Pitchfork's Top 100 Singles of 2000-04

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― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No complaints, really.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a bad list at all, the top 50 at least. I couldn't be arsed to look through the 100-50 section though. And the blurb for the number 1+2 choice is horrible.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it's too ILM ;)

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

redundant

― ana (ana), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna say, it's a very ilm list.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

somebody post just the list so i dont have to look at the ugly page or read the blurbs

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty great!

― Sean M (Sean M), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

top 50

B.O.B.
HEY YA
LOSING MY EDGE/BEAT CONNECTION
GET UR FREAK ON
CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD
HEARTBEAT
CRAZY IN LOVE
WORK IT
house of jealous lovers
maps
cry me a river
ignition remix
toxic
fell in love with a girl
pyramid song
digital love
in da club
miss jackson
yeah (crass version)
galang
milkshake
99 problems
I luv u
romeo
take me out
the modern age
one more time
since I left you
move your feet
where have all the rude boys gone?
float on
pda
the rat
hot in herre
the dream of evan and chan
harder better faster stronger
try again
izzo (h.o.v.a.)
chair girl/let's get sick
books ep
new slang
chewing gum
weak become heroes
svefn-g-englar
me and giuliani down by the schoolyard
slow jamz
fix up look sharp
freak like me
in a beautiful place out in the country
frontier psychiatrist

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hari, I'm working on it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait.

Annie doesn't even sing 'truuuuly' in 'my heartbeat' does she?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha

listen to the song you love so much pitchfork.

maybe work out the lyrics a bit.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

bleargh
no Vitalic
ok list thogh

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

'Spastic and addictive, "Work It" somehow eschews pop's typically self-perpetuating habits and introduces a brand new aesthetic, a paradigm so weird and uncompromising that it just can't be reproduced.'

what is this shit? i know people work hard at it but for fuck's sake. i don't mind the list per se (well, maybe a bit) but the blurbs are so... boosterish. yes they're boosting stuff they like, but um that's no excuse. and i really don't like '99 problems' and everyone forgets 'got your money', though perhaps that was '99 stateside.

― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

feel ma heardbeat
truuuuly to da beat
let tha melody cum sweeet

― jummy, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
isn't that the point, though? pitchfork is allowed to try to convince us that songs they like are important - in fact, anyone is!

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, whether you buy it or not is a completely different question...

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like '99 problems' either--too much irritating testosterone for me. I am just not into this whole 'bitch!' thing.

But I like the list. Part of the Pitchfork M.O. is writing in a boosterish and evangelizing way. We are not really the audience for their boosterism on ILM, but that doesn't make it bad.

I also don't think "Maps" should be anywhere near the top 10.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

haha electroclash "might still exist"

but it's a good list I guess. is it now officially ok to like pop? we all remember the rooty review.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes the best way of convincing people is not talking to them as if they've never heard a pop song before and that in fact pitchfork invented listening to pop music.

― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree it's pretty ILM and I quite like it's selection (although "Get UR Freak On" should be top), but is Pitchfork a particularly American site? Surely Girls Aloud should be in there somewhere? The it would be truly ILMish.

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

those are no way the lyrics xxxxxpost.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Like aren't there way beter songs by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Obviously "Bang" is a lot better than "Maps," which is treacly, esp. that horrible video.

Miles, but lots of people actually don't listen to pop music. I never listen to the radio and I am a pretty normal person. (I think.)

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

also why on earth do they include some singles and have negative reviews????

like on "Forgot About Dre"

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i do wish that lists would justify their inclusions of certain songs by saying "We all just kinda really really really liked this song"

but that would completely miss the point of music criticism in the first place

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

No Andreas Johnsson?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

mrjosh -- i don't mean 'pop music' as in girls aloud, but 'pop music' as in missy elliott, yeah yeah yeahs -- ie the bands featured. it's all pop music. pitchfork thinks it is mediating between it and us, which is silly. the 'unexpected' choices like annie provoke the most cringey blurbs.

― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

why can't you guys just get over the fact that we invented listening to pop music

― Nick Sylvester, Monday, 31 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha!

