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Post by vastar iner on Jul 17, 2014 12:37:24 GMT 1
"Sunshine On A Rainy Day" is a bonafide classic. I think Zoe was romantically entangled with Youth at the time.
"There She Goes" was Channel 4 text's single of the year for 1988 or whichever its initial year was. Lee Mavers was so OCD about re-creating the sixties for the recording that he got original valves. The result was a touch of genius; how important he was is demonstrated by the gaping vacuity that was Cast.
"I Am The Resurrection" is a work of art. Definitely more so than "Waterfall", which is a) more suited in its album place and b) was better in the "Don't Stop" form.
And always good to see a bit of Sarah.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 18, 2014 19:23:37 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 17**********************
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
I guess its the most obvious one but as the song that took them from cult indie stars to major league rock stars, it will always be a favourite also it doesn't really sell out the sound and is as good as they've ever been. It reached #19 in the UK and #4 in the US and was a number one for me also, another year end top 10 finisher from 1991, what a year!!
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 18, 2014 19:29:51 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 16**********************
Boo Radleys - Lazarus
Their best single and highlight from their best album 'Giant Steps' but even better than the album version was the remixes by Augustus Pablo, turning it into a dub based epic. Just an amazing track if a bit heavy on horns at times. It reached #50 in the charts and was a top 10 of the year for me in 1992
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 18, 2014 19:38:51 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 15**********************
Paris Angels - Perfume ( All On You)
A Madchester club classic arguably the finest indie dance track of all time that didn't eventually become a hit. 'Perfume' itself was a pretty good slice of also ran baggy but with the 'All On You' 12" version it had a whole new life again with the spirit of New Order running through the shimmering base line, it was edgier,funkier and filled indie clubs dancefloors for 2 or 3 years.The single did peak at #55 but was in the indie charts for months and a big label re-issue in 1991 was just a bit too late and flopped,everyone who wanted it had already got it I guess. Reached #1 in my chart twice and was top 5 year end in 1990. The best version on YouTube is this one.
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 19, 2014 11:24:48 GMT 1
"Sunshine On A Rainy Day" is a bonafide classic. I think Zoe was romantically entangled with Youth at the time. Indeed on both counts. I also remember when Youth was producing Bananarama's 1991 Pop Life album for which his girlfriend provided backing vocals there was talk in 1992/3 about her becoming the new third member of the trio after Jacqui O'Sullivan left, but alas much like the Sheryl Crow replacing Christine McVie in Fleetwood Mac, that did not occur. She then went on to have a couple of kids with a poet who would make my Top 1000 of the 1990s list with ....
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 19, 2014 16:17:11 GMT 1
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The Breeders - Cannonball
Basically ever song now is a indie disco classic barring two, which are too slow. Arguably better than anything the Pixies have done since the 80s, the three queens of US indie get together and make a beautiful racket. This peaked #40 didnt even need to look taht up and was just a #2 in my chart but did finish in the year end top 10 of 1993.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 19, 2014 16:21:08 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 13**********************
Pulp - Common People
In a early version of this playlist this track was #2 but has dropped back over the last few months, firstly I feel after playing the songs through, their are others I love more and in fact its not seen my favourite Pulp song, that is still to come. But they beat Oasis by miles on this list but not Blur who also have one more song to come. This reached #2 in the charts and was a #1 for me and top 10 year end in 1996.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 19, 2014 16:26:16 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 12**********************Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
A rare example on the list of a song that wasn't a hit in my chart when it was released, if it was I don't remember how it did. I got into B&S through the indie night at our Student Union and I was aware of them as well but had never bought anything by them until I heard this one. Instantly fell in love with it and it became one of my favourite songs of the year, guest vocals from Monica Queen from The Delgados. It did finish in my top 20 of the year in 1997 but over the years I have loved it even more hence its massive position on this list. It peaked #41 on the official chart
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 19, 2014 16:36:26 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 11**********************
My Bloody Valentine - Soon / Soon (Andy Weatherall Remix)
Both versions of this song are amazing before I say anything else but I was a clubber so for me the Weatherall Remix just pips the album version. This is an amazing club record ever and my favourite dance track of all time, I must have danced to this 50 times, it still brings back memories of dodgy lights,strobes and smoke machines, why don't clubs have them anymore!! Better than 'Loaded' this is Andy Weatheralls masterpiece remix. But I will link both versions as its always great to play the heavier version. There is still three more early 90s dance/baggy classics to come and they are all in the top 4!! This is another song that peaked at #41!!! NM you miss both last two songs with your chart rules at the time sadly. It was only a top 10 hit in my chart as it charted as teh album version but the track finished top 5 in my year end of 1990.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 19, 2014 23:29:27 GMT 1
11, 12, 13 and 15 were all records that scorched across the vasmind on first listen. Real "wow!" moments.
B&S had a bet on with Jeepster records that it would not be top 40. I do wonder if it had nudged over and got airplay just how big it would have been. Their best-ever single. And one of the best ever released. There's a touch of melancholy elegiac about it.
I remember when they won the Brit award for Best Newcomer, to the consternation of Pete Wankerman. The most disgusting thing I have ever heard on Radio 1 was the next morning when Zoe Ball was going on about never having heard of them. Well, Zo, you were the breakfast DJ at the station that's meant to be playing the contemporary stuff, so if anyone should have heard of them then it should have been you. But, still, you were only in a job because you had a famous dad and you are a Manchester United bandwagoner from Blackpool, so I have defecated more important things.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 20, 2014 11:11:49 GMT 1
Precisely cant imagine Nick Grimshaw saying something like that even though he is terrible in other ways but at least he knows about music just doesn't make any effort to play any new music on his show. I don't think it would have climbed though as they wouldn't have done TOTP and no radio station would playlist for daytime not even Radio 1, it would have been a one week wonder like most alternative songs at the time.
