Great list so far, hopefully this bodes well for the remainder.

Also, that Morphine track is ace, there a consensus album/greatest hits to pick up?

I'm pretty happy with where it placed. I'm hoping that "Rattled by the Rush" will place higher on the list.

I am upset with how low "Weak Become Heroes" is, but I didn't vote for it for some reason so I can't really complain

and yeah, this last stretch #236 - #239 is really a "get this middling rock shit out of the way" ("Shady Lane"? I mean, I love Pavement to death, but c'mon)

They switched labels in the middle, so there's no real greatest hits.

And, it doesn't seem like any Morphine fans can agree. My two favorites are the first (Good) and the last (The Night). If someone that knows your personal taste likes them, ask their opinion. For instance, I would say YES (where Honey White comes from) is their most uptempo. And Good is probably their most downtempo, FWIW.

BRING ON THE POP MOTHERFUCKERS!

I bloody hope not; Skinner's an arse.

I'll take 'Losing My Edge' any day of the week.

Or 'Oliver's Army', now I think of it...

It has just occurred to me that something was missing from this thread:

i know that used to be dr's avatar, but what is that a picture of?

it'll be back

and for the love of God Agrimorfee, do you still not believe in .jpg linking?

I certainly second a call for GDB's old avatar...even though, I too have no clue as to who the latino boy is...

Artie?

He looks like a wrestler.

off topic but isn't it odd that we all imagine that a person's avatar is somewhat an extention of that person's inner being? Like cantstop....his whole persona keeps changing with every avatar switch...that is...in my mind

...yeah I should post this in those 5 things or compulsive threads but I really tire of all that meaningless chit chat

Tell me about it, this old Sausage one played tricks with my brain.

i have avatars turned off, so i usually just imagine a person to mutter their screen name over and over when i meet them.

didn't know you could turn them off and why would you do that...part of the fun

does anyone on this board actually use a pic of themself as their avatar? Is anyone brave enough?

Maybe Northern Lights?

New configuration, new riff and new structure


#235.



Roni Size / Reprazent - "Brown Paper Bag (Vocal Mix)"

Year: 1997

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #20

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #43 (year), #415 (decade), #2404 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: Nic (#2)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: New Forms

good song.

Yeah, good song indeed.

...But 'Brown Paper Bog'?

VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMM
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHNNNNN


#234.



The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats"

Year: 1997

US Chart Position: #40 Modern Rock / #11 Dance

UK Chart Position: #1

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #4 (year), #35 (decade), #308 (all-time)

AMG Says: "The breakout single that helped the Chemical Brothers' second album become one of the first electronica works to hit platinum in America, "Block Rockin' Beats" rides a Schooly D vocal sample, careening pitch-bent synth work, and depth-charge beats into a commercial, critical, and artistic home run of a single. Producers Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, influenced equally by the streamlined futurism of techno, the bracing energy of hip-hop, and the wave-of-sound atmosphere of indie rock, fused all three with the first single and first track from 1997's Dig Your Own Hole. "Block Rockin' Beats" really set the template for the funky-breaks techno heard on dozens of car commercials during the few years after its production, and though Rowlands and Simons were by no means traditional poster boys, the single put a face on independent dance music that helped many acts cross over to the mainstream."

Ranked Highest By: MitchellStirling (#31)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Dig Your Own Hole

Hey yea ya


#233.



Better Than Ezra - "In the Blood"

Year: 1995

US Chart Position: #4 Modern Rock / #6 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Musicgurl (#4)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Deluxe

I know that when I used this avatar, people were always surprised that I was so different than they expected. Let's hear it for irony.

Just when every day seemed to greet me with a smile


#232.



Soundgarden - "Fell on Black Days"

Year: 1995

US Chart Position: #4 Mainstream Rock / #13 Modern Rock

UK Chart Position: #24

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: Costanza & Throughsilver (#3) (also ranked #5 by Musicgurl)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Superunknown

Où sont tes héros aux corps d'athlètes
Où sont tes idoles mal rasées, bien habillées


#231.



Air - "Sexy Boy"

Year: 1998

US Chart Position: #22 Dance

UK Chart Position: #13

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #8 (year), #122 (decade), #898 (all-time)

AMG Says: ""Sexy Boy" is the song that single-handedly put not only Air, but the French dance music scene as a whole, on the UK and US radar in late 1997. A simple but addictive combination of a killer fuzztone riff that wouldn't sound out of place on a '60s garage rock single, pitch-manipulated vocals (nope, that's not guest singer Beth Hirsch, who appears on several other tracks on Moon Safari, but Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin themselves providing the breathy, sexy female-sounding vocals both on the dreamy, elliptical verses and the pounding, hook-filled chorus) and a groovy '70s-style electric piano solo, "Sexy Boy" is that rarity, a song that's suitable for both a crowded dancefloor, where the assertive but not overpowering bassline takes lead, and quiet late-night headphone listening, when space rock touches like the sonar-like pings and rippling vintage synth whooshes reveal themselves. It's a truly marvelous single, possibly the best five minutes of the entire "electronica" era."

Ranked Highest By: No Magnets (#11)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Moon Safari


and the Beck Remix

Oddly, not the only French Duo that will appear on the list.
No M83 though, they'll wait for the album poll.

