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

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.

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

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).

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

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)

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

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Anyway, here's my prediction for the rest. It could be way, way, way off, this was a hard one to peg.

29. Daft Punk - "Da Funk"
28. Warren G. f/ Nate Dogg - "Regulate"
27. Boredoms - "Super Going"
26. Disco Inferno - "Summer's Last Sound"
25. Radiohead - "Airbag"
24. Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker"
23. Jay-Z - "Big Pimpin'"
22. Boo Radleys - "Lazarus"
21. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Two-Headed Boy"
20. Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?"
19. Joey Beltram - "Energy Flash"
18. Belle and Sebastian - "The State I Am In"
17. Bjork - "Hyperballad"
16. Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the Silence"
15. Geto Boys - "Mind Playin' Tricks on Me"
14. Beck - "Loser"
13. Blur - "For Tomorrow"
12. Disco Inferno - "The Last Dance"
11. Breeders - "Cannonball"
10. Saint Etienne - "He's on the Phone"
9. Dr. Dre - "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang"
8. My Bloody Valentine - "Soon"
7. Massive Attack - "Unfinished Sympathy"
6. Deee-Lite - "Groove is in the Heart"
5. Stardust - "Music Sounds Better With You"
4. Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
3. Underworld - "Born Slippy (Nuxx)"
2. Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
1. Pulp - "Common People"

Maybe the "Enjoy the Silence" prediction is just wishful thinking on my part (my #1).

Anyway I'm really weirded out by the high placement of that britney song, and I have trouble imagining that SO many people really honestly think its that good of a song, and that many of its votes aren't just a reaction to rockist dismissals of britney by ppl like rentboy.

Anyway I sure don't like it, and it's no where near as good as Toxic or I'm A Slave or, yes, Genie in a Bottle.

I'm pretty sure at least one DP song will make it, whether it'll be "Da Funk" or "Around the World" is anyone's guess.

I don't see "California Love" as a lock at all. Maybe it'll be there but it's not definite.

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I guess it just gets a lot of credit for being the first.

Back to 'Common People' - even if I can hum along to the first bit, by the time it gets to the "Like a dog lying in a corner" bit, no - I don't want to be turned inside out again like that every time.

Funnily enough, I can listen to my favourite Pulp song of all ('The Fear') as many times as I like. Maybe it's because it doesn't pretend to be all bouncy. I dunno.

Incidently to be clear - I'm not questioning that some people don't love that Britney song, just that the consensus would be so widespread among people that otherwise worship at the alter of Paranoid Android seems a little suspect. (And I find it hard to believe that Britney would rank so high w/out SOME overlap between radiohead-heads and pop-heads).

Dr. Bill's predictions look good (he did a really good job with his 00's poll predictions too), but I don't know about Neutral Milk Hotel and two Disco Inferno songss ...

Which isn't to say that I like it because it sounds like Radiohead, but because I'm a sucker for certain chord progressions, no matter their source.

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I had "Paranoid Android" and "Where Are You Baby" in my top ten. Obviously I was one of the Britney voters. I don't do anti-rockism or irony in my taste in music.

whoah whoah whoah, did i just get called a "rockist"???
hahahaha so far from right. take another look at my top 10, k?thnx

I hope against hope I'm wrong about "Chime". It is indeed "one of those classic singles" but I think its reputation has been eclipsed by the other two since. Once again, very hopeful that I'm wronga bout that.

DI vote splitting is a good point, which I think will kill the chances of "It's a Kid's World," "Love Stepping Out" and possibly "Summer's Last Sound," but I think that "The Last Dance" has a reputation strong enough to crossover to the lists of non DI obsessives (such as myself) as well, which I don't think the others have.

"Super Going" is my favorite Boredoms song and the only Boredoms song nominated. If VCN's ridiculously high placing on the 00s poll is any indication, I think their fanbase is strong enough to put "Super Going" into the 20s, but the anonymity of the specific song to non-obsessives (as you just proved) might hurt it too much. It's a toss-up.

well, yeah. it's clear his dad probably couldn't "stop at all," probably just write him a nice christmas check.

". . . But I'm not sure the American public is in fact that well acquainted with Pulp."

I know next to nothing about Neutral Milk Hotel, but aren't they more of an albums band? Is this 'Two-Headed Boy' far and away their best song, like 'Super Going'?

'Lazarus'? No way.