* The Farm "Groovy Train"* Atari Teenage Riot "Atari Teenage Riot"* Cher "Believe"* L.A. Style "James Brown is Dead"* Blind Melon "No Rain"* Bush "Glycerine"* the Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Knock on Wood"* Gin Blossoms "Hey Jealousy"* Terence Trent D'arby "wishing well"* Public Enemy "911 is a Joke"* Duran Duran "Come Undone"
more soon
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 2 November 2002 06:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 2 November 2002 06:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 2 November 2002 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Mariah CareyPaula AbdulMC HammerVanilla IceStepsBack StreetBoysFiveHansonArrested DevelopmentMarky Mark Gin BlossomsShaquille O'NealWill Smith
― selective memory, Saturday, 2 November 2002 07:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Kiwi, Saturday, 2 November 2002 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 2 November 2002 08:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
You probably hate things that sample "Broken Wings" too.
Jess, do you hate emotion?
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 2 November 2002 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
It sure does.Having a good read through this list, there are some great songs there. I knew the indie guilt thing is powerful but I never realised it was so destructive. You guys have had a shocka. I could give you 10,000 singles from the 1990's worse than the ones you have listed. No doubt I "just dont get it" but this is popism gone mad.
― Kiwi, Saturday, 2 November 2002 09:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 2 November 2002 09:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
JBR - I've never seen Pulp Fiction so have no beef with it either way. Obviously had it not been for the film fewer people would have heard Urge Overkill's laboured version. If the list had extended to the 00s then Louise's cover of "Stuck In The Middle With You" could have been included.
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
"A Little Time" Beautiful South"Cats In The Cradle" Ugly Kid Joe"A Change (Will Do You Good)" Sheryl Crow
and, of course, "Runaway Train" Soul Asylum
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kiwi, Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
It was 2000, as it was my single of 2000...
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dom, fine choices all except the Sheryl which is great! Actually I don't remember the UKJ one and "Runaway Train" has some kind of merit maybe, I can't remember.
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kiwi, Saturday, 2 November 2002 11:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
I nominate LaTour's "People are Still Having Sex"
― J (Jay), Saturday, 2 November 2002 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
The real answer would be that they are ALL chart trance from 1999.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 2 November 2002 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 2 November 2002 11:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Take Bryan Adams out of that and you have a decent "Side One" for a "Best of the 90s" mixtape.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 November 2002 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael (michael), Saturday, 2 November 2002 12:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
kiwi, watch that bubblegum guilt!!
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 2 November 2002 13:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
You forgot:
2nu, "Ponderous"The Brian Setzer Orchestra, "Since I Don't Have You"Cliff Richard, "The Lord's Prayer"Dead Eye Dick, "New Age Girl"Voices That Care, "Voices That Care"Bob Carlisle, "Butterfly Kisses"
I think it will be crucial to allow people who actually like some of the list songs to provide positive reviews as a kind of counterpoint.
I love: #36, #50, #53, #54, #57, #74, #77, #84.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 2 November 2002 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
I agree that some of these choices were clearly based on familiarity rather than true awfulness - "My Heart Will Go On" sounds pretty good straight after "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" or "Tell Him".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 November 2002 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
LalalalaICAN'THEARYOUlalalala...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
HAHAHAHA! So many of these songs are grebt. You are all on crack.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
But Keith, most of Moby's nineties stuff is fine - the metal stuff I'm not sure about but it is surely to negligable to count.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 2 November 2002 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's all blandly inoffensive Radio Rock, mostly, but hardly anything I would run from the room to avoid. This is what happens when you get Yanks to tell you what they hate. Where are all those really shit records that came out of Europe and Britain in the 90s, eh... EH?!!
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 2 November 2002 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
2. red hot chilli peppers “under the bridge”Really? Number 2? It's not that bad, is it?
3. billy joel “we didn’t start the fire”Good pick here. This song should be buried somewhere in a Nevada desert.
8. smashing pumpkins “tonight tonight”? Surely they've put out worse?
11. rem, “radio song”Yes, you should have put "Everybody Hurts" on there, too. Though this one sucks pretty bad as well...Did they really release it as a single?
14. spin doctors “two princes”Another good pick. Awful.
15. bryan adams “everything I do (I do it for you)”However, really EXCELLENT for comic relief, if you start spontaneously singing the chorus if you do someone a favor and they say "Thank you".
16. joan osborne “one of us”Would almost certainly be in my the Top 5, for me.
17. alanis morrisette “ironic”Overwrought, but I dislike "One Hand in My Pocket" more.
19. cranberries “zombie”My father inexplicably LOVES this song. I mean LOVES it. He doesn't like anything else by them, just this song.
42. michael jackson “black or white”Brings back chilling memories of McKauley Culkin...
46. genesis “I can’t dance”Should be MUCH higher up on this list. Another Top 5'er.
57. counting crowes “round here”Mr. Jones
65. toad the wet sprocket “all I want”Nah. Harmless. I say substitute this with that "dance on the ocean" or "walk on the ocean" (or whatever the hell it was) song.
Good list, Tom and Jess!
Others:
As suggested previously, Dead Eye Dick's "New Age Girl" has GOT to be on this list, and way, way up. Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy". Bryan Adams' "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" might be a strong contender as well.
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
one that really should be there: "Both Sides Of The Story" by Phil Collins. or was he just not worth hating by that time?
