TRL March 15th 1999

"my name is..." easily

I wonder if that NSync song title ever worked as a pickup line for anyone in the history of the world who wasn't in NSync (or possibly the country artist who covered that song).

Orgy "Blue Monday"

I don't know what this is and yet I feel the urge to say 'ew'.

"Blue Monday" isn't that bad, but it sort of set the template for Marilyn Manson's "Personal Jesus" and "Tainted Love" which were not very good.

I thought this was going to be a Temporary Residence thread.

I don't know what this is

You lucky man.

it sort of set the template

Limp Bizkit and their cover of "Faith" might have something to say about that. (Also, Marilyn Manson's own cover of "Sweet Dreams," which came out well before Orgy's butchering.)

Orgy's "Blue Monday" is the worst fuckin thing ever

"My Name Is," though I have a lot of love for "Freak On A Leash." That Tasmanian Devil beatboxing!

i remember janeane garofalo making fun of orgy's "blue monday" by marching in place to it while on the show with ben stiller to promote mad men

lol MYSTERY men

THE sound of 1999

xpost -- I was about to say WAIT a minute.

Ben Stiller as Don Draper, though.

Pac. If only for getting a Huey P. Newton namedrop and "cops fuck up Black neighborhoods" rhetoric onto TRL (and over the heads of most of the kidz?)

the beginning of "Freak On A Leash" is fantastic; it's really too bad about the middle

btw have you all heard the Green Velvet remix of Orgy's "Stitches"? because it's awesome

Limp Bizkit and their cover of "Faith" might have something to say about that. (Also, Marilyn Manson's own cover of "Sweet Dreams," which came out well before Orgy's butchering.)

I had a feeling someone would say this, and I disagree, other than the fact that it's a nu-metal band covering an 80s song..

Britney's song is iconic. I kind of like the Nsync, but everything else on this list, including the overrated Eminem novelty, is forgettable.

I'm still torn on my vote.

this is an incredible poll

2pac & the range

I'm gonna be the dude uncool enough to admit that I heard Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" years before I heard the original (wasn't really fuckin w/Factory when I was 13) and I actually kinda like it a lot. It and "Freak" are the only ones I'll still turn up if they come on the radio.

I also feel a lil bit obligated to vote "Changes" cause it was the first Pac I ever heard and its a great fuckin song, but even then it just didn't hit me the way stuff on LAD did and to this day I still don't really hear Pac.

So

"freak on a leash"

I liked the Orgy "Blue Monday" enough to hunt down the original on Napster in ninth grade and o.m.g. what a disappointment

em > pac > korn > other shit

between nsync and 98o and monica there is some boring-ass balladry going on in that countdown

the fuck are those offspring and joey m songs?

the Offspring song was the follow-up to "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" and was pretty horrible and huge in its own right

the joey mcintyre song kind of languished in the shadow of "give it to you" but i would probably know the lyrics front to back if i listened to it now

I liked the Orgy "Blue Monday" enough to hunt down the original on Napster in ninth grade and o.m.g. what a disappointment

Funny, I'm getting the same feeling but in reverse order at the moment. ;-)

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"Why Don't You Get A Job" was the obvious "Obladi Oblada" rip off. .. instead "la la how the life goes on.." it's "now now why don't you get a job."

the joey mcintyre song kind of languished in the shadow of "give it to you" but i would probably know the lyrics front to back if i listened to it now

Holy shit, you reminded me that "Give it to You" is a beautiful monster.

where did you find this list?

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lolm

who the fuck voted for that 98 degrees song.

i love give it to you and always have even though when it came out i was into respectable music like powerman 5000 and also found it to be uncomfortably rapey

I liked the Orgy "Blue Monday" enough to hunt down the original on Napster in ninth grade and o.m.g. what a disappointment

SB'd you for this

I hate this poll for reminding me that Orgy's version exists

where did you find this list?
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http://atrl.net/trlarchive/

Holy shit.. I kinda love that Monster Magnet was the 1st video ever on a TRL countdown (at #10).

hahaha i remember watching the first episode with carson on a laptop in a little dark studio it felt like such a dope little "underground" show

lol ditto!

I'm gonna be the dude uncool enough to admit that I heard Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" years before I heard the original (wasn't really fuckin w/Factory when I was 13) and I actually kinda like it a lot. It and "Freak" are the only ones I'll still turn up if they come on the radio.

I also feel a lil bit obligated to vote "Changes" cause it was the first Pac I ever heard and its a great fuckin song, but even then it just didn't hit me the way stuff on LAD did and to this day I still don't really hear Pac.

So

"freak on a leash"

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I liked the Orgy "Blue Monday" enough to hunt down the original on Napster in ninth grade and o.m.g. what a disappointment

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itt posts that hit uncomfortably close to home

I thought that Monica song was so pretty back in '98.

haha were you the other person that voted for it? :)

I didn't get a chance to vote. :(

Surprised Sugar Ray or Lo-Fidelity All-Stars were not in the countdown at the time. "My Name Is" is Eminem's best single and video ever. Killer track.

"Every Morning" was at #10 just a few days earlier..