backstreet boys & n sync combined singles poll

lotta good songs

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

the top ones are all n sync btw

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

there are...a lot of good songs up here

haha xp

― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

haven't heard most of these in years, but went for "Bye Bye Bye"

― ksh, Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

im gonna make a playlist of abt a dozen of these & ill get back 2 u, poll

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

NSYNC: "Gone"

BSB: "I Want It That Way"

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

Voted for the latter.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

NSYNC would have a greater # of songs in, say, my top ten. But that one BSB song would be at the top.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah, a bunch of bangers

1 tearin up my heart
2 as long as you love me
3 quit playin games
4 larger than life (for real this sounds like daft punk producing michael jackson)
5 show me the meaning of being lonely
6 girlfriend (proto-justified obv)
7 i want it that way
8 everybody (backstreet's back)
9 u drive me crazy
10 pop

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

i think BSB murdered n sync in the max martin era, but all the celebrity singles are really great

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

4 larger than life (for real this sounds like daft punk max martin producing michael jackson backstreet boys)

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― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

it doesn't sound like any other max martin boy band singles!

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Gone" kills me

― "Where's Momus? He could clear all of this up" (Tape Store), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

<3 all the videos from this era

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

it doesn't sound like any other max martin boy band singles!

"It's Gotta Be You" -- same album.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

tryin to figure out which one comes up most in ironic karaoke

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

like, everyone is okay with kevin richardson predicting johnny depp's whole 2000s filmography in the "backstreet's back" video right?

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

n sync would def win a wkiw poll in a landslide imo

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

"gone" is obv a huge oversight on my list

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

j0rdan why don't you like "bye bye bye"?

― horseshoe, Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

i had no idea until just now that wade robson did producing/writing

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

j0rdan why don't you like "bye bye bye"?

― horseshoe, Friday, March 26, 2010 11:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i do like it, but i think it's one of the ones on here that grates as much as it's good

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

this is impossible - i will say that "this i promise you" will probably get underrated tho

― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

early bsbs > late bsbs
late nsync > early nsync

voting for "pop"

― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

I used to know the dance from "It's Gonna Be Me" in 9th grade, and actually did it a couple times at school dances with a circle of people gathered around me.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

Went with "Quit Playing Games With My Heart" but kinda wanted to vote for the underrated "Pop," and I kind of recognize the greatness of "I want it that way" -- but then "As Long As You Love Me" is kind of the twin brother of "Games with my Heart"

― Cunga, Saturday, 27 March 2010 04:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

After looking at YouTube videos for some of these songs that I wasn't familiar with, I've come to the conclusion that the ballads these groups were best known for are their weakest material.

Best BSB:

1) The Call
2) We've Got it Goin' On

Best N*Sync:

1) It's Gonna Be Me
2) Girlfriend

― naus, Saturday, 27 March 2010 05:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely"

Use to watch TRL just to see that video back in the day.

― Sab, Saturday, 27 March 2010 05:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

think i maybe like 'nsync more as people but none of their singles except for maybe "bye bye bye" are inspiring any great need to re-listen, looking at them together like that, whereas with the BSBs it's like "man, i really want to hear most of these tracks right this second"

― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Saturday, 27 March 2010 05:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

tryin to figure out which one comes up most in ironic karaoke

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Saturday, March 27, 2010 12:15 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

my friend pulled me onstage w/ him to do "bye bye bye" at karaoke shortly after lance came out

― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Saturday, 27 March 2010 05:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah, I have no desire to hear any of those N Sync songs right now, but I'd almost like to hear a BSB greatest hits CD for the heck of it.

― Cunga, Saturday, 27 March 2010 06:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

The answer is of course "Shape Of My Heart".

― Tim F, Saturday, 27 March 2010 06:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

tryin to figure out which one comes up most in ironic karaoke

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Friday, March 26, 2010 10:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Here it's "I Want It That Way," BY FAR.

― rennavate, Saturday, 27 March 2010 07:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

same

― hipster puddy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 07:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

tim OTM - the phrasing of "kept you in THE dark" slays me every time

― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Saturday, 27 March 2010 07:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

for me, "I want it that way" is forever tainted by associations with burger king :(

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Saturday, 27 March 2010 07:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

"We've Got It Goin' On" (bsb)
"Get Down (You're the One for Me)" (bsb)
"Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" (bsb)
"As Long as You Love Me" (bsb)
"Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" (bsb)
"I Want It That Way" (bsb)
"Larger Than Life" (bsb)
"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" (bsb)
"The Call" (bsb)
"More Than That" (bsb)

^^these are the classix for me. finding the bsbs' greatest hits for £2 was a really good bargain back in 02. (the idea of paying as much as £2 for a cd seems ridiculous now though.)

voting "show me the meaning of being lonely". the harmonies on that are quite something. it was released on valentine's day in the uk!

