finest pazz and jop winner of the 90s only

Deee-Lite without thinking twice.

Going Fatboy Slim on this

All good songs. I'd rank them:

Groove is the Heart
No Scrubs
Loser
C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)
Cannonball
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Tennessee
MMMBop
Rockafeller Skank
Gangsta's Paradise

damn

"no scrubs" and "c'mon ride it" are two of the titanic 90s songs for me

voting for "no scrubs" tho

Coolio: "Gangsta's Paradise" (1995)
Quad City DJs: "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" (1996)
Hanson: "MMMBop" (1997)
Fatboy Slim: "The Rockafeller Skank" (1998)

This span was basically my high school years. I wasn't on board for ANY of this except Fatboy Slim at the time. I was super against Quad City DJs!

tlc and it's not even close

1. no scrubs
[big gap]
2. groove is in the heart
3. cannonball
4. gangsta's paradise
5. tennessee
[gap]
6. the rockefeller skank
7. mmmbop
[abyss into which quad city djs, who i've never even heard of, presumably fall]
9. smells like teen spirit
10. loser

pretty sad list, only 1 is great, 2-5 are good, 6-7 are fine, 9-10 dreadful. "no scrubs" isn't even close to being the best track on its parent album (that would be "silly ho").

"smells like teen spirit" beats loser because tori amos somehow managed to redeem it with her cover

like the rap list jordan polled last month 2000s >> 1990s

it's "no scrubs"

xp lol lex

lex, there isn't a bad song on this list, what the hell is wrong with you

sad-sacked indie kids liked them

I hate the nineties too, but this is a fairly representative list of how one can distill the best of the decade in one fuzzy, thumping loop.

god help the soul who's heard tori amos covering nirvana but hasn't heard quad city djs

^ describes kurdt btw

there are only 2 bad songs on this list but most of the good ones aren't really "best of year" quality. it's like seeing rihanna's "disturbia" or something there. it's fine but so much better exists.

yeah "smells like teen spirit" is just like "disturbia"

it's like seeing rihanna's "disturbia" jay-z's "empire state of mind" or something there. it's fine but so much better exists.

although he probably did hear 95 south right so he basically heard quad city djs. did kurdt ever do the tootsee roll???

just looked them up, quad city djs had one no 57 hit in the uk in 1997, when i was 14, with a completely different song.

approx 5 million times better than the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUL_7H7r40

yeah "smells like teen spirit" is just like "disturbia"

lol they're both kind of annoyingly overdriven and try-hard ~dark~

TLC - "No Scrubs" (1999)
The Breeders: "Cannonball" (1993)
Arrested Development: "Tennessee" (1992)
Fatboy Slim: "The Rockafeller Skank" (1998)
Beck: "Loser" (1994)
Hanson: "MMMBop" (1997)
Deee-Lite: "Groove Is in the Heart"/"What Is Love" (1990)
Nirvana: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"(1991)
Quad City DJs: "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" (1996)
Coolio: "Gangsta's Paradise" (1995)

Like/love the top 5, dislike/hate the bottom 5. Overall, a fairly depressing list that also does a fairly good job of summing up the decade, at least in the States.

xpost i cant even

hahahaha

in your dreams, lex

lex has a point: in the otherwise excellent Trees Lounge, Chloe Sevigny sports a closely cropped blond dye job, like Emily Valentine in "90210" or what's-her-name from Roxette. The nineties were like that.

nirvana.

never heard quad city djs before, i guess it grows on you

woomp there it is

I think MMMBop would be the only song I could play on the guitar if someone asked me to play one.

dont understand anyone who doesnt love the quad city djs song immediately

it's called england deej

Voting Quad City. (Dear challop-accusers: Nirvana would be my #2.)

listening to quad city djs now. it's good! i think i've heard it before. basically the "toot it & boot it" of its day, then?

except people knew what it was, yes

lol

It was no "The Dip."

I voted for "Cannonball."

man them including 'what is love' is making this impossible for me - definitely easily between dee-lite and 'cannonball' for me. substitute 'gangsta's paradise' for 'i'll be there for you/you're all i need to get by', maybe replace "loser" with "who's that man" and that's a pretty good 90s overview, covers alot of bases.

or pick another country song, i just heard "who's that man" again this morning on the radio, man what a song.

deee-lite

voted coolio, shoulda voted no scrubs

listened to ~20 seconds of the Tori Amos Nirvana cover

no thanks!

Mostly great songs actually, voted for Nirvana

Coolio's was the only one I flat-out disliked at the time. Three or four I'm neutral on. "Loser"'s the only one I still get a major charge out of on the radio.

i think "gangsta's paradise" was the first rap song to get major grammy attention, which is perfect really. i do prefer pretty much any other coolio hit to it, esp "1,2,3,4" and "fantastic voyage" obv. i had a friend that djed every saturday at this club and ppl would just go crazy for it, demanding he play it again and again (this is in iceland), like literally as soon as it finished playing ppl would be asking he play it again, i can't imagine he reenlisted. still, i got to see my city commissioner sing it at karaoke last thursday so nothing but love for coolio! dangerous minds can suck it though, 187 FOREVER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb59oac9mk

best shit coolio was ever involved with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utSOWUZz_Po

"coolio and crazy toones will neva sell out, n****"

there's a great picture of that Grammys ceremony where Annie Lennox is standing next to Coolio, and she's wearing her Minnie Mouse earrings and I don't know who's more disturbing.

