THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - "The Luckiest Guy On the Lower East Side" (250 pts, 14 votes)
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PAVEMENT - "Shady Lane" (250 points, 17 votes)
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Comments?
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Saturday, 6 November 2004 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link
SAINT ETIENNE - "Like A Motorway" (252 points, 16 votes, 1 first place)
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I noticed a while ago that St. Etienne's "Like a Motorway" is melodically very like the traditional ballad "Silver Dagger," which goes back at least many hundreds of years. I thought it was cool that the tune was being revisited and kept alive (probably unconsciously).
-- JesseFox
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link
SLOWDIVE - "Alison" (254 points, 15 votes)
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I've been told for years to get the above album that this song is on, mostly for this song in particular...
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
LAMB - "Gorecki" (259 points, 15 votes, 1 first place)
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"Gorecki"...it was blatantly obvious that that song is brilliant, wonderful, indispensible, etc. -- Dan Perry
this morning on my md walkman i found myself paying a lot of attention to the words to Lamb's Gorecki, and tho it gets a lot of Unfinished-Sympathy-knock-off criticism, i can't think of a more beautiful and affective love song.
-- Alan Trewartha
APHEX TWIN - "Girl/Boy Song" (259 points, 18 votes)
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OPO: Richard D James
girl/boy -- jess (dubplatestyl...), February 4th, 2003.
i second girl/boy song -- PMK
Girl/Boy thirded. -- Matt DC
i fourth girl/boy -- dyson
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
"Gorecki" is from Lamb's self-titled debut as pictured below, and "Girl/Boy Song" is from Aphex Twin's Richard D. James album.
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― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
BLUR - "Song 2" (262 points, 17 votes, 1 first place)
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The video for "Song 2" features Damon being satisfyingly hurled against a wall...
-- Ally
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - "Humpty Dance" (262 points, 14 votes)
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Certainly "The Humpty Dance" is one of the finest singles of all time, no?
-- J0hn Darn1elle
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 November 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 6 November 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 6 November 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Wu-Tang/Beastie Boys/Madonna/Cornershop should be 96/95/94/93 -- I think you may have caught your mistake by the time you got to 92, though, so this is just an FYI.
2. I don't know how many ties are left in the rest of the chart, but how would you feel about breaking them by favoring the track with more overall votes? It looks like you may have already taken this into consideration with the order you placed them in, actually. But I'd like that better, since ties always makes it seem like the sample size is too small.
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 6 November 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
SORRY! You're right -- I was forgetting that there were 101 songs!
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
tonight, 80-61Monday, 60-41Tuesday, 40-31Wednesday, 30-21Thursday, 20-11Friday, TEH TOP TEN
the albums will begin the following Friday, if not sooner.
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Sunday: 60-51Monday: 50-41etc
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Saturday, 6 November 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― yup, Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I had "Shame on a Nigga" at #2, actually.
― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
DE LA SOUL - "A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays" (268 points, 17 votes)
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I could go on and on about how much i love the youth remix of 'saturdays' - they play it at 'funkademia' in manchester evry saturday and it's so popular they *turn down the vocals* durin the chorus so evry1 can sing along...
- piscesboy
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
MASSIVE ATTACK - "Angel" (268 points, 19 votes)
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"Angel" is slow motion apocalypse. It's like the bomb first drops, then goes off, then has to fight its way through, indeed, tar or something similar.
- Ned Raggett
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
THE PIXIES - "Alec Eiffel" (269 pts, 22 votes)
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I dont care what anyone else says, it can only be 'Alec Eiffel'. Someone here once said that there are more amazing ideas within these 3 minutes than in many a band's entire output. (Including the Pixies? Hahaha...!) I hope it plays in the club I'm going to later tonight, because I feel like dancing - no, flying! - on that song so much right now...
- Simon
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link
EMINEM - "My Name Is" (271 points, 21 votes)
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Slim Shady does not give a fuck what I think.
- David Sim
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
DESTINY'S CHILD - "Say My Name" (272 points, 19 votes)
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Is there a DC track more perfect and succinct than this? Maybe, but they're not here and this is. And right now it sounds like the best thing they ever did. It's pretty much Beyonce's show as usual and typically her strength is not really deployed until the end - the music not really rising with her though, preferring to remain in it's regimented but bounceable sync-pop groove, comfortable as it is. As pure Summery modern pop with soul tones it's flawless in conception and execution.
-- the neurotic awakening of s
Taken from comments on the '00s poll, this song knows not the boundaries of millenia.
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
NAUGHTY BY NATURE - "O.P.P." (276 points, 14 votes)
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One band that I think history's given a rough deal to is Naughty By Nature. I still think that their biggest trick- using lyrical themes to contrast their always-so-damn-obvious samples, not as a gesture of subversion per se, but to give the songs some *conflict*- is pure genius. It's there on "O.P.P." of course, the exuberant innocence of The Jackson Five vs. the sly evil of the subject matter...
- Daniel_Rf
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
BASEMENT JAXX - "Rendez-Vu" (278 points, 18 votes)
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"'Rendez-Vu' = immediate satisfaction."
- Eric H
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
OASIS - "Live Forever" (282 points, 16 votes)
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"I finally brought myself to buy Definitely Maybe today for the first time, guiltlessly, while reminiscing 'bout those wonderful times once upon a time ago, back in the fifth grade. IT IS STILL BRILLIANT. They will live forever, a pox on you!"
-- Francis Watlington
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
(sleigh bells)
Baby if you've got to go away
Don't think I could take the pain
This is the best "not actually a christmas song, but we'll add sleigh bells" song ever
-- Jaunty Alan (AlanTrewarth...), November 18th, 2004 1:55 PM. (later)
this is the truest thing Alang has ever said
― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Hiphop had been a feature of the UK charts from Grandmaster Flash onwards (OK, there was a bit of a break in the mid 80s). There were *mad* scenes in '88 when Public Enemy and Run DMC toured. And as for the music press, hiphop albums had a lot of critical stock from 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show' winning the NME 87 poll onwards. UK Hip Hop was never that big, so there wasn't the feeling that homegrown music scenes can create, but I guess for large parts of the USA, the consumers of the music are far culturally removed from the creators too.
Actually yeah - the original 'In the 90s, dance music was to the UK what hiphop was to the US' statement was more about creators than consumers, I think.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Alba, Rapper's Delight was a huge hit well before Grandmaster Flash.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
I mentioned the various club comps because I believe they were the biggest cash cows (and chart successes) of the UK club scene, but if I'm way off in that assumption then someone please clarify.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know enough about USA charts to comment on MindInRewind's comparison. Certainly there was a lot of dance in the charts here, though obv. daytime radio tended towards the poppier stuff.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link