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 27 March 2010 10:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

always loved NSync more but "Quit Playing Games" damn.

"All I have to give" is pretty underrated too imo.

― Roz, Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

lex you like no nsync songs?

― 51ocki (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

POP

― sodamrongerbot (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

early bsbs > late bsbs
late nsync > early nsync

truth.

Also: BSB's ballads >>>>> N'Sync's (except "Gone")

― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Going for "Quit Playing Games", BSB walk this imo

― Allbran Burg (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 March 2010 15:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

lex you like no nsync songs?

i don't dislike "bye bye bye" or "pop" or i guess at a stretch "girlfriend" but tbh just never think of them or want to listen to them

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

Timberlake's voice is a real problem on those early Sync tunes (Greil Marcus otm about its "paint thinner" effect).

― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

wasn't he like 15 or something when that album was recorded?

― Roz, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

Wow, I agree with lex!

Voted "I Want it That Way," "As Long as You Love Me" a close second.

I can't deny being influenced by the Chinese dorm kids.

― Olivier Messiaen Control (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

I Want It That Way by miles

― Fellini.Kuti, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

ugh i was just thinking earlier today how much i hated the Green Day/Offspring combined singles poll, and then someone went and pulled the same bullshit

jordan where the fuck is "Just Want You To Know"? don't know if i'd vote for it but definitely in my top 5, maybe top 3.

― some dude, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

I Want It That Way, one of the great formulaic pop songs of all time

― skip, Saturday, 27 March 2010 18:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

Which of course received 0 votes.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

They were all #1 on TRL. .. like every single one of these songs was.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

if they peaked in the iTunes era both these acts would have had a ton of #1s, but singles worked differently back then.

can't believe I was one of only 2 people to vote for "Tearin' Up My Heart"...really the ultimate europop-style early boy band hit.

― fuckshitpop (some dude), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely" has a title (and melody) worth of Scritti Politti.

― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

Been listening to each of these on YouTube over the past hour or so; here are my "liveblogged" notes on the first batch (may pick up with more of these later, as I find the time):

"It's Gonna Be Me" (n sync) - Can't believe this got 0 votes. Seriously?! Great song. Great fucking video. Pretty much a perfect time-capsule song for the TRL boy-band era. Love it. Also, did I mention upthread that I used to know the choreographed dance from the video to this song? Awesome.
"I'll Never Stop" (n sync) - Don't recall having heard this before. Sounds like a "filler" album track, doesn't really stand up to the bigger/better singles on No Strings Attached.
"This I Promise You" (n sync) - Too sappy for my tastes. I can dig ballads when they're done right (see "Gone") but this is just a really generic song. "Without you in my life I wouldn't be living at all?" Come the fuck on.
"We've Got It Goin' On" (bsb) - This was their first single, right? Sounds really dated these days. Might as well be a New Kids on the Block tune -- not a bad thing, but it sounds more so "of its time" than the other songs here.
"Incomplete" (bsb) - This is a little angsty! Could be a modern rock hit if Daughtry or Three Days Grace did a cover version.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

"It's Gonna Be Maay" always sounded like a less memorable, more annoying sequel to "Bye Bye Bye" imo

― fuckshitpop (some dude), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

can't shake these songs lately

― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

just impeccable craftsmanship, most of them

― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

this kick is a huge nostalgia trip -- gettin sad about growing old -- show me the meaning of being an lol old tbh

― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

being in yr early 20s is hard

― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah it blows

― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

being a bit sarcastic above -- can't imagine it's not gonna be even more O_O being 50

― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

i was 2

― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 May 2010 23:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

Being over thirty is great, guys. Just stay away from gin past 2 am.

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

better than 20s?

― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yes. You get to hum BSB songs AND don't mind waking up at 8 am on weekends.

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

wau

― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's the sentimentalization of old age that makes twentysomethings overrate National records.

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

hearing "another little uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults" makes me want to be 17 again tbh

― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

is that line in "Tearin' Up My Heart"?

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely"

― ksh, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

can an al sh1pley school me on why these two groups only had one combined #1 single

― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

bought the bentley in pink / cuz my dough nsync

― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

They only had one combined number one because in their primes they never released physical singles of their songs, the exception being "It's Gonna Be Me", the only #1 on the list. This was at a time when physical sales were high enough that it was hard to hit #1 without it.

