best song that reached #1 on airplay but was never allowed to chart on the billboard hot 100 1995-1998

ugh, I don't know that I like most of these songs. I vote "Don't Speak" because that one I do like.

Iris should be destroyed. the most overwrought and un-Goo Goo Dolls moment in their history...

"don't speak" pretty much IS madonna's "you'll see" (which is a v.g. madonna ballad that was out at the same time)

lol i always forget "you must love me" exists in her discography though

oh shit! I'm confusing "Iris" with "Name"...

hahahahahahaha

really do love Name at any rate. altrock power ballad goodness.

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OTM. Name was much better, contained Goo Goo Doll's signature quality songwriting, and an ear catching acoustic riff.

"Iris" should be damned not only for not sounding anything like GGD (at least, at THAT point), but helping to bring in the short-lived era of 'alternapop acts playing mediocre songs with unnecessary OTT patched-in strings'.

more like forged signature quality songwriting

omg GGD in being influenced by Replacements shockah. mind blown.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b201792__i_The_Wendy_Williams_Show__i___If_Mark_McGrath_Stops_Talking_He_Will_Die.html

I saw this clip on the Soup last night and thought about this thread.

omg why does everyone like "don't speak" i feel like i'm taking crazy pills!

It's like up is down and down is up.

I think "Don't Speak" is actually a pretty okay song but it's just hard for me to hear it objectively after it being played in the "once every forty-five minutes" range for something like six months, during a time when I basically spent four hours a day listening to the radio while building Duke Nukem 3D levels or otherwise dicking around on the computer.

seriously

xp don't speak is actually a pretty dumb song

"torn" is pretty amazing. i didn't really think so at the time maybe because it was played so often, but now when i hear it i inexplicably get chills at that last "OHHH" right before it launches into the ending cathartic guitar line. and i now realize how much of an all-time classic it is.

saying "Don't Speak" is better than, say, "Take a Bow" is unfunny challops.

I don't think anyone did that.

Stating it for the record. You all know where I live.

it's probably "torn". imbruglia is so hot in that video. i like "don't speak" as well though, think it deserves a little credit

omg why does everyone like "don't speak" i feel like i'm taking crazy pills!

^^^^^^

don't speak has a catchy chorus, and I've always liked the poppy sensibilities of the guitar player on the song, especially during the 'heavier' (for lack of a better word) riffs.

I don't mind the arrangement so much as I do Stefani, who sings like a retarded kid to his dot matrix printer.

Stefani's voice was always an acquired taste, but I grew to tolerate and even enjoy it a bit. Not that I was ever a No Doubt fan by any means. She was most grating on Spiderwebs.

I don't mind her voice so much on the more uptempo songs, but for me "Don't Speak" is just torture.

I still get mad thinking about Gwen getting uppity with Sanjaya when she was the mentor on American Idol, because she really had no room to talk as far a vocal skills go.

Don't Beak sucks but I prefer it to the friends theme & "Fly"

all the songs on this list are pretty weak imo

lol Don't Beak

I don't have any problem with her singing on "Don't Speak". ¯\(°_o)/¯

me neither

lol Don't Beak

Power ballad at the end of that owl movie obv.

yea Gwen's way more OTT on other No Doubt songs

i really can't hear this gwen retardation you speak of either but anyway, the song's got a spanish guitar solo and that counts for something

Ha, I just realized "Lovefool" doesn't technically qualify for this poll, but I'm glad it's here.

actually i'm pretty sure most of the songs on this poll did eventually chart on the hot 100, just not when they were peaking in popularity. "iris" still managed to crack the top 10, actually, b/c it was still pretty popular when the hot 100 was revised to allow airplay-only songs.

Lovefool over Torn.

loooooool don't beak

The live version of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" got massive airplay the summer of '98.

"fly," "love fool," "iris" ... then everything else.

hard to believe that anyone would have any love for "men in black" at all.

what's the song that men in black bites? i always heard it played over the p.a. at the gas station i used to work third shift at but i never figured out what it was...i suppose i could just wiki it

Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Not."

*nots

also does anyone else think that No Doubt pretty much sucks until Rock Steady? Maybe Return of Saturn is okay but the singles weren't all that great. Their best song imo is the Talk Talk cover (though I like Hella Good and Underneath It All a lot)

"Hella Good" is the only ND song I've ever chosen to listen to.

also does anyone else think that No Doubt pretty much sucks until Rock Steady? Maybe Return of Saturn is okay but the singles weren't all that great. Their best song imo is the Talk Talk cover (though I like Hella Good and Underneath It All a lot)

Lots of people think this but they are kind of wrong

otm

OTM OTM

yeah despite the convincing argument, I still think Tragic Kingdom is crud.

High points on Tragic Kingdom are my favorite No Doubt songs - "Spiderwebs" and "Sunday Morning" are great. The positive-message filler is kinda iffy though. I never heard Return of Saturn, but the singles borrrrrrrrrrrrred me except for "Bathwater."

spiderwebs is okaay in the Proust's madeleine sense, but it's not what i would consider a 'good song'.

i think the rock steady singles are all pretty bad actually, never really understood why people liked them. i honestly don't like no doubt very much but i really loved "simple kind of life" from the return of saturn.

I don't have much to say about No Doubt, but there is no doubt that I would love a madeleine right now.

The funny thing about them is that even though I really didn't have much use for the singles on the last two albums, the idea of buying their singles collection is weirdly appealing to me. It just seems like it'd be a really pleasant thing to have around. Looks like it's got a re-release coming up, too.