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

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https://www.spin.com/featured/best-alt-rock-songs-1999-list/

These songs suck too!!

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link

It kinda felt like a corny year even at the time.

my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link

I think I hate the 90’s based on this list.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link

This music ruined high school for me.

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link

"You Get What You Give" is one of the greatest songs of all time so I'll go for that one.

The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link

get what you give seems like quite a popular song irl and on ilx but I've always despised it

bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link

Ricky Martin - 'Livin' La Vida Loca'

that song is on there!

i also have a soft spot for citizen king's better days, but i'll accept that as one of my character flaws.

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link

Impossible to pick - this my core, heart music.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link

“Steal my sunshine” is the only fun song in this list.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link

LOL flappy

After some thought I really don't see how this can't be "Summer Girls" - just excruciating to listen to, then & now.

“Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link

"You Get What You Give" is one of the greatest songs of all time so I'll go for that one.

― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, July 30, 2019 12:04 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

re-read the thread question!

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link

Having a look if things were better in the UK. Short answer: no. Longer answer: There are a few good songs if you keep reading.

http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1999.shtml

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link

There is nothing on the ringer's list in the same galaxy of corniness as The Millennium Prayer.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link

These lists always miss “Windowlicker” which is one of the finest singles and music videos of the 90’s let alone 1999.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link

The coda alone puts all these “top 40” to shame.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link

i do sincerely applaud the restraint it took to leave 'blue (da ba dee)' off the final list.

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link

“Steal My Sunshine” places on both the Ringer and Spin lists and neither write-up mentions the dialog. That’s the best part of the song!

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link

the correct answer is that it's all corny and 1999 was the corniest year of all of history

frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link

1999 was not a great year for me but I can’t blame the music

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link

How have I never heard that sunscreen song until just now? What a piece of shit.

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link

Love about 30 of these, including some corny ones.

Corniest? Sure, “Mambo No. 5” and “That Don’t Impress Me Much”, but also “Maria, Maria” and “Heartbreaker”. I’ve never liked “Heartbreaker”, so I guess I’ll vote for that one. (The *NSYNC probably qualifies, but I hardly remember it as it wasn’t a hit over here.)

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link

How have I never heard that sunscreen song until just now? What a piece of shit.

― Mr. Snrub

Is that the Baz Luhrman song? He is like a reverse alchemist, he turns gold into shit.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link

"heartbreaker" is good af, get outta here

Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link

These lists always miss “Windowlicker” “NORTHERN LITES” which is one of the finest singles and music videos of the 90’s let alone 1999.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, July 30, 2019 5:15 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fixed

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link

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

this is the correct answer, this is like half a step removed from "butterfly kisses"

Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link

Corniest song title

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link

Can't stand Northern Lights, completely put me off SFA.

Sunscreen is too dull to be corny.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link

'God Must've Spent A Little More Time On You' aka 'God is a Tender and Considerate Lover'

my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link

apparently that song is about their moms, which makes it approx 1 million times worse

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link

Eww

Was it one of N*Sync's or one of the Backstreet Boys' moms who wrote a quicky bio about how hot and desirable her son was?

my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link

ok since this isn't a poll for the "best" song (so many of these are stone cold classics, at least 70% of the list) I've gotta go with N*SYNC's "God Must've Spent A Little More Time On You" which I don't remember but assume is from their Xmas album, and there is nothing cornier than Xmas albums.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link

your love is like a river, peaceful and deep
your soul is like a secret that i never could keep

^^^ obviously horrible song, were there no better 1999 nsync singles to choose from? looking at wikipedia now, there weren't, though i kind of like "i drive myself crazy." also flappy it wasn't from their xmas album! it was one of the final two singles from the s/t, which came out in 1997 ffs, it's a really arbitrary inclusion

american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link

16. Whitney Houston - It's Not Right, But It's Okay

if we were voting for best songs

american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link

was thinking about doing a best songs for this when this closed, cause there are some bangers on here for sure.

