Ladies and gentlemen....the 1990s ILX SINGLES POLL RESULTS

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PALACE MUSIC - "New Partner"

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AIR - "All I Need"

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Palace Music - "New Partner" (233 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes)

Air - "All I Need" (233 points, 16 votes)

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Madonna - "Deeper and Deeper" (234 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)

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Teenage Fanclub - "The Concept" (from the pictured album above...)
(234 points, 15 votes)

WU-TANG CLAN - "Shame On A Nigga" (235 points, 13 votes)

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meth's line on 'shame on a nigga' ('i'm better, than my competor, you mean competitor? whatever!') is, on a good day, the best line ever recorded.

-- ethan padgett

BEASTIE BOYS - "Intergalactic" (236 points, 13 votes, 1 first place)

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"Intergalactic" was like the only decent song they played in bars with girls in them that I went to in the summer/fall of 98, and I would always sing "Intergalactic Prophylactic" when dancing with girls who I knew weren't going to sleep with me anyhow.

- Horace Mann

MADONNA - "Ray of Light" (240 points, 21 votes)

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This is probably my favorite Madonna song, except for maybe a couple of her mid-nineties ballads. Really, it's astonishing. I don't think I'll ever be a fan of hers overall, but I'll hang into the CD for this song alone...

I'm going to get really depressed over not voting, I can tell.

CORNERSHOP - "Brimful of Asha" (243 points, 16 votes)

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Comments on this one? I like it, a lot more than I like the rest of the Cornershop album...

BJORK - "Human Behaviour" (245 points, 12 votes)

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I knew someone from Pakistan who likes "Human Behavior," which proves it's her best song.

-- Rockist Scientist

ORBITAL - "Belfast" (245 points, 14 votes)

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Belfast is the absolutely blissful sound of being sublimely hammered and sitting on a kerb/haystack/car bonnet somewhere you don't know at 4am. It is beautiful.

-- Nick Southall

ISOLEE - "Beau Mot Plage"

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I heard this song on a mix tape a friend made for me awhile back and I've been trying to find any sort of Isolee CD, but it can't be done. Curses to me and my refusal to mail-order. This is a great cut.

ARAB STRAP - "The First Big Weekend" (247 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"The first one is pure ass, except "the first big weekend" and "deeper". "The First Big Weekend" is maybe the best Arab Strap song."

-- gygax!

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - "Hypnotize" (249 points, 12 votes)

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I surprised this isn't higher. This is the one that sold me on Biggie and causes me to speak no ill of P. Diddy.

Hypnotize is WAY TOO LOW! Racists.

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - "The Luckiest Guy On the Lower East Side" (250 pts, 14 votes)

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PAVEMENT - "Shady Lane" (250 points, 17 votes)

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SAINT ETIENNE - "Like A Motorway" (252 points, 16 votes, 1 first place)

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I noticed a while ago that St. Etienne's "Like a Motorway" is melodically very like the traditional ballad "Silver Dagger," which goes back at least many hundreds of years. I thought it was cool that the tune was being revisited and kept alive (probably unconsciously).

-- JesseFox

SLOWDIVE - "Alison" (254 points, 15 votes)

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I've been told for years to get the above album that this song is on, mostly for this song in particular...

LAMB - "Gorecki" (259 points, 15 votes, 1 first place)

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"Gorecki"...it was blatantly obvious that that song is brilliant, wonderful, indispensible, etc. -- Dan Perry

this morning on my md walkman i found myself paying a lot of attention to the words to Lamb's Gorecki, and tho it gets a lot of Unfinished-Sympathy-knock-off criticism, i can't think of a more beautiful and affective love song.

-- Alan Trewartha

APHEX TWIN - "Girl/Boy Song" (259 points, 18 votes)

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girl/boy
-- jess (dubplatestyl...), February 4th, 2003.

i second girl/boy song
-- PMK

Girl/Boy thirded.
-- Matt DC

i fourth girl/boy
-- dyson

"Gorecki" is from Lamb's self-titled debut as pictured below, and "Girl/Boy Song" is from Aphex Twin's Richard D. James album.

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BLUR - "Song 2" (262 points, 17 votes, 1 first place)

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The video for "Song 2" features Damon being satisfyingly hurled against a wall...

-- Ally

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - "Humpty Dance" (262 points, 14 votes)

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Certainly "The Humpty Dance" is one of the finest singles of all time, no?

-- J0hn Darn1elle

1. Wu-Tang/Beastie Boys/Madonna/Cornershop should be 96/95/94/93 -- I think you may have caught your mistake by the time you got to 92, though, so this is just an FYI.

