Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1994

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ahh Toad the Wet Sprocket, with one of the last of the jangle-pop #1's.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 21, 2012 9:40 AM (Yesterday)

i know very little about this kind of music from this period, but i love jangle-pop and this! more jangle-pop please

yeah "Fall Down" rules

"Found Out About You" is jangly

I have very little perspective on how much radio/MTV play "God" received because it was roughly concurrent with my listening to Under The Pink a bazillion times.

My college station was playing this in 1993, three years before "Not An Addict" and a year before "Longview," so there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTf2bURI9I

"Into Your Arms" is like "There She Goes part 2" except less awesome

ok, i had no idea K's Choice existed before "Not An Addict"

Weren't they bigger in the UK? I was also totally unfamiliar with them before "Addict".

1994 modern rock singles POX+2:

Mazzy Star "Fade Into You"
Ween "Freedom of 76"
Beastie Boys "Sure Shot"
Nirvana "Verse Chorus Verse" (I think this counts)
Gin Blossoms "Found Out About You"
Dinosaur Jr "Feel The Pain"
Liz Phair "Supernova"
Weezer "Undone The Sweater Song"
Green Day "When I Come Around"
Portishead "Sour Times"
Jawbox "Savory"
Jeff Buckley "Last Goodbye"

my college radio station played "God" and "The More You Ignore Me" around the clock; I would guess that by 1994 Billboard and college radio stations finally achieved something close to parity.

I actually heard "God" more than any Amos single before or since.

Wasn't K's Choice also, like, Belgian?

itt alfred muddies the waters again by talking about college stations when everyone else is talking about commercial alt stations

Not on purpose -- I missed the distinction. If that's the case, then, yeah, Counting Crows and Moz def played (never heard "God").

(The first K's Choice song I heard was "I Smoke a Lot," because it was on a bargain-bin label compilation in 1995.)

My alt-rock station played "God" and "Cornflake Girl" plenty.

yo remember when tori covered "teen spirit" and everyone was all like :O

Tori will have to answer for that Coldplay cover of the Beastie Boys one day.

You know it's all I think about
I write your name
drive past your house
Your boyfriend's over
I watch your light go out

I'm all about "Found Out About You," even if Robin Wilson's voice never quite did justice to all the hurt in the song

I was originally going to say They Eat Their Own but I figured no one but me remembers them.

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:19 AM (11 hours ago)

I remember them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc7F3vhx4U

As for the poll, 1994 me would have voted Tori Amos without hesitation. Today? It would be a close race with Morrissey.

My alt-rock station played "God" and "Cornflake Girl" plenty.

I grew up in MD so HFS played her all the time as a localish celeb or whatever, way before i realized she was a homo icon

Man, do you remember an HFS soundbite of her saying something like "Johnny Riggs...ungh!"?

"I'M JOHNNY RIGGS" yess

sad he went down in the pedophile porn thing

woah, i did not know that. guess that explains why he's not on the new rebooted HFS.

Iiiiii did not know that either. Jesus.

i dj on a pirate unlicensed community radio station in dc that cuts in on the new hfs' signal 97.5 (which isn't strong in the first place coming from baltimore so i don't feel bad)

I didn't even know there was a new hfs.

I keep reading "HFS" as "FFS," which is hilarious. To me.

ah marc that must be your station i occasionally hear when i'm near d.c. but accidentally go through my baltimore radio presets! when do you dj?

i do mostly spanish hip-hop fridays 5-7 then uk/"future" bass stuff fridays 9-11

i listened to the new hfs for a bit when it first came back a few years ago and it just sounded like dc101

also the final song on the old hfs being buckley's last goodbye *tear*

i am occasionally pleasantly surprised by stuff the new hfs plays, but yeah obv it's not the same

The last song on WHFS was "After Hours" by the Velvet Underground. The station at 99.1 that switched to Spanish-Language had been garbage for at least the previous decade.

yeah yeahzzzz

(although i really appreciated the switch to el zol it was about damn time we got a spanish fm station)

anybody own that Soul Asylum record? A '95 example of ship's list of commercial failures.

oops wrong thread

Would have picked "About a Girl" or possibly "Kenneth" at the time. Not completely sure now. Had no idea that Morrissey song made #1 on any US chart!

"Tomorrow" did too in '92.

plus five other songs that charted in the top 3

didn't chart on US rock radio again for a decade after "More," though, really just disappeared

Morrissey's mid nineties profile was so bewildering. He'd been going from peak to peak, then a year later the (British) hits were middling, even after the Bros Gallagher couldn't stop yakking about him and the Smiths.

like I had no idea Morrissey was getting US hits before "The More You Ignore Me" (and had no idea that went #1)

college radio hits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey_discography

oh my bad

Rumor has it he styles his pubes in a mullet.

Speaking of 1994 OMG you guys look what I saw in my local alt-weekly today can't wait so excited

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oh ffs nevermind