I love ILM threads where the Pitchfork-bashers lose.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like '99 problems' either--too much irritating testosterone for me. I am just not into this whole 'bitch!' thing.
But I like the list. Part of the Pitchfork M.O. is writing in a boosterish and evangelizing way. We are not really the audience for their boosterism on ILM, but that doesn't make it bad.
I also don't think "Maps" should be anywhere near the top 10.
-- mrjosh (jrothma...), January 31st, 2005.

The beat is SO good though.

It'd be like if Hitler baked me a delicious cake. It's so yummy, but so evil!

On second thought, I'd be best not letting Hitler anywhere near my oven.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

This writeup is excruciating.

020: M.I.A.
"Galang"
[XL; 2004]

Her country sinking, Sri Lanka-to-London garage-hop/mix-tape It girl Maya Arulpragasam (aka M.I.A.) and her exuberant Slits-on-Missy octave-flip accrue a revolutionary dare-to-dance poignancy on Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 and her official debut, the forthcoming Arular.

It already has a lot of competition, but "Galang" (and its accompanying graffiti-tron video) is her most instantly infectious moment, a pack of distorto soul-stir wrapped in steel-drum-cum-keyboard reggae rattle. And hey, instead of diffusing that joy by locking "Galang" (and the rest of her oeuvre) in the simplified human-interest carnival of the tsunami tragedy, try absorbing M.I.A.'s jubilant blaze-a-laze on its own terms. Yes, music-for-music's-sake is incredibly naive, but besides the obvious beats, wrapped inside the syllables of "Galang"'s tossed off doggerel, there's some truly soothing balm.

― tdm (tubesocks), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Really, I don't get the whole Timberlake thing. Even in theory.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a self consciousness there alright, I agree with Miles to an extent, which makes a change from the last week or so.

the Rooty review is now the stuff of internet lore though, the fact that they include 2 Jaxx singles from that record without mentioning it is a bit odd.

x-post, hahaha that MIA review is hilarious!

"instead of diffusing that joy by locking "Galang" (and the rest of her oeuvre) in the simplified human-interest carnival of the tsunami tragedy"

WHAT THE FUCK!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Yeah!" is of course horribly low, but it's a good list on the whole.

― deej., Monday, 31 January 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

my kylie blurb got a little bizzutchered.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

MIA's an It Girl!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, never mind, I'm not going to type out the whole list anymore -- I'd gotten from #1-#70, and then I had to restart my computer for some stupid reason, and I'm not typing it again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

music-for-music's-sake is incredibly naive

war's not won yet, kids

besides the obvious beats

gnnnnnnnnhhhh

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think every sentence of that MIA write-up makes my brain hurt.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

""Run Into Flowers" wrenches so much beauty from artificial sources it makes me want to cry"

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick S., I LOL'd at your "Hot in Herre" blurb.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked when he called "tessio" feta-cheesy.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Really, I don't get the whole Timberlake thing. Even in theory.

I don't want to be all "do you hate fun??" but I'm having trouble imagining how someone couldn't find at least one of JT's four singles from Justified catchy and engaging on some level, unless you're put off by his singing or something (which I don't mind but more finicky listeners [Dan Perry] might]. I mean, dude writes awesome bridges, for one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked when he called "tessio" feta-cheesy.

An intertextual reference to "Visitor," right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yeah i caught that too! (re: feta cheesy)

― deej., Monday, 31 January 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

my kylie blurb got a little bizzutchered.

nevermind, i AIM complained, order is restored.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit wait no, it's STILL wrong.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, pitchfork would be much better if it moved more towards the "Hot in Herre" writeup. i mean it's a good call!