2. I don't know how many ties are left in the rest of the chart, but how would you feel about breaking them by favoring the track with more overall votes? It looks like you may have already taken this into consideration with the order you placed them in, actually. But I'd like that better, since ties always makes it seem like the sample size is too small.

SORRY! You're right -- I was forgetting that there were 101 songs!

tonight, 80-61
Monday, 60-41
Tuesday, 40-31
Wednesday, 30-21
Thursday, 20-11
Friday, TEH TOP TEN

the albums will begin the following Friday, if not sooner.

Sunday: 60-51
Monday: 50-41
etc

I had "Shame on a Nigga" at #2, actually.

DE LA SOUL - "A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays" (268 points, 17 votes)

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I could go on and on about how much i love the youth remix of 'saturdays' - they play it at 'funkademia' in manchester evry saturday and it's so popular they *turn down the vocals* durin the chorus so evry1 can sing along...

- piscesboy

MASSIVE ATTACK - "Angel" (268 points, 19 votes)

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"Angel" is slow motion apocalypse. It's like the bomb first drops, then goes off, then has to fight its way through, indeed, tar or something similar.

- Ned Raggett

THE PIXIES - "Alec Eiffel" (269 pts, 22 votes)

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I dont care what anyone else says, it can only be 'Alec Eiffel'. Someone here once said that there are more amazing ideas within these 3 minutes than in many a band's entire output. (Including the Pixies? Hahaha...!) I hope it plays in the club I'm going to later tonight, because I feel like dancing - no, flying! - on that song so much right now...

- Simon

EMINEM - "My Name Is" (271 points, 21 votes)

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Slim Shady does not give a fuck what I think.

- David Sim

DESTINY'S CHILD - "Say My Name" (272 points, 19 votes)

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Is there a DC track more perfect and succinct than this? Maybe, but they're not here and this is. And right now it sounds like the best thing they ever did. It's pretty much Beyonce's show as usual and typically her strength is not really deployed until the end - the music not really rising with her though, preferring to remain in it's regimented but bounceable sync-pop groove, comfortable as it is. As pure Summery modern pop with soul tones it's flawless in conception and execution.

-- the neurotic awakening of s

Taken from comments on the '00s poll, this song knows not the boundaries of millenia.

NAUGHTY BY NATURE - "O.P.P." (276 points, 14 votes)

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One band that I think history's given a rough deal to is Naughty By Nature. I still think that their biggest trick- using lyrical themes to contrast their always-so-damn-obvious samples, not as a gesture of subversion per se, but to give the songs some *conflict*- is pure genius. It's there on "O.P.P." of course, the exuberant innocence of The Jackson Five vs. the sly evil of the subject matter...

- Daniel_Rf

BASEMENT JAXX - "Rendez-Vu" (278 points, 18 votes)

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"'Rendez-Vu' = immediate satisfaction."

- Eric H

OASIS - "Live Forever" (282 points, 16 votes)

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"I finally brought myself to buy Definitely Maybe today for the first time, guiltlessly, while reminiscing 'bout those wonderful times once upon a time ago, back in the fifth grade. IT IS STILL BRILLIANT. They will live forever, a pox on you!"

-- Francis Watlington

xpost - thanks Gear.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "When You Sleep" (284 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)

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from Loveless

"Today I was listening to Loveless and when "When You Sleep" came on, I couldn't stop imagining Prince singing it. And then I started clapping on the backbeat, and really wanted to dance."

-- A.V. Alexandre

THE CURE - "Pictures of You" (286 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"Personally, I am ecstatic that I live in a society where people think that the lyrics "Looking so long at these pictures of you/But never held on to your heart/Looking so long for the words to be true/But always just breaking apart my pictures of you" can sell digital cameras."

-- Dan Perry

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. featuring PUFF DADDY and MASE - "Mo Money, Mo Problems" (290 points, 21 votes)

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"citizen kane's ideology = mo money mo problems."

-- nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh

And the low scores for "Belfast" and "Like a Motorway" are more than a little shocking. I thought the latter would almost definitely be top 20. And does "Belfast"'s low placing mean that "Chime" didn't make it at all? Oh well.

"O.P.P." making it is good stuff though.

I don't even remember sending comments, but I know I could've done a whole lot better than that. I should at least mention that the fuzzy friction of the last chord in the flamenco's four-chord progression in the intro is like pulling what you think is a pubic hair out of your mouth and discovering it's pull-n-peel red licorice.

SAINT ETIENNE - "Avenue" (291 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes)

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Search: Nearly everything, but especially "Avenue". It is not only my single of the 90's, I think it might just be my favorite single of all time full stop. I don't really have any rational explanations of why, it just is. St. Etienne are magical.