What do you find so odd about French men?

I would have liked to see "Sexy Boy" higher. My ex-girlfriend thought it was the sexiest song in the world, so I have some good memories tied to it.

Where there is a French man, there is a chance of Gnutella and Banana Crepes.

Soulwax almost counts in this duo club, but they are Belgian.

Well give your ID card to the border guard
Now your alias says you're Captain Jean-Luc Picard


#230.



The Refreshments - "Banditos"

Year: 1996

US Chart Position: #14 Modern Rock / #11 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Ranked Highest By: Northern Voice (#24)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy




^^^^had no idea those were the lyrics

That's captain Jean-Luc Picard, of the USS Enterprise

banditowned

haha, shit man, I just C&P

haha. I couldn't help posting that. The fact that I know it is much sadder than your error.

We're gift-wrapped kitty kats
But we turn into tigers when we gotta fight back


#229.



Girls Aloud - "Love Machine"

Year: 2004

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #2

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

The SOMB Says: Shame on you. Shame on me. Shame on us all for doubting that Nadine, Cheryl, Kimberly, Sarah, Nicola and the rest of the Xenomania crew could create something surpassing the heights of “No Good Advice” and “Life Got Cold”. We should have known right from the twang of the opening riff that “Love Machine”was going to be the brightest diamond in a year loaded with UK pop gems. With less BPM but more spunk than its preceding single, “The Show”, “Love Machine” is a near 3-minute and half demonstration in pop perfection. As if the shuffling skiffle beat (!!!), the nimble wordplay and the sass meter being turned up a notch (“We’re gift wrapped kitty cats/We’re only turning into tigers when we gotta fight back”) weren’t enough, the chorus explodes with a sugary burst of purring harmonies, cymbal riding and WTF lyrics, (“I need a squeeze a day/Instead of this negligee/What will the neighbours say?”), giving us one of the best and most joy inducing musical moments of 2004. We should have known better. We should have known that they were more than just love machines feeding our pop fantasy. –Midnite Vulture (#13 Single of 2004)

Ranked Highest By: Derry Dukes (#20)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: What Will the Neighbours Say?

don't stop doing these, I have nothing to do tonight

yes
this list is amazing so far

For real.

I have a liter of really good bourbon and plenty of beer. The cherry on top is the frosty that the gf grabbed me while walking the dog. I was going to freeze it for the sake of the diet, but no, that didn't happen. So yeah, AU, rock the list.

"NUMBER FOOKIN' ONE, MATE!"


#228.



Oasis - Some Might Say EP

Year: 1995

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #1

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #15 (year), #124 (decade), #899 (all-time)

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #437

AMG Says: ""Some Might Say," inspired as it is by the Small Faces, might be described as a cross between the sensational "Whatever" and "Cigarettes and Alcohol." Like the Bunnymen's "Bring on the Dancing Horses," it's all but an "Oasis best-of" in a song, as incredibly hooky and great as anything they've done to date, with the Gallaghers doing a nice bluesy harmony before a theatrical lyric-trill on the chorus words "in the rain" catch the listener. May it sell a million copies. "Talk Tonight," another acoustic track for Noel to sing, was inspired by the Fall of '94 near-breakup of the band in Los Angeles, when he walked out, and it's probably the most vulnerable track they've attempted as a result (a far cry from Liam's ever-present bluster). Lastly, "Acquiesce" and the faster, harder "Headshrinker" are more appealing guitar rockers via the Small Faces' blues-chord heavy rock angle. As a final note, let me say that if you compile the 10 non-LP tracks from Cigarettes and Alcohol, Whatever and Some Might Say, plus "Slide Away" and "Live Forever," you've got an LP that's twice as good as the otherwise sharp Definitely Maybe; yes folks, they're getting better. Way better. That they are overcoming the anti-English bias in the States of late is cause for celebration as well."

Ranked Highest By: MitchellStirling (#6)

Amaozn Link

that was my #5 brah

Insight, foresight, more sight


#227.



DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World"

Year: 1996

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: #54

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Rank on Our All-Time Singles List: #547

Ranked Highest By: The Eyes (#4)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: ...Endtroducing

who's that guy at the beginning of the song that goes "T'is fat"?

great song btw.

I can't believe you guys are making me listen to something called "girls aloud"

One in ten


#226.



The Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"

Year: 1997

US Chart Position: #9 Modern Rock / #9 Mainstream Rock

UK Chart Position: #12

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #15 (year), #189 (decade), #1291 (all-time)

Ranked Highest By: More Haxx (#19)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Colour and the Shape

I'm actually surprised that Monkey Wrench placed. I didn't recall seeing that many votes for it. And i can't believe I forgot to vote for Fell on Black Days. Great effin song.

Thank God "Brown Paper Bag" made the cut. Hopefully people will check it out now.

I'm looking at the list of Foo Fighters charting singles on Allmusic now and I think "Monkey Wrench" is really their last good hit, period. I heard it in the car yesterday and thought it was good. Even the overblown final verse works.

Hey, that's meaningful chit-chat if you please.

To keep this on topic, I liked the Morphine cut as well. Nice sax, if that's what it was.


Kudos. When I read you intended to play all these tunes I considered doing the same thing...for about 2 seconds.

Talk about middling rock . . .