The 00s

[freakytigger]

Maybe it's the Pitchfork list, maybe it's withdrawal cos katstevens is away and can't post new polls, but I got DECADE FEVER

Comments

[martinskidmore]

OF COURSE we would love to read it, but I am not willing to express a preference between this and Popular.

[byebyepride]

The idea of 00s lists is a bit terrifying to me - partly because I find the whole list-making phenomenon a bit scary, whereas the charts is a *found* list... and partly because the 00s for me is scattered across a box of CDs I never listen to and two hard drives I've never catalogued! I like the idea of you doing the work in drawing up a singles list because I suspect our listening will have overlapped quite extensively and it would allow lazy me to recover some of the last - and I sort of feel 'lost' - decade with no effort. But: is there any way of doing something more collaborative? You could have the fun of drawing up the list, but just post a couple of lines about each song, and others could add theirs? Like a low-rent popular since I'd hope you wouldn't feel the hand of time quite so heavily on your shoulder. Not like poptimists though, which I'm finding, erm, too indie at the moment, judging by the results of the 00s polls.

[koganbot]

I couldn't imagine not wanting to do one, whether it's top 100 or just top 10. Is neither nostalgia nor desire for symmetry; is rather (1) a way of summing up and taking stock, and (2) a way of communicating which music has excited me, so that other people will know about it and maybe listen to it. And this decade will be surprisingly easy to do (as long as I don't worry too much about what's on it or obsess too much about the order), simply because not only have I made a ten best each year for P&J, but I'm also nominating ten-plus tracks a year for the poptimists poll, plus I've got the rest of the community reminding me of a lot that I'd forgotten about (though we all - i.e., me and Jessica - already forgot Thomas Rusiak's "Hiphopper

[koganbot]

(Hyperbole alert = obviously, I do have some idea what my number three was. For instance, it wasn't the Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight.")

[jeff_worrell]

:(

[freakytigger]

Yeah, I think I will do one, and rely on comments somewhat, or perhaps impose a word limit restriction on myself.

Also, I should write less formally, to differentiate it - I should re-read Kat's Rave 92 series and try and get tips.