Sure Beirut’s Zach Condon had actually been to the Old Countries, but his appropriation of traditional Yiddish and French styles is still just that, and a tinge of desperation can be felt in this song’s attempt to detach from the very age that, paradoxically, makes it possible. But man, the Curtis of “Hate It or Love It”– this guy seemed like he might be a star forever. Yeah, pretty much the same number that predicted Em’s most lasting moment would be an almost too-serious soundtrack jig about the perils of a character named (presumably) after a John Updike protagonist. However you arrived at the track, its five-and-a-half minutes– a swaying, heady blend of weighty bass, spray-can hisses, and warm-blanket synths– remain some of the most thoroughly pleasurable techno of the decade. But what truly sets “So Weit Wie Noch Nie” apart is Paape’s masterful sampling of Israeli-born schlager singer Daliah Lavi’s wispy vocals, which elevates a gorgeous instrumental into something heavenly. Pitchfork's Top 200 Albums of the 2000s. Did your favorite song from the aughts make the top 10? Laugh at how trite their taste is with me. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. 110. The RipPortishead • Third. You might peg the date of interment in the 60s, when the Shangri-Las and George “Shadow” Morton were clotting simple yet twisted love songs with mossy production, making them sound all deathy and decayed. The Avalanches’ reimagining spirits Stuart Murdoch’s cheerfully heartbroken vocal (and not much else) to North Africa for hand-played percussion, wooden flute, and a Sudanese children’s choir. They almost trip over themselves in transforming Bush’s paean to the slow surrender of control into a race to be the first one wrestled to the ground by love. Pavement – "Gold Soundz" 2. Rattled by the loss of a child, Brock– one eye on his navel and the other fixed skyward– navigates the cosmic chaos as the band crafts a sound to match the scope of his gaze. The nimble rhythm of the chant “hate it or love, the underdog’s on top” bobs and weaves around the syncopated bass line, and his evocative opening verse– his last great one– seems to summon Cool and Dre’s summer-soul track into existence: sheepskin coats and gold ropes, Rakim’s “My Melody”, bikes getting stolen, mommy kissing a girl. The Avalanches believe in traveling. Listen to The 500 Best Songs of the 2000s in full in the Spotify app. October 7, 2019. –Marc Hogan, Listen: Belle and Sebastian: “I’m a Cuckoo (by the Avalanches)”, It was hard to know what to make of Clinic when they debuted with a string of singles in the late 1990s. External links. This was a kind of, nostalgia, one that could be acquired through the sheer act of looking at old photos– or postcards– and a sentiment that could be convincingly and compellingly evoked by a 20-year-old kid dreaming away in his New Mexico bedroom. 1. –Sean Fennessey, You once could find Cut Copy’s debut Bright Like Neon Love in the dollar bin at San Francisco’s Amoeba Records. As you may have noticed, Pitchfork launched their P2K: The Decade In Music feature this week, opening the gate with The Top 500 Tracks Of The 2000s. The Cure, the Clash, New Order, OutKast, Pavement, Pixies, Radiohead, and the Smiths received three spots each. Play on Spotify Comments. 2009. From Peaches to Debbie Reynolds: This is the versatility of a great artist. Probably not quite yet. Check out the very best rap, pop, rock, R&B, hip hop, dance and indie tunes from the 2000s. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Condé Nast. I could not begin to predict the results personally (though perhaps the first place finisher won't be so difficult, will be interesting to see how high its average is though). 2. The Avalanches’ reimagining spirits Stuart Murdoch’s cheerfully heartbroken vocal (and not much else) to North Africa for hand-played percussion, wooden flute, and a Sudanese children’s choir. (See especially the Tough Alliance and Air France remixes of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman’s Taken By Trees project.) In the world outside of half-baked critical theory, “D.A.N.C.E.” suffered from more practical bugaboos in the form of flagrant and unrelenting overexposure. –Sean Fennessey. They almost trip over themselves in transforming Bush’s paean to the slow surrender of control into a race to be the first one wrestled to the ground by love. To play this content, you'll need the Spotify app. On 2003’s Trevor Horn-produced Dear Catastrophe Waitress, “I’m a Cuckoo” was just one audaciously kooky, Thin Lizzy-owing AM pop thrill en route to the even greater lavishness of 2006’s The Life Pursuit. OutKast – B.O.B. It’s all you really need to know. –Mark Pytlik. 