THE WORST SINGLES OF THE 90s

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.

Whitney is flat every time she belts the long note in the chorus.

That's kind of immaterial to whether or not she means it though, isn't it?

Yeah Whitney was knee-jerk dumbness on my part (if it was on my part) - it's not right but it's OK.

depends if she means it to be flat

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.

Joe Bloggs?

-- 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.

Hasn't been mentioned yet, but...

"Oh What A Night" is the worst single of the 1990s.

late december, back in '63?

So if something is now considered "ironically bad/good/kitsch" it's not going to be on here?

being an impressionable teen in the 90s - worse than being an impressionable teen in the 80s? YES

- blueski, Friday, May 25, 2007 1:45 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark 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 . . .

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.

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

also polls that arent polls

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??

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.

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

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

surely not the 90's?

"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

no problem with Mambo No. 5 altho i hate the Bob The Builder version cos of annoying Neil Morrissey

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

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.

we're forgetting something:

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

80s.

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

(Specifically 89, because we played that at German camp the second summer I went.)

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.

"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.

jesus christ "All Star"

Seriously what happened in the '90s you guys?

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

guys did you know that that other not-"Smooth" Santana song was a #1 for TEN WEEKS? How did we let this happen????

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

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

"Hey Ya" is

'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!'

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

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

geir hongro blues explosion

haha

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

Right Said Fred - Those Simple Things/Daydream

38. jill sobule ?I kissed a geir?

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

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

hongro no 5

a+

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.

lol oh man this list

5 years ago

wtf

Elephant in the room on this thread:

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

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