Time Capsule: Billboard's Modern Tracks chart 20 years ago this week (April 2, 1994)

God, sometimes you're a stone cold fool.

Oh shit, I didn't mean you LimbsKing!

That's just how I heard the Tori Amos lyric.

Favorite here is either "Loser" or "Longview", but I'm going for "Return to Innocence" just to make sure it gets a vote

Best of these is Backwater though. Expect the poll to basically be Backwater vs. No Excuses.

Ha. No offense taken.

I feel like the poll theme is heavily Nirvana-skewed, and yet I love "All Apologies" the best. I am torn.

Kinda baffled that Enigma actually managed to place this high, though I guess that's just a testament to the variety of this chart

Am I the only one that's never heard of Fury in the Slaughterhouse

I like that Fury in the Slaughterhouse song, had it on a promo compilation cd that had a bunch of these songs, including the one I voted for, "Leaving Las Vegas"

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Tracks :

1 The Grays - Very Best Years
2 E - The Only Thing I Care About
3 Levellers - This Garden
4 Slowdive - Alison
5 Catherine Wheel - Wish You Were Here
6 Kristen Hersh - Your Ghost
7 Yo La Tengo - From a Motel 6
8 Possum Dixon - Watch the Girl Destroy Me
9 Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Lean on Me
10 Redd Kross - Lady in the Front Row
11 Lucy's Fur Coat - Treasure Hands
12 Meat Puppets - Backwater
13 Sheryl Crow - Leaving Las Vegas
14 Eve's Plum - I Want It All
15 Best Kissers in the World - Bleeder
16 The Other - Two Selfish
17 Fury in the Slaughterhouse - Every Generation Got Its Own Disease
18 Course of Empire - Infested
19 Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
20 October Project - Return to Me

I don't remember Fury in the Slaughterhouse at all.

For me this is "Backwater" by quite a large margin.

gotta pinch myself: a Charlatans UK single charting in '94

What I love:

Meat Puppets
Morrissey

What I Like:

James
Tori Amos
Green Day
Elvis C

man i want so badly to vote for backwater but all apologies is just a great great song

anybody thinking about voting for spoonman needs to take a long hard look at themselves and the terrible decisions that have led them to this point

THE ROCKETS COME AT US SIDEWAYS

for me this was between Sheryl Crow, James, Counting Crows, and Fury in the Slaughterhouse

not artists I care about much beyond those songs, though! one hit wonders/"wonders" as far as I'm concerned

I ultimately voted for Nirvana. Runners up:

3. Enigma, "Return to Innocence"
5. Alice in Chains, "No Excuses"
8. Smashing Pumpkins, "Disarm"
17. Meat Puppets, "Backwater"
18. Pearl Jam, "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter..."
19. James, "Laid"

And now it's exactly 20 years from when Cobain's death was reported

Probably "Backwater," but I may throw a dark horse vote to "Get Off This."

I'm surprised how many of these I like.

As a Phoenix resident, have to vote Backwater.

The Meat Puppets recently played a packed hometown show and the crowd went totally nuts during Backwater, which is definitely influencing my vote here.

Seriously, I could vote for so many of these. But, then, this was my prime engagement period with alt-rock radio so I have fond memories of lots of this stuff. I could reasonably argue for any of these:

5. Alice in Chains, "No Excuses"
6. Beck, "Loser"
8. Smashing Pumpkins, "Disarm"
10. Nirvana, "All Apologies"
11. Counting Crows, "Mr. Jones"
14. Cracker, "Get Off This"
15. Green Day, "Longview"
16. Soundgarden, Spoonman"
17. Meat Puppets, "Backwater"
18. Pearl Jam, "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter..."
19. James, "Laid,"

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Voted for Soundgarden because it deserved a vote.

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I voted for whoever rammed that fucking time capsule up their own arse forever.

this is between "Laid," ""Loser," "Can't Get Out of Bed" and yes "Spoonman." voting James.

All songs I recognize from the titles and like a fair bit:

. Morrissey, "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get"
2. Tori Amos, "God"
10. Nirvana, "All Apologies"
15. Green Day, "Longview"
16. Soundgarden, Spoonman"
18. Pearl Jam, "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter..."
19. James, "Laid,"

Might give it to Morrissey. Despite his many faults, that one still gets in my head; love the "Beware, I bear more grudges/ than lonely High Court judges" bit.

Meat Puppets

oh god my freshman year roommate had that fury in the slaughterhouse album aaaa

voted for backwater btw

Hm, the Morrissey song might be my least favourite when I listen to them right now. Leaning towards Pearl Jam of all things.

Too many grisy memories of singing that PJ with my best bros.

lol

lot of songs i'm indifferent to or tired of from albums i like/love. "Laid" over "God," i guess.

Going with All Apologies

charlatans. just so it gets a vote.

No Excuses

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Charlatans, so it has a few votes. That album it's from holds up really well.

yeap, but i still love that band. they were always so much fun live.

i only have isolated, persistent feelings of 90s nostalgia, really only still listen regularly to nirvana of the music of the era - and when i think abt 'the 90s' the impressions that come to mind aren't amazing. too much general non-music-related aversion keeps me from ever really wanting to come back to 14-year-old me

but looking at this list, it's like, wow, there was a time when i could just sit there playing alt rock radio 24-7 and feel like it was all good

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

"All Apologies" is a great song but I feel like I've seen it on the top of a thousand Nirvana lists over the past week. It's their "Imagine".

i saw one list with it at #1 recently but i thought that was an aberration, seems like "SLTS" is always #1 (unless it's something else totally contrarian/obscure)

The unplugged version is their "In My Life"