C'mon, Board, d'ya wanna ride?

Probably good that you can edit topic titles.

Let me know the truth, let me know the truth!

I would like to campaign for the following:

Ryan Adams - Gold (2001)
Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac (1997)
Moby - Play (1999)
Wheat - Per Second (2003)
Damien Rice - O (2003)

BURNED


#250.



Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm" / "Landslide"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: #8 Modern Rock / #5 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: #11

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #29 (year), #270 (decade), #1643 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: Somewhere in the low 100s, don't have sheet on me

Ranked Highest By: Mad Clown (#17)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Siamese Dream



uh, wrong thread, perhaps?

Let's do it!

fuck, i totally misread this thread title.

Take a ride, take a shot now...


#249.



Portishead - "Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me)"

Year: 1994

US Chart Position: #53 / #5 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #57 / #13 in '95

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #6 (year), #53 (decade), #460 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #426 or so

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Dummy

Ranked Highest By: Falling and Laughing (#20)

actually i thought u put the wrong year since u had albums in the title
now i see u meant the singles
i NEED a weekend badly! (and excited for the next 10yrs)

I hope we aren't going to have every available track on SD in this.

Money on 1994 having the most by a long way I reckon.

You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff


#248.



The Cure - "Friday I'm in Love"

Year: 1992

US Chart Position: #18 / #1 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #6

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #29 (year), #304 (decade), #1804 (all-time)

AMG Says: "When the Cure's "Friday I'm in Love" started to appear on radio in 1992, it was refreshing to hear such a perfect pop song amid all the impending doom and gloom of the so-called grunge years and to also note that the masterful band — under Robert Smith's guidance — had lost nothing off its fastball. Here again was a delectable melody, a clever lyric, and a singular blend of sounds, with whimsical production quirks, from a 12 year-old band that seemed to be able to write and record such chestnuts at will. Granted, the meat of "Friday I'm in Love" (if there is much at all to this confection) is nothing new; at its heart it is a very traditionally structured pop song. But the Cure wrap up the mix of pop melody and lyric, guitar lines, synth washes, and vocal layers in such a singular style that it only takes the opening measure to identify it as a Cure song [...] The single was a radio hit from Wish and brought in a whole new legion of fans for the Cure, but in an invective swipe at the music industry suits, who he implied pull such radio-ready singles as "Friday I'm in Love" from him, Smith commented in an interview with Musikexpress/Sounds in 2000: "The people who like "Friday I'm in Love" aren't actually fans of the Cure. They're not the ones who buy my records.""

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Wish

Ranked Highest By: Slackmo (#9)

love the quote. I fit into that description.

Awesome, so geeked for this one.

One ranked highest by, right off the bat! Woo!

i usually go a few years between hearing this song and i think it was about time again - nice to see this on the list.

MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!


#247.



Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #25

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #13 (year), #133 (decade), #954 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: low 300s I think

Ranked Highest By: Throughsilver (#31)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Rage Against the Machine

True dat on me. It's one of the few Cure songs I can stomach. How about slackmo?

wow, if this was 95 that portishead song would be about 150 places higher

I think the quote would be more accurate if he had simply said "the people who only like "Friday I'm in Love" aren't actually fans of the Cure," because that sure sounds like what he meant. I mean, by the time Wish rolled around, I'd already bought five or six of their records.

Radio 1's Marc Goodier once played "Killing In The Name Of" on the chart show, all of it, unedited.

Oops.

Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it


#246.



Green Day - "Basket Case"

Year: 1994

US Chart Position: #16 Top 40 / #9 Mainstream Rock / #1 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #55 / #7 in '95

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #33 (year), #267 (decade), #1629 (all-time)

AMG Says: ""Basket Case" is a simple, catchy rocker full of the sneering punk attitude passed down by the Sex Pistols, as well as the unabashed melodicism of older punk-pop groups like the Buzzcocks, the Jam, and the Descendents. Of course, Green Day's sensibilities are much more beholden to the '90s; "Basket Case" is obnoxious yet witty, potentially dark in subject matter yet cheerful in execution, with a self-absorbed yet endearingly self-aware narrator [...] "Basket Case"'s humor was rooted in the sort of bored, directionless, self-conscious angst that overtook a sizable portion of white American youth as the '90s wore on, but the endearing likability that resulted wouldn't have mattered much if the song hadn't been so jam-packed with memorable hooks. And it was, making it a sizable success on MTV and on modern rock radio, where it topped the air play charts for several weeks in the summer of 1994 and became Green Day's biggest hit to date."

Ranked Highest By: Hector Gilbert (#6)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Amazon Link

The converse is true, also. Most true Cure fans, at least the ones I know, can't stand that song.

Red lights, grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around


#245.



U2 - "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"

Year: 1993

US Chart Position: #61 / #15 Modern Rock / #12 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: #4

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Turd Ferguson (#8)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Zooropa

If I'd known that was a single, it would have been on my list.

