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Music News: Pitchfork reveals its 100 Tracks of the Year
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Right? Finally someone (besides me) acknowledges the best track from Treats.
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All the musical critics agree with me.
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Right? Finally someone (besides me) acknowledges the best track from Treats.
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Treats as a whole is an amazing album. 
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Treats as a whole is an amazing album. |
Sleigh Bells is amazing
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Should have been higher though.
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Tell her sis 
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I guess they don't know Claps, I don't find them. They're like my 2010 band. Oh, Florrie too, she's my IT girl.
By the way, Limit To Your Love >>>>
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Lil' Freak...
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Usher knows damn well that fans weren't crazy about the grown-ass, wifed-up character he presented on 2008's Here I Stand. People want sexy Usher, and that's exactly what he gave them with the enormous threesome ode "Lil Freak", with help from sparkplug rapper Nicki Minaj, who spits a highlight verse about recruiting a third for her and Usher's night in. Both shine, but it's producer Polow Da Don who steals the show, cutting up a hook from Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City" to create an epic backing track of deep, reverberant bass and orchestral sweep that just gets bigger and bigger as the song progresses. He knows it, too: Polow lets it go instrumental for a whole minute and a half at the end, and it stays thrilling up until the last second. --Joe Colly
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35. Rihanna
"Rude Boy"
[Def Jam]
Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, and Katy Perry appeared to be the pop stars who dominated 2010, but it was Rihanna who had four No. 1 singles-- three of them excellent, the other one featuring Eminem. Of course the Em one, which openly referenced the physical abuse Rihanna suffered, received the bulk of the attention. If you're a pop star, your personal horrors, or foibles, or trivialities, or redemption, or quarrels with "Sesame Street" are what gets you in the news. But it's a run of singles like "Rude Boy", "What's My Name?", "Only Girl (In the World)"-- not to mention the David Guetta Eurohit "Who's That Chick" and 2009 leftovers "Hard" and "Run This Town"-- that secures your legacy long after the tablogs are done guessing whether this or that song of yours was written for Taylor Lautner.
It can take a lot of time for people to catch up with even the best pop songs, but ones so openly sexually aggressive as "Rude Boy" tend to take even longer, and so-- underrated and dismissed as fluff compared to most of post-abuse record Rated R-- it was left to slowly grow in stature over the year. In the end, amidst the darker hues that colored Rated R, it was the Technicolor "Rude Boy" that best indicated that the singer was turning a new page in her life, heading toward a career year and once again in charge behind closed doors. --Scott Plagenhoef
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55. Lady Gaga [ft. Beyoncé]
"Telephone"
[Cherrytree / Interscope]
"Telephone" is one of the less weird tracks on The Fame Monster, a stuttering Eurodance confection about the First World Problem of cell/text communication in the club, featuring a brief cameo by Beyoncé at her (Sasha) fiercest. But with Lady Gaga, the music itself is often just the side dish to the sumptuous entree that is her ever-evolving freakshow image. And thus, the "Telephone" video made the song iconic by association. "Telephone" cast Gaga and Beyoncé as a funhouse mirror Thelma & Louise, mashing up women's prison sexploitation, Broadway musicals, Tarantino, and feminist rage into the most fun, most ridiculous, and arguably best music video of the year. Without it, we might never have known that cigarette sunglasses and phone receiver hair curlers exist.
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64. Alicia Keys
"Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"
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Alicia Keys always puts out one perfect song per album. She reminds me of Billy Joel, with her corniness and piano loungeness and deep affection for New York clichés. But I never deny when she's on point, so if I judge her too harshly for not being able to always replicate "Fallin'", it's just a testament to that song setting the bar impossibly high for the rest of her career. Drake co-wrote it, and freed from having to pretend for his rap bros that he's a misogynist (I see you, Drake) goes deeper than ever into female pleasure and earnestness. Given his much expressed affection for Aaliyah, this is probably Drake's attempt at an Aaliyah song, tailored to Alicia's very different specific strengths. That said, this song is erotic city. It's an instant babymaking classic. Skittering beats, trembling synths, deep piano chord progressions, and floating drums. It sounds like it was recorded in a downtempo underwater sex chamber or inside a neon motel sign. It belongs on the Art Laboe Connection forever, with Sade and Minnie Riperton and other sensual heavyweights. It is the eye of the quiet storm
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77. Rihanna [ft. Drake]
"What's My Name?"
