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Pitchfork Top Songs of the 90's

  • 03-09-2010 9:23pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭


    Numbers 20 - 1

    Very interesting list, will probably create lots of reaction and debate but at the moment it's mostly provoking teary eyed nostalgia in me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭Garseys


    Wait? A Pitchfork list where Radiohead isn't number one? :O

    I would have put Pulp number one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Placid_Casual


    Quite mainstream for Pitchfork I thought. I never really read too much into best song lists though. Songs can mean so much to people for entirely personal reasons, so picking your favourite songs is much more subjective than albums.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Can't imagine the kids a decade from now looking back on the '90s and loving what's on that list?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    Completely disagree with Number 1. Common People would probably been a better choice. They seem to have gone with mostly solid songs rather than 'iconic' ones, with a few exceptions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭Morgans


    Its all about opinions, but I completely agree with number 1. The description is exactly how I feel about the song when it comes on shuffle on mp3 player.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    Morgans wrote: »
    Its all about opinions, but I completely agree with number 1. The description is exactly how I feel about the song when it comes on shuffle on mp3 player.

    It's a good song alright but there's no way to be subjective on a list that long and with that many different styles. Overall it's a pretty good list.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭Morgans


    RichTea wrote: »
    It's a good song alright but there's no way to be subjective on a list that long and with that many different styles. Overall it's a pretty good list.

    Yeah. Agreed. Purely subjective and an argument for a huge number of songs could be made validly. The numbers are surely arbitrary, and for me, picking any list would change within hours. If the top twenty were unordered I don't think there would be many complaints. But all that said, happy to see number 1 where it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭MrSir


    Hey I'm listening to Pavement right now (coincidence?). Happy to see their number one I love them so much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    Gold Soundz is a great pop-tune, but I can’t agree with it being the best song over a 10 year period.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭JJ


    I had never heard Gold Soundz before so when I went to listen to it having heard that it was the song of the 90s (according to Pitchfork), I was massively dissapointed. Maybe if I heard it without the expectation I would've enjoyed it more. The 90s was the decade I went through high school and college and to see Pitchform choose this song just seems like the ultimate in self-righteousness.

    I don't mean any disrespect to Pavement but there doesn't seem to be anything about Gold Soundz that defines the 90s or stands out amongs some of the top songs in that list. I could understand Common People, Smells Like Teen Spirit or Loser being #1 but not Gold Soundz.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Pitchfork is not the ultimate authority on music. So much butthurt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 417 ✭✭Wolf Club


    I think it's a fairly comprehensive list; maybe not in that particular order though. Considering it's Pitchfork, I'm surprised there isn't any Sonic Youth circa-Goo though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,471 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    "Gold Soundz" is a good song, but its not even the best track on that album, never mind of the decade.

    "Paranoid Android" or "Smell like teen spirit" would've been the more predictable choices, "Windowlicker" wouldn't have been a bad choice either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭theUbiq


    Seems like a fairly typical list for Pitchfork... are the oarsis fans disappointed because they ain't number one?:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭MajorThom


    Pfft!!! No "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Joke of a list :rolleyes::D;)!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭Joe_Dull


    MajorThom wrote: »
    Pfft!!! No "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Joke of a list :rolleyes::D;)!

    Totally agree, Iris would probably be my favourite song if I had to pick just one :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Joe_Dull wrote: »
    Totally agree, Iris would probably be my favourite song if I had to pick just one :)

    I think MajorThom was joking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Joe_Dull wrote: »
    Totally agree, Iris would probably be my favourite song if I had to pick just one :)

    Dull by name, dim by nature ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭Joe_Dull


    Dull by name, dim by nature ;)

    Different strokes ... :)

    Up there too would be Colony by In Flames and The Grand Conjuration by Opeth - dull enough for you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Joe_Dull wrote: »
    Different strokes ... :)

    Up there too would be Colony by In Flames and The Grand Conjuration by Opeth - dull enough for you?

    Apologies Joe Dull.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭Joe_Dull


    Apologies Joe Dull.

    Apology accepted.

    90s kid myself, so that list brings back a few good memories alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Toss up between The National Anthem by Radiohead and Aphex Twin's Windowlicker for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    The National Anthem isn't a 90's song?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭O'Neill


    For me, Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack should be definitely up there. But that's just my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    The National Anthem isn't a 90's song?

    2000 is so allowed to be in the 90s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭Joe_Dull


    Kold wrote: »
    2000 is so allowed to be in the 90s.

    Nah, he's too weird to be allowed in the club. Come on, 3 zeroes?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Kold wrote: »
    2000 is so allowed to be in the 90s.

    Yep the same way that 1990 is technically in the 80's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    lordgoat wrote: »
    Yep the same way that 1990 is technically in the 80's.

    I'm glad we can agree on this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Den_M


    Well I disagree completely with that list, whatever, music journalism is a strange thing. Is the list representative of Pitchfork as a whole or just one guy/girl that they employ? There's quite a few electronic/dance tunes in there. Then to have Pavement at number 1? I love Pavement but that's not a 90's number 1 song. No 1979 by the Pumpkins, Wonderwall, overplayed as it is or other staples. Still, music, eh? Nothing else can fire you up like it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    lordgoat wrote: »
    Yep the same way that 1990 is technically in the 80's.
    Technically, smechnically.

    You can't be including 2000's stuff in a 90s list. That's list Blasphemy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    You can't be including 2000's stuff in a 90s list. That's list Blasphemy!

    Did you say list blasphemy?

    HighFidelity276.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Sir Graball


    Nolanger wrote: »
    Can't imagine the kids a decade from now looking back on the '90s and loving what's on that list?

    Absolutely!!!! I'd say they'd be running back to the eighties :eek:


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