Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1999 poll

Have to admit that I've never heard of these:

Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
The Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)
Console - 14 Zero Zero
Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night

Assuming the Artful Dodger here is not a late in the game hit from the 70s power pop band.

― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:20 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Other than Console (no idea what this is either) these were all ubiquitous int he UK. How anyone can not be familiar with Re-Rewind is amazing to me.

well for one, I think cryptosicko is in Canada

Oizo was also ubiquitous in a bunch of Levi's ads in (at least) the States.

I never really hated Eminem. I liked 'My Name Is' and like marcos, I listened to the MM album a bit but now he just seems a part of a maelstrom of over-entitled pre-9/11 US door-slamming music that just got too big and bloated for its own good.

haha very much so

also: floor sweeping bell-bottom jeans, wallet chains and ridiculously overlong belts and people in black band Ts dancing to nu-metal like they'd been kicked in the crotch (even the girls!)

I must have spent most of 1999 discovering all the acts on Warp Records (Autechre, Aphex) and listening to all those classic rock/pop albums people that age check out (London Calling, Pet Sounds) and also a bunch of metal compilations my friends back home made me. also, I didn't admit it at the time cos I was a 'cool' 'alt' kid who stood at the back of the club rolling his eyes and not talking to anyone, but I had a fair bit of time for Destiny's Child and TLC.

Dude, I had almost your exact '99 in like '98, minus the metal comps.

If Ny Batteri had been the Sigur Ros pick. I'd have gone for that. I didn't listen to them past the first album but they felt like such a unique and special band when they first broke, like something from outer space and unlike any other music from before.

Moby - Porcelain - beautiful song, easily the best tune off of play, i loved this album v much, everytyhing is wrong is the better moby album but great tune. i grew up in the suburbs of cleveland but around 1999 i started spending more time downtown w/ my older siblings and their friends and one of the first times i heard this song was driving around downtown with them and some of their friends in one of the first "new wave" volkswagen bugs and i felt very "future" lmao for a teenager

Love this tune - I think I was 13 when I bought Play, hearing this immediately takes me back to those days, my paper route, Goldeneye 64, Pokemon cards, uncertainty about growing up, etc. I think "Jumbo" by Underworld would be a better choice but it's not on here

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12654612_10205469229390985_3886713803089120157_n.jpg?oh=4bd724e644bc6c15e9735a35c7b582c0&oe=5731E2B8&__gda__=1461982845_19d79cdb6cde3db3c372a9a5e8251149

fucking "my name is"? good god

for me it's "i want it that way" or "caught out there"

"beautiful stranger" is v great too

Nnnjyustlaktheeyoshun

Yup, Canadian boy here, and the radio here was all BSB, Eminem, Limp Bizkit and all that shit at the time.

Also surprised that "Steal My Sunshine" isn't here. One of the few pop singles I liked from that year, along with Blondie's "Maria" (this may have been late '98?) and Tal Bachman's "She's So High."

all three of those were in pazz and jop's top 40 that year

Play was such a weird phenomenon. it's v pretty but Moby is such an obvious hack. though I will still rep for these:
http://www.discogs.com/Moby-Go-Remixes/release/6290276
http://www.discogs.com/Moby-Ambient/master/2667

I don't know why I always incorrectly think Joshua Kadison was a thing around '99. His soul-demolishing AC blandness just seems to fit in better a few years later, I guess.

I will rep hard for Moby's Ambient. I have a sweet playlist of that and all of the other ambient cuts sprinkled throughout his discography. It's what he does/did best imo.

There was that article in Select (or NME) at the time where the writer tried to go a whole week without hearing any song from Play out in the wild. He lasted about a day and a half I think?

Steal My Sunshine, Drinkin In LA (UK hit in 99) and Get What You Give, make up a triumvirate of nice 1999 jams I didn't mind too much that summer.

dEUS have the best Blur song on this list

"What's My Age Again?" is an absolute classic, a ridiculously brilliant pop song, from one of the best albums of all time.

holy fuck i came here to post the exact same me as dog latin posted an hour ago

my good man are you a fellow smoothie

meme* not "me"

I'd forgotten how awesome Deceptacon is

'Deceptacon' remix also super hot.

