The top 100 songs from the 1990s - the final results, page 1
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Thanks to everyone who has voted through the year! It has been so much fun!
Special thanks to those of you who have written comments to the 100 albums and songs in this final poll. But it's not too late for comments. Let's have a rich conversation in this thread, all the way from #100 to #1.
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#99 House of Pain - Jump Around (1992)
Score: 963 points
Biggest fans: Fred (#11), Mo (#13), Schwah (#19)
Comments: Seven years after this came out, there still was no song that would pack the dance floor at clubs in Boston like this song. Nah, it's not real hip hop, but it's a damn fine party anthem. (Schwah)
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#98 Fugees - Ready or Not (1996)
Score: 1005 points
Biggest fans: Neoptolemos (#16), Honorio (#22), Henrik (#31)
Comments: Yes, Lauryn, I’m ready, tell me. “So while you’re imitating Al Capone / I’ll be Nina Simone / and defecating on your microphone” Wow! (Honorio)
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To quote wikipedia:
"The track "Ready or Not" samples Enya's "Boadicea". Initially this sample was uncredited, and Enya was prepared to sue for copyright infringement, however decided not to when she discovered that the Fugees are not gangsta rappers."
And yes Honorio it does seem that way. I was up at 8AM, which is when I start working. (I work from home on saturdays)
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#96 Blur - For Tomorrow (1993)
Score: 1014 points
Biggest fans: Toni (#7), Collin and Fred (#10)
Comments: I can't think of a better song (musically speaking, although I love it's lirics, either) to translate the atmosphere of a reflexion about future. The ironic lirics united to the hope and joyfull melody and arrangements make this song a really emotional masterpiece and one of the peaks of this incredible band's carreer. Also, it's one of the first singles to contain all the elements of what would be called Britpop in the next year. It's quite of a very underrated song. (Toni)
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As expected, not a lot of love for rap and hiphop. Still, at least they made it to the top 100. Makes you wonder where all those voters went that brought it to #4 of 1999 in the first place.
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Well, it seems that hip hop is going to stay at the bottom of our lists.
And, yes, Neoptolemos, I'm working now on my computer too (preparing a conference for Monday). But it's refreshing to peep the AM list every five or ten minutes.
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That's not very promising for "The Miseducation Of", which I think is a lovely album. One of the very few where the talking parts actually seem like they belong. My #20.
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#86 Blur - This Is a Low (1994)
Score: 1092 points
Biggest fans: Slush (#2), Mitchell Stirling (#3), Fred (#16)
Comments: This one I only began to like last year, after many and many auditions of Parklife. And now I understand why people love it so much. It's grand, magnificent. When it proposes itself to be delicate, it's the most delicate possible; when it has to be sad, it's sad like no other song; and so when it has to be clamorous, or has to explode is a guitar riff. All is very intense. Even Damon's melodies and Coxon's guitar lines here are better than in the other tracks. It's the grand finale Parklife deserves. (Toni)
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Honorio, you can also tick "Disable Smilies". I'll try to remember that.
So far, only 3 out of 16 songs are not in the AM top 100 of the '90s. Looks like we're saving place for the forum-favorites. Remember that we have in the poll 10 songs that are not even in the all-time top 3000. How high will they be?
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Honorio and Neoptolemos, don't despair. Although some of your favourites are down here, all of us, and I mean all voters, have a positive correlation with the total ranking. The figures given below are correlation with the forum poll total and then the correlation with AM.
Honorio 0.44 and 0.07
Neoptolemos 0.26 and 0.23
Henrik 0.29 and 0.22
Seems like we all think that we have a better taste here in the forum than at the critic's end.
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#77 Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name (1992)
Score: 1163 points
Biggest fans: Henrik (# , Toni (#10), Nicolas (#14)
Comments: I have to confess that I uncredibly had never listened to this song before this poll, and I first listened to it with bad expectatives. And now it 's surprisingly in a great position in my list. Full of energy song! (Toni)
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#74 Blur - The Universal (1995)
Score: 1169 points
Biggest fans: Schwah (# , Mo (#9), Toni (#1
Comments: I don't know why I like this song so much. If I really spent some time to think about it, it might drop in my estimation. But I'm a fool for orchestrated pop-rock, and this is a prime example. (Schwah)
Love it's dramaticity. The violins provide a climate of imense ampleness like the title sugests. And then it explodes in the chorus, with all that metals, women choir and the peak of the melody that grows along the first part of the song. Pure emotion. (Toni)
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There are six songs each by Blur, Radiohead and R.E.M. We've already had three Blur songs, when do you think we get to the first Radiohead and R.E.M. songs?
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There are some REM songs I really like, but I really don't think that the 6 of them deserve the top 50 (especially one of them which I don't really know why so many people have voted for on first round)
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#71 The Cure - Friday, I'm in Love (1992)
Score: 1185 points
Biggest fans: otisredding (#6), Tim (#7), Henrik (#13)
Comments: Timeless and classic pop song from a band you couldn’t expect such straightforward song. But even in the weirdest Cure albums Robert Smith always hided a pop heart. (Honorio)
One of the weakest Cure singles ever ! (LonesomePanda)
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#69 New Radicals - You Get What You Give (199
Score: 1193 points
Biggest fans: Anthony (#1), Neoptolemos (#4), Vgrd (#10)
Comments: The best pop single of the past 15 years - brilliantly written (Anthony)
It seems a very much comercial and fool track, but I've always liked it very much. Although, I don't listen to it very much, since I know I can easily become tired of it. (Toni)
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No, Moonbeam didn't participate. I wish he had, I think our votes would have been positively correlated. (Although that depends which decade you're looking at )
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#67 Blur - Girls and Boys (1994)
Score: 1206 points
Biggest fans: Slush (#1), Dumbangel (# , Howlin' Andrew and Mike Kelly (#10)
Comments: I think the secret of this song is the inovative crossing beetween the funky bass, the rock guitar and the electronic drums, cause I find the melody sung by Damon quite boring in its own. Anyway, after years listening to this, now I like it too much, although continue not understanding why this is Blur's second most acclaimed song. (Toni)
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#66 Oasis - Supersonic (1994)
Score: 1209 points
Biggest fans: Dumbangel (#1), Toni (#3), MightyMadMax (#12)
Comments: I don't know which elements are so special in this song's construction, as in much other tracks from Definitely Maybe. They were all supposed to be very awful moments in Oasis' debut. But Supersonic, like all those others, is an irresistable track, not to mention it's the starting point of a meteoric carreer that can't pass unnoticed by no one. (Toni)
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#65 Weezer - Buddy Holly (1994)
Score: 1220 points
Biggest fans: Toni (#1), Paul Manusama (#6), John (#13)
Comments: One of the few songs I think I loved in the very first audition. Perferct melody and very amazing unexpectable moments. Surely, it's pure inspiration. (Toni)
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When artists have more songs in the list, maybe the voters are biassed a bit and vote the songs they like more, a bit higher, and the ones they like less, lower.
In other words, people that like Girls & Boys, might still give it a lower vote in favor of Song 2. Same with Supersonic versus Live Forever. Or am I talking rubbish here?
Comments: dogboydogboydohudhsfubdusofhdizofudsighfuds, etc. I don’t really know what to make of Born Slippy.NUXX except that it’s out of this world. (Rendle)