Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1995 poll

that image was supposed to be Windows 95, picked that over OJ.

Stopped reading after Common People.

Finalists:

Pulp - Common People
Tricky - Black Steel
PJ Harvey - Down by the Water
Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
Björk - Hyper-Ballad
Coolio feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Pt. 2
Method Man feat. Mary J. Blige - I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By
Björk - Army of Me
Pulp - Disco 2000
Garbage - Stupid Girl
Take That - Back for Good
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

Bjork, radiohead, smashing pumpkins and oasis

No McAlmont and Butler, but here's Spotify '95:

https://play.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/0GHpL5a0X8c3T1F0nLMm2F

A much better list than the '94 one, imo. Lose "Don't Speak" and the Oasis tracks, and this'd be a decent road trip mix.

Hyper-Ballad

Lots of good stuff, but...ugh, Take That? Ugh.

Half tempted to vote for the Bucketheads track. Not the best but damn good and I fear it'll be overlooked.

THE SECOND MOST POPULAR GAME THAT WE PLAYED AS CHILDREN......IS HOUSE!

Either Born Slippy or Da Funk.

Missing.

Stopped reading after Common People.

― kornrulez6969

Bummed that the vote will be split between the three Pumpkins singles. Have to vote for 1979.

1 41 Pulp - Common People
2 112 Underworld - Born Slippy
10 672 Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
12 797 Björk - Hyper-Ballad
14 1116 The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
29 1744 Blur - The Universal
37 2021 Radiohead - High and Dry

^ Oh god, one of these.

An embarrassment of riches. Anything but "Down by the Water."

such a strange song to single out. take it you aren't a PJ Harvey fan?

The biggest non-Take That head scratcher is 'Don't Speak'. My response song: 'Good Advice'.

Morissette, easy. Best megahit of the era.

10 I'll always keep on my iPod:

Pulp - Common People
Underworld - Born Slippy
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
Björk - Hyper-Ballad
The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Björk - Army of Me
Radiohead - High and Dry
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings

"Fake Plastic Trees" got my vote, btw. I know, I'm sick of Radiohead winning all of these too, but "Common People" is gonna take this one anyway.

"I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By," quite surprisingly, doesn't sound that exciting to me anymore. Maybe something to do with coming to love the Marvin/Tammi song in the 20 years since?

These sounds

This is between Underworld and Elliott Smith, two acts which will probably never be mentioned in the same breath under any other circumstances.

I assume Common People is one of those songs you really had to "be there" to get

so plodding and self-important and meaningless, unlike Bullet With Butterfly Wings.

had to be there for six minutes, in fact

I sure wasn't there, but it's one of the best songs I ever heard

1 through 20 is fantastic, feels like the strongest year I've seen in these polls

all of these are great:

1 41 Pulp - Common People
2 112 Underworld - Born Slippy
4 271 The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
5 312 Daft Punk - Da Funk
6 394 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
7 456 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre - California Love
8 590 Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
9 662 PJ Harvey - Down by the Water
10 672 Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
12 797 Björk - Hyper-Ballad
13 874 Coolio feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise
14 1116 The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
15 1123 Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Pt. 2
23 1590 No Doubt - Don't Speak
25 1619 Garbage - Stupid Girl
30 1753 Tricky - Black Steel
32 1902 The Bucketheads - The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)
33 1933 D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
37 2021 Radiohead - High and Dry
38 2082 Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
39 2083 Faithless - Insomnia
40 2168 The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings

There are some really great songs on here but there's no way i'm not voting for common people.

Black Steel

I... might vote for "Insomnia"? This is surprising me, too

think this might actually be Stupid Girl

wow rude

I think 40 choice might be much, too many good choices. Voting "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" just over "Disco 2000," "1979," "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova."

Choices and choices.

black steel

disco 2000

after i was quite dismissive of the list, my gf asked if i had heard these songs

we discovered that in fact i had not heard, amongst others, 'california love', 'you oughta know' or 'don't speak'

remember ilx, i didn't have a real childhood

'you oughta know' is so good i'm considering voting for it, although 'stupid girl' is still favourite

ban lj; add his gf

The Bomb

probably going with
5 312 Daft Punk - Da Funk
or
6 394 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

FYI you may have voted for something other than "The Bomb" but please remember that you are physically objectively wrong.

it certainly is a good song, didn't know it by name before this poll

ahaha i didn't know its name either, wow!

the full 15 minutes is G L O R I O U S

seriously, Masters At Work >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any of your faves

The Reverend speaks The Word of truth

These sounds, iirc

it's good if not great but not Song of the Year material.

you are physically objectively wrong.

Shook Ones, Pt. 2

easy one

Black Steel - loved it so much on The Word with the old dudes session guys.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Glad to see so much Bucketheads love in the home stretch.

seriously, Masters At Work >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> any of your faves
― boring alt-reality reverend (The Reverend)

Luckily this still lets me vote for Todd Terry!

true

I just can't decide between Da Funk and Shook Ones Pt 2, so I'm not voting

Ended up voting for Common People.

So many great songs here. Still think "Common People" will walk this.

Hyperballad, c'mon.

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

I guess I can accept Pulp tying with "Hyperballad" (voted for the latter, always thought the former was good but puzzlingly overrated). Don't know if I'm familiar with the Mobb Deep track. Glad that my second-placers ("The Bomb" and "Born Slippy") did okay. Surprised "And I'm A Shoe" placed as high as it did.

I picked Tonight, Tonight although 1979 is more influential and nostalgic

If smashing pumpkins = america, and pulp = england, then I'm glad I'm American

I didn't vote for either of them, but "Common People" and "Hyperballad" are by far my favourite tracks to win in the 90s polls thus far.

4 271 The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 8
14 1116 The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight 2

This is quite funny considering that one of these songs is one of the best songs Billy Corgan has ever written, and the other song is '1979'

Pulp fucking sucks

Not too familiar with their stuff apart from Different Class but that album has some pretty great singles

His'n'Hers, Different Class, This Is Hardcore and We Love Life are all very good-to-great records.