corniest selection on the ringer's "40 best songs of 1999"

20. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5

40. Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca

The 'snoball is working as a painter & decorator and the boss's radio is tuned to Capital and all they seem to play are these two songs' duo.

'steal my sunshine' dude employs a weird loud whisper affectation that is my most hated vocal performance ever. so voting for that.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:21 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Credit where it's due, Mike Edwards from Jesus Jones laid the foundation for this utterly indefensible style of 'singing'.

Also: please stop evoking 'Hooch' why because being reminded of that song is making me literally die.

(Countdown to me creating the 'Hooch' thread no one asked for.)

29. NSYNC - God Must've Spent A Little More Time On You

didn't even hesitate

xp hooch music video needs to be sectioned and polled

i'm going with miami. still get embarrassed when that song comes on. nothing on this list is 'cornier' to me.

2nd and 3rd are summer girls and god mustve spent, respectively.

xpost Okay well I just watched that video and can confidently state that that combination of sound and image is the purest distillation of evil ever delivered into the world.

literally cannot imagine any person in the last, say, dozen years going "hmm you know what I need to hear right now?! Miami by Will Smith!! Yes!!! What a tune!"

you haven't met me

lol. alas :(

although it always makes me want to listen to and the beat goes on by the whispers which is far superior

Okay I haven’t actually listened to the lyrics to Summer Girls until now and holy shit lmao

billy shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets

someone needs to tell David Chang about this ringer list and remind him of the "chinese food makes me sick" line in Summer Girls

https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/K1f1EGRYBHbEbHO-cCUw-g/348s.jpg

this Mexican restaurant nearby is called “Maria Maria” and it has what looks like a Carlos-style PRS guitar on the logo

"Summer Girls" lyrics poll

There was a good man named Paul Revere.

god must have spent

i already mentioned this in another thread but neither "maria maria" nor "thong song" should be on any 1999 list

i must say i unironically like-to-love most of these songs (including "summer girls") but it is quite an uninspired list nonetheless

not sure what the point is of some of those 'top ___ alternative songs of 199x' lists that have been popping up the last few years. i think i saw one last year that was literally almost all top 10s from that year's modern rock billboard charts, plus a few token tunes that they could retroactively call 'alternative' because i guess they were well-regarded in spin magazine or something (like "music sounds better with you")

I guess I need to listen to 'Summer Girls' again real quick because I always conflate it with 'Butterfly' for some unknown reason (prolly because they're both fucking dumb songs?) and I'm just now realizing for the eleventy-millionth time that it is not 'Butterfly'.

Ahhh, okay, right. LFO, the boy band whose members all look like they have a shaky notion of the terms of their restraining orders.

“Miami” is indeed pretty damn corny, but (it cannot be said enough) it’s failproof thanks to its And The Beat Goes On foundation.

xps

Aside from the tracks that never really hit the UK (Mobb Deep / Juvenile / NSYNC etc), all of these got blasted at me multiple times a day for the entire year.

I had just left 6th Form and was working at an Italian restaurant just outside Cardiff - I had my first full wage, no bills to pay and was spending 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, stuck in a hot kitchen with a rotating cast of Welsh/Italian maniacs. The owner insisted on Radio 1 / Capital etc being on while customers were in the restaurant after one too many 'blasting , and as a result I have very strong Stockholm syndrome for all these tracks.

Even at the time Mambo No.5 seemed like a new pinnacle of pop cheddar so that gets my vote, with Cher a very close 2nd. At the time, Cardiff was under the grip of HHowever I feel that the rich seam of gorgonzola that was 1999 pop-trance is missing from this list completely:

"Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess)"

xp Post fail! hit submit by mistake, should read as:

'...one too many 'blasting John Peel out of the kitchen door at unsuspecting customers' incident , and as a result..'

...

and 'At the time, Cardiff was under the grip of Hard House / Trance fever, however I feel that the rich seam of gorgonzola that was 1999 pop-trance is missing from this list completely:

DJ Sakin - Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess)
Phats & Small - Turn Around
ATB - 9 PM (Till I Come)
Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun'

All of these hit the UK charts and were ripe cheese that would get my vote.

