Now That's What I Call A Music Poll! Vol. 2 (US)

Obviously the winner should be Britney but it was a very solid album, especially compared to the crap they would put out later.

britney.

New Raddies FTW

This is even worse than the first US Now. Voted for Garbage. U2 and New Radicals are also OK. The rest are rubbish.

That Baz Luhrmann horror is my vote for the very worst single of the 1990s.

Went with New Radicals.

New Radicals, by far.

man this shit sucks.

britney or jay, can't decide

Alice has been driving me NUTS w/ "Hard Knock Life" this past two months.

Now she's done her "annie" performance, life is back to normal.

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Littl orphan alice!

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ticked Garbage for some reason

stuck between newrads, fatboy and sublime... went for sublime.

RIP Bradley Nowell NEVER FORGET.

I had forgotten all about 98 Degrees

Discuss: is Blinky Blink the worst rapper name of all time?

I like "Take Me There," but voted Sublime.

1. Sublime - "What I Got"
2. Jay-Z - "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)"
3. Fatboy Slim - "Praise You"
4. Robbie Williams - "Millennium"
5. Cake - "Never There"

Not top five:
Britney Spears - "...Baby One More Time"
Semisonic - "Closing Time"
Sheryl Crow - "My Favorite Mistake"
BLACKstreet featuring Mýa, Mase & Blinky Blink: "Take Me There"
R. Kelly - "When A Woman's Fed Up"
Backstreet Boys - "I'll Never Break Your Heart"
Baz Luhrmann - "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"

Que?
New Radicals - "You Get What You Give"
U2 - "The Sweetest Thing"
Garbage - "I Think I'm Paranoid"
98 Degrees - "Because Of You"
Spice Girls - "Goodbye"
Everclear - "Father of Mine"

What I Got seems like it'll get some votes, so maybe I will vote for Semisonic? :D

I like the Garbage song lots, but it's far from my favorite single from that album.

britney is the easy call, but i like about half of these. i don't even remember the garbage song though.

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One of the first CDs I remember purchasing.

I would have voted for "What I Got" had I noticed this poll...glad to see I'm not the only one!

Wow...good to see the New Radicals love.

I should find it charming, and it may be hypocritical to say right after big-upping "don't start a ry-ott," but that NR coda totally bugs me! "Come around we'll kick your ass in"...ugh...give me "livin' with louie dog's the only way to stay sane."

But he's (was) young, and wears a Woody Allen fisherman's cap. Cut'em some slack.

cuz you might get runova and you might...get...SHOT

Dating "Punky" Brewster is apt to make one aggressive.

i wish somebody had voted for "Never There," though. The Everclear and Sheryl Crow songs are good too, but ONE anonymous newbie ILXor should have been all "Cake, yo! Underrated!"

I totally don't remember that Blackstreet track, should I hunt it down?

Semisonic and Kells can fend for themselves.

That was the Sheryl Crow that made me think she wasn't so bad, although even then I wished she had more L.A. oomph; she was always on the verge of being Patty Smyth.

Seriously, the Garbage tune probably holds up better than anything else on the list. Goth goes Hot 100! If you regard it as 1998's version of "People Are People" sung by a wannabe, you understand why Marilyn Manson never came this close.

Seriously, the late nineties needed a Top 40 update of "Edge of Seventeen," and Sheryl never bit. She covered late seventies ballady Rod Stewart and then got herself her own "Leather and Lace" with what-his-name.

oh, plenty holds up better than Garbage. I actually was pretty nonplussed when I heard Version 2.0 for the first time a year or so ago. "Special" is the go-to track anyhow.

98 Degrees were scoring hits already?!

After a dud opener, it doesn't let up for six or seven songs (Christgau had it right with that "A-" with reservations). The Top 40 crowd needed an accessible PJ Harvey (and Stories From The Sea is Polly Jean's Garbage record).

Well to be fair, PJ Harvey frequently sounds corny to me now too.

I love all the singles from the first Garbage album, though. I fuck with them, as Ethan would say.

The Top 40 crowd needed an accessible PJ Harvey (and Stories From The Sea is Polly Jean's Garbage record)

What about Is This Desire? It's got more techno-influenced stuff on it than Stories... does. Besides, Stories.. feels (to me anyway) more like a stab at straight "Adult Alternative."

yeah, Stories is her Sheryl Crow album!

I'd say Is This Desire? is her Sheryl Crow record: moody, distanced.

There ain't too much difference between the jangle of "Special" and the jangle of "Big Exit."

guys how can I be one of only two Jay-Z votes???

It's ok.

revive

Baz Luhrmann - "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" 6

okay what

psyched New Radicals won, but not a single vote for "Closing Time"?

xp hahah -- based on aaron carter winning an early poll, i think ppl were troll voting these polls & then got bored

hahahahaha