xp haha i think that depends a lot on where a person lives
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Rhcp, green day, and foo fighters all feel like the last generation that worked at rock inc. before the company went outta business so they get remembered as members of The Greats simply by outliving everyone
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
ftr "Heartbreaker" fucking sucks
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
The girl at the student house next to mine played Californication on repeat for the entire summer of 2000, and very loud too, I hate that fucking album more than I can say
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
very loud too
this is just the natural volume of californication
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
I've read quite a bit about it being the ultimate example of a victim of the loudness wars, doesn't make me hate it any less tbh.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
lol I mean if u think abt it californication is just a combination of words that means “fucking california” and listen buddy fuckin a whole state is not quiet work
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
Summer Girls is still worst tho
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
and it's in the rob Sheffield list in rs too. what the fuck is wrong with these people?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
The remix with Missy Elliot tho, I'm fully on board with.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
i always thought it was a portmanteau of 'california' and 'vacation'
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
the lead singer of the band Everything looks a lot like rob schneider in this "Hooch" video
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
a buddy of mine had that Lou Bega CD, it was low key pretty hilarious
two of the songs are straight up rewrites of "Mambo No. 5" and there's a skit (??) that involves an awful Italian accent
kinda reminds me of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, where you have a cool novelty single and then have to write a full LP but you don't really have any ideas beyond that one thing. although I liked "Tricky Tricky" a lot
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:31 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ur thinking of “californiacation” one letter makes a huge difference between a family trip to anaheim and a trip to make a family WITH anaheim
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
feel like rhcp's a better soundtrack to the buena park pirate dinner show
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
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.
― just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
'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'.
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Also: please stop evoking 'Hooch' why because being reminded of that song is making me literally die.
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
(Countdown to me creating the 'Hooch' thread no one asked for.)
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
29. NSYNC - God Must've Spent A Little More Time On You
didn't even hesitate
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
xp hooch music video needs to be sectioned and polled
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
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!"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
you haven't met me
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
lol. alas :(
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
billy shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
someone needs to tell David Chang about this ringer list and remind him of the "chinese food makes me sick" line in Summer Girls
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/K1f1EGRYBHbEbHO-cCUw-g/348s.jpgthis Mexican restaurant nearby is called “Maria Maria” and it has what looks like a Carlos-style PRS guitar on the logo
― brimstead, Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
"Summer Girls" lyrics poll
There was a good man named Paul Revere.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
god must have spent
― dyl, Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
i already mentioned this in another thread but neither "maria maria" nor "thong song" should be on any 1999 list
― dyl, Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
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")
― dyl, Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
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'.
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
Ahhh, okay, right. LFO, the boy band whose members all look like they have a shaky notion of the terms of their restraining orders.
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
“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
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 1 August 2019 07:36 (four years ago) link
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)"
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Thursday, 1 August 2019 09:33 (four years ago) link
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..'
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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 AroundATB - 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.
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Thursday, 1 August 2019 10:03 (four years ago) link
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 :(
― J. Sam, Thursday, 1 August 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
9PM Til I Come is as close as I come to heart corn from this era
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 August 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
kinda reminds me of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
whoa now frogbs no need to bring sam into this
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 1 August 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 August 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
As much as I love 9PM I can understand it not being on here, especially in its single mix.Saltwater, on the other hand...
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 August 2019 12:23 (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 onDenny Green runnin' things in the Metrodomeand we're going to Miami
Bouncin' in the Cities with the purple and goldGot your football senses on overloadand we're going to Miami
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 August 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
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 WildstyleVengaboys - We Like to Party / Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom / We're Going to Ibiza / Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine)Yomanda - Synth & StringsAlice DeeJay - Better Off Alone / Back in My LifeDJ Jean - The LaunchEiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)Ann Lee - 2 TimesWamdue Project - King of My CastleMario Piu - Communication (Somebody Answer the Phone)William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings
Quite impressed that Flat Beat made it to number 1 tbh
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Thursday, 1 August 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
giving all the filter disco influenced stuff a pass of 'just about acceptable'
I give it all an A+
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 August 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 August 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 August 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link