Lights"
[679/Warner; 2004]

Would be a top tenner for me.

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Old 08.22.2009, 10:03 AM   #71
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40. The Avalanches
"Since I Left You"
[Modular/XL; 2000]


I totally forgot about this track, I haven't heard it in years. Great tune.
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Old 08.22.2009, 01:03 PM   #72
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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.
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Old 08.22.2009, 01:21 PM   #73
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Old 08.22.2009, 01:29 PM   #75
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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.

Well, LCD Soundsystem is featured so prominently because it is good, I wouldn't put "All My Friends" as the second greatest song of the decade but it's a great song, so is "Someone Great".

And,

139. Daft Punk
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
[Virgin; 2001]


23. Daft Punk
"Digital Love"
[Virgin; 2001]


5. Daft Punk
"One More Time"
[Virgin; 2000]



But you're right about that Strokes/Aguilera mash-up song, I think it's terrible. They should have put "Hard to Explain" alone.
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Old 08.22.2009, 01:32 PM   #76
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the strokes hype killed me. on the cover of rolling stone with the headliner of "ARE THEY THE SAVIORS OF ROCK AND ROLL?"

fuck you. there are really REALLY good bands around now if you just open your fucking eyes.
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Old 08.22.2009, 01:37 PM   #77
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Well, LCD Soundsystem is featured so prominently because it is good, I wouldn't put "All My Friends" as the second greatest song of the decade but it's a great song, so is "Someone Great".

And,

139. Daft Punk
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
[Virgin; 2001]


23. Daft Punk
"Digital Love"
[Virgin; 2001]


5. Daft Punk
"One More Time"
[Virgin; 2000]



But you're right about that Strokes/Aguilera mash-up song, I think it's terrible. They should have put "Hard to Explain" alone.

Ah well, can't be right all the time I guess :P
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500 tracks, and not one Mars Volta song? For shame, Pitchfork...
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My top ten tracks of the decade, in no order:

1. Mastodon: "Oblivion"
2. Daft Punk: "Aerodynamic"
3. Transplants: "Diamonds and Guns"
4. Gorillaz: "Feel Good Inc."
5. A Perfect Circle: "3 Libras"
6. The Vines: "Outtathaway"
7. Massive Attack: "Future Proof"
8. Deftones: "Beware"
9. The Cure: "Alt.End"
10. Minus The Bear: "Knights"

I didn't pick any SY becuase I couldn't decide on 1 song.
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