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

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