Yeah, Stay is a great song.

She said why don't you stop your crying
Go outside and ride your bike
Thats what I did, I killed my toes


#244.

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Nirvana - "Sliver" / "Dive"

Year: 1990

US Chart Position: #19 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #90 (charted pre-"Teen Spirit")

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #42 (year), #385 (decade), #2251 (all-time)

AMG Says: "Kurt Cobain often said he had a lousy childhood, which had a lot to do with why he became a perpetually grumpy adult. For some reason, Cobain didn't write about his difficulties in growing up very often, but on "Sliver" he took a routine childhood trauma and turned it into one of Nirvana's best-recorded performances (and certainly the high point of their pre- Nevermind work [...] Cobain's angry wail turned out to be the perfect voice for his petulant child's temper tantrum, and the mixed terror and joy in his voice as he cries, "I woke up in my mother's arms" ranks with his finest moments on plastic. Chris Novoselic's buoyant bass line melds pure pop and driving rock with ease, and Dan Peters (on loan from Mudhoney) does a great job on drums. "Sliver" was also notable the A-side of the last single Nirvana released on Sub Pop before making the jump to the major-label pastures of Geffen Records (where it later appeared on the compilation Incesticide); the song was tracked by Jack Endino in only an hour using the band Tad's equipment while they were on a dinner break."

Ranked Highest By: Voodoodaddy (#7)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Incesticide

Man, I don't think so


#243.

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LL Cool J - "Goin' Back to Cali" / "Jack the Ripper"

Year: 1988

US Chart Position: #31 / #19 Dance / #12 R&B

UK Chart Position: #37

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #37 (year), #307 (decade), #1650 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Citizen (#12)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Less Than Zero OST

Great stuff so far, considering it's only going to get better.

really glad to see the last two on here, both very underrated minor hits by blockbuster artists. "Cali" is especially awesome.

Shit yeah. Obviously low, but I'm not surprised by this stuff anymore.


Yeah, and trust me to have taped the bastarding week after...

Really strong start to this list. I guess the only question is how many more times will we see Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, RATM, Green Day, U2 and LL... some pretty huge bands there.

Also, I didn't follow the singles thread (or vote), any chance of a strong placing by "Epic".

Rage might be in trouble. That's pretty much their big song (and 'Bulls On Parade' is for the next poll). I imagine we'll see 'Bullet In The Head' and 'Bombtrack', but if this one was so low, then we might not. Were those other songs much bigger in the USA?

Those other artists... we're gonna see way too much of. Man, U2. Not a good look.

(I voted for "Sliver")

"Killing" was by far the biggest US hit from the s/t, yeah

Wow, what a disappointing showing.

Looks like RAtM is done for this poll.

they did not really age very well, did they?

I'm hoping there's a "Sour Times" and "Glory Box" vote split.

"Glory Box" was my #28, it should make it OK I think.

After the album poll, that word "age" is very loaded. Be careful!

No, no, no no no
Yeah, yeah


#242.



Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"

Year: 1991

US Chart Position: #2

UK Chart Position: #26

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #6 (year), #27 (decade), #248 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #95

AMG Says: "The Chili Peppers’ Hillel Slovak, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Seven Year Bitch’s Stephanie Sargent; these names have become synonymous with the wasted destruction that heroin brought to an entire generation of alternative rockers. It’s fitting, then, that the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ own ”Under The Bridge” has become the poster-child by proxy for all those lost souls. The song is front man Anthony Kiedis’ autobiographical revisiting of the LA landmark where he once purchased his own drugs. He has called ”Under The Bridge” “this really sad thing, sort of sensitive”. That poignant sentiment is self evident among the simple guitar which cradles the introductory verse, and the sense of fragility that is only doubled by the still down-tempo choral crescendo. ”Under The Bridge” was the band’s first big American hit when it tipped the charts at #2 in April, 1992. Since that time, it has become an integral part of the 1990’s alterna-landscape, and remains one of the purest diamonds that sparkle amongst the rough-hewn and rich funk chasms that dominate the Peppers’ own oeuvre."

Ranked Highest By: Jdubs3 (#25)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002LQ...8385615?ie=UTF8]Blood Sugar Sex Magik[/url]

You?


#241.



Napalm Death - "You Suffer (But Why?)"

Year: 1987

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Hector Gilbert (#1)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Scum

Wow. :0

I've never heard that Napalm Death song, so I could be missing something, but the y'all send the thing file is only like 130 kb big. Is it supposed to be?

yes

Alrighty then.

"You Suffer" set the record for the world's shortest song - 1.316 seconds

lol was this really a single?

RYM says so

douchebaggery

it is amazing what you can learn from wikipedia, and about the oddest things.

i can't believe this was really a single.