Pitchfork's Top 500 Songs of the Decade

[augurus]

You must hate rock, too.

You must hate music to narrowly look for rock.

Maps and Tunnels is definitely rock in my books.

Some of the other songs definitely incorporate rock.

[anthony]

I am luke-warm on the list. Gotta somehwhat agree with the disconerd/hip-hop/hate-rock arguement dispensed by El Duderino.

 

Maps is a riduculously great song and deserves to be there. Chokes me up everytime.

[LouisvilleGreg]

I love Outkast and "B.O.B." is ridiculously good, but as already stated "Hey Ya" was just about as good a pop/rock/hip hop song as there is and it was omnipresent. It totally fucked genre-specific radio formats, it was on every channel across the dial, sometimes all at once. I thought about it for quite awhile and I can't think of any other song that I would be able to pick over it.

[futureman]

i think this list is safe, it doesn't forget obvious selection that would upset people if left off the list. i think the list is fair, but a little disappointing from my point of view

[Killer Whales]

I was very surprised at Neighborhood #1's inclusion over Wake Up, as well as the absence of I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. Ideoteque as the top Radiohead song made total sense to me, and I was really pleased All My Friends is #2. All the pop songs were pretty wall chosen.. I mean, how amazing of a track is Crazy in Love?

 

I listened to a couple of the songs in the top 20 that I had never heard, and I will say that the song by the Rapture is horrible. Heartbeat by Annie didn't impress me at all either, and I never got what was so great about Blind (or Antony Heggarty for that matter). Oh well, solid, fun list