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Outkast: B.O.B.
2) Outkast: Hey Ya!
3) LCD Soundsystem: Losing My Edge / Beat Connection
4) Missy Elliott: Get Ur Freak On
5) Kylie Minogue: Can’t Get You Out of My Head
6) Annie: Heartbeat
7) Beyonce feat. Jay-Z: Crazy in Love
8) Missy Elliott: Work It
9) Rapture: House of Jealous Lovers
10) Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps
11) Justin Timberlake: Cry Me a River
12) R. Kelly: Ignition (remix)
13) Britney Spears: Toxic
14) White Stripes: Fell in Love With a Girl
15) Radiohead: Pyramid Song
16) Daft Punk: Digital Love
17) 50 Cent: In Da Club
18) Outkast: Ms. Jackson
19) LCD Soundsystem: Yeah (Crass Mix)
20) M.I.A.: Galang
21) Kelis: Milkshake
22) Jay-Z: Problems
23) Dizzee Rascal: I Luv U
24) Basement Jaxx: Romeo
25) Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out
26) Strokes: Modern Age EP
27) Daft Punk: One More Time
28) Avalanches: Since I Left You
29) Junior Senior: Move Your Feet
30) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?
31) Modest Mouse: Float On
32) Interpol: PDA / NYC
33) Walkmen: The Rat
34) Nelly: Hot in Herre
35) Dntel: This Is the Dream of Evan and Chan
36) Daft Punk: Harder Better Faster Stronger
37) Aaliyah: Try Again
38) Jay-Z: Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
39) Mu: Chair Girl / Let’s Get Sick
40) Belle and Sebastian: Books EP
41) Shins: New Slang
42) Annie: Chewing Gum
43) Streets: Weak Become Heroes
44) Sigur Rós: Svefn-G-Englar
45) !!!: Me and Guiliani Down the Schoolyard
46) Twista feat. Kanye West and Jaime Foxx: Slow Jamz
47) Dizzee Rascal: Fix Up Look Sharp
48) Sugababes: Freak Like Me
49) Boards of Canada: In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country Ep
50) Avalanches: Frontier Psychiatrist
51) Outkast: So Fresh, So Clean
52) New Pornographers: Letter From an Occupant
53) Eminem: Lose Yourself
54) Animal Collective: Who Could Win a Rabbit?
55) Jürgen Paape: So Wiet Wie Noch Nie
56) Hives: Hate to Say I Told You So
57) Le Tigre: Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
58) Eminem: Stan
59) Flaming Lips: Do You Realize??
60) Electric Six: Danger! High Voltage!
61) Justin Timberlake: Like I Love You
62) Spoon: The Way We Get By
63) Roots feat. Cody Chestnutt: The Seed .
64) New Pornographers: The Laws Have Changed
65) Missy Elliott feat. Ludacris and Trina: One Minute Man
66) Sean Paul: Like Glue
67) Panjabi MC feat. Jay-Z: Beware of the Boys
68) Coldplay: Clocks
69) Darkness: I Believe In a Thing Called Love
70) M83: Run Into Flowers
71) White Stripes: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
72) Luomo: Tessio
73) Belle and Sebastian: I’m Waking Up to Us
74) Destiny’s Child: Say My Name
75) Radiohead: There There
76) Interpol: Obstacle
77) Talib Kweli: Get By
78) Alan Braxe & Fred Falke: Rubicon
79) Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
80) Liars: Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like EP
81) Kanye West: Jesus Walks
82) Postal Service: Such Great Heights
83) Jay-Z feat. UGK: Big Pimpin’
84) Dr. Dre: Forgot About Dre
85) Arcade Fire: Neighborhood # 1
86) Clinic: Distortions
87) Freelance Hellraiser: A Stroke of Genie-us
88) TV on the Radio: Staring at the Sun
89) Kanye West: Through the Wire
90) Black Dice: Cone Toaster / Endless Happiness
91) Cam’ron feat. Juelz Santana: Hey Ma
92) Clipse: Grindin’
93) Usher feat. Ludacris and Lil Jon: Yeah
94) Basement Jaxx: Where’s Your Head At?
95) Johnny Boy: You Are the Generation Who Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve
96) Eminem: The Real Slim Shady
97) White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
98) Fabolous: Breathe
99) T.I.: Rubber Band Man
100) Fischerspooner: Emerge

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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Good, if predictable list but "Ignition (remix)" is still 13 places too low!! (and most of those other places should be filled with other Chocolate Factory singles)