- Nicole

It was 7th on mine!

SAINT ETIENNE - "You're In A Bad Way" (294 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)

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1.Saint Etienne - “You’re In A Bad Way”

"This is how retro should be done. This is how kitsch should look, and sound. It should bounce like a space-hopper and be mixed like a
beautiful cocktail. Sipped by a girl of dubious-origin on a beach,
while a ropey porn-movie plays in the background."

- hobart paving

SAINT ETIENNE - "Nothing Can Stop Us" (297 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes)

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The first single to feature Sarah Cracknell, unless I'm mistaken, and still one of their best cuts. Not sure about the cover art, though!

JEFF BUCKLEY - "Hallelujah" (304 points, 18 votes)

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"First time I listened to it I was lying in bad with the flu at 3 in the morning. It's just TOO lovely, and made the feel even worse than I did at the time, which was pretty bad!"

- Johnney B

The UK issue was like this:

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but less blurry.

-- Kevin Gilchrist (KevinGil14...), November 7th, 2004.

a single that doubles as a tampon?

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Uh, is that a joke? "Escargot, my car go" ring a bell?

PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" (307 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes)

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(from the album Mecca and the Soul Brother)

"pete rock & cl smooth created a subgenre with "they reminisce over you" which is a perfect marriage of elegiac rhymes and muted horns..."

- fred solinger

"nothing sadder in the world than Pete Rock & CL Smooth's "TROY (They Reminisce Over You)" "

- M Matos

ORBITAL - "Halcyon" (322 points, 17 votes)

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"Halcyon is one of the most glorious bizarre and fantastic tracks around."

- Ronan

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LL COOL J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (323 points, 19 votes)

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"And you thought the word "damn" had lost its power..."

- Anthony Miccio

MISSY ELLIOTT - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (326 points, 25 votes)

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"Supa Dupa Fly remains her shining, most coherent, razzle-dazzling moment."

- Vic

xpost "The Rain" rules too. I love that Ann Peebles song too.

HAPPY MONDAYS - "Kinky Afro" (329 points, 22 votes)

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"I remember Jess nominated this song for Best Opening Line ('son i'm thirty, i only went with your mother cos she's dirty'). Quite OTM."

-- Aaron A.

But seriously, "Halcyon" at 64???

interesting results so far, and even moreso later on...

anyways, there weren't 64 songs in the 90s better than troy FFS

no jungle, hardcore, or techno yet, this is either a good or bad thing.

anyway, on to 60-51...

WU-TANG CLAN - "C.R.E.A.M." (332 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"Cash rules everything around me = the way things are."

- daria g

BJORK - "Joga" (336 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"Christ! How can you even begin to question the album with "Joga" on it????"

-- Adam Bruneau

Favourite detail in a pop lyric?

"In 'Joga' by Bjork, when she appears to get the start of the word wrong in one verse, and goes "me-you". "

-- Matt DC

PULP - "This Is Hardcore"(338 points, 22 votes)

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" "this is hardcore" is just so *sui generis*, i can't imagine anyone else pulling anything like that off at all."

- amateur!st

TLC - "Creep" (339 points, 24 votes)

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"The first bar or two of Creep, in context, is like manna from heaven."
- gabbneb

"That jazzy trumpet that starts Creep off is a trumpet of joy."
-- syntaxfree

"i think "creep" is one of the 20 best r&b singles ever written."
-- strongo hulkington

"Seconding (or ... 6thing) the suggestion that "Creep" is one of the greatest r and b songs ever."
-- djdee2005

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - "Cherub Rock" (340 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"I think I might have a totally different concept of 90s AOR than is being used here. Smashing Pumpkins would be the kings of the genre as I see it, with "Cherub Rock" probably being their best single."
--sundar subramanian

"Makes me wanna fuck shit up. It brings up the violent side of me, that needs to be released once in a while, in order to be tamed. I am sometimes a difficult person to deal with, but, alas, it is just the demons trying to get out."
--JP Almeida

UNDERWORLD - "Cowgirl" (342 points, 19 votes)

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"Isn't the way Underworld use vocals totally unique, I can't think of any band or any dance act who use vocals as a rhythmic part of the song, in something like Rez/Cowgirl the "everything everything everything everything" seems to make the track so absolutely mindblowingly essential and intense and yet later in the track the vocals become like an extra drum or beat or something (an eraser of love)"
--Ronan

THE KLF - "Last Train To Trancentral" (343 points, 22 votes, 2 first place votes)

