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

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'Loser' is Beck's worst single

no way is 'Lazarus' gonna make it, wtf people

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

'Loser' is like, I dunno, the novelty single for people who think they're too smart for Afroman's 'Because I Got High'. It's so dreary!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

in a tribe of chimpanzees i was a monkey. i love it. i don't know why.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i know - wishful thinking.
i just keep thinking of that part where the trumpets come crashing in with the drums and growling guitars and think "how could it NOT make the list???"

but then i could kinda think that about everything in my list (the part where delacy sings her first lines over the church organ/bass, the part where the first avh bline kicks in after the "sspppppiiinnnnnnnn spppppiiinnnnnnnn suuuugggggggggg-aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" timestretch thingy and all hell breaks loose, etc)

but most of all i just feel sad that NO ONE else voted for "Autobiography". you should all download it when i get the folder put together and shared. i guarantee you'll either love it or you hate music

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to steve m, obv

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh i'm gutted about De'Lacy too - best house track of the 90s

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, Everlong isn't gonna make it. Despite the fact that it's the single greatest rock song of the decade. And you know why? BECAUSE ILM CREAMS OVER UTTERLY LIFELESS SHIT LIKE "SAY MY NAME" AND BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, THAT'S WHY.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

rock...?...UTTERLY LIFELESS SHIT

i think you may be onto something!

:-p

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to 'Everlong' because it was on my Michel Gondry DVD. It was one of those records that seemed to be made by people without soul, for ants. Why are people so scared of living? Stick on 'Sleep The Clock Around'. Open the windows. The future is bright.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i like 'loser', but it didn't make my votes. there was a time i thought beck was just grebt.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always disliked Beck apart from a brief period when Loser still had some novelty value. The full length version of Lazarus is a grebt pop thing but there was no way it was going to go top ten.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT IS THIS? A SONG FOR ANTS?

― Freelance Zoolander (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this? A song for ANTS?

― Zooalba (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

'Everlong' is great because to me it's the point where Grohl finally fessed up to loving Van Halen more than Sub Pop - all fun all the drivetime

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Unlike a lot of the songs in this poll, Loser sounds really limp ten years on.

The Foo Fighters placing above Nirvana would be some kind of victory against rockism, I feel (even if Everlong is the only song of there's a I really love).

I've no idea what's on the nominations list or what is going to make the Top 10. There isn't the unexploded bomb of another Belle and Sebastian song is there?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I might be wrong about the two D.I. songs, MiR, but if history has taught me one thing, it's to never underestimate the vote of the corny indie fuxx.
Corny indie fuxx in 90's poll = people who vote based on "moral values" in US elections

How do you feel about Corny Hip-Hop Fuxx? Because there seem to be a lot of those around.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I am still baffled as to why liking DI makes one a corny indie fuck nowadays.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

There isn't the unexploded bomb of another Belle and Sebastian song is there?

I suspect there may well be, sleeping at bus stops...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The best looking boys are taken
The best looking girls are staying inside..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps not. Judy and the Dream of Horses doesn't seem to have been nominated, so that pretty much counts out my prediction.

There isn't enough balance to this thread. Some of us should start to rant incoherently about how the list isn't indie ENOUGH.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you feel about Corny Hip-Hop Fuxx? Because there seem to be a lot of those around.

there are, aren't there? Their reaction when I say something like "Diamond Princess is a better album than Illmatic" is akin to the reaction of cornie indie fuxx when I say something like "Emma Bunton is better than Wilco". And they really hate Princess Superstar!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW COULD THIS POLL HAVE IGNORED THE PASTELS WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THE PASTELS YOU CRAZY BUNCH OF INDIE HATERS. FUCK YOU FOR HAVING YOUR OWN TASTES, FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR WHAT YOU LIKED AND WHAT'S ALL THIS AMERICAN SHIT DOING HERE?!?!?!?!?!?!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, "from the Dr Dolittle soundtrack" says it all, really.
You are stupid.

So what you're saying is that you would have wanted ppl to vote for stuff *you* like, instead of stuff they like, so *your* tastes would have been better reflected on the list.
Uh-huh.

