Honestly, if you're just going by social significance, parts of the list were pretty well thought-out, but from a personal preference standpoint, I don't even *like* more than maybe 30, 40 songs on the entire motherfucking list. I was pretty alienated when I saw the top 20 and only really liked one or two of them. Also, I find the total absence of Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, and Joe Strummer rather disheartening. Just one token song, you indie nerds.
And what happened to acknowledging great songwriters? Most of these songs, even the obscure ones, are basically pop songs that are picked for melody or aesthetic or cultural context reasons, but there are almost no great songwriter songs on here.
As for the rap fixation on the list, it's really disingenuous. This is all top 40 pop-rap stuff, which really shows that pitchfork had no interest in actually investigating the heights of the genre and is more interested in looking culturally unbiased. "Look, we like black people!" which is hilarious coming from a publication that promotes the whitest, tamest folk-pop stuff in the world, like Sufjan Stevens or Of Montreal or whatever.
