http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1995
http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/6Sr3ttlOsPiOjhQUGOzyJL
This playlist is missing two songs; "I Know" by Dionne Farris and "I Miss You" by N II U
Overall it's a pretty great year for all different kinds of pop music with a few obvious clunkers; love the reminders of TLC's pinnacle, plus it's interesting seeing some of these songs popping up in recent commercials (specifically "This Is How We Do It" and "I Wish")
I would have made this a poll but fuck that, just talk about the songs you like
― DJP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Two Bon Jovi ballads!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
haha wait who used I Wish
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
year of the batman forever soundtrack
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iymBRSUfz9U
― DJP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
also soul for real, boyz ii men's ii, the brandy record
bought a lot of cassettes that year
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
"Tootsee Roll" 69 Boyz
^^^
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
Looking at the songs that I'm unfamiliar with. I don't think I knew until now that The Real McCoy did a version of "Come and Get Your Love".
― MarkoP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
omg i never actually knew who did "here come the hotstepper"
had that song in my head ALL THE TIME that year
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
it's semi-criminal that "I Know" by Dionne Farris isn't on Spotify
― DJP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
holy shit i totally forgot about "i know"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHsJe94TdhA
― DJP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
the riff sounds like 500000 guitars
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
The last time that Natalie Merchant, Pretenders and Soul Asylum would ever have Billboard charters?
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Natalie Merchant had Kind & Generous in 1998, but that only charted on the Airplay chart.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
"you gotta be" is even more lush than i remember
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:53 PM Bookmark
Ha, yesterday I posted "When I grow up I will be Ini Kamoze" on twitter and he retweeted it.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
haha awesome
some distance has made me remember that I liked Hootie and the Blowfish for a hot second
― DJP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
i definitely owned cracked rear view
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
but idk i was like 8
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
haha me 2 :(
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
I owned the 1996 Grammy Awards compilation CD which was one of my first gateways to popular music and had a bunch of these songs on it.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Mista Boombahstique
― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
I loathe "I Know " :(
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
goddammit alfred
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
i didn't know an 8-year-old would want Cracked Rear View, unless they thought it was an album full of fart jokes
― some dude, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
you know who was great, was Soul for Real
― DJP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
fucking exactly
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
also ship "only wanna be with you" was mad catchy idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
I reminded a friend about the existence of "In the House of Stone and Light."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
"Only wanna be with you" really was mad catchy, that and the singles from the first sheryl crow album were pretty big for me, though I didn't succumb to buying anything.
― Tim F, Thursday, 27 June 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
my least favorite pop year of the nineties
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
oohhhhhhhh shit "turn the beat around" was '95?
my first ever "favorite song of all time"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Best song on Cracked Rear View was "Hannah Jane" IMO.
"I Know" is such a great tune. I was a college radio DJ at the time and it really pissed me off when someone had played it in the shift right before mine. (We were a tightly-formatted college station so I couldn't play it again for three hours.)
Almost hard to remember how big that Melissa Etheridge record was at the time.
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 June 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
The song was ruined for me when she played it and a 15-minute watery funk nothing while opening for Bryan Ferry in spring '95.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
whereupon Ferry himself instructed his band to play a watery 15-minute funk nothing
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
am completely flummoxed that ilx has opinions about hootie album tracks.
that said, "here comes the hotstepper" is completely classic. i did not know then nor do i know now any of the words, i would just kind of toast along with nonsense syllables to this whole song until the chorus came around
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 28 June 2013 04:24 (ten years ago) link
Lol Hootie was my first concertconcert
Also: <3 I Know. Brad otm about that riff
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 28 June 2013 07:50 (ten years ago) link
I remember the first time hearing Short Dick Man (tho it was the clean version, ShortShort Man)
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 28 June 2013 07:58 (ten years ago) link
"Like the Way I Do" is a jam, would be happy to never hear another Etheridge song but that one is suitably unhinged
&
"does she miss you / existing just to kiss you"
is a preposterous rhyme & I LOVE IT
― Euler, Friday, 28 June 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
I like that one too (and a few other ME singles). I didn't notice it here and never thought of it as a 1995 hit, probably because it was actually released in 1988!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 28 June 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
ha yes, I was surprised to see it on this 1995 list too, since I thought I remembered it from much earlier. now I see that it was rereleased in 95 as a b-side; good call!
― Euler, Friday, 28 June 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
I have never heard "In the House of Stone and Light" before in my life; how many things did Sting record under this name?
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
he co-wrote "We Built This City." Can Sting boast a comparable accomplishment?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
"Russians"
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
I was gonna say "We'll Be Together"
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
I loathe "I Know " :(― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
goddammit alfred― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There is a fair share of insufferable stuff on this list tho.
Boyz II Men, "On Bended Knee"Del Amitri, "Roll To Me"all the Hootief'n BLUES TRAVELER, "RUN-AROUND"
Still ... there but for the grace of the radio gods goes Jade's "Every Day of the Week." <3
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
currently at the "I Got 5 On It"/"Baby"/"Run Away" section; I don't remember "As I Lay Me Down" at all but I hope it keeps up the streak
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
really? It got massive airplay for at least two years after its release.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
HotstepperI WishI Got 5 On ItShy Guy= all classics, too hard to decide.
