The 10 best songs from the 90's

1. Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
2. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphaty
4. My Bloody Valentine - Soon
5. Tricky - Poems
6. Air - Le soleil est pres de moi
7. The Stone Roses - I wanna be adored
8. Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the bottom.
9. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
10. Mr President - Coco Jamboo

― Moka, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:05 (2 months ago) Permalink

Wrong.

:-)

― StanM, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:06 (2 months ago) Permalink

Ok then...: "My 10 Favourite songs from the 90's"

― Moka, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:07 (2 months ago) Permalink

I agree on some of them though. So, well done, in fact.

― StanM, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:13 (2 months ago) Permalink

Ok Coco Jamboo is the disposable one in there I guess. Substitute by um...:

Smashing Pumpkins - Set the ray to Jerry

― Moka, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:22 (2 months ago) Permalink

Let's get some Geraldine Fibbers and Sepultura in the house, please.

― Nate Carson, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:24 (2 months ago) Permalink

well this should get good soon.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:28 (2 months ago) Permalink

8. Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the bottom
gorgeous

― Turangalila, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:29 (2 months ago) Permalink

(not in order)

B.A.D. II -- Rush
Pavement -- Silence Kit
The Mountain Goats -- Sinaloan Milk Snake Song
Alanis Morissette -- You Oughta Know
Sone -- High Frame Audio
Magnetic Fields -- 100,000 Fireflies
Spare Snare -- Thorns
Belle & Sebastian -- Judy and the Dream of Horses
Kleenex Girl Wonder -- Tendency Right Foot Forward
The Divine Comedy -- Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Just off:

The Breeders -- Do You Love Me Now?
The Dentists -- Charms and the Girl
The Sundays -- Here's Where the Story Ends

This is a weird-looking list, I think. Of the top 10, most are from records I love with such fervency that I'm not sure they're the best songs on their own album.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 21 September 2009 00:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Kitchens of Distinction - Gone World Gone
Divine Comedy - Your Daddy's Car
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Goldie - Timeless
808 State - Lopez
Underworld - Pearls Girl
Radiohead - Let Down
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane
Flaming Lips - Waitin for a Superman

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Monday, 21 September 2009 01:37 (1 month ago) Permalink

10 greats off the top of my head. it would scare me to come up with a definitive list.

pavement - gold soundz
pavement - in the mouth a desert
stereolab - metronomic underground
yo la tengo - sugarcube
red house painters - medicine bottle
my bloody valentine - when you sleep
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the see
radiohead - the tourist
ride - vapour trail
refused - new noise

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:34 (1 month ago) Permalink

1. my bloody valentine - honey power
2. soundgarden - the day i tried to live
3. nirvana - in bloom
4. pixies - alec eiffel
5. smashing pumpkins - cherub rock
6. weezer - say it ain't so
7. soundgarden - my wave
8. radiohead - paranoid android
9. soundgarden - rusty cage
10. soundgarden - face pollution

― 6335, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:45 (1 month ago) Permalink

whoops, put windowlicker in there at 10

― 6335, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:46 (1 month ago) Permalink

No hip hop for anyone so far???

― Julio Iglesias, makin cream like that (Whitey on the Moon), Monday, 21 September 2009 03:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

No order (Also these are ten OF my favorite, not the top ten) :

The Swirlies - Wrong Tube
The Lilys - Claire Hates Me
Bedhead - Living Well
Pavement - Gold Soundz
The Olivia Tremor Control - Hideaway
12 Rods - Make-Out Music
Duster - The Twins / Romantica
Guided By Voices - Tractor Rape Chain
Further - Quiet Riot Grrrl
The Dismemberment Plan - The City

― Evan, Monday, 21 September 2009 04:38 (1 month ago) Permalink

My list is really close to the one I have in fifteen perfect songs thread. The 90s were my favorite so no surprise there.

― Evan, Monday, 21 September 2009 04:39 (1 month ago) Permalink

um

Swans - YRP
The Ex/Tom Cora - A Door
Legendary Pink Dots - Grain Kings
Nurse With Wound - Rock And Roll Station
Coil - Red Birds...
The Fall - Sing Harpy
Fugazi - Blueprint
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
Beck - Fukkin With My Head
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea

― sleeve, Monday, 21 September 2009 04:49 (1 month ago) Permalink

0 .Archers of Loaf - "Freezing Point" [from the Peel session]
As a lurker reading this thread I can't help weighing in at this point. I know you people have better taste than me in music but these lists seem sorely lacking.