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"I think I was awestruck, or something close to it, when I first heard the KLF's "Last Train To Trancentral" on the radio - the idea at a young age that anyone in pop was this intelligent, and this gifted, and had this many ideas."
-- Robin Carmody

"'Last Train to Trancentral' is, to me, the epitome of this method: it's just hook after hook after hook, with a bonkers half-time breakdown and, at the end when it appears no more can possibly happen, a cameo dalek voice chanting 'Mu Mu'. Pop genius."
-- Ben Butler

"Oh, and "Last Train To Trancentral" being kept off Number 1 by Cher's "Shoop Shoop Song". Didn't piss me off so much back then, oddly; 10 years have clearly made me slowly more bitter."
-- Robin Carmody

PORTISHEAD - "Sour Times" (344 points, 25 votes)

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"Being a stubborn male I refused to ask for help at the music stores. It took me monthes to find this sucker in the dance section months after I first heard it on the radio while I was eating my wheaties."
--zacko

MADONNA - "Vogue" (346 points, 22 votes)

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"'Vogue' - narcissism as spirituality, hollywoodism as religion, star-worship as self-love, and a groove so deep that brown or yellow people didn't even mind being left out of that "doesn't matter if you're black or white" line."
-- Vic

MOBB DEEP - "Shook Ones Pt. II" (347 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"Shook Ones Pt II is just absolutely immortal - a very strong argument for you to procure the Infamous all on its own. "I'm only 19 but my mind is older" has always struck me as one of the coldest lines in any hip-hop song, but that whole track is just perfection."
-- M Carty

although my comment about the pulp song is really dumb and meaningless.

100.- PALACE MUSIC - "New Partner",
AIR - "All I Need"
99.- MADONNA - "Deeper and Deeper",
TEENAGE FANCLUB - "The Concept"
97.- WU-TANG CLAN - "Shame On A Nigga"
96.- BEASTIE BOYS - "Intergalactic"
95.- MADONNA - "Ray of Light"
94.- CORNERSHOP - "Brimful of Asha"
92.- BJORK - "Human Behaviour",
ORBITAL - "Belfast"
91.- ISOLEE - "Beau Mot Plage"
90.- ARAB STRAP - "The First Big Weekend"
89.- NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - "Hypnotize"
88.- THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - "The Luckiest Guy On the Lower East Side"
87.- PAVEMENT - "Shady Lane"
86.- SAINT ETIENNE - "Like A Motorway"
85.- SLOWDIVE - "Alison"
83.- LAMB - "Gorecki",
APHEX TWIN - "Girl/Boy Song"
81.- BLUR - "Song 2",
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - "Humpty Dance"
79.- DE LA SOUL - "A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays",
MASSIVE ATTACK - "Angel"
78.- THE PIXIES - "Alec Eiffel"
77.- EMINEM - "My Name Is"
76.- DESTINY'S CHILD - "Say My Name"
75.- NAUGHTY BY NATURE - "O.P.P."
74.- BASEMENT JAXX - "Rendez-Vu"
73.- OASIS - "Live Forever"
72.- MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "When You Sleep"
71.- THE CURE - "Pictures of You"
70.- NOTORIOUS B.I.G. featuring PUFF DADDY and MASE - "Mo Money, Mo Problems"
69.- SAINT ETIENNE - "Avenue"
68.- SAINT ETIENNE - "You're In A Bad Way"
67.- SAINT ETIENNE - "Nothing Can Stop Us"
66.- JEFF BUCKLEY - "Hallelujah"
65.- PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"
64.- ORBITAL - "Halcyon"
63.- LL COOL J - "Mama Said Knock You Out"
62.- MISSY ELLIOTT - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
61.- HAPPY MONDAYS - "Kinky Afro"
60.- WU-TANG CLAN - "C.R.E.A.M."
59.- BJORK - "Joga"
58.- PULP - "This Is Hardcore"
57.- TLC - "Creep"
56.- THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - "Cherub Rock"
55.- UNDERWORLD - "Cowgirl"
54.- THE KLF - "Last Train To Trancentral"
53.- PORTISHEAD - "Sour Times"
52.- MADONNA - "Vogue"
51.- MOBB DEEP - "Shook Ones Pt. II"

So I guess this means that no rave or jungle made it on the list. That's too bad.

i'm sure SOME rave/jungle will make it, but probably not what i voted for.

But anyway - 'This Is Hardcore' at #58? You fucking idiots.

Is this definitely in praise of 'Cherub Rock'.

i'm not sure why 'Everlong' is so high!

