You know, I love the idea of Dinosaur Jr.

delayed edit: This song is pretty good!

ok but Big Black doesn't sound much like Pere Ubu and Pere Ubu's better imo. does anyone else see a link between the two bands? albini was probably a fan, but based on the modern dance and dub housing vs. songs about fucking, i don't get it.

if anything, Gary Numan -> Big Black

If anything, this shit -> Big Black

Fixed.

See, I always thought Paves was a dude with really bad teeth.

Fuck, how the hell did I forget "So Alive"? I came up with 375 nominees and still missed one of my favorite songs ever. This countdown is already awesome.

can I tell you how many times I saw this album cover before I realized it wasn't just an extra-thick piece of grass being held to the girl's neck? MBV were extremely underrated as an image band.



yeah it's a stretch, though I think the influence is definitely there if just in terms of the arty, metallic punk template Pere Ubu kinda worked with. But I don't know enough about either band to get into a detailed argument here.

Yes.

They looked cooler than any band since the Velvets, really.

"I heard our song on the radio today..."


#220.



The Cranberries - "Linger"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: #8 / #4 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #74 / #14 in '94

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #471

AMG Says: "This is a song of regret, epic in scope and sweeping. Although many songs from the early '90s seemed to be a pastiche of previous decades, "Linger" is a definitive song from one of the decade's most promising bands. While this isn't lyrically novel, the full-on emotionality of lead singer Dolores O'Riordan makes this stand out. Singing in a strong Irish brogue she comes off both needy and detached here. It's that emotion that powers this track. Producer Stephen Street gave this a striking mix of gloss and earthiness, which is where the most believable ballads reside. O'Riordan's vocals are overdubbed on choice lyrics and the chorus. It's the chorus of "I'm just a fool for you/You've got me wrapped around your finger" that made the song, especially the way O'Riordan lingered on the word "finger." With its strong string arrangement, and chiming guitars, and the marching band-like drumming, this is a gorgeous and timeless song. Although the emotions do run deep on this track, the pain offered here is almost cathartic."

Ranked Highest By: Bobandbob (#5)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

there was a time
i was so lonely
oh oh oh

"They're thoroughly all right and decent fellas..."


#219.

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Nirvana - "In Bloom"

Year: 1992

US Chart Position: #5 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #28

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #21 (year), #201 (decade), #1341 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #493

AMG Says: ""In Bloom" was a cryptic attack on Nirvana's more clueless fans, embodied in a working-class Joe who "likes all our pretty songs/And he likes to sing along/And he likes to shoot his gun/But he don't know what it means." Oddly enough, "In Bloom"'s music owed more to standard-issue heavy rock than anything else on the album Nevermind; with its mid-tempo power chords and staggered tom-tom fills, it would have sounded perfectly natural blasting out of the tape deck in a rusted-out Camaro if not for Cobain's noisy, fractured guitar solo. While Cobain had a problem with a big chunk of his audience in early 1991, it was nothing compared to what things would be like a year later, when Nevermind went platinum, Cobain was being profiled in Rip and Circus, and Guns 'N Roses was asking Nirvana to open for them."

Ranked Highest By: Musicgurl (#17)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Nevermind

i can't believe i forgot to vote for "in bloom." i also forgot how funny that video is.

I didn't notice until just now.

I still haven't noticed.

This shocked me when I finally realised it. Yeah, for a long time the only picture of this I was used to seeing was St. Park's avatar -- way too small to really make out. Later I actually met someone who had this CD, but even then I didn't really take a good look at the cover.

Is she dead?

Not even sure if I voted for it but dare I say my fave Nirvana song.

I dreamt about this last night (and fell out of bed twice).

I dreamt that I stayed in last night to watch Radiohead and got screwed by shitty coverage, with the programme being pretty much all Kasabian.

No, wait, that was real.

Coming up after the break...

Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug


#218.



A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It?"

Year: 1991

US Chart Position: #8 Rap

UK Chart Position: #15

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #31 (year), #222 (decade), #1422 (all-tme)

Ranked Highest By: Big Pink (#6)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

song rules

[My cock] strikes up a conversation...


#217.



Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: #2 Modern Rock / #2 Mainstream Rock / #2 Top 40

UK Chart Position: #28

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #40 (year), #394 (decade), #2288 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #464

Ranked Highest By: Elemeno P.T. (#11)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: August and Everything After

^Absolutely loathsome.

most LOL moment when he say's he wants to be bob dylan,

try growing a pair first.

I close my eyes, and think of home
Another city goes by in the night


#216.



Iron Maiden - "The Wasted Years"

Year: 1986

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #18

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Diesel (#9)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Somewhere in Time

that's a great riff, and it's good entertainment when J. hits the high notes.

Agreed. The suckiest of the music that sucks.

Hits like a Phillips head
Into my brain
It's gonna be too dark
To sleep again


#215.



Soundgarden - "Rusty Cage"

Year: 1992

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #41

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Velocity (#1)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Badmotorfinger

On the Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion Soundtrack, apparently


#214.



