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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 14, 2017 20:34:54 GMT 1
27. The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG3eus4ZSo"Tonight, Tonight" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, written by the band's frontman, Billy Corgan. It was the third single and second track on the first disc from their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and was released in April 1996 in Europe and later in June 1996 in the United States. "Tonight, Tonight" was critically acclaimed and commercially well-received upon its release. The music video accompanying the song was also successful and won several awards. A shorter acoustic version of the song, titled "Tonite Reprise", was included as a B-side to the single and on the triple LP version of Mellon Collie.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 14, 2017 20:36:45 GMT 1
26. Blur – Tender www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaHrqKKFnSAThe song's lyrics were written by Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon and the vocals are shared on the track with backing vocals provided by the London Community Gospel Choir. The line "Tender is the night", and by extension the name of the song, is a reference to the novel Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose title was in turn a quotation from Keats' Ode to a Nightingale. During Coxon's hiatus from the group, Blur continued to perform the song live with Albarn asking the audience to sing Coxon's lines; "Oh my baby/Oh my baby/Oh why?/Oh my". At Blur's headline appearance at Reading Festival in 2003, he introduced the song by saying "I don't want, for one moment, to be a sentimental but... Graham wrote this song as well... you know the bits he sings and I want you to sing them as loudly as you possibly can. Everyone needs to sing this song." Drummer Dave Rowntree would also sing Coxon's lines on occasion. In July 2009 when Blur re-formed, Coxon's lines in "Tender" were repeated and sung powerfully by the audience to call Blur back to stage at Glastonbury, Hyde Park and T in the Park.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 14, 2017 20:44:00 GMT 1
25. The Beautiful South – Perfect 10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWjDZkY1ILUPerfect 10" is a song by The Beautiful South, released in 1998. It reached number two in the UK charts. The song also appeared on their album Quench. The verses of the song - sung alternately by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott - are made up of a series of innuendos to illustrate a loving relationship between two people who don't conform to modern stereotypes of physical perfection
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 14, 2017 20:48:03 GMT 1
24. Feeder – High https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1ljqKNEMkIt was the first Feeder single to be playlisted on BBC Radio 1, reaching #24 in the UK Singles Chart making it their first top 40 hit. It also got extensive radio play, and made the B-list. Frontman Grant Nicholas was once quoted saying that the song is about friendship and the drawbacks of relationships. It's been strongly hinted that the line "I'm going out for a while, so I can get high with my friends" is a reference to marijuana. It also is regarded as the song that kept the band in the United States for 11 months during 1998, touring with Everclear.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 14, 2017 20:54:33 GMT 1
23. Kula Shaker – Hey Dude www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlKoHTswtUThis was the first album I ever bought when I was 13 after hearing this song on Soccer AM goal montage back in 1997, it got to #2 in the chart and is probably the best thing they ever did, I have seen them live about 5 times and they are very good live, I still love a bit of Kula Shaker
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 14, 2017 20:57:50 GMT 1
22. Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvkThe track is slower paced than most others on the album. Its lyrics are inspired by S.E. Hinton's book Rumble Fish, about biker gang culture. The lyrics have been interpreted by the band as an attack on the hollowness of the consumer lifestyle offered by capitalism, describing how society expects young people to conform. "Motorcycle Emptiness" was released on 1 June 1992 by record label Columbia. The song reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart on 13 June 1992
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 14, 2017 21:00:13 GMT 1
21. Weezer – Buddy Holly www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4Rivers Cuomo said he remembers wondering whether or not to include this song on Weezer. He almost kept it off the final track list, but encouragement from producer Ric Ocasek soon changed his mind. In the book River's Edge, Ocasek is quoted saying, "I remember at one point he was hesitant to do 'Buddy Holly' and I was like, 'Rivers, we can talk about it. Do it anyway, and if you don't like it when it's done, we won't use it. But I think you should try. You did write it and it is a great song.'"
