Songs that debuted and peaked at the bottom of the Modern Rock Charts

Pretty execrable. Boo Radleys I guess altho I can't remember which of those songs is the better one.

PWEI vs Was (Not Was) vs Opus III

At least 3 songs about dinosaurs here.

Alice in Chains

I love all these polls.

At least 3 songs about dinosaurs here.

Hilarious.

same as DJP minus Was (Not Was)

The New Order song is also great so you could sub out my W(NW) callout for that

Voted Alice in Chains -- it's the only song I actually listen to somewhat regularly. The Boo Radleys ones aren't bad. Def Con 1 is OK too.

Hilarious

had no idea the farm had 'hits' that weren't either groovy train or all together now. think i can live without hearing them though.

"Love See No Colour" is lame, but "Messiah" has its moments.

I FEEL SO ALONE
GONNA END UP A BIG OL' PILE OF THEM BONES

"(Believed You Were) Lucky"

lol @ at the idea of Joan Armatrading charting.

had no idea the farm had 'hits' that weren't either groovy train or all together now. think i can live without hearing them though.

― john wahey (NickB),

"Rising Sun" got a lot of airplay in my hood.

The Richard Thompson song is called "Turning Of The Tide" for what it's worth, there was that Alternative Nation-era cover of it by Bob Mould that I can't find on the youtube.

Opus III – It's A Fine Day (8/15/92)

I owned this cassingle…haven't heard it in 20 years.

I still play "It's A Fine Day" at least once every 7 weeks

I prefer "I Talk To The Wind" tho

A few weeks ago my son kept asking for me to play "the dinosaur song" on my phone and I had no idea what he was talking about, but he was rather insistent. I played him "Walk the Dinosaur" and he absolutely loved it, though it turned out that he was actually hoping to hear the Dinosaur Train theme song.

I'll probably vote for "Making Plans for Nigel" though, Miscellaneous Debris was the first Primus I ever heard and it was my introduction to the XTC original.

"(Believed You Were)Lucky"

is that 'Til Tuesday album as good as certain critics claim?

Opus III definitely got some airplay on the Bay Area modern rock station.

The Joan Armatrading song is the biggest WTF on here. Not sure what station would play it.

Oh god, I think I remember that Eve's Plum song. Why? How?

that Til Tuesday song charted at #30 on the mainstream rock chart, according to Wiki.

I think Wiki is wrong:

http://popradiotop20.com/Modern-Rock/TilTuesday.htm

Hilarious flashback: http://popradiotop20.com/MR-1988-09-02.htm

oh my sides

what's a "Paul Kelly & The Colored Girls"

^^^

Sounds like one of those dumb things.

Paul Kelly has recorded in a lot of different configurations...some of them less fortunately named than others.

Oh god, I think I remember that Eve's Plum song. Why? How?

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:40 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It did appear on Beavis & Butthead. Maybe that's it?

And of course Eve's Plum singer Colleen Fitzpatrick = Vitamin C.

Opus III easily (sampled to great effect by Orbital a year later)

Alfred: Everything's Different Now is definitely the most consistently strong of the Til Tuesday albums, and I get why critics tend to vastly prefer it of the three. Welcome Home is still my own fave, owing largely to "Coming up Close" and "No One is Watching You Now" and maybe a little bit to nostalgia (personal soundtrack to first big heartbreak yadda yadda). If you've heard that album, imagine more "On Sunday" and "What About Love" and less "Lover's Day" and that's basically what EDN is like. The production skews away from the synthy New Wave sound that infected even a lot of non-New Wave bands of the era, though its still not nearly as stripped down as her later solo work.

I'd say give it a shot if you have any way of hearing it for free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgcYBwyw28

Listening to Everything's Different Now. The last time I did so was probably in 1988 or 89. "Why Must I" is a fantastic song with sneakily great guitar parts.

I've hesitated because I don't give a damn about A. Mann in 2014 but do like a few non-"Voices Carry" songs like "What About Love" and "David Denies" (a favorite of an ex-boyfriend a decade ago).

V. good song, video lol 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3gxPjh5YY

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If those are the Til Tuesday songs you like, then you should definitely make your way towards this record.

Haven't heard most of these but there's almost no way I'd like any of them more than I do "Walk The Dinosaur"

i think "walk the dinosaur" will win this but i'm voting for richard thompson.

I like Amnesia but RT started to sound like a glum monk at this point in his career.

Just listened to "Too Much Information" by Duran Duran for the first time in a long while. Such a simpler time...

Destroyed by MTV,
I hate to bite the hand that
Feeds me so much information
The Pressure's on the screen
To sell you things that you don't need
It's too much information for me

At least 3 songs about by dinosaurs here.

― how's life,

I haven't heard it in a decade or more, but I remember really loving that Til Tuesday song.

Okay, I had no idea about the existence of the Jane version of "It's A Fine Day" or the story behind it (thanks, Wiki) until now. Amazing.

The Jane vocals sound so similar to Opus III it seems like a sample.

this is the Boo Radleys "Lazarus" without a question. also love "Barney (...And Me)" though a bunch of Boo fans don't.

Barney and Me is great, IMO. Their cover of There She Goes is a little spotty.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OjDcDlzAw

Might just be the summer rock fever, but I'm starting to feel LimbsKing should go all in on a Modern/Alternative/whatever ballot poll, with the noms just being everything that ever charted on these genre charts between dates X and Y.

My mind was blown a few years back when I first listened to that Was (Not Was) album and realized that they were also responsible for "Dad I'm In Jail".

Ha. Don't tempt me