I have a few observations that have been rolling around in my head for the past week and a half. First of all, my immediate reaction to the thought of a top 100 list was the usual, "Who can accurately list the top 100 of anything?" I stand by this statement and it is fairly obvious Pitchfork's list loses integrity around number 20.In general I can rarely take issue with any top 10 list. For any song/album/movie to make it into somebody's top 10 it has to be fairly pleasurable. But honestly, "All of My Friends" [youtube] at #1? Of all the tracks on Sound of Silver, you go with the 7 and a half minute, 1 chord exercise? Okay, technically it is two chords, a Bmaj and a Dmaj9, but the chords are so skeletal that the B/E perfect 5th is played the entire time. How can any self-respecting person listen to those two notes for 7 and a half minutes? I've never quite bought in to massive adoration of LCD Soundsystem (another song at #7?!), but this song is nowhere as good as Pitchfork (and a few others) claims it is.
On a less critical note, something that jumped out at me as I listened to the list was the concentration of tracks that ran for more than 5 minutes. 37 of them, in fact. This fact resulted in my spending way too much time making my way through the list.
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