Posted September 8, 201014 yr Go Pulp, Beck and Aaliyah! Top 10 1. Pavement: “Gold Soundz” 2. Pulp: “Common People” 3. Dr. Dre: “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” 4. Radiohead: “Paranoid Android” 5. Wu-Tang Clan: “Protect Ya Neck” 6. My Bloody Valentine: “Only Shallow” 7. Neutral Milk Hotel: “Holland, 1945″ 8. Aaliyah: “Are You That Somebody?” 9. Beck: “Loser” 10. Weezer: “Say It Ain’t So” http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/...he-1990s-20-01/ Thoughts?
September 8, 201014 yr The list is not at all bad, even if it is typically restrictive in terms of genres. I would have Pulp at #1 I think, it defines the era for me.
September 8, 201014 yr Author Yea Pavement at no. 1 is a bit of wtf I'd say this is typical Fork Although any 90s list that doesn't include Losing My Religion has lost it somewhere imo. Ok, I'm having my REM time of the year but LMR is the closest thing to "perfect pop song".
September 8, 201014 yr It reads like a list from a bunch of sad journos who a ) have never left America and b ) have never set foot within a mile of a club. The complete absence of ANY big 'dance' record in the list... and the laughably low inclusion for 'Unfinished Sympathy' (below Nine Inch f***ing Nails no less - please) make this list... wellll.. teeth-clenchingly embarrassing.
September 8, 201014 yr I respect that it's not a typical predictable list and includes a more diverse range of genres than the typical list would, but I wouldn't choose it like that. :P
September 8, 201014 yr Delighted that Hyperballad is so high but the lack of The Box from Orbital is most disappointing.
September 8, 201014 yr The complete absence of ANY big 'dance' record in the list... Are you blind? Music Sounds Better with You, Born Slippy, Da Funk and Red Alert are in the list...
September 9, 201014 yr Delighted that Hyperballad is so high but the lack of The Box from Orbital is most disappointing. You know, The Box really does seem to be one of the great 'lost' records. It's rarely even mentioned when talking about Orbital but it's an absolutely fantastic record. I must dig out my 12" and listen to the other versions, all great!
September 9, 201014 yr Author Music Sounds Better with You, Born Slippy, Da Funk and Red Alert are in the list... And brilliant choices Also Setting Sun is at no. 43. Edited September 9, 201014 yr by SKOB
September 9, 201014 yr It's a big FAIL at them choosing Girls And Boys to represent Blur though, they released far better singles in the 90s.
September 9, 201014 yr Author Yea and that makes the absence of Losing My Religion even more questionable. Both are great pop songs but G&B is not even highlight of Blur's career
September 9, 201014 yr Author Perhaps that's the idea of Blur in the US. That and Song 2. The idea is wrong.
September 9, 201014 yr Are you blind? Music Sounds Better with You, Born Slippy, Da Funk and Red Alert are in the list... you must be completely blind if you think ANY of those mentioned were anything more than top 20 fluff - hardly the songs that shaped a genre or a generation..... especially the vile Music Sounds Better With You and Red Alert... anyone with half an eardrum would know the finest Underworld singles were off their debut album...certainly not Born Slippy. As I said, a list compiled by journos without the faintest clue about actual dance music in the 90s.
September 9, 201014 yr You didn't say that there weren't any great ones - you lamented "The complete absence of ANY big 'dance' record in the list..." Which is plainly untrue. The quality or otherwise of the tracks is not what I am disputing - you just said something that was untrue to make a point.
September 9, 201014 yr you must be completely blind if you think ANY of those mentioned were anything more than top 20 fluff - hardly the songs that shaped a genre or a generation..... especially the vile Music Sounds Better With You and Red Alert... anyone with half an eardrum would know the finest Underworld singles were off their debut album...certainly not Born Slippy. As I said, a list compiled by journos without the faintest clue about actual dance music in the 90s. To be honest, Born Slippy IS one of the songs I would say defined part of my life in the 90s. It and the rest of the Trainspotting soundtrack was utterly essential if you were at sixth form or uni at the time.
September 9, 201014 yr I would also say that Music Sounds Better with You and Da Funk shaped the next 12 years of filtered house, provided inspiration for Madonna and Kylie Minogue (or rather their producers). The influence of Daft Punk is still being felt.
September 9, 201014 yr Perhaps that's the idea of Blur in the US. That and Song 2. The idea is wrong. This list includes non-singles, I noticed. And as such the absence of Caramel or Trimm Trabb in favour of 99% of the list is a joke. Especially Common People.
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