― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
SAINT ETIENNE - "Nothing Can Stop Us" (297 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes)
http://www.saint.etienne.net/ec/Nothing_Can_Stop_Us.c.jpg
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!
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
JEFF BUCKLEY - "Hallelujah" (304 points, 18 votes)
http://www.liquidgnome.com/JeffBuckley/images/hall.jpg
"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
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
The UK issue was like this:
http://www.saint.etienne.net/ec/Nothing_Can_Stop_Us.jpg
but less blurry.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Kevin Gilchrist (KevinGil14...), November 7th, 2004.
a single that doubles as a tampon?
xpost
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Uh, is that a joke? "Escargot, my car go" ring a bell?
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" (307 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H84.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg(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
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
ORBITAL - "Halcyon" (322 points, 17 votes)
http://www.paulstephenson.freeserve.co.uk/orbital_singles/orb_raddico_us12.jpg
"Halcyon is one of the most glorious bizarre and fantastic tracks around."
- Ronan
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
LL COOL J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (323 points, 19 votes)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024II.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
"And you thought the word "damn" had lost its power..."
- Anthony Miccio
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
MISSY ELLIOTT - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (326 points, 25 votes)
http://www.thehumangenomeproject.com/missy/rain.jpg
"Supa Dupa Fly remains her shining, most coherent, razzle-dazzling moment."
- Vic
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost "The Rain" rules too. I love that Ann Peebles song too.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
HAPPY MONDAYS - "Kinky Afro" (329 points, 22 votes)
http://home.dialix.com/~u3336/factory/images/302_7b.jpg
"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.
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
But seriously, "Halcyon" at 64???
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
interesting results so far, and even moreso later on...
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
anyways, there weren't 64 songs in the 90s better than troy FFS
― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
no jungle, hardcore, or techno yet, this is either a good or bad thing.
― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― artiste (artiste), Sunday, 7 November 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
anyway, on to 60-51...
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
WU-TANG CLAN - "C.R.E.A.M." (332 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)
http://www.mixtapes.ch/images/wu_cream.jpg
"Cash rules everything around me = the way things are."
- daria g
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link