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

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That's good of john to explain it to Melissa!

more i was explaining it to myself aloud, cuz i just couldn't understand not hearing these songs. but then, i'm a weezy old geezer.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

when i was 7 i was well aware of what were the popular songs of the time - but i was in britain and my parents weren't draconian. not that i'm suggesting melissa's were or owt, jsl.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

what if captain kirk hadnt make remix of "common people"? would you still have remembered it?....still cool chart. apart from the moron dull indie rockers now and then. :)

― karl76 (karl76), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the Shatner version had *nothing* to do with the placing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

what if captain kirk hadnt make remix of "common people"? would you still have remembered it?

stick it to 'em!

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, look at all that brit-pop in the top twenty. djdee, you are the biggest idiot ever. sorry.

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Aaliyah was a regular down at the Good Mixer.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I absolutely loved this poll (25 of the songs I voted for made it!). Thanks Gear! To me, its singles what really matter so I'm not that excited to see the albums poll results.

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

if anything warren g. was bigger in europe than in the states (maybe just the continent though, i know thatcherandblairland has anti-dancing statutes on the books and a brave < /hongro > refusal to truck with no hip-hop).

No, Regulate was plenty big here too. No one was actually dancing to it, mind.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I knew "Regulate" until today either FWIW. I definitely knew "Groove Is in the Heart' (which I loved) and "Regret" (which i didn't) when they came out though. I didn't really pay attention to hip-hop in the 90s.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I had absolutely NO idea what the popular songs of the day were when I was 7. I just wasn't interested in music. 1990 was a watershed year for me because I started to consciously pay attention to the radio. I was 11.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

As for "Regulate," I vaguely remember it coming out, but I couldn't sing it to you now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

phew ;)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm in mourning for Chime

(I also forgot to vote - I could have pushed radiohead out of the top ten dammit!)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree with jaymc, most of these songs I never heard, mostly because I grew up in the sticks of NC. Of the other ones, I only heard them in the late 90s at the earliest.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

and I still liked the list. I downloaded each track as it was announced, so I've at least heard everything now.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Was "Regulate" that big, like comparable to "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "Poison" in its popularity and ubiquity?

Oh yeah, I haven't heard most of the songs on the list of winners or nominations.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"wow, look at all that brit-pop in the top twenty. djdee, you are the biggest idiot ever. sorry."

Considering his main point was mostly how doofus-y it is to have 5 songs each by Pulp and St Etienne in the top 100, I'd say it's the dickhead who is deliberately misreading him who is the bigger idiot.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"regulate" was everywhere; as big as "mama said" and "poison." i remember (DORK ALERT!) that when this song came out (8th, 9th grade?) my friend and i used to simultaneously bark "regulatooooors! mount UP!" before going on bike rides. and this is in the sticks of va, mind you!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

haha if me and a friend are walking to my car i'll still do that occasionally

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

and i always loved nate dogg cuz his voice was very much a choral one, and me being in the choir, this was hella cool (i always tried to sing like mick jagger in the choir before i heard him!).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

That strikes me as the cutest thing ever for some reason.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

haha i did it LAST NIGHT blount when a friend and i were about to play gta:sa!!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

brits and anglophiles ruining ILM once again.

I still use the "regulators, mount up!" line. it makes me feel gangsta.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Lack of Chime suggests that either that fewer British people voted than everyone upthread assumed, or that the average age of the British ILM poster is much less than thirty. I also suspect that the Pulp/St Etienne overload has more to do with a particular strain of US anglophilia than any avalanche of UK voters.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

rickyt otm re: fifth column

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd never heard the Geto boys track, so I just nabbed it off slsk, and I like it, well done ILx, now, about voting fucking radiohead so high, we need to have words

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Was "Regulate" that big, like comparable to "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "Poison" in its popularity and ubiquity?

Errr... what is 'Poison'? You're not talking about the Prodigy track, are you?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I assumed Bell Biv Devoe.

"Regulate" was probably too late for me, since I'd started listening to rock by then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Bel Biv Devoe's "Poison" which was also ubiquitous for its time.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

one last personal memory associated to a song in this poll: the first time i ever saw my father's MUCH younger second wife dance, it was to "groove is in the heart," and suddenly i had a CRUSH ON MY STEPMOTHER which confused and worried me for almost all of my adolescence.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

or that awful soft rock thing that I can't remember who it's by? The one that goes "your lips like venomous poison" jeez that's famous isn't it. but I've (thankfully) blanked it out my head

This Geto boys song is *very* good

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never even heard of Bel Biv Devoe, let alone 'Poison'. Wow!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

(is this just me? Can other non-Americans comment?)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

!!! dude, download poison now, it's grebt!!! and, while yr at it, download mariah's "vision of love," a song i wish i had nominated.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I couldn't name you a single BBD song to be honest

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

what is this 'booty' thing you keep referring to?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

It is just you. Bel Biv Devoe = the other three out of New Edition. Poison wasn't overwhelmingly huge herem but it was a reasonably big hit.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I am very familiar with 'Vision Of Love'. I don't want to download it, thnx.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't imagine a single junio high/high school age American not knowing "Poison" so color me shocked.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i think this poll would be dramatically different if every british ilxor were transported across the atlantic and back in time to visit an american middle-school dance circa 1991 and 1995.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i think this poll would be dramatically different if every british ilxor were transported across the atlantic and back in time to visit an american middle-school dance circa 1991 and 1995. and, vice versa, if every american ilxor were forced to... uhh... hang out in milk bars? art studios?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

'Poison' got to No. 19 in 1990. OK.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

milk bars? art studios?

Ha ha - I love this.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

It would be dramatically more diverse which is strange cuz I always think of British charts as being much more hyperactive and mutable than their American counterparts.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

They are, but the problem is you end up with a much bigger spread of favourites. Look at the way the rave vote was split, frexample.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I was also in 8th or 9th grade when Regulate came out, and it was *massive* in Finland. One of those hits I would've never forgot, even if I wouldn't have heard it after that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Porkpie, are you talking about Alice Cooper's comeback hit "Poison"?! I meant Bel Biv Devoe of course. 'Kay, looking up the dates clears things up a bit. By '94 I was listening to rock and jazz pretty exclusively. '90, '91 I still knew the hits.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Why would it make it more diverse if we were all picking tracks from American middle school dances?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

FYI, #101-110

232 pts, 12 votes
Boards of Canada – “Turquoise Hexagon S

232 pts, 10 votes, 1 first place
Blur - "For Tomorrow

228 pts, 14 votes, 1 first place
Beltram - "Energy Flash"

225 pts, 15 votes, 1 first place
Gin Blossoms Hey Jealousy

223 pts, 12 votes
Souls of Mis "93' Til Infinity" - Souls of Mischief

220 pts, 19 votes
Radiohead - "Airbag"

220 pts, 11 votes
Yo La Tengo - "Tom Courtenay"

219 pts, 13 votes
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

215 pts, 14 votes
Betty Boo - “Where Are You Baby?”

214 pts, 11 votes
galaxie 500 'fourth of july'

also, "Chime" clocked in with 8 votes, 105 points. nowhere near the runners-up to the runners-up, unfortunately.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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