The Smithereens - "Blood and Roses" / "Mr. Eliminator"

Year: 1986

US Chart Position: #14 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

AMG Says: "The Smithereens' first brush with national success came when MTV began airing a video for this song, which was tied into a mercifully forgotten film about rampaging teenagers called Dangerously Close; thankfully, the song proved to have a much longer shelf life than the movie. A sorrowful ode to a busted romance ( Pat DiNizio didn't have much of a knack for happy tunes about love), "Blood and Roses" is built around a solidly melodic bass line from Mike Mesaros, followed by a descending acoustic guitar figure from DiNizio; for the choruses and the breaks, lead guitarist Jim Babjak weighs in with some tough, fragmented electric guitar lines that add an air of defiance to the song's moody, sorrowful framework. According to Michael Azerrad's book Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain was quite fond of the Smithereens and used to often listen to a tape of Especially for You while driving to and from practice; it's impossible to say how much of an influence the band had on his music, but if you want to hear a possible prototype for Cobain's trademark quiet verses/loud chorus song structure, give "Blood and Roses" a listen."

Ranked Highest By: BobtheSquid (#12)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Especially for You

Yes, I know this is a pic of the album with the same name


#213.



Steve Earle - "Copperhead Road"

Year: 1988

US Chart Position: #10 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: #45

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Coolrock (#17)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Copperhead Road

Oh man, you won't find a better hard rock/metal one-two punch than this.

Sinfully low, though.

Shut your mouth
'Coz I'm not lisenting anyhow


#212.



The Primitives - "Crash"

Year: 1989

US Chart Position: #3 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #5

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #36 (year), #291 (decade), #1584 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #447

Ranked Highest By: Dano (#9)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Lovely

or

Hey guys! Oh Big Gulps huh? alright....


Well, see you later.

http://www.youtube.com/v/3g1KcOw7zas

Biggest laugh I had in that film when I watched it this week was at that bit, didn't remember it.

WHAT IS IT?????


#211.



Dinosaur Jr. - "Little Fury Things"

Year: 1987

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Animals and Men (#23)

Can Be Moost Easily Found On: You're Living All Over Me

Yeah, downloading this.

She always reminded me of a female Layne Staley for some reason.

And then on some days, this is my favorite Dinosaur Jr. song ever.

yeah song rules

Yep, my friends and I quoted that part ad nauseum all throughtout high school and college (still do, truth be told). That and "Sucking back on some of Grandpa's old cough syrup?" But what the hell does that have to do with anything??!?

So many great lines. And quite a good soundtrack, too.

For anyone not following this; after that exchange Lloyd gets back in the dog and drives off and "Crash" starts.

This makes me happy.

I believe the file provided is the "95 mix" made for the "Dumb And Dumber" soundtrack.

I think this is the original album/single version: The Primitives - "Crash".

Damitol, somb

I can't help quoting you
because everything that you said rings true


#210.



Morrissey - "The Last of the Famous International Playboys"

Year: 1989

US Chart Position: #3 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #6

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

AMG Says: "The first in the peerless sequence of UK singles that Morrissey released during the three year hiatus between his first and second albums, all of which would be wrapped up on 1990's Bona Drag compilation, "Last Of The International Playboys" was composed with producer Stephen Street, and reached #6 in early spring 1989. The lyric is one of Morrissey's most straightforward, a darkly humorous twist on the kind of adulatory fan mail which he himself was regularly receiving,re-presented in the form of a letter from a convicted killer to his personal idols, London East End gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray. "I can't help quoting you because everything you say rings true" - how many times had Morrissey read those same sentiments via heartfelt missives from his own fan club? The opening line, "dear hero imprisoned," too, has a certain ring of truth to it - more than any other artist of his generation, Morrissey himself had attracted so devoted a following that his own private life was perforcedly lived out within ever tighter boundaries."

Ranked Highest By: No Magnets (#4)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Bona Drag

more like #21.

great song

Let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised


#209.



Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like a Hole"

Year: 1989

US Chart Position: #28 Modern Rock / #17 Dance

UK Chart Position: #45

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #22 (year), #226 (decade), #1250 (all-time)

AMG Says: "The leadoff track on Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, "Head Like a Hole" became a cult favorite whose belated MTV exposure helped build Trent Reznor's fanatical underground following prior to his popular breakthrough. Although the song was a ranting diatribe against corporate and commercial greed, "Head Like a Hole" wasn't really a political critique; the song didn't revolve around carefully considered ideas as much as the force and drama with which Reznor expressed himself. His frothing invective against "god money" was delivered with a barely articulate rage -- growling, wailing, snarling, gnashing his teeth -- that made the song into grand theater. Plus, his backing music was immaculately crafted and produced, driven by a deliberate synthesizer bass riff and overlaid with various sound effects and treated guitars. Actually, aside from the roaringly distorted chorus, most of the instrumentation was electronic, but thanks to Reznor's performance, the intensity of the song's rage never lets up -- and it's that quality that made him a star just a few years later."

Ranked Highest By: No Mangets (#24)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Pretty Hate Machine

What's with people liking NIN? Even if he sometimes comes up with a cool melody or arrangement or something, the lyrics make it too laughable to enjoy.