1 Disco Inferno - "Summer's Last Sound"
2 Disco Inferno - "The Last Dance"
3 Orbital - "Chime"
4 Destiny's Child - "Bills, Bills, Bills"
5 New Order - "Regret"
6 Omni Trio - "Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)"
7 Belle & Sebastian - "Stars of Track and Field"
8 My Bloody Valentine - "Soon"
9 The House Crew, "Euphoria (Nino's Dream)"
10 Saint Etienne - "He's on the Phone"
11 Urban Cookie Collective - 'The Key, The Secret'
12 Boo Radleys: Lazarus
13 Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song
14 Magnetic Fields - "100,000 Fireflies"
15 The Future Sound of London - "Papua New Guinea"
16 Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era – “Far Out”
17 Joey Beltram - "Energy Flash"
18 Madonna - "Ray of Light"
19 Pulp - "Babies"
20 The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
21 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre – “California Love”
22 The Prodigy - Everybody IN the Place
23 Massive Attack - "Karmacoma"
24 Missy Elliott - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
25 Orbital - "Belfast"
26 The KLF - "Last Train to Trancentral"
27 Pixies - "Alec Eiffel"
28 White Town – Your Woman
29 Blame - "2 Bad Mice Take You"
30 Avalanches - Electricity

1. Freak Nasty – "Da Dip"
2. Bikini Kill - “Rebel Girl”
3. De La Soul – “A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays”
4. Madonna – “Deeper & Deeper”
5. Omni Trio - "Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)"
6. Pulp - "Common People"
7. Joey Beltram - "Energy Flash"
8. Geto Boys - "Mind Playing Tricks on Me"
9. Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time"
10. White Town – “Your Woman”

I suppose New Radicals isn't about to make it either :( :( :(

01 The Hit Parade – Autobiography
02 Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
03 Boo Radleys - Lazarus
04 A Tribe Called Quest- Scenario
05 Underworld - Born Slippy NUXX
06 Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
07 The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
08 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
09 My Bloody Valentine - Soon
10 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre – California Love
11 Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy
12 The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
13 Blur – No Distance Left To Run
14 2 Bad Mice - Bombscare
15 Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu (74)
16 Daft Punk - Around the World
17 KLF and Tammy Wynette - Justified and Ancient
18 Pulp - Babies
19 Saint Etienne – You’re In A Bad Way (68)
20 Slowdive - Alison
21 De’Lacy – Hideaway (Deep Dish mix)
22 Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
23 Massive Attack – Angel (79)
24 Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) (62)
25 The Cardigans – Lovefool
26 Belle & Sebastian - The Stars of Track and Field
27 Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
28 Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark
Garage Mix)
29 Dr. Dre – Keep Their Heads Ringin’
30 Beck - Loser

Eight of mine have appeared so far, including three of my top ten. I guessed that between 18-21 songs on my list would end up in the final 100 so things are basically on schedule.

More than ever, I'm getting the feeling that Pulp dominated this poll.

gear is there any way you can look up my ballot and tell me what i voted for???

Only one of my top ten so far, but I figure Aaliyah, Beltram and Omni Trio are shoe ins.

ilm 90s singles poll - what did you vote for?
ilm 90s singles poll - what did you vote for?

PULP - "Do You Remember the First Time?" (350 points, 22 votes)

http://www.mackers.com/pulpworld/pulp_rememberfirsttime.jpg

comments on this 'un?

"Oh Jesus it must be great, to be straight"

I guess we still have "Babies," "Disco 2000" and "Common People" at least to go before the list's end. We might only have "He's on the Phone" left from St. Etienne, at least.

Is this definitely in praise of 'Cherub Rock'.

I've read this way back on the thread and I'm still laughing...

oh, and yes, Alba, it was in praise of "Cherub Rock" (though in a dysfunctional kind of way). I completely forgot I wrote this, but I stand by it.

MAZZY STAR - "Fade Into You" (351 points, 26 votes)

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/mazzy%20star%20fade%20gatefold%20promo.jpg

classic, if only for the fact that fade into you is my favorite song of all time
-- V

AALIYAH - "One In A Million" (356 points, 15 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00018QJ88.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The original Aaliyah "One in a Million" changed the face of American pop music. Since its release it has been on my top ten. I remember freaking all my Berkeley friends out listening to it (granted, it was about 1000 times in a row and they were used to hearing MBV blaring).
-- Spencer Chow

WHITE TOWN - "Your Woman" (356 points, 19 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000761I.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I just wonder if Momus sat sulking in the ICA cafe the day White Town hit no.1 with 'Your Woman' ?
-- flannery culp

Fukkit.