There's a few pretty good ones here, but this is ODB by far. I think this list is missing most of the great mainstream pop songs released during the year, and I'm surprised there's nothing from "69 Love Songs", though I guess that's not really a singles album.

"The Book of Love" seems to have become something of a standard, so yeah, it's absence is a bit glaring.

Voted for Big Pimpin

great year. voting for "once around the block," one of my all -time favorites.

It kinda annoys me when some of these posts seem to judge the entire year of music based on acclaimedmusic's top 40 singles.

Coffee + TV is the exact opposite of "fucking horrible."

it's my gun-to-head favourite blur song i think. i like how backgrounded coxon's vocals are.

Great stuff:

1 342 Eminem - My Name Is
2 398 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
3 485 TLC - No Scrubs
4 626 The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
7 971 Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money
8 1167 Destiny's Child - Say My Name
9 1259 Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
10 1265 Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
11 1348 Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
14 1504 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
16 1611 Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.
17 1693 Le Tigre - Deceptacon
18 1714 Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
26 2347 Macy Gray - I Try
28 2359 Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
29 2360 The Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)
31 2585 Blink-182 - What's My Age Again?
38 2891 Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty

Madonna, Blink and Dre stand out - voting Madonna.

It kinda annoys me when some of these posts seem to judge the entire year of music based on acclaimedmusic's top 40 singles.

Fair enough, though I really do remember 1999 being an awful year for pop music, and this list contains a few (though by no means all) of the reasons why.

I really do remember 1999 being an awful year for pop music

same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_Music!_3_%28U.S._series%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_Music!_4_%28U.S._series%29

i really really dislike beautiful stranger for some reason.

Are Blink 182 popular on ILM? Curious.

Oh man, I had forgot about fucking "Hey Leonardo."

I never got what was so great about "Beautiful Stranger" either. A throwaway soundtrack cut that has somehow been elevated to classic status--hell, it came in at #20 in our Madonna poll!

FTR, I'm not crazy about this list and agree that '99 was a pretty miserable year for pop music, but there's plenty of other stuff I love from that year (just taking a look real quick, there are some wonderful albums by Basement Jaxx, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Cibo Matto (I know I'm in the minority on that one), Fiona Apple, Jim O'Rourke, Lamb, Mr. Bungle, Olivia Tremor Control, Royal Trux, Sleater-Kinney, Solex, Takako Minekawa, and US Maple). I think I was mostly obsessed with Elephant 6 and GBV in '99, neither of which was hugely represented that year.

xp i'm trying to think of the 60s song it alludes to. Is it Light My Fire? Wiki says it's a Love song, but I'm not sure.

'She Comes In Colors'. Someone mentioned it upthread.

It always did seem like more an allusion or accident than the rip-off some have suggested.

99 could not in any way be described as a miserable year for pop music. This list only like 20 classics.

^^^^

but then if you were paying *any attention whatsoever* to blur in the middle of this golden age of pop, r&b and rap, maybe you would think it was shit

golden age of commercial dance too

There was some great pop music, but this is the stuff I remember dominating '99:

J-Lo
Sugar Ray
Santana
Enrique
Matchbox 20
Third Eye Blind
Shania
'Mambo No. 5'
fucking 'Lullaby'

my overriding memory of pop music in 1999 is the omnipresence of this monstrosity, which I guess was the UK equivalent of Supernatural

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/935/MI0002935001.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

(though maybe if I listened to it now, perhaps I might think that some of it is OK? I don't think I've ever heard the Portishead track. 'Sex Bomb' will always be unforgivable though)

ILX forgot about Forgot About Dre

I love the production/sound of that sigur ros album but the vocals... Not so much. Wish they would spend more time rocking out.

It's a good album. The second half is gorgeous. Never cared for anything that came after.

This is the first track I ever heard by them, and I was always disappointed they never really rocked out as much as this on their other songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VeSIK4NnDc