[Def Jam]
Following Rated R's demon-baring melodrama with a bona fide party record might be the savviest thing Rihanna's ever done. "What's My Name?" reminds us that Rihanna's always been an alpha-female, empowered and satisfied; girls have been demanding that their paramours speak their names for pop-eons, but Rihanna's request feels more like a threat than a request. Drake's guest-strutting here is endearingly corny (note to dudes: "The things that we could do in 20 minutes, girl," isn't, like, incentive), but it gives Rihanna the perfect platform to steam: She's interested, but mostly she wants to know what you can do for her. "Not everybody knows how to work my body, knows how to make me want it," she warns. Now, it's less about whether or not you remember her name, and more about whether or not you've got the balls to say it out loud. --Amanda Petrusich
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89. Usher [ft. Nicki Minaj]
"Lil Freak"
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Usher knows damn well that fans weren't crazy about the grown-ass, wifed-up character he presented on 2008's Here I Stand. People want sexy Usher, and that's exactly what he gave them with the enormous threesome ode "Lil Freak", with help from sparkplug rapper Nicki Minaj, who spits a highlight verse about recruiting a third for her and Usher's night in. Both shine, but it's producer Polow Da Don who steals the show, cutting up a hook from Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City" to create an epic backing track of deep, reverberant bass and orchestral sweep that just gets bigger and bigger as the song progresses. He knows it, too: Polow lets it go instrumental for a whole minute and a half at the end, and it stays thrilling up until the last second.
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94. Kelis
"Acapella"
[Interscope]
Kelis' makeover from skewed R&B starlet to Fembot Fatale wasn't tough to predict. If you heard her guest spot on last year's Basement Jaxx opener "Scars", you got a taste of the robot princess that would emerge from the darkness of a year spent divorcing her husband, Nas, while pregnant with the couple's child, Knight. The David Guetta-helmed "Acapella" is explicitly about her newborn son, before whom her "whole life was a cappella." Kelis expresses this sentiment with almost operatic vigor, and her heartbreaking candor breathes life into the cyborg character she's adopted for her latest album, Flesh Tone. And while Lady Gaga's dancefloor-aimed influence is clear, the way Kelis blends human warmth with the icy chill of Guetta's electro-pulsing production places her closer to Robyn's end of the android-pop constellation. --Tyler Grisham
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arguably best music video of the year.
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Love seeing Sprawl II in the top 10.
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Arcade Fire
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Rude Boy - THEEE Mainstream Pop song of 2010
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Lil Freak
Rude Boy
What's My Name?