When the Aaliyah track came out, it seemed like US R&B, an incredibly popular yet seemingly closed (even moribund) system of production, had completely reinvented itself. The arrangement was totally unique, showcasing Timbaland's almost drum n bass approach to drum programming (although he denies having heard any dnb prior to recording this track). The eerie almost sci-fi sonics and slow bass with double time snare and hat fills directly influenced countless R&B and then hip-hop and pop releases. Aaliyah's later tracks are denser and more immediate, but "One In a Million" was quite a shot in the dark and made me reconsider R&B completely. I still think it's one of the 10 sexiest songs ever - actually it's just pure sex music of the highest order. It's also a kind of key to a clearer understanding of subsequent Timbaland productions.

you're really unbelievable sometimes, Deej. Do you have any idea how unorthodoxly high a placement #48 is for a song like "One in a Million"? I'm shocked it even made it at all--I've never seen it make a 90s poll like this.

I swear, if Breaking Atoms was nominated and made #7 on the list, you'd be bitching about how it should've been top five.

I didn't vote for either "One in a Million" or "Fade Into You" (though I did vote for "Are You That Somebody?") but I'm very pleased to see both of them so high. They certainly deserve it. And "Your Woman" is still only sort of a good song.

I guess it's not fair to judge based on this, but I hate that smile face he uses. It's the kind that appears on forums with "avatars" and for some reason it always has the effect of getting me mad when someone uses it to try to be concilatory. Anyway, he was even on EMI briefly. How about that?

MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "To Here Knows When" (357 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes)

http://imusic.artistdirect.com/showcase/rock/photos/mybloodyvalentine.gif

This one right here is the tune that SOLD me on MBV, after several years of denial.

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - "Stars of Track and Field" (365 points, 22 votes)

http://www.lazylinepainterpage.hpg.ig.com.br/imagens/waking2.jpg

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R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (369 points, 26 votes)

http://www.swr3.de/__pix/cover/500x435/2502.jpg

As for Losing My Religion.. it's by far their best single, and the one that will probably be remembered best fifty years from now
--may pang

MBV were pretty. That song is amazing.

I think I lost my ballot, somewhere.

THE ORB - "Little Fluffy Clouds" (372 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote)

ihttp://www.shima.iplus.to/img/mx/mx028732.jpg

"...what really got me, 'Little Fluffy Clouds'. You can't imagine, or maybe you can, what hearing that for the first time, under the covers in the dark with my headphones on, sounded like."
-- Alba

THE ORB - "Little Fluffy Clouds" (372 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://www.shima.iplus.to/img/mx/mx028732.jpg

"...what really got me, 'Little Fluffy Clouds'. You can't imagine, or maybe you can, what hearing that for the first time, under the covers in the dark with my headphones on, sounded like."
-- Alba

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - "100,000 Fireflies" (380 points, 21 votes)

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/phoenix/2000/2000-01-20/pics/magnetic_claudia.jpg

comments?

Are you crazy "Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)",“The Hitman”, “RIP”, “Dread Bass”, “Open Your Mind”, "Activ-8", "Lords of the Null Lines", "Euphoria (Nino's Dream)", "Bombscare", "Anasthasia" were on my list and I KNOW I cut a bunch of other ones!

BLUR - "Coffee and TV" (387 points, 24 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JJY6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

" "Coffee and TV" alone was better than anything off of parklife or modern life is rubbish."
--Felcher

ICE CUBE - "It Was A Good Day" (387 points, 25 votes)

http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/i/ice_cube/ice_cube-bio_tile.jpg

Ice Cube's last great moment, maybe?

Complete crazy talk.

"I can't believe how weak that Magnetic Fields song sounded when I listend back."

Even more crazy talk. Frankly Stephen Merritt should have probably quit after that song.

The superchunk cover is a diservice to the original.

It is with this track that we get our first glimpse of Stephen Merritt's lyrical and musical genius. The line 'You won't be happy with me/ but give me one more chance/ you won't be happy anyway' is both desvastatingly sad and strangely funny. Pure joy!

Complete crazy talk.

How do you know what my favourite rave tracks are?

I don't, but "Renegade Snares", "Hitman", "Dred Bass" and "Open Your Mind" should be among everyone's favorite rave tracks!

I was just thinking about this, listening to this song today. I totally forgot to vote for it... but it definitely took the top of my head off on that first listen.

i've never seen the appeal of "your woman" so it's funny that they tied. funny for me anyway.

Um...considering I think it is easily one of the best songs of the 90s - I certainly enjoy it more than fucking REM - yes, I am filled w/ righteous anger, even though I thought the "insert..." part of the post would make it clear I was hardly SHOCKED by this low ranking.

