Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1996

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I know someone who used to wear this on occasion and if you look really quickly it looks like it says dishwalla.

xxpost I'd like to hear more about this..."psychology" you speak of. Sounds fascinating, and well within the bounds of this particular discussion.

Damn, this whole time I thought I was writing top 100 lists out of boredom.

really cracking up picturing a hardcore dj shadow fan getting super indignant that people think he's into dishwalla

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if it was boring you wouldn't do it all the time

nono I do it to kill boredom. Or at least thats what I thought until today.

you do things 'out of boredom' to entertain yourself or occupy your time, not to be more bored, you pompous dingbat

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making top 100 lists is hardly in the same vein as crossword puzzles and suduko

plus, people don't go around posting their solved suduko puzzles

it would be if people posted their completed sudokos to the internet all proud

(lol)

why not.. i think it's fun. sudoko is fun too. both are good ways to kill time at lame office jobs.

theres no law that says you have to publicly display a top 100 list.

i don't post my stupid lists to ilx much because yeah i hate to come off all 'look at me!' but since i had just done one relevant to this thread the other day, and people were doing similar 'other good songs from this year that didn't hit #1' lists on the other threads in this serious, i said what the hell, why not risk the scorn of the world's dumbest armchair psychologist.

serious=series

1. wonderwall
2. 1979
3. champagne supernover

disappointed i couldn't vote green day in this one

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

no shots at anyone, obv, but there is something getting a little unnervering about the onion-style I CONSUME SO MUCH POP CULTURE OM NOM NOM going around ILX and elsewhere. That site iCheckMovies is a little weird when I get updates about how many movies my friends torrented that night.

I know this is mad lol coming from the guy who reviews 1000 records in one year, but we're getting into a weird media-hoarding era where there's like imaginary bonus points awarded to the people who have watched/heard/seen the most media; and its more about what you've consumed than if you have actual thoughts about it... I think GRANTLAND MAD MEN POWER RANKINGS are like another indicator of something similar, where its like, you cant just enjoy and think about a TV show anymore, you have to get super granular about everything or youre doing it rong.

i dunno, even as a serial listmaker myself, its all starting to give me anxiety

I know this is mad lol coming from the guy who reviews 1000 records in one year

it is, yes.

prolly put dishwalla fourth and, uh, alanis fifth? this one is kinda garbage

eels, dude, what the fuck is wrong w u.

i don't like that song

there is something getting a little unnervering about the onion-style I CONSUME SO MUCH POP CULTURE OM NOM NOM going around ILX

Dude, have you been looking at some other ILX all these years?

I'm disappointing that you think my armchair psychology comes from a place of scorn, somedude
I thought we could discuss this like adults

94 & 95 kick 96's ass imo

I know this is mad lol coming from the guy who reviews 1000 records in one year, but we're getting into a weird media-hoarding era where there's like imaginary bonus points awarded to the people who have watched/heard/seen the most media; and its more about what you've consumed than if you have actual thoughts about it

But this is a little strawman-y wrt ILX.

i like the 2nd Eels album alright, but "Novacane For The Soul" is just kinda cheesy imo and croup pretty much ruined the band for me after pointing out how much the singer sounds like Collective Soul and/or the "How Do You Talk To An Angel" guy

I ain't got no problem with yer lists, some dude, fwiw. I'm all about, "Hey, we're discussing (narrowly specific topic), but here's (possibly-forgotten examples of things that lie just outside the bounds of this narrowly specific topic)." That tendency sure as hell has a lot more relevance to a thread than, for example, psychoanalyzing people who engage in same.

no lorax is right, i was just waiting for the flimsiest pretense to whip out my list and show everyone how big it is

I would hardly equate music elitism to a pissing contest. You would rarely ever find a nerd or hipster engaging in something so plebian.

I did gloss over another reason why someone would write and publish top 100 lists - being OCD and bored - a much less interesting diagnosis to discuss than vane or attention/approval-seeking (something there certainly isn't a lack of in the hipster community).

The result of hipster publications earnestly tooting these lists is always the same though - elitism at its finest.

there's no inherent elitism to sharing an opinion

CaptainLorax, if you're dizzy or feeling at all nauseated, you may have incurred a head injury of which you are unaware. I would advise that you seek medical attention for what might be a serious concussion before returning to ILX.

ok this thread got me to listen to 1979 for the first time in years. it's a really beautiful song, i wish i had remembered this earlier

the rest of these have not aged well at all

why have i not been posting to these threads more. this is my LIFE man.

pepper owns

I know this is mad lol coming from the guy who reviews 1000 records in one year, but we're getting into a weird media-hoarding era where there's like imaginary bonus points awarded to the people who have watched/heard/seen the most media; and its more about what you've consumed than if you have actual thoughts about it... I think GRANTLAND MAD MEN POWER RANKINGS are like another indicator of something similar, where its like, you cant just enjoy and think about a TV show anymore, you have to get super granular about everything or youre doing it rong.

