“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
― 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 deepyour 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
― 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
― 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
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
Just learned that the Buffy episode that clowns so hard on Believe was released a week before the single even came out.
https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Living_Conditions October 12, 1999https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song) October 19, 1998
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Oh fuck. nevermind
lol
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
Mobb Deep - "Quiet Storm" is great and weirdly out of character for this list
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
OK lol I actually pressed play on frogbs's video.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
xp Deeply out of character.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
No Sandstorm no credibility.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
believe is amazing
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
voting for red hot chili peppers, the corniest artists itt
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
they might be, but i don't think "scar tissue" is v corny
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
'Thong Song' is the corniest (if 'corny' means "closest to '99 and the song got stuck in '99").
Len and TLC are the best.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
there was something weird going on with the music videos at the time, I remember watching a ton of them on MTV back then and like half of them were set on some crazy spaceship with the singers appearing in skintight outfits straight out of the original Star Trek. maybe it was just a side effect of CGI getting a little better (lmao) but I'm kind of curious how this started. was it Michael Jackson?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
len, juvenile, new radicals, and sisqo are all timers for me
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
yah those plus odb and fiona are my faves
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
frogbs, i mean, it was the era of X-Files, Y2k tension, the Matrix, WTO protests, disillusionment with govt w/r/t Lewinsky stuff, conspiracy theory, David Icke, Behold a Pale Horse... it's not a stretch that music videos are gonna look that way
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
while you are considering what to vote for:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdKTx-8EvtM
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:28 (four years ago) link
Scar Tissue is corny af and it's only the presence of Tender than prevented me from voting for it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
― 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