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 16:34:34 GMT 1
Bump. Top 20 coming soon
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 19:38:41 GMT 1
20. The Dandy Warhols – Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth www.youtube.com/watch?v=APrpB-i4d_E"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" is a song by American rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in 1997 as the second single from their second studio album, ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down. It peaked at No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 19:41:39 GMT 1
19. Green Day – Basket Case www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoYGreen Day vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong said "Basket Case" is about his struggle with anxiety; before he was diagnosed with a panic disorder years afterward, he thought he was going crazy. Armstrong commented that at the time, "The only way I could know what the hell was going on was to write a song about it." "Basket Case" was the third single released from Dookie, following "Longview" and "Welcome to Paradise". "Basket Case" peaked at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, a position it maintained for five weeks. In 1995, "Basket Case" garnered a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group category. In 2006, on Mike Davies and Zane Lowe's Lock Up Special on BBC Radio 1, the listeners voted "Basket Case" the Greatest Punk Song of All Time. In 2009, it was named the 33rd best hard rock song of all time by VH1
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 19:44:36 GMT 1
18. The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeETEoNfOg"1979" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. Released in 1996 as the second single from their third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, "1979" was written by frontman Billy Corgan, and features loops and samples that were uncharacteristic of previous Smashing Pumpkins songs. The song was written as a coming of age story by Corgan. In the year 1979, Corgan was 12 and this is what he considered his transition into adolescence. The song was popular with critics and fans; Allmusic's Amy Hanson called it a "somewhat surprising hit". The song was nominated for the Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video. In 2012, it was voted the second-best Smashing Pumpkins song by Rolling Stone magazine readers
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 19:46:04 GMT 1
17. The Cure – Friday I'm In Love www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgMZpGYiy8"Friday I'm in Love" is the second single taken from the album Wish (1992), and was a worldwide hit. It won the award for European Viewer's Choice for Best Music Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Robert Smith, the song's primary writer, described it in 1992 as both "a throw your hands in the air, let's get happy kind of record" and "a very naive, happy type of pop song."
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 19:53:40 GMT 1
16. Semisonic – Closing Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8Released in March 1998 as the lead single from their album Feeling Strangely Fine. Their signature song, it was written by Dan Wilson and produced by Nick Launay. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999. The song is about people leaving a bar at closing time. Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" and that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar." Wilson recorded a solo version of the song for his 2017 album Re-Covered, a collection of his own versions of songs he had written for other artists including You and I (John Legend), Someone Like You (Adele), Not Ready To Make Nice (Dixie Chicks) and Treacherous (Taylor Swift)
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 19:55:04 GMT 1
15. Radiohead – Paranoid Android www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw"Paranoid Android" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their third studio album OK Computer (1997) on 26 May 1997. The darkly humorous lyrics were written primarily by singer Thom Yorke following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar. The song is more than six minutes long and contains four distinct sections. "Paranoid Android" takes its name from Marvin the Paranoid Android of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and it has one of the best music videos ever
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 19:57:28 GMT 1
14. The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYWuo9OFAwBesides becoming one of the biggest alternative rock staples of the 1990s, "Iris" also remains one of the biggest crossover hits in the history of popular music, crossing over from modern rock radio to pop and adult contemporary radio, reaching number one on all of these formats and becoming the most played song of 1998 for all formats. "Iris" initially peaked at number 50 in the UK in August 1998. On 2 October 2011, following performances by auditionees on The X Factor, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number three
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 20:00:18 GMT 1
13. Pearl Jam – Black www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ChbxMVgGV4"Black" is a power ballad by the American rock band Pearl Jam. The song is the fifth track on the band's debut album, Ten (1991). Featuring lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music written by guitarist Stone Gossard, "Black" is said to be about first relationships, though Vedder showed strong emotion while performing the song live in early years. (In relationship with Beth Liebling from 1983-2000) Notably, Vedder now renders the added lyric "We belong together" as "I've been healed" or "We didn't belong together" indicating his moving on from the relationship and being content with how it ended In May 2011, "Black" was voted the 9th Best Ballad of All Time by readers of Rolling Stone magazine
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 20:01:38 GMT 1
12. Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rr4tXN2eJMThe song was released in 1996 and reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart. It is taken from their 1996 album Moseley Shoals and was the third single to be released from this album, following "The Riverboat Song" and "You've Got It Bad". The single was also released as an acoustic alternative on a second CD, with additional B-sides, one of which "Justine" is a re-recording and had originally appeared on their self-titled debut album. The lyrics to this song are based on the cult film by the Who: Quadrophenia
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2017 20:04:36 GMT 1
Eagle eyed readers might notice I entered the last 2 into Haven Rock Idol
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 19, 2017 19:00:15 GMT 1
11. Foo Fighters – My Hero www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWRaAF6_WYAccording to Dave Grohl, the song is dedicated to ordinary, everyday heroes, as he himself never had musical or sports heroes growing up as a child. During Foo Fighters' appearance on VH1 Storytellers in 2009, Dave Grohl explained that the song was written while watching 1980s movies like Valley Girl. Grohl also stated that the song was written about Pete Stahl and Chip Donaldson, without even knowing it
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 19, 2017 19:01:55 GMT 1
10. No Doubt – Don't Speak www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3Vdo5etCQ"Don't Speak" is a song by the American rock band No Doubt. It was released in 1996 as the third single from the band's third studio album, Tragic Kingdom (1995). Vocalist Gwen Stefani wrote the song with her brother Eric Stefani about her bandmate and ex-boyfriend Tony Kanal shortly after he ended their seven-year relationship. Love the song, it was the one that got me into No Doubt, it fascinated me as a 13 year old
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