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

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Was "This Is A Low" a single?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

No.
"Parklife" (the single) was the only song off the album of the same name to be nominated.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

re: PapuaNewGuinea - nice one stevem... i'll forever remember the first time i FELT that b-line in my chest. the deejay looped it on the fly and just made it keep going "boomp boomp ba boomp boomp" until the place was literally in a frenzy

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

well yeah miccio, my point exactly. for some of us though there was music in the nineties other than pulp, blur, and oasis. pulp singles are the 'gay marriage' of the 90s ilx singles poll.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

re: This Is A Low

one of the three tracks I noted as being fretfully absent

"Missing:
Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun
Blur - This is a low
Opus III - It's A Fine Day"

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Opus III - It's A Fine Day"
We had "Halcyon" instead :)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Haw!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

TS: "It's A Fine Day" vs "I Talk To The Wind"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

for some of us though there was music in the nineties other than pulp, blur, and oasis.

you don't have to tell me (or the poll)!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i haven't heard 'i talk to the wind' since it came out

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i had "common people" on my singles ballot too, it's a GREAT song, and pulp were a GREAT band, but their frequency on this list is more about how for alot of brits and anglophiles 'the 90s = britpop' and pulp are the one act you don't have to be embarrassed about liking, do this poll in 97 and "country house" and be here now both rank (but "common people" is still #1)(even at the time everyone knew pulp were far and away the best).

I struggled to formulate a question that might have clarified what point you are making here, but gave up!

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

actually aside from "Fine Day" for me it was always the sorely overlooked, non-single track "Up!" that stood out

still to this day one of my favorite bright and shimmery tracks - the name fully suits it

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i remember really disliking 'common people' and jarvis when i first heard/saw them. i wonder if anyone else here felt that way at first but ended up loving it a year or two later.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

(x-post, of course)

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked it, but I remember some idiot journalist on the radio saying that the song was irrelevant because Blur had got there first with 'Girls & Boys'. wtf?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I can only really enjoy it now at HUGE occasions.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I practice my finger-flips every time.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess cinniblount's points were
1) in 1997, people liked Pulp, Blur and Oasis (but Pulp were considered the best)
2) in 2004, people like Pulp

(xpost)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

PROGRESS

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

this song shits on everything she's made since...

It's not bad but I think "I'm a slave..." and "Toxic" are way better.

BTW I personally think this is the best poll EVER. I'm thrilled to finally see Saint Etienne and The Pet Shop Boys in a 90's poll.

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm probably a strange anomaly in that for the longest time i'd only ever heard the motiv-8 mix. i was a big fan of pulp from the gift singles days, and bought the misshapes/sorted for e's cdm (with the motiv-8 mixes of common people on there). when i finally heard the "real" version, i was a little less enthusiastic about it. the last (3rd?) verse that motiv-8 took out kinda takes away from the song for me.

and yeah i'm superglad to see Et and the Pets getting some 90s love... they were some of my biggest loves in the 90s and have remained so to this day

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

EXIT POLL TIME: ok, just to give you an idea, of 39 ballots so far on the 'what you vote for' thread 22 had pulp and 9 had multiple pulp entires, of those 9 3 had 3 pulp and 3 had 4 or more (!!!) pulp; i'm not castigating this tendency, just noting that for people with this taste pulp was the option (i think i saw one ballot with two blur votes and i'm willing to bet there are more ballots with multi-pulp than there are for any blur or oasis combined), for people for whom the 90s = 'amerindie' or 'when hip-hop became the dominant mode of pop music' the vote is split sorta. i don't think this trend will carry over as much to the lp vote.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I might have awarded more points to Pulp than anyone else did, and it's certainly not because the '90s were all about Britpop for me - I disliked almost all of it, and there aren't any other rock/indie tracks in my top 30 at all - we could have gone to a top 100, and that wouldn't change much for me, in fact. I remember hearing Common People first in a Peel session, the year before it came out, and being immediately certain that that would be my favourite single of the next year.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, Baby One More Time does not hold up at ALL. The culturally obvious corollary, Genie in a Bottle, on the other hand, holds up very well. However, they seem to have taken drastically different paths since.

