Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1994

oh ffs nevermind

also on my playlist of mediocre modern rock!

haha i had rotting pinata. "plowed" RULES

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

― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

college radio hits

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not just college radio #1s, mainstream modern rock radio #1s!

I was distinguishing between college/modern rock and Hot 100 hits.

but college and modern rock charts are as different from each other (in terms of listenership #s) as modern rock is from the hot 100!

i'm curious what it took to get a #1 in the pre-nirvana years of the modern rock chart because holy fuck robyn hitchcock got one

like at some point alt-radio got to a point where lou reed could no longer dominate it

I'd have to check old CMJ playlists but I heard those pre-Nirvana singles ("Balloon Man," "Madonna of the Wasps," "So You Think You're in Love") all the time on college radio, enough to say that there was overlap between it and the modern rock chart.

like at some point alt-radio got to a point where lou reed old men could no longer dominate it

yeah i'm sure there was a lot more overlap/ambiguity between the 2 formats before the explosion circa 1992

I doubt that even if Peter Gabriel had recorded more albums instead of growing a Fu Manchu he'd have scored another couple of modern rock #1's.

Plowed is an awesome song. fuiud. Molly was also pretty great.

looking over the charts, 1994 is like the last year where there's a chart-topper that wasn't a hit-hit

until the "rhcp, foo or gtfo" era i mean

gtfo was rhcp, weren't it?

The only way I make sense of the pre-91 modern rock charts is by imagining that they were all made up by one randomly chosen English TA.

English TA's are dim creatures but they wouldn't own Ian McCulloch solo records.

posting so that I remember the day I found out that the Counting Crows actually called one of their songs "Einstein on the Beach"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MPv-kMF0MGo/TYf1CSowDBI/AAAAAAAAADM/i5whBN-G7M8/s1600/albert-einstein-1945.jpg

they took it from a philip glass opera. the song was pretty good

i'll have you know the full title of the song is "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)"

Albert's always sincere, he's a sensitive type
His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked
If everything is nothing, then are we anything?
Is it better to be better than to be anything?
And Albert's vision is blooming uncontrolled
All his wings are slowly sinking
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
All the king's men reappear
For an eggman, on and off the wall
Who'll never be together again
Einstein's down on the beach staring into the sand
Cause everything he believes in is shattered
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay
We all get burned asone more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, on and off the wall
Who'll never be together again
Albert's waiting in the sun
On a field American
For the cause of some inflated form of hit and run
One more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, fallin' off the wall
Will never be together again
Albert's fallen on the sun
Cracked his head wide open
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, falling, falling
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, fallin' off the wall
Will never be together again
No never be together again
No no never never never again, uh huh
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway

Definitely the Counting Crows' best straight pop (read: non-mawkish) song.

why not write a song called "Einstein (Wearing Mandles)"?

English TA's are dim creatures but they wouldn't own Ian McCulloch solo records.

Ha, who was buying Ian McCulloch records?

(And, yeah, I was surprised too to know that Counting Crows wrote a song named after Einstein on the Beach.)

they took it from a philip glass opera. the song was pretty good

I know they did, that's kind of my point

it's like if Avril called a song "The Kreutzer Sonata"

i'll have you know the full title of the song is "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)"

so you live to torture me is basically what you're saying

found out about you is so good and it is what i am voting for

it's like if Avril called a song "The Kreutzer Sonata"

how do I explain that she's got a song called "Father Sergius"?

aero, have you checked out the Counting Crows' 20th Century Masters disc?

1. Mr. Jones
2. Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)
3. Right Here
4. Angels Of The Silences
5. Hiroshima, Mon Amour
6. A Long December
7. Accidentally In Love (Love Theme From Shrek)
8. Werckmeister Harmonies
9. Ode To Robert Wilson (The "Yeah Yeah" Song)
10. Rain King
11. Big Yellow Taxi feat. Vanessa Carlton
12. Hangin' Around (Watching Giallos)

<3

wait why is the 95 poll already over and this one still has a month to go?

ask einstein

Because it was my first post and I didn't know what I was doing.

Look forward to 1996 on Friday...

what song should I hate on so it can win the poll

"Ironic" hit #1 in '96 so start yer engines

what song should I hate on so it can win the poll

skeptical that you aero can bring yourself to vote mmm mmm mmm mmm even ironically

mookie otm :(

found out about you is so good and it is what i am voting for

― call all destroyer, Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol you LOVE the Gin Blossoms so much.

that is a great song tho

It's OK, I guess. CAD is really the GB #1 fan though.

i voted gin blossoms as well ftr

Carly Rae Jepson - "My Prepared Piano"

I was in grade.. 5 I think, and I used to bring a portable boombox to school(!) for us to listen to The Top 12 At 12 at lunchtime in the school yard. I remember one day all of a sudden Basket Case jumped onto the chart, possibly at #1, and we were all just FLOORED by what we were hearing. I still feel that magic even though I'm all grown up and I have dug deeper into punk and rock. Voted Basket Case.

Interesting that you say that because I had a similar OMG THIS BAND moment with Green Day but it was late one night watching 120 mins in my parents' basement with a friend who was staying over. Longview came on and we were both sort blown away. I remember saying that they were gonna be huge and this was several months before Dookie blew up. I think I voted BC in this poll though cause it's the song I like better now.

Funny enough, though I adored the song I never bothered to buy Dookie nor did I ever really get into another GD single the way I did with Basket Case. My brother (ten years younger, so, about 2-3 when BC came out) became a huuuge Green Day fan in his teens/the American Idiot years. It was pretty cute. :*)

Oh I also really liked ummm the double single. Jaded/Geek Stink Breath? I've forgotten the name. Green Day! Who knew one day I'd vote you over Oasis twice!

lol I voted them over Morrissey for Christ's sake but TMYIM has never been a favorite of mine.

it's such a fun karaoke number though!