heh keith caulfield from billboard just posted the top 10 of the hot 100 this week in '94 to his twitter: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1994-05-21#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1994-05-21
― tell peeta my fire dress is draggin on the floor (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
the Tevin Campbell song isn't bad.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
'90s tori singles ranked
hey jupiterprofessional widowwinterraspberry swirlblisssilent all these yearssparkcaught a lite sneeze1000 oceanscruelin the springtime of his voodooglory of the 80scrucifygodpretty good yearconcertinajackie's strengthtalulachinacornflake girlpast the mission
maybe i will do a poll of these at some point
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'd say at the very least that "Caught A Lite Sneeze" should be higher up, but not a bad ranking overall.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know why I thought "Putting The Damage On" was a single, but it apparently wasn't. That would've been top 5.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
This list has my favorite Nirvana song (All Apologies), my favorite Green Day song (Longview), very close calls for REM, Pearl Jam and Gin Blossoms (though 'Kenneth' is prolley tied w/ Losing My Religion for second favorite REM single), plus my first Morrissey song, and "Mmm mmm mmm mmm" which I hadn't thought about in years until just recently, and sounds fucking amazing. 94 is not quite my favorite year in music (though it is for movies) but its likely to have been my favorite year to have lived through, music-wise.
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
"Loser" > "All Apologies" > "About a Girl" (pretending this is the original version) > "Basket Case" > "Come Out and Play" > "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" > "Into Your Arms"
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
loser is better than absolutely nothing.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
clearly
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
"Into Your Arms" is nice but i remember when that and "Mrs. Robinson" were their biggest songs the Lemonheads got dissed a lot as a 'cover band'
incidentally if you google Lemonheads and 'cover band' there have apparently been several Lemonheads cover bands over the years, which is just mind boggling
― some cute (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
voted "Loser"
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
I was super dismissive of "Loser" when it first came out (it seemed like there were a lot of "look how dumb we are" minor alt-rock hits coming out around then, a la Butt Trumpet and Dead-Eye Dick), but I heard someone playing the album and I totally changed my tune on Beck in general (doubly so after I heard One Foot In The Grave and Stereopathetic Soul Manure). I subsequently reassessed the song as not too bad (although still among the lesser songs on that album).
Man, I'm gonna listen to some fuckin' Mellow Gold now!
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
yeah a lot of the kids who were heavy into Dookie and the first Weezer repped hard for Mellow Gold but i didn't check for it until after Odelay. there really was kind of a hard shift to a SoCal-heavy alt-rock world around '94, huh.
― some cute (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.radiohitlist.com/KROQ/KROQ-1994.htm
very few duds on this list...at least in the top 50
― skip, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
and three Bad Religion tracks!
that's right, "Yellow Ledbetter" and the Cowboy Junkies version of "Sweet Jane" didn't really become a radio staples until '94, even though both were years old by then
― some cute (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
thank Oliver Stone.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
nah Natural Born Killers came out in '95, "Sweet Jane" had been on the radio a lot for a year or two already by then
― some cute (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
My first reactions to these songs:
Lemonheads, "Into Your Arms" - Where's Juliana?Pearl Jam, "Daughter" - What do you mean you don't have the CD? The vinyl is right here already.Gin Blossoms, "Found Out About You" - Why would she put this as the first song on this mixtape?Nirvana, "All Apologies" - Well, it's better than Something In the Way, at least.Beck, "Loser" - is this on the right speed?Crash Test Dummies, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" - From the name, I was expecting some a bit more metal.Tori Amos, "God" - She is so deep.Green Day, "Longview" - I can't believe this is on MTV.Offspring, "Come Out and Play" - I am officially old (said at age 20.)Green Day, "Basket Case" - Was this originally on Lookout too?REM, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - Dude, I remember that Dan Rather thing when it first happened!Cranberries, "Zombie" - Welp, I guess Irish songstresses will be the sound of the 90s.
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
lol killer post
― some cute (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Crash Test Dummies first few albums are actually really solid. They do a nifty cover of The Replacements "Androgynous"! And a song about Superman! But, yeah, "Mmmm" became annoying after too much airplay.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
They do a nifty cover of The Replacements "Androgynous"!
I just got a stabbing pain in my abdomen by imagining this.
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you for just reminding me that I actually have listened to those early Crash Test Dummies albums. Pretty sure my brain would've continued blocking that info out otherwise.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
Basket Case
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
Top 5:"Basket Case""All Apologies""Loser""What's The Frequency, Kenneth?""Found Out About You"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ the plain and simple truth that has not been spoken enough itt
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― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Basket Case is still the catchiest shit ever. In retrospect it's not hard to see how a band that could put tracks like that together would still be around, but who would have foreseen five more top 10 albums and two #1's in the 2000s...
At the time I thought Green Day was going to be another catchy pop-punk band that was going to flare up on the radar and then go away a la K's Choice. I do like them but in the back of my mind I still feel that way, so it's perpetually mind-boggling to me to see (for example) posters for the American Idiot touring show all over major marquees in town.
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, May 21, 2012 10:45 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just noticed how weird this post is, i assume he's confusing K's Choice with someone else?
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
you've been here how long and you're just now noticing that I'm weird?
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
to be fair, Dan, your line describes 95 percent of posters.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I was originally going to say They Eat Their Own but I figured no one but me remembers them.
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
This is definitely my favourite shreds of all time - was crying the first time i saw it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IhhdsKXAQ
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
i'm just saying "Not Addict" was a downtempo song that broke 2+ years after Green Day's first hits, so i assume you meant a band other than K's Choice?
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
the Dummies have a song that alludes to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrick" and another about wanting to be David Byrne, both of which were impossibly cool things when one is 19.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
I did not mean that at the time I was literally thinking "this band is going to follow the trajectory arc of this band that doesn't exist yet", I meant that at the time I thought people would play "Longview" for a while and call it a day, and then I gave an example of a band where that actually happened. I was not trying to say that Green Day was going to follow in the footsteps of K's Choice.
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Tori Amos, "God"Morrissey, "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get"Counting Crows, "Einstein on the Beach"
I have no memory of any of these getting played on the radio or on MTV.. I would guess they all quickly peaked at #1 and then fell off the charts soon afterwards. (I know "God" was a buzzclip or something but still I've never seen the video.)
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
I figured "Round Here" would've placed instead.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Einstein On The Beach" did not have a video. "God" was i think a buzzclip or a 'breakthrough video' or at least was in a lot of MTV promos when it first came out? "The More You Ignore Me" at least got played on 120 Minutes.
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
oh right you said it was a buzzclip
i heard einstein and mozz plenty on a local station, which admittedly was alt as fuck, but "God" never
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
they were bigger on "past the mission"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
"God" was a real quick flash in the pan of 'Tori's back! and this is more alt and guitar-y than the first album!' before "Cornflake Girl" replaced it on playlists
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
also not to labor the point but timeline aside it was the phrase "catchy pop-punk band... a la K's Choice" that i was raising an eyebrow at
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
too late, point labored
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
shit
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
ahh Toad the Wet Sprocket, with one of the last of the jangle-pop #1's.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 21, 2012 9:40 AM (Yesterday)
i know very little about this kind of music from this period, but i love jangle-pop and this! more jangle-pop please
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah "Fall Down" rules
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Found Out About You" is jangly
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
I have very little perspective on how much radio/MTV play "God" received because it was roughly concurrent with my listening to Under The Pink a bazillion times.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
My college station was playing this in 1993, three years before "Not An Addict" and a year before "Longview," so there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTf2bURI9I
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
"Into Your Arms" is like "There She Goes part 2" except less awesome
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link