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

for a period in the late 90s following a severe head injury the sound of my refrigerator humming at night sounded exactly like the mazzy star song listed here

i first heard "smells like teen spirit" vacationing in belgium in 2002. it was playing over a german-language commercial for the hyundai accent.

i have never heard the björk, depche mode or outkast singles &, quite frankly, hope i never will.

during my senior year of high school in 2001 my roommate alexander lost his virginity to beck's loser. consequently he would play it on repeat while studying for ap chem finals. he was also a big aphex twin fan but claimed that, with the important exception of the 1st 30 minutes of "selected ambient works vol. II", nothing aphex twin ever recorded could be played during sex.

i 1st heard nothing but a g thang during a fifth grade presentation on the effects of air pollution. it played over a montage of fish killed by acid rain.

as far as i cant tell the belle & sebastian and aaliyah singles are situationist pranks executed by the editors of pitchfork. no such songs have ever existed, nor should they.

the radiohead song was used in the short lived cbs situation comedy "the naked lens" starring rhea pherlman and téa leoni. i 1st heard it in a commercial for a high-end swiss watch brand.

the pulp song was played regularly in british taxi cabs when i was living in london while my stepfather oversaw a bank merger there. this was ~1997/8. i cannot pinpoint the moment i heard it any more exactly.

i bought and still own "in an aeroplane over the sea" on compact disc. however i have never listened to it & the disc remains in its original shrinkwrap. i 1st heard holland 1945 @ an indie dance night at stanford.

as for the rest i probably first heard them during a brief and rather foolish infatuation with shortwave radio when i was 12.

i've never heard that nirvana song. should i check it out on youtube?

j0rdan listen to Enjoy The Silence on YouTube, I'm like 100% certain youve heard it

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:09 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha was just coming down here to post this -- its def wayyy too dancey & uhhh awesome for him not to be into

imo any respectable cut copy fan shd really know that jam

i might've heard this before but it doesn't ring any bells

it is really good tho

thought i heard a dope depeche mode song on the radio last month but it was actually this d-_-b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOyyrB1wj04&feature=related

i've never heard that nirvana song. should i check it out on youtube?

― charlie h, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:19 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^this guy laid the foundation for a good run of sockpuppetry in the al ship top 50 rock songs thread but really just blew the whole thing here

had no idea ned raggett had a band xp

tbh w/ d-mode i was always more a personal jesus fan as far as that big jams go

i imagine that everyone from the 80s looks like ned raggett

if gr80 REALLY wants 2 show me how to live he needs to get a video of ned karaoke'ing this next time

ban charlie h

sorry for that guys.

anyway, in seriousness i had to double check that i'd heard the aaliyah song. everything else i could recall because it was either a) right up my alley, or b) a staple from my youth.

pretty good Lamp post up there

yes, quality

This is my favorite Depeche Mode knockoff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJahIpVzR0

^that's some good shit

as far as farces go, this thread is pretty weak

gonna have to check out this "WU TANG CLAN", though, thanks ilx

you mean you don't know?

not trolling here, but when/how/why is "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" a thing? I had to look it up on YouTube just to know what Kast song it was... :/

TR0LLIN but you mean you don't know?

it doesn't even have a wiki page

cuz it's fucking dope? idk

it has the best horn chart ever?

i imagine that everyone from the 80s looks like ned raggett

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:28 PM Bookmark

does this include madonna?

many ppl had sideburns in the 80s

^^^^^ Jason Priestly waited until '91.

im not sure if this is the right thread for this but i just want to make sure everyone knows that i have several black friends

― max, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:33 (6 hours ago)

this is the thread yes

not trolling here, but when/how/why is "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" a thing? I had to look it up on YouTube just to know what Kast song it was... :/

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:57 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bcuz its a beloved outkast single

smh

according to wikipedia it wasn't a single?

(that's one i def don't remember from the time, and didn't hear until i finally copped aquemini about 5 years ago, and it's good but not really a stand-out even on its album imo)

idk those horns kinda make it stand out

i think my favs on aquemini are rosa parks/mamacita/liberation, but ehhh i've never been, like, obsessed with outkast

http://www.discogs.com/OutKast-Spottieottiedopaliscious/release/219553

its absolutely a standout

yall are trying to second guess me here -- as w/ check the rhime & juicy, i think this is absolutely a great representative of their careers

mamacita

nononononononoNONONONONONONONONO

just... no

smgdh

how is a 7 minute funk track with barely any rapping representative of Kast's career (btw, I 1000000% agree with you on Juicy and Check The Rime)

are we going to pick a different song from the pfork list each week to debate whether its really truly great/relevant/canonical/familiar? why is this coming up NOW?

wouldn't harassing scott pl to release the files get to the bottom of the mystery faster than finding another thing that makes you go hmmmm?

is 'things that make you go hmmm' really truly great/relevant/canonical/familiar?

"Things That Make You Go Hmmm" is just a "Bust a Move" rewrite.

dunno about you guys but the diverse kids at my high school totally jammed 'things that make you go hmmm' all the time

what about the converse kids?

are we going to pick a different song from the pfork list each week to debate whether its really truly great/relevant/canonical/familiar? why is this coming up NOW?

― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:48 (28 minutes ago)

i think you answered yr own question, but rly it can be interesting

i just want to make sure everyone knows that i have several black friends

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Hey guys, I just listened to Juicy for the first time, on Youtube. It was pretty good.

how is a 7 minute funk track with barely any rapping representative of Kast's career (btw, I 1000000% agree with you on Juicy and Check The Rime)

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 7:45 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

because they were weirdos who did tracks like epic 7 minute funk jams w/ spoken word stories of being young & coming of age in ATL

fwiw my vote was 'skew it on the bbq' above this but this was much preferable to the more trad sounding stuff (bridge between 'elevators' & 'bob') and a much cooler choice imo than 'rosa parks'

In what world is "BOB" trad sounding??