I swear, if Breaking Atoms was nominated and made #7 on the list, you'd be bitching about how it should've been top five.

I'd be very pleased if it made top ten. I don't have unreasonable expections - "One in a Million" is simply a great song and I think its reasonable that on ILM I should expect it to place above #47.

And in case people didn't get it the first time, seriously - fuck REM.

:)

Point is you've got to be reasonable. Even though I think it should be top ten, I'd be positively thrilled to see "Black Metallic" at this point because chances are it didn't make it at all. Lists are never going to look exactly like yours and it's very cool that Aaliyah made it all (and very well might make it again).

Also, cool about Cube (I think #40 is very reasonable) and "Losing My Religion" is by some margin R.E.M.'s finest moment.

THE KLF (FEATURING TAMMY WYNETTE) - "Justified and Ancient" (392 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://hitparade.ch/cdimages/klf-justified_ancient_s.jpg

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PULP - "Babies" (394 points, 23 votes)

http://www.mackers.com/pulpworld/pulp_babies.jpg

"I always saw it as being totally sincere - he never got past the platonic stage w/ her, and she went off w/ someone else (even tho they both really wanted each other); him having sex with her sister ended any possibilities of this ever changing. I dunno, for me the last line works a lot better as a statement on the irony of the whole chain of events than as him trying to talk himself out of a problematic situation, the idea that neither of them got what they really wanted adds a bit of poignancy to the song, plus it's very in tune with the title ("babies" as a signifier of a lack of maturity, they were all too young to deal with things like they should have.) He sounds very bitter and regretful, and the "it happened years ago" line suggests that he's only thinking back on her, or maybe talking to her after a long time has passed (tho of course they could have been an item during all that time too, so the other interpretation is credible here, too, but I still prefer mine)"
-- Daniel_Rf

Justified And Ancient really has everything - 3-4 minutes, 3-400 great bits. Wynette is so delightful on it esp. her pronunciation of 'Mu Mu Land', the choir is so soothing, the rap so sublime and succinct yet satisfyingly nonsensical, that siren/cowbell thing in the background, the 808 usage, the funky geetaw - all combined with the rich KLF imagery (video and TOTP performance just brilliant), there are other perfect pop songs/moments/concepts but not sure any can TOP this

THE PET SHOP BOYS - "Can You Forgive Her?" (397 points, 23 votes)

http://djbrecord.free.fr/petshopboys002.jpg

" "Can You Forgive Her?" is the best thing they ever did. Just huge and bitter and wonderful. As you say, not what you expect in the top 10."
-- Jim Eaton-Terry

OMNI TRIO - "Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)" (399 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://www.marshyboy.co.uk/full/ashadow01cd.JPG

" "Renegade Snares"? It's fucking BLINDING..."
-- Dan Perry

I didn't vote for any rave tracks because, like I mentioned upthread, none of my faves were nominated, there was nothing I felt like throwing votes at*, and I felt there were a load of super-awesome non-rave tracks (I had a shortlist of about 80 songs when I started making my list).

*in comparison, on the albums list I threw loads of votes at techno and house albums (about half of my 30), I felt I could stand behind a lot more techno albums than singles.

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I thought I was more ILM-mainstream than that...

course, I'm still betting that 8 of my top 10 will be top 15... and probably 5 or so others will still chart ...

that'd put me where I thought I was ...

(EMAIL ME DIRECTLY (or start a separate thread) FOR THIS QUESTION)

I'm willing to do the next poll, but I'd rarely jump the smiths, ahem, I mean the 80s for now and go to the 70s... thoughts?

the 80s poll would hopefully have 'voodoo ray' and 'straight outta compton' in it as well as 'there is a light never goes out' and 'come on eileen'

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it's meant to be ILX SING LES POLL RESULTS - Gear was being joyous and slightly French

okay, that's the worst thing i've ever said

THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - "Juicy" (401 points, 22 votes)

http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/soulrb/closeup/CU20020917D/juicy.JPG

"I find "Juicy" by the Notorious BIG to be very sad. Talking about his shitty life growing up & how great he has it now, there's still a strong undercurrent of meloncholy to it (probably coming from the instrumental track), that the riches don't compensate for the pain. The fact that he was dead like three years later makes it worse."
--Mark

NEW RADICALS - "You Get What You Give" (414 points, 26 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000INL7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"I love the new radicals cus they are fun and groovy.
Some people feel offended by those qualities in music. I have no idea why."
-- supercub

"Incidently, he did a song for Hanson on their new album! Apparently he no longer hates them."
-- djdee2005

is either the best or worst line in rap history

THE PET SHOP BOYS - "Being Boring" (427 points, 22 votes)

http://petshopboysinparis.free.fr/boring.jpg

comments?