― C0L1N B--KETT, Monday, 31 January 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

In a just world, "Ignition (Remix)" would never have existed.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stan" should be #1. otherwise, decent.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm somewhat surprised at the low placement of Eminem singles overall. Nothing above #53, and if you'd told me three years ago that "The Real Slim Shady" would only rate #96 on a list like this, I'd be like, "Jeez, what happened, did Marshall rape somebody?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I will hunt you down, Dan Perry.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Monday, 31 January 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(but hopefully after the groove does; I am very weak)

― C0L1N B--KETT, Monday, 31 January 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! Oh wait, you're not going to buy me beer and pay off my mortgage when you find me, are you. Oh shit.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ignition" will free you from such earthly concerns.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Monday, 31 January 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ignition" is by far the weakest of the 00s pop/r&b canon songs, yet it gets the most love! I mean it really is quite weak - "Toxic" may be obvious and overrated but at least it's still great.

"Snake" was the only R Kelly song from that year to be any good.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't imagine thinking "Snake" is better than "Ignition." John Darnielle's thread should be more than enough to convince ppl who think "Ingition" is just average that this is not the case.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

This list was fun to read. I have no problems with it.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ignition" is not average, "Ignition" is totally lame and annoying. "Snake" actually sounds as if it has some oomph, as well as that fantastic sinuous flute line and the bonkers 'like two gorillas in the jungle making looooove!!!' bit.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I like and respect John a lot, but no amount of cajoling/critical rhapsody would make me like "Ignition (Remix)" because I think it sucks dog balls.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

doom wuz robbed!

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess "Drop it Like It's Hot" came out too recently to make it on this, or do people just not rate it? It would have seemed like a shoo-in to me.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Would have preferred "Eple" or "Fight Test" or the New Extended Version of "Some Velvet Morning" myself but, hey, you can't have everything, right?

Yes "Ignition (Remix)" is awful. So are "Yeah" and "Work It" and "Driop It Like It's Hot." It's just like ILM's Rolling 2004/2005 Singles lists: there's way WAY too much mediocre hip-hop.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

if you'd told me three years ago that "The Real Slim Shady" would only rate #96 on a list like this, I'd be like, "Jeez, what happened, did Marshall rape somebody?"

No, but he did put out a completely GODAWFUL shitrecord that made us all never want to listen to him ever again and wonder why we ever liked the guy in the first place.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i've already made reservations for the belmont plateau baseball field here in philly. i've also invited will smith in character as "hitch" to get those single guys laid.

stylus will naturally be called the "stylii"

i've also asked mayor street to *actually* leave city hall to commemorate the event. i've scheduled it to fall between greek picnic and the fall rush events.

and it's kegs of yuengling, btw.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

and it's kegs of yuengling, btw.

B-but Jess doesn't write for either site.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

dude wtf yuengling is state collegian for water

therefore, WOOOOOO

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

nope, but stylus has a ton of pennsylvanians, and i think little nicky is from buxco, so it's on, right?

and we'll invite amy phillips, sara sherr.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

So but you should get, like, I dunno, Old Style or (if you're feeling fancy) Goose Island kegs for the Chicagoans.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe just PBR all 'round.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

amy and sara will be umps of course.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I so wanna watch that softball game. Hell, I'll umpire it! (n.b. I don't know shit about softball rules)

haha xpost

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

am i "little nicky"? i'm from montco actually. belmont is good. that's where all the lax kids drank and bleacherbanged

― Nick Sylvester, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes "Ignition (Remix)" is awful. So are "Yeah" and "Work It" and "Driop It Like It's Hot."

Okay, dude, stop the madness. Not everything by black people sucks.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Good to see Cam’ron's "Hey Ma" getting the canonization it deserves...

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm now i'm wondering if yuengling is easily obtained in NYC ....

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

yes it's easy availabel and probably one of da best cheap beers around
some places got good deals on pitchers

― huptoo, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I was bothered by seeing Toxic, In Da Club and Lose Yourself, but I'm fine with the other 97 songs.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm somewhat surprised at the low placement of Eminem singles overall.

