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Jimmy Mac
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0Posted on Dec 17th, 2009 | re: Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009 (191 comments)
Anyone really disappointed with the top 20 is kidding themselves. My Girls was always going to be no.1 and AC, Phoenix and Grizzly Bear deserved to be represented the way they were.
I would have liked to see some Mew in there somewhere but the album’s best four tracks (New Terrain, Beach, Introducing Palace Players and Repeaterbeater) are so damn even that I can understand if they rate the album instead of its individual parts – I assume it will feature in their top 25 albums and hopefully somewhere close to the top 10.
Are you people serious? These lists are based on at least 25 critics putting in their own top 25 so to pretend there is politics behind the selections is pure folly. Does anyone recalll last year’s number one? Now that was a stinker – but again, based on consensus.
The only thing I concur (con*quer) with is the rap songs because the last five years have been bad ones for that genre.
If anything, I am surprised there were not more Animal Collective tracks on the list – an EP of cast offs from the album still managed to produced five classics and they were clearly the year’s best band.
For the record, my five were:
1901
What Would I Want? Sky?
Introducing Palace Players (Mew)
While You Wait For The Others
My Girls