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

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"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

jesus, it would have had a number one vote from me as well :o(

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

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

cuz once you see some hottie doing the running man to some c-level new jack swing cut yr life is CHANGED

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a shame about '4th of July'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

and also Tom Courtenay, which would have been high up on my list

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

(a long ago subject) I don't agree about British music being better either, but my list had a bit more UK than US stuff. I guess being more immersed in your own country's stuff, because it is played disproportionately in most places, gives you more of a taste for it - I don't think there's a way to settle an argument about whether Underworld/Orbital/Massive Attack are better or worse than Wu-Tang/Eminem/Shadow (to mention six acts that I've voted for), but it's been harder for me to hear much US hip hop than to hear UK dance music, so I probably have developed more love for the latter. (Not for UK indie though - much as I adore Pulp, they are an exception for me. I suspect I have no more love for Belle & Sebastian than the angriest Americans here.)

18 of mine made it in, and my #1 made #1, so I can't really complain. I am very surprised that No Scrubs and Mmmbop didn't make it, though, less so about most of the others. Who has the most typically ILM taste, as measured by getting most of their picks in? And the least? I think 25 is the top and 5 the bottom so far cited.

Great work, Gear!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking at the whole list, I really like it. I have no particular love towards "Common People", but I'm glad it won instead of "Paranoid Android" or "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The biggest surprises are probably that New Radicals song being on the list (I love it, but I thought it's the sort of song ILM hates), "Lovefool" placing so high, and "Unfinished Sympathy" placing so low (I really thought it would be in the top 5).

I've never heard neither "Regret" nor "Cannonball", by the way.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I really, really hated new jack swing. She had better have been damn hot.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

Crikey. Energy Flash only three votes better than Hey Jealousy. You can't blame that one on the British contingent.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, fucking foo fighters.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow!

How come "Poison" wasn't nominated, anyway? Was that the one that Roxy was pushing for? I seriously think that could've gone top 40.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

my happiest surprise while tallying was seeing how high "Cannonball" was going to place.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I really must hear 'Hey Jealousy'. The talk of it intrigues me.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Where are you Baby was my number 2. My number one must be even lower. And my number 5 is there too (Right Said Fred)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Gear! 'Cannonball' straddled the US-UK divide in a way that a surprising number of things obviously failed to.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

what was your number one again?

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

you'll soon be asleep, n.

someone earlier mentioned "cannonball" as an indie fuxor song, and based on who plays it, sure. but musically it's pure contrived over-the-top pop. if kylie did it instead it would've been no. 1!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

hey jealousy is a cunt of a record (in the Mike Read sense)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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