Taking Sides: Reliable Versus Unreliable But Potentially Novel (Or Not)

I'm something like three weeks behind in reading the Singles Jukebox. So here's a sociological question:

Supposing I had time to read only one but not both, should I

(a) catch up on the Jukebox entries I've missed, or

(b) read the Pitchfork's P2K, The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s?

The thing is, it didn't occur to me that the answer should be anything but (a) until I pondered the fact that I've read plenty of Jukebox entries but have rarely read Pitchfork, only going to the latter when someone on ilX or some other community or some blog had linked a Pitchfork piece. Of course, there are reasons for the preference, but wouldn't taking a look at the Pitchfork 500 potentially give me surprising info or ideas that I wouldn't get from the more familiar Jukebox? (That's not a rhetorical question.) I have looked at P2K a little, the blurbs that Tom wrote or highlighted on one of his Tumblrs, and from there my eye wandered to some neighboring P2K blurbs. And of course I'm likely to continue clicking on Tom's links.

No one here gets out alive

Don't know if this is coming up tomorrow on poptimist's best of the 2000s, but just to remind you, it's a motherfucker:

"Takeover" (Watch on YouTube)

Twinkle toes, you breakin' my heart.

When is this song going to be over, anyway?

Excellent post by Dave over on Bedbugs [link now here] about The-Dream's "I Luv Your Girl." He ends with: They're dancing. We hit the bridge, a bit more sumptuous, addition of strings and a slightly modified chord progression. "Walkin' out the club, shawty what's up, mmm, I want her in the worst way." Yeah, probably a fantasy, he even seems snaps out of it. How much of this is actually happening? "Part of me feels so bad but (ooh!) not that bad." Sly smile, there. He's winking at us, mocking the boyfriend. But what does she have to say about this? Did she just say what I think she said? When is this song going to be over, anyway?

(But really you need to read the entire post.)

Me in the comment thread: The-Dream's songs never do end, in that the story never ends: lines from one keep reappearing in others, all relationships are in a state of negotiation and renegotiation, so any song by The-Dream can be a rethinking of any other. "Ditch That" could be a sequel to "I Luv Your Girl," same club but a different night and this time addressed to the girl, and now - this time - you know he's got her... until say the middle of Love Vs. Money when everything explodes and the fallout might be that she's back with the first guy.