Really happy that you liked #15 as well as it was really a cult record at the time, and everyone I knew loved it but it just didn't crossover like it should have.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 20, 2014 11:19:18 GMT 1
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Foo Fighters - Everlong
The last 10 songs have been so strong, I am worried that I have overrated this one a little but in 1997, it was all about MTV2 for me and the biggest band and most played video was this. Just a brilliant video mixing elements of Evil Dead with a freakish nightmare, I guess that's what getting over a major relationship can feel like I guess and Dave Grohl poured his soul into this song and the video. Brilliant crossdressing as ever from the Foos drummer Taylor. This only reached #18 in the UK when I think it should have been their biggest hit but I guess it was a bit dark for the mainstream. A number one for me and top 3 of the year in 1997.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 20, 2014 11:26:04 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 9**********************Pulp - Babies
Yes the correction I made was making this higher than 'Common People', yes it was definitely channeling The Stranglers - Always The Sun but apart from that they were such a breath of fresh air, bringing storytelling back to pop songs something I loved with early 80s pop which was lost in the late 80s-early 90s. It is an art lost again For me this was their masterpiece and showed that Pulp were a band on the brink of stardom. It peaked at #19 on re-issue in 1994 but was top 5 for them the first time and a number one the second time.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 20, 2014 11:30:16 GMT 1
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Nirvana - Lithium
Better than 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' I would say yes but also I am just not as sick of hearing it. My 2nd favourite rock band of the 90s and this for me is their best song. This reached #11 in the UK charts and was a number one for em and top 10 year end in 1992.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 20, 2014 11:54:20 GMT 1
When you posted that Common People was only your 2nd Pulp song I was thinking it's the same for me, I wonder if we both have the same first one, and we do.
Babies was #1 in my chart for 7 weeks in the summer of 1994. The song entered my chart at #7 and I went to Virgin Megastore (I think) planning to buy Morrissey's "Hold On To Your Friends" single that was out that week. But when I saw that it only had Moon River as a B-side I decided to by The Sisters EP instead and it ended up flying to #1 in my chart the following week and although Morrissey entered my chart at #3, it couldn't do better than 4 weeks at #2 behind Pulp, essentially depriving Morrissey of what would have been 5 consecutive #1s as he had 2 either side of it. (Although exactly why Interlude reached #1 in my chart I don't know, it wasn't that good. But it sneaked in 2 weeks between Seal and Blur).
With regards to "Sit Down" it's one of those anthemic songs from the shoegazing genre that will appeal to lots of people who don't normally like shoegazing but which may cause some of the purists to shout "sell-out" albeit the song had been around a couple of years before it was a big hit. It was also my #1 of the year in 1991 and so perhaps we had the same #1 of the year more than once during the course of the 1990s.
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Post by Milliways on Jul 20, 2014 12:09:09 GMT 1
For both Nirvana and Pulp, if I was asked for my top 2 songs from each I would name the same 2 songs, in the same order as they appear here.
Partly that's because, excellent as they are, both 'Common People' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' have been played into the ground. If Pulp never released anything else, though, 'Babies' would still be an all-time great record.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 20, 2014 12:52:02 GMT 1
I wouldn't agree with James being shoegazing though they are more in the spirit of The Smiths, And i think most people were happy that James after six years of trying eventually got a huge hit , the problem was the song was played so much it even had a silly routine at indie clubs were everyone sat down on the dance floor , it became the 'come on Eileen ' of the 90s , a song spoiled by wedding dj's and lame super clubs that played the same dozen indie acts and call themselves an indie night
Also I don't hold onto the idea of chart positions in my chart as a measure of how good they are as it is just depends who fled was in the chart at the time. , a number 10 in 1991 is probably better than many number ones in 1999 , if this was a position based chart or points based it would be completely different. Also this chart is heavily biased towards 1990-1992 where the songs really affected me more and have more memories , I dont there are any songs from 1998 or 1999 in the top 20
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 20, 2014 14:23:30 GMT 1
I think later James wasn't at all "shoegazing" but at the time they broke with the song "Come Home" in particular it fitted into that style.
For me "Madchester" which was the forerunner of Britpop (and I don't think of britpop as anti-grunge like some say it is, I see it as pop returning to being non-manufactured) and it was a good anti-dote to 1989's chart domination first by Stock Aitken Waterman, then by Jive Bunny and all that silly sampled dance stuff like Blackbox, Technotronic etc.
If anything a lot of the "Madchester" embraced "dance" as a style but in a "real music" sort of way, using real instruments and writing original songs. Or even covering songs by The Rolling Stones or John Kongos.. There was a bit of a "feel-good" factor to it, probably just before the recession hit.
Nirvana was something to be welcomed, of course. Smells Like Teen Spirit was an incredible anthem although they did also make some other great rock anthems. "Lithium" turned up in one of my "old chart" rundowns.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 22, 2014 21:42:49 GMT 1
*************************NUMBER 7**********************
No Doubt - Don't Speak
The biggest commercial hit in the top 30 and the only UK number one in the top 50. It was also a US number one as well. Another song that was never off MTV, I was actually surprised that it followed its success in the UK, I thought they were a bit too alternative for the masses but I guess to the masses, this was just a girly ballad which it kinda is but they are so much better than that. My number one of the year in 1995.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 22, 2014 21:45:15 GMT 1
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Suede – Animal Nitrate
Any Suede fan would have released that this was still to come, their mainstream breakthrough hit and still their best. It reached #7 in 1993 and was a number one in my chart and top 5 song of the year.
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