Last night I thought of "'74-'75" by the Connells for the first time in years because something with a very similar chord progression came on the pub jukebox, and I totally thought it was going to be on here as it was ubiquitous in the UK that summer/autumn, but apparently it wasn't even a hit in the US. I wouldn't have voted for it but I guess I liked being reminded of it last night?
― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Would be willing to sort of rep for "Roll to Me," though I find it much easier to resent it on the grounds that it is the only thing that so many people will ever associate Del Amitri with (they have much better songs, even on that same album).
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Friday, 28 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
A la Cardigans fans with "Lovefool" (which I love)
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Friday, 28 June 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
always good to be reminded that a song like "In The House Of Stone And Light" could go top 20 even after grunge
― da croupier, Friday, 28 June 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIa9UEXd98Q
lol at such a nineties video for such an eighties song
― da croupier, Friday, 28 June 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
on my station "In The House..." got as much airplay as – remember this? – Jamie Walter's "Hold On."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
oh man:
With his residence in Los Angeles county, he pursued training, certification, and employment as a paramedic and worked with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He is now working as a full-time firefighter/paramedic for the Los Angeles City Fire Department as of early 2004. Walters is focusing on his family and his career with the fire department but hopes to get back into music and acting sometime in the near future.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
I definitely remember "Hold On," mostly because I named my playlist of artists with top 20 hits in the 90s (and only the 90s) who never went top ten Jamie Walters (Not The Heights)
― da croupier, Friday, 28 June 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
lol Jamie Walters
remember how he used 90210 to boost his music career, which was then torpedoed when they had his character beat the shit out of Donna Martin
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
I thought he used his music career to boost his firefighting stint
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
lol i had no idea he and drew barrymore were engaged
― da croupier, Friday, 28 June 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
croup quite rightly placed "No Myth" at the top of a list that includes "Baby It's Tonight" (which I hear at the supermarket once a month) and "Hippychick."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
it's in chronological order by order of appearance on the top 40
― da croupier, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
I can't believe "Now That We Found Love" didn't go top 10, ditto "The Humpty Dance"
also "No Myth" rules pretty hard
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
only way to forgive "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" at the bottom.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I've heard "Tic Tac Toe" since the 90s
that was totally new to me when I made these playlists and it's fucking great
― da croupier, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
omigod "Everything Changes." I worked at a Miami Subs when this thing played twice a day on the in-house system and hated when the Taylor Dayne clone sang "Everything looks the same through the eyes of love" and I thought, "Try sticking your hands in fry batter and tomato water, bitch."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
a helluva Trevor Horn tribute, "Tic Tac Toe," with all those scratches and Yes samples in the right places.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I always liked how, at the end of "No Myth," the drum track turns into the intro to Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" Someone should do a mashup.
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
back to the 1995 list for a second, I'd forgotten how much I love "Every Little Thing I Do"; possibly one of the greatest drops of all time when the music echoes out and the voices come back in a capella
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
thinking of "Misery", which I still hear at supermarkets & the like: Let Your Dim Light Shine went platinum! Grave Dancers Union went triple platinum so it's no New Jersey but still.
― Euler, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
lol i really like "on bended knee" :(
― dyl, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
man "I Wanna Be Down" is a good song but I heard it so so so so so many times, I'm still burned out on it 18 years later
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Let Your Dim Light Shine would qualify for the New Jersey poll if it'd gone multiplatinum.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
"The Rhythm of the Night" is great but why does it even bother to have verses?
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
It was a minor hit on alt-rock radio
― balls, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
re: connells
― balls, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
man, if only Corona had popped up on alt-rock radio
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
lol @ coronas popping up
― Euler, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
okay lol I never actually knew the name of "Roll To Me"
― DJP, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Every time I hear "Rhythm of the Night" I remember the time in college when my clock radio went off at 6:45 a.m. at the very precise moment she howls "THIS IS THE RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT!" and I laugh all over again.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Friday, 28 June 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
If you don't fux with "On Bended Knee" you and I are not alike, that's all I have to say.
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 June 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
"On Bended Knee" isn't the objectionable Boyz II Men song on this list IMO
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Friday, 28 June 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
the version of "i'll make love to you" on the playlist sounds rerecorded btw
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
that's the pitfall of Spotify
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Friday, 28 June 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah but via spotify i just learned boyz ii men released an album in 2009 where they cover the goo goo dolls and take that
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 June 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
The biggest airplay song not included here must have been "When I Come Around."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
― DJP, vrijdag 28 juni 2013 20:08 bookmarkflaglink
― Euler, vrijdag 28 juni 2013 20:09 bookmarkflaglinkCovid-19 retroactively claiming even more threads
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
xp second-biggest! biggest was the friends theme song "i'll be there for you" by the rembrandts
a few other big radio hits from that year that largely bypassed retail:
gin blossoms "til i hear it from you"live "lightning crashes"alanis morissette "you oughta know" and "hand in my pocket"
― dyl, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
more on topic, whew, "kiss from a rose"
― dyl, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
I'd completely forgotten that I created this playlist
― DJP, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link