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

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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

ilm 90s album poll - what did you vote for?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Ailsa, I pretty much did the same!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

N/Stevem/Dan MINDMELD (only Dan forgot to vote)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow! I'm surprised to see that 20 tracks on my ballot have already made it, and I'm pretty sure that at least 4 more will make it to the Top 30.

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

miccio is part of the mindmeld too

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Does "Papua New Guinea" count as a rave track? Even if not, it's very cool that it made it so high, though shouldn't be 60 higher than "Beflast" blah blah blah...

I'm going to lose a lot of points for this, but the more I listen to "Common People" the more it sounds to me like self-righteous, hypocritical, Albarn-esque snarkiness. It's still a fabulous song but I just don't feel it at the moment. Leaning much more towards Cocker's naive, whimsical side ("Babies," D2000) than his working class hero act recently.

Also, I was very much under the impression that "Energy Flash" was not nominated. I certainly would have voted for it if it was.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i think the New Radicals track is okay too fwiw

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i think it ("papau new guinea") counts as a rave track, but it has pretty universal appeal in my experience

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I also prefer 'Oops! I Did It Again' to 'Hit Me One More Time', though I can see it's a bit of a refinement.

'Toxic' is my favourite of all, by far, though, so I'm not sure how far this mindmeld extends.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I also like Disco 2000 much more than Common People.

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

for the record, i despise britney. not for her pop-culture-ness (i like plenty of other stuff along those lines, including xtina and gwen) but because she couldn't sing worth a damn if her life was on the line

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I also like Disco 2000 much more than Common People.

Me too, though I can't really explain why. 'Common People' is like going to the opera, maybe. It's just too much to casually enjoy as the singalong anthem that everyone else seems to be able to treat it as.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

'baby one more time'

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Only six of my list (and one of my top ten) have made it so far.

Probably still to come:

Unfinished Sympathy
Groove is in the Heart
Music Sounds Better With You
Are You That Somebody?
Loser
Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Nuthin' But a G Thang

Possibly still to come:

Regulate
Regret
Super Going
Chime
Web in Front
The Last Dance

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry RJG - I had it right the first time!

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

disco 2000 was my number 1 pick of the 90's and possibly my favorite song ever.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Back to the Blur/Oasis/Pulp thing, where the hell is SUEDE!

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the songs where Brit's inability to sing is an asset rather than a hindrance (this is why all of the banging dance tunes where she's used as a sound-effect are great and the mid-tempo pop numbers and the ballads don't work at all).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

; )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Definitely still to come:

Unfinished Sympathy
Groove is in the Heart
Are You That Somebody?
Regulate
Regret
Chime

Probably still to come:
Loser
Nuthin' But a G Thang
Music Sounds Better With You

Possibly still to come:
Mind Playing Tricks on Me

Not still to come:
Super Going
Web in Front
The Last Dance

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

But Britney's voice isn't even interesting as a sound.

― RS, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

it is now that's she smoking

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i am almost positive that music sounds better with you will be in the top thirty.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Re Common People: It's just too much to casually enjoy as the singalong anthem that everyone else seems to be able to treat it as.

By everyone, do you mean those "common" people, Alba? (I used to have exactly the same problem with "Design for Life", then realised I didn't actually give a shit why other people liked it as it made no difference to whether I liked it or not)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Locks?:
Common People
California Love
Born Slippy
Creep
He's on the Phone
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Live Forever
Soon
Da Funk
Enjoy the Silence

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

No, it's not that at all, ailsa, if you're trying to get at some "they don't understand it" thing. If anything, my problem on that score is that the people who sing along aren't common.

It's just that it's too histrionic and big a song to listen to casually, for me, even on my own.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

(if correct, when added to Alba and Dr. Bill's picks, we've got about 20 of the top 30)

(xpost)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure 'Da Funk' or 'Live Forever' will be there.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Or 'Enjoy The Silence', even, but I don't really understand Depeche Mode.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

live forever was #73

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

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