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

given all the "ILM wuvs soppy indie pop" comments upthread, what are the odds on Sixpence None The Richer making the top ten?!? i noticed it got a few mentions in the 'what did you vote for?' thread

WINDY AND CARL - "Antarctica"" (2332 points, 76 votes, 8 first place votes)

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SABRES OF PARADISE - "Wilmot" (3476 points, 82 votes, 17 first place votes)

(Not in this universe. Wait! Check the voting machines!)

i've still got 11 that haven't shown up, by my best guess i'd say that no more than 3 of those will make it ("Soon", "Groove Is In The Heart" and "Lazarus") and probably only the first two actually will.

no way is 'Lazarus' gonna make it, wtf people

but then i could kinda think that about everything in my list (the part where delacy sings her first lines over the church organ/bass, the part where the first avh bline kicks in after the "sspppppiiinnnnnnnn spppppiiinnnnnnnn suuuugggggggggg-aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" timestretch thingy and all hell breaks loose, etc)

but most of all i just feel sad that NO ONE else voted for "Autobiography". you should all download it when i get the folder put together and shared. i guarantee you'll either love it or you hate music

i think you may be onto something!

:-p

The Foo Fighters placing above Nirvana would be some kind of victory against rockism, I feel (even if Everlong is the only song of there's a I really love).

I've no idea what's on the nominations list or what is going to make the Top 10. There isn't the unexploded bomb of another Belle and Sebastian song is there?

How do you feel about Corny Hip-Hop Fuxx? Because there seem to be a lot of those around.

I suspect there may well be, sleeping at bus stops...

There isn't enough balance to this thread. Some of us should start to rant incoherently about how the list isn't indie ENOUGH.

there are, aren't there? Their reaction when I say something like "Diamond Princess is a better album than Illmatic" is akin to the reaction of cornie indie fuxx when I say something like "Emma Bunton is better than Wilco". And they really hate Princess Superstar!

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.

Um no not at all - actually I was suggesting the opposite, it was a little rhetorical trick, essentially I don't think ANY artist should have five songs in the top 100 singles of the decade, or if it is they certainly should have earned it. I LIKE st. etienne (in fact, I think I voted for "Like a Motorway") yet I think wu-tang's 5 best singles trump st. etiennes, but that point aside, I think its pretty clear where ILM's heart is in this matter.

wtf is Beck's "Loser" doing all the way up here?

(I'm not questioning the results, that this is what many ILMers really believe, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about it - you know, like that election that happened the other day.)

(I'm not questioning the results, that this is what many ILMers really believe, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about it - you know, like that election that happened the other day.)

Sure, but you made it sound as if you thought the collated results should reflect your view of the nineties better. (When the point is that only your own list does that, and the end list reflects no one's)

It made me happy!