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

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otm dammit (this is another good song i just couldn't like at the time...esp. not when they had to include mcdonald's singing on the uk radio edit for legal reasons)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

GEar! any idea what time you'll complete the list? would like to know how long i have to hang around here at work ;)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never heard of #7.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

whaaaat

― :| (....), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a bit late now, but earlier on i was going to say, it's sad that it doesn't look like either 'no scrubs' or 'jump around' are going to make it. i'll say it now though - it's sad.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Melissa, No wonder radiohead is your favorite band!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

NEW ORDER - "Regret" (647 points, 36 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://staff.niagara.edu/rpk2/New_Order/graphics/regret.jpg

" "Regret" works as more of a mood setter that just also happens to be a really fucking great song."
--The Good. Dr. Bill

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

the jamming remix of regulate is so much better than the original.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Melissa's comment doesn't surprise me -- it was pretty popular at the time, but I haven't actually heard it in a few years, myself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still holding out hope for I Got Five On It. Was it even nominated?

― Dan I., Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a cool cover ("Regret").

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe "Pony" didn't make it!!!!!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

haha ive never heard of #6.

― :| (....), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Still an asshole, I see, dj.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

what the fuck is that doing there!?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I suspect more Americans know Regulate than Regret.

Also, I'm missing Pop Scene, which *is* Blur's best moment.

― smirky, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I have heard of both, and really don't think that either are in the top 200 even of the 90s. Still, they're better than #9. I can't even remember how #10 goes, and I have that album somewhere. This is a funny old top 10 for me so far.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

this list is incredible.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Airbag is about a million times better a song than Paranoid Android.

― danh (danh), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I gotta admit I couldn't tell you what "Regret" sounds like whereas "Regulate" is unavoidable for anyone of my generation.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Melissa, No wonder radiohead is your favorite band!

Oh please, Melissa is plenty well-informed about music. Hip-hop is just a piss in the ocean anyway, taken in the broader context of what's out there to be heard.

x-posts

― RS, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"Regret" got a lot of airplay in North American (for a New Order song). MuchMusic in Canada had the video on heavy rotation -- it was even number 1 for two weeks on their weekly countdown.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh! I voted for Regret. At #29, but I've got to cling to my victories.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

'Regulate' is better than 'Regret', because it has more letters.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I am worried that someone who doesn't know New Order is going to download 'Regret' and wonder what all the fuss is about.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry if I'm touching your wrist melissa, i'm just looking for a pulse from your sense of humor.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Both were on the radio all the time when they came out. I knew both as a kid. So shruggedyshrugshrugshrug.

I voted for "Regulate" but not "Regret." Alba's logic works for me.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Hip-hop is just a piss in the ocean anyway, taken in the broader context of what's out there to be heard.

*HEAD EXPLODES*

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

You can't spell "Regret" without "Regulate"-r.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we need a 'Regrulate' NO/Warren G mashup.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

You're pulling the sense of humor card? Please.

xpost

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

GETO BOYS - "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" (710 points, 33 votes, 4 first place votes)

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-11-08/music_string10-1.jpg

"I'm wondering why more ppl haven't ripped off/copied "Mind Playing Tricks", self-hatred, self-immolation, disgust, squalor, paranoia, brain damage, drugs drugs and more drugs, would've thought it an irresistable formula for an 'underground' of ANY description, and re 'Undergrounds' the first time I heard "MPTOM" it I thought 'great this'll be like VU where in 10/15 years there'll be 10,000 records that are like this one', so where are they?"
-- dave q

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I am worried that someone who doesn't know New Order is going to download 'Regret' and wonder what all the fuss is about.

i know new order and i downloaded and still i wonder. whats the secret?

― :| (....), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

regulate is so goddamn smooth... (for a lazy literary reference) it's like that smoke in prufrock rubbing it's back on the window-panes.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

You're pulling the sense of humor card? Please.

Whether or not you think its funny, the point is I was joking.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"regrulate" :)

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

it's all about how he hits that line "...there's NOTHING I re-gret"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like a place I could call my own...THE EASTSIIIIIIIDE MOTEEEELLLLL

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not going to turn this into a "B-but you must like x or you have no soul" fiasco, :|.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

6. NEW ORDER - "Regret" 647 points
5. GETO BOYS - "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" 710 points

Wow, that's a hell of a jump, we're really hitting the big time now.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

the Geto Boys vote was a strategic alignment conspiracy by all the hhheads, right?!!!

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

(hence the big jump)

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

For some reason, I thought the Geto Boys were fat.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

the rhythm has no bass cuz the Hook plays trebllllle!

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

and for some reason i thought the Fat Boys were ghetto

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

and I always thought the Fat Boys were ghetto

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

HAW

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd forgot how absolutely propulsive Everlong is.

― smirky, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

exciting!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(rentboy high-fives Gear)

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

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