Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1999

Lamb - "B-Line"

oh I didn't see this on the list on the first scan-through, FUCKING WONDERFUL

The Goo Goo Dolls - "Black Balloon"

A little underrated, as unabashedly "Iris, Part 2" as it is.

in my top twenty:

Sleater-Kinney - "Get Up"
Pavement - "Spit On A Stranger"

"black ballon" is pretty gorgeous. Didn't even know it was a single.

Sure sign this was modern rock's nadir: It was also the era I probably came closest to listening to rock music with any regularity.

All I remember liking from '99-ish is Fiona Apple, Midnite Vultures, trip-hop-esque stuff like Lamb and Beth Orton, and a buttload of Elephant 6 stuff. Way way way into Remedy, but that was the absolute tail-end of '99, iirc.

Oh, The Hot Rock was good, too. Took me a long time to properly get into that Pavement record, though.

I was way way into Midnite Vultures, more than I needed to be, maybe because Prince hadn't released a good album in three years.

the saddest late 90s lols of all

I was way way into Midnite Vultures, more than I needed to be, maybe because Prince hadn't released a good album in three years.

OTM (except four years)

It's still a good record but I make allowances for the plastic funk stuff now and prefer the likes of "Beautiful Way" and "Milk and Honey."

It's honestly probably still my favorite Beck album. And the last one I really liked.

yeah it's a pretty "and now Napoleon Dynamite dances!" album

haha

Oh now you've done it.

man people still underrate Emancipation

Give it up. At least 90 minutes of that album flat out sucks.

^^

in any event it's hilarious to say "I was starved for anything that resembled Prince in the late '90s because it had been three whole years since Emancipation"

1998 had some occasional moments of quality on rock radio but this is dreadful... by now I was firmly in my too cool for school phase listening to Belle and Sebastian, Sunny Day Real Estate, Magnetic Fields, Stereolab, and whatever caught my eye on the Spin year-end lists.

almost voted for "All the Small Things" for being very 1999 yet not inspiring rabid hate unlike many of the other tracks, but "Learn to Fly" is by far the most listenable.

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

― clemenza, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:45 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's OK. I fucking love that song.

This is Lit by a country mile. It's a tune and it's really fun to sing on Rock Band - just FYI. The rest of these are fucking awful.

Oh all the small things isn't awful but I'm still voting Lit.

Lit was my vote too. It's been kind of tarnished by cheap, easy needledrops in bad movies, but so have the Isley Brothers.

"All The Small Things" is totally awful, come on

guys stop misspelling the titleo f "All The Small Theengs"

hahaha

idk. I have a soft spot for most Blink singles.

'My Own Worst Enemy'... although, I'd rather not hear any of these again anytime soon.

It's not awful! It's . . . catchy?

Blink seems like a band that would be fun to hang out with for controlled amounts of time but I would consider jumping into traffic if they made me listen to too much of their music

the idea that you can't find ten singles she released during that time period that aren't better than "Beautiful Stranger" is laughable

It's not, DJP--not if you think it's as incredible as I do, and it did finish fourth in P&J that year. (Being John Fogerty's birthday yesterday, it's a perfect time to mention how CCR-like "Beautiful Stranger"'s musical track is.)

i'm okay with this list -- "learn to fly" is one of the best modern rock songs either, and i loved that lit song when i was 11 and heard it this weekend for some bizarre reason and still loved it! "every morning" and "all the small things" aren't nearly my favorite singles by either sugar ray or blink, but still pretty dope -- and hey, i like "scar tissue". i was in middle school once, too

1. learn to fly
2. my own worst enemy
3. every morning
4. all the small things
5. scar tissue

either = ever*

I just can't stand the vocals on My Own Worst Enemy. he sounds like he has a good voice but he is going all out Alanis with the weird vowel pronunciations.

Some notable, nearly-there #2 hits from 1999 include Fatboy Slim's "Praise You," Smash Mouth's "All Star," and Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss."

Close call.

also this list is waaaaaaay better than 98, and maybe even with 97

This list does make me crazy nostalgic, despite not having liked the songs at all then and not having warmed up to them since.

his syllable emphasis is also atrocious - cig-a-RETTE, SLEEPing WITH my CLOTHES on, CAME in THROUGH the WINdow. And that sleazy riff.

I was arguably happiest in my whole life so far in 1999.

This list does make me crazy nostalgic, despite not having liked the songs at all then and not having warmed up to them since.

LOL

"and i loved that lit song when i was 11"

brb, ending it all now

Some notable, nearly-there #2 hits from 1999 include Fatboy Slim's "Praise You," Smash Mouth's "All Star," and Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss."

These would have been my top 3 if they were in the poll, with "Last Kiss" taking it.

The chorus of All the Small Things is pretty huge, but the verses grate.

the problem for me with these songs is that they never went away. I heard them, especially the punky stuff, all through college. Horrible

If What's My Age Again had been on here, I might've voted for that.

these are all pretty terrible but i have a soft spot for every morning b/c there was an "undeclared" episode in which this girl drove her roommate bonkers by playing it constantly

"what's my age again" is one of the best songs