1. Mazzy Star - "Into Dust"
2. Air - "Ce Matin La"
3. Orbital - "Belfast"
4, DJ Shadow - "Stem/Long Stem"
5. The Pixies - "Dig for Fire"
6. Aphex Twin - "Rhubarb" (from SAW II)
7. Goldie - "Inner City Life"
8. Black Star - "Respiration Remix" feat Black Thought
9. Nightmares on Wax - "Les Nuits"
10. Pavement - "Frontwards"

Wasn't there an epic ILM Best of the 90s poll at some point?

― viborg, Monday, 21 September 2009 07:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

Doh. Where's my edit button?

11. Notorious BIG - "Juicy"

Needs some Sonic Youth as well, surely.

― viborg, Monday, 21 September 2009 07:06 (1 month ago) Permalink

Sonic Youth is more of an album band, I think.

― Moka, Monday, 21 September 2009 08:09 (1 month ago) Permalink

^^ that's a massive call.

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 21 September 2009 08:22 (1 month ago) Permalink

okay i did 2 of these, cos you can take the question 2 different ways..

most definitive... (this rarely changes for me)

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"
Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"
Aphex Twin "Windowlicker"
Blur "Coffee + TV"
Christina Aguilera "Genie In A Bottle"
Pulp "Common People"
Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
Nirvana "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
Dr. Dre "Nuthin But A G Thing"
Deee Lite "Groove Is In The Heart"

personal favorites... (this changes very often)

Nirvana "Scentless Apprentice"
Bel Biv Devoe "Poison"
A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity"
Dr. Octagon "Blue Flowers"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Gimme The Loot"
The Posies "Dream All Day"
Sloan "Pen Pals"
Ween "Baby Bitch"
Stone Temple Pilots "Lady Picture Show"

― billstevejim, Monday, 21 September 2009 16:21 (1 month ago) Permalink

Bel Biv Devoe "Poison" - Yes.

A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity" - Yesss.

Ween "Baby Bitch" Jackpot!

I realize that I also neglected to mention Future Sound of London. I would really have to go with "Q" (as Mental Cube). Ah, screw it, "Papau New Guniea" is their best song but the other one's really good too.

― viborg, Monday, 21 September 2009 18:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

Cathy Dennis - Too Many Walls

The only good song of the nineies.

― vulva eyes (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 September 2009 18:26 (1 month ago) Permalink

Top 10 (in order):
Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II
Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb
XTC - Harvest Festival
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Basic Channel - Phylyps trak II_II
Portishead - Glory Box
Wu-Tang Clan - Tearz

Honorable Mentions (no particular order):
Kelis - Caught Out There
Pulp - Common People
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Earth - Seven Angels
OutKast - Elevators (Me & You)
Pearl Jam - Corduroy
Elliott Smith - Say Yes
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Nellee Hooper 12" Mix)
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Monday, 21 September 2009 19:06 (1 month ago) Permalink

Off the top of my head....

Pavement - Summer Babe
Nirvana - All Apologies (In Utero version)
Pulp - Common People
The Silos - Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around
Pearl Jam - Corduroy
Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
Sleater-Kinney - Turn It On
Radiohead - Let Down
Bob Dylan - Blood In My Eyes
Wilco - California Stars

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 21 September 2009 20:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

it's kinda funny how everyone is choosing what seem to be the exact same artists for their lists - i'd imagine that wouldnt be nearly as true for this decade

― the nader of civilization (k3vin k.), Monday, 21 September 2009 20:11 (1 month ago) Permalink

Nobody has pointed out yet that The Stone Roses' song in my list is actually from 1989.

― Moka, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 05:24 (1 month ago) Permalink

when did ilx turn into magnet magazine

― bau hau haus (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 05:25 (1 month ago) Permalink

barkmarket - static
braniac - I am a cracked machine
built to spill - I would hurt a fly
cop shoot cop - if tomorrow ever comes
firewater - bourbon and division
idiot flesh - black sand
jawbox - savory
John zorn - a shot in the dark
karp - we ate sand
magnetic fields - strange powers
moloko - party weirdo
mr. Bungle - goodbye sober day
pj Harvey - oh my lover
sepultura - refuse/resist
wu-tang clan - method man

ok fuck it you get slightly more than 10, im bored w editing this down.

― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 07:08 (1 month ago) Permalink

'savory' is a great call even though i can only ever listen to jawbox in small doses these days

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 07:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

10 more peaches:

unwound - corpse pose
lush - kiss chase
nas - the world is yours
tindersticks - her
swans - killing for company
tom waits - dirt in the ground
the jesus lizard - monkey trick
kent - bianca
blur - tracy jacks
elliott smith - ballad of big nothing

this is endless, i haven't even mentioned some of my very favourite artists in either of my lists.
plus i'm keeping this metal-free, because... well, i've been writing a lot of metal lists lately.

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 08:04 (1 month ago) Permalink

and some songs from 'perfect from now on', jesus. that's like my favourite album.

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 09:42 (1 month ago) Permalink

when did ilx turn into magnet magazine

― bau hau haus (electricsound)

I've never heard of this magnet magazine you speak of but in any case I think the real question you're trying to ask here is:

Since when did magnet magazine stopped caring about awesome music? And also at which point did I became such a jaded and pedantic person that feels the need to oppose idealisticaly the almost perfect homogeneity and righteousness of the hivemind.

― Moka, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 06:27 (1 month ago) Permalink

birth

― electric sound of jim (original version) (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 06:28 (1 month ago) Permalink

Pfft that's impossible. Noone is born jaded.

― Moka, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 06:30 (1 month ago) Permalink

nirvana - negative creep
pavement - conduit for sale
pj harvey - sheela na gig
beck - forcefield
palace - more brother rides
flaming lips - unconsciously screamin
ween - awesome sound
neutral milk hotel - king of carrot flowers, pt. 1
cat power - nude as the news
built to spill - car
le tigre - deceptacon
white stripes - cannon

― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 09:53 (1 month ago) Permalink

Here's one for each year:

“Any Other Way,” Posies (1990)
“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)
“Chainsaw the Horse,” Dentists (1992)
“Divorce Song,” Liz Phair (1993)
“Anti-Pleasure Dissertation,” Bikini Kill (1994)
“Motor Away,” Guided By Voices (1995)
“You’re One,” Imperial Teen (1996)
“Ru Tenone,” Turn On (1997)
“Positively Jeff Oliphant,” Dump (1998)
“Beautiful Stranger,” Madonna (1999)

― clemenza, Saturday, 26 September 2009 21:18 (1 month ago) Permalink

"Coldest Day of the Year" by Cop Shoot Cop
"Visible Cow" by Barkmarket
"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your neck" by Prong
"Suckerpunch" by The Wildhearts
"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." by Motorhead
"Ditch" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"Wandering Star" by Portishead
"Repeater" by Fugazi
"Leave Them All Behind" by Ride
"Protection" by Massive Attack
"Money is Not Our God" by Killing Joke

Strictly off the top of my head. yeah, that's 11. Too bad.

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 26 September 2009 22:23 (1 month ago) Permalink

Left out soooo much stuff, now realizing. Alas...

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 26 September 2009 23:17 (1 month ago) Permalink

well this should get good soon.

still waiting

― kiss me thru the faggot burgerphone (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 26 September 2009 23:57 (1 month ago) Permalink

You forgot Summerhead, Alex in NYC.

― Turangalila, Saturday, 26 September 2009 23:59 (1 month ago) Permalink

Too true. Easily my fave Cocteau Twins song from the 90s.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:43 (1 month ago) Permalink

10 more of my favorites..
Screaming Trees "Nearly Lost You"
Spacehog "In The Meantime"
Raekwon "Ice Cream"
Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"
Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"
Elastica "Connection"
Digital Underground "The Humpty Dance"
Weezer "I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams"
Sloan "Underwhelmed"
Beastie Boys "Get It Together"

― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:50 (1 month ago) Permalink

10 more that are also really good..
The Breeders "Divine Hammer"
Supergrass "Caught By The Fuzz"
Hum "I'd Like Your Hair Long"
Dinosaur Jr "Out There"
Ash "Girl From Mars"
Folk Implosion "Natural One"
Summercamp "Drawer"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Everyday Struggle"
Smashing Pumpkins "Love"
Helmet "Unsung"
Weezer "El Scorcho"

― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:53 (1 month ago) Permalink

“Any Other Way,” Posies (1990)
“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)

I'd never heard these before but just checked them out and they're kinda awesome.

