― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link
For the record, if "The Freshmen" was on this list I might've voted for it. That song gives me chills.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't get the comments about the US rock vote. Hardly any US rock was even nominated, was it? I mean, normally for any poll like this you'd have plenty of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Jane's and Metallica, not to mention hits like "No Rain". Was Fugazi nominated?
Do Saint Etienne sound like the Cardigans?
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
NB MIR I think it might have more to do with how perceive the relative worth of hip-hop and UK weiner-pop than with the actual mathematical proportions of their representations.
Is "Lovefool" tweepop? I thought Cub was tweepop.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Every time that I look in the mirrorAll these lines on my face getting clearerThe past is goneIt went by like dusk to dawnIsn't that the wayEverybody's got their dues in life to pay
I know nobody knowsWhere it comes and where it goesI know it's everybody's sinYou got to lose to know how to win
Half my life's in books' written pagesLive and learn from fools and from sagesYou know it's trueAll the things come back to you
Sing with me sing for the yearsSing for the laughter and sing for the tearsSing with me if it's just for todayMaybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away
Sing with me sing for my yearSing for my laughter and sing for my tearSing with me if it's just for todayMaybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away
Dream on dream on dream onDream yourself a dream come trueDream on dream on dream onDream until your dream comes trueDream on dream on dream on dream onDream on dream on dream on yeah
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link
dj: I'm sure lots of Americans voted for those artists, too.
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
If I remember correctly, St. Etienne got The Cardigans producer for their 4th album, Good Humor. And I guess in that particular album they do sound a bit like The Cardigans.
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Saint Etienne - C/D?
― youngn (ndeyoung), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
maybe british music was better in the 90's. gasp.
And that's just bullshit.
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
their "alternative rock" music has held up better than american rock has.
all that america has, in my opinion, is rap and hip hop.
i am not a huge rap/hip hop person, but i did still vote for 5 tracks, one at number 2.
also, england had trip-hop
― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
But isn't Endtroducing the best trip-hop album ever made by a longshot?
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
2xpost Private Press pwns it.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link
(ok this is a total tangent if people want to discuss this further some DJ shadow thread should probably be revived)
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
I love Portishead.
"Western Eyes" > "Sour Times" > "All Mine"
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
On a sidenote, WHO the FUCK would EVER vote for a piece of generic American emoesque indie-rock crap like "Web in Front"!?!?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Here's something interesting. When all the new european critics was going nuts over eurodance in the mid 90s, a DJ named screw was redefining hip-hop in Houston and music today outside of Houston is just beginning to feel its effects. I'm not hugely familiar w/ miami bass, but that shit was going on at the same time as revolutionary NYC hip-hop that already gets well-deserved props.
I'm not saying that european music from this period sucks - in fact, I've bought some st. etienne and pulp specifically because of Scott PL's recommendations in the past. And I've discovered lots of european dance music that I like because of ILM and Simon Reynold's generation ecstasy.
But seriously, this myth about european music in the early 90s somehow being "better" or "more progressive" than its American counterparts is bullshit; this was a fertile period in the U.S. in a lot of different ways, and there is tons of u.s. music from the 90s that is not represented in this poll. Not that I'm surprised- obviously, this board is british based (originally) and its not like i expected miami bass and southern hip-hop (geto boys excepted) to get nods. But yo - this american-music-sucks thing about the early 90s is some crazy talk.
namean?
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link