Worst song out of VH1's 100 Best Songs of the '90s

40 . Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up

After watching all five hours minus commercials of this, I've come to realize that the '90s were kind of awesome.

i'm really pissed that i only saw 20-1 of this

Terribly disappointing that "Mother, Mother" didn't crack the list.

the ass-end of music on this list, and Blues Traveler is the most ass.

you're just too young to understand

there will never be another "informer" ;_;

curtis have you ever been to a bar mitzvah?

lots of great bar mitzvah songs on this list

72. Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Wow, this was tough. Back Street Boys were running away with it 'til I saw Celine; I couldn't decide between the two. Then I saw the Spin Doctors and the choice was made. Man did I loathe the Spin Doctors back then. Dudes somehow had two or three huge hits but they were all the exact same song.

The Cranberries. Dolores O'Riordan: worst lyricist ever?

^^We've covered this before.

She was never as bad a lyricist as Brian Molko, fwiw.

Barenaked Ladies.

"Ice Ice Baby".

And I can't believe people still voted for that as a good song more than 10 years later. Hip-hop-fans hate it too, right?

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Killing your brain like a post by Hongro.

Cranberries have bad lyrics, but Linger is a terrific song.

I went for Spin Doctors, the only song here that makes me physically ill.

Ugh. This is what 70s lists used to be like.

Choosing one to vote for wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, "Sex And Candy" just edging out "You're Still The One."

'achy breaky heart' probably.

Meredith Brooks' "Bitch" would always fly me into a rage merely because it's in that class of song that sounds exactly like it could be a Pepsi commercial.

But between "I Don't Want To Wait," "Sex and Candy," and "Shine," I just melt down. I hated 90s popular music, and a sure disappointment of aging (I'm only 33) is the realization that every bad popular song that is released must be heard over and over and over again until death. They. Never. Go. Away.

it is what it is.

in ten years time when maroon five and the killers are in the top ten the 00s won't be looking so hot either.

/ capn save a 90s

there is no blur on this list

Oh fuck I didn't see "Shine" on the list, I really would've voted for that.

It's not just that it is what it is.

90s pop music artists labored under ridiculous pressure to sound "alternative." I get tired just hearing their desperation.

All the doofus hair metal guys getting haircuts and wearing paisley shirts. Managers scrambling to find vintage t-shirts for their acts...

New Radicals.

90s pop music artists labored under ridiculous pressure to sound "alternative."

Those who did ended up sounding better than 2 Unlimited, Snap, Technotronic or Haddaway at least.

Waaaaaaaaida minute...

Joan Osborne - One of Us

Hands down.

My Hongro Will Go On

Better than Haddaway?

What is pop? Oh Geir don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

Mo Melody Mo Problems

90s pop music artists labored under ridiculous pressure to sound "alternative."

you must be og ilx, my apols.

god knows ricky martin had to fight battles.

If you're question is directed at my use of pop, ledge, I merely mean on MTV, written about in Billboard, most-likely covered in Rolling Stone or Spin. A group that is "of the moment.

I don't mean that a group is "of the people," an artist that can fill a large hall on a Tuesday night, or a performer who stands the test of time.

I mean what you probably think I mean when you don't look at it too hard.

__________

og, that one guy? what's that mean?

These are all awfully insufferable:
3. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
6. Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
16. MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
17. Destiny's Child - Say My Name
19. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
21. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
23. Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue - Whatta Man
24. House of Pain - Jump Around
29. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
30. *NSYNC - Tearin' Up My Heart
32. BLACKstreet - No Diggity
36. C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
40 . Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
52. Sugar Ray - Fly
53. Naughty by Nature - O.P.P.
56. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
57. Jay-Z featuring Amil and Ja Rule - Can I Get A...
60. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison
63. The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy - Mo Money Mo Problems
65. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
68. Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
69. Korn - Freak on a Leash
75. Kris Kross - Jump
79. Meredith Brooks - Bitch
82. Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
84. Snow - Informer
85. Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain
87. Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
92. Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke
95. Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It

95. Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It

this is the best single of the 90s

heard "gettin jiggy with it" on pop radio last night and it still sounded really great

These are all awfully insufferable:

60. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison

-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:33 (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

BAN THIS SICK INSANE CUNT

gier doesn't like naughty by nature? my foundation has been shaken to its core

Yes!, Dom.

I heard Poison last week, and my God, I would have never suspected it would have held up so incredibly well.

Jamiroquai

Has anyone ever learned anything from Geir or have you just spent valuable seconds of your lives arguing with a shut-in aspie nazi?

-- JW, Monday, 7 May 2007 06:02 (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

Quite surprised by how many of these crossed over to the UK charts

Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul
Fiona Apple - Criminal
Edwin McCain - I'll Be
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Liz Phair - Never Said
Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
Gerardo - Rico Suave

^apart from these which are not registering at all

Only 8 crossovers from the UK charts - counting generously

"furtively dancing"

Which talking head was your friend, nabisco? = St3v3 Hu3y of AMG)

I had no idea he was an AMG guy! I thought he was just The Dude from Yacht Rock.

A good friend of mine was friends with him in college (the big one in the town where AMG started) and he used to hang out the house where she and my wife lived. He was known as "Skinny St3v3" to distinguish him from a more rotund guy with the same name.

