Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

[Fresh Tendrils]

Top 50 Singles of 2005

What do you guys think?

[dieselboy]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

Wow, suprised to see !!! get recognized.

[ehh]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

Wow, that site is amazingly atrocious.

[BGarrett7]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

What do I think? I think I still hate Pitchfork.

[CM1847]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

They put up their 50 best albums of 05.

But any site that lists b-sides under "worst releases of the year" is definitely just trying too hard to impress.

[Birdsonbat]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

I'll usually check out their album reviews just to see what they say. It doesn't really factor into my decision, I just sometimes get a good laugh. It seems as though they consider each Radiohead release post OK Computer as manna from the gods, and I don't trust people who think that way.

[dkgojackets]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

I dont like it.

[Dice]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

With all the play Kanye West "Golddigger" got in 2005 and it was #25? His "Touch the Sky/I heard 'em Say" single was #5 and it wasn't nearly as popular as "Golddigger". Strange ranking.

[ehh]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

With all the play Kanye West "Golddigger" got in 2005 and it was #25? His "Touch the Sky/I heard 'em Say" single was #5 and it wasn't nearly as popular as "Golddigger". Strange ranking.

Well I'm sure their awful rankings aren't based on mainstream popularity, cause there really is no debating which song is better. Heard 'Em Say is on a whole other level than Golddigger, IMO.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

I havent even heard of #1.

[Acid]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

I havent even heard of #1.

I haven't even heard of like 75% of that list.

[maxpower430]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

I think Common's Be should be somewhere on that list, i liked Late Registration more, but i still really liked Be and i think it's better than that clipse album or the documentary...

[CM1847]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

I havent even heard of #1.

It is an indie website, that is the way they want it to be.

I hate how they mix in mainstream rap with completely underground/indie rock. If they go to great lengths to find out about some new great unsigned band from Norway, why can't they take the time to look a little deeper and find more underground rap? I'm not a HUGE rap fan and don't really listen to much underground stuff, but I find it really hard to believe The Game put out the 5th best rap album this year. It is also a problem when I am an indie rock fan and I haven't heard of a lot of their rock albums on that list, but a novice rap fan(at best) but I've heard of all of the rappers on the list except one(Clipse).

I don't think Illinois is the best album of the year. I think it is likable enough to make a bunch of top 20 lists, but I don't think it is the absolute best of the year. It is too long(22 tracks, at least 5-7 of which are under a minute and equate to musical skits like on rap albums), and too much of the same musical style on the actual songs. He does what he does pretty well, but he doesn't change it up very often. Good album, probably in my top 10 of the year, but definitely not the best IMO.

[Birdsonbat]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

I havent even heard of #1.

Don't listen to it. Learn from my mistake.

[ehh]

Re: Pitchfork: Top 50 Singles of 2005

It is an indie website, that is the way they want it to be.

It's absolutely priceless how they're all "indie" for everything except hip-hop. Damnned morons. Cam'ron and Young Jeezy on there?!?!

They made themselves look like complete fools w. their attempt to mix in some hip-hop.