Also "Savory" is a really good choice.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:54 (1 month ago) Permalink

Fuck it, ten more...

"Goldfinger" by Ash
"De-Luxxe" by Lush
"Like a Daydream" by Ride
"Fait Accompli" by Curve
"Smiling" by Kitchens of Distinction
"Double Vegetation" by Julian Cope
"Caruso" by Gavin Friday
"Blue Eyes" by The Wedding Present
"Some Strange Reaction" by Firewater
"Wide Open" by Skeleton Key

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:01 (1 month ago) Permalink

I see nothing wrong with a "10 more" list. (clearly)

― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:10 (1 month ago) Permalink

Sebadoh - Willing to Wait
Liz Phair - Never Said
Silkworm - Couldn't You Wait
White Town - Your Woman
Dinosaur Jr - Feel the Pain
Black Star - Definition
Boot Camp Clik - Headz Are Reddee (Part II)
2pac - To Live and Die in LA
Notorious BIG - Juicy
KMD - Peach Fuzz
Luniz - I Got Five On It

That was off the top of the head... and I got 11 also... I'm probably missing a million songs.

― the who cares (okamax), Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:20 (1 month ago) Permalink

peach fuzz lol .. that song has girl lols in it

― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:26 (1 month ago) Permalink

Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
and 9 others.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:45 (1 month ago) Permalink

^^^

― deej, Monday, 28 September 2009 01:01 (1 month ago) Permalink

Saint Etienne - Avenue
Moose - Last Night I fell Again
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Lush - For Love
Portishead - Sour Times
Tricky - Hell Is Around The Corner
Slowdive - Alison
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
Tindersticks - Bathtime

― one boob is free with one (daavid), Monday, 28 September 2009 05:32 (1 month ago) Permalink

My top ten songs of the '90s from those posted above:

Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphaty
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Orbital - "Belfast"
Portishead - Glory Box
pj Harvey - oh my lover
tom waits - dirt in the ground
Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"
Saint Etienne - Avenue

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:10 (1 month ago) Permalink

(There's many more I would choose had I elected to give this some thought on my own.)

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:11 (1 month ago) Permalink

Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
and 9 others.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:45 PM (2 days ago)

^^^

― deej, Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:01 PM (2 days ago)

No doubt it's a classic, but surely it's not even the best song on that album...

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:15 (1 month ago) Permalink

Teenage Fanclub - "God Knows It's True"
They Might Be Goants - "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
The Future Sound of London - "Papua New Guinea"
Blur - "There's No Other Way"
Blur - "Chemical World"
Underworld - "Cowgirl"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Hummer"
Stereo MCs - "Connected"
Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Badly Drawn Boy - "The Treeclimber"

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:30 (1 month ago) Permalink

Today's top 10 (in no particular order)

69 - Desire
TLC - No Scrubs
Smif-N-Wessun - Sound Bwoy Bureill (Re-Edit)
Björk - Hyper-Ballad
Myalansky & Joe Mafia - Where Was Heaven
Low - Weight of Water
Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow
D'Angelo - Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
UGK - One Day
Wilco - Via Chicago

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:02 (1 month ago) Permalink

Argh. Just remembered that I'd meant to put in:

R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind (Old School Mix)

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:31 (1 month ago) Permalink

This really should be a "ROLLING 10 Best Songs from the 90's" thread.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:46 (1 month ago) Permalink

1. "Show Me Love" - Robin S
2. "Sexy MF" - Prince
3. "The Great Nations of Europe" - Randy Newman
4. "Waltz Across Texas Tonight" - Emmylou Harris
5. "No Diggity" - Blackstreet
6. "Motownphilly" - Boys II Men
7. "Champagne Supernova" - Oasis
8. "Je T'Aimais, Je T'Aime, Je T'Aimerai" - Francis Cabrel
9. "California Love" - 2Pac/Dr. Dre
10. "Warning" - The Notorious B.I.G.

― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 05:46 (1 month ago) Permalink

Consolation prize:

― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 05:47 (1 month ago) Permalink

"No Diggity" - Blackstreet

Yes!

