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Pitchfork’s “Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s” omits the MTV Video Music Awards’ most-decorated clip of that decade and allots fewer words to “1979″ (ranked #29) than to any other cut.
Pavement ranks HIGHER than THE SMASHING PUMPKINS!?!?!?!?!?!?!? hehehe
This is stupid. Get over it – Pitchfork doesn’t like the Pumpkins, mostly because of the last ten years. Hating on Pitchfork like this and dissing Pavement just comes off as bitter and kind of pathetic. There’s a reason SP and Billy don’t get as much press/acclaim as they used to: he hasn’t put out any stellar music in more than a decade, and to top it off Billy continues to act like an entitled megalomaniacal brat to the media. Billy has only himself to blame for the decay of SP’s legacy.
what is their problem with the pumpkins?
i love stellar! my fav from the z-kissed
Are you kidding me? The “1979″ music video is a absolute gem, much like the song itself.
big surprise. lists are stupid, yet I keep falling into the trap of looking at them.
whats funny is that you can tell it kills Pitchfork when they have to say something nice about SP in the 90′s so instead they found a way around it and gave them 3 words that are meant to be complimentary but instead show their disdain for Billy
The amount of tweets and post you guys are allotting to this is ridiculous. At least be happy that they mentioned the band at all.
I don’t really care if they mentioned the band (positive or negative). I have no respect for Pitchfork.
@snowtrooper – TOO funny, LOL. How can someone possibly say Billy hasn’t put out ‘stellar’ music in the last 10 years when there’s a song called Stellar, HAHA! His argument suggests that the other bands on that list HAVE put out ‘stellar’ music within the last 10 years? I’m confused. + Billy has been very friendly with the media in the past year, no? Wah wah wah.
lol i knew i’d see a post about this here.
it was fun watching all those vids. took me down memory lane. i wonder if at easers are pissed because just got elected?
As much as I love 1979 video, how is Tonight, Tonight at least not in the top 50? Stupid pretentious Hipsters….
its pitchfork? what do you expect.
lol punctuation fail
i’m not just saying this because I am a Pumpkins fan but there are about 5 pumpkins videos that could be on this list. Some of these video’s are just nerdy and really only enjoyed by hipster wannabes.
Stand Inside your love
Siva
Ava Adore
Tonight Tonight
Today (its just that classic)
Cherub Rock
Thirty-Three
are all better than majority on this list.
I don’t think Tonight Tonight has ever made anyone’s Top 100 list since sweeping the VMA’s. Even 10 years ago it would be mysteriously omitted.
Pitchfork is a reflection of the wussy-fied state of music and the country in general. They detest testosterone, loud guitars, or any kind of rock attitude. If it isn’t an indie-pop duo layering synthesizers and summoning the spirit of ABBA then they don’t want to hear it.
Before anyone checks out the link to my blog and calls me out I’d state that I like indie pop rock, because there is good songwriting in there and a bunch of bands doing some good stuff, but nothing of the weight and magnitude of SP – but “indie” lacks serious balls.
The era of metal and grunge is going to hold power for a long time. Many students are graduating (or graduated a while ago)from college and not getting jobs because we refuse to budge and are too tough for them. Their sense of entitlement disappears when they hit the real world. So instead of standing up and getting pissed and producing angry music to rail against the establishment they spend all their Web design intern money on Pabst, listen to Crystal Castles, and live at home.
… but I digress
It takes a real man to listen to Grunge music. Way to set these hipster pussies straight.