146. (See especially the Tough Alliance and Air France remixes of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman’s Taken By Trees project.) At 30 seconds in, keyboard stabs and female vocals chime in, and the song evokes the, head-whipping of La Bouche or Haddaway. But this wasn’t so much, to crib James Murphy, borrowed nostalgia for an unremembered era. –Paul Thompson, Maybe it’s just the “P.Y.T.” reference, but it’s kinda hard to write about “D.A.N.C.E.” at this point without the mind eventually turning to Michael Jackson. Don’t ask me how the blue collar Dan Boeckner ever gelled with an ADD Renaissance fair castaway like Krug, but this freak of a power ballad maximized the group’s disparate strengths. Despite the devotional tone, you get the sneaky feeling that “free of distortions” is a euphemism for being left alone. The nimble rhythm of the chant “hate it or love, the underdog’s on top” bobs and weaves around the syncopated bass line, and his evocative opening verse– his last great one– seems to summon Cool and Dre’s summer-soul track into existence: sheepskin coats and gold ropes, Rakim’s “My Melody”, bikes getting stolen, mommy kissing a girl. In their crowded field, it's hard to say exactly what makes Stars of the Lid so special. No. –Mark Pytlik. But a whole host of sensations pour through them, and not just emotional ones: The guitars prickle and clutch; the refrains scale ear-popping altitudes. –Jayson Greene, The Game: “Hate It or Love It” [ft. 50 Cent], The world begins and ends in “3rd Planet”, which is kind of a lot to tackle in a rock song. Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid. Source / pitchfork.com. Though they’re a band best experienced as a big picture, “The Swish” distills their appeal to an essence– a collage of 70s rock dressed in pop-culture trivia and half-remembered stories about drug dealers. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. feat. In particular Pitchfork just couldn’t publish out a table of the top 200, but they included approximately 65,500 words across the entire article. 3. Dr. Dre (feat. Bun B and Rich Boy – Paper Planes (Diplo Remix) Beyoncé feat. T.I.] A fan’s band from the first song. Pitchfork Top 500 Songs of the 2000s v2.0 By bizcochino. "Atlas" 7:09: 2. Sure Beirut’s Zach Condon had actually been to the Old Countries, but his appropriation of traditional Yiddish and French styles is still just that, and a tinge of desperation can be felt in this song’s attempt to detach from the very age that, paradoxically, makes it possible. He had more surprising songs and more challenging tracks but “Fix Up” had the muscle and hunger. Krug promises to take you to a place where “nobody knows you” or “gives a damn either way”, and the funny thing is, I trust him– even if he does sound like a weirdo. August 2009 stellte Pitchfork zu Beginn einer Retrospektive namens 2PK eine Liste der 500 besten Songs der 2000er vor. Are we ready to hear it again? Look at the landscape shots. But what truly sets “So Weit Wie Noch Nie” apart is Paape’s masterful sampling of Israeli-born, singer Daliah Lavi’s wispy vocals, which elevates a gorgeous instrumental into something heavenly. Hell, considering the syrupy disco strings, emphatic childlike joy, overstuffed melodies, and unrelenting technical efficiency at the heart of it, you could even build a case for this being a sort of loving metaphor for MJ pre-, . But they weren’t simple– their songs were long; their verses obsessively detailed; their codas jarring; their theater weird. This is a guy messing with puns the year, came out. In the interim, their makeover, partially tended to by DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, morphed them into indie stars, fuelled first by the Hearts on Fire EP in 2007 and a kaleidoscopic game of Human League that casts shadows of Berlin period Bowie. Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. Komplette Liste (20-1) Komplette Liste (50-21) Komplette Liste (100-51) Komplette Liste (150-101) Komplette Liste (200-151) It may sound entirely out of time, but “Postcards” is a decidedly 21st century anthem. But MGMT pull “Pretend” off with the kind of conviction that standing on the precipice of stardom can give you. In truth “Fix Up” is as fiercely stark as any 00s production but you simply don’t notice that: Dizzee’s addictive, dominating talent turns it into thrillingly uncompromising pop. But Dave Fridmann’s major-label-funded take two is something out of Hieronymus Bosch, a lush pleasure garden of melodies twining like naked limbs, guitars and drums distorted into dirty, Ecstatic grooves. Think you’ll find it there now? Not only does this version make “Cuckoo” finally