Ladies and gentlemen....the 1990s ILX SINGLES POLL RESULTS

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"Common People" is like voting for "I Just Called To Say I Loved You".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"Common People" is the Hitler-Esque XTC.

did anybody else vote for "Ice Ice Baby"? It didn't make the OMGWTFLOL list and I'd hate to think it doesn't get a nod in either canon.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Did chuck eddy vote?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean at least "Return Of The Mack" made that one.

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― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I had Ice Ice Baby at 10, if that gives you any cheer - most of mine aren't coming up though, so take from that what you will.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I kinda wish the top 20 was made entirely of Sebadoh tracks.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Sebadoh: The United States version of Pulp.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

hardly! The US version of Pulp was Britney Spears (big fuck-crazy showtunes)

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely Saint Etienne have twenty more tracks?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

and people wondering if it was right to treat the singer like a sex symbol (for different reasons, but still)

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― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't really like pulp.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you hate common people?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Jarvis Cocker in the Missing that used to be on Gt Western Rd in Glasgow. I didn't talk to him though, because I don't especially like Pulp. Fascinating.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I stood Jarvis Cocker up once. I can't actually remember why.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you not especially like Pulp either?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's start a separate thread, "Real-Life Encounters With ILX Poll Finalists"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Well the guy's idea of a pick-up line is "Do you remember the first time?" and "I want to give you babies." I can see why many would shirk.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

those lines would work on indie babes and you know it

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Chesney Hawks likely to show up? I once stood next to Chesney Hawks at a urinal. I've been kicking myself ever since for not taking a peek.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

no, I don't like common people.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

those lines would work on indie babes and you know it

sigh. i know.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe "Return of the Mack" will show up in the top twenty! I'm hopeful.

I definitely regret voting for "Common People" (although it was around 25 or so if I remember correctly) but I had no idea this poll would end with a giant sick brit-pop lovefest/orgy.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Also fuck paranoid android, I like OK Computer OK but that is like my least favorite song on it, what a boring prog-dirge. I can't believe how everyone wets their pants over "ooh it has different movements" boring boring all kinds of boring.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's start a separate thread, "Real-Life Encounters With ILX Poll Finalists"

B-b-but i didn't encounter Jarvis. I stood him up! (Yes, I do like Pulp, but I had somewhere else to be and he was late. This, I should point out, was for an interview and not for a date).

I hate that people are regretting voting for things just because other people did. Common People is going to win because lots of people liked it. Deal with it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"I definitely regret voting for "Common People" (although it was around 25 or so if I remember correctly) but I had no idea this poll would end with a giant sick brit-pop lovefest/orgy."

Oh come on people were predicting that "Common People" would be #1 from like the get go.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

This poll is balanced pretty well I think.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

had no idea this poll would end with a giant sick brit-pop lovefest/orgy.

What? We've got the top 20 still to go and the only track you could call Britpop is 'Common People'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Not that we know the top 20 - but what else is likely to be there?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link

albums poll giveaway:

MENSWEAR - "Nuisance" (2352 points, 76 votes, 15 first place votes)

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Fuck "Shine" it's "Smashing Young Man" love all the way

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

MENSWEAR - "Nuisance" (2352 points, 76 votes, 15 first place votes)
I think you're bluffing.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

What is 'Shine', btw?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Terrible.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

btw, i think i've got everything listed here so far and would be more than happy to do a CDR700 kinda thing to share on slsk

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh come on people were predicting that "Common People" would be #1 from like the get go.

Yeah obviously and I don't really have any problem with that I LIKE it its a great song but the whole st. etienne - pulp - pet shop boys thing has left a great distaste in my mouth.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

quick recap, mainly cos i'm beginning to assmeble the tracks into a folder...