*head band

Part of why I thought "Gangsta's Paradise" was such a drag was that I loved "Fantastic Voyage" so much. I was also puzzled as to why "Gangsta's Paradise" got a lot of critical attention and, as far as I could tell, "Fantastic Voyage" didn't.

lol kevin reynolds directed 187. i get the cynicism now.

not sure, but if so then Procol Harum is definitely the winner!

i know it's one of those songs where i found out what it was about (not "drugs") and it was really mundane and totally cast the song in a new light, like all those mccartney songs about his dogs.

ok not quite but whatever: Reid got the title and the starting point for the song at a party.[6] He overheard someone at the party saying to a woman, "You've turned a whiter shade of pale," and the phrase stuck in his mind.[7][8] The original lyrics had four verses, of which only two are heard on the original recording. The third verse has been heard in live performances by Procol Harum, and more seldom also the fourth.[9] The author of Procol Harum: beyond the pale, Claes Johansen, suggests that the song "deals in metaphorical form with a male/female relationship which after some negotiation ends in a sexual act."[8] This is supported by Tim de Lisle in Lives of the Great Songs, who remarks that the lyrics concern a drunken seduction, which is described through references to sex as a form of travel, usually nautical, using mythical and literary journeys.[10] Other observers have also commented that the lyrics concern a sexual relationship.[7]

the lyrics concern a drunken seduction, which is described through references to sex as a form of travel, usually nautical, using mythical and literary journeys

I think that finally clears up "Loser," too.

I always thought it was based off of some poem...(Whiter Shade of Pale that is)

"in a time of chimpanzees i was a monkey" is definitely some whip yr dick out at the cookout style

big deal who stopped being a big deal, and ever since he seems a little sad and lost.

Pretty much describes most pop stars, though, right?

feel hecka pissed that i was deprived of 'the train' for so many years

why was this not a hit in england?

ridic

Pretty much describes most pop stars, though, right?

True enough, but Beck looks like a little puppy dog, so it's especially touching.

I don't know about The Train; it's a fun dance song for sure, but I kind of feel that P&J shoulda went all out & put the Macarena at #1.

lol, yes i agree. it's pleasant but i don't get the love for that song. macarena is monstrous.

20. Right here right now - Fatboy Slim

Single in like April 1999, and quite obviously not a patch on 'Rockerfeller' or 'Everybody Needs A...' or 'I See You Baby' or 'Renegade Master'...

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, January 5, 2004 11:37 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

^^ comes correct

I heard "No Scrubs" on the radio today--part of a DJ mix--and on second thought, I think the connection to "Loser"'s a bit of a stretch. They're blowing off guys who hang out car windows and bellow obscenities; they've got the more boorish characters who populate hip-hop and hard rock records in mind. Not that Beck's loser-slacker is any kind of a prize, but he's a different archetype--same point, I think, that apassingspacecadet was making above, which I missed initially.

"c'mon and ride the train" is so jam-packed. it sounds like if basement jaxx were from florida.

You mean Basement Jaxx aren't from Florida??

they rep south dakota

they're from Hialeah.

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talk about a drop off at 1997.

the fuck is with these month long polls

the better to absorb the cultural impact of Eiffel 65's hair

I have never heard of Quad City DJs.

All the same, it was a tough choice, but went with Dee-Lite, as it's one of the best pop-dance songs ever written.

its kind of fun as display name time capsule at the very least

this was pretty easy. MMMBop.

i guess i should finally vote for something -- it's hard because tbh i feel kind of ambivalent and/or sick of even the good ones here. "Cannonball" i guess? that one i'd definitely leave on if it came on the radio, which i can't say for most of the others.

Yes! vote 'Cannonball'!!

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"Tennessee" is better than half these songs.

agreed, the album winning is an alltime lol but 'tennessee' itself is fantastic, the only thing i loved by them.

Exactly.

I'd rather TLC be tied with Beck rather than Quad City DJs, and all grumbling about Arrested Development's goose-egg otm, but I'm pretty happy w/ the top 3 here

cannonball def split the nirvana vote

dammit, tennessee is a great song. i feel bad now. 'groove is in the heart' deserved the gong, but i didn't vote for it.

smh @ tlc getting so few votes

I love AD and all but you'd have to be pretty crazy to vote for them when given these choices

I wanted to do a "worst pazz and jop winner ever" poll, but it's so obviously "Sun City"

aint gonna vote sun city

Hanson was robbed.

worst ever from the past decade no doubt

I voted for the winner, but kinda anticlimactic for first 90s year to take this poll? still, deee-lite seem very 2010s to me for some reason, unlike almost every other entrant except maybe beck or fatboy slim

deeelite is cool but quad city 4 all time

these results are correct imo

I'm mostly interested in this poll to see how many votes "Tennessee" will get. Nobody will admit to voting for it and then it'll get five votes and finish higher than, say, "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Mmmm Bop".

I don't think it's a bad song

i almost voted for "Tennessee," it definitely in my top 4 out of these options

A GAME OF HORSESHOES

HORSESHOES HORSESHOES

prob my #3 after qcdjs/deee-lite

wish this was somehow my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Zi-YSW3aQ&feature=player_embedded#!

swag this guy out

http://www.gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=1468076