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#11
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (1991)
Score: 1632 points
Biggest fans:
Vgrd (#1), Miguel (#2), Honorio and otisredding (#5)
Comments:
Massive Attack designed the everlasting electronic hymn of the 90s, equally apt for dancing madly on the dance floor (courtesy of its house rhythm and hip-hop scratching) and for listening quietly in your bedroom (courtesy of its amazing string arrangements and the soulful Shara Nelson vocals). (Honorio)
Every time I listen to Blue Lines and this comes on, it hits me like a brick in the face. That’s how powerful it is. (Rendle)
Place in the 1991 poll: 4
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 6
#10
Oasis - Live Forever (1994)
Score: 1691 points
Biggest fans:
Midaso (#2), Twister (#3), MightyMadMax, Toni and Fred (#4)
Comments:
Sublime (Toni)
Place in the 1994 poll: 1
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 7
#8
U2 - One (1991)
Score: 1720 points
Biggest fans:
Anthony (#2), Henrik, DrDre and Neoptolemos (#3)
Comments:
Beautiful and timeless. (DrDre)
I don't know why I and so much other people like this one so much. (Toni)
Place in the 1991 poll: 3
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 8
OK, at your service:
"Losing my common teen spirit." 
Or how about "Smells Like Common Religion"?
#7
The La's - There She Goes (1990 -- original version 198
Score: 1729 points
Biggest fans:
Rendle (#3), Michel (#4), Mo (#5)
Comments:
This song creates addiction. But don’t blame it to heroin, blame it to the secret ingredient of the formula of pop, the one that makes you sing along and hear the song again and again, the one that makes this style superior to any other (in my opinion). By the way, I don’t know the secret ingredient. If I knew it maybe I would be Paul McCartney. Or Lee Mavers. (Honorio)
Amazing pop song. (Rendle)
Too catchy melody. And the vocals make me guess they had listened very much to the madchester bands! (Toni)
Place in the 1990 -- original version 1988 poll: 1
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 26
#6
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (1994)
Score: 1762 points
Biggest fans:
Twister and SuperFurry (#1), MightyMadMax and Nicolas (#5)
Comments:
The most renowned track from the excellent album “Grace” was a cover of a Leonard Cohen song and only features voice and electric guitar. But, what a voice! A voice that justifies all the acclaim (and more), a voice that manages to be simultaneously sweet and passionate, immaculate and chilling, natural and stylish, calmed and poignant… (Honorio)
"Grace" would have been in my top 10 songs easily (LonesomePanda)
One of the best cover songs of all time. Period. (Rendle)
Place in the 1994 poll: 3
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 329
#5
Radiohead - No Surprises (1997)
Score: 1809 points
Biggest fans:
Honorio and Paul Manusama (#1), Chris (#3)
Comments:
Morrissey recommended us to hang the DJ “because the music that he constantly plays / it says nothing to me about my life”. Songs are pieces of other’s lives that only gets its true sense when are integrated in yours. That’s why I’ve decided that “No Surprises” talks about my life. About the job that slowly kills me. About my pretty house and my pretty garden. About my life with no alarms and no surprises. (Honorio)
You can hear the tiredness in Tom’s voice, as if he’s actually speaking for himself. (Rendle)
My favorite part of this song is the guitar's harmony with Yorke as he repeats the chorus at the end. (Schwah)
The perfect song to listen before sleeping. I find it's very fresh and relaxing (I, curiosly, don't find none of this 4 Ok Computer songs sad as much people do!). Another masterpiece from this incredible album. (Toni)
Place in the 1997 poll: 3
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 241
My slogan is getting paranoid now
#4
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (1991)
Score: 1830 points
Biggest fans:
DrDre and Howlin' Andrew (#1), Harold Wexler, Mike Kelly and Nicolas (#2)
Comments:
“Life is bigger / bigger than you”. Michael Stipe sending out a string of inscrutable confessions. “That’s me in the spotlight / losing my religion”. Peter Buck playing a timeless mandolin. “Consider this / the hint of the century”. The poetic (and commercial) zenith that R.E.M. were pursuing from the middle eighties. But “I’ve said too much / I haven’t said enough”. (Honorio)
My #1 song of the 90's too and ended #3 in my personal bracketology. (DrDre)
It has one of the gratest arrangements among this 100 songs, and that's all. The main melody itself doesn't have anything of so special in it, but that mandolin and the acustic guitars creat a too much touching, pungent climate. The time music begins to grow in its end, however, is the moment in which I feel this is definitely one of my favorite 90's songs. (Toni)
Place in the 1991 poll: 2
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 2
#3
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)
Score: 1996 points
Biggest fans:
Harold Wexler, Nicolas, Rendle and Mike Kelly (#1)
Comments:
The main features of the generation X anthem are the generational-angst lyrics (“here we are mow / entertain us”
and the Pixies-style loud-quiet-loud structure. But the thing that grabbed my attention when I heard it for the first time on the radio was this “silly” two-note (d-f) guitar line during the verses and the contrast with the ferocious riff during the chorus. (Honorio)
Kicked off the nineties like a bullet. (Rendle)
Place in the 1991 poll: 1
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 1
Smells Like Teen Spirit is gone? No.... 
#2
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (1997)
Score: 2015 points
Biggest fans:
MightyMadMax (#1), Vgrd (#2), Dumbangel (#3)
Comments:
The “Happines Is A Warm Gun” of the nineties. (Lazy OK Computer/White Album comparison, pt. 1) (Rendle)
The song that could almost give prog rock a good name. (Schwah)
Everything is perfect here. All the melodies song by Thom Yorke are total inspiration and are gave the interpretation they deserve. The arrangement are able to be even best: the obscure backing vocals, the guitar lines (specially those in the begging of the song and the riff that sporadically appears). And, of course, the auspicious structure of the song, following the idea from Happiness Is a Warm Gun of joining diferent themes in the same song in a perfectly fluent progression. It isn't coincidence that everytime I think about OK Computer, this song is which imediately come to my mind. (Toni)
Place in the 1997 poll: 1
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 36
#1
Pulp - Common People (1995)
Score: 2278 points
Biggest fans:
Tim, tremolo, Neoptolemos, Mitchell Stirling and Midaso (#1)
Comments:
Jarvis Cocker embellished a real story about a fellow student from a Greek rich family. But in real life she never said “I want to sleep with common people like you”. (Honorio)
Last song from this list with 5 stars (i.e. in my favorite top 100). If only 'pulp' could be as good quality as this. (DrDre)
Probably the only Pulp song I really like, yet the summit of brit pop (LonesomePanda)
One of the songs that you’ve got to love for the lyrics. (Rendle)
I find this song to be audacious because the story it tells could have been such holier than thou nonsense. Cocker's British wit saves the song, and the arrangement maks it great. (Schwah)
Perfect song. Full of electronic sounds that help to construct both a dancable hit and a dramatic piece. One of the greatest Britpop tracks. (Toni)
Place in the 1995 poll: 1
Acclaimed Music 1990s rank: 4
Tadaa! Common People is a well-deserved and worthy winner.
Henrik, many thanks again for all the work you've done and building up the tension and excitement up until the end. That was fun!
Perfect ending, perfect time to go to bed.
Cheers!
I'm finally back and it seems like I missed all the fun here.
Great winner and Radiohead is just way too high. 
"...this single being ranked so high is ludicrous and it is way overrated..."
Midaso - going from THAT to a #2 vote. I can't get over the transformation.