Top 100 Songs of the 90s

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I saw this on VH1. Well, I saw 20 seconds of it, I turned off when Ray of Light by Madonna and Aerosmith turned up in the Top 20. So let's do a PROPER Top 100 songs of the 90s (singles only) all total quality. I'll kick off the first two, right?

100) Insomniac - Echobelly
99) Inbetweener - Sleeper

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

98) saint etienne-"join our club"

― justin (Justin M), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

97) If You'll Be Mine - Babybird
96) Frog Princess - Divine Comedy

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

Aye, "Ray Of Light" should definitely be top ten rather than just top 20.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

You fucking fuck.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

95) Oh Yeah - Ash

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

Die of plague.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

Please let C-Man get to #1 by himself, this is funny.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

95) Being Brave - Menswe@r
94) Rocks - Primal Scream

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

I feel ill, Tom, and it's all your fault.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

hey tom, "rocks"! that was on yr list too, wasn't it?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

finally some common ground!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

I think that list was the top 100 VIDEOS of the 90s.

― sym (shmuel), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

The question is, does C-Man know 100 songs?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

Curse you Jess Harvell!

I probably like "Rocks" more than "Kowalski" now though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah? But the end of "Kowalski" sounds like your speakers are gonna break, no matter how ~~bad your taste~~ good your hi-fi?!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

Pray - Take That
Viva Forever - Spice Girls
Rollercoaster - B*Witched
All I Want - Skunk Anansie
California - Tupac
Pink - Aerosmith
Charmless Man - Blur
You're my Mate - Right Said Fred
Spin the Black Circle - Pearl Jam
Dance into the Light - Phil Collins
You're Free - Ultra Nate
Over the Rainbow - Cliff Richard

― C- Man, Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe I do like "Kowalski". I'm so conflicted!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

93) A Change of Heart - Bernard Butler
92) This is How it Feels - The Inspiral Carpets
91) Stay Beautiful - Manics
90) There's No Other Way - Blur

― C-Man (C-Man), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

"Footsteps" by Christian Marclay -- all others are just too pristine for inclusion.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Up on the Roof - Robson and Jerome
March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails
Just a Girl - No Doubt
Mystical Machine Gun - Kula Shaker
Think Twice - Celine Dion
Fun Fun Fun - Status Quo + The Beach Boys
Sugar Coated Iceberg - Lightning Seeds

― C- Man, Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

89) Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing
88) Guns N Roses - November Rain
87) Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children's Pet Rabbit Will Be Next
86) Doop - Doop
85) Let Loose - Crazy
84) Apache Indian - Boom Shack A Lack
83) SL2 - On A Ragga Tip

― C-Mann (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

What's with the un-numbered vs numbered ones, you donkey-raping shit-eater?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

82) ATB - 9pm Till I Come
81) Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino
80) Shaggy - Mr Boombastic
79) Luke - Cowards In Compton
78) U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
77) Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)
76) Weezer - Buddy Holly

― C-Maan (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

"Do you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and think fuck, I'm really fucking crazy?"

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link

75) Stiltskin - Inside

― CMan Feel The Noize (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link

74) Anal Cunt - We Built This City On Donkey Raping Shit Eating

― C- Man (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

73) Chef - Chocolate Salty Balls

― CMan (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago) link

72) The Gary Jules Mobile Club - Mad World (Ringtone)

..or was that 00s?

― C-M@n (Tico Tico), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link

72) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane
71) 808 State vs UB40 - One In Ten
70) Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

― CMan (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

"Yep, I just stayed in and had biiiiiiig wank."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

69) Vengaboys - Russians/We're Going To Siberia

― DCMan (Matt DC), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

68) Tony DiBart - The Real Thing
67) Nirvana - Moist Vagina
66) Basement Jaxx - Jump And Shout
65) Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
64) Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
63) Bellatix - Any Excuse To Put More Female Fronted Indie In Here
62) Belle And Sebastian - Is It Wicked Not To Care
61) SL2 - We Are Raving (Ominpotent Baby Kum Buy Yah Remix)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck. Abort mission.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

fucking PULP - COMMON PEOPLE

― hees (kissmyfist), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

please PLZ tell me "moist vagina" is a real nirvana song

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

Michael Bolton - I'm Juiced Up Baby
Del Amitri feat. Pharrel Williams - Some Other Sucka's Parade
Tina Turner - Veteran Pussy
The Reynolds Girls - Do the C-Man
Garbage - I Love You Calum
Bluetones - The Bluetone Wank
Roachford - Arnold Layne
Cliff Richard - Donkey Raping for Jesus
Finley Quaye - Voodoo Lady
Chumbawamba feat. Van Morrison - Calum's Our Kind of Guy