Also, they only receive play on top 40, which makes it impossible to get the cross-format airplay of crossover songs by e.g. Destiny's Child or Aaliyah, significantly limiting their radio airplay.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 19 February 2012 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Billboard's rules for their charts were so stupid back then.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 19 February 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

well at least the rules allowed these songs to chart at all. before 1998 if the physical single wasn't out, it was ineligible to be on the chart, period. (this is why you have enormous hits like 'torn' that only peaked outside the top 40, because the physical single was released way too late.) this is more of a label tactic -- withhold physical single releases so fans are forced to purchase the album. (it worked for me -- i ended up buying millennium when i walked into a shop hoping to find the 'i want it that way' cd single in summer '99.)

but yeah, 'i want it that way' was such a huge airplay hit that it would've basically been guaranteed #1 it had had a physical release at the right time. like, even without physical single sales 'i want it that way' cracked the top 20 on 1999's year-end chart, which is crazy.

jive did the same thing with britney's early singles, like for her first couple of albums. only 'baby one more time' reached #1 because it had a physical release. songs like 'sometimes' charted as so-called album cuts even though they were clearly singles. i often wonder how much better it could have done if people could buy it; even 'from the bottom of my broken heart' which radio barely touched, was a pretty big seller when released physically.

and yeah, at the time it was really tough to reach #1 without a significant amount of sales. the first song to do it was 'try again' by aaliyah, a massive radio hit.

― teledyldonix, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

when did you guys stop buying physical singles?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

man voting for this poll would've been tough, so many great songs.

1) i want it that way
2) quit playing games (with my heart)
3) tearin' up my heart
4) thinking of you (i drive myself crazy) <--- chris kirkpatrick had such a boring and useless voice despite being able to hit high note, but somehow putting him on lead vocals for this one really worked
5) girlfriend
6) shape of my heart
7) more than that
8) the one
9) this i promise you
10) as long as you love me
11) music of my heart

― teledyldonix, Sunday, 19 February 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

my last two physical singles were... christina aguilera's 'genie in a bottle' and vitamin c's 'smile' (please don't laugh), which were both summer '99ish

a big part of the reason i stopped buying singles is because napster got popular in late '99 and i was all "yay piracy" at the time. and by the time napster was done, physical singles were basically extinct in america

― teledyldonix, Sunday, 19 February 2012 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

My last cassette single: Jennifer Paige's "Crush" in late '98.

The last new CD single: Madonna's "Don't Tell Me." I wanted the remixes.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 February 2012 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol i do think i bought a cassingle in early 2000 actually. i won't reveal which one because it is extremely embarrassing.

― teledyldonix, Monday, 20 February 2012 05:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think my last cassingle was in 1996, Heather Nova's "Walk This World".

― Tim F, Monday, 20 February 2012 06:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

guys I hate to break it to you but "I Want It That Way" is terrible sugary schlock

― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Monday, 20 February 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's Gonna Be Me > Bye Bye Bye, for me. Feel it's one of the most shamelessly transparent pop songs, in a good way - neanderthal pop, Max Martin revealing the blueprint for his pop songs at the time without any layer on top. Every good melodical idea is hammered in. It's very exciting.

― abcfsk, Monday, 20 February 2012 12:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

guys I hate to break it to you but "I Want It That Way" is terrible sugary schlock

it sucks to be wrong, right?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 February 2012 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, I feel really bad for you.

― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

"God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" = proof that God doesn't exist

― tanuki, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

lmao otm

― teledyldonix, Monday, 20 February 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

I really want to do a Max Martin singles poll, but he's written so damn many of them that I have no idea what to include/exclude.

As for this, agreed with all top 4, "I Want it That Way" is just unforgettable, you can still put that on a jukebox today and everyone will know every damn word

― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

very OTM poll results here, sad I missed this one

― skip, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

lookin back on the things I've done
I was trying to be someone
play my part
kept you in the dark
now let me show you the shape of my heart

― plastic surgery dizbusters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

he's basically asking her if he can show her his cock

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

anyone who's never sung "shape of my balls" to that one has no soul imo

― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

every time I hear "I Want it That Way" this video plays in my head

― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Looking back at the things I've done
I was trying to hump someone
Gave my all
To see your sugar walls
Now let me show you the shape of my balls

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

everybody (backstreet's back) is the king of the mountain

― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 13 August 2012 06:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

Ho did everybody (backstreet's back) not sweep this!?!?!

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 13 August 2012 15:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

Lol, HoW did everybody, that is.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 13 August 2012 15:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

I'm actually surprised that "The Call" didn't get more votes

― frogbs, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:23 (9 months ago) Permalink

everybody (backstreet's back) is the king of the mountain

opened this thread hoping to vote for it (i wonder if i was the one vote before?)

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 13 August 2012 16:47 (9 months ago) Permalink