Now That's What I Call A Music Poll! Vol. 4 (U.S.)

I bought this Now for Macy Gray and Train. I remember it for Aaliyah.

WTF?!?!?!

WTF?!?!?!

Fixed.

THX!

Did Smash Mouth have some kind of cross-promotion deal with the NOW people? I don't even remember that song at all.

hang on wasn't the last one of these the shittiest thing ever? and this is...there's crap, but the high points are many and v high indeed.

even so, aaliyah should walk it.

"i wanna know"'s my jam.
this is fucking tough though... way too many memories from like 6th grade.

1. Aaliyah : "Try Again"
2. blink-182 : "All the Small Things"
3. Smash Mouth : "Then The Morning Comes"
4. Montell Jordan : "Get It on Tonite"
5. Backstreet Boys : "Larger Than Life"

I'm pretty sure I had the CD single of "Get It On Tonite". I hated "Try Again" at the time for who knows what reason. I can't believe I've put the Backstreets in my top five twice in a row. "I'm Blue" is quite possibly the worst song I've ever heard.

Still a dreadful compilation from a dreadful year, which was even worse in the US as the best stuff from Europe mostly didn't make it there.

Voted for "(You Drive Me) Crazy", which is one of Max Martin's better moments. Particularly the hit remix.

Of the songs I remember, I'm stuck between Backstreet and Blink.

Remember what happened on the last thread when you didn't vote LB hehe

blink-182

FWIW, I prefer all these to "All the Small Things":
Britney Spears : "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
Joe : "I Wanna Know"
Aaliyah : "Try Again"
Montell Jordan : "Get It on Tonite"
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals : "Steal My Kisses"
Train : "Meet Virginia"
Macy Gray : "I Try"
Hanson : "This Time Around"

"all the small things" is probably one of my two or three least blink singles. as tape store points out, there at least 8 better songs here than that (though not necessarily the ones he lists).

least favorite*

Blink 182 is too early. Punkpop became a lot more fun when the likes of Pink and Avril Lavigne added powerpop elements and production values to the genre.

Although I didn't play it much at the time I heard "This Time Around" in a store recently and was pleasantly surprised.

The Stop Remix of "Crazy" isn't the version on this, which I always thought was really bizarre. So "It Feels So Good" wins by a hair.

Hanson was always great. I never heard anything of Hanson's after "This Time Around," but everything from their first album was incredibly good.

Eiffel 65 easily

I don't know how anyone can prefer "Meet Virginia" to anything.

I never heard anything of Hanson's after "This Time Around,"

S: "Lost without each other", power pop song of the millenium.
I don't remember these song names too good so i voted Marc Anthony. he had much better singles by that time though I think.

having a hard time between Macy Gray and Blink-182 (only song of each of their's that I know).

I don't know how anyone can prefer "Meet Virginia" to anything.

^^ OTM

"Waiting for Tonight" is my favorite J-Lo song.

blink 182

S: "Lost without each other", power pop song of the millenium.

-- tremendoid, Monday, July 23, 2007 1:17 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

SRY GUYS: Confused "Meet Virginia" with "Drops of Jupiter" (which has pretty strings)

"Meet Virginia" has a reallllly terrible chorus, but the verses are kinda catchy.

i like 5 or 6 of these, but 'try again' is so many leagues better than any of the rest that it don't hardly seem fair.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Aaliyah and basically everything she's done is terribly overrated, although "Are You That Somebody" was excellent, and her cover of "Got To Give It Up" was surprisingly non-atrocious (thanks in no small part to Slick Rick).

I disagree with every single thing you say in your post.

But really, Slick Rick totally ruins the "GTGIU" cover. I don't think I've heard less inspired rapping in my life.

tough but i'll go w/"candy"

Last week, I overheard two hipster girls talking in bemused tones about Mandy's new singer/songwriter direction and an upcoming Mandy Moore concert opened by Paula Cole. Sez one, "I'm should go in there and yell 'PLAY CANDY!'" Sez the other, "'PLAY CANDY!' is the new 'PLAY FREEBIRD!'" I had a very difficult time stifling my laughter.

"I should go in there...", etc.

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

Hardly surprising.

And even I am able to see the obvious good things about "Try Again". Brilliant use of "old fashioned-sounding" synths on that one, even though I preferred Madonna's more "overall old-fashioned" electro style from that same era.

I have never heard Train.

I have a slight inkling that those who voted for "Meet Virginia" here voted for 'Second Coming' in the AMG Best of Britpop poll.

I have a slight inkling they would have voted for HITLER

or at least Lyndon LaRouche.

I believe Kirsten Dunst was unrecognizable in the Savage Garden video.

Aaliyah and basically everything she's done is terribly overrated, although "Are You That Somebody" was excellent, and her cover of "Got To Give It Up" was surprisingly non-atrocious (thanks in no small part to Slick Rick).

I want to cry. SOOOOOOOOO WRONG.

WTF? Meet Virginia?!?!? Why does no one else i.d. this as a slight shock?

I have a slight inkling that those who voted for "Meet Virginia" here voted for 'Second Coming' in the AMG Best of Britpop poll.
-- musically, Friday, 27 July 2007 23:37 (3 days ago) Link