Impossible to pick - this my core, heart music.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 1:06 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

extremely otm. scanning this list is taking me back to the summer after 6th grade--childhood's end, really--only the good memories remain now. scar tissue alone, wow... say what? karaoke on mtv. that don't impress me much desert leopard print. billy shakespeare wrote a whole lotta sonnets. all that glitters is gold...

it's not right, but it's ok :(

9PM Til I Come is as close as I come to heart corn from this era

kinda reminds me of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

whoa now frogbs no need to bring sam into this

The fact that 9PM Til I Come isn't here invalidates the entire list. In general the UK and US felt miles apart musically around this time (maybe Europe and the US) but the lack of any chart trance or garage in here really shows quite how divergent the charts were.

As much as I love 9PM I can understand it not being on here, especially in its single mix.

Saltwater, on the other hand...

Will Smith - "Miami" will forever be tied in my mind to the statewide trauma of the 1998 NFC Championship thanks to this Vikings version of MIami done by KDWB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMk1qffPNM

party in the Cities where the heat is on
Denny Green runnin' things in the Metrodome
and we're going to Miami

Bouncin' in the Cities with the purple and gold
Got your football senses on overload
and we're going to Miami

After checking what hard house / trance cheese hit the top 10 over here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_top-ten_singles_in_1999), and giving all the filter disco influenced stuff a pass of 'just about acceptable', if this poll was UK based it would need:

Porn Kings Vs. DJ Supreme - Up To the Wildstyle
Vengaboys - We Like to Party / Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom / We're Going to Ibiza / Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine)
Yomanda - Synth & Strings
Alice DeeJay - Better Off Alone / Back in My Life
DJ Jean - The Launch
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Ann Lee - 2 Times
Wamdue Project - King of My Castle
Mario Piu - Communication (Somebody Answer the Phone)
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings

Quite impressed that Flat Beat made it to number 1 tbh

giving all the filter disco influenced stuff a pass of 'just about acceptable'

I give it all an A+

OMG 'Flat Beat', forgot all about that song. The video was like the funniest thing in the world to me for probably like a day and a half.

started to read the Ringer article but couldn't get through it cuz all the writers sound suspiciously like Bill Simmons (name a song off Christina's last 3 albums. You can't!!). but there is a good point in there about how 1999 was the last time we, as a nation, really felt optimism...before Florida & the Hanging Chads, before 9/11, before Iraq, and all *gestures vaguely* this

Yeah Y2K really should've fulfilled its apocalyptic promise.

In a sense, it kinda did?

Well, it sure is taking its damn time.

Quite impressed that Flat Beat made it to number 1 tbh

Being in a Levi's ad got Babylon Zoo and Stiltskin to #1 as well so it's not that much of a surprise. Flat Beat has aged way better than either of those as well.

first Mr Oizo LP is excellent too

i dont think will smith's 'miami' is that corny really. big willie style is the last time he could get away w/ non corny records (altho 'just the 2 of us' is pretty oversentimental)

It was an old millenium, no excuse me, willenium

the spanish lyrics on miami are corny as fuck

spanish lyrics in miami vs spanish lyrics in beck songs

soy un maíz-idor

I believe you mean 'so open the door'

Will Smith - "Miami" will forever be tied in my mind to the statewide trauma of the 1998 NFC Championship thanks to this Vikings version of MIami done by KDWB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMk1qffPNM

party in the Cities where the heat is on
Denny Green runnin' things in the Metrodome
and we're going to Miami

Bouncin' in the Cities with the purple and gold
Got your football senses on overload
and we're going to Miami

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 1, 2019 5:54 AM (four hours ago)

laughing my ass off at this

it's amazing

I, too, laughed my ass of at that. Everything about it. I laugh at the Vikings and their fans pretty frequently tbh.

thats mean