sound as carefree as its melody, it also predicts indie pop’s late-2000s turn Africa-ward. From Peaches to Debbie Reynolds: This is the versatility of a great artist. On 2003’s Trevor Horn-produced, , “I’m a Cuckoo” was just one audaciously kooky, Thin Lizzy-owing AM pop thrill en route to the even greater lavishness of 2006’s, . It comes to mind that their relentless commitment to subtlety sets them apart, as does their masterful hand with tone. –Mike Orme, Though the original version first appeared on Kompakt’s 2001 Total 3 compilation, many listeners first discovered Jürgen Paape’s luscious “So Weit Wie Noch Nie” when Erlend Øye used the song as the opener for his stellar 2004 DJ-Kicks mix. You might peg the date of interment in the 60s, when the Shangri-Las and George “Shadow” Morton were clotting simple yet twisted love songs with mossy production, making them sound all deathy and decayed. Pulp – "Common People" 3. He knows who it belongs to, and it still burns him up. But this enigmatic new-millennium band dropped its guard a little on the amorous-mixtape staple “Distortions”, which beat the Postal Service to the indie-electronic slow dance by several years. All rights reserved. 0:30. Songs: Ohia - "Didn't It Rain" 453. f**ked Up - "Crusades" 452. You can, it turns out, feel the knife. The funny thing is, it’s not really a romantic song. Singing in a controlled lilt, Feist performs “Mushaboom” like a plaintive acoustic number that just might fit right in on the Singin’ in the Rain soundtrack. Paper Planes - Diplo Street RemixM.I.A., Bun B, Rich Boy, Diplo • Paper Planes - Homeland Security Remixes. And then with “Multiply”, the lead track off his debut album, he found his container in a Sam Cooke castoff. Here, the adrenaline spike of the car crash is replicated at the nexus of shoegaze bliss-out, ambient oblivion, and stadium rock release. The 50 best songs of the 2000s. Scissor Sisters - "Mary" 450. ’s diffident and dreamy synth-pop relegated the band to the fringes of hardcore appreciators. Neon Love’s diffident and dreamy synth-pop relegated the band to the fringes of hardcore appreciators. Good tune, though. Brock’s disarmingly direct lyrics still manage to hint at a well of hurt and self-reflection a few minutes couldn’t possibly hope to resolve– he dares to ask personal questions of the universe, and “3rd Planet” finds him posing some of the toughest ones yet. He had more surprising songs … This woozy love song takes its time finding contentment, too, with a beat that sits still and vocals that promise to stretch on forever. The story of “Postcards” is also the story of this hyperactive age of information exchange and accrual. He’s deep into his late-period-Tyson decline now, the stage in which you brag about hanging out with Bette Midler on your mixtapes, narrate porn films, and (possibly) make an appearance on Foxy Boxing. But this wasn’t so much, to crib James Murphy, borrowed nostalgia for an unremembered era. Those dummies! The thing with these best-of-the-decade lists is there’s usually a lot of discussion to be had, and that translate into a list that not only names the top songs, but summaries and rationale for each. The best tracks of the decade that changed everything for radio, the underground, and your iPod October 7, 2019. via pitchfork.com. My Morning Jacket - "Golden" 449. –Andrew Gaerig, Just do a cursory search for real estate in Mushaboom, Halifax. Dizzee Rascal ends the 2000s as Britain’s biggest urban music star. It’s all a little unsettling– decadence always is. In a decade when mainstream rock continued its ignoble slide into pure alpha-male-ism, it was beyond refreshing to see four boys embracing one of pop’s most theatrically feminine figures. Jay-Z)Beyoncé, JAY-Z • Dangerously In Love. Your California Privacy Rights. –Jess Harvell, If this list reflected the number of “no-one-watching, in-the-mirror, punch-the-air self-psyching”-moments a song produced and not the whims of a group of music critics, this song would be such a runaway number one Vegas would’ve stopped taking bets six months ago. And unlike most rock’n’roll songs about an inability to get your rocks off, you suspect the anti-adolescent “No Pussy Blues” will only become more hilariously apt as you grow older, whatever your gender. What made the Futureheads 21st-century p-punk exemplars was their commitment to twee-boy harmonies as dizzyingly overlapping hooks. It’s all you really need to know. A fan’s band from the first song. 1. Are we ready to hear it again? There are just a few words, inscribed in a lavish script on the harmonies; a handful of chords. –Brian Howe, It’ll always go down as a Spencer Krug song, but “I Believe in