Number 2 should be number 1. Play that song anywhere and people dance.
Fuckin A.
Didn't really pay attention to the rest of it to be fair........
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oh yeah....
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/2005/singles/index5.shtml
jesus
A fucking terrible list, coupled with some of the worst, most nonsensical writing I have had the displeasure of reading. If this doesn't destroy the last flicker of credibility pitchfork had, nothing will.
Pitchfork, eh? *sigh*
Pitchfork is fucking dire nowadays, that list is utterly pointless.
Why are they including 12" techno b-sides in there? Why are hip-hop mixtape tracks in there? The whole list smacks of attempting to remain 'cool' and 'eclectic' and as such is smug and relentlessly clueless.
Kelly Clarkson...
Pitchforkmedia on "since u been gone":
It went something like Pink (vocals) + Interpol (verses) + the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps" (right down to that crunching guitar noise on the bridge) + Max Martin (Swede-pop overdrive chorus).
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it hard to find any resemblance to Interpol in this track?
According to the advert
'Everyone's talking about Kelly Clarkson'
YEAH? YEAH?!? Talking about how they want to smash her fat fucking face into a new building, like a bottle of champagne into a new boat. Clarkson, on a rope, swinging rapidly into a 25-storey office block. See how her limp lifeless body and face-on-loan-from-the-fella-from-Keane smash at full pelt into the fifteenth floor.
Now fuck off you useless slut.
in a land
of lawrence weston, someone no-one needs to go. This honestly made me roflmay-oh-ay-oh-ay-oh. ta.
*somewhere
Is illiteracy catching?
Did Prole
ghost-write that post for you?!? What are you on about?
your post
was funny. That's what I tried to say, badly.
:)
That is all
just crap isn't it. More like Avril Lavigne everything.
The whole list isn't too good to be fair. Trapped in the Closet is in the top 10 though. Full marks for that.
Agree with all the 12" techno b-side stuff as well. What's the point.
well said
it is ridiculously smug and pointless, they might as well have just called it 'a bunch of tracks wot we like and/or looks good in a list'. The rex the dog one was a b-side, superpitcher remixes? 50 cent mixtape tracks? what?
Never read Pitchfork
Now I never will.
Oh
and full marks to Bamos for the Kelly Clarkson post. Kelly Clarkson=Barbie goes rock.
Better than the stylus list tbh
Did anyone see the artist lists on PF? It read like a game of 'Guess the pitchfork top 5'
i think that stuff
about 'techno b-sides' is a bit wide of the mark. i mean they're allowed to to put songs that aren't well known in the top 50 if they're good aren't they? anyways, within the electro/techno/house scene the songs that are there are all fairly well recognised. u just may not be part of that scene.
terrible list
some decent and some utter tripe!
erm
i really really am.
but there is no way you can honestly put in Rex The Dog b-sides over, say, Booka Shade unless you are wilfully trying to be 'obscure' and 'cool'.
I never heard anyone play out "I Look Into Mid Air" at all this year but i sure as hell heard a lot of "Mandarine Girl". You can't count b-sides without including every 12" release this year.
pitchfork are out of touch though
The rex the dog one and the MFA one were probably only on there purely because they were on Kompakt total 6. I struggle to believe they are actually "part of that scene".
I mean pitchfork not the tracks
that aren't "part of the scene".
exactly
but then, their top 10 techno tracks of the year had "Mandarine Girl" at #1, so why was it not in here?
baffling.
i only go on pitchfork to find out when stuff is released now, they've shat upon so many amazing albums and they hide the fact they have no idea about half the bands they're writing about by coating their reviews in vomited-up thesaurus pages.
true
they have shat on a lot of great albums and that's not a new thing, they've always do. They slated all the daft punk ones then they'll say in some other 9.something review "it's on the same level as 'Discovery'".
my grammar is terrible
"they've always do"
what a terrible top 10
Terrible. You'd never get something so sh*t on DiS.
I personally think
it's ace. I think they should swap their number 1 and number 50 but other than that it's good. Not quite as spot on as last year's singles list but that could just be because I haven't heard as many of them this time or that 2004 was a bigger singles year.
As a community DiS may be great but in terms of being a music site Pitchfork still shits all over it. I've been reading it ever since I liked their review of Madonna by ...TOD when that came out and will most probably be a fan for as long as the website's up.
Hmmmmm
Much as I like to defend the Fork on here most of the time, I have to say that list was quite exquisitely horrible.
Also, I'm starting to think I'm the only person in the world who fucking HATES Amerie's "1 Thing". Is there ANYTHING good about that song besides its drum track?
Meh. If Sufjan is Number 1 tomorrow I might feel a bit better. If it's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or some other such shit I think I might just have to die.
.
"Is there ANYTHING good about that song besides its drum track?"
The sight of pretty girls dancing to it...
And...
the videos not too bad either.
too true sir,
too true
that
it distracted the accountants, Blunt-lovers and middle managers of this world from slitting their wrists and spraying their families and co-workers with gore for another three and a half minutes?
I'm a PF fan
but I'm not crazy about their inclusion of hip-hop to what was once mostly alternative music. So it's kinda weird to see half the list of urban rap bands that I don't ordinarily associate with PF...or my own tastes. Also, the site will bash the Killers 364 days out of the year and then give Mr Brightside a top 20 call. So that's weird again. But feck it: the singles lists have never been that interesting. Let's see what they come up with tomorrow with the top albums...that'll be much more interesting, I'm sure. Any wagers on who'll be no. 1?
Didn't
Mr Brightside come out about 7 years ago? Something like that.
Hmm
Actually, I think, it came out in 1983 but was panned as horrid trash; apparently it's good now. ;-)
maybe...
...this is one of it's many re-releases?
Top 50 Singles..
..looks like a decent enough list to me.
Picking singles you can never get as cool a list as picking tracks would get you. Like others have said, the albums list will be more interesting and is more what they're about.
(Kelly Clarkson's is actually may favourite of the songs in their top ten.)
i love her
so much
this
is not pitchfork. watch it.
"Is there anything good about that song except the drum track?"
The bit where she goes 'Oooo-eee'. I love that bit.
Does her arse count as part of the track?
it's
a reasonable list. i agree with much of it. gwen stefani should have been higher, amerie's high placing is very well deserved, the game can fuck right off, yay stars, and i'm surprised by m83 - good band, but i wouldn't have picked that song as one of the singles of the year.
Agreed
It's not the worst list in the world.