So on "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"-- where the two musics triumphantly fuse-- a lot of the appeal comes from the way the band get disco enthusiastically wrong. Of all the arresting moments on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy-- Nicki Minaj mauling the competition on "Monster", the King Crimson call-and-response of "POWER"-- none is more striking than that instant when the head-spinning, hallucinatory soul of "Devil in a New Dress" dissolves into the sobering piano-tapped intro to "Runaway". Pitchfork's Best Folk Albums of the 2010s. ; 3) Whoa, wait a minute. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21). Bombs could be going off, there could be an earthquake, the world might be crazy, but this kind of us-against-the-world tunnelvision is a universally relatable sentiment. 2015 onwards has been dominated by trap and alternative hip-hop. Quite a few artists this year worked with the embers of dubstep and chopped up vocals to create something we dubbed "the new vocabulary." The list-giving season continues with Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums Of 2010. Dancing On My Own Robyn. Listen to Pitchfork: 200 Best songs of the 2010's in full in the Spotify app. LCD Soundsystem: “Dance Yrself Clean” 5. --Scott Plagenhoef. But consider: In every orchestrated wire walk is the ever-present danger of taking one wrong step. Pitchfork's 200 Best Songs of the 2010s. So it's a curiosity and event when a great pop song comes along about... equanimity. --David Raposa, In recent years, Damon Albarn has been aging gracefully into a pop culture role that extends far beyond his provincial Britpop persona. It’s one of my favorite songs and for some reason I thought it was older than 2010. 98. Thinkin Bout You Frank Ocean. Luckily for longtime Blur fans, he reserved the best song on Plastic Beach as a showcase for his own voice. And that's why we're down on the ground, holding our collective breath that she won't. Disco and Arcade Fire have a lot in common: both rely on building and releasing communal sentiments for their full effect, and both create that effect through rhythm. [Page 2] --Rebecca Raber, The CEO is, with good reason, a popular bogeyman, a puppeteer buffered from the consequences of his decisions by golden penthouses and parachutes. Quick Jump Gaming Forum Gaming Hangouts EtcetEra Forum EtcetEra Hangouts Trending Threads Latest Threads Watched threads. People Like Us & Wobbly Music for the Fire (2010) "Naked Little Girl" "Naked Little Girl" 153: 153. --Douglas Wolk, Much like Waka Flocka Flame, roundballers Charles Oakley and Rick Mahorn went hard in the motherfuckin' paint and were vilified by purists for turning a sweet science into a headbanger's ball. The connection between them starts with the fact that Ariel Pink first came to public consciousness with the releases of The Doldrums on A.C.'s Paw Tracks label in 2004. Maybe it's the strange alchemy of working with someone as rhythmically and musically alive as Big Boi-- there are an infinite number of potential rhythmic detours in a beat this rich, and Big Boi burrows his way through nearly all of them. Komplette Liste (200-151) Komplette Liste (150-101) Komplette Liste (100-51) Komplette Liste (50-21) Komplette Liste (20-1) Take the way the piano comes bouncing and hammering in on the break-- a messy, earthy contrast to the twinkling synths we've already heard, and a highlight of the song. "POWER", the first salvo of what would soon become his year, is an absolutely breathtaking piece of egotism, even for a genre that's fueled by bravado and narcissism. Aptly self-described as superhero theme music, the track establishes a power-clap beat as heavy as Ye's Horus medallion before gliding through a high-speed tour of his musical evolution (the militant chants of "Jesus Walks", the moody piano and strings of 808s & Heartbreak). Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town. ), and jabs about race and class wrapped up in copious lolz. I was pleasantly surprised to see Every Single Night by Fiona Apple at 32. Like all of Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, "Shutterbugg" was dragged through years of major-label rap development hell before it reached our ears. Oblivion Grimes. That's a trick that could slot him in with the half-remembered nostalgia crowd, but he trumps Bandcampers with this song's elegance, compositional prowess, and above all, his willingness to feel something and spotlight those emotions. These New Puritans - We Want War. Albarn's performance on the lovesick ballad "On Melancholy Hill" is wistful and understated enough that he sounds overwhelmed at the center of his own buzzing synthpop symphony. 212 Azealia Banks, Lazy Jay. https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/1-pitchfork-highest-rated/2010/1 THE PLAYLIST. --Stuart Berman. A seven-minute suite that seems as compact as an AM-radio single, "Good Intentions Paving Company" might be the first Joanna Newsom song that demands the context of other folks' music rather than its own gallery space. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s -- Top 200 Songs of the Decade 2010-2019 List. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Condé Nast. Best Coast's take on this well-worn pop trope works so well because of Bethany Cosentino's directness: Her vocals, set against reverb-soaked guitar chords, are utterly sincere, self-assured, and shouted to the rooftops. Victoria Legrand's indelible chorus, a six-note wail of failed ascent tugged downward by the chord progression, embodied the album's tone: you can be just as gorgeously miserable walking in the crisp fall air as you were sitting in your bedroom, and Beach House prove that they're more than capable of soundtracking your heartbreak wherever you take it. Like Zep sang, sometimes Newsom's words have two meanings, and this lyric pivots around the way they shift: "honey," "open," "right," "spell," "range." More than any artist this year, Blake felt like both today and tomorrow; he clearly captures something in the air via Burial and other contemporaries, but takes that something somewhere brave and new at each turn. (Joni Mitchell is one obvious point of reference here, but so is Randy Newman.) In addition to all those pieces, it's also got requisite "vibe" and atmosphere. --Matthew Perpetua, Das Racist mock hip-hop because they love it. Tame Impala: “Let It Happen” 8. It's not just the band's catchiest song, it's one of their most hopeful. --Molly Lambert. Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. --Ian Cohen, Japandroids' slept-on between-LPs single "Younger Us" touches on something essential to rock music that too few bands these days even attempt: encapsulating the spirit and romance of youth. Your California Privacy Rights. Thee best 200 songs from thee last ten years according to some lame, overrated pop sellout website! The Out_Circuit "I Only Know (What I Know Now)" is the midpoint between the two, and his career highlight to date; it's the place where the ghost in the machine peeks out through the cracks and lets some light in. Music Quiz / Artists from Pitchfork's best songs 2010-2014 Random Music or Artist Quiz Can you name the Artists from Pitchfork's best songs 2010-2014. by hey_there_you Plays Quiz not verified by Sporcle . This late-70s moment is when disco crossed over, becoming a suburban as much as an urban phenomenon. 21. Even if you haven't read Cooper's story, "Helicopter" will make you feel it in your bones. If it interpolates the themes and sounds of every great disco torch song ever and updates them without being winky or retro, but keeps the "Funky Town" woodblock percussion? It's hard to believe that "Bad Girls" was released all the way back in 2012. There's a sugary ache in Berglund's voice, and a shrewd note, too: He's inviting you from a place they call "reality" to "a place I call reality." Also: trombone solo. https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-songs-2020 His marquee songs all worked the same way: "The Bells Sketch" featured nearly wordless vocalizations; "CMYK" incorporated spectral samples of Aaliyah and Kelis; and by the time of his Feist cover "Limit to Your Love"-- a preview of his 2011 self-titled album-- his own fragile voice was front and center. --Marc Masters. How do you know when a new pop song is a stone instant classic? Read through the whole list. @kanyewest: LOL. Go Orange. "Bad Girls" by M.I.A. It's a sensitive piano ballad inspired by a moment of dick-pic exhibitionism. Her lacy, shimmering voice was once a vehicle of eccentric character; here, it's a traveling companion, giving her tricky diction some emotional spin. But none were as successful as 22-year-old Londoner James Blake, whose trio of 2010 EPs gradually peeled back layers to reveal a bit more of his own vocals. A list of the top albums of the year from Pitchfork. Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2010. The song's imagery-- memories of teen defiance set against visions of abandoned malls-- seems in unequivocal opposition to suburban life. --Brian Howe, "When I'm With You" launches straight into the invincible feeling of a brand new relationship. Ad Choices. Of all the arresting moments on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Video Games - … Pitchfork's Top 200 Albums of the 2010s. --Jayson Greene, If you're going to go from creating claustrophobic electronic pop music to writing an opera based on the notebooks of Charles Darwin, you might as well fully commit to the audacity of such a move and release an 11-minute teaser track. Both Olof and Karin Dreijer Andersson are right at home in this skin, turning the mundane details of Darwin's ornithological observations into haunting, fractured poetry. The top 100 being kicked off with the song that goes “IMMA RIDE IN THE PUSSY LIKE A STROLLER” is the perfect summary of this decade. On an album situated perilously on the faultline between ego and insecurity, "Runaway" puts Kanye's contradictory impulses on full display like they're some immaculate museum exhibit. This is an invitation to choose a world where we can have it all, even for a few blissful minutes, over one where we probably have less than we'd like; a proposition that's hard to resist. --Douglas Wolk. Well, in enough that "hahahaha"'s got a beat from Boi-1da, the same guy who's produced a bunch of Drake's hits-- even if that beat is a freaking "Days of Our Lives" parody. But the song's greatest lesson is a point lost on so many others: a rapper doesn't have to be everything to everybody all at once. --Tom Breihan. "We'll dazzle them all," goes one line, and it's no idle boast; another goes, "Write the songs that say, 'I like that!'