Dude, you're young. Where's yer angst?

I should have some and he shouldn't. Trent Reznor lives in bizarroworld.

Spot-the-influence is a lot of fun with that 1988-90 Moz stuff. He retreated to his glam favorites and you get obvious Roxy Music references like the bridge in "Playboys," "Pashernate Love," and the end of "The Ordinairy Boys" must be a nod to "Five Years."

Back to the heavyweight jams


#208.



The KLF - "Last Train to Trancentral"

Year: 1991

US Chart Position: #17 Dance

UK Chart Position: #2

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #260

Ranked Highest By: Falling and Laughing (#9)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The White Room






Needs more Einar


#207.



The Sugarcubes - "Birthday"

Year: 1987

US Chart Positon: n/a

UK Chart Position: #65 / #65 in '88

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #12 (year), #61 (decade), #399 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Falling and Laughing & MitchellStirling (#8)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Birthday

Oh kiss me like a frog
And turn me into flame


#206.



Sonic Youth - "Sugar Kane"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #26

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: Would've been #659

Ranked Highest By: Elemeno P.T. (#2)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Dirty

Well you lied to me
'Coz I asked you to
Baby
Can we still be friends?


#205.



U2 - "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"

Year: 1992

US Chart Position: #35 / #28 Top 40 / #7 Modern Rock / #2 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: #14

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

AMG Says: "Caught in a half-world, on an understated sonic cloud, "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" ( Achtung Baby, 1991) sounds like it's going to break out from its ethereal pen but it never does. The song could just as easily be classified a mistake as an experiment: According to the book U2 at the End of the World, "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" was one of those songs that began life strictly as an idea as opposed to a fully formed entity from the artist's head. Yet, the genesis wasn't progressing or evolving particularly well within the band structure; the tune was edging its way toward the scrap heap but Bono was persistent in its salvation. The end result is a lyrical triumph, though production-wise it's not particularly extraordinary, but it is a departure point of sorts, for U2 was about to take their sound from the days of The Joshua Tree into the '90s. The singer is waiting, waiting, but his subject isn't quite free nor is he the "accident waiting to happen" of which he sings. Taking a while to tune in at the top, the wall of noise guitar settles into melody while the bass and drums supply a lo-fi-ish groove; the surprise is that though it builds climactically, the song never approaches the wide-awake Big Music that is the patented U2 sound. And on that score, the experiment succeeds (though an argument could be made that the chorus is lock, stock, and barrel U2)."

Ranked Highest By: Turdferguson (#9)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Achtung Baby



And here's the Temple Bar Remix--the version I used to hear on the radio and one in one of the song's two videos

whoa, birthday is way too low

it seems like me and mitchell were alone in really backing a few things in this and the lp poll

Who is voting for all this crap Paul Simon?

My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage


#204.



Paul Simon - "Graceland"

Year: 1986

US Chart Position: #81 / #38 in Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: #98

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #12 (year), #150 (decade), #892 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Thresholdofrevelation (#3)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Graceland

LOL

should have been

There is a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline

for the teaser

1993 Exoticness


#203.



Wu-Tang Clan - "Can It Be All So Simple" / "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin' to Fuck Wit"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Paul (#7)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Enter the Wu-Tang: The 36 Chambers

Protect ya neck, Paul. WU-TANG!

Why are you voting for this crap!

When I was in 7th grade, we had an assaignment where we had to find poetic devices in lyrics. I tried to pick this song and another kid tried to do C.R.E.A.M. Bitch ass teacher said no.

The Wu-Tang Clan and Chris Isaak are way fucking cool.

I bet she owned every g.d. Paul Simon record.

I listen to rap like less than never, but Wu Tang Clan is killer

"AGAIN AND AGAIN!"

Still my favorite moment on that album.

cause more Family Feuds than Richard Dawson
and the survey said, you're dead
fatal flyin' guillotine chops off your fuckin head

My pen that rocks from here to Oregon!

Who else could it be?!

More like BACKTOTHEHEAVYWEIGHT BACKTOTHEHEAVYWEIGHT BACKTOTHEHEAVYWEIGHT
JAMS JAMS

uh huh. uh huh.

Man, they ruined this song when they rerecorded and remixed it for the single release.

I dunno which version I like more. The album one may be better but I'm still more used to the remix

The music rules, and I can usually not make out what he's saying. Therefore, excellent.


Yeah, I went through a phase of doing that.

Just to personally offend you?

I would prefer to think my anger is only a side effect. Certainly, considering how crappy those songs are, it's more flattering to you. But what have I done to deserve this? I mean, for real, "You can call me Al?" C'mon.

My previously posted statement that this band is nothing but "lyric about being and drunk and lonely, with warmed over Grateful Dead groove" is exemplified by this tune. BlllleeaaccccK!