― C- Man, Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

jess, see last track: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS80311061506482218&samples=1&writer=1&sql=Ah76zefek8gf8#TRACK

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago) link

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago) link

50) Elton John & RuPaul - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (And If You Had The Choice - Which Arse Would You Fuck If Someone Was Holding A Gun To Your Head Or Are You More Of A Lily Savage 'Man' Remix)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

I know C-Man isn't one whom we owe a great deal of respect, but for Christ's sake people don't discourage him from starting more "normal" threads!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

49. Northern Uproar- Through My Window (If you came in after a long day's work to find Chesney Hawkes injecting heroin in your lounge whilst attempting to eat your mobile phone, how loudly would you shout at him to get him to stop Remix)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

er, it looked like a serious thread until this

100)Insomniac - Echobelly

― err, Sunday, 4 January 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

C-Man is the new Geir Hongro

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

48. Crooksy 'Your Nation'
47. Cull De Sac 'Celestial Heights'
46. The Spaniels 'Delia Marding'
45. Quasimojo 'Closet Monster'
44. Starling 'London Nights'
43. Spandex Heroes 'Clothesline Victory'

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link

Curt1s otm with his last two posts tho

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago) link

We're still at 89 - add something sensible and you can play too.

89) All I Want - Susanna Hoffs
88) Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O Connor
87) Maria - Blondie
86) Cannonball - The Breeders
85) Fire in my Heart - SFA

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah you're right stevem, we really should suck Calum's balls with gratitude that he decided to act like a human being for once.

― err, Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago) link

84) The Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
83) The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
82) You Do - McAlmont and Butler
81) Celebrity Skin - Hole
80) Corpses - Ian Brown

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:38 (twenty years ago) link

If you include all the Suede (up to Filmstar) and Pulp singles then that's my 1 to 30 taken off and you only got a few more. Maybe Insomniac by Echobelly should be in the top 50 though.

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

Thank Christ. Now flush this turd down the cistern.
Goodnight.

― err, Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link

Number 1 is The Wild Ones by Suede. Cos it's perfect.

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

Suede is ok but problematic due to their politics. The song itself is No. 5 at best, objectively speaking. I think Laurent Garnier : Coloured City is a solid choice for No. 1.

― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Sunday, 4 January 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

Politics?

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

Yes. "I'm a socialist who's never paid any taxes."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:21 (twenty years ago) link

#2 "Lovefool" - The Cardigans

― billstevejim, Sunday, 4 January 2004 09:28 (twenty years ago) link

add something sensible and you can play too

THE PAIN

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 4 January 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

the IRONY, more like

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

CountDown The real 100 worst singles

― Patrick Kinghorn, Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

whatevernumberitisnow: "Harlequin - The Beauty And The Beast (Underworld remix)" - Sven Vath

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 4 January 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

Number 1 is The Wild Ones by Suede. Cos it's perfect.

well except for the totally embarrsing, mood-killing way he whisper-sings "running!with the dogs! tonight!" you mean, right, because that part is just laughably awful

― Harry Jones, Saturday, 10 January 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

The Verve - Lucky Man didn't feature on anybody's list?

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 11 January 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago) link

1. Hole - Doll Parts.

You might pretend not to think so, but I know you do.

― Alex in LA, Sunday, 11 January 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

he decided to act like a human being for once

"for once". Mods, delete ILM, please, because THESE FUCKING IDIOTS STILL, STILL CAN'T BE CIVIL TO SOMEONE WHO HASN'T TROLLED IN GOING ON A SOLID FUCKING MONTH! I would address each one of you individually, but what's the point? What could possibly be more innocuous and in the spirit of ILM than starting a "top 100 best of..." list? How does this qualify one to be "the new Geir Hongro"? Are you honestly going to tell me that now you hate this person solely because he has bad music taste? I mean, FUCK!

― Dan I., Sunday, 11 January 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link

why delete ILM? if you don't like it, don't read it ;)

and if you think it's been a month you must be blind

if Geir had started this thread a few months back he would've got some stick too i think. i like the fact that you said '...hate this person solely because he has bad music taste' as if the latter was a given tho

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 January 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

A SOLID FUCKING MONTH!

Oh, a *whole* month, yes that clearly forgives him of everything (and as Stevem notes, it's hardly been a month).

why delete ILM? if you don't like it, don't read it ;)

Indeed, Dan I.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

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