Moka's 250 Favorite Songs of the 90's - A selection.

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I'm currently compiling my 250 favorite songs of every decade since the 50's. I'm clicking shuffle and choosing the first 50 songs that appear for this poll.

Note: This is poll 4 out of 7.

Only one song per artist but covers/collabs/ghostwriting/sideprojects get a free pass.

I do not recommend listening to these as a playlist but here's the spotify link either way for the adventurous:

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/3pl4AYZKKvmCXyIKFFNXkA

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Björk - Hyperballad (Radio Edit) 5
Pulp - Common People 4
LEN - Steal My Sunshine 4
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod 4
Elliott Smith - Angeles 3
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv 3
Camp Lo - Luchini Aka This Is It 3
Boredoms - Super Going 2
Ween - Baby Bitch 2
The Notorious B.I.G. - Warning 2
Erykah Badu - On & On 2
Pavement - Here 2
Portishead - Roads 2
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart 2
The Breeders - Cannonball 2
Saint Etienne - Avenue 2
burger/ink - Bring Trance Back (To Las Vegas) (Blue Hotel) 2
Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits 1
Low - Sleep at the Bottom 1
Mercury Rev - Car Wash Hair - Full Pull 1
Slowdive - When The Sun Hits 1
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell 1
The High Llamas - Cookie Bay 1
Le Tigre - Deceptacon 1
Isolée - Beau Mot Plage 1
Arthur Russell - This Is How We Walk On The Moon 1
Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology 1
The Clientele - Reflections After Jane 1
Cibo Matto - Beef Jerky 1
GusGus - Polyesterday 1
Happy Mondays - Step On 1
The 6ths - San Diego Zoo 0
Blur - Trimm Trabb 0
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation 0
MF DOOM - Doomsday 0
The Magnetic Fields - Plant White Roses 0
Veruca Salt - Seether 0
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker 0
Mano Negra - Out of Time Man 0
Slum Village - Players 0
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan 0
Farben - Live At The Sahara Tahoe, 1973 0
Fountains Of Wayne - Radiation Vibe 0
Morphine - Good 0
Disco Inferno - It's a Kid's World 0
Pixies - Dig for Fire 0
Digable Planets - Black Ego 0
D'Angelo - Lady 0
Grand Puba - I Like It (I Wanna Be Where You Are) 0
Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise 0


dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 16 June 2017 00:17 (seven years ago)

Full list. Currently at 150 out of 250. If you see anything missing or want to recommend something shoot away!

