Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1996

The Butthole Surfers hit Top 40 Airplay. This is 1996 and I must celebrate it.

perspective:

1. Beck: Odelay
2. Fugees: The Score (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
3. Sleater-Kinney: Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
4. DJ Shadow: Endtroducing . . . DJ Shadow (Mo' Wax)
5. Los Lobos: Colossal Head (Warner Bros.)
6. Steve Earle: I Feel Alright (Warner Bros.)
7. Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra)
8. Amy Rigby: Diary of a Mod Housewife (Koch)
9. Tricky: Pre-Millennium Tension (Island)
10. Pulp: Different Class (Island)
11. R.E.M.: New Adventures in Hi-Fi (Warner Bros.)
12. Everything but the Girl: Walking Wounded (Atlantic)
13. Patti Smith: Gone Again (Arista)
14. Wilco: Being There (Reprise)
15. Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter (Blue Note)
16. [File Under Prince]: Emancipation (NRG)
17. Iris DeMent: The Way I Should (Warner Bros.)
18. Me'Shell NdegéOcello: Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick/Reprise)
19. Nearly God: Nearly God (Island)

"Swallowed" is a horror

I really like the sound of "Swallowed", which is probably largely thanks to Albini.

I really think Bush in general would have a far better rep if they could somehow keep Rossdale the riff-maker from Rossdale the singer

Is Pearl Jam into their sensitive-guy phase yet? Add them to the Green Day list.

I really think Bush in general would have a far better rep if they could somehow keep Rossdale the riff-maker from Rossdale the singer

doesn't that sum up most acts from this era?

that entire bush album sounds amazing and yeah it's all albini

xp Looking at the Billboard 100, my most played 1996 song -must- be No Diggity, then Digging on You because I play CrazySexyCool all the time. I can dig it. /groan

the time between this pearl jam song and the first creed song must have been a painful time for some rock fans

Not just Gibby, but Lou Barlow made Top 40 Airplay this year. Their Alternapop Crossover Changed My Life.

Yeah, I totally remember it being really weird that both BS and Sebadoh got top 40 that year.

Folk Implosion, ya mean

Oh! What was it then, Natural One?

I am 90% certain razorblade suitcase and pinkerton came out on the same day

Amazing that Garbage didn't get their first and only #1 until the next calendar year.

What was it then, Natural One?

yup!

Kids Sndtrk iirc

I am 90% certain razorblade suitcase and pinkerton came out on the same day

― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, May 25, 2012 11:26 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a day!

Primitive Radio Gods for me. Never liked 1979, and No Code has some way better tracks.

^^^

finally some alternapop that passes aero's grammar test

I have that PRG song in my head now but I don't now, nor have I ever known the words so it's just nonsensical humming going on. ARGH! Also, I associate this with that White Town song that was big around then even though they don't sound alike.

You know the largely-forgotten '96 alt-radio song I remembered recently and realized is pretty effing tight? Imperial Drag - "Boy Or A Girl".

YOUR WOMAN IS GREAT

Yeah, it's a good song. Was the Sneaker Pimps big hit also around then?

I think of Sneaker Pimps as very early '97.

The Saint soundtrack

btw LimbsKing i believe you said you're new here, and i would like to welcome you and make a friendly suggestion to a) jump into the conversation on your threads more and b) try to space these things out a bit so that we don't have 3 very similar threads at the top of new answers at the same time.

"electronica!"

YOUR WOMAN IS GREAT

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, May 25, 2012 11:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not as great as your mom amirite

Nuh uh, I love it!!

This is helping me pass this horribly slow day at the office before a long weekend quite nicely.

These threads, I mean.

i too have no problem with the board being clogged with 90s nostalgia

hey i have no prob with the threads, i'm just saying that having so many in action at once is both confusing for the people reading them and probably annoying for those that aren't

OK, thanks for the tip. I wasn't sure of the protocol... nor did I think that these would become so popular.

I loooove Your Woman. And 90s nostalgia!

