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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 26, 2017 16:28:49 GMT 1
Yeah, I had no idea where it charted, I don't follow the charts so used Wikipedia which is usually pretty accurate and very handily when looking in bulk for multiple songs, but it must've been edited by some mischievous fan around the time I looked it up Tom corrected now*
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 27, 2017 16:39:24 GMT 1
93. Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjcOkay so I probably lose any reaming street cred having Sixpence None The Richer higher than Nirvana but for me this is the PERFECT pop song, you just don't get better, they followed it up with a more than decent cover of The La's "There She Goes". Recorded by American pop rock band Sixpence None the Richer from their 1997 self-titled album. Released as a single in 1998, it reached number four on both the UK Singles Chart.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 27, 2017 16:43:50 GMT 1
92. The Charlatans – How High www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7AMfNy2MsIThe third single from #1 album "Tellin' Stories", released in 1997 it peaked at #6 in the UK. In the UK, all of the band's twelve studio albums have charted in the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, three of them being number ones. They have also achieved seventeen Top 30 singles and four Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 27, 2017 16:47:18 GMT 1
91. McAlmont & Butler – Yes www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSaRw1vjxM"Yes" is the debut single by McAlmont & Butler, released on 15 May 1995. It was their first UK hit, written and performed by the duo and peaked at number 8 on the UK singles chart. Both McAlmont and Butler had departed from their previous bands in acrimonious circumstances shortly before the release - McAlmont from Thieves, Butler from Suede. The lyrics of the song were a thinly disguised attack on their former colleagues. In 2013 Bernard Butler spoke to NME about the song's genesis: "It was the first piece of music I wrote after I left Suede. I wrote it as an instrumental. Everything was in place, but it didn't have the voice... Everything I'd done in the past six months had been really dark. I'd come out of a very sad situation and lost a lot of friends, so it was a very liberating song. I met David at the Jazz Café in Camden and said, 'I've got this song, do you want to try it out?' He came back to me two days later and sang the first verse. He had no second verse, so I just said 'Sing the first one again'... I wanted it to be like a great piece of '60s vinyl."[
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 27, 2017 16:49:48 GMT 1
90. Eels – Last Stop: This Town www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfqbuTBqX8The song Last Stop: This Town is about E's sister Elizabeth, who committed suicide prior to the recording of Electro-Shock Blues. Mark Oliver Everett otherwise know as Eels has been through some hard times, Everett's father, physicist Hugh Everett III, originator of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory and of the use of Lagrange multipliers for general engineering optimizations, died of heart failure when Everett was 19. Mark was the one to find him. His sister, Elizabeth, committed suicide in 1996 and in 1998 his mother, Nancy Everett née Gore, died of lung cancer. Following these tragedies, Everett and the Eels released Electro-Shock Blues in 1998. His cousin, Jennifer Lewis née Gore, was a flight attendant on the plane that struck The Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The plane struck the side of the Pentagon where his father had worked, and Everett remarks in his autobiography that he wonders whether the plane hit his father's old office.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 12:53:16 GMT 1
89. Shed Seven – Chasing Rainbows www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaK6Ytri26sShed Seven are an English alternative rock band, formed in York in 1990. One of the groups which contributed to the Britpop music scene of the 1990s. At the height of their popularity between 1994 and 1999 they had fifteen Top 40 singles The band officially broke up in 2003, but reformed for a greatest hits tour in July 2007 but are still touring today with a new album on the way and a December tour with Cast
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 13:16:06 GMT 1
88. Rage Against The Machine – Bulls on Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L4YrGaR8E4The song is widely known for its popular guitar solo containing a vinyl scratch effect used by Tom Morello, done by toggling between two pickups - one on and one off - while rubbing his hands on the strings over the pickups to create the effect that someone is scratching a vinyl disc and was the bands highest charting UK single at #8 until their Christmas number 1 "Killing in the Name" and is my favorite Rage song of the 90's Interesting side note, 17 year ago in the video for "Sleep Now in the Fire" which is about greed and despicable acts carried out by people in power such as the conquest of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus' voyage by Niña, the Pinta, and Santa Maria, U.S. slavery in the 19th century as well as criticism of actions taken by the U.S. government in wartime, including the bombing of Hiroshima and the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, in the video they had mock up placards of people campaigning for Donald Trump to be president more as a warning of what might happen
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 13:20:26 GMT 1
87. Radiohead – Creep www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk"Creep" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as their debut single in 1992; it appeared on their first album, Pablo Honey (1993). During its initial release, "Creep" was not a chart success (#78 on the UK Singles Chart, selling only 6,000 copies). However, upon re-release in 1993, it became a worldwide hit and was pretty much the song that made Radiohead, upon re-release it peaked at #7 in the UK,
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 16:52:54 GMT 1
86. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole – Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What a Wonderful World www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sgIsrael Kamakawiwo'ole was a Hawaiian musician, entertainer and Hawaiian sovereignty activist who died at the age of 38, at one point weighed 757 pounds but before he passed away he gave us this beautiful song which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" is a medley of the songs "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World" by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and released on his albums Ka ʻAnoʻi (1990) and Facing Future (1993), In April 2007, "Over the Rainbow" entered the UK charts at #68, and eventually climbed to #46, spending 10 weeks in the Top 100 over a 2-year period.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 9, 2017 17:00:41 GMT 1
757 pounds is 54 stone. Can anyone really weigh that amount?
