"Vibin'", sort of?
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
also, "I Remember" sort of?
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
also "Can't Let Her Go"
the big problem was that in the wake of "End of the Road", no one gave a shit about their uptempo numbers, which encouraged them to sink deeper and deeper into the morass of treacly bullshit that led to "A Song For Mama"
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
abc > b2m
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
bbd > everything
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
all your alt-rock threads are belong to Michael Bivins
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I lost interest in Boys II Men so quickly after they morphed into the Mawkish Slow Jam All-Star Revue.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
ABC >>> ABC
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
1995 through early '97 were my period of exile from the pop charts. I started paying attention again when boy bands and Hanson ruled.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I did not realize BIIM had a 2000 album called Nathan Michael Shawn Wanya
also didn't realize one of the dudes in BIIM was named Wanya
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
i knew that but it took me like 15 years to realize his name wasn't 'wayna'
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
wanya was the tenor with the really BIG voice iirc
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
i drive past wayna's house sometimes
it's big
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
he should've cut a solo single called "Wanyabe."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
or a single called "Lemme Holla At Ya" which is just the screaming from the end of "One Sweet Day" looped for 5 minutes
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Water Runs Dry" is a rad song fuiud
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Water Runs Dry" only seems rad because it's surrounded in their catalog by "One Sweet Day", "A Song For Mama", "On Bended Knee", "4 Seasons of Loneliness" and two uptempo numbers that no one ever heard besides the people who bought Evolution
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Other notable '94 alt songs:
I think I posted this somewhere else, but I recently made a Spotify playlist of songs from 1994 that's dominated by alt-rock stuff (just because it's what I was into at the time).
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing the video of "Longview" for the first time was one of my biggest WTF moments to that point, Green Day having been this squirrelly little punk band that breezed through my hometown once a year or so. A 7" band outside of the grunge scene on MTV…. it just seems so normal now.
― pplains, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Just drank a 40 of Mickey's and passed out in front of the NES. Thanks for the playlist, jaymc.
― pplains, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is probably the last year radio music such as this had any sway on me. I like most everything here.
― akm, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, not to sound like an old man, but same here.
I think though that along with my age, there came this toppling effect, the way Billboard organized its music charts and the way radio stations played music, right around this time. This was definitely the last time I could turn on the radio to a station with a current set list and recognize the songs.
― pplains, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
in the mid-90s boyz ii men were neck and neck with coolio for my favorite musical act but my parents wouldn't buy me the latter's tapes
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I wish ILX had, like, cross-polling fuctionality so that when we did these mid-'90s alt music polls we could also poll for voters' ages. I can certainly imagine where the spike would be in the latter results.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
One of my early, abortive attempts to get into rap music involved buying the 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New) CD single.
― how's life, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
also this is their best non-"motownphilly" upbeat single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbdCzXtb6o
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol i love the thread this direction has taken but rev you should listen to and rank the poll options
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
i voted for "longview"
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
i bought the god single, and monster, and no need to argue, but i think i like einstein on the beach best out of all of them
i still consistently loathe beck
― fauxmarc, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
i'd take 4-6 of the songs on the list of non-#1s you posted over any of the poll options i know tho
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
i think i recorded the more you ignore me video
― fauxmarc, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
i was like "how has no one mentioned 'thank you'" and then rev came through
thank you rev
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
All apologies.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if younger people who've basically only been exposed to lame, half-assed Scientologist Beck realize that he was actually pretty rad at one time.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
i thought he was rad when i was a little 14 y.o. shithead, realized he was lame before i realized he was a clam
― tell peeta my fire dress is draggin on the floor (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
i like some beck but i've always hated "loser"
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
give me any of the hits off odelay or even fucking "sexx laws"
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Guero is still my favorite album by him
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
"God" is probably the song here that suffers most in comparison to the real biggest hit from its parent album, "Cornflake Girl," but it's still pretty fantastic, deserves more love itt
god >>>>> cornflake girl. feels both more direct and more interesting.
pretty awesome carl craig remixes too
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
although "cornflake girl" is probably my least favourite 90s tori amos single
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh no wait i forgot "past the mission" happened. 2nd least fav.
never trust cultists re: the hits
― tell peeta my fire dress is draggin on the floor (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
heh keith caulfield from billboard just posted the top 10 of the hot 100 this week in '94 to his twitter: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1994-05-21#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1994-05-21
― tell peeta my fire dress is draggin on the floor (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
the Tevin Campbell song isn't bad.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
'90s tori singles ranked
hey jupiterprofessional widowwinterraspberry swirlblisssilent all these yearssparkcaught a lite sneeze1000 oceanscruelin the springtime of his voodooglory of the 80scrucifygodpretty good yearconcertinajackie's strengthtalulachinacornflake girlpast the mission
maybe i will do a poll of these at some point
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say at the very least that "Caught A Lite Sneeze" should be higher up, but not a bad ranking overall.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know why I thought "Putting The Damage On" was a single, but it apparently wasn't. That would've been top 5.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
This list has my favorite Nirvana song (All Apologies), my favorite Green Day song (Longview), very close calls for REM, Pearl Jam and Gin Blossoms (though 'Kenneth' is prolley tied w/ Losing My Religion for second favorite REM single), plus my first Morrissey song, and "Mmm mmm mmm mmm" which I hadn't thought about in years until just recently, and sounds fucking amazing. 94 is not quite my favorite year in music (though it is for movies) but its likely to have been my favorite year to have lived through, music-wise.
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Loser" > "All Apologies" > "About a Girl" (pretending this is the original version) > "Basket Case" > "Come Out and Play" > "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" > "Into Your Arms"
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
loser is better than absolutely nothing.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link