Pitchfork: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01

the way i voted into this was imagining that i only got to hear one of these songs ever again.

Precisely the reason "Enjoy the Silence" is the right answer here.

isn't it a sample/interpolation from some funk song? you could always listen to that instead

― the mid- '80s vein of hellmusic we love to hate (bernard snowy), Friday, September 10, 2010 Suggest Ban Permalink
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pretty sure it is not

i mean, i personally like "warning" and "hypnotize" and "dead wrong" more than "juicy" but you'd have to be pretty daft to think any of those are actually "better songs"

in terms of "entire house parties will stop whatever theyre doing and start rapping along" power there are very few songs that can beat juicy--big poppa and california love maybe

"Gimme the loot" is the best biggie & "shame on a nuh" is the best wu

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But I would've took a few 2pac songs over all of these.

"Gimme the loot" is the best biggie & "shame on a nuh" "4th Chamber" from Liquid Swords is the best wu

yeah wtf sam

i think the only genuine contenders on this list for "artist's best song" are the pavement, bjork and dj shadow tracks. but i don't really care much about dj shadow and couldn't really be bothered championing pavement at the moment, so on that logic might have voted bjork.

"shame on a nun"

SHAME ON A NUN WHO TRY TO RUN GAME ON A NUN

i think the only genuine contenders on this list for "artist's best song" are the pavement, bjork and dj shadow tracks

Agree with Bjork and Shadow, disagree with Pavement.

I'd also submit for consideration of "best song" status: Wu-Tang, MBV, Aaliyah (this just won the Aaliyah singles poll on ILM ffs!) and Aphex Twin -- tough to say what's "best" for any of these guys, but their tunes in this poll are waaaayy up there.

i understand being a bit tired of "juicy" but saying that it's not even in the top 20 biggie tracks is........................

i'll say this: sam would've been walking to brooklyn to get diddy a piece of cheesecake

to me "Juicy" is by far the best Biggie pop jam and I applaud any list that has it and not "Hypnotize"

i'll say this: sam would've been walking to brooklyn to get diddy a piece of cheesecake

― J0rdan S., Friday, September 10, 2010 4:00 PM (3 minutes ago)

haaaa

best biggie pop jam = "one more chance"
best biggie non-pop jam = "you're nobody (til somebody kills you)"

nahhhh "juicy" is so much better than "one more chance"

yeah man juicy now juicy forever

"juicy" is 100% biggie's biggest pop jam. it's a standard of popular culture.

re: björk, i don't see how anyone can rep for "hyperballad" as the standout from her discography...

björk songs from the '90s that are way way way better than "hyperballad": human behaviour, come to me, aeroplane, play dead, big time sensuality, one day, enjoy, isobel, the modern things, bachelorette, jóga, pluto, hunter, unravel, all is full of love, my snare, sod off

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, September 3, 2010 7:51 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

and the brodsky quartet version of "hyperballad" >>>>>> the original, which due to its sequencing on post mostly strikes me as a warm-up for the superior "the modern things"

"juicy" is 100% biggie's biggest pop jam. it's a standard of popular culture.

OK, at the risk of exposing myself as hopelessly out of touch, the first time I'd ever heard "Juicy" was on that Girl Talk track. Whereas I'd heard "Hypnotize" and "Mo' Money Mo' Problems" numerous times before that, and I even have a memory of kids in high school quoting "Big Poppa."

Wondered if this was a US/UK thing, but "Juicy" peaked at #72 on the UK chart and #27 in the U.S.

the first time I'd ever heard "Juicy" was on that Girl Talk track.

like, this sounds actually impossible to me

yeah oh my god - i mean put that shit on at a party and EVERYONE KNOWS ALL THE WORDS

and the brodsky quartet version of "hyperballad" >>>>>> the original, which due to its sequencing on post mostly strikes me as a warm-up for the superior "the modern things"

SO RONG

it's kind of amazing how foolproof that is actually, doesn't matter what kind of people are there

xp

the LIfe After Death hits and "Big Poppa" definitely were bigger crossover hits than "Juicy," I don't think it's his biggest hit just his best

not sure about "at the time," but juicy is one of literally two pre-2010 songs the local hip-hop station plays constantly. so some revisionism possibly at work.

I can barely stand "Hypnotize" now. "Juicy" never gets old, even when I've embarrassed myself doing it at karaoke.

i don't like hypnotize that much tbh. JUICY 4EVA

"hypnotize" beat is the best

Weezer - "Say It Ain't So" 4

lol. also if the criteria was "everyone knows all the words to the track & will belt them out on cue" thennnnnn

If that's the case, I'm glad only four people will be belting.

Love 'em both (Juicy and Hypnotize). I'd like to pitch "#!*@ You Tonight" or "Playa Hata" as Biggie's best non-pop jams.

if you can't f/w biggie spitting raw shit over a "rise" loop, i can't f/w you

omg

one more chance remix >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> juicy
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything 2pac ever made that isn't i get around

hypnotize kills yall are crazy

omg

one more chance remix >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> juicy
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything 2pac ever made that isn't i get around

― a hoy hoy, Friday, September 10, 2010 6:48 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark

^^^bulllllshit

and i like juicy! y'all acting like i think it is awful.

sam...

stop digging

Hypnotize is an astounding song. I've been to functions* where everyone has known all the words to Nearer My God To Thee, and has sung along... it doesn't make it a hip hop standard.

(*Admittedly these have been the funerals of old people in Lancashire, not parties in California.)

yeah oh my god - i mean put that shit on at a party and EVERYONE KNOWS ALL THE WORDS
― max skim (k3vin k.), Friday, 10 September 2010 20:42 (Yesterday)

This has happened to me with "Gimme The Loot" ... Girl Talk chose "Juicy" for a reason.

OK, at the risk of exposing myself as hopelessly out of touch, the first time I'd ever heard "Juicy" was on that Girl Talk track.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

wut

"out of touch" is not the pejorative i would choose there

i don't know, if i could be aware of that song as a 12-year-old in public school in somerset who barely knew that hip-hop existed, i don't really feel there's any excuse for anyone of appropriate age to have first heard it through FUCKING GIRL TALK. i'm proud that i didn't know til today that that cunt despoiled biggie by using his song, i hope lil kim cuts his face up in revenge.

and the brodsky quartet version of "hyperballad" >>>>>> the original, which due to its sequencing on post mostly strikes me as a warm-up for the superior "the modern things"

SO RONG

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, September 10, 2010 8:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

justify? seriously i would like to try to understand how/why "hyperballad" has its rep - it's not particularly successful or well-known, no more so than any other given björk single, and as a huge björk fan since forever it just seems like a literally random choice from her discography. you may as well pick, idk, "cover me".

it's my favorite bjork song

i hope that girl talk doesnt get cut in the face!

didn't want my mind blown at 9 in the morning but reading a hoy hoy's posts

man