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 17:01:49 GMT 1
85. Travis - Writing To Reach You - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeCcuH-EsuM"Writing to Reach You" is the first single taken from Indie band Travis' second studio album, The Man Who. The song was written by Fran Healy, who admitted that he had written this song while listening "'74–'75" on the radio and took the guitar chords from Oasis' "Wonderwall"; as an overt acknowledgement of this, the song contains the lyric "and what's a wonderwall, anyway?" and just edges Why Does It Always Rain On Me? as my favorite Travis song on the 90's
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 17:08:59 GMT 1
757 pounds is 54 stone. Can anyone really weigh that amount? He was a big boy
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 17:12:51 GMT 1
84. The Stone Roses – Waterfall www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NrLBlw9WZEWaterfall" is the ninth single from The Stone Roses. The fourth single taken from their debut album The Stone Roses, it was released on 30 December 1991 and reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart.[2] Unlike the album version, the single version was remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 9, 2017 17:18:06 GMT 1
83. The Cardigans – My Favourite Game www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs"My Favourite Game" is an alternative rock song written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson for The Cardigans' 1998 album Gran Turismo and was released as its first single, disappointingly only reached #14 in the UK charts but for me it is the perfect pop song Although the song was originally taking shape as a slow country/rock shuffle, similar in style to Neil Young's "Old Man", the tempo was doubled upon request of Producer Tore Johansson. Svennson declared that this helped as the band knew the song "was a single"
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Post by Tom on Mar 10, 2017 13:49:34 GMT 1
779. Ace of Base – All That She WantsTheir first hit and maybe their most well known song, peaked at #2 in the UK in 1992 772. B*Witched – C'est La VieAnother #1 from a popular girl group, selling almost 900,000 copies of the in the UK 771. LeAnn Rimes – How Do I LiveQuality tune, #7 hit in the UK in 1997, LeAnn Rimes has sold an amazing thirty-seven million records worldwide to date www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUFasKZcH_c770. Mr. President – Coco JambooFirst single from 1996 album "We See the Same Sun", "Coco Jamboo" peaked at #8 in the UK and has become a cult classic with its fusion of Reggae and Eurodance www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrc37wNUqU Sorry if it seems i'm just flagging up mistakes (I saw your reply before when you blamed Wiki so i'm not blaming you) but All That She Wants actually reached #1 in 1993. The remarkable thing about How Do I Live is that it ended up higher on the chart of the year than it did on the weekly chart! (#6 for 1998). It was also the first song to spend 30 weeks on the Top 40 since Relax in 1984.
I love C'Est La Vie, the remix I've got on a compilation especially. I taped Coco Jamboo off the radio at the time, always good to hear again.
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Post by Tom on Mar 10, 2017 14:16:11 GMT 1
739. The Rembrandts – I'll Be There For YouBest known for being the Theme Tune From Friends, released in 1993 and reached #3 in the UK www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9kPks0IfE731. Blind Melon – No RainReleased in 1992 as the second single from the band's debut album Blind Melon. The song is well known for its accompanying music video, which features the "Bee Girl" character, reaching #17 in the UK www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVn6b7DdpA Sorry, the Rembrandts was 1995 (and also #5 in 1997) and Blind Melon was 1993 (though it was released elsewhere in 1992, no idea why it took so long to get a release over here, it was almost 1994 by the time it came out).
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 10, 2017 15:33:14 GMT 1
Yeah, 90's pop music was so diverse, you wouldn't hear a Coco Jamboo on the radio these days which makes me sad
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Post by Tom on Mar 10, 2017 18:23:18 GMT 1
Yeah, 90's pop music was so diverse, you wouldn't hear a Coco Jamboo on the radio these days which makes me sad Yea, that's what I like about 90s music. The variety, especially early 90s, got me interested in stuff that I probably wouldn't have been otherwise, and that's why I appreciate that time as much as I do.
I've never been as disinterested in current music as much as I am these days.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 10, 2017 19:06:45 GMT 1
Yeah, 90's pop music was so diverse, you wouldn't hear a Coco Jamboo on the radio these days which makes me sad Yea, that's what I like about 90s music. The variety, especially early 90s, got me interested in stuff that I probably wouldn't have been otherwise, and that's why I appreciate that time as much as I do.
I've never been as disinterested in current music as much as I am these days.
If I ever get round to a top 1000/2000 of the 10's which I probably will in 2 or 3 years time I bet 1800 of my 2000 didn't chart at all and only maybe 20 got in the top 10. I think that says it all, there are some brilliant songs and music out there it just doesn't get played on the radio or make the charts and is generally pretty hard to find so it is easier sticking to what you liked from the 90s and early 00s because there was so much good stuff it could probably last a lifetime
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Mar 13, 2017 17:07:51 GMT 1
82. The Seahorses – You Can Talk To Me www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gvc31AVAmoThe Seahorses were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1996 by guitarist John Squire, following his departure from The Stone Roses. Singer Chris Helme, who was spotted by a friend of Squire's guitar tech busking outside Woolworths in York. Following several auditions and the prompting of his manager, Squire eventually settled on Helme, despite being hesitant because he "closed his eyes when he sang and only folk singers do that". The band released one album, Do It Yourself (1997), and began work on a follow up, before splitting up due to musical differences during recording sessions in January 1999 but before that Squire and Helme co wrote the brilliant "You Can Talk to Me"
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