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 05:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

The Wedding List - Kate Bush
Schindler's List - John Williams
The List of Dorms - Pavement
Next on the List - Napalm Death
Wish List - Pearl Jam
Shit List - L7
Guest List - Eels
See What I Did There - the Rofflecopters

― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 06:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

rofflecopters is 00's n00b

― electric sound of jim (original version) (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 06:22 (1 month ago) Permalink

Damn.

― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 06:22 (1 month ago) Permalink

"Smiling" by Kitchens of Distinction

This song needs it own thread already.

― kate78, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 07:06 (1 month ago) Permalink

So does "The Humpty Dance".

― kate78, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 07:08 (1 month ago) Permalink

KLF - 3AM Eternal
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
Blur - This Is A Low
Boards Of Canada - ROYGBIV
Beastie Boys - The Move
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Nirvana - Aneurysm
Pavement - Range Life
Radiohead - Karma Police

(those were off the top of my head)

― dog latin, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:42 (1 month ago) Permalink

My favorites that haven't been mentioned (in no order off the top of my head)

Sonic Youth - Unwind
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
Cub - Magic 8-ball
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
Aphex Twin - Flim
Shallow - King of the Wide Eyed Girls
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
R.E.M. - Why Not Smile
Rainer Maria - Planetary/Broken Radio
Pain - Umbrella

Songs that have been mentioned that might have made the list and I would like to give a hearty FUCK YEAH!! to:

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Cardigans - Lovefool
Bikini Kill - Anti-Pleasure Dissertatation
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Air - Ce Matin La
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Tendency Right Foot Forward

― brontosaur, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 20:45 (1 month ago) Permalink

I like about three-quarters of everything on this thread so far, so I am getting a warm nostalgic buzz here but also the feeling that I could never, ever narrow it down

― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 21:31 (1 month ago) Permalink

I've no idea why I'm doing this because it's impossible but here's ten I typed out without thinking.

Pulp - This is Hardcore (Swedish Erotica Mix)
Fantastic Plastic Machine - You Must Learn All Night Long
Local Rabbits - Stomp Those BKs Down
Cardiacs - Sleep All Eyes Open
Bachelor Pad - Country Pancake
KLF - America: What Time is Love
Air - Kelly Watch The Stars (Moog Cookbook Mix)
Saint Etienne - Cool Kids of Death (Underworld mix)
Redd Kross - Jimmy's Fantasy
Denim - Council Houses

― everything, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:14 (1 month ago) Permalink

No doubt it's a classic, but surely it's not even the best song on that album...

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:15 (19 hours ago) Bookmark

I don't want to make some go on about BEST v. FAVOURITE again, so yeah, Shook Ones and all that. Noyd's verse is just my favourtist guest verse in rap history though, OB4CL excluded.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:24 (1 month ago) Permalink

Can only do this if i restrict to somewhat rock-derived stuff (i.e. blocking out film scores, hip-hop and classical compositions) otherwise I would need a much longer list. Also sort of fakely resticting to 1 song per artist. These are in order:

1. Scott Walker- The Cockfighter
2. Talk Talk- Taphead
3. Sun City Girls- Space Prophet Dogon
4. Current 93- The Frolic
5. Boredoms- JB Dick & Tina Turner Pussy Badsmell
6. Television- 1880 Or So
7. Built To Spill- Randy Described Eternity
8. Dog Faced Hermans- Jan 9
9. The Fall- Free Range
10. I Am Not Me- Robyn Hitchcock

― We're gonna destroy their van, we're gonna destroy their faces (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:34 (1 month ago) Permalink

Leaving My Bloody Valentine off my list or the list would be nothing but all the tracks from Loveless.

Gang Starr "The Meaning of the Name"
Sonic Youth "Swimsuit Issue"
Posies "Solar Sister"
Bailter Space "Orbit"
Swervedriver "Duel"
Black Sheep "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)"
Underworld "Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love"
A Tribe Called Quest "Sucka Nigga"
Radiohead "The Bends"
Grant Lee Buffalo "Lone Star Song"

― fhithich, Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:27 (1 month ago) Permalink

