Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1999

I don't even remember how "Otherside" goes

I remember snickers from friends and some rockcrits about Sugar Ray scoring an even bigger hit than their last and I thought, well, lol they defined and shaped this era -- why would they have bombed?

they just wanted to fly, man

well the thing about Sugar Ray is that "Fly" was completely unlike all their other songs up to that point, which is why the initial follow-up bombed and they were pre-emptively put in the 'one hit wonder' box. it's not surprising in retrospect that they were shrewd/depserate enough to turn that one-off into a formula but it wasn't a given at the time.

I still can't tell wtf Kiedis is singing in the chorus of "Scar Tissue"

"With bubba shed, it's the lonely view"???

Yes--Radio On's why I continue t live in the lap of luxury today.

I was late to the whole file-sharing explosion, but does that start to happen around this time too? That's the point at which...it's hard to explain, but as hard as it always was to keep up, that's the point when it became impossible for someone like me. The whole process just seemed to spiral off in a million directions. If you were young and on top of things, I'm sure you found ways to keep up. If you were older and taking a step back anyway, that made everything twice as confusing.

our newsroom didn't get Napster until Feb or March of 2000; that's when I jumped on board.

apparently it's "with the birds I'll share this lonely view" -- i always imagined it was something about bloodshed and being lonely without you

"lift up the shade, it's a lonely view" was my brain's vainglorious attempt to make something logical out of what i was hearing

RIP Bubba Shed

Bubba Shed would be a good Bowie-like alias for Kiedis's Californication-era silver bowl cut look

I thought "from what we shared it's a lonely view"

According to metrolyrics it's "sorry about One Hot Minute, here's Under The Soul To Squeeze Again"

Not voting. This list is horrid.

Bloody hell no

the only one of these songs that genuinely bums me out is "Learn To Fly," which is such a huge dropoff from the Colour And The Shape singles. the worst of the rest, especially "What It's Like," are just annoying.

I heard "All the" too much, went for "Every morn"

there are worse Creed songs but that doesn't make "Higher" something I ever want to hear

I can recall the chorus of "Higher" (with that tasty guitar lick) but when I try to think of the verse I just shift to "My Sacrifice"

These are all so bad! But the Blink song is prob the least bad.

I am so resentful that this is the music I got stuck with at age 11/12

Re: this list, yuck. No.

I am so resentful that this is the music I got stuck with at age 11/12

you could have just listened to Moby's Play on repeat like half the world did

out of the frying pan and into the starbucks

I didn't really like any of those either! I haaaated "South Side".

I mean in retrospect "Natural Blues" was/is pretty great though

My #1 in '99 was the Vengaboys' "We Like to Party!" Not modern, not rock--in fact, thoroughly ridiculous. I loved it.

I mean in retrospect "Natural Blues" was/is pretty great though

I totally ride for "Honey" and "Run On" too

I have to check but I think my #1 single was "Beautiful Stranger."

oh dude, come on

that's like me saying "my #1 single from 1997 was 'Wrong Number'"

the difference is that "Beautiful Stranger" is a good song.

lol, not in this universe

My #1 of '99 was "Deathly" by Aimee Mann. Pour me a venti latte please.

That was my #2, Alfred--would surely move up top today.

you guys are crazy IMO

Unable to hear "Beautiful Stranger" w/o seeing Austin Powers preening in that movie/video, unfortunately.

god i just looked at the 2000 one and if you think this is bad you're in for a treat

I bet. '99-2000 was a horrible nadir for rock radio.

Pazz and Jop: http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres99.php

"Beautiful Stranger" is easily top 10 Madonna singles

we'll know when he finally poll her

it's easily "top ten Madonna-Orbit collabs"

I remember talking to ppl immediately after that year's P&J results came out and most of us being all like "there's a new Moby record?". (Play didn't hit it big until 2000, iirc)

"Bodyrock" got college/modern rock play but, yeah, the album didn't take off until spring '00. In the summer and fall it went massive.

xp it is quintessential bubbly euphoric William Orbit production

dude it's easily top 3 Madonna-Orbit collabs

Abhorrent, but "Every Morning" is one I'll sing along to in the car, at least, so that.

I mean there's "Ray of Light" and maybe either of the orbit remixes of "Justify My Love" or "I'll Remember" and ????

I mean... "Holiday", "Borderline", "Material Girl", "Lucky Star", "Burning Up", "Dress You Up", "Into The Groove", "Live To Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", "Open Your Heart", oh look there are ten better Madonna singles and we haven't even gotten past 1986 yet

okay lol

I assume you guys played the jingle catsesque "Crawling In My Skin"

wolfpupy made one of those for "last resort"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDWVDX98p5I

http://bit.ly/L0WVGb

phew, so glad i am not the only one who likes the everlast song (unless those 5 ppl were joking which seems possible)

We went to a small local county fair last year and the musical entertainment was Everlast. Just in case, you know, anyone was wondering what he's up to these days.

You could say his career is... permanent.

On-going, if you will.

it is my most fervent hope that he is ending his sets these days with a thoughtful acoustic guitar version of "Jump Around"

i'm sure he distances that from his, like, art, man

iirc he always did "Jump Around" the usual way in his concerts even when "What It's Like" was his big hit

I want to add Tonic to the list of bands orphaned by shifts in radio format. "If You Could Only See" still does fine (it got to #11 on the Hot 100) but their other Mainstream Rock hits ("Open Up Your Eyes," #2, "You Wanted More," #3) are completely MIA. Also regrettable that "Mean To Me" didn't chart at all and sank like a stone - but by 2000 maybe there wasn't a station programmed to give that a decent push? It's not a lost classic or anything but it's pretty good, nice riff.

xp Wouldn't it make more sense marketing-wise for Everlast to bill himself as House Of Pain and just get some DJ's and play 3 or 4 Everlast songs throughout his set? this makes way more sense to me than the opposite

IMO way more party people would be interested in seeing House Of Pain than Everlast

iirc he's been performing with house of pain in recent years?

if you're wondering why this thread's quieted down it's because we're all trying to track down those Wild On! torrents