#3 Modern Rock Hits: Nevermind thru Kurt Cobain's Death

i kinda hate u2 but that is a great u2 song

gotta be start choppin' though

Never once heard this sunscreem thing.

This seems to me like a list of forgotten follow-up singles after previous hit albums (Prayer for the Dying, Divine Thing, Ripple)

I'll be boring and vote Come As You Are.

Who the hell is Sunscreem?

LOVE LOVE LOVE 'prayer for the dying' my fave of that early to mid 90s era of adult contemp/r&b/new age/inspirational fortune cookie pop. definitely some very weird 'wait that hit #1?' here (including 'prayer for the dying' perhaps) - who knew 'girlfriend' wasn't matthew sweet's biggest mod rock hit? anyhow voted seal over dinosaur jr and that u2-cracker-james trifecta

o wait none of these hit #1, derp

Sunscreem contains the immortal couplet: "You can make the sky turn purple / You can make the sea turn turtle."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ru3gJ46dsA

kinda insane 'low' and 'laid' didn't reach the top considering those are easily two of the big altrock hits you're likely to actually hear anymore

U2-Cracker-James is an awesome trifecta

I think the Lemonheads' "Into Your Arms" was #1 during those months in late '93 - early '94.

david lowery lives in town now and cracker played 'low' on a float in the town xmas parade. every time i run into him i'm tempted to go 'omg david lowery - i was just listening to camper van beethoven on spotify the other day!'

"Far Gone And Out" the first JAMC song I ever heard.

My college station played the hell out of "Sublime" and "Start Choppin.'"

haha wow "Get Out of Control" was Ash's attempt to cash in on Reznor schtick.

A kinda boring batch of songs, actually. Feels like quite a few also-rans by some major artists (which maybe explains their chart placement?). "Laid" was fun for a while but got appropriated by the frat boy crowd after whichever American Pie movie it was in. Never cared as much for "Low" much. Yeah, I'm gonna have to be boring too: Nirvana.

This is down to "The Ugly Truth" (the most overlooked of the three big-on-college-radio Sweet albums?) and "Lemon."

lol balls

voted JAMC over "Lemon"; JAMC finally pull off a pop song for their moment, instead of for some alternate mid 60s

yea i don't really like u2 either but lemon is good song xps

is that Church one a Dead cover y/n

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Wow, this one is really "songs I don't really like by bands I really love" isn't it?

It's down between JAMC and James for me, and even though Laid is probably the better song, I can't conscience a universe where I vote for James over JAMC, so Far Out And Gone it is.

Laid is a much better album than "Laid."

I have it somewhere, I'll need to look. But come on, even if it's the best album in the world, it's not the JAMC. Please. That band, for me, in the late 80s/early 90s, was the closest thing I had to a religion.

Say Something, anything.

Same dilemma as Branwell, but voted "Laid," just because "Far Gone And Out" is, to me, mostly of a reminder of the richer stuff it's a quiet echo of.

Ripple is SO good.

Voted for the immortal "Laid", though I was also tempted to go with "Lemon" (my second favorite track on Zooropa)

I would have gone with Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" had this poll included the remaining three #3s of 1994 ("Fade Into You", Love Spit Love's "Am I Wrong", and The Smashing Pumpkins' "Landslide"). Now I'm worried that it'll face stronger competition on the next poll.

Dressed me up in women's clothes
Messed around with gender roles

listening to Laid for the first time (because I missed the 90s) - this is basically "Twist and Shout" right?

twist and pout more like

LOVE LOVE LOVE 'prayer for the dying' my fave of that early to mid 90s era of adult contemp/r&b/new age/inspirational fortune cookie pop.

Des'ree's "You Gotta Be" was the first thing that came to mind when I read this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpZfltbnAQ

Jamc no question on this one

U2's best song and Cracker's best song.
I've always liked "No Excuses."

"Come As You Are" is cool, but if all 4 of these songs were on 4 different radio stations all at once I would definitely not settle on it.

Love "ugly truth"...was that the rock version or the country, I wonder? Probably rock, right?

I didn't even know there was a rock version. Cool discovery. I remember the country version getting airplay.

Kurt is dead? :(

I'm really not getting the love for "Lemon." Is this some sort of put-on?

The video also featured Bono dressed as both "The Fly" and "MacPhisto".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Awful selection. I went with Cracker.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol of course

Too obvious but it won anyway

least fav Nevermind single by a long shot, voted for Seal

I loved the first Seal album -- confirmed the other day when satellite radio played "Future Love Paradise" -- and still love "Kiss From a Rose" and "Dreaming in Metaphor," but "A Prayer for the Dying" almost killed it. "Crossing the bridge where lessons are learned/Playing with fire and not getting burned" -- eek. Trevor Horn's presence sorta ghostly.

there is a liiiight through that window - hold on say yes, while ppl say no - life carries onooooowon it goes on: i will eat this shit up all day. i remember 'kiss from a rose' being a huge hit in europe right when i got to iceland in august 94 (when the video was still this version - http://youtu.be/Z9aiBlIpyKU) and being mystified that it wasn't a hit in the states, just a ridiculously gorgeous song. that plus being somewhere where prodigy's 'no good' could be the unavoidable playing from every radio smash were pretty thrilling. the unavoidableness of wet wet wet's 'love is all around' not so thrilling. then a year later batman forever came out and 'kiss from a rose' became the sorta smash that makes listening to it w/ that orignial sincerity difficult.

<i>hold on say yes, while ppl say no</i>

God I love that line so much.

the first 2 Seal albums were both in heavy rotation at my dad's house so yeah i got to enjoy "Kiss From A Rose" for a good long while as just a song before it became ubiquitous

The woodwind arrangement is particularly beautiful.

Lemon and I Can't Explain Exactly What I'm Doing Standing in the Rain placing higher than No Excuses is a bit of a crime.

Jar of Flies is a great EP. The first album of theirs I bought, actually. I Stay Away kills it.

i remember buying Jar Of Flies like "huh, what's an EP?" and enjoying it, it never left a big impression on me though, Superunknown came out right after that and commanded all my attention

Yeah, I Stay Away is a beast.

I'm really not getting the love for "Lemon." Is this some sort of put-on?
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Well Brian Eno sings on it and co-produced... so that's kinda cool. I don't really care for U2 overall but it always stuck with me as one of their best songs.