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link

I thought it wsd best songs also Shania is great gtf

seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link

"heartbreaker" is good af, get outta here

God Didn’t Need To Create (A Third-rate “Fantasy”)

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link

it's probably my age but i would enjoy listening to most of these songs

bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link

it's a total fantasy rip and it still slaps

xp

Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link

I thought it wsd best songs also Shania is great gtf

I’d like the record to state that I agree with this - one of the corny-and-awesome ones (my first post about this fell into the xp black hole, I suspect)

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link

Yeah I love that Shania song.

the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link

when i was a 9-year-old in 1999, i have to say my least favorite one of these was cher's 'believe,' but i've come around on that one a bit. not to liking it, but to appreciating it as cheese and a pretty good choice for karaoke.

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link

it's also kinda mind-boggling how huge that song was, considering cher hadn't topped the charts since 1973.

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link

I just relistened to "Believe" and holy cow it does not sound as good as I remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMY0k0-D9JQ

frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link

The "Dance!" moment in the sunscreen song is as good a contender for corniness circa '99 as any.

Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link

I just relistened to "Believe" and holy cow it does not sound as good as I remember

How good did you remember it sounding?

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link

A low moment in my psychic history was hearing "Believe" for the first time and thinking "it's too bad Cher could never have a hit today, even when she's trying really really hard to." Not only was I wrong, but then I had to listen to the song day in, day out for a half-year.

Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link

After some thought I really don't see how this can't be "Summer Girls" - just excruciating to listen to, then & now.

this was my first thought, there's something so cynical about that song, the first boy band tune that felt like a straight cash-in

but then I saw "God Must've Spent a Little More Time on You" which must've come out the summer of '99 because I remember that tune being #1 on TRL like every single day...corniness is basically that tune's only trait. it sounds like something that would've come from one of those manufactured bands on the Disney channel, with all those little *doink* noises everywhere

frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link

i love "believe"

american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link

also this was the year I turned 13 so the videos for "What's It Gonna Be?", "That Don't Impress Me Much", and to a lesser extent "Steal My Sunshine" were iconic to me for a different reason

frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link

soy un maíz-idor

jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link

I believe you mean 'so open the door'

COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link

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

bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link

it's amazing

american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link

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

Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link

thats mean

Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 5 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

another station-produced parody of "miami"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqiSxNyK0MM

dyl, Monday, 5 August 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link

Maybe 1999 isn't corny, but rather the list-making people are just bad at making lists.

billstevejim, Monday, 5 August 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link

"hooch" is summer 98, why is it discussed here

billstevejim, Monday, 5 August 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link

Okay the corniest selection here is def "24. Blackstreet - "Take Me There" ft. Mya, Ma$e & Blinky Blink"

Since it's blackstreet who would ever believe this is actually cornier than "All Star" but it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEpiB8AfSao

billstevejim, Monday, 5 August 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link

Also this is what the music in every Target commercial sounds like now

billstevejim, Monday, 5 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link

that song is cute & fun

dyl, Monday, 5 August 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link

Movie Soundtrack from Rugrats The Movie

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH right

thank god I was an adult in 1999

brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 5 August 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link

also that LFO song is the worst

brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 5 August 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link

hah I wonder if Mark Mothersbaugh got a big royalty check for that one

frogbs, Monday, 5 August 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link

God Didn't Spend Nearly Enough Time on You

i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 August 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link

lol

dyl, Monday, 5 August 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

Len - Steal My Sunshine 2

you fools

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link

two motherfuckers tried to steal my sunshine

Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link

for some reason I heard "Tender" in a bar at the weekend and there is not enough contempt for that godawful week-long dirge here. seriously personally offended that The Thong Song got more votes than it

also add me to the list of people who never, uh, got "You Get What You Give"

PS "Steal My Sunshine" is great of course

a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link

"hooch" is summer 98, why is it discussed here

― billstevejim, Monday, August 5, 2019 11:11 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is why it finally received its own (semi-)dedicated thread.

Liberals are insane in the mimbrain!!! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link

The crazy town is obv the best

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link

oopa wrong thread ... although sort of the right thread

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link

i wouldn't have put it past these listmakers to have deemed "butterfly" a 1999 song

dyl, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link


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