This is probably what I liked most about this list.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that and "Hey Ma."

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

100 tracks from the 00s that should get more love on these poxy lists

conzole - 14 zero zero
legowelt - disco rout
freeway & allen anthony - alright
manitoba - jacknuggeted
medicine 8 - rock music pays off
michelle branch - everywhere
new order - crystal
swayzak - I dance alone
adam beyer - ignition key (speedy j mix)
herbert - deck the house (akufen mix)
snap ant - savior piece
aztec mystic - jaguar
bjork - it's in our hands
beck - lost cause
black strobe - me and madonna (two fairlight bitches mix)
funk d'void - diabla (heavenly mix)
blondie - good boys (scissor sisters mix)
badly drawn boy - silent sigh
recloose - can't take it
bug ft daddy freddy - run the place red (afx mix)
chromeo - destination overdrive (dfa mix)
codec & flexor - crazy girls make my heart go boom
clinic - second line
iconz - get fucked up
fresh - shinobi
ellen allien - wish
tok tok vs soffy o - jean
add n to x - take me to your leader
avenue d - do I look like a slut?
avril - the date
bis - the end starts today
dave clarke - the compass
gus gus - david
ladytron - discotraxx
freeform five - electromagnetic
har mar superstar - ez pass (mint royale mix)
lady b - swany (vitalic mix)
mint royale - show me
miss kittin & the hacker - stock exchange
international jazz day - recurring
jamelia ft beenie man - money
foxy brown - oh yeah
playgroup - number one (yeh yeh black strobe remix whatever)
space cowboy - I would die 4 u
tiga & zyntherius - sunglasses at night
w.i.t. - ooh I like it
wu-tang clan - pinky ring
simian - never be alone (justice mix)
snoop dogg - snoop dogg
truth hurts ft rakim - addictive
Bangkok Impact - Junge Dame Mit Friendlischer Telefonstime
mc pitman - pitman says
felix da housecat - silver screen shower scene (lrd mix)
cosmos - take me with you
fc kahuna - machine says yes
audio bullys - the snow
broadcast - pendulum EP
goldfrapp - utopia (cosmos mix)
go team - junior kickstart
mogwai - two rights make one wrong
moloko - familiar feeling
dj zinc - 138 trek
zed bias - neighbourhood
s club 7 - don't stop movin'
louise - 2 faced
kelis - young fresh and new (timo maas mix)
x-press II - muzikizum
alcazar - sexual guarantee
n.o.r.e. - nothin'
royksopp ft erlend oye - remind me
kraftwerk - aero dynamik
sweet female attitude - flowers
bomfunk mcs - freestyler (pojmasta mix)
truesteppers ft victoria beckham and dane bowers - out of your mind
baha men - who let the dogs out
d12 - purple pills
supermen lovers - starlight
sophie ellis-bextor - get over you
dannii minogue - don't wanna lose this feeling
lisa maffia - all over
mos def - umi says (zero 7 mix)
macy gray - I've committed murder (gang starr mix)
death in vegas - hands around my throat
punjabi mc - jogi
shimon & andy c - bodyrock
shy fx & t power - shake ur body
hanayo - joe le taxi
teddybears sthlm - yours to keep
pj harvey - good fortune
brandy - what about us
n.e.r.d. - lapdance
joe logic - just a little bit lush
orbital - funny break (one's enough)
primal scream - miss lucifer (jagz kooner mix)
cut copy - glittering clouds
cassius - the sound of violence
colder - crazy love
dmx - x gon give it to ya
black box recorder - these are the things
lacquer - behind

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

that list could be a lot better itself i know. it's a work in progress. i basically want to have a top 100 that completely ignores the usual suspects but still features wall to wall excellence (hopefully not too much my personalised view which as it stands probably is rather too much)

