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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Pitchfork's 100 best tracks of the year: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/147998-the-100-best-tracks-of-2008?page=10

And your second reminder to get YOUR tracks of the year to leagueofpop@gmail.com!

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

NOEZ I was hoping to be able to ignore this (having already come across it by mistake on ILM).

Should I post the Vibe singles of '08 on Poptimists, if we're going to be posting other publications' lists? It's a damn sight better than...this indie shit and it contains loads more ideas for people to use in their lists. I can even do a zip file with loads of 08 tracks in, if people want it.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes pls :) more lists the merrier sa i!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

yes plz to zip file. Having followed the best-of-list thread on ILM it looks as if you've had a different year from everybody else in the blogosphere - and a much better year at that!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's been really annoying to see everyone paying so much attention to all these indie-centric lists - I don't see why they should be treated as a barometer of anything other than indie, which I don't have any interest in, but they seem to get dragged into the critical centre in a way the Vibe and Fact lists don't.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(and what's most annoying is seeing all the music I've loved getting pushed aside for endless reams of grey indie mopeyness - Tom was talking about entryism earlier but it doesn't seem to have worked on the Pfork list.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes the potential for entryism was there but in practise it didn't work that well. BUT the reasons I post the P4K list are fairly obvious i.e. i. there are bits by me on it and ii. it's the most-read music website in the world (actually I think metacritic is more read but that's aggregation not original content). I think Vibe has similar authority in its field, and I think Fact's list is generally better, but I never said anyone COULDN'T post those!