Like really? Five years? Why not just thug it out the full decade?
October 5, 2024 5:51 AM Subscribe
From rap getting brasher and noisier, to online scenes blossoming during quarantine, to entire subcultures of music being shot to the moon and stripped for parts by TikTok, music as we know it fundamentally shifted this half-decade. from The 100 Best Songs of the 2020s So Far [Pitchfork]
See also: The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far
See also: The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far
Hey, thanks for this. I'm in my late '50s and don't follow music at all any more, not like my youth. But I still like coming across things I know nothing about, and don't understand people my age who gripe about 'today's music' and how they had it so much better.
My own opinion is that no matter what, even if you have no idea and aren't aware of it, somewhere there is always great music being made, always.
And, I frequently and randomly come across new and newish songs I absolutely love; but a feller has to be willing to look for it.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 8:55 AM on October 5 [10 favorites]
My own opinion is that no matter what, even if you have no idea and aren't aware of it, somewhere there is always great music being made, always.
And, I frequently and randomly come across new and newish songs I absolutely love; but a feller has to be willing to look for it.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 8:55 AM on October 5 [10 favorites]
I hadn’t listened to ML Buch before, but the description of her album Suntub sounded right up my alley, so I put it on… and it is very much my jam.
posted by Kattullus at 9:41 AM on October 5 [1 favorite]
posted by Kattullus at 9:41 AM on October 5 [1 favorite]
As a heads up, the article has links at the bottom to Spotify and Apple Music playlists. There are also Youtube links throughout to open in new tabs, but at Youtube, I only see reader-created playlists of 85 to 87 videos.
posted by Wobbuffet at 9:56 AM on October 5 [4 favorites]
posted by Wobbuffet at 9:56 AM on October 5 [4 favorites]
I just found out this past week that the incredible 2023 earworm Padam Padam is performed by none other than Kylie Minogue, about whom I had a dream in like 2003 wherein, upon meeting her, and being impressed by her hit Can't Get You Out Of My Head which came out in 2001, full 14 years after Do The Locomotion, found myself wanting to express my admiration for the length of her music career while at the same time not wanting to imply that I thought she was old. In the dream, I just stood there, not saying anything at all. But now! 22 years later! The woman is a tour de force, and if I do meet her in person, I'm just going to smile and give her a high five, because damn.
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:50 PM on October 5 [5 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:50 PM on October 5 [5 favorites]
Nothing from Cowboy Carter?!
posted by ellieBOA at 4:05 PM on October 5 [2 favorites]
posted by ellieBOA at 4:05 PM on October 5 [2 favorites]
Thanks for a music post. I love them
posted by kensington314 at 2:02 AM on October 6 [1 favorite]
posted by kensington314 at 2:02 AM on October 6 [1 favorite]
Nothing from Cowboy Carter
I love Beyonce and I love what she's doing with CC as a legacy artist (1000%) but is CC better than what NoName or KeiyaA or even Blood Incarnation did, looking at their bottom 10 or so here? To me it's not in their league. I spent a good amount of time with CC and I think it will go down either as a game changer or a well-earned indulgence consigned to historical curiosity. (As an album--obviously a few songs there own early 2024, which was FUN). Almost 30 years in I'd be little bummed about music if Beyonce was topping a list like this twice. (Renaissance rules and surely earned its spot.)
posted by kensington314 at 2:23 AM on October 6 [1 favorite]
I love Beyonce and I love what she's doing with CC as a legacy artist (1000%) but is CC better than what NoName or KeiyaA or even Blood Incarnation did, looking at their bottom 10 or so here? To me it's not in their league. I spent a good amount of time with CC and I think it will go down either as a game changer or a well-earned indulgence consigned to historical curiosity. (As an album--obviously a few songs there own early 2024, which was FUN). Almost 30 years in I'd be little bummed about music if Beyonce was topping a list like this twice. (Renaissance rules and surely earned its spot.)
posted by kensington314 at 2:23 AM on October 6 [1 favorite]
Gupi and Fraxiom's Thos Moser is a completely off-the-wall hyperpop tune densely packed with musical ideas, references, humor, and and catchy beats/melodies. The video seems like an inside joke for a small friend group, released publicly as an afterthought. It's like 100 Gecs with less "emocore" and more "cartoon soundtrack".
Thos Moser dropped in February 2020. At the time it felt so exuberant. I was excited for the new decade! Now when I hear it, I think about an alternative 2020s timeline where the pandemic never happened, and the overall mood was more like this song.
posted by scose at 12:35 PM on October 6 [2 favorites]
Thos Moser dropped in February 2020. At the time it felt so exuberant. I was excited for the new decade! Now when I hear it, I think about an alternative 2020s timeline where the pandemic never happened, and the overall mood was more like this song.
posted by scose at 12:35 PM on October 6 [2 favorites]
The Grace Ives track is 😚 👌
posted by pxe2000 at 1:07 PM on October 6 [1 favorite]
posted by pxe2000 at 1:07 PM on October 6 [1 favorite]
A fun thing to do is find some music that got slammed by Pitchfork, listen to it, and then listen to the stuff they love, and try to figure out what the difference is, lol.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:19 AM on October 7 [1 favorite]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:19 AM on October 7 [1 favorite]
The woman is a tour de force, and if I do meet her in person, I'm just going to smile and give her a high five, because damn.
I hate to be the proof that ads work, but this is how I am aware that Kylie is doing a North American tour next spring, so there ya go. =)
posted by ApathyGirl at 12:22 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
I hate to be the proof that ads work, but this is how I am aware that Kylie is doing a North American tour next spring, so there ya go. =)
posted by ApathyGirl at 12:22 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
I've never been a pitchfork top 100 guy (never liked Radiohead that much), but this top songs list definitely is a 'music critic' list, as so many of these songs sound exactly like more popular pop songs, so it's 'spin the wheel and that's your pick' which I am perfectly fine with - but so many more are 'musical collages' that are almost unlistenable - the kind of stuff that really resonates with music critics.
I mean, I can't imagine being in the year 2035 and listening to some guy's QANON conspiracies set to beats. I'd feel freaking embarrassed for the year 2020.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:41 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
I mean, I can't imagine being in the year 2035 and listening to some guy's QANON conspiracies set to beats. I'd feel freaking embarrassed for the year 2020.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:41 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
No San Quentin from Nickelback. :(
posted by Metro Gnome at 2:09 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
posted by Metro Gnome at 2:09 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
What's up with the title of this post? Pitchfork has been doing half-decade lists since the 00s...
(If there is some reference I am missing here please disregard)
posted by wats at 6:24 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
(If there is some reference I am missing here please disregard)
posted by wats at 6:24 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
It's a pull quote from the article.
posted by atbash at 9:26 AM on October 8 [1 favorite]
posted by atbash at 9:26 AM on October 8 [1 favorite]
A quote from the very first paragraph of the article, no less.
posted by Umami Dearest at 9:29 AM on October 8 [1 favorite]
posted by Umami Dearest at 9:29 AM on October 8 [1 favorite]
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