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

SLOWDIVE - "Alison" (254 points, 15 votes)

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I've been told for years to get the above album that this song is on, mostly for this song in particular...

LAMB - "Gorecki" (259 points, 15 votes, 1 first place)

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"Gorecki"...it was blatantly obvious that that song is brilliant, wonderful, indispensible, etc. -- Dan Perry

this morning on my md walkman i found myself paying a lot of attention to the words to Lamb's Gorecki, and tho it gets a lot of Unfinished-Sympathy-knock-off criticism, i can't think of a more beautiful and affective love song.

-- Alan Trewartha

APHEX TWIN - "Girl/Boy Song" (259 points, 18 votes)

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OPO: Richard D James

girl/boy
-- jess (dubplatestyl...), February 4th, 2003.

i second girl/boy song
-- PMK

Girl/Boy thirded.
-- Matt DC

i fourth girl/boy
-- dyson

"Gorecki" is from Lamb's self-titled debut as pictured below, and "Girl/Boy Song" is from Aphex Twin's Richard D. James album.

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BLUR - "Song 2" (262 points, 17 votes, 1 first place)

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The video for "Song 2" features Damon being satisfyingly hurled against a wall...

-- Ally

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - "Humpty Dance" (262 points, 14 votes)

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Certainly "The Humpty Dance" is one of the finest singles of all time, no?

-- J0hn Darn1elle

1. Wu-Tang/Beastie Boys/Madonna/Cornershop should be 96/95/94/93 -- I think you may have caught your mistake by the time you got to 92, though, so this is just an FYI.

2. I don't know how many ties are left in the rest of the chart, but how would you feel about breaking them by favoring the track with more overall votes? It looks like you may have already taken this into consideration with the order you placed them in, actually. But I'd like that better, since ties always makes it seem like the sample size is too small.

SORRY! You're right -- I was forgetting that there were 101 songs!

tonight, 80-61
Monday, 60-41
Tuesday, 40-31
Wednesday, 30-21
Thursday, 20-11
Friday, TEH TOP TEN

the albums will begin the following Friday, if not sooner.

Sunday: 60-51
Monday: 50-41
etc

I had "Shame on a Nigga" at #2, actually.

DE LA SOUL - "A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays" (268 points, 17 votes)

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I could go on and on about how much i love the youth remix of 'saturdays' - they play it at 'funkademia' in manchester evry saturday and it's so popular they *turn down the vocals* durin the chorus so evry1 can sing along...

- piscesboy

MASSIVE ATTACK - "Angel" (268 points, 19 votes)

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"Angel" is slow motion apocalypse. It's like the bomb first drops, then goes off, then has to fight its way through, indeed, tar or something similar.

- Ned Raggett

THE PIXIES - "Alec Eiffel" (269 pts, 22 votes)

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I dont care what anyone else says, it can only be 'Alec Eiffel'. Someone here once said that there are more amazing ideas within these 3 minutes than in many a band's entire output. (Including the Pixies? Hahaha...!) I hope it plays in the club I'm going to later tonight, because I feel like dancing - no, flying! - on that song so much right now...

- Simon

EMINEM - "My Name Is" (271 points, 21 votes)

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Slim Shady does not give a fuck what I think.

- David Sim

DESTINY'S CHILD - "Say My Name" (272 points, 19 votes)

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Is there a DC track more perfect and succinct than this? Maybe, but they're not here and this is. And right now it sounds like the best thing they ever did. It's pretty much Beyonce's show as usual and typically her strength is not really deployed until the end - the music not really rising with her though, preferring to remain in it's regimented but bounceable sync-pop groove, comfortable as it is. As pure Summery modern pop with soul tones it's flawless in conception and execution.

-- the neurotic awakening of s

Taken from comments on the '00s poll, this song knows not the boundaries of millenia.

NAUGHTY BY NATURE - "O.P.P." (276 points, 14 votes)

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One band that I think history's given a rough deal to is Naughty By Nature. I still think that their biggest trick- using lyrical themes to contrast their always-so-damn-obvious samples, not as a gesture of subversion per se, but to give the songs some *conflict*- is pure genius. It's there on "O.P.P." of course, the exuberant innocence of The Jackson Five vs. the sly evil of the subject matter...

- Daniel_Rf

BASEMENT JAXX - "Rendez-Vu" (278 points, 18 votes)

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"'Rendez-Vu' = immediate satisfaction."

- Eric H

OASIS - "Live Forever" (282 points, 16 votes)

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"I finally brought myself to buy Definitely Maybe today for the first time, guiltlessly, while reminiscing 'bout those wonderful times once upon a time ago, back in the fifth grade. IT IS STILL BRILLIANT. They will live forever, a pox on you!"

-- Francis Watlington

xpost - thanks Gear.

Hiphop had been a feature of the UK charts from Grandmaster Flash onwards (OK, there was a bit of a break in the mid 80s). There were *mad* scenes in '88 when Public Enemy and Run DMC toured. And as for the music press, hiphop albums had a lot of critical stock from 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show' winning the NME 87 poll onwards. UK Hip Hop was never that big, so there wasn't the feeling that homegrown music scenes can create, but I guess for large parts of the USA, the consumers of the music are far culturally removed from the creators too.

Actually yeah - the original 'In the 90s, dance music was to the UK what hiphop was to the US' statement was more about creators than consumers, I think.

Alba, Rapper's Delight was a huge hit well before Grandmaster Flash.

I mentioned the various club comps because I believe they were the biggest cash cows (and chart successes) of the UK club scene, but if I'm way off in that assumption then someone please clarify.

I don't know enough about USA charts to comment on MindInRewind's comparison. Certainly there was a lot of dance in the charts here, though obv. daytime radio tended towards the poppier stuff.