Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1999

But don't hold that against it.

Byron couldn't have said it more graciously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdVRaDJth4s

Disc one has a few worthwhile moments. I like "Just Like You Imagined," "La Mer," and "The Great Below."

fuuuck i heard come original in the car yesterday that song is not cool

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cracking up so hard at the understatement of "that song is not cool"

ALL ENTERTAINER COME ORIGINAL

soundbwoy nick hexum will never not be funny

The Fragile topped SPIN's list that year.

But don't hold that against it.

Ha. Yeah, I remember that but I didn't know how trustworthy an accolade it was. SPIN had a total chub on for Trent back then, and I'm pretty sure I remember him making it on to two consecutive 'Artists Who Matter, Maaaan' lists during a two-year stretch during which his only piece of new music was "The Perfect Drug".

during during...oh, Droid text entry box...

to be fair few artists have ever been as popular while releasing as little music as possible as NIN circa 95-98, the members of Filter and Stabbing Westward and Fighting Gravity all got to buy houses because there was such an underserved demand for NIN

Knee-jerkiness aside, Spin's 99 list of albums was pretty shockingly close to my own that year.

I play the Everything But the Girl album more than the others that made my list tbh

Geez, there are so many modern-rock threads up top today...it's overwhelming, I just don't know where to channel all my modern-rock love.

xxpost

Is there a way to see those old lists that doesn't involve me digging through dozens of boxes and stupidly unmarked boxes?

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/spinend.htm

Okay, I give up trying to appear at all literate while typing on a phone.

http://books.google.com/books?id=f_2Hb3bIqaQC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

fuuuck i heard come original in the car yesterday that song is not cool

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lol I don't know why but this cracked me up

Thanks, Dan!

One of my closest friends in HS who I sort of idolized for a while was REALLY into 311 and even I was like dude, these guys are NOT GOOD.

at the time I thought the Fragile was disappointing and a total bore - that said I was listening to all sorts of whiny rock emo so maybe my downer music tastes shifted from industrial to more traditionally rock and straightforward. but on a quick spotify listen it seems like there just aren't that many good songs...

there are probably some hooks in there but they are buried in a bunch of atmospheric stuff that I have never really had the patience to sit through.

I think the first disc is nothing but hooks tbh

I mean, "We're In This Together" is basically one long extended hook

Oh jeez, "Your Hard Drive". Forgot abt that.

Remember, also, when Time's Person of the Year was "You" and the cover was a mirror?

remember when skrillex was oh nevermind

Oh, you know what's a pretty decent and underrated '99 (somewhat alt) single? That New Radicals track.

Oh yeah, I always thought their singles lists were really good. Totally forgot about that.

I HATE THAT SONG

xxxpost Hardcore lols.

the words "New Radicals" and "underrated" do not belong in the sentence, especially on ilx

I HATE THAT GUY AND HIS ASS FACE TOO

x-post - Seriously. People love that group/song/dude iirc.

OVERRATED more like it

I haven't mentioned New Radicals cuz it's a '98 single despite breaking in '99.

That whole NR album had quite a few gems on it.

I HATE THAT GUY AND HIS ASS FACE TOO

this is poetry

OK I don't actually hate it quite that much but I never really got why people think it was so great.

nooooo new radicals

"Someday We'll Know"!

someday i'm going to get the World Party critical reevaluation jumpstarted by re-labelling one of their records as "the last New Radicals album"

er "the lost New Radicals album"

I'm probably cool with the New Radicals song because I seriously don't think I ever heard it until maybe six or seven years ago and had no idea what the dude looked like until I Googled them just now.

World Party fans are besotted with a different kind of voice and assclown hat.

There are 5 or 6 good songs on that New Radicals album. They were one of those bands that some alt-rock stations played to death, and didn't make it on the playlist for others.

I liked World Party once but since learning dude wrote "She's the One" for Robbie Williams I don't think I can ever forgive him

fun fact: Wikipedia says he was "musical director for the 1994 film, Reality Bites"

lol "i want you to really access what gordon gano was feeling when he wrote those words, ethan"

oh right -- he wrote the abysmal "Young Americans" clone.

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he means the World Party song on the Reality Bites soundtrack, "When You Come Back To Me," which really does sound kinda like "Young Americans"

Oh, yeah it does. I'm not going to pretend for a second that I didn't have that sndtrk and memorize p much every song on it including Mr. Hawke's own particularly amazing "I'm Nuthin'". I was like 15 though so it's OK. Sort of.

And by amazing I mean amazingly bad obviously.