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Pitchfork to compile Top 500 Songs since 1977
Submitted by ChrisB on July 17, 2008.Our friends from Pitchfork are creating a book of the 500 greatest songs since 1977, to be released in the fall. Says Sheila from Gawker:
Pitchfork, that repository of often-snobby, (sexually frustrated?) passive-aggressive music reviews (by many dudes named Mark!) has just sold a book. It will be "a paperback guide to the 500 best songs released since 1977," reports the Observer. It will be the most important book about music ever.
I would offer some kind of pithy and/or snarky comment but I (think I) got smacked by a writer I like and respect for a headline I wrote on my own blog about it.
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ChrisB said on July 17, 2008:
Ha! Good idea Liz!
I liked the commenter on Gawker who said they didn't even know Animal Collective had 500 songs.
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Jon Harthun said on July 18, 2008:
Yeah don't forget to throw in a ton of random dance bands like LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, and Annie. And some ironic Top 40 rap like TI's "What You Know".
I don't know which is worse, the predictability of the Rolling Stone or Pitchfork's need to feel original while struggling to appear credible as they drown in their own pretentious gobbledygook.
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bill said on July 19, 2008:
actually john, pitchfork ironically hates daft punk, get your facts straight
jeeez
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Jon Harthun said on July 21, 2008:
Well, I guess I'd have to waste more time on it to pick up on these things...
You got the gist :)
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Imaginary Shrie said on July 21, 2008:
Hahaha... I love when people give the smackdown. I forgive you, Jon, for not knowing how much Pitchfork hates Daft Punk. Must have slipped through the cracks (not as if we aren't already inundated with a crazy slew of media information as it is... now I guess we're supposed to know exactly who indie rock's most hated/loved critic site adores and despises? Bah to that.)
IGshr*e
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Jon Harthun said on July 21, 2008:
Well, since my name has no "h", I presume another John is being addressed anyway.
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imaginary liz said on July 17, 2008:
Should we start taking bets for songs that will appear in the top 10? I say a song by Arcade Fire, Sex Pistols, and the Clash will definitely appear. The rest of the slots will be filled by Radiohead.