Yeah, a ton of those were on there.

I would've had TI's "What You Know" in my top 5 though.

Man, this has totally reafirmed my belief that I do not give a shit about singles.

Pitchfork really needs to get off of James Murphy's dick. Everyone else does too.

Picking "Crazy" over "Hey Ya" = kill yourselves.

"99 Problems" is such a piece of shit song.

Putting "My Girls" in the top 10 = failure.

"B.O.B." at #1 is pretty cool, though. "Paper Planes" deserves its spot as well.

man, "99 Problems" is pretty much a perfect song.

i couldn't help but giggle.

I can't take it all.
what about LCD "I'm Losing my Edge"
I love that his first single is about his giving up to the hipsters (while being hipster himself)

This sentiment makes me angry. I hear nothing good about this song, and never have. To me that song is anti-good. It's the perect anthem of stupidity.

That people consider this guy more than a purveyor of throwaway pop, that he's somehow an innovative genius, kills me.

I love the whole black album. It's awesome.

I just don't get you sometimes.

I feel like I missed that one episode of the nightly news where everyone else was secretly brainwashed by subsonic frequencies and subliminal messages into loving Jay-Z.

I like a couple songs off The Blueprint, and that's it.

It's mostly the production and chorus that I hate on "99 Problems". I actually just read through the lyrics for the first time (don't care to hear the song any more), and I have to admit that they're alright.

i could understand not liking the chorus because it's easy misogyny and directly taken from Ice T. But I can't understand not liking the beat.

I don't know, that beat's pretty dull to me, and I HATE the guitar sample.

It's basically Liscense to Ill type shit, which of course tons of people still love the shit out of. I have no use for it.

I like this list. It's fun. It makes us talk about now. It can't be perfect, there are too many genres (hello, where is Booka Shade's In White Rooms?) to include everything but it's a fun overview.

I certainly don't like everything but then I REALLY love things I never expected to be on there- Beyonce, Amerie, Lindstrom's "I Feel Space", The MFA and Rex the Dog.

some people hate what I do. That is fine. I hate what other people love. No one is more right or more wrong.

and it includes everyone's Walkmen and Animal Collective and fucking Wilco.

You can't please everyone. You can't even begin to. I don't defer to pitchfork but frankly, it's the biggie voice in indie music, love it or hate it. They say very clearly on there - "staff list"
it's what the people at pitchfork choose to like.

you can't argue apples and oranges.

FWIW I think he's totally overrated and I don't particularly like his albums at all. I do like "99 Problems". I just like the sound of it not necessarily the rhymes.

But, that's not really what I was getting at.

Just sometimes seems like you just weren't born with any sort of "pop" gene in your DNA or something. I understand that you have a sort of sensibility towards what you like or find interesting and there is a musical aesthetic that you tend to lean towards. I just feel that there sometimes isnt' much middle ground. A lot of indie records that venture into pop territory tend to get dismissed, etc. In this respect, you defend the type of things you find worthy as much as Rads defends the type of stuff he finds worthy which is great.

I don't really have a point. I mean, last month I was looking to kind of get out of my comfort zone musically speaking and I grabbed a couple records from you best of '09 list (Oneida, Tim Hecker). After listening to them (I like 'em both) I just can't see myself ever playing either at a party or social gathering. Ever. Just doesn't ever seem like you venture over the darkside (Reg rock/pop) much.

I know how you feel about the Truckers but then the other day I saw you had Skynyrd album in your NP's.

Just saying, I don't get you sometimes and these thoughts were spurned on by some of the discussion in the polls.

Moving along......

I could sort of explain, and I started to attempt it. I don't know if anyone wants to hear my life story, and I don't really have time to tell it.

Long story short: these days most of my music listening occurs at work. I listen to a lot of things I don't love so just because something's in my NP, doesn't mean it's really "my thing" (case in point: Skynyrd). I do like a variety of stuff, and I do like some pop and pop-leaning indie (currently digging Phoenix). You could probably characterize most of what I listen to as "headphone music" not "social music", and that's probably because that's exactly what it is for me. It's rare that I get to put on any music for any social gathering these days, but the next time I get the opportunity, I've got tons of stuff I'd like to play for people.

KEGGER AT DRINKYS!

Actually used to happen, hard as that may be to believe.

social vs headphone is a an interesting subject. My tastes and appreciation in music, especially rap, funk and soul changed a lot when I started DJ'ing regularly, and has changed each time my audience has changed.

yes.

Absolutely. A monster of a song. That keyboard riff is just fucking huge.

i'm enjoying going through this list and listening to the tunes as i go. i am kind of shocked that get ur freak on is so highly ranked. i always thought it was a comically bad track.

not top 5 for me, but i'm a big fan.

i don't get "losing my edge" being so highly ranked, though i'm not the biggest lcd soundsystem fan.

So, I just looked at this and apparently on 14 Sep they are doing "The Decade In Noise." I'm actually kind of interested in how they approach that, as whether I like to admit it, I think the boom of pitchfork really opened up a lot of doors for some of the bigger/crossover noise acts (Yellow Swans, Wolf Eyes, Black Dice if you want to count them, hell even supergroup Badgerlore). Though I guess opened doors isn't the best wording, or perhaps it is, hell who knows, would Wolf Eyes have been able to put out a record on Sub-Pop if it wouldn't have been for people latching on to Pitchfork and Pitchfork constantly using them as a reference point (though unfortunately that break came too late and was one of the worst records Wolf Eyes ever put out)? I don't know. Regardless, like I said, interested in seeing how they approach that.

"What You Know" is a surprising omission. Was it ranked at all?

Yeah. #38 I think.