Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1996

OK, thanks for the tip. I wasn't sure of the protocol... nor did I think that these would become so popular.

I loooove Your Woman. And 90s nostalgia!

Folk Implosion! I tried to find 'Kingdom of Lies' which was the only song I really knew by them and it wasn't on iTunes. Jerks.

There was a video for Natural One. It had earthworms in it or something along those lines.

have we ever polled The Saint soundtrack?

WE REALLY SHOULD

Your Woman is one of the best songs of the 90s of any genre.

never mind

The Saint: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack

xp Hah!
I found solace in 'Why Would I Want To Die' by Grandaddy. Same mood! :)

here's what was going on at #1 on the R&B chart in 1996

January 6-27 Exhale (Shoop Shoop) Whitney Houston
January 20-27 Before You Walk out of My Life / Like This and Like That Monica
February 3-March2 Not Gon' Cry Mary J. Blige
March 9-April 20 Down Low (Nobody Has to Know) R. Kelly featuring Ronald Isley
April 27 You're the One SWV
May 4 Always Be My Baby Mariah Carey
May 11-June 22 Tha Crossroads Bone Thugs N Harmony
June 29 You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow Toni Braxton
July 6-20 How Do U Want It / California Love 2Pac featuring K-Ci and JoJo / featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman
July 27 You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow Toni Braxton
August 3-10 I Can't Sleep Baby (If I) R. Kelly
August 17-24 Twisted Keith Sweat
August 31-September 14 Hit Me Off New Edition
September 21 Twisted Keith Sweat
September 28-October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 12 Last Night Az Yet
October 19-November 9 No Diggity Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre
November 16-23 Pony Ginuwine
November 30-December 21 Nobody Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage
December 21-28 I Believe I Can Fly R. Kelly

lol @ Modern Rock

OK, thanks for the tip. I wasn't sure of the protocol... nor did I think that these would become so popular.

Protip: any thread that stokes '90s nostalgia is likely to be a popular thread.

haha lol of course

btw The Jackal soundtrack is super underrated

lol @ that being a DJP thread

August 3-10 I Can't Sleep Baby (If I) R. Kelly
August 17-24 Twisted Keith Sweat
August 31-September 14 Hit Me Off New Edition
September 21 Twisted Keith Sweat
September 28-October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 12 Last Night Az Yet
October 19-November 9 No Diggity Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre
November 16-23 Pony Ginuwine

an incredible sequence

xp I think Kingdom of Lies was on the A Life LEss Ordinary soundtrack, which naturally I flocked to post Trainspotting/Ewan McGregor fangirling

Wow 90s rap was so much better than the rock but I never gave it a chance at the time! Except I loved Exhale (Shoop) because I bought the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack for that TLC song. I need to find that TLC song!

I probably listen to "Come On Ride That Train" almost as much as any alternative song from '96, tbrr.

wow i had no idea that "If Your Girl Only Knew" peaked before "Pony"

Oasis, "Wonderwall" - for some reason I willfully ignored these guys at the time - too British?
Smashing Pumpkins, "1979" - loved this album
Alanis Morissette, "Ironic" - ...
Oasis, "Champagne Supernova" - long and boring
Cranberries, "Salvation" - don't remember this at all
Tracy Bonham, "Mother, Mother" - Great angsty '90s one hit wonder - better than all Alanis songs combined
Dishwalla, "Counting Blue Cars" - this is when even 13 year old me started to think alt rock had lost its way. Basically Hootie & the Blowfish alternative. It's still in my 90s iTunes playlist though.
Butthole Surfers, "Pepper" - at the time seemed like a good bookend to "She Don't Use Jelly" - nice guitar riff - I prefer King Missile's "Detachable Penis"
Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth..." - does anyone really think this song would have been big if the title were 2 words long?
Pearl Jam, "Who You Are" - dreadful
311, "Down" - I admit to liking this song at the time...
Eels, "Novocaine for the Soul" - forgettable
Sublime, "What I Got" - has aged much better than 311 - harmless
Bush, "Swallowed" - gross

I have never heard this Dishwalla song before in my life

i have a hard time believing this, and expect you're in for an OH THAT SONG unless this was written while listening to it

This happened to me, too, with the added twist that for the first five seconds I was like "huh, maybe I've never heard this before, but whoever made this song listened to Document really carefully and have taken pains to construct a guitar/drums opening that sounds like a lost track off that great record" and then the singing starts and OH NO NOT THAT SONG

