Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 for 1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1995

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/6Sr3ttlOsPiOjhQUGOzyJL

This playlist is missing two songs; "I Know" by Dionne Farris and "I Miss You" by N II U

Overall it's a pretty great year for all different kinds of pop music with a few obvious clunkers; love the reminders of TLC's pinnacle, plus it's interesting seeing some of these songs popping up in recent commercials (specifically "This Is How We Do It" and "I Wish")

I would have made this a poll but fuck that, just talk about the songs you like

Two Bon Jovi ballads!

haha wait who used I Wish

year of the batman forever soundtrack

haha wait who used I Wish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iymBRSUfz9U

also soul for real, boyz ii men's ii, the brandy record

bought a lot of cassettes that year

"Tootsee Roll" 69 Boyz

^^^

Looking at the songs that I'm unfamiliar with. I don't think I knew until now that The Real McCoy did a version of "Come and Get Your Love".

omg i never actually knew who did "here come the hotstepper"

had that song in my head ALL THE TIME that year

it's semi-criminal that "I Know" by Dionne Farris isn't on Spotify

holy shit i totally forgot about "i know"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHsJe94TdhA

the riff sounds like 500000 guitars

The last time that Natalie Merchant, Pretenders and Soul Asylum would ever have Billboard charters?

Natalie Merchant had Kind & Generous in 1998, but that only charted on the Airplay chart.

"you gotta be" is even more lush than i remember

omg i never actually knew who did "here come the hotstepper"

had that song in my head ALL THE TIME that year

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:53 PM Bookmark

Ha, yesterday I posted "When I grow up I will be Ini Kamoze" on twitter and he retweeted it.

haha awesome

some distance has made me remember that I liked Hootie and the Blowfish for a hot second

i definitely owned cracked rear view

but idk i was like 8

haha me 2 :(

I owned the 1996 Grammy Awards compilation CD which was one of my first gateways to popular music and had a bunch of these songs on it.

Mista Boombahstique

I loathe "I Know " :(

goddammit alfred

i didn't know an 8-year-old would want Cracked Rear View, unless they thought it was an album full of fart jokes

you know who was great, was Soul for Real

fucking exactly

also ship "only wanna be with you" was mad catchy idk

I reminded a friend about the existence of "In the House of Stone and Light."

"Only wanna be with you" really was mad catchy, that and the singles from the first sheryl crow album were pretty big for me, though I didn't succumb to buying anything.

my least favorite pop year of the nineties

oohhhhhhhh shit "turn the beat around" was '95?

my first ever "favorite song of all time"

Best song on Cracked Rear View was "Hannah Jane" IMO.

"I Know" is such a great tune. I was a college radio DJ at the time and it really pissed me off when someone had played it in the shift right before mine. (We were a tightly-formatted college station so I couldn't play it again for three hours.)

Almost hard to remember how big that Melissa Etheridge record was at the time.

The song was ruined for me when she played it and a 15-minute watery funk nothing while opening for Bryan Ferry in spring '95.

whereupon Ferry himself instructed his band to play a watery 15-minute funk nothing

am completely flummoxed that ilx has opinions about hootie album tracks.

that said, "here comes the hotstepper" is completely classic. i did not know then nor do i know now any of the words, i would just kind of toast along with nonsense syllables to this whole song until the chorus came around

Lol Hootie was my first concertconcert

Also: <3 I Know. Brad otm about that riff

I remember the first time hearing Short Dick Man (tho it was the clean version, ShortShort Man)

"Like the Way I Do" is a jam, would be happy to never hear another Etheridge song but that one is suitably unhinged

&

"does she miss you / existing just to kiss you"

is a preposterous rhyme & I LOVE IT

I like that one too (and a few other ME singles). I didn't notice it here and never thought of it as a 1995 hit, probably because it was actually released in 1988!

ha yes, I was surprised to see it on this 1995 list too, since I thought I remembered it from much earlier. now I see that it was rereleased in 95 as a b-side; good call!

I have never heard "In the House of Stone and Light" before in my life; how many things did Sting record under this name?

he co-wrote "We Built This City." Can Sting boast a comparable accomplishment?

"Russians"

I was gonna say "We'll Be Together"

I loathe "I Know " :(
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

goddammit alfred
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is a fair share of insufferable stuff on this list tho.

Boyz II Men, "On Bended Knee"
Del Amitri, "Roll To Me"
all the Hootie
f'n BLUES TRAVELER, "RUN-AROUND"

Still ... there but for the grace of the radio gods goes Jade's "Every Day of the Week." <3

currently at the "I Got 5 On It"/"Baby"/"Run Away" section; I don't remember "As I Lay Me Down" at all but I hope it keeps up the streak

really? It got massive airplay for at least two years after its release.

