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Pitchfork has been publishing "best-of" lists for years (their annual singles and album wrap-ups are especially popular) so it seems natural that they'd turn their penchant for classifying and cataloging music into a book. The Pitchfork 500 uses 42 critics to cover 30 years of music, from 1977 punk to 2006 crunk, and all the starry-eyed, acoustic acts in between...
...Nirvana: "Smells like Teen Spirit," 1991 "It's the Song that Broke Punk, the very incantation about self-despising entertainment that turned a dead-end Aberdeen kid into a supernova, the very last rock song everyone could rally around. (Check out the video of its first public performance on the With the Lights Out DVD; as soon as the drums kick in, the whole room learns how to levitate.) But the closer you listen, the more it sounds like straight pop. That four-power-chord sequence that never ever changes? It's got the rhythm from Boston's "More Than...
...here - which was also the stated position of the American Psychiatric Association - underlined a conformist culture's fear of the Other. They're different. They dress and talk funny. They're a threat to our spouses and our kids. The arguments against homosexuals, like those against blacks, meant to turn irrational suspicions into punitive legislation. To counter the know-nothing majority, members of the afflicted minority needed a righteous, urgent spokesman. Blacks had MLK - Martin Luther King Jr. Gays had MiLK - Harvey Milk...
...early scene, Harvey shares a long, loving kiss with his future lover, Scott Smith (James Franco in a finely tuned turn). The kiss is director Gus Van Sant's declaration that, yes, this will be a gay movie. But there's no shock value, except in the tenderness of the passion - when was the last time you saw a great movie kiss...
...terms of sheer self-interest. This report does so deftly, mostly eschewing wonkiness in favor of stressing common bonds. Its series of "modest, pragmatic recommendations" are couched to show that the U.S. and Latin America are natural bedfellows. It's not that we have a moral obligation to turn the other cheek when Hugo Chavez dubs George Bush a "devil," or when pockets of America inaccurately assign blame for U.S. unemployment levels on Latin migrants. It's that doing so will, for example, help both parties weather the global economic crisis. Some of these recommendations (like the U.S. pivoting...