." Ad Choices. The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s My perspective: there's a lot on there that I've never heard, as Pitchfork has fully embraced hip-hop this decade. (81 tracks out of 100 found on Spotify, about 6 hours) (100% track titles included in the playlist) 100. If those aren't enough contradictions for you, the only thing as powerful as Kanye's sense of self-worth is his self-doubt-- the chorus is simultaneously boastful, condemning, and anxious. It's a doomed plea, but Murphy makes it over and over: "I can change, I can change, I can change, if it helps you fall in looove." Laugh at how trite their taste is with me. Site also contains reviews, ratings & more. "Runaway" marks the rare moment where Kanye sides with his detractors-- if the whole world thinks he's a douchebag, well, this one time he's inclined to agree. They're working in a field whose audience is hung up on authenticity, so that's the button they keep pushing from both sides: extreme rap insider references ("Ice-T plus Coco"! The fact that it was somehow partly the product of Scott Storch-- he of the dependably lifeless, funk-free Dr. Dre imitations-- only deepens the song's mystery. Complainer Floodplain (2017) "Floodplain" "Floodplain" 154: 154. And while most of his 2010 peers would use these elements for giggly, ironic nostalgia, Murphy knows exactly how perfect a vehicle this music is for delivering complex emotion. Kendrick Lamar: “Alright” 4. February 2010 Republished: September 14, 2010 Love Remains "I Can't Wait" … Or if, when the chorus comes on in the club, it always feels like the very first time? Pavement – " Gold Soundz ". 2. Dr. Dre (feat. But it appeared this year bearing no timestamp: That stuttering, quicksilver beat, a perpetual-motion machine of sparkling guitars, electro synths, and gastric talk-box burps, could have been birthed in 1979, 1999, or 2022. October 7, 2019. via pitchfork.com. On "I Can Change", a wounded and broken-down Murphy, desperately hoping to save a relationship, makes the one promise that nobody can ever deliver on: He could become a completely different person if that can make him the person his partner wants. Musically, that's also pretty much where the connection ends, despite the two artists sometimes sharing the "hazy, half-remembered yada yada" that became an indie cliché over the past two years. But as "Colouring of Pigeons" shows, the Knife took to (as the group's Olof Dreijer described it) the "pretentious and dramatic gestures" of opera with ease. They're still putting their heads down and rocking, refusing to intellectualize skin touching skin for the first time or choosing beer over sleep-- the kind of shit that seems so simple when you spell it out, but can be so profound in the moment when you're living it. Of course, disco's rhythm is based on an ultra-tight streamlined groove, and Arcade Fire's is more often a rolling, ragged surge. That bass/vibes line goes round and round, there are lyrics about air guitar and a frontman, and Ariel Pink whispers "breakdown" during a breakdown. Where lyrics like, "When I'm with you I have fun," and "I hate sleeping alone," might seem trite or obvious on paper, Cosentino delivers them with a lovestruck swoon so affecting, we can't help but d'awww. It's a chronicle of post-breakup depression and regret that, by the time we hit that ubiquitous chorus, has been reframed as a celebration-- and the more Kanye venerates his most loathsome qualities, the more humble and sympathetic a character he becomes. When every straight guy you know confesses that he secretly loves and listens to it? With bubbly synths and a wistful piano bridge sandwiched between a gleaming, fluffy top layer and skittering bottom, it's like candy made from five kinds of candy. Haha! Gyptian: “Hold Yuh” (2010) 50. Our coverage of the Year in Music rolls on with our list of the Top 100 Tracks of 2010. 99. a statement of ambiguity. Snoop Doggy Dogg) – " Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang ". Everything from "Tightrope"'s taut body-popping funk beats to its note-perfect brass sallies to Big Boi's well-cued entrance make Monáe seem preternaturally confident, in-control, even unapproachable. All rights reserved. The contrast between his weathered, weary tone and the bright notes that carry the main hook is surprisingly beautiful, like garish commercial lighting that ends up appearing romantic in spite of itself. That's good advice for target-hoisting famous folks like Monáe who get a lot of both, but what about the rest of us? Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21). But it's a multi-part suite that loses none of its menace in its complexity, and a look back that sounds entirely forward-thinking. The best songs feel more like conversations rather than artworks to be hung on the wall and admired from several paces away. 2010-2014/15 was dominated by indie rock and folk, with a focus on DIY aesthetic. 3. But by setting it to this ersatz disco, music summoned out of the suburban heyday, the band let us know that, even in the sprawl, culture and life can flourish. 4. Alright Kendrick Lamar. Like the album it leaps off of, "Shutterbugg" is a joyous demonstration of the triumph of funk over release dates. Are they in or out? © 2018 Condé Nast. It was the "Obama era", social media was still coming into its own and music reflected this. It's one … Producer Lex Luger once again sounds like he's making beats for the Decepticon Francis Scott Key, and most of the rappers talking shit about Flocka on Twitter have entire albums with fewer memorable lines than this one packs into five minutes. The shambling backing track of strings, drums and cymbals might be new to the Knife, but the piece's ominous theatricality is most certainly not. Last week they published their best songs of the 2010s and we are honoured and … Panda Bear wrote a simple verse and chorus and alternated between the two with a rhythm that felt right, jumping back and forth until it seemed time to stop and then the song faded out. Tags / list. On "I Only Know" it sounds as if Blake is recording dreams of his own work. Male Bonding - Year's Not Long. After the Taylor Swift Incident, Kanye West apologized and suggested he would work on becoming a humbler, more even-keeled person. CN Entertainment. Cranes in the Sky Solange. Cults quietly debuted their invigorating first single "Go Outside" on Bandcamp, without so much as a MySpace or a Facebook page listeners could use to mine for details about them. This track off Sit Down, Man, their second mixtape of 2010, is as close as they've come to a statement of purpose, i.e. With the moral authority of a Sunday School teacher and showmanship of a Cirque du Soleil ringleader, Monáe rails against high highs and low lows-- specifically, against letting either sycophantic praise or jealous disses go to your head. Backin Up Song (2010) [Single] "Backin Up" "Backin Up" 157: 157. "Round and Round", on the other hand, has an intro, a variation, a funny little break with a sound effect, a section that pauses just before the big refrain, and then that huge chorus, where every musical element (and every listener) is embraced by the song's skinny arms. ), extreme rap outsider references (Dwight Schrute! UHhhhuuuh Fuck this website It makes sense: Hip-hop and electronic R&B are basically the sounds of youth culture now, and although Japandroids are taking a rearview approach to their lives here, they aren't doing it with heavy sighs, misty eyes, or the trappings of reflective, so-called mature rock. Kendrick Lamar: “Alright” (2015) It’s not every day, or even every decade, that a song … If it contains a couplet as perfect as, "Stilettos and broken bottles/ I'm spinning around in circles"? Through everything that happened in the ’10s – blog culture, playlists, tastemakers and critics – Pitchfork has remained a constant, respected and influential stable. Author: SellMeAGod. "My Girls" was naïve and straightforward and full of heart and people played it at weddings with a straight face and that didn't even seem that weird. Emotional extremes-- elation, heartbreak, fury, romantic obsession-- are pop's bread and butter; they're inherently dramatic and totally relatable. Of course, NBA fans remember them now because they recognized the effectiveness of focused intimidation, and what we have here from Waka is a master class in sonic domination. Log in Their albums were muted, dusty crawlspaces that you entered alone and lingered until you were ready to face the world. Whether self-diagnosing himself through King Crimson samples or indulging a suicide fantasy in the song's final segment, "POWER" darts from manic to depressive and back again as quickly as its distorted MPC sample pings around your headphones. --Scott Plagenhoef, Pretty and unabashedly earnest, "Helicopter" flirts with melodrama. Pulp – " Common People ". Spelling Bee Caterwaul (2012) "Tectonic Breath" "Tectonic Breath" 155: 155. No grief, all joy... memories are made of this. Listen to Pitchfork: 200 Best songs of the 2010's now. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s - Page 3 show list info "In the 2010s, technology made creating, distributing, and listening to music easier than at any previous point in history. Weirdly, that makes ceo a perfect name for the Tough Alliance member Eric Berglund's solo project, a cocoon of carefree dance-pop untouched by street-level problems. The big surprise for people, I think, will be a Pitchfork year-end Top 10 without the Arcade Fire. Those dummies! Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. Thinking about "Round and Round" in this slot, I can't help but compare it to the song we had here last year, Animal Collective's "My Girls". What pushes "Helicopter" beyond mere sentimentality are the evocative simplicity of Cox's pithy verse ("They don't pay like they used to pay/ I used to make it day to day") and the swirl of electronic debris that grounds the arena-sized chords. Robyn gave us all kinds of great singles this year, but "Dancing on My Own", which kicked off her Body Talk trilogy, remains the standout. The low-key introduction was notable not just for injecting some much needed mystery into an era in which we know so much about our over-accessible pop stars that we even see camera-phone pictures of their junk, but because the song itself-- which recalls both brightly twee, glockenspiel-happy Swedish pop and the simple, nostalgia-inducing melody of the Faces' classic "Ooh La La"-- sparked immediate interest in the group. The twinkling beat pulses obliviously behind him, leaving him naked and vulnerable. A few days after Have One on Me came out, I walked into a store where this song was playing on the radio, and thought, in order: 1) Huh, they don't usually play the classic rock station here; 2) Anyway, I love this song! That ability to effortlessly communicate the rush of newfound love, to briefly infect her listeners with that feeling, is her greatest strength. Summoning the eternal spirits of divas like Donna Summer, Sylvester, and Gloria Gaynor, Robyn alchemizes everything great about current dance music into flawless ABBA gold. Kanye West: “Ultralight Beam” [ft. --Mark Richardson. Frank Ocean: “Pyramids” 3. At nine minutes, it is My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's longest song, but also its simplest and most emotionally direct. 1. Pitchfork's Tom Ewing once said the KLF's Chill Out was the sound of music having dreams about music. Robyn: “Dancing on My Own” 6. Whenever I hear its slow prom-dance lilt and maudlin lyrics, I think of Sonic Youth's winking take on the Carpenters' soft-rock classic "Superstar". Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star Support Sporcle. Defying expectations and categorizations at every turn, she continues to demonstrate that she is the Rocky Balboa of pop music. Author: machaerus. It's all of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's pathology and genius in digest form, the vicarious, timeless thrill of hearing a crazy talented person act crazy and talented. At any moment, the focus of the song is the heart on Newsom's sleeve, so you need to pull back from it to catch the spectacular architecture of its melody-- the first bridge ("honey, just open your heart") is where the song flies off the interstate beat her piano's been pacing out, and into the open air. "Sprawl II" evokes a precise era in dance-pop-- the bass and keyboards are "Heart of Glass"-era Blondie, and Régine Chassagne's breathy, accented singing reminds me of Eurodisco vocalists. It's the sound of Kanye's entire over-Tweeted, Lanvin-lavished, Dubya-dissing universe reduced to one single, lonely chord. © 2018 Condé Nast. It's this endless competition that makes him so fascinating both on-stage and off, and "POWER" might as well be the theme music for that psychological warfare as well. 49. CN Entertainment. If it mixes perfectly into basically any other song? The result is emotion that's universal without being generic. Arcade Fire: “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” (2010) 51. View reviews, ratings, news & more regarding your favorite band. Grimes: “Oblivion” 7. Source / pitchfork.com. --Hari Ashurst, On their first two records, Beach House made lovers' rock for basements. --Tom Ewing. https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7895-the-top-100-tracks-of-2010 Musically, "I Can Change" finds LCD Soundsystem diving wholeheartedly into early-80s synthpop. Kanye West: “Runaway” [ft. Pusha-T] 2. Formation Beyoncé. --Rob Mitchum. Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (Pitchfork, 2003) The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s (Pitchfork, 2010) Weblinks. https://www.listchallenges.com/pitchforks-top-50-albums-of-2010 And in the end, "Round and Round" succeeds brilliantly for the same reason great Burt Bacharach songs work-- because every chord change and turnaround and melodic leap is in exactly the right place. Your California Privacy Rights. "Walk in the Park" was at once its saddest and most cinematic moment. As his recent Tweet-athons about Matt Lauer and Taylor Swift suggest, Kanye tends to get defensive when his dubious behavior is called into question. With its nagging and simplistic keyboard melody, its dry electronic percussion, and its grid of interlocking pieces, the entire backing track could've come off a Soft Cell or early Depeche Mode record.

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