Folk Implosion! I tried to find 'Kingdom of Lies' which was the only song I really knew by them and it wasn't on iTunes. Jerks.

There was a video for Natural One. It had earthworms in it or something along those lines.

have we ever polled The Saint soundtrack?

WE REALLY SHOULD

Your Woman is one of the best songs of the 90s of any genre.

never mind

The Saint: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack

xp Hah!
I found solace in 'Why Would I Want To Die' by Grandaddy. Same mood! :)

here's what was going on at #1 on the R&B chart in 1996

January 6-27 Exhale (Shoop Shoop) Whitney Houston
January 20-27 Before You Walk out of My Life / Like This and Like That Monica
February 3-March2 Not Gon' Cry Mary J. Blige
March 9-April 20 Down Low (Nobody Has to Know) R. Kelly featuring Ronald Isley
April 27 You're the One SWV
May 4 Always Be My Baby Mariah Carey
May 11-June 22 Tha Crossroads Bone Thugs N Harmony
June 29 You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow Toni Braxton
July 6-20 How Do U Want It / California Love 2Pac featuring K-Ci and JoJo / featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman
July 27 You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow Toni Braxton
August 3-10 I Can't Sleep Baby (If I) R. Kelly
August 17-24 Twisted Keith Sweat
August 31-September 14 Hit Me Off New Edition
September 21 Twisted Keith Sweat
September 28-October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 12 Last Night Az Yet
October 19-November 9 No Diggity Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre
November 16-23 Pony Ginuwine
November 30-December 21 Nobody Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage
December 21-28 I Believe I Can Fly R. Kelly

lol @ Modern Rock

OK, thanks for the tip. I wasn't sure of the protocol... nor did I think that these would become so popular.

Protip: any thread that stokes '90s nostalgia is likely to be a popular thread.

haha lol of course

btw The Jackal soundtrack is super underrated

lol @ that being a DJP thread

August 3-10 I Can't Sleep Baby (If I) R. Kelly
August 17-24 Twisted Keith Sweat
August 31-September 14 Hit Me Off New Edition
September 21 Twisted Keith Sweat
September 28-October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 5 If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah
October 12 Last Night Az Yet
October 19-November 9 No Diggity Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre
November 16-23 Pony Ginuwine

an incredible sequence

xp I think Kingdom of Lies was on the A Life LEss Ordinary soundtrack, which naturally I flocked to post Trainspotting/Ewan McGregor fangirling

Wow 90s rap was so much better than the rock but I never gave it a chance at the time! Except I loved Exhale (Shoop) because I bought the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack for that TLC song. I need to find that TLC song!

I probably listen to "Come On Ride That Train" almost as much as any alternative song from '96, tbrr.

wow i had no idea that "If Your Girl Only Knew" peaked before "Pony"

Oasis, "Wonderwall" - for some reason I willfully ignored these guys at the time - too British?
Smashing Pumpkins, "1979" - loved this album
Alanis Morissette, "Ironic" - ...
Oasis, "Champagne Supernova" - long and boring
Cranberries, "Salvation" - don't remember this at all
Tracy Bonham, "Mother, Mother" - Great angsty '90s one hit wonder - better than all Alanis songs combined
Dishwalla, "Counting Blue Cars" - this is when even 13 year old me started to think alt rock had lost its way. Basically Hootie & the Blowfish alternative. It's still in my 90s iTunes playlist though.
Butthole Surfers, "Pepper" - at the time seemed like a good bookend to "She Don't Use Jelly" - nice guitar riff - I prefer King Missile's "Detachable Penis"
Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth..." - does anyone really think this song would have been big if the title were 2 words long?
Pearl Jam, "Who You Are" - dreadful
311, "Down" - I admit to liking this song at the time...
Eels, "Novocaine for the Soul" - forgettable
Sublime, "What I Got" - has aged much better than 311 - harmless
Bush, "Swallowed" - gross

Is it embarrassing to admit I like that song?

Although "Last Stop: This Town" is awesome, too... and probably one of the weirder songs to get Modern Rock airplay. Talking carrot video also strange.