pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

they (nearly) lost you!

Was going to complain about this same glaring omission but noticed they threw Mark Lanegan on there to compensate, I guess

Like many of you I loathe all of these lists on general principle but I will concede I enjoyed the One Hit Wonders list, which was obviously not meant to be complete or exhaustive, and was just a fun read. I like a lot of those songs more than I remembered. That Sixpence None The Richer song sounds a lot better to me after not hearing it constantly in the 90s everywhere I went. Now I'm wondering if "Sex and Candy" and similarly once-ubiquitous hits have aged as well

"Sex and Candy" reeked like a damp sock in 1998.

No argument. I associate it with that Sixpence song and a few others that seemed to follow me everywhere I went the year it was released

Speaking from somewhere where it was only a minor hit (UK #29 but completely forgotten) I think Sex and Candy mystifies me more than any other US one hit wonder. It's so tuneless and comatose and it turned up very late.

Let me tell you about Wheatus

don't love the song but if there's a musical moment to it that hooks it's his kind kind of slinky dragging behind the beat phrasing and nice descending guitar lick of after a quick rest in the chorus the *pause* i smell sex and can....day then *pause* "who's that loung....in" part

not really enough to make it a good song but that is the musical thing that made the song popular imo

I feel like this song has come up a lot lately, lol

UMS otm... I don't blame anyone for not liking it (I do), but I think the hook is undeniable

I don't think that's top 10 catchy at all, especially not when its played as half-asleep as it sounds. Mind you I've never had to hear the song repeatedly.

I studied abroad in the UK in 1998-99 and was asked by the student newspaper to name my least favorite song of 1998, and I said "Sex and Candy," though I don't think the person asking was familiar with it.

Both were hard to find in the UK in that era iirc

Let me tell you about Wheatus

― hi hole im dad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 7, 2022 11:59 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

that song never actually made the hot 100 but did hit #2 in the uk and #1 in australia

the one time i saw marcy playground in concert most of their songs reminded me of archers of loaf. also "sex and candy" is good imo

that song never actually made the hot 100 but did hit #2 in the uk and #1 in australia

And, regardless of whatever its quality may be, it's tuneful and lively and makes total sense in a 2001 chart context.

It actually kept Last Resort at #3 and was released just as Rollin' slipped from number one. Give the Feeder and Ash classics (for they are classics) in the top 10 as well around that time early 2001 was maybe the most powerful Kerrang! had ever been on the singles chart.

In the UK this is not AUS

Shame it was pure shite era Kerrang

Yet the 'pure shite era' is what Kerrang treats now as the totem age. Helps matters that many of their key bands of the time are popular with Gen Z.

the period after is actually when they got peak sales and over 50% of readership was female. I don't really know what they were covering though (Brad emo?) as I stopped buying it because of the pure shite era beforehand.

White Stripes were getting coverage in that so called totem age. Along with the darkness and the hives + the remains of nu metal.

Sex and Candy is a lazy groove banger. It was huge here in Aotearoa NZ and I can see why. Nobody can convince me it isn't a great song.

Oh god Maroon 5 covered it... Travesty

don't love the song but if there's a musical moment to it that hooks it's his kind kind of slinky dragging behind the beat phrasing and nice descending guitar lick of after a quick rest in the chorus the *pause* i smell sex and can....day then *pause* "who's that loung....in" part

not really enough to make it a good song but that is the musical thing that made the song popular imo

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 7, 2022 1:00 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

like disco lemonayyyyyde

Oh god Maroon 5 covered it... Travesty

― The Ghost Club

Adam & the Levines would know.

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Today I learned that "Teenage Dirtbag" is my ten-year-old niece's favourite song.

“Here Comes the Hotstepper” = notable omission from the One Hit Wonders list (even if it wasn’t deemed worthy of Best Songs).

(checks site idly post-12am EDT Sunday)

Whoa… did Wu-Tang die or something?

how a 90s song list that doesn't include sugar ray's "fly" is criminal.

proto-Fleet Foxes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtVORaI-f0s

Their 90’s house list is agreeable for the most part.

The music doesn’t begin so much as surface, as if “Around the World” arises from some great depth, that lowpass filter cutting out the high-end without obscuring the “fundamental” signal. And then the song fully emerges, the bass suddenly going like something stolen out from under Bernard Edwards’ fingertips, the hi-hat doing that bright, open chhh business on the offbeat. The up-from-underground stuff turns out to have been sort of poignantly appropriate. “Around the World” was an exhumation, disco as reworked in post-industrial Chicago and Detroit, then adapted anew by two blessed weirdos from Montmartre, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Who says dance music isn't exciting?

damn another classic by that guy

i've said it before and i'll say it again–"da funk" destroys "around the world" any day of the week

agree 1000%

1000000000000%

what if they are both good songs?

they only picked one

My only complaint about this list is that they picked a bunch of songs that they already wrote up blurbs about in the top 250 songs list.

missing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1vf854aUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwda46cNMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSpLqmY6K0

Hard pass on the David Morales and there are much much better AVH productions. The Bucketheads was pretty much peak Kenny Gonzalez though true.

oh yeah, didn't even realize "the bomb" wasn't on there! damn

Fly Life in its Brix Mix is a top 10 record of the 90s

and the Extra mix is a stunning catwalk of bass and freeform white noise

Pitchfork doesn’t really have any authority to run such a list, afaic— why would I pay attention to it?

What does authority have to do with it? It's just some people's opinions about music.

Pitchfork let their music opinion license lapse.

What does authority have to do with it?

well they call it "The 30 Best House Tracks of the ’90s" so you might think they were experts on the genre

don't imagine people who care deeply abt 90s house look to p4k for coverage

enjoyed the list

are there reasons to assert Sherburne and Cardew aren't experts here? I'm no expert, so I genuinely don't know

I meant merely what corrs understood— P4k is not a site that has much to do with the genre, and p4k wasn’t even around during much of that decade. Sherburne is a fine writer and a nice person, from my
memories, but it just seems like a primer that has been done before by publications that come from the culture. Yeah, it’s a boring ‘authenticity’ argument, but oh well— that’s what a site is subject to when it is a clearinghouse for criticism of every genre of music.

Yeah, that's fair; I feel similarly when they turn their attention to Jamaican music. Plus there is something undeniably opportunistic or just trend-chasing about big-upping house in particular right now

(my q was based on the fact that Sherburne is the primary reason I read their reviews these days, but I hear you)