Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1993 poll

we are back.

and what a year, i can easily vote for 15 of these and possible more.

Beck! Because hey, BECK!

I grew up on the crime side
The New York Times side
Staying alive was no jive
At second-hands, moms bounced on old men
So then we moved to Shaolin land

Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/6ej2RtIyPg193jPUZwHO5u

First 90s year where all 40 songs are available!

Off the top of my head, I'm stuck between "Fuck and Run" and "Go West," but let me listen before voting...

Go West is in my top three club anthems, so that.

Want you
to choose
Cannonball

Very predictable:

1. Beck - Loser
2. Liz Phair - Fuck and Run
3. Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain
4. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
5. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin and Juice
6. Elastica - Stutter

If John Lydon made a record in 1993, I was completely oblivious to it at the time.

cannonball over rebel girl, big time sensuality, c.r.e.a.m.

Wow -- didn't know "Stutter" got such an early release.

That top 30 is unfuckwithable.

Is it? I mean...

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
The Cranberries - Linger

1. C.R.E.A.M.
2. Rebel Girl
3. Go West

"Linger" is brilliant.

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Is it? I mean...

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
The Cranberries - Linger

― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko)

on a mix tape (and that's where I've saved them) they sound good.

It's possible that I'm holding The Cranberries' later work against "Linger," which is certainly pretty enough, and while I don't much like "Are You Gonna Go My Way," but at this point it is impossible for me to tell how much 2+ decades of overexposure has played into this. "All I Wanna Do," though, is and always dreadful.

Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
The Cranberries - Linger

love all these songs, cranberries turned to complete bonorific garbage immediately after but that first album is decent third tier dream pop sundays knockoff. sheryl crow's next two albums were alot better but i've always liked the rushing wooziness of 'all i wanna do'. lenny kravitz was only good when he was robbing graves, this is probably his zenith, that album is wonderful and hilarious as well, he was our gallagher brother only so much better when all is said and done. as long as i could tune out the 'see this is what these kids don't understand - musicianship!', i could hang w/ lenny and sheryl, score some good weed and booze, listen to frampton comes alive, plus hanging w/ lenny you'd probably just fall into amazing pussy, like a lamprey.

too hard!

also balls!

I am surprised to hear ppl praising Linger. The Cranberries were horrible and annoying from day one imo.

didn't vote for it, but yeah 'are you gonna go my way' is grebt

Breeders
Mazzy Star
Suede
Wu-Tang
New Order
Dino Jr
Bikini Kill
PSB
Blur
Elastica
Digable Planets

All still great.

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wait - really?

"Linger" and "Dreams" are beautiful! They were to The Sundays what Oasis were to Suede and Lenny Kravitz to Terence Trent D'Arby.

Knowing ILM, I'm surprised 'Regret' hasn't gotten its props. It's in my top five.

"Linger" also the last gasp of the late '80s English dream pop sound that had had college radio in a vise; the production suggests they wanted arena dream pop on the first go round.

i'm just saying when lenny had that incident last year and laughed it off i kinda got the impression he's probably a chill dude. also before he tried to go contemporary or whatever he was fine for what he was. i mean i like joey bad4$$, the white stripes, etc also. that kind of thing isn't as easy as it looks. look at sean lennon.

It's not easy:

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

Wait I forgot about Dreams! Ok, I take back the mean thing I said about The Cranberries. Dreams redeems them but just barely.

I always think of Claire Danes in "My So-Called Life" being moody and difficult while listening to "Dreams."

oh you mean like this?

http://junkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cranberries.jpg

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(excellent birds)

'dreams' will always remind me of faye wong

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5hh6n9mP01qki40ro1_1280.jpg

now?

do you have to
do you have to

if someone asked 'what were the 90s like?' you could do worse than show them chungking express and an episode of my so-called life

I would like to add Fuck and Run to the list I posted above.

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no fucking way this is anything but Rez

'dreams' will always remind me of faye wong

Oh man now I've gotta watch Chunking Express for the 1000th time, thanks for the reminder...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hHznB-_Gbs

Spent too many weeks of my life in that goddamned building

I like almost all of these songs, even the ones by artists that I would generally say I dislike. Good year! Tough call!

