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

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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

it's a shame we all knew what would win long ago. COME ON EUPHORIA (NINO'S DREAM)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe we'll be surprised?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

You know Soon is gonna be up there, just like Loveless is gonna be in the album chart

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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

The only "conspiracy" was whatever we posted in the original thread about nominations.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

It's gonna be really funny if Everlong gets THIS much praise and doesn't even make the top 100 (it dented my top 30 so I can make this joke).

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I like to think that there are still people eagerly awaiting the positiion of 'Lazarus' by the Boo Radleys.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

c'mon "rushed" by 69 - one last push : D

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I voted for "Mind's Playing Tricks on Me" because it's a damned good song, eff a conspiracy theory

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

We more or less knew what would win in the last poll too but it didn't make the rest of the countdown any less fun :)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

@djdee - that was a joke in ref to the whole converstaion that took place upthread/yesterday

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah begs2differ is OTM
rentboy sounds like he's setting up an affirmative action strawman to burn or something.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I like to think that there are still people eagerly awaiting the positiion of 'Lazarus' by the Boo Radleys.

(waves bashfully)

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I only have 'Desire' by 69. I like it very much. I will try to get this 'Rushed'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I really shoulda voted for Everlong, I love that song but I think all the garbage Grohl's put out in the last few years kinda made me forget that.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

ah sorry xxxpost i know i was just joking at the time.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

We more or less knew what would win in the last poll too but it didn't make the rest of the countdown any less fun

oh yeah about that, i forgot to say i did a recount and 'digital love' won after all

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Are people also still holding on 'For Tomorrow' ha ha?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

ouch.

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I do not understand why Alba doesn't understand Regret's high placing.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't blame me; I had "Everlong" at #3.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

'Better The Devil You Know'...?

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

so we'll know what won by 9pm GMT right?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I just never really warmed to it, Ricky. It's OK and everything.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

3. 69 - rushed
2. euphoria (nino's dream) - house crew
1. energy flash - beltram

!!!!

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "Soon" (735 points, 34 votes, 3 first place votes)

http://www.irishmusiccentral.com/mbv/mbv_pressphoto2.jpg

"Also, if "Soon" is "gay," then sign me up straightaway. I'm not sure what you mean by that, either. I think MBV make some of the most feminine-without-being-feminist-or-cutesy music I've ever encountered."
-- Clarke B

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess I just feel it has no depth to it at all - all is yielded up on first listen.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

alex raises a good point: where's kylie?!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, "Soon" didn't make the top 3!

I miss rockism! It's so much more poetic and less bookish than the hh heads (oddly a-fuckin nuff).

I'm gonna start screaming that Pearl Jam's "Black" got robbed.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

YAY TRICKY!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

She got pissed off and left when it became clear 'It's Grim Up North' wasn't going to make it, steve.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Q-TIP, MISS KIER, BOOTSY, DIMITRI, TOWA...

already cheated by Steve Miller Band - surely it's not going to happen again!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

is cannonball still going to make it?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe 'Groove Is In The Heart' is the 'Hey Ya' of the 90s but we were all less cynical then.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

oh boy

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

whoah, i really expected Soon at #1

kinda glad it's not
but what is??

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't think of 'Soon' without thinking of morris-dancers, marvellously enough - it's a great tsunami of a song

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

haha omg if "Cannonball" and "Everlong" make the top 3 I would shit

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Steve Miller Band?

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

"soon" = swoon

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

What else is left but 'Common People'?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

3. Foos
2. Deee-Lite
1. Pulp

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

It's interesting that the number of *votes* isn't increasing as we move through the top 20, rather, the songs higher in the chart are getting there because they placed higher. This is stark contrast to the 00's poll, where the top songs got there more through sheer numbers of votes.
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― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

No Sleater Kinney on this list, hmph.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never really thought of it terms of depth, Alba. I only know that I still get the same thrill from it now as I did when I first heard it. Some days I think it might be the best thing they ever did, but then I remember Temptation and mentally slap myself round the face.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

groove is in the heart, cannonball and common people. gotta be.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

cannonball surely!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Sigh... No Disco Inferno...

Booo! Hiss!!!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I see - it's 'Groove Is In The Heart', 'Common People' and either 'Cannonball' or this 'Everlong' thing.

Well, I have faith in 'Cannonball'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

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