That's "3 A.M. Eternal", mofo (surprised that I would know that?)

The low placement of Sugar Kane is surprising, given that I assume its been heard by most SOMBIES. The bridge in the middle then the drum transition to..."Angel come and play...Fly Me Away" (Should have been the teaser, btw)...music doesn't get any more transcendent than that.

They all voted for "Teenage Riot" instead.

Sorry, nope.

?

Story of my life right there guys

Are you ready?
Here we go


#202.



The KLF - "3 A.M. Eternal"

Year: 1991

US Chart Position: #5 / #1 Dance

UK Chart Position: #1

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #43 (year), #338 (decade), #2265 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Ben (#18)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Amazon not working at moment

I loved that song... I would like to campaign for Phil Collins's "Easy Lover"

KLF's gonna rock you.


Is J&A still to place?

Probably not.

uh huh uh... uh huh uh huh

Is there something that I can do for you?


#201.



Elastica - "Stutter"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: #67 / #10 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: n/a (really??)

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #37 (year), #338 (decade), #2005 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Bobandbob (#16)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Amazon not working

Yeah, it was a word of mouth song via Steve Lamaq and the new attitude sweeping across Radio 1.

Clearly Ben, you never had a wacky friend named Al. That song could've been written by my old school chum Alan. But I don't think I voted for it or "Graceland." "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes" and "Gumboots" are a different story.

The serpent was subtil


#200.



Pearl Jam - "Jeremy" / "Yellow Ledbetter" / "Footsteps"

Year: 1992

US Chart Position: #5 Modern Rock / #5 Mainstream Rock, #7 in '95 (maybe? I think they might be lying)

UK Chart Position: #15

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #5 (year), #22 (decade), #209 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #182

AMG Says: "Sure, "Alive" and "Evenflow" were pretty big hits, but "Jeremy" is where Pearl Jam mania galvanized and propelled the band past the "Seattle sound" and into rock royalty. The song about a troubled youth who puts himself to death by gunshot in front of his schoolmates would not only mark the beginning of Pearl Jam as a force, but also their last appearance on MTV for half a decade. Opening with Jeff Ament's eight-string bass and single-note guitar work courtesy of Gossard and McCready, "Jeremy" is a classic buildup tune. It tells the story in hindsight, Eddie Vedder narrating not only the events of Jeremy's troubled existence, but his own feelings into the matter. "Clearly I remember/Picking on the boy," and "Gnashed his teeth/And bit the recess lady's breast" are samples of the type of character that Vedder is trying to come to terms with. Jeremy's end, interpreted as " Jeremy spoke in/Class today," becomes the rallying cry of sorts, the point at which the song builds to the crescendo with Vedder vocalizing and the rest of the bandmembers given free rein to close out the song. Arguably Pearl Jam's most earnest work and one of their most successful singles."

Ranked Highest By: Musicgurl (#10)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Ten (Amazon still down)

FYI, Justine F. at her apex was one of the hottest chicks I've ever met in person.

Pearl Jam = great singles, boring albums.

Yellow Ledbetter has to be one of the best b-sides in this time period.

Maybe I'm too young
To keep good love from going wrong


#199.



Jeff Buckley - "Lover, You Should've Come Over"

Year: 1994

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Turd Ferguson (#3)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Grace

Gee, you're just so ephemeral


#198.



The Cocteau Twins - "Heaven or Las Vegas"

Year: 1990

US Chart Position: #9

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

AMG Says: "The Cocteau Twins' return to form with its Heaven or Las Vegas album was encapsulated in the title track, a majestic number that effortlessly showed the band's collective strengths while at the same time adding some new twists to its long-established formula. For one thing, Elizabeth Fraser's singing is remarkably clear and direct; while certainly she's not perfectly understandable (and part of her appeal is how she can make hard-to-interpret lyrics so emotionally gripping), it does add an extra heft to the proceedings. Guitarist Robin Guthrie and bassist Simon Raymonde create music similarly elegant and beautiful as ever, but stripping back on the echo just a touch in favor of letting the main melodies carry through. Raymonde's loping, classically post-punk work fits the drum machine beat to a T while retaining its own beauty, while Guthrie's descending notes in the verse turn into a gripping main wash on the chorus. The final brilliant touch comes courtesy of a second chorus that appears twice, in the middle and at the end. Fraser first sings some inspiring, rising vocals, then Guthrie finishes with a series of simple, soaring notes that are as flat-out lovely (yet powerful) as it gets."

Ranked Highest By: Freddie Freelance (#5)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Heaven or Las Vegas

great band. Let's see more of them on this shit.

though I suppose technically accurate, something about calling the Cocteaus a "band" just feels wrong to me

as opposed to?

I'm probably Paul's biggest proponent here but in all fairness I don't think I even voted for "Al" or if I did it was pretty low. I think. Worst song on the album.