THE WORST SINGLES OF THE 90s

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polls with more than a dozen options don't really work i think

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link

also polls that arent polls

and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:16 (sixteen 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, 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link

I was wondering who was going to go to bat for "Mambo No. 5"...

surely not the 90's?

darraghmac, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:20 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link

it's almost as if i am not quite their target market

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link

i didn't think "time of your life" and the santana/rob thomas song were 90s either

gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:31 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link

we're forgetting something:

http://static.flickr.com/16/91084188_5603be178f.jpg

gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link

80s.

HI DERE, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

where is Tracer to rep for Vanilla's 'No Way No Way'

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:34 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link

jesus christ "All Star"

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Seriously what happened in the '90s you guys?

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link

'Smooth' makes me think of that bar in Ally Mcbeal. FUCK DAT.

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:39 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link

is gnarls barkley the 'smooth' of the 00s?

and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link

"Hey Ya" is

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

'time of your life' soundtracked the clip montage on the final episode of seinfeld in 1998

richards was probably thinking 'nothing i do can be worse than that!'

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Wet Wet Wet "Love Is All Around" should be in this poll surely?

hobart paving, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

1. 4 non geirs ?what?s up??
2. red hongro chilli peppers ?under the geir?
3. billy joel ?we didn?t start the hongro?
4. elton john ?hongroe in the wind 97?
5. whitney hongro ?I will always love geir?
6. van halen ?right geir?
7. oasis, ?champagne superhongro?
8. smashing pumpkgeirs ?tonight tonight?
9. celine dion ?my heart will geir on (theme from titanic)?
10. crash test dummies ?geir geir geir geir?
11. rem, ?radio song?
12. baz luhrman ?everybody?s hongro (to wear sunscreen)?
13. deep blue something ?breakfast at hongros?
14. spin hongros ?two geirs?
15. bryan adams ?everything I do (I do it for geir)?
16. joan osbgeir ?one of us?
17. alanis geirisette ?ironic?
18. lou bega ?mambo no. 5?
19. cranberries ?hongro?
20. u2 ?discotheque?
21. live, ?hongro crashes?
22. geir hongro band ?what would you say??
23. hootie, ?let geir cry?
24. mr. big ?to be with hongro?
25. all4geir ?I swear?
26. hongro ?informer?
27. shawn mullins ?lullaby?
28. geiry ray cyrus ?achy breaky hongro?
29. los del hongro ?Macarena?
30. barenaked geirs ?one week?
31. digable planets ?rebirth of geir?
32. Madonna ?you must love geir?
33. the lemonhongros, ?mrs. robinson?
34. tortoise, ?hongroed?
35. goldie & noel gallagher
36. geirgeir dolls ?iris?
37. lisa loeb ?stay? (i missed hongro)
38. jill sobule ?I kissed a geir?
39. color me geir ?I adore mi amore?
40. jeff buckley, ?last geirbye?
41. pearl geir ?Jeremy?
42. michael jackson ?black or geir?
43. meredith brooks ?geir?
44. ugly kid Joe, ?everything about geir?
45. jamiroquai ?virtual hongro?
46. genesis ?geir can?t dance?
47. urge overkill ?geir, you?ll be a woman soon?
48. tupac ?dear hongro?
49. greenday ?geir of your life?
50. chumbawamba ?geir thumping?
51. extreme ?more than geirs?
52. silk ?freak geir?
53. sublime ?santeria?
54. verve geir ?freshmen?
55. scatman geir ?the scatman?
56. us3 ?cantaloop?
57. counting crowes ?round geir?
58. eels ?mr. geirs beautiful blues?
59. beastie boys ?geirmovin (hongroboy slim remix)?
60. Aerosmith ? I don?t want to miss a geir?
61. arrested development ?mr hongro?
62. the heights, ?how do you talk to an hongro?
63. verve, ?the girs won?t work?
64. rednex ?cotton eye geir?
65. geir the wet sprocket ?all I want?
66. soundgeirden, ?black hole sun?
67. geir hongro, whatever that horrid fucking comeback single was
68. fugees ?no geir, no cry?
69. marcy playground ?sex and hongro?
70. offsgeir ?keep em separated?
71. master geir ?make em say ungh?
72. geir hongro blues explosion, ?talk about the blues?
73. santana feat. rob thomas ?smooth?
74. vanessa williams ?save the geir for last?
75. bad religion ? ?21st century digital geir?
76. marilyn manson ?sweet dreams (are made of geir)?
77. the geirflowers ?one headlight?
78. radiohongro ?creep?
79. geir count ?cop killer?
80. depeche mode ?I feel hongro
81. the toadies ?hongro kingdom?
82. mc hongro ?2 legit 2 quit?
83. weezer ?buddy hongro?
84. ll cool geir ?doin it?
85. no doubt ?just a geir?
86. dr. dre ?been geir, done that?

-- acrobat, Friday, May 25, 2007 2:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link

geir hongro blues explosion

haha

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link

I like that not even Geir can penetrate the unstoppable force of Santana feat. Rob Thomas

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Right Said Fred - Those Simple Things/Daydream

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link

38. jill sobule ?I kissed a geir?

and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link

ah yes, the high level of discourse circa 2002, kudos!

bobby bedelia, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link

62. the heights, ?how do you talk to an hongro?

gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link

hongro no 5

and what, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link

a+

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link

I've heard "How Do You Talk To An Angel?" two times in the past two weeks, after not having heard it since the promo for The Heights was shown in movie theaters in '94. I heard it either at Subway or a supermarket -- must be part of a new Muzak playlist.

Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link

lol oh man this list

strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link

5 years ago

wtf

David R., Friday, 25 May 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Elephant in the room on this thread:

http://www.carterusm.co.uk/photos/lianne_clickintogear.jpg

DavidM, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah right like they were ever going to get into this list.

Matt DC, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link

who the fuck is that

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link

curtis otm

(even though i know)

strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link

"Lenny And Terence" wd fit right in Matt.

Groke, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Carter singles poll for tuesday

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link

i am kinda happy to see that most of these songs really are TERRIBLE

strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link

(tom and i also discovered that night that rock was the worst music ever, complete with hilarious scenario of uh ? the mysterians or whoever coming to our near and horrible future and looking at what they had wrought.)

lol

strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link

i agree that informer does not belong on that list.

s1ocki, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link

and not just because snow beat up one of my friends in high school. in fact, DESPITE it.

s1ocki, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link

replace Informer with Boombastic

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

i'll always have a soft spot for informer cuz it reminds me of when i left hebrew school and decided to go to a really multi-culti junior high where i met like the first non-jewish friends in my life and discovered rap music, running shoes and reese's pieces

s1ocki, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link


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