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

-- Kevin Gilchrist (KevinGil14...), November 7th, 2004.

a single that doubles as a tampon?

xpost

Uh, is that a joke? "Escargot, my car go" ring a bell?

PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" (307 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H84.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
(from the album Mecca and the Soul Brother)

"pete rock & cl smooth created a subgenre with "they reminisce over you" which is a perfect marriage of elegiac rhymes and muted horns..."

- fred solinger

"nothing sadder in the world than Pete Rock & CL Smooth's "TROY (They Reminisce Over You)" "

- M Matos

ORBITAL - "Halcyon" (322 points, 17 votes)

http://www.paulstephenson.freeserve.co.uk/orbital_singles/orb_raddico_us12.jpg

"Halcyon is one of the most glorious bizarre and fantastic tracks around."

- Ronan

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LL COOL J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (323 points, 19 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024II.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"And you thought the word "damn" had lost its power..."

- Anthony Miccio

MISSY ELLIOTT - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (326 points, 25 votes)

http://www.thehumangenomeproject.com/missy/rain.jpg

"Supa Dupa Fly remains her shining, most coherent, razzle-dazzling moment."

- Vic

xpost "The Rain" rules too. I love that Ann Peebles song too.

HAPPY MONDAYS - "Kinky Afro" (329 points, 22 votes)

http://home.dialix.com/~u3336/factory/images/302_7b.jpg

"I remember Jess nominated this song for Best Opening Line ('son i'm thirty, i only went with your mother cos she's dirty'). Quite OTM."

-- Aaron A.

But seriously, "Halcyon" at 64???

interesting results so far, and even moreso later on...

anyways, there weren't 64 songs in the 90s better than troy FFS

no jungle, hardcore, or techno yet, this is either a good or bad thing.

anyway, on to 60-51...

WU-TANG CLAN - "C.R.E.A.M." (332 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://www.mixtapes.ch/images/wu_cream.jpg

"Cash rules everything around me = the way things are."

- daria g

BJORK - "Joga" (336 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000024ZNT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"Christ! How can you even begin to question the album with "Joga" on it????"

-- Adam Bruneau

Favourite detail in a pop lyric?

"In 'Joga' by Bjork, when she appears to get the start of the word wrong in one verse, and goes "me-you". "

-- Matt DC

PULP - "This Is Hardcore"(338 points, 22 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000009GDU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

" "this is hardcore" is just so *sui generis*, i can't imagine anyone else pulling anything like that off at all."

- amateur!st

TLC - "Creep" (339 points, 24 votes)

http://www.swr3.de/__pix/cover/500x435/221.jpg

"The first bar or two of Creep, in context, is like manna from heaven."
- gabbneb

"That jazzy trumpet that starts Creep off is a trumpet of joy."
-- syntaxfree

"i think "creep" is one of the 20 best r&b singles ever written."
-- strongo hulkington

"Seconding (or ... 6thing) the suggestion that "Creep" is one of the greatest r and b songs ever."
-- djdee2005

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - "Cherub Rock" (340 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000HNU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"I think I might have a totally different concept of 90s AOR than is being used here. Smashing Pumpkins would be the kings of the genre as I see it, with "Cherub Rock" probably being their best single."
--sundar subramanian

"Makes me wanna fuck shit up. It brings up the violent side of me, that needs to be released once in a while, in order to be tamed. I am sometimes a difficult person to deal with, but, alas, it is just the demons trying to get out."
--JP Almeida

UNDERWORLD - "Cowgirl" (342 points, 19 votes)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004Y1RR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

"Isn't the way Underworld use vocals totally unique, I can't think of any band or any dance act who use vocals as a rhythmic part of the song, in something like Rez/Cowgirl the "everything everything everything everything" seems to make the track so absolutely mindblowingly essential and intense and yet later in the track the vocals become like an extra drum or beat or something (an eraser of love)"
--Ronan

THE KLF - "Last Train To Trancentral" (343 points, 22 votes, 2 first place votes)

http://www.stars-on-7-inch.com/index_k/klf/last_train.jpg

"I think I was awestruck, or something close to it, when I first heard the KLF's "Last Train To Trancentral" on the radio - the idea at a young age that anyone in pop was this intelligent, and this gifted, and had this many ideas."
-- Robin Carmody

"'Last Train to Trancentral' is, to me, the epitome of this method: it's just hook after hook after hook, with a bonkers half-time breakdown and, at the end when it appears no more can possibly happen, a cameo dalek voice chanting 'Mu Mu'. Pop genius."
-- Ben Butler

"Oh, and "Last Train To Trancentral" being kept off Number 1 by Cher's "Shoop Shoop Song". Didn't piss me off so much back then, oddly; 10 years have clearly made me slowly more bitter."
-- Robin Carmody

PORTISHEAD - "Sour Times" (344 points, 25 votes)

http://www.thefirstcut.net/porsou2.jpg

"Being a stubborn male I refused to ask for help at the music stores. It took me monthes to find this sucker in the dance section months after I first heard it on the radio while I was eating my wheaties."
--zacko