Things to Read: 8/25

by Ricky O'Donnell on August 25 at 3:01PM


Send tips to rickhouse@blogsbyfans.com And don't forget about my Bulls post at the Sun-Times.

Full Court Press: My post on the Bulls and 2010.

Sox Machine: History repeating with Scotty Pods.

Ball Don't Lie: The NBA's top 10 lottery busts of the decade.

Rumors and Rants: The best athletes currently wearing each number, 0-99. Yeah.

SlowBreaker: Attention Jay Cutler: Rivers gets $93 million. 

Pitchfork: A week late on this, but whatever. The 20 best songs of the decade. And they couldn't even pick the right OutKast song for No. 1.

And a music video. After the jump...
Band of Horses - The Funeral (which at least should have been in the top 15 of that list above.)






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That Pitchfork list was about 80% less smug than I thought it would be. Plus Jigga got on it twice. Good stuff.

I think Pitchfork gets a bad rap at this point. They're pretty tough with their album reviews, but the news feed is solid, and I really think they do a great job with the lists. I can't tell you how many awesome albums I've found from their best of the 90's list. I like lots of stuff that they hate, and they love lots of stuff that I could never listen to more than once, but overall I feel like it's a really good resource.

Last summer I said the three best songs of the decade were 1) Hey Ya, 2) Crazy, 3) Paper Planes, so I feel pretty good that they're all in the P4k top 20. I'm interested to see their list of the albums of the decade. I'd guess Kid A, Funeral, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot would all be up there.

They're definitely a good source, and I read their reviews semi-regularly (not as religiously as I read, say, allmusic.com), but yeah, always interesting takes. Kind of like a likable, readable version of Jay Mariotti (that's much less of a backhanded compliment than it sounds).


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