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

I had "Shame on a Nigga" at #2, actually.

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

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

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

EMINEM - "My Name Is" (271 points, 21 votes)

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Slim Shady does not give a fuck what I think.

- David Sim

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.

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

BASEMENT JAXX - "Rendez-Vu" (278 points, 18 votes)

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"'Rendez-Vu' = immediate satisfaction."

- Eric H

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

xpost - thanks Gear.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "When You Sleep" (284 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)

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from Loveless

"Today I was listening to Loveless and when "When You Sleep" came on, I couldn't stop imagining Prince singing it. And then I started clapping on the backbeat, and really wanted to dance."

-- A.V. Alexandre

THE CURE - "Pictures of You" (286 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"Personally, I am ecstatic that I live in a society where people think that the lyrics "Looking so long at these pictures of you/But never held on to your heart/Looking so long for the words to be true/But always just breaking apart my pictures of you" can sell digital cameras."

-- Dan Perry

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. featuring PUFF DADDY and MASE - "Mo Money, Mo Problems" (290 points, 21 votes)

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"citizen kane's ideology = mo money mo problems."

-- nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh

And the low scores for "Belfast" and "Like a Motorway" are more than a little shocking. I thought the latter would almost definitely be top 20. And does "Belfast"'s low placing mean that "Chime" didn't make it at all? Oh well.

"O.P.P." making it is good stuff though.

I don't even remember sending comments, but I know I could've done a whole lot better than that. I should at least mention that the fuzzy friction of the last chord in the flamenco's four-chord progression in the intro is like pulling what you think is a pubic hair out of your mouth and discovering it's pull-n-peel red licorice.