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In the kind of advertising stunt that will instantly win over music nerds everywhere, Beck’s (the beer, not the nerdy musician) commissioned 10 graphic artists to come up with new cover art for 10 albums culled from Pitchfork’s Best Albums of the Decade lists from the last 4 decades. After those images were unveiled, the [...]

Pitchfork released their annual music round-up, widely considered to be the definitive music listicle of the year. So you might as well start writing “2009″ on your checks now. The top ten from their 100 Best Tracks of 2008 are:
10. Estelle feat. Kanye West - “American Boy”

9. Portishead - “Machine Gun”
8. Air France [...]

It’s hard to remember all of the great things that came out of this year when you’re at your parents’ house, hopped up on eggnog and listening to the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album on repeat. Rex Sorgatz does the dirty work for all of us, indexing every best-of list out there, from architecture to fashion [...]

And so it begins, the tidal wave of year-end lists approaches, and for Listicles’ first observance of this seasonal web-data migration we look at a list of the Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 from those totemic (sometimes tyrannical) arbiters of indie-alternative musical taste, Pitchfork.
Fittingly, they pick a mix of indie, dance and semi-mainstream fare [...]