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
did smashmouth release anything in the 90s? 'walking on the sun' should be included if eligable
and is 'keep em seperated' really worse than 'pretty fly for a white guy'?
― minna (minna), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is from a BJ discography: Storm Front and the first single, We Didn't Start The Fire, reached the #1 spots simultaneously on the Billboard album and singles charts on December 16, 1989. My Billboard book says it stayed #1 for a total of two weeks. So while it was still a hit during the first flush weeks of the '90's, it peaked before 1990. Hence, I would say: NOT a '90's record.
Oh god, yes, the Juliana Hatfield one.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Champagne Supernova" wasn't a single, but I guess it might as well have been. But given my horrid housemates obsession with it I'll let that pass.
― Graham (graham), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
a+
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I've heard "How Do You Talk To An Angel?" two times in the past two weeks, after not having heard it since the promo for The Heights was shown in movie theaters in '94. I heard it either at Subway or a supermarket -- must be part of a new Muzak playlist.
― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
lol oh man this list
― strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
5 years ago
wtf
― David R., Friday, 25 May 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Elephant in the room on this thread:
http://www.carterusm.co.uk/photos/lianne_clickintogear.jpg
― DavidM, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah right like they were ever going to get into this list.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
who the fuck is that
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
curtis otm
(even though i know)
― strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lenny And Terence" wd fit right in Matt.
― Groke, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Carter singles poll for tuesday
― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i am kinda happy to see that most of these songs really are TERRIBLE
― strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
(tom and i also discovered that night that rock was the worst music ever, complete with hilarious scenario of uh ? the mysterians or whoever coming to our near and horrible future and looking at what they had wrought.)
lol
― strongohulkington, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree that informer does not belong on that list.
― s1ocki, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
and not just because snow beat up one of my friends in high school. in fact, DESPITE it.
replace Informer with Boombastic
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll always have a soft spot for informer cuz it reminds me of when i left hebrew school and decided to go to a really multi-culti junior high where i met like the first non-jewish friends in my life and discovered rap music, running shoes and reese's pieces
― s1ocki, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
very good list, but these are misses, the first especially
14. spin doctors ?two princes? 31. digable planets ?rebirth of slick? 59. beastie boys ?bodymovin (fatboy slim remix)? 68. fugees ?no woman, no cry? 78. radiohead ?creep?
also rong * Cher "Believe" * Public Enemy "911 is a Joke"
Informer very much belongs on this list
― gabbneb, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
that's a hell of a monday morning
xpost?
― gff, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Boombastic > Informer though.
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Has Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now" not been mentioned?
― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It came to mind when Songs About The Fall of the Iron Curtain came up with the Scorps, but I don't mind it. I think of "Right Here, Right Now" and "Unbelievable" as two songs that I never heard apart from each other.
― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
There's nothing wrong with "Buddy Holly" or "Black Hole Sun." Unless you hate life, of course.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
in fact, that list is a piece of crap straight up.
― darraghmac, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
unless you're just too cool to listen to the radio, maybe
― darraghmac, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously, considering ILM at the time was a bunch of dudes praising the Manics and fucking Magnetic Fields
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 29 March 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is appalling. you are all a bunch of idiots.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Indie rock guilt is so stupid. Why be guilty of music you used to like?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Tom and Jess coming up with that list:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/images/homepage/2303_jewel_header.jpg
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I like some of the songs on this list (“More Than Words” is just a great tune!) but it's still quite funny. Lots of hate for college rock gone pop stuff.
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
You also missed out Fun Lovin' Criminals' "Scooby Snacks" or whatever it was called.
-- N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:23
Hahaha... I expected this on there as well.
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
"or whatever it was called." = "Errr... not that I would know, of course."
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
paul jewell porn arghhhhhhhhhhh
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 30 March 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
What about the Wedding Present as they neared the end of their "hit parade" experiment (and running out of inspiration/money)? They could pretty much release anything at that stage and it would be a Top 40 hit, with something like "Shaft", or the theme from "Twin Peaks" on the B Side.
― JTS, Sunday, 30 March 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait Dom you don't like the Magnetic Fields? I thought you were all about lame indie shit like that?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 30 March 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Why be guilty of music you used to like?
even if it was Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots?
― blueski, Sunday, 30 March 2008 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not embarrassed to have liked Pearl Jam. Infact i still like those records. Always hated Stone Temple Pilots(apart from that 1 song that sounded like Redd Kross). ST always seem more liked on ILM than PJ for some reason.
Or are you admitting you like Pearl Jam and STP and feel guilty?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 30 March 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
the latter
― blueski, Sunday, 30 March 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i just picked completely the wrong year to get into US rock but it coiuldn't really be helped
― blueski, Sunday, 30 March 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Matt DC, Sunday, 30 March 2008 12:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
I like pussy indie shit, not lame indie shit.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 30 March 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Ahh blueski I think you're a (good?)few years younger than I am so im sure you can be excused for liking that stuff in your early teens. I liked U2 at that age. And i've no guilt, even though I've hated their last few albums with a passion.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Was the sweetest thing a 90s single? if so that's one of the worst(of any decade)
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 30 March 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
it was an 80s b-side and a 90s a-side. go figure.
unless you're talking about Refugee Camp Allstars 'The Sweetest Thing' which was pretty good (it's OK i know you're not)
― blueski, Sunday, 30 March 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Worst use of breathy singing.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 May 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link