Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1995

I heard that from some pretty major media outlets. I imagine there could be some libel charges flying around if it wasn't true...

I don't know if Alanis ever commented on it, but Dave sure has.

Oh weird, I knew it was Dave Coulier but somehow, that was always Uncle Jesse in my head. I only realized now that it was Uncle Joey.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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I'll always remember him for Out of Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5kvrZBRgWU

which was undoubtedly when the nickelodeon-cast-member-on-nickelodeon-cast-member cinema bjs were being given in the first place.

almost missed this

"Wonderwall" it is

lots of honorable mentions though. Bush, "Comedown" and Green Day, "When I Come Around" are pretty good

The thing that disturbed me about the Coulier story is that Alanis was still very young when You Oughtta Know came out so she must have been a teenager when she was dating him.

oh that's right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Q55CLrTkg

xxp

ILX needs a You Can't Do That on Television nostalgia thread tbrr

Yeah, like even if she dated him in the early 90s, like it says on wikipedia, she would have been like 16 or 17. The world is gross and sucks.

I am checking out a bunch of these songs I don't recognize by name. So far I don't remember having heard any of them; but that definitely doesn't mean I didn't hear them, since they are precisely the sort of songs I would not have remembered.

You don't ever get to skip the commercials on youtube now? Sonsofbitchesmotherfuckers.

this morning some DJ on a popular ATL radio station said that Breeders "Cannonball" ('93) and Garbage "I'm Only Happy When It Rains" ('95) are the same song. what a dumbass

this should of been the RHCP song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FFtlCtbtC8

"You Oughta Know" has more hooks in it than all these other songs combined.

the whole yoUu youUU youUu OUGHTA KNOE line is balls

"You Oughta Know" has more hooks in it than all these other songs combined.

Come on, "Wonderwall" is all hook.

it's like she's choking on a dick when she sings that

http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp171/deathguardian08/kAlRu.gif

it's so weird, given how alanis turned out, how fucking brilliant "you oughta know"s lyrics are, how viciously and concisely she tells her story

lol some of the worst lyrics ever written matched only by how wretched the delivery is. "in...a thyatrrr" is like a master class in how to be a terrible singer

that said, from this horrible list I actually take "hand in my pocket," a pleasant enough tune despite yet more horrible delivery in the verses. I stab myself in the stomach with a kitchen knife every time I hear her say "I...certainly do" or even think it. fuckin ouch

You're wrong: "All I Really Want" is worse. Much worse. She sounds like a chimp chewing on your earlobe.

I heard "Good" on the radio today and while I never liked it as much as "In The Blood" or "Desperately Wanting" it has kind of grown on me over the years.

I confess before Almighty God and before you my brothers and sisters that I don't really think "Glycerine" is all that bad

Does she know how you told me you'd hold me
Until you died, till you died
But you're still alive

This is some proto-Lavigne, right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAEbgyxDHM

That's a fast poll. Agree with everyone who sees decline from the '94 list. I'm bleah or worse on almost everything here except (blushing) Better Than Ezra's goofy song (which I used to like and had to check to discover it still sounds pretty good) and "Wonderwall," which I've heard too often. So another one for "Good"!

the harmonica 'solos' on "hand in my pocket" and "head over heels" are the biggest pile of crap ever. she actually plays these annoying circular motifs around the same two notes in every fucking tune of her. shit gets on my nerves

"in...a thyatrrr" is like a master class in how to be a terrible singer

OTM

even at age 12 I realized that Alanis was total shite...though to be fair that was after liking the album (one of probably ~15-20 I owned) for a couple months. I remember hearing her perform on Loveline around the time the CD came out and she did a pretty cracking rendition of "YOK".

alanis weird melisma predates shakira, that's for sure

Am I the only one who thought Alanis Morrissette's shtick was kind of a glossy ripoff of Ani DiFranco's style (similar to the Goo Goo Dolls' cut-rate 'Mats vibe)? There were a handful of mainstream artists around this time who I felt were probably signed on the basis of their ability to ape some unsignable quantity or another.

i'm voting for JAR which is a nice lil tune that i'm not sick of

Never forget.

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I'm in throes of grunge nostalgia, wishing for Mad Season's "River of Deceit."

is she perverted like me? would she go down on you in a theater?

― The Reverend, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:56 PM (6 hours ago)

every song on this list is pretty dire; i was a dj at a modern rock radio station at the time, so i was all too familiar with them. Somehow I managed to come away with fond memories involving the Alanis song, so that gets my vote.

clemenza, I'm witchoo. I started listening to that album a little while back to hear "River Of Deceit" and I just kept on going. It's pretty decent! Much better than an Alice In Chains side project had any business being, for sure.

really dismayed that there are people reppin for alanis here

^^^

the way she pronounces "thyatrrr" is hilarious

man i love "when i come around" for some reason

the other songs on this list are hilarious but evocative. i totally remember this year.

"j.a.r." but this is least-diseased-of-all-the-lepers territory here.

I forgot to mention before that "You Oughta' Know" feels, to me, like a series of messages left on an ex's answering machine (while he and his current girlfriend are trying to eat dinner in the next room, obvs).

I wish I could find the chainsaw version of you oughta know. It was dead-on. (and I'm not talking about some Jackyl thing either.)

i voted for "you oughta know" although i was realll suspicious of it when it came out.

ALAN1S

"in...a thyatrrr" is like a master class in how to be a terrible singer

Says the death metal fan.