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

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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

Alba, it's rubbish. You are missing nothing.

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

I really, really don't understand the 'I'm Too Sexy' popularity. I don't dislike it or anything, but... it's one of those times where I start reverting to the crappy old "You're liking it ironically, right?" thing.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, my number one was Wish Fulfillment, By Sonic Youth. Didn't think it would show up though, it's just the song I like the most.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and the biggest, most obvious omission from the list is "Protection". It wasn't nominated, I don't know why. I probably should've done it, but I thought someone else surely would. I would've definitely voted it for the number one spot.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

120 pts, 7 votes, 1 first place for Wish Fulfillment

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

As for 'I'm too Sexy' - it's a great track. I don't know how you explain songs appeal really. Deeply Dippy, as I said elsewhere, is my genuine favourite song of the 90s, so partly it got voted for by proxy.
Cool, thanks Gear.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I guess when I mentioned "Cannonball" as an indie fuxxor song, I was thinking mostly of it being a song that kids listening to alt-rock in the early 90s were well aware of and probably still like, what with its Pixies cred and all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Gear, what about "Everlong" in the end?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I would certainly have voted for 'Protection', Tuomas, as a track or album. Sorry your 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' flopped - I told you you should have picked 'The Power!'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

So close Hey Jelousy, so close

― danh (danh), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I put 'Rhythm is a Dancer' at 11.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Was I the only one to vote for "Antarctica"?
And, did only three of us vote for "Wilmot"?

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

One was me!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

(where is the 'Wilmot' tally?)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone who wasn't me vote for Orlando?

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

everlong - 191 pts, 9 votes, 2 first place

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't like "Protection" the album that much, but the single is my all-time favourite song of the nineties. Gear, could you tell us how many points did "Rhythm Is a Dancer" get?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

101pts, 5 votes, 1 first place

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone who wasn't me vote for Orlando?

I voted for "Just for a Second"

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

gah, so fucking close! It's still sad that we could get the Geto Boys to #5 but couldn't even make a dent with the Gin Blossoms. Some day, perhaps.

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

Ah, it was all worth it.

Curious, of the "Hey Jealousy" haters out there, when was the last time you heard the song?

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

gear, could you please post the Disco Inferno votes?

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Ginuwine's "Pony" was a lock for top 50. Isn't that a song that all the Ilxors are supposed to love because of its timbaland association? Its so great!!!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Also really sucks about Beltram being so close, my vote would've put it over if I had seen that it was nominated. I really don't get what happened there.

I'm a little bit disappointed with the results in that the great majority of my favorites didn't place, and those that did were really quite low. Still, a very cool top ten--and much less obvious than I expected.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, but "Are You That Somebody?" is more loved and more quintescentially Timbaland (although why both couldn't make it is the MYSTERY of 5 Pulp and St Etienne songs. . . okay I'll stop.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

122 pts, 8 votes
disco inferno its a kid's world (13)

136 pts, 5 votes,
disco inferno love's stepping out (24)

162 pts, 8 votes, 1 first place
disco inferno "Summer's Last Sound",

207 pts, 10 votes, 1 first place
Disco Inferno - "The Last Dance"

also

200 pts, 12 votes, 1 first place
ginuwine "Pony",

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Deej, "Pony" is OK but it's not nearly the classic you're making it out to seem.

Though I'm a bit surprised Blackstreet gets #11 and Ginuwine doesn't make it at all, yeah.

― The GOod Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not surprised at all about Disco Inferno not making it, btw. I'd never even heard of the band until ILX and I imagine I'd still be in the dark otherwise. The folks who like D.I. really like 'em, yeah, but it's a small group.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Ginuwine's "Pony" was a lock for top 50. Isn't that a song that all the Ilxors are supposed to love because of its timbaland association? Its so great!!!

This is quite something! You manage to maintain superiority regardless of whether it makes the poll. Seriously, that's rad work.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I knew DI would split votes like crazy but I hoped that "The Last Dance" had enough of a reputation to set it apart. Guess not--that's really a shame though. I suppose they'll be much better represented by D.I. Go Pop in the albums poll, but that album really isn't close to as classic as the EPs (which, you'll notice, are the source of all the songs nominated--none on the LP are nearly as good as those four).

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

ANNOUNCEMENT RE: THE ALBUMS POLL

I'm going to finish working on it this weekend and I'll get to posting it in a week or so.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Pony may not be YOUR classic, but its certainly mine.

You manage to maintain superiority regardless of whether it makes the poll. Seriously, that's rad work.

What does this even mean?

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I last heard Hey Jealousy about five years ago. My ex's housemate used to play it all the bloody time.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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