Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1999 poll

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Yup, Canadian boy here, and the radio here was all BSB, Eminem, Limp Bizkit and all that shit at the time.

Also surprised that "Steal My Sunshine" isn't here. One of the few pop singles I liked from that year, along with Blondie's "Maria" (this may have been late '98?) and Tal Bachman's "She's So High."

all three of those were in pazz and jop's top 40 that year

Play was such a weird phenomenon. it's v pretty but Moby is such an obvious hack. though I will still rep for these:
http://www.discogs.com/Moby-Go-Remixes/release/6290276
http://www.discogs.com/Moby-Ambient/master/2667

I don't know why I always incorrectly think Joshua Kadison was a thing around '99. His soul-demolishing AC blandness just seems to fit in better a few years later, I guess.

I will rep hard for Moby's Ambient. I have a sweet playlist of that and all of the other ambient cuts sprinkled throughout his discography. It's what he does/did best imo.

There was that article in Select (or NME) at the time where the writer tried to go a whole week without hearing any song from Play out in the wild. He lasted about a day and a half I think?

Steal My Sunshine, Drinkin In LA (UK hit in 99) and Get What You Give, make up a triumvirate of nice 1999 jams I didn't mind too much that summer.

dEUS have the best Blur song on this list

"What's My Age Again?" is an absolute classic, a ridiculously brilliant pop song, from one of the best albums of all time.

holy fuck i came here to post the exact same me as dog latin posted an hour ago

my good man are you a fellow smoothie

meme* not "me"

I'd forgotten how awesome Deceptacon is

'Deceptacon' remix also super hot.

There's a few pretty good ones here, but this is ODB by far. I think this list is missing most of the great mainstream pop songs released during the year, and I'm surprised there's nothing from "69 Love Songs", though I guess that's not really a singles album.

"The Book of Love" seems to have become something of a standard, so yeah, it's absence is a bit glaring.

Voted for Big Pimpin

great year. voting for "once around the block," one of my all -time favorites.

It kinda annoys me when some of these posts seem to judge the entire year of music based on acclaimedmusic's top 40 singles.

Coffee + TV is the exact opposite of "fucking horrible."

it's my gun-to-head favourite blur song i think. i like how backgrounded coxon's vocals are.

Great stuff:

1 342 Eminem - My Name Is
2 398 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
3 485 TLC - No Scrubs
4 626 The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
7 971 Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money
8 1167 Destiny's Child - Say My Name
9 1259 Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
10 1265 Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
11 1348 Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
14 1504 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
16 1611 Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.
17 1693 Le Tigre - Deceptacon
18 1714 Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
26 2347 Macy Gray - I Try
28 2359 Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
29 2360 The Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)
31 2585 Blink-182 - What's My Age Again?
38 2891 Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty

Madonna, Blink and Dre stand out - voting Madonna.

It kinda annoys me when some of these posts seem to judge the entire year of music based on acclaimedmusic's top 40 singles.

Fair enough, though I really do remember 1999 being an awful year for pop music, and this list contains a few (though by no means all) of the reasons why.

I really do remember 1999 being an awful year for pop music

same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_Music!_3_%28U.S._series%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_Music!_4_%28U.S._series%29

i really really dislike beautiful stranger for some reason.

Are Blink 182 popular on ILM? Curious.

Oh man, I had forgot about fucking "Hey Leonardo."

I never got what was so great about "Beautiful Stranger" either. A throwaway soundtrack cut that has somehow been elevated to classic status--hell, it came in at #20 in our Madonna poll!

FTR, I'm not crazy about this list and agree that '99 was a pretty miserable year for pop music, but there's plenty of other stuff I love from that year (just taking a look real quick, there are some wonderful albums by Basement Jaxx, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Cibo Matto (I know I'm in the minority on that one), Fiona Apple, Jim O'Rourke, Lamb, Mr. Bungle, Olivia Tremor Control, Royal Trux, Sleater-Kinney, Solex, Takako Minekawa, and US Maple). I think I was mostly obsessed with Elephant 6 and GBV in '99, neither of which was hugely represented that year.

xp i'm trying to think of the 60s song it alludes to. Is it Light My Fire? Wiki says it's a Love song, but I'm not sure.

'She Comes In Colors'. Someone mentioned it upthread.

It always did seem like more an allusion or accident than the rip-off some have suggested.

99 could not in any way be described as a miserable year for pop music. This list only like 20 classics.

^^^^

but then if you were paying *any attention whatsoever* to blur in the middle of this golden age of pop, r&b and rap, maybe you would think it was shit

golden age of commercial dance too

There was some great pop music, but this is the stuff I remember dominating '99:

J-Lo
Sugar Ray
Santana
Enrique
Matchbox 20
Third Eye Blind
Shania
'Mambo No. 5'
fucking 'Lullaby'

my overriding memory of pop music in 1999 is the omnipresence of this monstrosity, which I guess was the UK equivalent of Supernatural

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/935/MI0002935001.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

(though maybe if I listened to it now, perhaps I might think that some of it is OK? I don't think I've ever heard the Portishead track. 'Sex Bomb' will always be unforgivable though)

oh yes that's the most 1999 thing i can think of. I never want to hear Sex Bomb again.

And I'd managed to blot out his appearance with the Stereophonics but jeez there were a lot of reasons to despair in this year.

'Beautiful Stranger', easily.

I listened to BS on Youtube and it sounded... weird, like a record sped-up or something? I don't know if I was listening to the right version. I remember it being a bit housier than that.

I distinctly remember hearing Re-Rewind for the first time (on Live & Kicking's jukebox jury segment, lol) and having an honest-to-goodness 'this is amazing, what is this, even?' reaction, so I voted for that

There are lots of bad songs on the radio every year. Most year-end Hot 100s from the late '80s to the present contain about half bad songs. (More than half over the past 10 years.)

IMO a slightly higher quality picture of the year's singles (throughout the '80s and '90s anyway) would come from MTV's Top 100 countdown lists from any of those years because they tended to include less adult contemporary stuff in favor of more alt-rock, r&b and hiphop.

The acclaimedmusic lists from these same years bug me because most of the EOY lists it pulls from are from UK magazines whose selections were more or less interchangeable.

wow this list is not good, imo

only thing i can get somewhat excited about is "DOOMS NIGHT"

or "ms new booty"

no cash money = smdh

"i want it that way" is a quality tune

99 is actually one of my all time favorite years for music, maybe my favorite of my lifetime.

I think in '99 I starting avoiding the radio entirely in favor of K and Polyvinyl, but I voted for the Beck song. And no I haven't heard any Prince LPs, why do people keep asking me that

Smooth because it's great and lots of people here hate it.

smooth IS great