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Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

teodor_matz — Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:32:04 GMT

Author: teodor_matz

Posted: 09/08/2010 22:32

Shook Ones Part II by Mobb Deep should be number one

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Charicature — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:51:56 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 09/07/2010 02:51

Much as I love Common People it wasn't big here in the U.S. so it wouldn't make any definitive top 20 list for me. I never even heard the song until sometime around 2001.

Sorry it annoys everyone so much, but Smells Like Teen Spirit should be #1 as it's the most identifiable track of the 90s. Also, Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones and Right Now by Van Halen should have made the top 20. Jeremy by Pearl Jam, Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden, Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger, One Week by Barenaked Ladies, Waterfalls by TLC, It's So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday by Boyz II Men, Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground, November Rain and Don't Cry by Guns n' Roses...well, there's plenty of songs that should have been eligible for the top 20 well above the list that's there, but since I didn't like most of them I won't bother trying to recall them all.

I love Gold Sounds and it's one of my top 3 Pavement songs, and as I said Common People, but not only are they not my own top 2 songs of the 90s, I would never be so egotistical to present my own favorite songs as the definitive list for the decade as I know most of my favorites were too obscure. Granted, I still put them up as the "best of the 90s", but that's not what this list is supposed to be, is it?

EDIT: Well, now I see it's the "top 200" of the 90s, and there's no real definition of what they mean by that, so I have to presume it's just their favorite tracks of the 90s, because no other criteria explains their bizarre list.

Oh, and Outlaw, I think it was you that said "no standout tracks" on Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend? #149, title track.

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Anonymous — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:09:56 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/07/2010 01:09

no teardrop isnt as they limited themselves to one song per artist hence no "No Surprises" or "The Spark That Bled" or "Buddy Holly" or "In Bloom" or "Kool Thing" or "Push It Out"or "The Universal" etc etc etc

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Anonymous — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:49:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/06/2010 21:49

Both Unfinished Sympathy and Bittersweet Symphony are on there. Teardrop might be too, I only looked at the top 150 or 100.

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Mr. Shankly — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:12:00 GMT

Author: Mr. Shankly

Posted: 09/06/2010 21:12

an_outlaw wrote:

Songs to buy sweatshop made "indie" clothes to? Most of these (top 10) are good songs but from such a source music is treated as a simple fashion.

😕

Do you ever proofread what you post?

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

40footwolf — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:56:10 GMT

Author: 40footwolf

Posted: 09/06/2010 19:56

Norman Bates wrote:

an_outlaw wrote:

You know what I meant. There is no need for such cheek. :?

It was a genuine question. What is "cheek" (besides the face) ? (I'm not a native English speaker).

It means snark or sarcasm.

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Norman Bates — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:56:24 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 09/06/2010 17:56

an_outlaw wrote:

You know what I meant. There is no need for such cheek. :?

It was a genuine question. What is "cheek" (besides the face) ? (I'm not a native English speaker).

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Anonymous — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:49:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/06/2010 17:49

Norman Bates wrote:

an_outlaw wrote:

SquishypuffDave wrote:

Where the flip is Teardrop?!

That and Unfinished Symphony would make my own top 200 90s songs.

Do you mean "Unfinished Sympathy" or "Bittersweet Symphony" ?

You know what I meant. There is no need for such cheek. 😕

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Norman Bates — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:34:22 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 09/06/2010 17:34

an_outlaw wrote:

SquishypuffDave wrote:

Where the flip is Teardrop?!

That and Unfinished Symphony would make my own top 200 90s songs.

Do you mean "Unfinished Sympathy" or "Bittersweet Symphony" ?

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Applerill — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:48:59 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 09/06/2010 16:48

"10. Say It Ain't So-Weezer"

SQUEE

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Anonymous — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:21:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/06/2010 16:21

SquishypuffDave wrote:

Where the flip is Teardrop?!

That and Unfinished Symphony would make my own top 200 90s songs.

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Anonymous — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:20:42 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/06/2010 16:20

Songs to buy sweatshop made "indie" clothes to? Most of these (top 10) are good songs but from such a source music is treated as a simple fashion.

Re: Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

SquishypuffDave — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:09:17 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 09/06/2010 15:09

Where the flip is Teardrop?! Also, I think Slint's 'Good Morning, Captain' should be considerably higher.

Generally good though.

Pitchfork: top tracks, 90s

Anonymous — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:45:24 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/06/2010 14:45

just want to read thoughts and comments; surprised this hasn't been made already.

here's a link to the top 20: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7853-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-20-01/

Glad to see someone at least pushed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" out of the top 10, about time that happened; glad to see Neutral Milk Hotel made the top 10; never heard Pulp's song (#2) before this chart; and surprised and glad to see Gold Sounds at #1, thinking back it really does have some very memorable lyrics ('you can never quarantine the past', 'cuz your empty, and I'm empty too', 'secret, cret, cret, cret, cret, cret', ' so drunk in the August sun', etc) and a very likable breezy music to it...