My wife and I ended up seeing most of the top 100 over the past month on VH1 and it seriously freaked both of us out to see him popping up on our TV every so often, particularly because he looks pretty much exactly the same.

Anyway, I hated lots of these songs when they were around and have since come around to liking them. However, I seriously hated the New Radicals song back in 98 or whatever and hearing it again only made me hate it more.

Most surprising omissions?

Can't believe there were more people willing to vote for Edwin McCain than any Bush or No Doubt single (or Liz), or that Wu Tang couldn't do better than 105.

Huey and the guy from Rolling Stone were the worst.

and hey, no Sublime, how'd that happen

The crap pile:

4. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
9. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
12. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
20. Hanson - MMMBop
21. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
27. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
33. Spice Girls - Wannabe
40. Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
41. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
45. Hootie & the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You
46. Shania Twain - You're Still the One
49. Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul
54. Joan Osborne - One of Us
61. Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
79. Meredith Brooks - Bitch
81. Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait [though "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" infinitely worse]
84. Snow - Informer
86. The Cranberries - Linger

Decent/respectable/good (though in most cases, I'd say mildly so; I think for most of these, there were better songs or singles on the same albums)/tolerable:

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. U2 - One
10. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
60. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison
65. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
83. The Breeders - Cannonball

Great:
56. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
67. Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
97. Prince & The New Power Generation - Gett Off [Extended version best]

Lots to choose from, but I'm going with Hootie. If Alanis Morissette's That's Ironic, or whatever it was called, was on there, that would have been a contender.

oh no no this is billy ray all the way

this list seems difficult at first to choose from and then you just spot THAT ONE

I'm still waiting for Clay Aiken to make an album named Breakin' Hearts.

some great shit on here, fuck u guys

xxxps to people who keep saying this list 'sucks'

I am totally blanking on at least 20 of these songs. "Building a Mystery"? "Criminal"? "I Alone"? And who the hell is Duncan Sheik?

YOU LUCKY MAN

at the risk of rong, I gotta say I've never ever ever gotten what the big fuckin deal about "Waterfalls" is

Of the ones I've heard, I'd have to go with "Can I Get a..." I really REALLY hate that song.

Man, if "Can I Get A..." was the worst song on this list it would be a better one than Schindler's.

MEREDITH BROOKS OWNS THIS POLL

at the risk of rong, I gotta say I've never ever ever gotten what the big fuckin deal about "Waterfalls" is

Yeah, I'm kind of on the same page there. It's pleasant I guess - can anyone articulate why it was such a huge hit? (I have nothing against TLC mind you - "No Scrubs" is classic and I had a high school crush on Left Eye.)

"Waterfalls" was 'important'. It had a verse about AIDS in an era when that was like doing a song about 9/11. Go fig, I never liked it either.

+ http://www.amplified-online.co.uk/images/artists/cee-lo.jpg!!!

I never understood the love for "Waterfalls" either. TLC sitting pretty in the top ten while En Vogue languish in the 40's is RONG.

The answer to this thread lies in a Joan Osborne vs Marcy Playground vs Meredith Brooks deathmatch. At least with "One of Us" I can be entertained by laughing at the gawdawful lyrics, whereas "Sex and Candy" basically just makes me cringe and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Plenty to hate on this list, but Collective Soul take it for me!

achy breaky heart

Nirvana

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

meredith brooks. my god. mix one part mellencamp, one part morrisette, one part sheer fucking atrocious faux-feminist bullshit, feed into wood chipper, use for large farm animal to poop on.

Like one part Coug, one part Alanis is a bad thing!

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy is the worst of these songs, though it's not thaaat bad.

On "Waterfalls": I don't know why it was a big single, but what I love about it is the really dry production, esp. on the drum sound. Listen to how the song starts: the drums crackle and pop (it's an Organized Noise production) and then the keyboards just slink around. It's a really spare sound, and even without a "sensitive" lyric it sounds terrific.

it's pretty obvious why it was a big single!!!

not so obvious why it's such a Big Deal maybe.

cool CGI video
prince lyrics
pleasant production altho no better than many other tlc songs

did a mix of '95 stuff and 'I Got 5 On It' chorus sounded really cool over 'Waterfalls' intro

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

that whitney song is graet

glad to see so many songs getting at least one vote

that barenaked ladies song is great

there i said it

THANK GOD SANITY PREVAILS

34. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life 2

^^^two dudes need banning

34. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life 2
48. Matchbox Twenty - 3 AM 2
39. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

I can't recall any of these but I bet they all sound identical

13. Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) - Nuthin' but a "G" Thang 1

"Ice Ice Baby".

-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, January 3, 2008 5:40 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

??????

achy breaky heart is better than at least 20 of these songs

ban gabbneb

gabbneb, you aren't getting another RONG thread nomination that easily. Leave some for the rest of us.

"Achy Breaky Heart" is unforgivable but "Mr. Jones" is better than at least 20 Counting Crows songs.

also "Freak On A Leash" is Korn's best song! That Tasmanian Devil break!

da hoOOOoooOOng DOCK DOCK da hooOOOONNNG DOCK DOCK

a lot of these songs were obviously selected because of their videos (by VH1 viewers i mean)

EMF - Unbelievable 1

Okay, who was it?

Rarely have I been more baffled by vintage posts from myself than in this thread. I mean, sure, I guess I did discover "Nothing Compares 2 U" kinda late in life but it is really hard to remember the times before that.