http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/mbv/mbv_tremolo.jpg

there are so many classic lines in "juicy"

'birthdays were the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thir-stay"

“Can You Forgive Her?” – A quick reminder, then: the song is about a gay man, closeted even to himself, whose female lover has guessed the truth about him. The song’s invisible narrator is dragging him back through his past, forcing him to confront his feelings – and his loathing for her and himself – for the first time. Now I know it is incredibly cheesy to talk about ‘adult subjects’ getting into the Top 10 but unlike shitty ooh-its-about-heroin songs like “Perfect Day” this actually is groundbreaking, adult, and brilliantly done: a conflicted psychodrama on a par with the greatest soul music. And the music is magnificent. Lyrical intelligence isn’t a prerequisite for great pop, duh, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore it when it turns up, and nothing like this turned up in the charts again until “Ms Jackson”.

"Common People" will be #1, of course.

Actually, it depends on what you mean by "skewed" because they're placing a lot of songs but they're placing lower because of split voting.

PULP - "Disco 2000" (440 points, 24 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://coverart.last.fm/300x300/4447.jpg

"when the '99-'00, changeover happened I put on Prince "1999" and then followed up with "Disco 2000" for a large party of friends in CA and, while none of them knew it, due to it's being so yearny and pounding and DISCO people were on the verge of tears. it rulez."
-- Spencer Chow

THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - "Papua New Guinea" (441 points, 25 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001D7Q.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

" "Papua New Guinea" stands up as a gorgeous pop record, whether it would work on a dancefloor (or in a chill out room) these days I neither know nor care."
-- Tico Tico

How cool is that?

though i'm 100% positive that my #1 (Hit Parade w/ Cath Carroll - "Autobiography") won't place. And I'm having strong doubts about Right Said Fred, 2 Bad Mice and Blur's "No Distance"

OK "Born To Run" minus the bad poetry. "Common People" has grandeur without being grandiose.

BRITNEY SPEARS - "Baby One More Time" (441 points, 27 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JCWV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"'Baby One More Time' is one of the very best pop tunes of the 1990ies. the impeccably pre-horny max martin production, the hookline, britney's longing vibrato voice, everything is perfect here. this song shits on everything she's made since..."
-- Jay Kid

the fgth remake would certainly show up in my 80s list - i MUCHLY prefer it to the original

your votes got tabbed, I'm at work and don't have much time to post/search for results.

one of the three tracks I noted as being fretfully absent

"Missing:
Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun
Blur - This is a low
Opus III - It's A Fine Day"

you don't have to tell me (or the poll)!

I struggled to formulate a question that might have clarified what point you are making here, but gave up!

still to this day one of my favorite bright and shimmery tracks - the name fully suits it

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It's not bad but I think "I'm a slave..." and "Toxic" are way better.

BTW I personally think this is the best poll EVER. I'm thrilled to finally see Saint Etienne and The Pet Shop Boys in a 90's poll.

and yeah i'm superglad to see Et and the Pets getting some 90s love... they were some of my biggest loves in the 90s and have remained so to this day

i had not heard a single pulp song until they had broken up.
i really hate blur with a passion.
oasis is meh.
i am not from the u.k.

i just think that pulp is fucking great

I would have put "The Universal" in my top 20, easy.

Haha, so did I. Not that I like Britpop generally - but I quite like Common People, and there was no way I was going to vote for that - it just didn't need my votes.

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you ARE me

Except I missed a lot of stuff off my initial shortlist due to over-enthusiastic pruning of the nominations. Anyway, tactics, schmactics, it's a POLL OF STUFF YOU LIKE!

I haven't got the hang of ILM, have I?

I'm going to lose a lot of points for this, but the more I listen to "Common People" the more it sounds to me like self-righteous, hypocritical, Albarn-esque snarkiness. It's still a fabulous song but I just don't feel it at the moment. Leaning much more towards Cocker's naive, whimsical side ("Babies," D2000) than his working class hero act recently.

Also, I was very much under the impression that "Energy Flash" was not nominated. I certainly would have voted for it if it was.

'Toxic' is my favourite of all, by far, though, so I'm not sure how far this mindmeld extends.

Me too, though I can't really explain why. 'Common People' is like going to the opera, maybe. It's just too much to casually enjoy as the singalong anthem that everyone else seems to be able to treat it as.

Probably still to come:

Unfinished Sympathy
Groove is in the Heart
Music Sounds Better With You
Are You That Somebody?
Loser
Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Nuthin' But a G Thang