Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1994

xp yeah, I'm not much a fan of that either. Tbh I can barely remember how it goes except the chorus - but I could sing *every line* of Basket Case if I felt like it (in fact.. I think I sang a good third of it the other night to annoy Andrew)

I can't forgive rhyming bar with . . . bar.

lol you LOVE the Gin Blossoms so much.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, May 25, 2012 10:57 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's funny because i couldn't stand them during the actual 90s but a couple years ago it hit me that at their best they were a REALLY good pop band.

it's funny because i couldn't stand them during the actual 90s but a couple years ago it hit me that at their best they were a REALLY good pop band.

OTM

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!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, May 25, 2012 11:10 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Brain Stew/Jaded -- you can guess how i feel about the torturously slow song vs. the fast one

Ahhh yes! Thanks SD.

Lemonheads, "Into Your Arms" - great. Not much to discover as time goes by but well-done.
Pearl Jam, "Daughter" - good, i like the lyrics on this. "Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room." The gnashing vocal still feels affected in places though.
Gin Blossoms, "Found Out About You" - great. #3 after "Allison Road" and "Hey Jealousy."
Nirvana, "All Apologies" - good, i like it but never really related to it or loved it or anything.
Beck, "Loser" - this has always been just this side of boring me to tears. Coming in from Odelay this felt like an unfinished demo of this later, more varied and exciting music.
Crash Test Dummies, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" - ponderous and dull but kind of nice cause they hardly ever play it anymore. I have a weird affection for "God Shuffled His Feet."
Tori Amos, "God" - baffled by the idea of this as a #1. "OOH HOO"s aside it's a little bit shapeless, it's no "Cornflake Girl" that's for sure.
Morrissey, "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get" - never heard this in my life
Live, "Selling the Drama" - actually one of their better singles, not too pompous. Also great for how many syllables the word "before" can get.
Green Day, "Longview" - okay, kind of over this at this point.
Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Fall Down" - don't know this.
Offspring, "Come Out and Play" - a little too gimmicky for its own good. Weird how by a couple years later playlists seemed to have totally ditched this in favor of "Self Esteem," which was a muuuuuuch more annoying song.
Counting Crows, "Einstein on the Beach" - never heard.
Green Day, "Basket Case" - hard to really knock it, great pop-punk, boy have i heard it WAYYYYYYYY too many fucking times though.
REM, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - good! I'm a big R.E.M. fan, never been a die-hard for this but it's a legit grower.
Cranberries, "Zombie" - world-wide karaoke staple and a real hoot (with real hooting). Ehhh, I give it a pass.
Nirvana, "About a Girl" - can't remember how this goes
REM, "Bang and Blame" - moodier than "Kenneth," and better, too, although I think the solo sucks and the chorus feels underwritten by their standards.

Voting Gin Blossoms on the basis of what feels like it'd be most refreshing to hear right this second.

oh man you gotta check out "Fall Down"

and Morrissey.

he's getting closer and closer! stop ignoring him!

We'll be at the bar.

you're wasting your time

You're asking for it.

I couldn't believe that "Fall Down" was a hit until I realized that I was remembering "Hold Her Down" instead.

Crash Test Dummies first few albums are actually really solid. They do a nifty cover of The Replacements "Androgynous"! And a song about Superman!

And that song about Superman was actually a bigger hit in Canada than Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm was.

I'm still a bit baffled as to how "Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm" managed to be a number one hit.

You don't remember how "About a Girl" goes? That is their most Beatleseque song (and rendition).

"About a Girl" is great but the Unplugged version less so. "Loser" and "Kenneth" obv also classics but I get nostalgic for the Lemonheads on hot days like today so here's a vote for "Into Your Arms".

Although Gin Blossoms were terrible, "Found out about you" was a pretty fine song. But it's gotta be "All Apologies." Great song, great recording by Albeenee

This poll was so long ago (my first one... screwed up the date) that I can't remember who I voted for. But I think it was also "All Apologies."

Like I'm not going to vote for the grudge-bearing stalker.

you have a restraining order out on Ed Kowalczyk too?

Well done

Although Gin Blossoms were terrible

does not compute

Boringly voting All Apologies.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted for Toad.

The only things here I'm really sick of are the Offspring and maybe Bang & Blame.

I kind of don't mind any of these songs but I'm not excited by any of them.

can't remember if I voted for "Kenneth" or Counting Crows' "Einstein on the Beach' which I seem to remember liking when I was 12 but maybe I don't anymore. Recall it being quite jaunty.

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

guess i voted for Kenneth

wait NOBODY likes philip glass?

well in theory everybody does, i think

y'know "All Apologies" is maybe the one Nirvana song i wouldn't mind never hearing again

it's kind of awesome imo; I'm like the dude that things the chorus of "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a turd in a punchbowl, so the "in the sun" part of AA should really piss me off, it has no real right to work, and it works magnificently

like I see how lots of it (the q&a verses, that overinvoluted endchant) can come across as horrifically trite upon overexposure, but I think it sounds even more original than it did back then

i just don't really fuck with slow/midtempo Nirvana i think, am almost as weary of "Come As You Are" and "Dumb" and "Pennyroyal Tea"