Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1999

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.

I'm an ultra modern version of the American ma-aan. I don't feel good but I don't feel ba-aad. Cause me, you see, I'm nuthin'.

enbb otm about new radicals

oof, this list

that too

there's nothing worth voting for here. every vote means only that someone got it wrong.

every song on the list is truly horrible.

wonder who had it worse in the mid-late 90s chartwise UK or USA?

nu metal vs dadrock. depressing

My dad's rock was better than yours.

wonder who had it worse in the mid-late 90s chartwise UK or USA?

― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

depends if you mean purely the pop charts or any charting singles imo -- capital p Pop music was probably at its all-time worst in the US in the mid-'90s, while lots of exciting stuff was happening in rock, rap, etc. that was underrepresented on the Hot 100

xp well there's always the British take on those peppy American mall-punk/nu-metal sounds of the time (A? Feeder?)

'99 was a pretty good year for me musically, but not on the evidence of any charts on either side of the Atlantic

god there are a lot of posts itt

this is the start of me getting crazy nostalgic, i'm totally biased in favor of 99-01 modern rock because adolescence

'scar tissue' one of my favorite songs when i was 12, def remember writing it on the crumbled piece of looseleaf paper where i wrote my favorite songs

lol

Blink over Sugar Ray and Foos.

(A? Feeder?)

ugh why did you have to remind me of their britrock kerrang friendly existence!

now i hope you cant get symposium and reef out of your head tonight!

depends if you mean purely the pop charts or any charting singles imo -- capital p Pop music was probably at its all-time worst in the US in the mid-'90s, while lots of exciting stuff was happening in rock, rap, etc. that was underrepresented on the Hot 100

― some dude, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 1:28 PM Bookmark

chart r&b during that era >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

yessss

None of these songs are "good" but the best ones are "ok," although it seems like I may be alone in thinking "Learn To Fly" is "ok." I have vivid good-times memories attached with pretty much all of them, except maybe "The Chemicals Between Us" which is clearly the worst song listed here and I've never met anyone who liked it.