― danh (danh), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

The Blur single nominations didn't appeal to me as much the Pulp nominations. Simple as that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Pulp just had some really great, timeless yet detailed anthems. It wasn't until thumbing through the nominations that I realized how deserving they were of multi-nods (gave 'em two, would have given them more if I had to pick 40 or 50). And while I wouldn't say "Baby" doesn't hold up at all I definitely prefer "Genie" (and voted for that).

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess every track posted from now (except for possibly "Common People") is going to be bashed for ranking higher than "X" and "Y" and...

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

The other artist I gave two votes for was GBV. I'm curious if amerindie got few noms, too many splits or is gonna come back with a vengeance in the top spots.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i admit that i did have 4 pulp tracks on my list (including 3 in my top 10). however, i can not possibly fit in the stereotype of brit-pop lover.

i had not heard a single pulp song until they had broken up.
i really hate blur with a passion.
oasis is meh.
i am not from the u.k.

i just think that pulp is fucking great

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I stategically slanted my ballot against brit pop :)

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Blur single nominations didn't appeal to me as much the Pulp nominations.
That too. The Blur noms were weak. Almost every other single they made during the 90's are better than the songs on the noms list.

I would have put "The Universal" in my top 20, easy.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a feeling amerindie's gonna do a lot stronger on the albums it takes a little more effort to go buy all the full-lengths you ignored in your monogenre youth than just realize some MTV hit was actually pretty great.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm curious about how the amerindie vote will turn out too miccio, i remember when i voted thinking 'ok i'm only gonna vote for wowee zowee and that'll be the amerindie lp on my ballot' and then it wasn't nominated so no vote for pavement/gbv/sebadoh/archers etc., plus a free spot on my ballot (i think the gza got it). i think i did some mix of voting 'my heart' (freak nasty, which if it don't place will show just how much this place hates crunk, madonna, de la) and overstrategerising (geto boys, britney).

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

note: i did vote for what i'm pretty sure will win best single ("common people"), if only cuz fighting that tide seemed pointless, and i'm pretty sure my number one lp will win number one lp and i voted it my number one cuz it is my number one blah blah blah

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I voted for 'Coffee + TV'. It's one of only about three Blur songs I like, and I really like it. 'The Universal' is ridiculous.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Song 2, a Blur nomination, is probably their best single. The Universal is great, sure, but the way I remember it, the fewer words the better.

― danh (danh), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't "Baby One More Time" finish like 3rd in some ILM poll of the greatest records of ALL TIME in 2001 or '02?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

i just picked my favorite thirty songs in order. no tide fighting. I have an open shame in my album ballot though - I had Cherry Pie on order and assumed it was at least 3/4s as good as Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich and voted accordingly. It wasn't. So if Warrant places to high there its because of me. Sorry.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I stategically slanted my ballot against brit pop :)

Haha, so did I. Not that I like Britpop generally - but I quite like Common People, and there was no way I was going to vote for that - it just didn't need my votes.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

jaymc - ilm then, ilm now

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

haha see Blount's logic re: Blur and Oasis in '97.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, it's been invaded by britpop kids on scooters.

x-post

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I agree with those who say 'Baby One More Time' hasn't aged very well, though I never really went mad for any Britney till 'I'm A Slave 4U'.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

My singles ballot contains more or less my favourites, my albums ballot is chock full of strategic votes. Not so surprising considering my singles shortlist was twice the size of the albums one.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Britney vs. Pulp: either way, broadway wins.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I agree with those who say 'Baby One More Time' hasn't aged very well, though I never really went mad for any Britney till 'I'm A Slave 4U'

you ARE me

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

if all of my album choices aren't top 30 i'll be surprised

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm proud to say I had no strategy on my votes. I picked a pile of stuff I would have voted for if there were a larger pool to choose from, then started by going "I like that more than that but less than that" until I had stuff in some sort of an order, then picked the top 30 off that.

Except I missed a lot of stuff off my initial shortlist due to over-enthusiastic pruning of the nominations. Anyway, tactics, schmactics, it's a POLL OF STUFF YOU LIKE!

I haven't got the hang of ILM, have I?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"slave" is the only britney song i really like too. i do not get the love for "baby".

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a feeling that none of my Top 4 picks are going to show up. Tearz.

― DOPESMOKER (smile), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

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