Hotstepper
I Wish
I Got 5 On It
Shy Guy
= all classics, too hard to decide.

Last night I thought of "'74-'75" by the Connells for the first time in years because something with a very similar chord progression came on the pub jukebox, and I totally thought it was going to be on here as it was ubiquitous in the UK that summer/autumn, but apparently it wasn't even a hit in the US. I wouldn't have voted for it but I guess I liked being reminded of it last night?

Would be willing to sort of rep for "Roll to Me," though I find it much easier to resent it on the grounds that it is the only thing that so many people will ever associate Del Amitri with (they have much better songs, even on that same album).

A la Cardigans fans with "Lovefool" (which I love)

always good to be reminded that a song like "In The House Of Stone And Light" could go top 20 even after grunge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIa9UEXd98Q

lol at such a nineties video for such an eighties song

on my station "In The House..." got as much airplay as – remember this? – Jamie Walter's "Hold On."

oh man:

With his residence in Los Angeles county, he pursued training, certification, and employment as a paramedic and worked with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He is now working as a full-time firefighter/paramedic for the Los Angeles City Fire Department as of early 2004. Walters is focusing on his family and his career with the fire department but hopes to get back into music and acting sometime in the near future.

I definitely remember "Hold On," mostly because I named my playlist of artists with top 20 hits in the 90s (and only the 90s) who never went top ten Jamie Walters (Not The Heights)

lol Jamie Walters

remember how he used 90210 to boost his music career, which was then torpedoed when they had his character beat the shit out of Donna Martin

I thought he used his music career to boost his firefighting stint

lol i had no idea he and drew barrymore were engaged

croup quite rightly placed "No Myth" at the top of a list that includes "Baby It's Tonight" (which I hear at the supermarket once a month) and "Hippychick."

it's in chronological order by order of appearance on the top 40

I can't believe "Now That We Found Love" didn't go top 10, ditto "The Humpty Dance"

also "No Myth" rules pretty hard

only way to forgive "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" at the bottom.

I don't think I've heard "Tic Tac Toe" since the 90s

that was totally new to me when I made these playlists and it's fucking great

omigod "Everything Changes." I worked at a Miami Subs when this thing played twice a day on the in-house system and hated when the Taylor Dayne clone sang "Everything looks the same through the eyes of love" and I thought, "Try sticking your hands in fry batter and tomato water, bitch."

a helluva Trevor Horn tribute, "Tic Tac Toe," with all those scratches and Yes samples in the right places.

I always liked how, at the end of "No Myth," the drum track turns into the intro to Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" Someone should do a mashup.

back to the 1995 list for a second, I'd forgotten how much I love "Every Little Thing I Do"; possibly one of the greatest drops of all time when the music echoes out and the voices come back in a capella

thinking of "Misery", which I still hear at supermarkets & the like: Let Your Dim Light Shine went platinum! Grave Dancers Union went triple platinum so it's no New Jersey but still.

lol i really like "on bended knee" :(

man "I Wanna Be Down" is a good song but I heard it so so so so so many times, I'm still burned out on it 18 years later

Let Your Dim Light Shine would qualify for the New Jersey poll if it'd gone multiplatinum.

"The Rhythm of the Night" is great but why does it even bother to have verses?

It was a minor hit on alt-rock radio

re: connells

man, if only Corona had popped up on alt-rock radio

lol @ coronas popping up

okay lol I never actually knew the name of "Roll To Me"

Every time I hear "Rhythm of the Night" I remember the time in college when my clock radio went off at 6:45 a.m. at the very precise moment she howls "THIS IS THE RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT!" and I laugh all over again.

If you don't fux with "On Bended Knee" you and I are not alike, that's all I have to say.

"On Bended Knee" isn't the objectionable Boyz II Men song on this list IMO

the version of "i'll make love to you" on the playlist sounds rerecorded btw

that's the pitfall of Spotify

yeah but via spotify i just learned boyz ii men released an album in 2009 where they cover the goo goo dolls and take that

The biggest airplay song not included here must have been "When I Come Around."

man, if only Corona had popped up on alt-rock radio

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lol @ coronas popping up

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xp second-biggest! biggest was the friends theme song "i'll be there for you" by the rembrandts

a few other big radio hits from that year that largely bypassed retail:

gin blossoms "til i hear it from you"
live "lightning crashes"
alanis morissette "you oughta know" and "hand in my pocket"

more on topic, whew, "kiss from a rose"

I'd completely forgotten that I created this playlist