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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 23, 2007 14:51:32 GMT -5
Don't know if I missed anyone saying it (once a thread goes over 2 pages, I get lost sometimes), but Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" isn't on the list....that's a pretty big omission.
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Post by Sickfit, King Of The Fits on Dec 23, 2007 14:55:25 GMT -5
Don't know if I missed anyone saying it (once a thread goes over 2 pages, I get lost sometimes), but Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" isn't on the list....that's a pretty big omission. True....but VH1 probably did not want to scare it's 13 year old girl demographic with the video....... Matter of fact, I would've wanted to see March Of The Pigs up there, just to screw with the viewing public.
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Post by lovingway on Dec 23, 2007 18:23:07 GMT -5
I swear, I grew up in the 90s and watched MTV religiously, but I, for the life of me, cannot remember the Liz Phair song.
Wasn't Phil Collins big in the early 90s (Another Day in Paradise) or are the considering him more 80s? I am also surprised that Smashing Pumpkins weren't on the list
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Post by andrew8798 on Dec 23, 2007 18:31:02 GMT -5
Listen to "Exile in Guyville", which is the album where the song "Never Said" comes from, and you'll be listening to one of the greatest albums of the last 25 years. If you've only heard what she's done in the last five years, it's like comparing the Backstreet Boys to the Rolling Stones. Or her follow up "Whip Smart", which had "Supernova"; a video that got huge airplay on both MTV and VH1; plus on the alternative rock stations that were popping up everywhere at the time. (Cheesy little video, sure, but the song was catchy.) I see Christina Aguilera, but no Britney Spears. Britney's "Baby One More Time" was released at the end of 1998 and was everywhere. If "Genie In A Bottle" could hit #38, then Britney's single was surely higher. (This from a Christina fan who couldn't stand Britney.) Maybe the people who voted considered Britney to be a 2000s artist. Maybe I overlooked it, but I didn't see Boyz II Men anywhere. You would think one of their songs would make it, especially "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye (To Yesterday)". That was played at my high school graduation, so I know that was a 90s hit. (Okay, I'm done going through the 1990s Top Tens, which are not represented at all.) I like the list. There's a lot of good times on there. Not criticizing anything. It's just a list; there will be others when '90s nostalgia comes back. Britney is on there hit me baby one more time is at number 7
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 23, 2007 18:33:58 GMT -5
So does my band. Of course my band consists of me playing the spoons whailing nonsensically. Cool, Soundgarden wrote a song about your band, too Damnit they always hated me.
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Dec 23, 2007 18:41:38 GMT -5
but where the hell was Sublime? Getting overplayed as on those ads for that one Nintendo DS game. Are you sure homicide's not an option?
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Post by Virt McGirt on Dec 23, 2007 19:39:11 GMT -5
Cool, Soundgarden wrote a song about your band, too Damnit they always hated me. Spoonman, come together with your hands Save me, I'm together with your plan Save me
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Post by -Lithium- on Dec 23, 2007 19:41:31 GMT -5
One thing it seemed like was that some songs got like 5 minutes and then the number 1 song just got squeezed in there and got 2 minutes...
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 23, 2007 19:49:53 GMT -5
I swear, I grew up in the 90s and watched MTV religiously, but I, for the life of me, cannot remember the Liz Phair song. Wasn't Phil Collins big in the early 90s (Another Day in Paradise) or are the considering him more 80s? I am also surprised that Smashing Pumpkins weren't on the list I don't think Liz Phair was on MTV or radio too much. A female artist posing topless in her linear notes and dropping "C" bombs on her album was pretty shocking/revolutionary back then. "Never Said" or "6'1" were pretty clean and might've hit some sort of airplay, though.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Dec 23, 2007 20:03:26 GMT -5
but where the hell was Sublime? Getting overplayed as on those ads for that one Nintendo DS game. Are you sure homicide's not an option? Whuh? Naaaaaaaaah!
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 23, 2007 20:06:18 GMT -5
Getting overplayed as on those ads for that one Nintendo DS game. Are you sure homicide's not an option? Whuh? Naaaaaaaaah! I know what the f***
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 23, 2007 20:07:27 GMT -5
Damnit they always hated me. Spoonman, come together with your hands Save me, I'm together with your plan Save me See taunting me right there.
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Post by Virt McGirt on Dec 23, 2007 20:10:34 GMT -5
Spoonman, come together with your hands Save me, I'm together with your plan Save me See taunting me right there. Hehehe, sorry
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 23, 2007 20:11:49 GMT -5
See taunting me right there. Hehehe, sorry Well you didn't write the song.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 23, 2007 20:19:25 GMT -5
I swear, I grew up in the 90s and watched MTV religiously, but I, for the life of me, cannot remember the Liz Phair song. Wasn't Phil Collins big in the early 90s (Another Day in Paradise) or are the considering him more 80s? I am also surprised that Smashing Pumpkins weren't on the list I don't think Liz Phair was on MTV or radio too much. A female artist posing topless in her linear notes and dropping "C" bombs on her album was pretty shocking/revolutionary back then. "Never Said" or "6'1" were pretty clean and might've hit some sort of airplay, though. That wasn't her in the photos in the liner notes, it was a friend who vaguely resembled her. She's admitted that in numerous interviews now. She didn't get "big" with MTV/radio until later with Polyester Bride and then much later "sold out" (their words, not mine) and went fairly huge with the single Why Can't I
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Post by Virt McGirt on Dec 23, 2007 20:36:41 GMT -5
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Dec 23, 2007 21:48:13 GMT -5
Getting overplayed as on those ads for that one Nintendo DS game. Are you sure homicide's not an option? Whuh? Naaaaaaaaah! Hey, if he could dig up Brad Nowell and give him a Cop Ki--wait, it's probably not his fault. Okay, Cop Killas for whoever used "Santeria" in those ads.
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Post by Lancers on Dec 23, 2007 22:18:01 GMT -5
There are TONS of glaring omissions on that list. For example, one of the biggest songs that came out of the 90s isn't on the list. The Macarena. Whether you hated the song or not, that song was EVERYWHERE around 1996. No Doubt had one of the biggest records of the 90s in "Tragic Kingdom" and there isn't a single song on the list off that record. Same can be said about the Pumpkins or STP or, hell, even Ace of freakin' Base.
Like I said before, it's a completely subjective list that be argued in so many ways and everyone would have a valid point.
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Post by lovingway on Dec 24, 2007 5:28:01 GMT -5
There are TONS of glaring omissions on that list. For example, one of the biggest songs that came out of the 90s isn't on the list. The Macarena. Whether you hated the song or not, that song was EVERYWHERE around 1996. No Doubt had one of the biggest records of the 90s in "Tragic Kingdom" and there isn't a single song on the list off that record. Same can be said about the Pumpkins or STP or, hell, even Ace of freakin' Base. Damn you VH1. Damn you for not allowing Ace of Base on your puny countdown. I mark for the girls in Ace of Base I know VH1 isn't country, but I am surprised that there was no Garth Brooks on the countdown (yea I know Achy Breaky was there)
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Dec 26, 2007 16:00:34 GMT -5
What surprised me is that IMHO the three greatest female artists of the 90's Björk, Tori Amos and PJ Harvey are nowhere to be found in the list. At least Liz Phair made it.
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