Anything” testifies to the power of teamwork. This was a kind of imagined nostalgia, one that could be acquired through the sheer act of looking at old photos– or postcards– and a sentiment that could be convincingly and compellingly evoked by a 20-year-old kid dreaming away in his New Mexico bedroom. It’s nostalgic, sure. Pitchfork. In the world outside of half-baked critical theory, “D.A.N.C.E.” suffered from more practical bugaboos in the form of flagrant and unrelenting overexposure. Björk is featured three times: twice in solo work, and once in Icelandic pop group the Sugarcubes. I understand that Drake, Rihanna, and Beyonce are important figures in the 2010s...but holy fuck is this list tailored to those three in particular. Swear to God there was a brief period in 2007 where it was government-mandated to appear in 40% of the world’s advertisements and television musical montage moments. “Fix Up Look Sharp” was his first record to suggest that might be a safe bet. 21. Michael Jackson – "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" 3. We're taking the top 50 songs from Pitchfork's top 500 tracks of the 2000s list and putting them head to head in one of the highest quality and competitive rates we've had yet. This is a guy messing with puns the year Funeral came out. Title Length; 1. Now, check out the top 500 tracks from the 2000s: http://p4k.in/Tm815Yj add tag. Feist had been kicking around in punk bands, touring with Peaches, and singing sweet, fucked-up songs with Broken Social Scene for a decade before “Mushaboom”. You can, it turns out, The Hold Steady came as a relief to squares who liked AC/DC’s riffs but got tired of searching for value in cock jokes on repeated listens. … In the year-plus since its release, the super-sunny "Run to Your Grave" has become even bigger and brighter, inspiring a bro-fest video and countless live sing-alongs (the band has even been known to stretch it into passages of solo-guitar folk and freestyle rap). –Adam Moerder, Listen: Wolf Parade: “I’ll Believe in Anything”. Posted: Thursday January 3 … It takes stones to pull that off. Site also contains reviews, ratings & more. Crazy In Love (feat. Probably not quite yet. 3:46. Or that it would be a moving ode to sprinting through life to the end? Lidell– multitracked, and singing sweetly of the schizo mindset– never sounded so whole. Includes the most up-to-date remastered versions that the official Pitchfork playlist does not contain. Consequence and … Craig Finn didn’t need vocal melodies– he had one-liners. A list of the top albums of the year from Pitchfork (2000s). MGMT’s perfect sound was an evolution. 2005. Haha! 187. –Jess Harvell. Dizzee Rascal ends the 2000s as Britain’s biggest urban music star. The duo’s earlier self-produced Casio-chintzy version of the song made no secret of then-college students Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden’s dry disdain. There are just a few words, inscribed in a lavish script on the harmonies; a handful of chords. 200 songs. –Philip Sherburne, What makes “Time to Pretend” so universally liked (even by cranky indie rock purists) is its dazzling wire walk between smug, smartass irony and actual lust for the kind of fucked-up celebrity lifestyle that keeps Perez Hilton in bandwidth. Birth, death, depression, possibly stoned revelations about the shape of the universe itself, all prove conversation fodder on this, the leadoff track to The Moon & Antarctica, one of the decade’s most expansive albums. 50 best songs of the year 2007 1 Pitchfork: United States The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 2009 42 NME: United Kingdom 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years: 2011 54 Track listing. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s -- Top 200 Songs of the Decade 2010-2019 List. But then this simple song about simple life in the tiny Canadian town hit and your platonic indie pop ideal was born. Singing in a controlled lilt, Feist performs “Mushaboom” like a plaintive acoustic number that just might fit right in on the, soundtrack. –Amy Granzin, How fitting is it that this one initially rose to prominence via a nascent blogosphere? Rattled by the loss of a child, Brock– one eye on his navel and the other fixed skyward– navigates the cosmic chaos as the band crafts a sound to match the scope of his gaze. 1. Play on Spotify. The Avalanches believe in traveling. So if Murdoch still would “rather be in Tokyo,” he has some traveling left to do. Possibly the best love song ever to be set in a library, the almost stereotypically whimsical POBPAH combined an endorphin rush of jangling guitars with Kip Berman’s clever wordplay (“don’t check me out!”) to