it's a total fantasy rip and it still slaps
xp
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
I thought it wsd best songs also Shania is great gtf
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
Yeah I love that Shania song.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
when i was a 9-year-old in 1999, i have to say my least favorite one of these was cher's 'believe,' but i've come around on that one a bit. not to liking it, but to appreciating it as cheese and a pretty good choice for karaoke.
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
it's also kinda mind-boggling how huge that song was, considering cher hadn't topped the charts since 1973.
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
I just relistened to "Believe" and holy cow it does not sound as good as I remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMY0k0-D9JQ
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
The "Dance!" moment in the sunscreen song is as good a contender for corniness circa '99 as any.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
How good did you remember it sounding?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
A low moment in my psychic history was hearing "Believe" for the first time and thinking "it's too bad Cher could never have a hit today, even when she's trying really really hard to." Not only was I wrong, but then I had to listen to the song day in, day out for a half-year.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
After some thought I really don't see how this can't be "Summer Girls" - just excruciating to listen to, then & now.
this was my first thought, there's something so cynical about that song, the first boy band tune that felt like a straight cash-in
but then I saw "God Must've Spent a Little More Time on You" which must've come out the summer of '99 because I remember that tune being #1 on TRL like every single day...corniness is basically that tune's only trait. it sounds like something that would've come from one of those manufactured bands on the Disney channel, with all those little *doink* noises everywhere
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
i love "believe"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
also this was the year I turned 13 so the videos for "What's It Gonna Be?", "That Don't Impress Me Much", and to a lesser extent "Steal My Sunshine" were iconic to me for a different reason
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Just learned that the Buffy episode that clowns so hard on Believe was released a week before the single even came out.
https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Living_Conditions October 12, 1999https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song) October 19, 1998
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Oh fuck. nevermind
lol
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
Mobb Deep - "Quiet Storm" is great and weirdly out of character for this list
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
OK lol I actually pressed play on frogbs's video.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
xp Deeply out of character.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
No Sandstorm no credibility.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
believe is amazing
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
voting for red hot chili peppers, the corniest artists itt
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
they might be, but i don't think "scar tissue" is v corny
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
'Thong Song' is the corniest (if 'corny' means "closest to '99 and the song got stuck in '99").
Len and TLC are the best.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
there was something weird going on with the music videos at the time, I remember watching a ton of them on MTV back then and like half of them were set on some crazy spaceship with the singers appearing in skintight outfits straight out of the original Star Trek. maybe it was just a side effect of CGI getting a little better (lmao) but I'm kind of curious how this started. was it Michael Jackson?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
len, juvenile, new radicals, and sisqo are all timers for me
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
yah those plus odb and fiona are my faves
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
frogbs, i mean, it was the era of X-Files, Y2k tension, the Matrix, WTO protests, disillusionment with govt w/r/t Lewinsky stuff, conspiracy theory, David Icke, Behold a Pale Horse... it's not a stretch that music videos are gonna look that way
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
while you are considering what to vote for:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdKTx-8EvtM
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:28 (four years ago) link
Scar Tissue is corny af and it's only the presence of Tender than prevented me from voting for it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
most of these songs are really good but as a whole this list is basic as fuck so who the fuck cares
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
1. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time2. TLC - No Scrubs3. Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker ft. Jay-Z4. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way5. Len - Steal My Sunshine
Breaking some new ground with this unusual yet intriguing top 5.
Baby One More Time is from 1998.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
Can't wait for their top 40 albums of 1999 topped by "Now 3" and "Now 2."
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
their album list is a bit more interesting
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
citizen king - better days reminds me of a mix cd they gave out at aeropostale if you bought enough cargo shorts and puka shell necklaces or something. wish i could find a tracklist. think "hooch" by everything was on there. the blue monday cover by orgy was definitely on there.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
'steal my sunshine' dude employs a weird loud whisper affectation that is my most hated vocal performance ever. so voting for that.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
its fun to imitate though
there was a time when I was kinda curious what other songs by Len sounded like. not anymore, oh well
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
I checked out the album once, I think the rest of the tracks were mainly skate-punk or something like that.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
ftr "Heartbreaker" fucking sucks
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
'steal my sunshine' dude employs a weird loud whisper affectation that is my most hated vocal performance ever. so voting for that.― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:21 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:21 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is soooooo otm, such an awful delivery that ruins an otherwise beautiful song.
anyone have an 'instrumental' version that just cuts his vox?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
it's the b-side on the "california realin' remix" single
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
What was that thread, from a year or so back, where we were obsessing over a sub-genre of "pop songs with breakbeats" from this era?
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
'scar tissue' makes me squirm. the lyrics are embarrassing, dave matthews-grade j/o. the narrative behind the album and rhcp's ascent to wise rock survivors makes me want to barf. rhcp is like the ultimate example of the kind of band that a certain person will be like 'this band is good and i will listen to them, most of my musical opinions are contrarian and turgid' about. their boring respectability now is just so goddamn mindless considering their songs have never not been like 80% repellent with lyrics that can't stay away from being gross and can't say anything interesting or appealing even in their "mature" phase. i mean feel free to point to counter-examples anyone, i will nod and appreciate your deep listening drive and generosity of spirit, but i'm not going to follow you there lol.
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
feel like hating rhcp is way more acceptable than liking them
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
tbf most of my musical opinions are contrarian and turgid
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
xp haha i think that depends a lot on where a person lives
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Rhcp, green day, and foo fighters all feel like the last generation that worked at rock inc. before the company went outta business so they get remembered as members of The Greats simply by outliving everyone
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
The girl at the student house next to mine played Californication on repeat for the entire summer of 2000, and very loud too, I hate that fucking album more than I can say
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
very loud too
this is just the natural volume of californication
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
I've read quite a bit about it being the ultimate example of a victim of the loudness wars, doesn't make me hate it any less tbh.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link