US #1s of 1995

"This Is How We Do It", followed by both TLC's, Coolio, and "Kiss from a Rose". The Bryan Adams is actually the only song I dislike.

holy shit

This is possibly my most formative year ever, btw.

Even though I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't like it, I can't see "This Is How We Do It" losing this.

Really? I would have predicted one of the TLC songs. (Also, I am killfiling you.)

these songs were soooo formative in my life when i was 7 years old.

1. this is how we do it (top 3 favorite songs ever)
2. kiss from a rose (#1 song for singing to girls in 5th grade)
3. waterfalls (10/10)
4. you are not alone (first movie i ever cried in: free willy)
5. gangsta's paradise (unfuckwithable)

im right w/ you rev

"Kiss From a Rose" is one those songs that feels completely limp and blah, but it doesn't matter because MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODY EVAR.

i remember during one super bowl me and my cousin did a dance routine to "this is how we do it" during halftime that i choreographed - we were wearing overalls and diff color bandannas shit was def dope iirc

lolol

too bad im not at my parents house i could scan this pic i have from that night

I can't believe there were so few different #1s. Also, I was sort of surprised that Alanis didn't make it; I would vote "You Oughta Know" over any of these. But: "Kiss from a Rose" and "Waterfalls" both unimpeachable. I'm going with Seal because nothing else that year sounded like Seal.

FYI "On Bended Knee" was #1 in 1995 for a while

FYI I've only been counting songs in the year they first reached #1 since I started this

holy shit

― jordy (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

This is possibly my most formative year ever, btw.

― punk floyd (The Reverend), Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also otm

Creep ~ One Sweet Day > Exhale (Shoop Shoop) ~ Gangsta's Paradise ~ Waterfalls > On Bended Knee ~ Take a Bow ~ You Are Not Alone

"take a bow" is one of my favorite maddy songs, but "this is how we do it" is so much its own thing.

tlc tracks are both great, coolio too. but "kiss from a rose," yikes. what a terrible song.

take a bow is a tasteful, tuneful babyface track about how much madonna loves herself with a vocal performance rivaling coolio's

Coolio then, Coolio now, Coolio forever!

wow this is a great list. am really torn between the two TLC tracks and 'take a bow', which is my favourite madonna ballad, just so gorgeous and dignified.

did the odb remix of 'fantasy' come later, or was it released w/the original?

For being the best song called "Waterfalls", Take That! Paul McCartney...

you guys who were kids when this shit was new and can even rep for "you are not alone" really know how to make a dude feel geriatric, thx a fuckin bunch

whatever, youngster.

voted creep

it's not that amazing tbh, this list.

seven (or so) out of eleven good/great tracks hitting the top of the charts in a single year is not amazing?

compared to what?

anyway, i count three okay/good tracks, not seven good/great ones.

special guest stars mark bronson otm but I aint hatin, I'm sure if I'd been rockin all this shit in the 2nd grade it would all seem like the best music of all time

compared to what?

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US #1s of 1992

US #1s of 1988

etc.

no way is the 1988 list better than this

oops...

US #1s of 2000

xp

that's what i'm saying, Lex.

did the odb remix of 'fantasy' come later, or was it released w/the original?

this was the version used with the video at the time no?

I never cared much for TLC, but "Fantasy" (good), "Gangstas Paradise"(better) and "This Is How We Do It"(best!) make for a solid pool of choices.

Cripes, Creep vs crap

creep. so much.

Wow, this confirms something I hinted at on the 1989 thread -- that list of #1s totalled 31; this one totals 11, just more than a third. What the hell gives? Obviously, a bunch of these must've stayed #1 for a long long time. PRetty sure I like "Exhale" best.

"Kiss From a Rose". Great song! Perhaps Seal's greatest moment.

Waterfalls for me.

Montel > "Creep" > Coolio > "Take A Bow."

Honestly never liked "Waterfalls" much.

you guys who were kids when this shit was new and can even rep for "you are not alone" really know how to make a dude feel geriatric, thx a fuckin bunch

― J0hn D., Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

word, i have never felt the miniscule generation gap between myself and jordan/rev more than i do now

Lotsa ballads, but in that they're not charmless. I would've voted for "Creep" or "Take a Bow" then. Now, "Exhale."

so was one of these #1 for like 4 months or something ?

