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

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well that was my #1 so I can't complain.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

looking forward to seeing the full list, as in every track that got a vote - to see where 'Everlong' and 'Chime' and everything else placed

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Thanks Gear. I'm surprised - no Vanilla Ice, no Kylie, no Right Said Fred, no Snap - lots of oddness.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think only 5 songs I voted for made it in

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

78 first place votes accounted for in the results. how many ballots were there?

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

19 of mine made it, so I can't really complain, but neither of my nominations did.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i was pretty confident my number one album (OKC) would place highly, but really I had no idea Common People had such across-the-board appeal on ILM. Makes sense I guess.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

obv. the album poll hasn't been released, but I'm sure OKC will be up there is what I mean

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

my first place vote didn't make it.
but 21 of my 30 did

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and one of my noms made the list (Being Boring at #33) and one didn't (Autobiography)

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

there were about 50 #1 votes that didn't show up because they placed outside the top 100. somewhere between 120-130 ballots total.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you, Gear! Good work. And just in time too! (I wuz just clocking off)

I think this is a pretty great chart. Lots I've never heard tho', including (AFAIK) that Geto Boys song.

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm 21.

makes sense that you haven't heard those then, seeing as you were seven-years-old when the decade started.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm happy w/it in the end. Good work, Gear!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

That's good of john to explain it to Melissa!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear you good you guy you go, guy, go!

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

makes sense that you haven't heard those then, seeing as you were seven-years-old when the decade started.

Not really. I'm 21 and I was definitely aware of Regulate when it dropped. But maybe I was just more into hip-hop then. I donno though, it was pretty everpresent.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

if anything warren g. was bigger in europe than in the states (maybe just the continent though, i know thatcherandblairland has anti-dancing statutes on the books and a brave < /hongro > refusal to truck with no hip-hop).

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, thanks for the work, even though I'm disappointed with the results.
(you didn't use the voting machines from Ohio, by any chance?)

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That's good of john to explain it to Melissa!

more i was explaining it to myself aloud, cuz i just couldn't understand not hearing these songs. but then, i'm a weezy old geezer.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

when i was 7 i was well aware of what were the popular songs of the time - but i was in britain and my parents weren't draconian. not that i'm suggesting melissa's were or owt, jsl.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what if captain kirk hadnt make remix of "common people"? would you still have remembered it?....still cool chart. apart from the moron dull indie rockers now and then. :)

― karl76 (karl76), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Shatner version had *nothing* to do with the placing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

what if captain kirk hadnt make remix of "common people"? would you still have remembered it?

stick it to 'em!

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, look at all that brit-pop in the top twenty. djdee, you are the biggest idiot ever. sorry.

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaliyah was a regular down at the Good Mixer.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I absolutely loved this poll (25 of the songs I voted for made it!). Thanks Gear! To me, its singles what really matter so I'm not that excited to see the albums poll results.

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Regulate was plenty big here too. No one was actually dancing to it, mind.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I knew "Regulate" until today either FWIW. I definitely knew "Groove Is in the Heart' (which I loved) and "Regret" (which i didn't) when they came out though. I didn't really pay attention to hip-hop in the 90s.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I had absolutely NO idea what the popular songs of the day were when I was 7. I just wasn't interested in music. 1990 was a watershed year for me because I started to consciously pay attention to the radio. I was 11.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

As for "Regulate," I vaguely remember it coming out, but I couldn't sing it to you now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

phew ;)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in mourning for Chime

(I also forgot to vote - I could have pushed radiohead out of the top ten dammit!)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with jaymc, most of these songs I never heard, mostly because I grew up in the sticks of NC. Of the other ones, I only heard them in the late 90s at the earliest.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and I still liked the list. I downloaded each track as it was announced, so I've at least heard everything now.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Was "Regulate" that big, like comparable to "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "Poison" in its popularity and ubiquity?

Oh yeah, I haven't heard most of the songs on the list of winners or nominations.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"wow, look at all that brit-pop in the top twenty. djdee, you are the biggest idiot ever. sorry."

Considering his main point was mostly how doofus-y it is to have 5 songs each by Pulp and St Etienne in the top 100, I'd say it's the dickhead who is deliberately misreading him who is the bigger idiot.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"regulate" was everywhere; as big as "mama said" and "poison." i remember (DORK ALERT!) that when this song came out (8th, 9th grade?) my friend and i used to simultaneously bark "regulatooooors! mount UP!" before going on bike rides. and this is in the sticks of va, mind you!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

haha if me and a friend are walking to my car i'll still do that occasionally

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

and i always loved nate dogg cuz his voice was very much a choral one, and me being in the choir, this was hella cool (i always tried to sing like mick jagger in the choir before i heard him!).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

That strikes me as the cutest thing ever for some reason.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i did it LAST NIGHT blount when a friend and i were about to play gta:sa!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

brits and anglophiles ruining ILM once again.

I still use the "regulators, mount up!" line. it makes me feel gangsta.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Lack of Chime suggests that either that fewer British people voted than everyone upthread assumed, or that the average age of the British ILM poster is much less than thirty. I also suspect that the Pulp/St Etienne overload has more to do with a particular strain of US anglophilia than any avalanche of UK voters.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

rickyt otm re: fifth column

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd never heard the Geto boys track, so I just nabbed it off slsk, and I like it, well done ILx, now, about voting fucking radiohead so high, we need to have words

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Was "Regulate" that big, like comparable to "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "Poison" in its popularity and ubiquity?

Errr... what is 'Poison'? You're not talking about the Prodigy track, are you?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I assumed Bell Biv Devoe.

"Regulate" was probably too late for me, since I'd started listening to rock by then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bel Biv Devoe's "Poison" which was also ubiquitous for its time.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

one last personal memory associated to a song in this poll: the first time i ever saw my father's MUCH younger second wife dance, it was to "groove is in the heart," and suddenly i had a CRUSH ON MY STEPMOTHER which confused and worried me for almost all of my adolescence.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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