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

JAY-Z - "Big Pimpin'" (523 points, 31 votes, 1 first place vote)

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comments?

dont question my music tastes unless you really know them.

And I also said multiple times that there is britpop that I like.

DAFT PUNK - "Around the World" (538 points, 36 votes)

http://transbenik.free.fr/Daft/around2.JPG

" "Around The World" had that typically early 80s 4/4 drum beat with handclaps and a Linn-sounding drum machine type og drum sound. The synths were present in techno before it too, but then they would have more like either the standard 2/2 trance beat with roughly the same emphasis on bass drum and snare drum, or they would have breakbeats. "Around The World" was a revival of the more typical early 80s sound in that matter."
-- Geir Hongro

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DR. DRE - "Nuthin' But A G Thang" (561 points, 33 votes, 2 first place votes)

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"Although it's not trumpeted about as such, I fully believe that "Ain't Nuthin Like a G Thang" had just as powerful an impact on modern music as did "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I still get all woohoo and shit when "...G Thang" comes on the radio..."
-- nickalicious

I'm just saying that I think its weird how much british music with a very similar aesthetic from this period ppl are throwing up here.

So what you're saying is that you would have wanted ppl to vote for stuff *you* like, instead of stuff they like, so *your* tastes would have been better reflected on the list.
Uh-huh.

SINEAD O'CONNOR - "Nothing Compares 2 U" (578 points, 32 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://sineadoconnor.safeway.sk/discography/cds/1990/nothing_compares_2_u_big.jpg

"Sinead's "Nothing Compares 2 U" ... simply a stunning song. Whenever I hear it in a public space I retreat within myself and can only pay attention to the music. Recently my parents were visiting town, and my mother was talking on and on in a bakery and yet I was completely elsewhere, wrapped up in this as it trailed out of the ceiling speakers..."
-- Dare

STARDUST - "Music Sounds Better With You" (581 points, 34 votes, 2 first place votes)

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Few tracks in the '90s were better and I think teh poll reflects that, yep

sinead's 'nc2u' blows any of prince's away

MASSIVE ATTACK - "Unfinished Sympathy" (590 points, 34 votes, 2 first place votes)

http://212.85.103.226/massiveattack/massiveattack/img/dyskografia/unfinishedsympathy7.jpg

" "Unfinished Sympathy" is a deeply brilliant song on almost every level I can think of; singing, arrangement, production, rhythm, the video, its influence on the music scene, etc etc."
--Dan Perry

ILM and its Daft Punk worship ...

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BECK - "Loser" (592 points, 34 votes)

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"I had a taped version of Loser by Beck off the radio, and for some reason they cut it off after the first verse, so I listened and listened to that tape and memorized the whole first verse, and then when I heard the whole song my mind expanded, and now I'm omnipotent."
-- NA

That bottom 50 was exceptionally tight though, with all those ties.

AALIYAH - "Are You That Somebody?" (599 points, 32 votes, 3 first place votes)

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(christ)

having some trouble finding comments for this one, dammit.

NIRVANA - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (615 points, 30 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"If you can not still turn up the fuckin' stereo and feel that "feeling" to the opening chords of "Smells Like Teen-spirit" then stop being a Rock Snob and trade your copies of Nevermind and In Utero and Bleach in at the used CD shoppe (maybe they'll go to a good home, you can keep Unplugged to play at Tuesday's wine and cheese party)and see if you can get a pristine copy of Mozart's Requiem to play at your funeral 'cause Baby, it's O-V-E-R."
-- Speedy Gonzalas

BLACKSTREET - "No Diggity" (616 points, 31 votes, 2 first place votes)

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"Riley was interviewed by MTV years back and mentioned how the track was laying down the foundations for a 'heavier r n' b' sound. the guitar lick and 'mmm hmmm' vocal are lifted straight from old blues and you get the impression Moby has spent a while now trying to imitate what they've done here. addding a Dre style beat and the ragtime-ish piano...its such a great hook - total head nodding booty shaking stuff."
--blueski

Well, "from the Dr Dolittle soundtrack" says it all, really.

some who have showed up show up again, some who have never showed up finally make an appearance, and some you really think are gonna make it are buried somewhere down around #118 or #146...

-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), November 10th, 2004 4:03 AM. (lat

This is such a brilliant idea. Someone should do an amended cover version and make no attempt to make it scan properly.

10. New Order -- Regret
9. Orbital -- Chime
8. Daft Punk -- Da Funk
7. Geto Boys - "Mind Playin' Tricks on Me"
6. Breeders - "Cannonball"
5. Warren G. f/ Nate Dogg - "Regulate"
4. My Bloody Valentine - "Soon"
3. Deee-Lite - "Groove is in the Heart"
2. Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
1. Pulp - "Common People"

Although I have very little confidence in these guesses -- I didn't expect a lot of those tracks to place this high. Swapping most of #11-20 with 1-10 is closer to what I was thinking.

PEARL JAM - "Bugs" (3262 points, 103 votes, 19 first place votes)

Deep Blue Something - "Breakfast At Tiffany's"