i dunno, even as a serial listmaker myself, its all starting to give me anxiety

two points 1) i've heard this sentiment in nerddom/critdom since the 90s 2) professional crits are so through the looking glass when it comes to viewing/listening habits that i wish they wouldn't indulge in a lot of you/we talk on the subject, esp when it's the guy who reviews 1000 records in one year

2) professional crits are so through the looking glass when it comes to viewing/listening habits that i wish they wouldn't indulge in a lot of you/we talk on the subject

banner this at the top of every ile/ilm thread

going to the grocery store now -- what should be on my list?

I would hardly equate music elitism to a pissing contest. You would rarely ever find a nerd or hipster engaging in something so plebian.

you don't actually know any nerds or hipsters, do you

i'm not sure lorax knows any humans

no shots at anyone, obv, but there is something getting a little unnervering about the onion-style I CONSUME SO MUCH POP CULTURE OM NOM NOM going around ILX and elsewhere. That site iCheckMovies is a little weird when I get updates about how many movies my friends torrented that night.

a friend and I have been talking for years about a project, it'd have to last five years at least to have any meaning, where you only listen to one album a year. Not just once - daily, maybe, maybe several times a day, maybe only once or twice a week, but just one album. You get to pick, it can be something new that you hold out for the release in March or whatever, or you can go with something you either already like or have been curious about. But one. That is your listening for that year.

that sounds like torture to me. i'd rather abstain from music entirely that be stuck with the same thing over and over.

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Yeah, I was gonna say. Torturous. OTOH, I've been doing pretty well with only really listening to a small handful of new albums for the last several years. Between severely diminishing returns and a wealth of old stuff I still haven't properly dug into, I don't feel like I'm missing out at all.

But one. That is your listening for that year.

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Mac Miller is ugly as fuck

Late '95 into '96 was my breakthrough era for discovering alt-rock radio and broadening my tastes beyond Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan....all of whom I still spin more regularly than anything in this list.

Oasis, "Wonderwall" - - - this is easily the best song here but i won't vote for it, god did i hear this thing too many times
Smashing Pumpkins, "1979" - - - very good but never quite got the giganto-praise it got, there are way better songs on this album
Alanis Morissette, "Ironic" - - - good, again not my favorite on JLP but don't mind hearing it, the chorus is just a monster
Oasis, "Champagne Supernova" - - - along with "Triumph" one of the first things that i sat watching MTV hoping they'd play it again
Cranberries, "Salvation" - - - blergh, not the worst thing but the bleating vocal is quite distracting
Tracy Bonham, "Mother, Mother" - - - don't remember
Dishwalla, "Counting Blue Cars" - - - i think i liked this the first 10 or so times i heard it, then soured instantly into deep dislike
Butthole Surfers, "Pepper" - - - okay. kind of coasting on goodwill towards the band at this point. wow is that a dated vocal effect.
Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth..." - - - dated vocal effects strike again. great sample though.
Pearl Jam, "Who You Are" - - - a grower, solid album track on a solid album, bizarre idea about a single though. 99x went with "red mosquito."
311, "Down" - - - ha, this might've been the first new song to make me sit up and take notice that year, god knows why. "change the channel whenever that wack show the real world's on." i think i'm voting for this although it's no "do you right."
Eels, "Novocaine for the Soul" - - - this is good.
Sublime, "What I Got" - - - separate from how annoying this band and its fans were, this is a good song. i remember being much more fond of an alternate mix or live-in-the-studio version or something that got played a lot more, originally, and has now vanished, am i making this up?
Bush, "Swallowed" - - - bad. almost weird al level parody of sludgy, plodding grunge rock. "greedy fly" or "cold contagious" please.

but yeah would have obviously voted for "bulls on parade" had it made #1

Am I remembering correctly that Dishwalla's "It's Going To Take Some Time This Time" off of If I Were A Carpenter got a good bit of radio play before "Counting Blue Cars" did? At any rate, it was a much better song. Maybe because it wasn't their song.

Sublime, "What I Got" - - - separate from how annoying this band and its fans were, this is a good song. i remember being much more fond of an alternate mix or live-in-the-studio version or something that got played a lot more, originally, and has now vanished, am i making this up?

yeah the drum machine-driven David Kahne mix was the one that was a hit, but some stations also played "What I Got (Reprise)" from the end of the album, which was produced by Paul Leary from the Bhole Surfers and has some of his distinctive WOOOOOOP guitar licks.

I think i might cut J0rdan out of my life forever for saying Dishwalla is better than eels