― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
JEFF BUCKLEY - "Hallelujah" (304 points, 18 votes)
http://www.liquidgnome.com/JeffBuckley/images/hall.jpg
"First time I listened to it I was lying in bad with the flu at 3 in the morning. It's just TOO lovely, and made the feel even worse than I did at the time, which was pretty bad!"
- Johnney B
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
The UK issue was like this:
http://www.saint.etienne.net/ec/Nothing_Can_Stop_Us.jpg
but less blurry.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Kevin Gilchrist (KevinGil14...), November 7th, 2004.
a single that doubles as a tampon?
xpost
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Uh, is that a joke? "Escargot, my car go" ring a bell?
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" (307 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H84.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg(from the album Mecca and the Soul Brother)
"pete rock & cl smooth created a subgenre with "they reminisce over you" which is a perfect marriage of elegiac rhymes and muted horns..."
- fred solinger
"nothing sadder in the world than Pete Rock & CL Smooth's "TROY (They Reminisce Over You)" "
- M Matos
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
ORBITAL - "Halcyon" (322 points, 17 votes)
http://www.paulstephenson.freeserve.co.uk/orbital_singles/orb_raddico_us12.jpg
"Halcyon is one of the most glorious bizarre and fantastic tracks around."
- Ronan
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
LL COOL J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (323 points, 19 votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024II.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
"And you thought the word "damn" had lost its power..."
- Anthony Miccio
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
MISSY ELLIOTT - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (326 points, 25 votes)
http://www.thehumangenomeproject.com/missy/rain.jpg
"Supa Dupa Fly remains her shining, most coherent, razzle-dazzling moment."
- Vic
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost "The Rain" rules too. I love that Ann Peebles song too.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
HAPPY MONDAYS - "Kinky Afro" (329 points, 22 votes)
http://home.dialix.com/~u3336/factory/images/302_7b.jpg
"I remember Jess nominated this song for Best Opening Line ('son i'm thirty, i only went with your mother cos she's dirty'). Quite OTM."
-- Aaron A.
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
But seriously, "Halcyon" at 64???
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
interesting results so far, and even moreso later on...
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
anyways, there weren't 64 songs in the 90s better than troy FFS
― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
no jungle, hardcore, or techno yet, this is either a good or bad thing.
― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― artiste (artiste), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
anyway, on to 60-51...
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
WU-TANG CLAN - "C.R.E.A.M." (332 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)
http://www.mixtapes.ch/images/wu_cream.jpg
"Cash rules everything around me = the way things are."
- daria g
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
BJORK - "Joga" (336 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000024ZNT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
"Christ! How can you even begin to question the album with "Joga" on it????" -- Adam Bruneau
Favourite detail in a pop lyric?
"In 'Joga' by Bjork, when she appears to get the start of the word wrong in one verse, and goes "me-you". "
-- Matt DC
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link
PULP - "This Is Hardcore"(338 points, 22 votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000009GDU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
" "this is hardcore" is just so *sui generis*, i can't imagine anyone else pulling anything like that off at all."
- amateur!st
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link
TLC - "Creep" (339 points, 24 votes)
http://www.swr3.de/__pix/cover/500x435/221.jpg
"The first bar or two of Creep, in context, is like manna from heaven."- gabbneb
"That jazzy trumpet that starts Creep off is a trumpet of joy."-- syntaxfree
"i think "creep" is one of the 20 best r&b singles ever written." -- strongo hulkington
"Seconding (or ... 6thing) the suggestion that "Creep" is one of the greatest r and b songs ever."-- djdee2005
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - "Cherub Rock" (340 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000HNU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
"I think I might have a totally different concept of 90s AOR than is being used here. Smashing Pumpkins would be the kings of the genre as I see it, with "Cherub Rock" probably being their best single."--sundar subramanian
"Makes me wanna fuck shit up. It brings up the violent side of me, that needs to be released once in a while, in order to be tamed. I am sometimes a difficult person to deal with, but, alas, it is just the demons trying to get out."--JP Almeida
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link
UNDERWORLD - "Cowgirl" (342 points, 19 votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004Y1RR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
"Isn't the way Underworld use vocals totally unique, I can't think of any band or any dance act who use vocals as a rhythmic part of the song, in something like Rez/Cowgirl the "everything everything everything everything" seems to make the track so absolutely mindblowingly essential and intense and yet later in the track the vocals become like an extra drum or beat or something (an eraser of love)"--Ronan
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link
THE KLF - "Last Train To Trancentral" (343 points, 22 votes, 2 first place votes)
http://www.stars-on-7-inch.com/index_k/klf/last_train.jpg
"I think I was awestruck, or something close to it, when I first heard the KLF's "Last Train To Trancentral" on the radio - the idea at a young age that anyone in pop was this intelligent, and this gifted, and had this many ideas."-- Robin Carmody
"'Last Train to Trancentral' is, to me, the epitome of this method: it's just hook after hook after hook, with a bonkers half-time breakdown and, at the end when it appears no more can possibly happen, a cameo dalek voice chanting 'Mu Mu'. Pop genius."-- Ben Butler
"Oh, and "Last Train To Trancentral" being kept off Number 1 by Cher's "Shoop Shoop Song". Didn't piss me off so much back then, oddly; 10 years have clearly made me slowly more bitter."-- Robin Carmody
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link