Radiohead / Paranoid Android
Björk / Isobel
Slowdive / Ballad of Sister Sue
Piano Magic / Wrong French
Autechre / arch carrier
PJ Harvey / The Dancer
Talk Talk / Taphead
Scott Walker / Farmer in the City
Fiona Apple / Sleep to Dream
Lauryn Hill / Ex-Factor
Portishead / Roads
Tori Amos / Leather
Britney Spears / Hit Me Baby One More Time
Paradise Motel / Watch Illuminum
UNKLE / Rabbit in Your Headlights
Sinead O' Connor / Nothing Compares 2 U
Missy Elliott / The Rain
Low, Piano Magic, & Transient Waves / Sleep at the Bottom
Destiny’s Child / Jumpin’ Jumpin’
Stereolab / Cybele’s Reverie
Jim O’Rourke / Halfway to a Threeway
Cibo Matto / Sugar Water
A Tribe Called Quest / Electric Relaxation
Pixies – Alec Eiffel
The Breeders / Cannonball
Sonic Youth / Tunic (Song For Karen)
Aaliyah / Are You That Somebody?
Throwing Muses / Counting Backwards
Pulp / Common People
Cocteau Twins / Cherry-Coloured Funk
Cardigans / Lovefool
Kristin Hersh / Your Ghost
Broadcast / According to No Plan
Tindersticks / Don’t Look Down
Diamanda Galás / Supplica a mia madre
Jeff Buckley / Lover, You should’ve Come Over
Des’ree / Kissin’ You
REM / Drive
Tricky / Black Steel
Godspeed You Black Emperor! / Moya
Wu-Tang Clan / Reunited
Disco Inferno / Second Language
Orbital / Halcyon + On + On
Ride / Vapour Trail
Bark Psychosis / Absent Friend
Blackstreet / No Diggity
Ride / Vapour Trail
Dr. Octagon / Blue Flowers
Belly / Feed the Tree
Mazzy Star / Halah
My Bloody Valentine / Sometimes .
White Town / Your Woman
Squirrel Nut Zippers / Hell
Mike Ladd / Feb. 4 '99 (For All Those Killed by the Cops)
Ninjaman, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man & Ninja Ford / Bad Boy Lick a New Shot
Opus III / It's a Fine Day
Dinosaur Jr. / Start Choppin'
Massive Attack / Teardrop

etc.

― Turangalila, Thursday, 1 October 2009 04:16 (1 month ago) Permalink

oh and fuck

― Turangalila, Thursday, 1 October 2009 06:29 (1 month ago) Permalink

KLF - 3AM Eternal
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
The Boo Radleys - Lazarus

picked this as dog latin before scrolling any further

― edwardo notuomo (sic), Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

Forgot this one. :)

― Turangalila, Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:57 (1 month ago) Permalink

Superchunk- Slack Motherfucker
Digital Underground- Humpty Dance
DJ Shadow- Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
Tortoise- Djed
Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Dead Flag Blues
Autechre- Garbage
The Grifters- Black Fuel Incinerator
Nirvana- Aneurysm
Pavement- Here
Uncle Tupelo- Moonshiner
Plastikman- Consumed

― earlnash, Friday, 2 October 2009 03:44 (1 month ago) Permalink

nice to see the sleep at the bottom votes, since one of my closest friends played the guitar on that.

some of these songs seem so remote now, although if you'd told me they came out ten years ago I'd kind of blink...djed, for instance. wow that was quite a long time, adn I haven't listened to it in ages either, but it somehow doesn't seem that long. age and time flies.

― akm, Friday, 2 October 2009 05:51 (1 month ago) Permalink

Impossible task, but these are the first to come to my mind:

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Touch & Go - Would You...?
Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Meshell Ndegeocello - Leviticus: Faggot
Ahlam - Mskin
Eve feat. Drag-On - Let's Talk About
Nonplace Urban Field - Whimp
TLC - Waterfalls
Hardfloor - Once Again Back
Corona - Rhythm of the Night

― Tuomas, Friday, 2 October 2009 11:51 (1 month ago) Permalink

10 great tracks off the top of my head -- mostly stuff I've been listening to lately:

Digable Planets - Black Ego
that dog. - Retreat from the Sun
Kelis - Caught Out There
Roddy Frame - Hymn to the Grace
Pram - The Mermaid Hotel
Oval - Mediaton
Tricky - Ponderosa
Cornelius - New Music Machine
Sam Phillips - I Need Love
Six Finger Satellite - Parlour Games

― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Saturday, 3 October 2009 15:56 (1 month ago) Permalink

hmm, that Pram track is from the 00's, so it seems. I'll change that to "Pram - 'Chrysalis'" then.