create one of the finest indie tracks of 2009. This browser doesn't support Spotify Web Player. In The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, Pitchfork offers up their take on the 500 best songs of the past three decades. And it’s the play of voices that made this Kate Bush cover more than a one-note joke. By the time Game comes huffing onto the track, it’s already all over, which is probably one of the reasons Game refuses to perform this song. 0:30. CN Entertainment. III. –Mike Orme, Though the original version first appeared on Kompakt’s 2001, compilation, many listeners first discovered Jürgen Paape’s luscious “So Weit Wie Noch Nie” when Erlend Øye used the song as the opener for his stellar 2004, mix. Author: SellMeAGod. –Sean Fennessey –Sean Fennessey Listen: Kanye West: “Gone” [ft. –Mike Powell, The fantasy of dying in your lover’s arms amidst a fiery auto accident has been a pop staple from 1960s teen tragedy songs through the Smiths and beyond. The surviving members of Joy Division have five total when coupled with their work as New Order. 1. Fennesz’s Endless Summer may have been complicated to make, but its effect is simple: sweet melodies poured into mesmerizing noise. Prince and Talking Heads had the most songs featured on the list with four each. Tags / list. Birth, death, depression, possibly stoned revelations about the shape of the universe itself, all prove conversation fodder on this, the leadoff track to, , one of the decade’s most expansive albums. –Jess Harvell –Jess Harvell Listen: Justin Timberlake: “My Love” [ft. “Play” is right: few contemporary rock bands have sounded like they’re having as much fun as the Futureheads. The story of “Postcards” is also the story of this hyperactive age of information exchange and accrual. Check out Pitchfork's Year End List. Bands with cobbled-together lineups like Wolf Parade’s too often fall short of the sum of their parts, usually because they don’t have the artistic genius (or compromising skills) to take, say, this wacky funhouse melody and hammer it on repeat until it becomes a Springsteen anthem. –Jess Harvell, Listen: The Futureheads: “Hounds of Love”, The notion that 50 Cent was ever involved in a song this, well, appealing feels pretty remote in 2009. –Joe Colly, Jürgen Paape: “So Weit Wie Noch Nie”, How fitting is it that this one initially rose to prominence via a nascent blogosphere? 2007. Self-referential, aggressive, funny; it’s one of his best verses ever on one of his finest songs. Listen to all your favourite artists on any device for free or try the Premium trial. © 2018 Condé Nast. Thee best 200 songs from thee last ten years according to some lame, overrated pop sellout website! LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends ; M.I.A. Mouse on Mars - Idiology. It’s nostalgic, sure. Here, the adrenaline spike of the car crash is replicated at the nexus of shoegaze bliss-out, ambient oblivion, and stadium rock release. Good tune, though. 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). Die Liste. So if Murdoch still would “rather be in Tokyo,” he has some traveling left to do. 4. That delirious signature yelp of cartoon contempt began here– “your head splits like ba-NARNAR” and the flow demonstrated that Dizzee could make the hugest hook his own. Pitchfork's 200 Best Songs of the 2010s. –Marc Hogan, Belle and Sebastian: “I’m a Cuckoo (by the Avalanches)”, Wolf Parade: “I’ll Believe in Anything”, “Play” is right: few contemporary rock bands have sounded like they’re having as much, as the Futureheads. It’ll be quicker, so let’s do it this way: raise your hand if you, pumped yourself up for a workout, date, hockey game, or hipster-ogling with “Lose Yourself”? Snoop Doggy Dogg) – "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" 4. He knows who it belongs to, and it still burns him up. 346 songs. Feist had been kicking around in punk bands, touring with Peaches, and singing sweet, fucked-up songs with Broken Social Scene for a decade before “Mushaboom”. But then this simple song about simple life in the tiny Canadian town hit and your platonic indie pop ideal was born. The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s (Pitchfork, 2009) The Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s (Pitchfork, 2009) Weblinks. The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s Pitchfork. Swear to God there was a brief period in 2007 where it was government-mandated to appear in 40% of the world’s advertisements and television musical montage moments. Ade Blackburn may love it when you blink your eyes, but he’s also picturing you dead and thinking about marrying your sister. However you arrived at the track, its