A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
Air - Le soleil est près de moi
Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning
Ali Farka Touré;Ry Cooder - Ai Du
Anja Garbarek - She Collects (Stuff Like That)
Annie - Greatest Hit - Edit
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Archers Of Loaf - Web In Front
Arthur Russell - This Is How We Walk On The Moon
Arto Lindsay - Ondina
Bark Psychosis - Absent Friend
Basic Channel - Octagon
Beastie Boys - The Move
Belle & Sebastian - Dog on Wheels
Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out
Biz Markie - Just A Friend
Björk - Hyperballad (Radio Edit)
Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology
Black Tambourine - By Tomorrow
Blackalicious - A To G
Blackstreet;Dr. Dre;Queen Pen - No Diggity
Blonde Redhead - Girl Boy
Blur - Trimm Trabb
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
Boredoms - Super Going
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
burger/ink - Bring Trance Back (To Las Vegas) (Blue Hotel)
Café Tacvba;Tony Peluso - Alarmala de tos
Camp Lo - Luchini Aka This Is It
Carl Stone - Banteay Srey 1991
Cat Power - Metal Heart
Cesaria Evora - Sodade
Cibo Matto - Beef Jerky
Clarence G - Cause I Said It Right - mixed
Clinic - Monkey On Your Back
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
D'Angelo - Lady
Daft Punk - Da Funk
David Byrne - Fuzzy Freaky
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Digable Planets - Black Ego
Disco Inferno - It's a Kid's World
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Eels - P.S. You Rock My World
Elliott Smith - Angeles
Elysian Fields - Fountains On Fire
Erykah Badu - On & On
Farben - Live At The Sahara Tahoe, 1973
Fiona Apple - The First Taste
Folk Implosion - Insinuation
Fountains Of Wayne - Radiation Vibe
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Goodie Mob - Thought Process
Grand Puba - I Like It (I Wanna Be Where You Are)
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mockingbirds
Grungerman - Fackeln Im Sturm (Original)
GusGus - Polyesterday
GZA;Inspectah Deck - Cold World
Happy Mondays - Step On
Herbert - The Last Beat
Isolée - Beau Mot Plage
Janet Jackson - Got 'Til It's Gone - Feat. Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell
JAY Z - Dead Presidents II
Jeff Buckley - Satisfied Mind
Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship in a Storm
Karen Peris;Don Peris;The Innocence Mission - Lakes Of Canada
Kurt Weill;Mary Margaret O'Hara - Don't Be Afraid from Happy End
Lali Puna - 6-0-3
Land of the Loops - Multi-Family Garage Sale (Bargain-Bin Mix)
Latin Playboys - Lemon 'N Ice
Le Mans - Mi Novela Autobiográfica
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
LEN - Steal My Sunshine - Remastered Anniversary Edition
Lhasa De Sela - De Cara a La Pared
Low - Sleep at the Bottom
Luna - 23 Minutes In Brussels
Mano Negra - Out of Time Man
Manu Chao - Mentira
Massive Attack - Risingson
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Mercury Rev - Car Wash Hair - Full Pull
MF DOOM;Pebbles The Invisible Girl - Doomsday
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits
Morphine - Good
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes - Remastered Version
Nearly God - Poems - Edit
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
One Dove - My Friend
OutKast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious
Oval - Hallodraußen
Paul Simon - Thelma - Bonus Track
Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me
Pavement - Here
Philip Glass - Trial 2 / Prison, "I feel the Earth Move"
Pixies - Dig for Fire
Porno for Pyros - Pets
Portishead - Roads
Pulp - Common People
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Roy Davis Jr.;Peven Everett - Gabriel
Ruben Gonzalez - Melodía Del Rio
Saint Etienne - Avenue
Slowdive - When The Sun Hits
Slum Village - Players
Smif-N-Wessun - Bucktown
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Snoop dog & Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Souls Of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity
Space - Female Of The Species
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell - Remastered 2016
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Stereolab - Lo Boob Oscillator
Strapping Fieldhands - The Author in Her Ear
Suzanne Vega;DNA - Tom's Diner
Talk Talk - New Grass
The 6ths - San Diego Zoo
The Beta Band - Dry The Rain
The Blue Hawaiians - Swingin' Hula Girl
The Breeders - Cannonball
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anemone
The Cardigans - Lovefool - Radio Edit
The Clientele - Reflections After Jane
The Flaming Lips;Peter Mokran - Christmas At The Zoo
The Gories - Nitroglycerine
The High Llamas - Cookie Bay
The Magnetic Fields - Plant White Roses
The Notorious B.I.G. - Warning
The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
The Roots - Double Trouble
The Sea and Cake - Jacking the Ball
The Smashing Pumpkins - Obscured
The Telescopes - You Set My Soul
The Verve - A Man Called Sun
Theo Parrish - Sweet Sticky
Trembling Blue Stars - Abba On The Jukebox
Ultra Vivid Scene - Special One
Us3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Veruca Salt - Seether
Warren G;Nate Dogg - Regulate
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Amish Paradise (Parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio)
Ween - Baby Bitch
White Town - Your Woman
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater

dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 16 June 2017 00:18 (seven years ago)

Luchini
Doomsday
Dig for Fire
Super Going
Cannonball
Groove is in the Heart

the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 June 2017 19:41 (seven years ago)

I'm voting Slowdive, but lots of good choices in this poll.

Austin, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:46 (seven years ago)

Baby Bitch

billstevejim, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:57 (seven years ago)

Voting Hyperballad but many great choices.

Dan.S., Friday, 16 June 2017 22:36 (seven years ago)

"Step On" :-)

Bee OK, Saturday, 17 June 2017 01:26 (seven years ago)

The Call the Cops tour literary changed my life. i'm sure the drugs that night had a lot to do with it.

http://www.808state.com/live/1990/images/1990-07-18-CallTheCops-SoundFactory-NewYork-USA-poster-2.jpg

Bee OK, Saturday, 17 June 2017 01:45 (seven years ago)

Happy Mondays was a complicated band for me. Hated them with passion the first times I heard them when I was like 15 and 5 years later they clicked and I spent a whole summer listening to them. "Step On" is an obvious choice but it's the one that made me change my mind about them in the first place.

dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 17 June 2017 18:26 (seven years ago)

you're so policy free
and your fantasy wheels
and everything you think
and everything you feel is
alright alright alright alright.