Um no not at all - actually I was suggesting the opposite, it was a little rhetorical trick, essentially I don't think ANY artist should have five songs in the top 100 singles of the decade, or if it is they certainly should have earned it. I LIKE st. etienne (in fact, I think I voted for "Like a Motorway") yet I think wu-tang's 5 best singles trump st. etiennes, but that point aside, I think its pretty clear where ILM's heart is in this matter.

wtf is Beck's "Loser" doing all the way up here?

(I'm not questioning the results, that this is what many ILMers really believe, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about it - you know, like that election that happened the other day.)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Loser" is still great and it's all because of the slide guitar and the wrong, deranged Spanish.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

You are stupid.
Ha ha ha. Trolled someone after all.

(I'm not questioning the results, that this is what many ILMers really believe, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about it - you know, like that election that happened the other day.)

Sure, but you made it sound as if you thought the collated results should reflect your view of the nineties better. (When the point is that only your own list does that, and the end list reflects no one's)

― Vasquesz, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Not MY view, but a DIVERSE view. I'm not v. familiar w/ d'n'b but I'm glad to see it represented. I didn't vote for Omni trio (i hadn't heard it before) but I'm glad someone did because its a sound that isn't really well-represented here.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I posted this elsewhere, but: I'd guess that most ILM people have far more diverse listening habits now than they did in the 90s - due to age, easier access to music etc, all sorts of things. Just like you didn't vote for Omni Trio cos you hadn't heard it, probably a large amount of people didn't vote for whatever hip-hop tracks missed out because they hadn't heard them - that's definitely true of me.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You're never going to get all sounds represented, even if you just had one track from each genre.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF WHERE THE HELL DID THE TIBETAN FREE-JAZZ PRESENCE GO???????????? DID NONE OF YOU HAVE EARS IN 1994???????

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

But no Grupo Niche?

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also, right now at this very second, the best song from the 90s was "Slip Inside This House".)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

that Dr. Doolittle crap on the aaliyah single cover makes me sad.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cielo de Tambores" is probably better than anything on this list, including all the stuff I haven't heard (which is mostly by three bands anyway).

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

that Dr. Doolittle crap on the aaliyah single cover makes me sad.

It made me happy!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Lex OTM -- I think that's what I was trying to get at earlier in a less succinct form.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(for me personally, as a teenager growing up in rural England, hip-hop may as well not have existed outside of a few singles here and there (I voted for No Diggity, California Love and Got Your Money), it certainly wasn't the ubiquitous pop culture force it is now. it's very irritating in hindsight as it'd have been stellar to grow up with those singles as a soundtrack.)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(Belle and Sebastian put me off living)

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh i'm gutted about De'Lacy too - best house track of the 90s
Allow me to correct this typo,
"Yeh I'm gutted about Eddie Amador's "House Music" too -- best house track of the 90's"

I am still baffled as to why liking DI makes one a corny indie fuck nowadays.
Actually, he was referring to Neutral Milk Hotel at the time.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew Blood Thames OTM

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Cub was tweepop.
cuddlecore/cutecore depending on your location :P

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

(Belle and Sebastian put me off living)

Wow. They really ARE powerful, aren't they?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to make a correction, it was Shreddies not Wheaties that I think I was eating that day.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it wasn't a typo Barry, it was my opinion

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I know :)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean could there BE a more annoying way of pointing out you disagree with someone on something?!?!?!

― Freelance Hivechandler (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF WHERE THE HELL DID THE TIBETAN FREE-JAZZ PRESENCE GO???????????? DID NONE OF YOU HAVE EARS IN 1994???????

haha Not that they're Tiberan free jazz but I think everyone should have voted for the Siberian throat singer and Finnish minimal electronic duo I nominated for the albums list. And, yes, Indian classical music and Japanese improv were robbed.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole frickin' island of Jamaica was robbed!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

poor Buju

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole frickin' island of Malta was robbed!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean could there BE a more annoying way of pointing out you disagree with someone on something?!?!?!
Steve, I wasn't trying to be accusatory or insult your taste. I'm sorry if it appeared as though I was. I just copied your line as a joke and used it to reflect my own tastes. I didn't mean any harm by it.
Again, sorry for the misunderstanding.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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