Okay but wait. Wait wait wait. I just realized that this list is completely invalid because it doesn't include "If", which is indisputably one of the greatest singles of the '90s. #69?!? What the everloving fuck.

Some all-timers on this list. Also some head-scratchers. Voted "Cherub Rock," looking all dejected there at #39.

"Rez" is on here but "Cowgirl" isn't? Guess I'll go with "Insane in the Membrane" then.

Again, the neglect of dance music bugs me. I might go for Gin and Juice, or possibly one of the Bjorks, which are I think the most genuinely forward-looking things here.

Generally the rock choices are very bland (Mr Jones? Fuck off!) I'll admit to a soft spot for Linger.

It's frankly asinine that nothing from janet. made it into the top 40.

Most days I prefer Cherub Rock, but Today is one of the greatest pop songs of all time. Easy choice.

Start Choppin' in a walk.

Granted I was only reading EW and RS at the time, but wasn't janet. received somewhat cooly upon release?

CREAM. Inspecta Deck's verse is the best verse in all of rap music

2 240 The Breeders - Cannonball
6 689 Suede - Animal Nitrate
10 877 New Order - Regret
14 1087 Blur - For Tomorrow
18 1279 Björk - Venus As a Boy
36 2501 Underworld - Rez

One of these.

xxpost Relative to its (admittedly superior) predecessors, yes, but you'd hope that 20+ years would be enough time for everyone to recognize its superlative singles.

Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode both had better singles in '93 than 'Go West' and 'I Feel You'

that was interesting, so i looked it up:

Depeche Mode:

"I Feel You" 1993 UK = 8 US = 37 RIAA: Gold]
Songs of Faith and Devotion
"Walking in My Shoes" UK= 14 US= 69
"Condemnation" UK = 9 US= did not place

Pet Shop Boys:

"Can You Forgive Her?" 1993 UK= 7 US = 109
"Go West" UK = 2 US 106
"I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" UK = 13 US did not place

PSB were still huge in England + Europe and were at a new spike in their popularity; Depeche were coming off an American breakthrough and were a massive touring operation, unlike PSB.

voted for i got NEWS for you / SHE IS

could vote for basically half the list, but i went with "fuck and run" since it's got one of my favorite vocal performances ever

I had "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" on my year-end in '93; like it a thousand times better than "Go West."

"She only cum's when she's on top"

PSB were still huge in England + Europe and were at a new spike in their popularity; Depeche were coming off an American breakthrough and were a massive touring operation, unlike PSB.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 4, 2015 2:05 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think Songs of Faith and Devotion made it to #1 on both sides of the Atlantic, so they were undoubtedly on a career high... for all their success overseas though, it seemed to take UK critics a long time to accept Depeche Mode - something I don't really think happened until the Ultra period, weirdly.

Voted "Cannonball" because there's something truly singular about it, it's like no other song I love. But deep down I have to admit that "Linger" is truly the song that wraps itself around my heart from that year.

How the f Counting Crows got popular against this level of competition I will never be able to understand

It's possible that I'm holding The Cranberries' later work against "Linger," which is certainly pretty enough, and while I don't much like "Are You Gonna Go My Way," but at this point it is impossible for me to tell how much 2+ decades of overexposure has played into this.

Same here, except for me it's the two Nirvana tracks

Tindersticks, all the way. (With Wu-Tang in second and 'Rez' in third.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Personal favorites:

6 689 Suede - Animal Nitrate
18 1279 Björk - Venus As a Boy
32 2235 Jeru the Damaja - Come Clean

but this is a scientific poll and best song has to be "Fade into You" or "C.R.E.A.M."

Fade into You just over Suede, James and Elastica

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

boo doo boo doo boo dum

Solid results.

when Porno for Pyros was a headlining act

No love for Disarm :(

"Cannonball" is one of those songs I can never recall when I see the title, but I instantly recognize the guitar riff (if it had an onomatopoeic title I'd probably remember it...) - catchy stuff.

Maybe you had to be there, maybe I'm just crazy ignorant, but I really don't understand how it's more than a novelty hit - better than CREAM? Feel free to school me.