"Take a Bow" was Number One for seven weeks, her longest running hit. "One Sweet Day" was Number One for 16 years.

hahah--i can't even remember how that one goes. youtube ahoy

"Kiss From a Rose" is one those songs that feels completely limp and blah, but it doesn't matter because MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODY EVAR.

― punk floyd (The Reverend), Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:35 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol this is crazy, what on earth is limp about seals POWERFUL VOCALS and MULTITRACKED HARMONIES and OOOOOOOOH THE MORE I GET OF U THE STRANGER IT FEELS, YEAAH

my POWER my PLEASURE my PAIN!!!!

"One Sweet Day" was Number One for 16 years.

Must be a typo although it felt that way ;)

xp: Oh, right. I was mostly refering to the production. Seal's performance is great.

Kiss from a Rose

"This Is How We Do It" is the only song here I would not turn off it was on the radio. Sorry, kids. This list looks kind of like a personal hell to me.

Damn, even the TLC songs? I couldn't even imagine not liking them.

i've always been a little mystified by the TLC love around these parts ...

creep easily...

one of my karaoke go-to's

"the 22nd of loneliness..."

I was one of the handful that voted for Seal.
Decent song at best, but by far my fave of this bunch.
Glad to see so many posters state the generation gap is at play here.

i was in college during this shit

it's interesting how many of these are real vocal performances, which ended up with almost equal weight as content in my ranking

"Creep" is great but "Waterfalls" always made me barf

bump

what a year

between the TLC tracks for me

jsut listened to crazysexycool yesterday aamof

i was well past my college years at this point but even my cynical indie rocker, post-rose-colored-glasses self knew that most of these songs were good-ass pop music. i voted waterfalls but there was lots to choose from if you ask me - beats out 1992 and 2000, both of which had some great songs but i think 95 had the most cream and the least dross of the 3 (which perhaps explains why all of these songs stayed in the charts for so long?)

^that would be the optimist's view at least :)

im not gonna front and say that these songs were formative in my taste or anything for anything--i was 6--but for real what a year

poptimist even

"Gangsta's Paradise" and "This is How We Do It" are both fun but "Waterfalls" is a beautiful song and a pretty creative metaphor.

it's easy to be creative with metaphors when you don't try to make any sense with them. "chasing waterfalls" wtf is that supposed to mean?

srsly

it's between "Take a Bow" and "This Is How We Do It"

it's easy to be creative with metaphors when you don't try to make any sense with them. "chasing waterfalls" wtf is that supposed to mean?

― some dude, Friday, 30 January 2009 14:34 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

um, don't risk your life on cheap thrills (like canoeing on waterfalls and snorting cocaine). pretty clear I'd have though

first verse is abour yr son selling rocks; second is about getting fucked to death (?).

when is Chilli's album coming out? her label is called TRON MUZIK

Don't go chasing wonderwalls. (Still don't think that TLC song is "beautiful," though. It's melody is all wet. But at least it's more stomachable than Seal.)

second is about getting fucked to death (?)

no it's AIDS isn't it ("three letters took him to his final resting place" = the three letters are "HIV")

or maybe the verse is confessing to the group having fucked a groupie to death and the three letters are TLC

the video is about aids

or maybe the verse is confessing to the group having fucked a groupie to death and the three letters are TLC
lol

"Kiss from a Rose" is the best song of the nineties! (Tied with "Lovefool")

I compare you to a rolling dictionary and an eye
Won't you tell me is it healthy, babe?

and Cathy Dennis' "Too Many Walls"

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I pretty much agree with this

Actually, so do I. Except Seal should have been on top alone. But "Waterfalls" is the second best here.

omg fuck waterfalls

Ugh, Boyz II Men.

As someone posted on your blog, can’t tell if the good outweighs the bad here. But there's some really good stuff.

Unless I’m unclear on yr methodology, the Loeb song was ’94: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6205679/rewinding-the-charts-20-years-ago-lisa-loeb-made-history-at-no-1

"on bended knee" is great