ethan got on my dick last night that the list was too obvious and middlebrow, but fuck it, that's what WAS so horrible about the 90s: the creeping evil of banality and all that...(also, ethan has lost any ability at aesthetic reflection in the last 12 months.) part of the point of making lists like this, however, is a. wallowing in yr own "misery" and b. attempting to rile people (as ethan and 50% of the posters to this thread have proved out.) it was also a lot f fun. what's the point of doing anything then, especially posting a reply to a thread about it?

(or, what tom said as i was posting.)

I will not bother listing the indie entries which I consider lacklustre and plodding but not actually BAD because I know nobody involved will ever agree, but I must disagree with the first two lines of Dan's suggestions, too. I wouldn't be that offended if Smart Es got in, but really, is there any complaint that could be levelled at it that wouldn't be much more fairly aimed at, I don't know, Poing?

(I'd even stick up for the original Poing if I had to, but whoever decided it needed a 1999 trancebag makeover needs a slap.)

Certainly "Both Sides of the Story" as well as "Another Day in Paradise" are both vomit-inducing. Was "The Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics in the 1990s? Something's telling me it was in the 80s, as well as "Wild Wild West" by The Escape Club. If not, they are all viable candidates for inclusion.

How about "Deeper Shade of Soul" by Urban Dance Squad? I have kind of a love/hate thing with that one...or "Life Is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane? Eh, I guess it isn't Top 100 bad.

DB, please tell me you not serious!! The video rules!!!!

Dan,You Are Blessed!!!

1) No Creed? (right now I wouldn't waste the brain cells trying to come up with a song title)
2) Why "Radio Song" when that song REM did for the Man on the Moon soundtrack is infinitely worse?
3) No Shania Twain?

I know this is mostly pop-focused, but can we please please please please make an exception and add Tim McGraw's "Indian Outlaw" to the list?

Unless you WANTED 400 entries about why "Candle in the Wind '97" sucks.

You need some Bush song on there. They shouldn't escape this list after two awful 90's albums.

additionally, i think i arrived after the list was pretty much already finished, so all i did was agree with the ones that i thought were bad and went silent when 'buddy holly' came up.

danzig and the oh-so excruciating tripping daisy are missing though, just like jan arden and natalie merchant.

Anyway, yes, you are missing Bush, that was the first one I thought of too. Glycerine.

I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby --
She's a Chippewaw, waw, waw, waw.

However, the single that was the singlehandedley most fucked up in music in the 90's would have to be:

I thought she took the train to Mars, she's out back counting STARS.

By whover the fuck it was. I remembered watching Howard Stern on TV once and that "Stars" band was playing in the studio with Howard Stern. It was shitty.

wildcat: when i was doing the washing up today, i actually remembered hum. creepy.

Josh Kortbein to thread!

Sorry about the outburst. I was drunk.
But seriously, 'Bodyrock' was released in 1999 (according to our friend AMG), and therefore MUST be in the top ten.

You're right - that should replace the much-less-offensive Fatboy Slim mix of "Body Movin".

i will defend whitney obv and "black or white" and i think "2 legit 2 quit"

People have sadly forgotten Train's "Meet Virginia," though it was released just at the cusp of the '90's, entering the US top 40 on 11/20/02, peaking I don't know when.

Sinker's suggestion is U&K, obv. I will defend anything from Bush's first album.

*blink* I'm not so much surprised at a defense as I am the fact you'd be the one defending it!

DOOP!