Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1999

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'.

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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.

Everyone was like "zomg Freak On A Leash video soooo good he says 'GO' and the bullet changes direction and almost hits a fat kid jumping into a pool" and it was actually the lamest video ever.

yeah I can't remember what Bush's audience WAS in 1999.

my sister was a massive fan of its predecessors (and remix album) and bought this one but to my knowledge she never played it more than twice.

This answers my own question.

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40-year-old dudes with frosted tips, iirc.

looooool

BT was a fan?

oh god, the frosted tips plague was something i'd managed to completely forget about

voted for Creed, the most important band of their generation

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

That Lit song is so much fun to karaoke.

please tell me why

x-post - It is! See my earlier Rock Band comment. It's really fun.

These polls have made me remember strongly why I thought I was growing up in the worst decade, as a teen in the late '90s.

"Please tell me whyyyyyyyyyyy-eyyyyyyy!"

I feel the pain of alla y'all who were apparently born just a handful of years after me. You definitely got the shitty end of the modern rock stick.

Luckily, almost every other type of music was steering well clear of nadir territory right about then.

because the only modern rock songs that existed in the 90s were the songs that hit #1

I was 18 at the time and into about half of this stuff, although right around the corner is my discovery of indie rock and virulent rejection of the singles I had once embraced. The fact that rock radio went whole hog for nu-metal was just the seal on the coffin. This actually isn't the most objectionable list of songs...I think much shittier stuff was getting a lot of airplay this year, with a general drift into down-tuned dreary drags and distortion a la Staind, or even things like the Chris Cornell single

I have low hopes for the 2000 list though.

Everlast, "What It's Like" - easily the worst thing here, and inescapable too. IIRC the followup single was the same moronic Life Lessons wheezed over acoustic crap
Sugar Ray, "Every Morning" - pretty good. Not as good as "Fly" or "When It's Over" - chorus a little too sing-songy but still well-done.
Lit, "My Own Worst Enemy" - I like this - a little too glossy maybe but beats the nu-metal wave. Catchy! I like singing along with his weird intonations and I think I've praised the guitar sound on ILX somewhere before.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Scar Tissue" - very pretty. I bought the CD single. A friend of mine thought he was singing something about the Burgess Shale, which still cracks me up.
Creed, "Higher" - horrible, maybe almost as bad as Everlast, and not even as earwormy as "My Own Prison."
Bush, "The Chemicals Between Us" - dumb, but not terrible. I really don't remember this getting the same kind of airplay as these others.
Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly" - not a patch on the previous batch of singles and in hindsight, perfectly foresages their plunge into being a latter-day meat n potatoes rock band. At the time I liked this a lot though and gave the album a lot of spins.
Limp Bizkit, "Re-Arranged" - boring, dreary, I will take their uptempo shithead workouts over this kind of thing any day
Blink 182, "All the Small Things" - great single - killer chorus, singalong, lyrics are memorable though largely not worth it.

Voting Blink just over Lit and RHCP. Favorite things mentioned upthread: She's So High, What's It Gonna Be?!, Beautiful Stranger, Hanginaround, You Get What You Give, What's My Age Again, Fast As You Can, Army, Into the Void, Whiskey in the Jar, and yeah, Cowboy.

God, Meet Virginia was awful though!

Oh, and I also feel "The Dolphin's Cry" deserves a shoutout for tuneless, inflated badness.

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hey, soul sister

lol

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I am currently listening to Train's cover of "Umbrella" and it is surprisingly, shockingly good