― sleighdog mcdonald (unregistered), Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

currently my ten most listened to 90s tracks on last.fm

boards of canada - roygbiv
underground resistance - amazon
peshay - robotics
infiniti - game one
underworld - dark and long
808 state - reaper repo
carl craig - science fiction
dj shadow - changeling
shut up and dance - the green man
saint etienne - spring

curiously all but 2 of these are instrumentals

― modescalator (blueski), Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:10 (1 month ago) Permalink

This is very, very difficult.

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 3 October 2009 19:27 (1 month ago) Permalink

OK, deliberately limiting myself to one track per 'artist':

1) Ride - Close My Eyes (Ride EP, 1990)
2) My Bloody Valentine - Off Your Face (Glider EP, 1990)
3) Slowdive - Slowdive (Slowdive EP, 1990)
4) Boo Radleys - Foster's Van (Boo Up! EP, 1991)
5) Telescopes - Ocean's Drive (untitled album, 1992)
6) Aphex Twin - Ageispolis (Selected Ambient Works 85-92, 1992)
7) PJ Harvey - Plants and Rags (Dry, 1992)
8) Hardfloor - Acperience 5 (1993? - I got it in 94)
9) Stereolab - French Disko (1993? - heard it on the radio then, but got it in 96)
10) Blur - Badhead (Parklife, 1994)

I seem to have used up my ten in half the decade...

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:13 (1 month ago) Permalink

Still need to add these, though:

11) Tricky - Ponderosa
12) Motorbass - Flying Fingers / Les Ondes
13) Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:17 (1 month ago) Permalink

it must have made it a little easier to have everyone on your list be from the same general geographical region.

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:18 (1 month ago) Permalink

What - Europe?

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:21 (1 month ago) Permalink

Should really include Dee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart as well.

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:23 (1 month ago) Permalink

they all make me think of england. though they are not all from there. i actually have no idea where hardfloor is from. and boards of canada are from canada, right?. same queen anyway.

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:26 (1 month ago) Permalink

Hardfloor were German. Motorbass were French, I think. I might be wrong, but I think Boards of Canada are/were Scottish.

Re: selections - Ride could easily have been Seagull or Chelsea Girl instead. My Bloody Valentine should probably have been Soon, but that's just too obvious. Boo Radleys could easily have chose something off of Giant Steps, but I really like that earlier EP. Telescopes could have been You Set My Soul instead. Aphex Twin could easily have been any of about 20 tracks from SAW I, SAW II and I Care Because You Do. Blur could have been Beetlebum. Motorbass is kind of cheating choosing two tracks, but they run straight from one to the other and I think of them as one thing.

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:28 (1 month ago) Permalink

or they make me think of english music magazines anyway. not criticizing! just saying, it would be easier to make a list of music if you excluded, like, 80% of the world from it.

― scott seward, Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:29 (1 month ago) Permalink

I had a whole load of Sri Lankan jazz and Nigerian skiffle bubbling under my top 13.

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 3 October 2009 20:56 (1 month ago) Permalink

Air - New Star in the Sky
Bjork - Come to Me
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Digable Planets - Blowing Down
Lush - Lovelife
Nas - One Love
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Saint Etienne - London Belongs to Me
Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 3 October 2009 21:13 (1 month ago) Permalink

many xposts oh man I would have included "chrysalis" if I'd thought of it. What a song!

― We're gonna destroy their van, we're gonna destroy their faces (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 3 October 2009 22:58 (1 month ago) Permalink

1. Pavement-Here
2. Kitchens of Distinction-Drive Fast
3. Future Sound of London-Papua New Gunea
4. Massive Attack-Man Next Door
5. Daft Punk-Alive
6. My Bloody Valentine-Soon
7. Depeche Mode-Personal Jesus
8. Basement Jaxx-Rendevous
9. Air-Kelly Watch the Stars
10.Portishead-Sour Times

― micheline, Sunday, 4 October 2009 00:42 (1 month ago) Permalink

Air - New Star in the Sky
Bjork - Come to Me
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Digable Planets - Blowing Down
Lush - Lovelife
Nas - One Love
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Saint Etienne - London Belongs to Me
Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

replacing "Come to Me" with "Possibly Maybe", and "Humpty Dance" with "93 til Infinity".

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 5 October 2009 18:05 (1 month ago) Permalink