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- 05 Dec 2007 (11 months ago)
The Definitive Once-And-For-All Best 90s Song List
- by DrDave
I wanted to be more extravagent with the blog title, something epic and awe-inspiring to properly mark the creation of the Definitive Eat Electric Death Top 5 90s Song List Ever erm, list. But sadly Beejtech can't transmit more than 30 characters, so we'll have to make do with what would fit in the box. I find it helps if you imagine it in neon.
So, we've had 7 years to cool down from the cultural mayhem that was the nineties, time to reflect and ponder on what was one of the most creative and artistically fruitful decades in all history. The decade that gave us "Doop" and Timmy Mallet's unique take on the old pop-standard "Itsy Witsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini".
I think it's time to pack that decade away into a crate, place it in a lead lined container and bury it five miles below the antartic ice shelf personally. But before we do, we must formulate amonst ourselves a fitting eulogy for a musical decade. And what better way to do that than to fashion a Top 5 90s songs list, in the best EED tradition?
Here's mine. I'm not sure it's in any particular order:
- Tender - Blur
- Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
- Even Flow - Pearl Jam
- Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim
- Loaded - Primal Scream
Come now clan, express!
In no particular order because I refuse to subscribe to the notion that one song is better than another, I give you:
1. Wonderwall - Oasis
2. Disco 2000 - Pulp
3. Kiss From A Rose - Seal
4. Waterfalls - TLC
5. Porcelin - Moby
If I played you those tracks next to Aggadoo, you'd subscribe to one song being better than another faster than a rat up a drainpipe. Waterfalls fuck me!
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
2. One - U2
3. Creep - Radiohead
4. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
5. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
Not really comfortable contributing to a thread that lists TLC as the pinnacle of a decade that gave us Perl Jam, Nervana, Radiohead.....but in an effort to rebalance, I give you my top ten, in no order. Five is impossible, you mentalist.
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Blind Melon - Mouth Full of Cavities
Metallica - Enter the Sandman
Radiohead - Creep
Nirvana - All Apologies
Beastie Boys - Sabbotage
Perl Jam - Jeremy
Teardrops - Massive Attack
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
Prodigy - No Good Start the Dance
The 90's brought us some insanely good music both in the electronic and acoustic genres and hence it's a bit hard for me to come up with a Top 5... more like Top 50. I've also always found it rather hard to put any of my favourites in a specific order, so here's a rather bloated Top "5" in no specific order. I'll start with the electronic music, so you geezers can skip this bit ;)
Age of Love - Age of Love
Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth
Slacker - Scared
Massive Attack - Teardrop
RMB - Passport to Heaven, Land of the Rising Sun
Prodigy - Hyperspeed (G-Force Part II), Full Throttle, Claustrophobic Sting, Rhythm of Life
Hardfloor - Ain't Nuttin' But A Format Thang
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Faithless - Insomnia, Killer's Lullaby
Chemical Brothers - Influenced, Hey Boy Hey Girl
Underworld - Born Slippy, Moaner
Taucher - Infinity (Phase I)
Moby - Go, Hymn (This Is My Dream)
Eat Static - Elixir
BT - Orbitus Teranium
Blackout - Gotta Have Hope
Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall
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That's all the house, techno and trance sorted. Geezers, start reading again ;)
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Pearl Jam - Jeremy, Even Flow, Black, Oceans (Whole of Ten, tbh)
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Faith No More - Ugly In The Morning, Epic, Digging The Grave, Take This Bottle
Therapy? - Nowhere
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm, Tonight Tonight
Millencolin - Hellman
Mad Caddies - Monkeys
Lagwagon - Change Despair
Bad Religion - Better Off Dead
Portishead - Numb, Wandering Star
Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
Radiohead - Karma Police, Creep
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge, Soul To Squeeze
System Of A Down - War?
Korn - Freak On A Leash
Rammstein - Seemann, Klavier
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Turned out to be somewhat less than I expected, tbh... Must've forgotten something :)
Listen, maybe I didn't make myself clear. This is for the ages people. The final discussion of 90s music. After this, we're looking forwards baby. With this in mind:
Let's get this right folks.
Very well... Due to peer pressure from Egon and a lawyer, I present my Top 5!
Happy? :)
I had to post ten to balance Brits list. Oh very well:
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Blind Melon - Mouth Full of Cavities
Radiohead - Creep
Nirvana - All Apologies
Teardrop - Massive Attack
In no particular order
sir mixalot - babys got back
foo fighters - everlong
new order - confusion (from blade)
pantera - walk
radiohead - karma police
I hate lists like these, but I cant resist posting to them, so in no order :)