NME's "Best Tracks of the Nineties"

Just looked it up, Sept 1994 was the Peel session recording, and the single came out 22 May 1995.

I was going to say 6 months, thought that may have been exaggerating, but h.

xxpost, I meant Jump Around. I think the first time I heard it again I remember thinking "hey I remember this, this is great!" but then it got wheeled out every weekend and now I just cringe.

Common People? Probably on Radio 1, an evening session or something. I don't remember too well. It got loads of play in the UK, although I never really appreciated it properly until Bill Shatner and Joe Jackson covered it in 2004 for some reason. Pulp always seemed too seedy and adult for 14-15 year old me. All the songs were about class and sex and pimpliness whereas I just wanted gut lords and marching. I like them a lot more nowadays than I did back then.

Yeah, but you guys are english, i grew up in the land of Everclear and OOOOOOOHHH GOT U WHERE I WANT U YEAHHHH SUFFA SUFFA U KNO IT GET NO RUFFA

i feel sorry for americans who like "common people". like, you didn't even have to suffer it irl and you willingly went out of your way to make it part of your life?

For them, Common People is only for Christmas.

Sod it, I'll vote for Common People just to aggravate lex

aggravate lex is for life..

Actually, looking at these songs again in the cold light of day, I like a lot of them. Really like them. Some of it's residual affection from being a teenage (and there's enough distance betwixt then and now for me to quite like them again), and some of them I think are genuinely just really good songs. I still think the bottom half of the list (i.e. the bit not in the poll) is more ILM-friendly, though.

Huh, just realised 'Caught Out There' wasn't a hit in the UK until March 2000.

(Realised meaning it suddenly struck me and I had to go to everyhit.com to check)

NME thinks there are 78 better songs than "Groove Is In The Heart?!"

Yeah, that's totally fucking crazy.

the boo radleys being played anywhere ever even for half a song would be too much

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend)

Great stuff Lex.

Did you honestly click on this thread thinking the list would be full of Tori Amos and En Vogue? Is it more fun to click on these threads so you can get yourself all wound up and shout about how much you hate Pulp and Radiohead (Again) then to actually go on other threads and talk about music you like. It just seems like a waste of time and energy to me.

I saw Pulp premiere “Common People” on stage at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane just before Xmas ’94 – JC said it was the first time they’d played the song live.

This was of course before Pulp and Cocker’s careers were effectively reduced to this one song for the convenience of lazy/computer-led oldies radio.

I think the age thing is important because the current NME is I think viewing this period in part as history rather than something they themselves lived through (since I perhaps lazily assume that most of today’s scribes there were too busy kicking a ball in the street in the nineties to bother with music).

I was kicking a ball in a field for a lot of it.

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) being on the longer list is kinda funny because that's clearly the choice of people mostly too young to have been there at the time.

No Diggity til I die

and then, some Diggity.

"Good Riddance" is hilarious, i would like to think even the worst US publications know better to pick that as the best Green Day song of the 90s

god the 90s sucked.

what are people's thoughts re bittersweet symphony these days? i am a u.s. person so i guess i wasn't overexposed to it. maybe it's corny or whatever but i still think it's great

I like it! Particularly since it doesn't really sound like anything else from that period apart from the lyrical preoccupations - - it kind of cuts through the mix in a given playlist, yknow?

Yeah, I've never thought of it that way.

There was this "Britpop" dj night I used to go to in the mid-nineties (does that concept sound weird to UK ppl or was that a thing there, too?) anyways, it was a long walk from my place to the club and invariably i had to pee by the time i got there. on more than one occasion i walked in while that song was playing. somehow it made even waiting in line for the men's room seem like a cool thing to be doing. also the video of course justifies the existence of music videos

NME thinks there are 78 better songs than "Groove Is In The Heart?!"

― nicky lo-fi

Yeah, that's totally fucking crazy.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy)

yeah the list screams out some kind of pathology at work, i'm just not sure what to properly label it

went with "fade into you" & also considered "unfinished sympathy"

torn between girls and boys/fade into you/bittersweet symphony, girls and boys is so massive it's just hard to argue with. and even though i greatly prefer opal to mazzy star, fade into you is undeniably good

of course the other fifty contains all the real gems

There are totally 78 songs better than Groove Is In The Heart, it's just the NME hasn't picked any of them.

"Jump Around" is overplayed - but it's objectively probably the best song on this list, so I voted for it.

Objective schmobjective.

There's no such thing.

It's totally objective! I imagined I was someone else and asked myself which song was the best, and the answer was still "Jump Around".

i'm hard-pressed to name a song on the list that isn't better than tori fuckin' amos.

if you're someone who privileges jump around above "i missed the bus" then i don't even know what to say to you

say again?

i was being hyperbolic but that song is way better than jump around, which is something from the nineties that like "the heights" i'm still trying to forget

if someone says "word to your moms/ i came to drop bombs" they should probably be on a lot of lists, but best of the nineties is not one of them

"jump around" is fine and good, but yeah top 100 of the decade is pushing it... especially since the list contains no nas and no biggie.

I imagined I was someone else and asked myself which song was the best, and the answer was still "Jump Around".

That's such a weird way of looking at it.

Yeah, it would have been more productive if he imagined he was someone else and asked the other person which song was the best.

I imagined I was my mum and she said she didn't like Jump Around at all.

I imagined I was me and Jump Around was still shit.

I imagined I was God, and it did offend mine ears, and I smoted with a great smite all those responsible for such an abomination.

whoever i imagine i am, "jump around" remains overplayed

Who'd have known House Of Pain were so existential?

"Good Riddance" is hilarious, i would like to think even the worst US publications know better to pick that as the best Green Day song of the 90s

In fairness they put Basket Case a lot higher and that objectively is the best Green Day song of the 90s, by which I mean ever.

Welcome To Paradise is better, you johnny come lately ;-)

2,000 Light Years Away ftw

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