Modern Rock Chart 2/1/1992

It's embarrassing to admit that I know almost none of the songs on this list, Alf

Including the one you named

I'm not the biggest fan of U2, I'll admit, but I have a lot of time for Achtung Baby, Zooropa, the highlights of Pop and 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me'

My bemusement with these charts is a matter of record but, given that I was 13 and very into rock music, and know some of these really well, I'm a little surprised by how many I don't know:

Don't know:
Talking Heads - Sax and Violins
Enya - Caribbean Blue
Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign
Cliffs Of Dooneen - Through An Open Window*
St Etienne - Only Love Can Break your Heart
Midge Ure - Cold, Cold Heart
Social Distortion - Bad Luck
Live - Operation Spirit
The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out Of Control*
Dramarama - What Are We Gonna Do**
Lloyd Cole - Tell Your Sister
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Fear (Of the Unknown)

* never heard of the band
** have only heard of the band because of these threads

Know well (and mostly like):
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
U2 - Mysterious Ways
Nirvana - Come As You Are
U2 - Until the End of the World
Pixies - Head On
U2 - One
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss

Only know because of these threads:
Lou Reed - What's Good

Out of the ones I've heard, it's "Until the End of the World" vs "Come As You Are" obv but I might investigate further.

I'll admit, the biggest surprise in the list for me is Midge Ure. In 1992, for fucks sake!

I voted fear of the unknown but really so many of these could take it. This was a great era on this chart

Also the fly is a kickass lead-off u2 single

Ha, got to the Midge Ure song. Investigation = over.

girlfriend > only love > fear > star sign > operation spirit (shut up) > mysterious ways > caribbean blue

come as you are is my least favorite nirvana song by a mile

I always get Earth Day wrong thanks to the Dramarama one. So many of these are personal favorites, this just coming halfway through my eighth-grade year, and many showing up on the first 120 minutes I taped.

Was completely unaware of this run:

Cliffs Of Dooneen - Through An Open Window
St Etienne - Only Love Can Break your Heart
Midge Ure - Cold, Cold Heart

Not a fan of:
The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out Of Control
Lloyd Cole - Tell Your Sister
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Fear (Of the Unknown)

Everything else is pretty much my favorite shit. Going with What's Good.

I don't mind "Kiss Them For Me" but "Fear (Of the Unknown)" dilutes the band too much for my ears.

Kiss Them For Me is great.

Star Sign

this is absolutely "Star Sign," with "Girlfriend" being the only other one i would consider voting for. even though Achtung Baby is the last U2 i bought, if i never hear U2 again i would be fine with that.

I'd no idea Teenage Fanclub commanded such attention.

Teenage Fanclub are basically one of those bands that mean a great deal to the small cult following they have and virtually nobody else.

I don't ride for Teenage Fanclub but I loved Bandwagonwhatever when it came out & "Star Sign" is a jam so I voted for that. thought about "Bad Luck" too, think that's the only song by Social Distortion I know, it got a lot of MTV play at the time. love that Matthew Sweet album but "Girlfriend" isn't why. I kinda like "Suck My Kiss" too, maybe the only song by them I like except for "Soul to Squeeze".

thought about my usual lol vote instead but decided Live wasn't funny enough to bother.

I really dislike "Mysterious Ways" and "Come As You Are".

I don't mind Bandwagonesque myself, it's an okay record, but I've never really understood the high praise for it. My favourite track on it is the instrumental at the end, of all things! I do think Grand Prix is a better collection of songs, and I love their vocal harmonies, but... I dunno... Teenage Fanclub records tend to come across to me as well done, but not astounding.

come as you are is my least favorite nirvana song by a mile

huh. "Come As You Are" is my favorite Nirvana song by a mile

You are two miles away from each other.

ironically, we probably are in real life, too

it's true

Live: A name that a band probably would not choose in today's Google era. Unless they wanted to call themselves "Live (band)"...

Girls, Women, and Stars are all Google-era bands, so maybe they would have anyway....

Stars started ca. 2000, is that included in the search optimization era?

Occurs to me I've loved Teenage Fanclub for a longer span of years than I have any other band, and "Bandwagonesque" is only a small part of that. "Songs from Northern Britain" and "Man Made" mean the most to me. Pardon the alliteration.

"Star Sign" is great, although not as great as their "Everything Flows," which is only one of the greatest songs of all time.

"God Knows It's True" is better.

When it comes to TFC, I 'm pretty much all about "Star Sign" & "Sparky's Dream"

any fans of Pixies' JAMC cover?

Oh hell yes, I rate the bands overall about equally but the Pixies version of this song crushes the original. Still wrestling between that, Mysterious Ways, and Girlfriend. I liked guitars in 1992.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJBmcwh0_C8

Damn, a mullet and a steinberger. I don't knwo what to say.

I'm not on the Teenage Fanclub bandwagon (he he) per se, but damn if "What You Do to Me" isn't an awesome 2 minutes

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Is there a poll devoted to Lou's ridiculous guitars of the 80s/90s?

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

Nice -- what a top ten.

I said thank you girl. Thaaaank you girl. I'll love you til the end of the world

My band covered Suck My Kiss during this time. Great tune