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Perry's Ghost is perched upon the coin of the realm, above.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've only heard 7 tracks on your list, Steve! (Which may be the point, but still.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I'll give you seconds, J, on these (mostly the itals):

conzole - 14 zero zero x2
legowelt - disco rout x4
herbert - deck the house (akufen mix)
black strobe - me and madonna (two fairlight bitches mix)
chromeo - destination overdrive (dfa mix)
codec & flexor - crazy girls make my heart go boom
clinic - second line x indiefuxor not-so-corny
ellen allien - wish x make it "Trashscapes" instead
tok tok vs soffy o - jean x 10 million
avril - the date
ladytron - discotraxx
miss kittin & the hacker - stock exchange
playgroup - number one (yeh yeh black strobe remix whatever)
w.i.t. - ooh I like it
Bangkok Impact - Junge Dame Mit Friendlischer Telefonstime
felix da housecat - silver screen shower scene (lrd mix)
fc kahuna - machine says yes
audio bullys - the snow
royksopp ft erlend oye - remind me
death in vegas - hands around my throat
brandy - what about us x wompabompBZZZT
cut copy - glittering clouds
dmx - x gon give it to ya

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracks I heard (& tracks I would've repped in italics):

michelle branch - everywhere
new order - crystal
clinic - second line
snoop dogg - snoop dogg
truth hurts ft rakim - addictive
broadcast - pendulum EP
n.o.r.e. - nothin'
d12 - purple pills
pj harvey - good fortune
brandy - what about us
n.e.r.d. - lapdance
dmx - x gon give it to ya

"Sk8er Boi" happened, too, didn't it?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe part of my fear of listmaking has to do with the fact that I couldn't feasibly come on a thread like this and be like "clearly Toulouse's 'Commuter Maquette' is the best thing ever, except maybe Movietone's 'Hydra,' and how could anyone not recognize these incontrovertible facts?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what the liquor's for, N.

(That Toulouse track is from their 2nd album, on Grimsley, right?)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracks that I can hum (especially fantastic ones in bold):

michelle branch - everywhere
new order - crystal
bjork - it's in our hands
codec & flexor - crazy girls make my heart go boom
gus gus - david
space cowboy - I would die 4 u
truth hurts ft rakim - addictive
mc pitman - pitman says
audio bullys - the snow
moloko - familiar feeling
alcazar - sexual guarantee
n.o.r.e. - nothin'
sweet female attitude - flowers
truesteppers ft victoria beckham and dane bowers - out of your mind
baha men - who let the dogs out
d12 - purple pills
brandy - what about us
n.e.r.d. - lapdance
joe logic - just a little bit lush
orbital - funny break (one's enough)
dmx - x gon give it to ya

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised Beck's "Sexxlaws" got zero love from other pforkers (I had it in my top 10).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(Yeah, Dave, and I highly recommend that record. The first album was great, kind of a south-Chicago Kitchens of Distinction with timely Farfisa parts; after some member-replacement, the second one suddenly had them turning into some kind of Orange Juice post-punk dance-happy Josef K pop combo. I dunno. I think it got bad reviews because, well, for one thing it's on Grimsey, right, but also no one reviewed it until after the notion of "dancepunk" was on everyone's tongues, and so unfortunately I think everyone thought they were trying to be that but were just too wimpy and inept to pull it off correctly. Anyway it's a nice record, and while it has certain band-on-Grimsey qualities that keep it from seeming like a Massive Big Accomplishment, it's just kinda endlessly charming.)

(Movietone's The Blossom-Filled Streets, on the other hand, may actually be a Big Accomplishment.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I love New Points, New Lines...especially "Green Light District". I'm having difficulty obtaining The Way the City Stretches...I can't remember whether or not I've looked at GEMM to find it, either, but I'll check.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

sexxlaws was from like 1998 though.

― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck...it's not on GEMM. I found a CD copy of John Cale's Music for a New Society on GEMM and yet I can't find that?

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, 99.

― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

NO ANDREW W.K. OMGWTF?!?!?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i made the beck mistake, that shit was my number one album on stylus. WHOOPS

also whoops: where's "apollo kids" by ghostface?

I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT 'WE DON'T CARE' BY AUDIO BULLYS

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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