100.- PALACE MUSIC - "New Partner",
AIR - "All I Need"
99.- MADONNA - "Deeper and Deeper",
TEENAGE FANCLUB - "The Concept"
97.- WU-TANG CLAN - "Shame On A Nigga"
96.- BEASTIE BOYS - "Intergalactic"
95.- MADONNA - "Ray of Light"
94.- CORNERSHOP - "Brimful of Asha"
92.- BJORK - "Human Behaviour",
ORBITAL - "Belfast"
91.- ISOLEE - "Beau Mot Plage"
90.- ARAB STRAP - "The First Big Weekend"
89.- NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - "Hypnotize"
88.- THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - "The Luckiest Guy On the Lower East Side"
87.- PAVEMENT - "Shady Lane"
86.- SAINT ETIENNE - "Like A Motorway"
85.- SLOWDIVE - "Alison"
83.- LAMB - "Gorecki",
APHEX TWIN - "Girl/Boy Song"
81.- BLUR - "Song 2",
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - "Humpty Dance"
79.- DE LA SOUL - "A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays",
MASSIVE ATTACK - "Angel"
78.- THE PIXIES - "Alec Eiffel"
77.- EMINEM - "My Name Is"
76.- DESTINY'S CHILD - "Say My Name"
75.- NAUGHTY BY NATURE - "O.P.P."
74.- BASEMENT JAXX - "Rendez-Vu"
73.- OASIS - "Live Forever"
72.- MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "When You Sleep"
71.- THE CURE - "Pictures of You"
70.- NOTORIOUS B.I.G. featuring PUFF DADDY and MASE - "Mo Money, Mo Problems"
69.- SAINT ETIENNE - "Avenue"
68.- SAINT ETIENNE - "You're In A Bad Way"
67.- SAINT ETIENNE - "Nothing Can Stop Us"
66.- JEFF BUCKLEY - "Hallelujah"
65.- PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"
64.- ORBITAL - "Halcyon"
63.- LL COOL J - "Mama Said Knock You Out"
62.- MISSY ELLIOTT - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
61.- HAPPY MONDAYS - "Kinky Afro"
60.- WU-TANG CLAN - "C.R.E.A.M."
59.- BJORK - "Joga"
58.- PULP - "This Is Hardcore"
57.- TLC - "Creep"
56.- THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - "Cherub Rock"
55.- UNDERWORLD - "Cowgirl"
54.- THE KLF - "Last Train To Trancentral"
53.- PORTISHEAD - "Sour Times"
52.- MADONNA - "Vogue"
51.- MOBB DEEP - "Shook Ones Pt. II"
50.- PULP - "Do You Remember the First Time?"
49.- MAZZY STAR - "Fade Into You"
47.- AALIYAH - "One In A Million"
WHITE TOWN - "Your Woman"
46.- MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "To Here Knows When"
45.- BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - "Stars of Track and Field"
44.- R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"
43.- THE ORB - "Little Fluffy Clouds"
42.- THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - "100,000 Fireflies"
40.- BLUR - "Coffee and TV"
ICE CUBE - "It Was A Good Day"
39.- THE KLF (FEATURING TAMMY WYNETTE) - "Justified and Ancient"
38.- PULP - "Babies"
37.- PET SHOP BOYS - "Can You Forgive Her?"
36.- OMNI TRIO - "Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)"
35.- THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - "Juicy"
34.- NEW RADICALS - "You Get What You Give"
33.- PET SHOP BOYS - "Being Boring"
32.- PULP - "Disco 2000"
30.- FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - "Papua New Guinea"
BRITNEY SPEARS - "Baby One More Time"
29.- OL' DIRTY BASTARD (FEATURING KELIS) - "Got Your Money"
28.- UNDERWORLD - "Born Slippy NUXX"
27.- TRICKY - "Black Steel"
26.- SAINT ETIENNE - "He's On the Phone"
25.- 2PAC - "California Love"
24.- DEPECHE MODE - "Enjoy the Silence"
23.- DAFT PUNK - "Da Funk"
22.- THE CARDIGANS - "Lovefool"
21.- BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - "The State I Am In"

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Those caps are hard to read.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, the Pet Shop Boys have really bossed this poll. I didn't realise they were what you meant by Britpop. I'm sure they'd be thrilled!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link

As I said before, the Top 20 is still to come and it doesn't look like they'll be any bleeding Britpop in it at all, except 'Common People'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

How bout "british popular music from the early 90s that didn't make it in the U.S. and that many of us think is overrepresented on this poll."

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry for so many of us being British, again.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I accept no apologies.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Er, enough people voted for it, so how does that make it over-represented?

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― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Over 1/4 of the music on this poll so far is music made by fairly crappy fey british pop/schmindie bands (I didn't even count MBV or Slowdive or various trip-hop acts.) I think it's fair to say to that thread of popular music is overrepresented on this poll, Alba.

Hey, you've been upbraiding us for the election of Bush over on ILE (which is baffling to me since you guys have Blair.) We can give you a little shit about how crappy this poll is turning out.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Correction to my post above. It = them = tracks you don't like but other people do

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― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Etienne/Pulp/PSB are not crappy!

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

it's amazing the sense of entitlement some people have towards a public forum.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I just don't see the point of bringing nationality into it. It's ridiculous, given the British origins of ILM. There's no such thing as an objective list. I wouldn't mind so much if people were moaning about the lack of Senegalese music in the list, but when it just seems to come down to 'there should be even more American stuff', well it's just a bit daft.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

See, I could understand if people complained about the proportion of "britpop" in the nominations, but this is what people voted for out of a very very long list with plenty non-PSB/Pulp/Saint Etienne on it. You don't like the results, tough, it's still a representation of what people voted for.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

This is getting stupid ... there's just as much mid->late 90's American hip-hop on the list (with more to come, as opposed to the mid-90's "fey British pop/schmindie bands) and I don't hear anyone saying that hip-hop is overrepresented.

Granted, there are more hip-hop aritsts represented ... this is a different issue, however.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link

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