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Song by Song Thru the Pitchfork 500
http://pitchfork500.blogspot.com
Pitchfork (the online music review site) published a book of their top 500 songs in late 2008. In a sorry attempt to channel Mr. Christgau, I am proceeding song by song through the book and blogging about each and every song (sometimes with links and video).
- Added on: Mar 19th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: ryan routh
- Listed in: Music Rock
- Tags: lists pitchfork top songs best songs pitchfork 500 p4k
Recent Posts
120. Motorhead: Ace of Spades
Here comes the metal!Is there more straight up metal than Motorhead? My kids have been expressing more interest in rock music and my son is proving to be a particular connoisseur of metal (rejecting even Sympathy for the Devil as "not rock and roll,...
119. Flipper: Sex Bomb
Song starts off in the fuzzy bass end of the spectrum with a slowish rhythm laid down, then comes the oddly enchanting whistle and shortly thereafter a saxophone making it a true cacaphony before the screaming vocals kick in. You get the sense very ...
118. The Wipers: Youth of America
10 1/2 minutes? Yikes. It's basically a 3 1/2 minute song with a jam tacked on at the end. You get some spoken word kicking in at the 5 1/2 minute mark (yes, I'm basically just proving to the faithful that I listened to the whole thing). Then we g...
117. Black Flag: Rise Above
I always associated hardcore with the high school outcasts forming their own thing. (too often, it seems that the outcasts "thing" devolved into its own caste and social system, but I'm not 15 so I don't need to worry about that shit any longer).Bla...
116. Dead Kennedys: Holidays in Cambodia
Jello Biafra's voice is such an acquired taste, around 25 years after first hearing it, I'm still acquiring it. I'm not quite there yet. This song is straight out of the nihilistic/political punk, which always felt more aligned with the music to me...
112. Atlantic City: Bruce Springsteen
I was one of those kids that, at age 11, spent several years not getting the irony of Born in the U.S.A., so I certainly knew nothing about "Nebraska" Bruce.So this, when I first heard it 5 or 6 years ago, was a nice surprise. I've yet to just liste...