five-and-a-half minutes– a swaying, heady blend of weighty bass, spray-can hisses, and warm-blanket synths– remain some of the most thoroughly pleasurable techno of the decade. In the decade of post-punk pastiche overload, too few bands focused on the pop-centric quirk on those classic John Peel radio shows. Piledriving drums, headrush guitars, unearthly synths– not a bad way to go out, huh? He rants with such force that, with headphones on, you can feel spit showering your eardrums. It takes bravery to add a fresh twist to a 30-year-career with a song about being hard up, though it probably mitigates some of the sting when you’re mordantly self-aware, happily married, and take to black humor like the proverbial duck. October 7, 2019 . It also helps when the backing track refuses any concessions to the encroaching gentility that seems to invariably come with age. With “Don’t Save Us From the Flames”, M83’s Anthony Gonzalez blows that tradition up into full-screen high definition, the track serving as a bridge between his more abstract earlier work and the explicit melodrama of 2008’s Saturdays = Youth. –Matthew Solarksi, Belle and Sebastian believe in traveling light. Hell, considering the syrupy disco strings, emphatic childlike joy, overstuffed melodies, and unrelenting technical efficiency at the heart of it, you could even build a case for this being a sort of loving metaphor for MJ pre-Thriller. Not only does this version make “Cuckoo” finally sound as carefree as its melody, it also predicts indie pop’s late-2000s turn Africa-ward. It takes stones to pull that off. In the interim, their makeover, partially tended to by DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, morphed them into indie stars, fuelled first by the, EP in 2007 and a kaleidoscopic game of Human League that casts shadows of Berlin period Bowie. lemuriams. There’s a palpable musk around “Knife”, as if it were buried for a long time and then exhumed in 2006. The best part? Ad Choices. “Fix Up Look Sharp” was his first record to suggest that might be a safe bet. It may sound entirely out of time, but “Postcards” is a decidedly 21st century anthem. The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s Lyrics . But a whole host of sensations pour through them, and not just emotional ones: The guitars prickle and clutch; the refrains scale ear-popping altitudes. Look at the landscape shots. Jay … For those of you that don’t want to scroll indefinitely through the more than 65,000 word article and want to get down on a list boiled down to the rank, artist, song and year it was released, we’ve done the work for you. Lost CauseBeck • Sea Change. –Tom Ewing, Listen: Dizzee Rascal: “Fix Up Look Sharp”, There’s a palpable musk around “Knife”, as if it were buried for a long time and then exhumed in 2006. This is an ordered list of Pitchfork's highest rated albums of 2001. The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s Lyrics. iamnicmoore. It also doesn’t hurt to have Wolf Parade’s heart-on-sleeve conviction. But the humble little LP version remains a powerful bit of pied-piper synth-pop, while still retaining the band’s Casio-freak edge. Brock’s disarmingly direct lyrics still manage to hint at a well of hurt and self-reflection a few minutes couldn’t possibly hope to resolve– he dares to ask personal questions of the universe, and “3rd Planet” finds him posing some of the toughest ones yet. 4:30. The best part? 38 bands and artists had two songs listed. 2006. Yeah, pretty much the same number that predicted Em’s most lasting moment would be an almost too-serious soundtrack jig about the perils of a character named (presumably) after a John Updike protagonist. Even forgetting the letter-by-letter MJ breadcrumb trail in the lyrics (“P.Y.T.”, “B.E.A.T.”, “A.B.C”), it always felt like this was Justice’s best attempt to soften their pulverizing brand of French touch by locating it in a sweeter time, i.e., somewhere between the Jackson 5 and, . –Amy Phillips, Listen: M83: “Don’t Save Us From the Flames”, Who would guess that this hyperactive, riff-happy six-piece could calm down enough to craft an all-together-now anthem? –Marc Masters, Listen: The Mae Shi: “Run to Your Grave”, In which Nick Cave proves there are few things funnier than a hyper-literate old man driven to sputtering frenzy by the erection he can’t relieve. Even forgetting the letter-by-letter MJ breadcrumb trail in the lyrics (“P.Y.T.”, “B.E.A.T.”, “A.B.C”), it always felt like this was Justice’s best attempt to soften their pulverizing brand of French touch by locating it in a sweeter time, i.e., somewhere between the Jackson 5 and Off the Wall. in the dollar bin at San Francisco’s Amoeba Records.