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Pitchfork to compile Top 500 Songs since 1977

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.

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.

Ha! Good idea Liz!

I liked the commenter on Gawker who said they didn't even know Animal Collective had 500 songs.

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.

actually john, pitchfork ironically hates daft punk, get your facts straight

jeeez

Well, I guess I'd have to waste more time on it to pick up on these things...

You got the gist :)

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

Well, since my name has no "h", I presume another John is being addressed anyway.

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