Pitchfork's Best of the '90s - redux

[walkman]

Originally posted by Lazer Guided Melodies:
  Personally, I would move Screamadelica and Deserter's Songs way up in the list.  And if Lazer Guided Melodies hasn't made on so far I doubt it will which I obviously disagree with.  Sometimes I enjoy Pitchfork and sometimes they are so damn american indiecentric and too often bow at the altar of Bob Pollard who is nothing but a drunk from Dayton that I find it pointless.  But hey, that is the good things about lists, right?

check, check and check.  Although, to be fair, Screamadelica hasn't aged quite as well as the other  two...

[mjnova]

Originally posted by walkman:
   

Originally posted by Lazer Guided Melodies:
  Personally, I would move Screamadelica and Deserter's Songs way up in the list.  And if Lazer Guided Melodies hasn't made on so far I doubt it will which I obviously disagree with.  Sometimes I enjoy Pitchfork and sometimes they are so damn american indiecentric and too often bow at the altar of Bob Pollard who is nothing but a drunk from Dayton that I find it pointless.  But hey, that is the good things about lists, right?

check, check and check.  Although, to be fair, Screamadelica hasn't aged quite as well as the other  two... [/b]

That's kinda the problem with these kind of lists, innit?  No one will say that Screamidelica isn't influential, but quite frankly I still think it's a great album.  It's on there because of what it caused, not what it is.
 
 Anyway, I was hoping the list would elimnate all the "this was the album I put on when I first smoked put and it changed my life!!!!" albums, although including Silver Jews would hint that that is not the case.  I also really really hoped it would skew more experimental, as their top 20/50 of the year have.  I'll wait for the whole list to pass judgement, but this was underwhelming.  And Blue Lines higher than Mezzanine, what the fuck?

[markie]

Originally posted by mjnova:
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That's kinda the problem with these kind of lists, innit?  No one will say that Screamidelica isn't influential, but quite frankly I still think it's a great album.  It's on there because of what it caused, not what it is.
 
 
  And Blue Lines higher than Mezzanine, what the fuck? [/b][/QUOTE]
 
 Screamedalica is a great album. It still sounds great. In my opinion it is on there because it is fantastic.
 
 Mezzanine is a fine album, but it wasnt the album that instigated trip hop, that was blue lines. Few songs approach the brilliance of the hymn of the big wheel.

[ggw]

If this list is truly the best of the '90s, the decade really did suck.

[ratioci nation]

pitchfork's new top 30?
 
 http://falsedawn.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_falsedawn_archive.html#106978598903057368

[thenotebookgirl]

Aphex Twin...yuck

[thirsty moore]

It would be nice to see Morphine's "Cure for Pain" in there.

[ggw]

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  It would be nice to see Morphine's "Cure for Pain" in there.

Have you heard Morphine on the new Nissan ad?

[godsshoeshine]

i don't understand why they like i see a darkness so much more than viva last blues, but whatever. i don't know if that was worth redoing.

[thirsty moore]

I haven't seen it, but is the song they play "Honey White"?

[thirsty moore]

I'm happy to see Neutral Milk Hotel's "Aeroplane" in the top 10.  That's one hell of an album.

[Random Citizen]

It features "Buena Buena."
 
 

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  I haven't seen it, but is the song they play "Honey White"?

[Relaxer]

I like lists like this, even if I don't agree with them. For one thing, it's a good way to remind me of discs I should pick up that, for one reason or another, I haven't heard yet. The Pitchfork list spurred me to go out and get the Slint, Neutral Milk, and Talk Talk albums.

[Joymonster]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
   The Pitchfork list spurred me to go out and get the Slint, Neutral Milk, and Talk Talk albums.

You may also want to pick up Talk Talk's "Spirit of Eden", which is just as good as "Laughing Stock"

[walkman]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
  I like lists like this, even if I don't agree with them. For one thing, it's a good way to remind me of discs I should pick up that, for one reason or another, I haven't heard yet. The Pitchfork list spurred me to go out and get the Slint, Neutral Milk, and Talk Talk albums.

Slint's Spiderland record is really great.  The last track gets me every time.