Over
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Just type the full list
100. These New Puritans - "We Want War"
99. Gayngs - "The Gaudy Side of Town"
98. Male Bonding - "Year's Not Long"
97. Ramadanman - ''Don't Change for Me"
96. Diplomats - "Salute"
95. Ty Segall- "Girlfriend"
94. Kelis - "Acapella"
93. Freddie Gibbs - "National Anthem (**** the World)"
92. Matthew Dear - "You Put a Smell on Me"
91. Liars - "Scarecrows on a Killer Slant"
90. Abe Vigoda- "Crush"
89. Usher [ft. Nicki Minaj] - "Lil Freak"
88. DOM - "Burn Bridges"
87. Perfume Genius - "Mr. Peterson"
86. Glasser - "Apply"
85. Wavves - "Post Acid"
84. Gil Scott-Heron - "New York Is Killing Me"
83. Surfer Blood - "Floating Vibes"
82. Spoon - "Written in Reverse"
81. Forest Swords - "Rattling Cage"
80. The Radio Dept. - "Heaven's on Fire"
79. Delorean - "Real Love"
78. Die Antwoord - "Enter the Ninja"
77. Rihanna [ft. Drake] - "What's My Name?"
76. Here We Go Magic - "Collector"
75. Toro Y Moi - "Blessa"
74. Sade - "Soldier of Love"
73. Wild Nothing - "Chinatown"
72. No Age- "Glitter"
71. Salem - "King Night"
70. NDF - "Since We Last Met"
69. Woods- "Suffering Season"
68. Kingdom [ft. Shyvonne] - "Mind Reader"
67. Drake - "Over"
66. The National- "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
65. Dum Dum Girls- "Jail La La"
64. Alicia Keys - "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"
63. Broken Social Scene - "World Sick"
62. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- "Bottled in Cork"
61. Tyler the Creator [ft. Hodgy Beats] - "French"
60. Panda Bear - "Slow Motion"
59. Twin Sister- "All Around and Away We Go"
58. Oneohtrix Point Never [ft. Antony] - "Returnal"
57. The Fresh & Onlys- "Waterfall"
56. Joker - "Tron"
55. Lady Gaga [ft. Beyoncé] - "Telephone"
54. Vampire Weekend - "White Sky"
53. Kendal Johansson - "Blue Moon"
52. Lindstrøm & Christabelle - "Lovesick"
51. Smith Westerns - "Weekend"
50. Cults - "Go Outside"
49. ceo - "Come With Me"
48. Best Coast - "When I'm With You"
47. Beach House - "Walk in the Park"
46. The Knife [ft. Mt. Sims and Planningtorock] - "Colouring of Pigeons"
45. Gorillaz - "On Melancholy Hill"
44. Das Racist - "hahahaha jk?"
43. Waka Flocka Flame - "Hard in Da Paint"
42. Japandroids - "Younger Us"
41. Deerhunter - "Helicopter"
40. Janelle Monáe - "Cold War"
39. No Age - "Fever Dreaming"
38. Hot Chip- "One Life Stand"
37. Jay Electronica - "Exhibit C"
36. Arcade Fire- "Ready to Start"
35. Rihanna- "Rude Boy"
34. Gold Panda - "You"
33. Zola Jesus - "Night"
32. Robyn- "Hang With Me"
31. Girls - "Carolina"
30. The-Dream - "Yamaha"
29. James Blake - "CMYK"
28. Yeasayer - "O.N.E"
27. Four Tet- "Angel Echoes"
26. Cee-Lo - "**** You"
25. The Walkmen - "Angela Surf City"
24. Teengirl Fantasy - "Cheaters"
23. Vampire Weekend - "Giving Up the Gun"
22. Rick Ross [ft. Styles P] - "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"
21. Azari & III - "Reckless (With Your Love) (Tensnake Remix)"
20. Erykah Badu - "Window Seat"
19. How to Dress Well - "Decisions (feat. Yüksel Arslan)"
18. Titus Andronicus
17. Girl Unit - "Wut"
16. Beach House - "Norway"
15. Crystal Castles [ft. Robert Smith] - "Not in Love"
14. Sleigh Bells - "Rill Rill"
13. Caribou - "Odessa"
12. LCD Soundsystem - "All I Want"
11. Deerhunter - "Desire Lines''
10. Janelle Monáe [ft. Big Boi] - "Tightrope"
09. Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"
08. James Blake - "I Only Know (What I Know Now)"
07. Joanna Newsom - "Good Intentions Paving Company"
06. Kanye West [ft. Dwele] - "POWER"
05. Big Boi [ft. Cutty] - "Shutterbugg"
04. Robyn - "Dancing on My Own"
03. LCD Soundsystem - ''I Can Change''
02. Kanye West [ft. Pusha T] - "Runaway"
01. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round"
Great one list!
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89. Usher [ft. Nicki Minaj]
"Lil Freak"
77. Rihanna [ft. Drake]
"What's My Name?"
74. Sade
"Soldier of Love"
67.Drake
"Over"
64. Alicia Keys
"Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"
55. Lady Gaga [ft. Beyoncé]
"Telephone"
43. Waka Flocka Flame
"Hard in Da Paint"
36. Arcade Fire
"Ready to Start"
35. Rihanna
"Rude Boy"
26. Cee-Lo
"**** You"
22. Rick Ross [ft. Styles P]
"B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"
20. Erykah Badu
"Window Seat"
10. Janelle Monáe [ft. Big Boi]
"Tightrope"
09. Arcade Fire
"Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"
06. Kanye West [ft. Dwele]
"POWER"
04. Robyn
"Dancing on My Own"
02. Kanye West [ft. Pusha T]
"Runaway"
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Overall good list. 
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Death, the only good Waka Flocka song.
He goes hard, I will admit that. 
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Arcade Fire and Robyn 
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James Blake! SHOCKED! 
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