This whole period was very painful to R.E.M. fans since I think a lot of these groups sincerely and vocally saw themselves as carrying on some version of the R.E.M. project (this is true of Live and Counting Crows at the very least)

to those of us who, haters that were & are, had always disliked R.E.M., this era was a vindication of the hateration we'd been nurturing since Chronic Town

lol you had to wait through TEN ALBUMS to experience some schadenfreude

it was a painful time, I also hated the Smiths though I got over that

tho you have to admit, the payoff for the ten-year wait was pretty spectacular in this case

The '96 song I play most often these days is "Un-break My Heart."

Yes! Although if I had to work off of this list I would probably vote for 1979.

This is pretty dire list. Oasis should walk, but their vote is gonna get split.

Oasis should walk...right off a bloody cliff.

lol "Champagne Supernova" is not going to siphon many votes from "Wonderwall"

This list really is awful, I surprised myself and voted for "Swallowed" - the least awful Bush single and about the only one of these I'd really want to hear right now. I have a soft spot for that Albini recorded Bush album, I think it strikes an interesting tone between their wannabe-arena anthems and some (for radio alt-rock anyway) really cool sounding guitar parts.

i prefer "Greedy Fly" if i have to hear something off of Razorbarf Suitbarf

oh greedy fly is much better obv

Oh yeah, you guys are right, "Greedy Fly" is better. I totally blanked on that being an actual single, because our local radio station at the time played like five songs off the album all at once and I was confused about which ones were really singles.

Hey, y'all remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_qO1CqSC0

thought to myself "wonderwall, again!?!" then remembered it was at the top of the charts forever (or at least the mtv trl countdown which was the only "chart" i ever really noticed, later not caring about any) - not that i have a problem with it

anyway:
- hated primitive radio gods + butthole surfers + that eels song about as much if not more than i hated beck
- didn't hate counting blue cars but was a bit wary of it
- love down as long as i don't comprehend the lyrics
- 1979 was ok but i dunno ehhh

...i'd go with salvation. i loved salvation i still love salvation. lol that video

What was that album called? Deconstructed? Who thought an entire album of Bush remixes was a thing that needed to happen. But I guess the "Mouth" remix that was in that horrible Werewolf sequel wasn't awful.

http://www.classificaitaliana.com/imgvideo/TheCranberriesSalvation.jpg

i got bush's "desconstructed" forced on me via columbia house, was not into it but i think it was like dance-y remixes and i hadn't gotten into dance yet

my sister played the Bush remix album over and over.

she was last seen alive in the spring of 1998

to the faithful departed was a pretty good album actually

Even though Bush were nowhere near as massive in the UK as they were in the US, 'Swallowed' still managed to be a hit here and I knew more than a couple of people who were into alt. rock who owned a copy of Razorblade Suitcase at some point or another. On the whole though, and especially since 1996 was the commercial height of Britpop in the UK, they were perceived by Brits as trying too hard to be American.

they were perceived that way by Americans too

they were the Flock of Seagulls of the mid nineties, down to the ludicrous hair and non-entity band mates.

to the faithful departed was a pretty good album actually

― fauxmarc, Friday, May 25, 2012 6:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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they were the Flock of Seagulls of the mid nineties, down to the ludicrous hair and non-entity band mates.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 25, 2012 6:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The British press found it really fucking funny that the bassist used to be in Transvision Vamp, if I remember.

ha I'd totally read a 600-word defense.

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This is a really, really bad list. Comes down to 1979 vs. Pepper though, and I've always loved Pepper for whatever reason so that one gets it.

ha I'd totally read a 600-word defense.

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― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 25, 2012 6:35 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If only because it would be funny in ways that the actual album isn't!

It's funny to me that "E-bow" is cited as REM's last big hit, because I don't recall ever hearing it on the radio. OTOH, "Bittersweet Me" was fairly huge here during its run, but then disappeared afterwards.

well, that was back when some bands were big enough that their 1st single would get played to death for at least a few weeks no matter what it sounded like, but there was usually a 'safter' follow-up waiting in the wings to at least attempt to restore momentum

see also: "Hail Hail" trying and failing to save No Code from driving away fans in droves

That's true. I remember reading in Rolling Stone that Warners begged them to have "The Wake-Up Bomb" as the first single.