a poll of these would be interesting -- i would have a really tough time deciding which of these i hated most
― gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Tom what percentage of these have you played a bosh version of at Poptimism? I can think of at least three off the top of my head.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
steve trying to save lisa loeb is MADNESS
― gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
What's with "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" being on the list? Oh, now I see -- IT'S AN IRONIC COVER AND IT WAS IN PULP FICTION. Oh the horror.
-- Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, November 2, 2002 10:10 AM
Was it ironic? That's sort of a shame. I always saw it as quite a faithful cover, and I love their version.
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
UP AGAINST THE WALL, LISA LOEB
― gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
she was hott
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i could've listed more i loved at the time but have to let them go like teh suck they are i guess
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
being an impressionable teen in the 90s - worse than being an impressionable teen in the 80s? YES
5. whitney houston ?I will always love you?
you know, I heard this the other day and didn't know why I hated it so much at the time. Okay, so she does the trademark wibbly at the end of the line thing, but other than that its a pretty respectable version. I remember thinking Dolly Parton's version pissed all over it from a great height, but listening again, Dolly's version just sounds a little...hammy...whereas Whitney actually sounds like she means it.
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
- blueski, Friday, May 25, 2007 1:45 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
ohhh...the 90s get FAR too much grief round here. the 80s on the other hand - be grateful you never had an A Flock Of Seagulls haircut or any of those trousers with the flecky bits in that seemed to make a horrible comeback for a bit last year.
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
shouldn't Shania Twain be on that list at least twice? Or was she this decade?
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
plus there's all the 80s hits we've conveniently forgotten about - the Elaine Pages and Marillions and so forth
xp
― braveclub, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
at least the FOS hairstyle wasn't boring. pretentious > boring. and i wore some equally bad trousers.
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
the Elaine Pages and Marillions and so forth
both have at least 2 good songs lol
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Flock of Seagulls >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shawn Mullins
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
-- blueski, Friday, May 25, 2007 1:49 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I still HAVE all my 90s trousers.
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Joe Bloggs?
― braveclub, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Whitney is flat every time she belts the long note in the chorus.
― HI DERE, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
That's kind of immaterial to whether or not she means it though, isn't it?
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah Whitney was knee-jerk dumbness on my part (if it was on my part) - it's not right but it's OK.
― Groke, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
depends if she means it to be flat
― 696, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Hasn't been mentioned yet, but...
"Oh What A Night" is the worst single of the 1990s.
With "Rockabye" by Shawn Mullins as a close contender for second, "Pepper" a distant third", and everything else is OK.
― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
-- braveclub, Friday, May 25, 2007 1:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I think Joe Bloggs was a late 80s horror. It just lingered into the 90s.
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
late december, back in '63?
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
So if something is now considered "ironically bad/good/kitsch" it's not going to be on here?
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
YES! Being a young impressionable teen in the 90s resulted in the following:
- I LOVED "Everything About You" by Ugly Kid Joe and thought the lead singer was hot. - I bought a Wilson Phillips CD - I had a poster of Nelson at one point - I was a member of *cringe* the Soul Asylum Fan Club. They sent me Christmas cards.
Luckily I kind of figured things out around 16/17 but still . . .
― ENBB, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
what a pointless poll.
but, more importantly, it's not a very good selection. too many of these tracks are, by any measure, too good to be seriously considered.
― darraghmac, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
polls with more than a dozen options don't really work i think
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
also polls that arent polls
― and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
-- ENBB, Friday, May 25, 2007 2:07 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
noooo...
- I bought a Big Fun record - I actually found one of them attractive - I don't know who Nelson is, but I had a pic of Nic Kershaw
Still reckon the 90s were worse??
― hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, if there was a worst ten singles poll, then you might see some agreement. as it is, i can't even vote because i'm annoyed at the gratuituous inclusion of about thirty or forty pretty ace tunes.
― darraghmac, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I was wondering who was going to go to bat for "Mambo No. 5"...
― HI DERE, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
surely not the 90's?
― darraghmac, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
"Mambo No. 5" is a famous mambo dance song originally recorded and composed by Pérez Prado in 1952. Interpolations from various portions of this song were formed into a new song "Mambo Number Five", which was released by Lou Bega in 1999 on his debut album A Little Bit of Mambo. It was a smash hit in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, where it reached #1 in 1999. It also topped almost every chart in Continental Europe, and set a record by staying at number one in France for 20 weeks (longer than any stay at the top spot ever on the US or UK charts).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_No._5
― HI DERE, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
no problem with Mambo No. 5 altho i hate the Bob The Builder version cos of annoying Neil Morrissey
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
it's almost as if i am not quite their target market
i didn't think "time of your life" and the santana/rob thomas song were 90s either
― gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I do have to say that I'm overjoyed that Silk is on this list. I've been making fun of that song since the day it came out.
― HI DERE, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
we're forgetting something:
http://static.flickr.com/16/91084188_5603be178f.jpg
― gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
80s.
― HI DERE, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
where is Tracer to rep for Vanilla's 'No Way No Way'
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
(Specifically 89, because we played that at German camp the second summer I went.)
― HI DERE, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
santana/rob thomas was definitely dot-com 90s summer of love, along with "All Star" and "What It's Like". I was sitting in the basement of a venture capitalist's new renovated townhome, writing FAQs for his website.
― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"Wind of Change" is a 1990 power ballad written by Klaus Meine, vocalist of Scorpions. The lyrics celebrate the political changes in Eastern Europe at that time - such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the increasing freedom in the communist bloc (which would soon lead to the fall of the USSR), and the clearly imminent end of the Cold War.
― gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
jesus christ "All Star"
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Seriously what happened in the '90s you guys?
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
'Smooth' makes me think of that bar in Ally Mcbeal. FUCK DAT.
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
guys did you know that that other not-"Smooth" Santana song was a #1 for TEN WEEKS? How did we let this happen????
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
'time of your life' soundtracked the clip montage on the final episode of seinfeld in 1998
― and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
is gnarls barkley the 'smooth' of the 00s?