Favorites not on list:

White Stripes - Cannon
Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones
Palace - More Brother Rides
Built To Spill - Car

nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 17 June 2017 19:00 (seven years ago)

feels so weird to have dee-lite and DOOM in the same decade

Frank Ocean is the Ultimate Solution (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 June 2017 19:23 (seven years ago)

I love Palace but they're missing from spotify. Had no idea the white stripes where around in the 90s

dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 17 June 2017 19:51 (seven years ago)

Either "Electric Relaxation" or LEN.

o. nate, Sunday, 18 June 2017 00:53 (seven years ago)

Probably not the best song on here, but I'm voting for "Cookie Bay" because when else will I have a chance to vote for this track in a poll?

Moodles, Sunday, 18 June 2017 04:02 (seven years ago)

This is spooky, I didn't know there was anybody but me who rated both "Plant White Roses" and "San Diego Zoo" that high on the list of Merritt's recorded output

Though if you really push me I probably swap Zoo for "Dream Hat"

Impossible for me to vote on this, at the very least

Plant White Roses
Groove is in the Heart
Cannonball
Radiation Vibe

are on my short all-time list and then there are others here ("Steal My Sunshine," "Seether,") which so perfectly capture what I liked about the feeling of being alive at that time.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 June 2017 16:46 (seven years ago)

That was kind of hard since I love all those songs, but I went with Elliott Smith. "Angeles" is heavenly.

jterich, Monday, 19 June 2017 20:35 (seven years ago)

Eels - PS You Rock My World

if it was the full poll though, would've chosen Trailer Trash by Modest Mouse

Unchanging Window (Ross), Monday, 19 June 2017 21:01 (seven years ago)

This is spooky, I didn't know there was anybody but me who rated both "Plant White Roses" and "San Diego Zoo" that high on the list of Merritt's recorded output

Though if you really push me I probably swap Zoo for "Dream Hat"

Impossible for me to vote on this, at the very least

Plant White Roses
Groove is in the Heart
Cannonball
Radiation Vibe

are on my short all-time list and then there are others here ("Steal My Sunshine," "Seether,") which so perfectly capture what I liked about the feeling of being alive at that time.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), lunes 19 de junio de 2017 17:46 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha! my 2nd favorite song from him in the 6ths is dream hat. I've seen many people choose 100,000 fireflies over Roses from that MF album but I need to have to be in a particular mood for that one wheres Roses always sounds great to me.

dance cum rituals (Moka), Monday, 19 June 2017 23:21 (seven years ago)

My whole life until looking at Moka's list I thought "Female of the Species" was by Cake. It almost feels like how could it not be?

Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 June 2017 22:30 (seven years ago)

Haha it does sound a bit like them now that you mention it. One of those songs that are here purely driven by nostalgia.

dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:47 (seven years ago)

Throwing 'Polyesterday' (late version) a vote. God I hadn't heard that one in at least fifteen years I think.

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 11:54 (seven years ago)

cool list
voted LEN

nxd, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 11:56 (seven years ago)

happy to see Bran Van on here

(•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:53 (seven years ago)

In 1993 or 1994 I switched on 120 Minutes on mtv and they played a song which immediately overwhelmed me completely. That sad voice, that strange mix of folk and atmospheric music. It was like an enlightenment. An existential experience. The song was called "Roads".

Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 17:44 (seven years ago)

It seems weird to me how Roads was not a single, it's my favorite on the debut by a long shot... that bass solo,the strings, the organ, the heartbroken performance. Maybe not as obvious a single like Glory Box or Sour Times but it's certainly better than Numb.

dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:36 (seven years ago)

Luchini

cajunsunday, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:48 (seven years ago)

Latest additions:

Anna Domino - Land of my Dreams
Beat Happening - Noise
Crazy Penis . Star War
Golden Palominos - Ambitions Are
Halo Benders - Snowfall
Loop - Arc Lite
Pinback - Loro
Rain Tree Crow - Blackwater
Tom Waits - Goin Out West
White Stripes - Cannon

dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 05:57 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 30 June 2017 00:01 (seven years ago)

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

System, Saturday, 1 July 2017 00:01 (seven years ago)


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