Worst song out of VH1's 100 Best Songs of the '90s

40 . Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up

After watching all five hours minus commercials of this, I've come to realize that the '90s were kind of awesome.

i'm really pissed that i only saw 20-1 of this

Terribly disappointing that "Mother, Mother" didn't crack the list.

the ass-end of music on this list, and Blues Traveler is the most ass.

you're just too young to understand

there will never be another "informer" ;_;

curtis have you ever been to a bar mitzvah?

lots of great bar mitzvah songs on this list

72. Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Wow, this was tough. Back Street Boys were running away with it 'til I saw Celine; I couldn't decide between the two. Then I saw the Spin Doctors and the choice was made. Man did I loathe the Spin Doctors back then. Dudes somehow had two or three huge hits but they were all the exact same song.

The Cranberries. Dolores O'Riordan: worst lyricist ever?

^^We've covered this before.

She was never as bad a lyricist as Brian Molko, fwiw.

Barenaked Ladies.

"Ice Ice Baby".

And I can't believe people still voted for that as a good song more than 10 years later. Hip-hop-fans hate it too, right?

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Killing your brain like a post by Hongro.

Cranberries have bad lyrics, but Linger is a terrific song.

I went for Spin Doctors, the only song here that makes me physically ill.

Ugh. This is what 70s lists used to be like.

Choosing one to vote for wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, "Sex And Candy" just edging out "You're Still The One."

'achy breaky heart' probably.

Meredith Brooks' "Bitch" would always fly me into a rage merely because it's in that class of song that sounds exactly like it could be a Pepsi commercial.

But between "I Don't Want To Wait," "Sex and Candy," and "Shine," I just melt down. I hated 90s popular music, and a sure disappointment of aging (I'm only 33) is the realization that every bad popular song that is released must be heard over and over and over again until death. They. Never. Go. Away.

it is what it is.

in ten years time when maroon five and the killers are in the top ten the 00s won't be looking so hot either.

/ capn save a 90s

there is no blur on this list

Oh fuck I didn't see "Shine" on the list, I really would've voted for that.

It's not just that it is what it is.

90s pop music artists labored under ridiculous pressure to sound "alternative." I get tired just hearing their desperation.

All the doofus hair metal guys getting haircuts and wearing paisley shirts. Managers scrambling to find vintage t-shirts for their acts...

New Radicals.

90s pop music artists labored under ridiculous pressure to sound "alternative."

Those who did ended up sounding better than 2 Unlimited, Snap, Technotronic or Haddaway at least.

Waaaaaaaaida minute...

Joan Osborne - One of Us

Hands down.

My Hongro Will Go On

Better than Haddaway?

What is pop? Oh Geir don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

Mo Melody Mo Problems

90s pop music artists labored under ridiculous pressure to sound "alternative."

you must be og ilx, my apols.

god knows ricky martin had to fight battles.

If you're question is directed at my use of pop, ledge, I merely mean on MTV, written about in Billboard, most-likely covered in Rolling Stone or Spin. A group that is "of the moment.

I don't mean that a group is "of the people," an artist that can fill a large hall on a Tuesday night, or a performer who stands the test of time.

I mean what you probably think I mean when you don't look at it too hard.

__________

og, that one guy? what's that mean?

These are all awfully insufferable:
3. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
6. Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
16. MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
17. Destiny's Child - Say My Name
19. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
21. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
23. Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue - Whatta Man
24. House of Pain - Jump Around
29. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
30. *NSYNC - Tearin' Up My Heart
32. BLACKstreet - No Diggity
36. C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
40 . Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
52. Sugar Ray - Fly
53. Naughty by Nature - O.P.P.
56. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
57. Jay-Z featuring Amil and Ja Rule - Can I Get A...
60. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison
63. The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy - Mo Money Mo Problems
65. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
68. Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
69. Korn - Freak on a Leash
75. Kris Kross - Jump
79. Meredith Brooks - Bitch
82. Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
84. Snow - Informer
85. Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain
87. Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
92. Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke
95. Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It

95. Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It

this is the best single of the 90s

heard "gettin jiggy with it" on pop radio last night and it still sounded really great

These are all awfully insufferable:

60. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison

-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, 3 January 2008 14:33 (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

BAN THIS SICK INSANE CUNT

gier doesn't like naughty by nature? my foundation has been shaken to its core

Yes!, Dom.

I heard Poison last week, and my God, I would have never suspected it would have held up so incredibly well.

Jamiroquai

Has anyone ever learned anything from Geir or have you just spent valuable seconds of your lives arguing with a shut-in aspie nazi?

-- JW, Monday, 7 May 2007 06:02 (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

Quite surprised by how many of these crossed over to the UK charts

Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul
Fiona Apple - Criminal
Edwin McCain - I'll Be
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Liz Phair - Never Said
Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
Gerardo - Rico Suave

^apart from these which are not registering at all

Only 8 crossovers from the UK charts - counting generously

'criminal' kind of did or is that just the girls i liked?

xpost

you're not missing much with those songs. it is kind of odd/funny how Liz Phair is pretty much the one token college radio/indie selection on this list (as far as stuff that wasn't a big obvious mainstream alt-rock hit).

"Supernova" would have fit the list a lot better.

this list is so goofy I'm jumping between impressed and frustrated - hey Gett Off is on it! OMG BUT THEY PUT IT BELOW NELSON GAH WTF

94. Fastball - The Way
^^this song sucks

I was gonna vote for "Macarena" without even looking at the list, and it's not on there!

Whitney. Close call though, was going to vote for Hootie and the Blowfish.

I'm very glad I read the list closely enough to see that Live was on there, making my job very easy.

This is actually a really DULL list more than anything, a rote collection of miscellaneous songs, many of which I sorta like, a handful of which I love...and, crucially, almost none of which I really hate.

On careful inspection, the ONLY ones of these that I know that I really would never ever want to hear again under any circumstances are "Teen Spirit," "I Don't Want to Wait," and "Say My Name." There are several others that I don't really care for but haven't heard in years and wouldn't change the channel on (Sugar Ray for example). I'm pretty convinced that "Teen Spirit" and "Say My Name" are victims of overplay - but I hated the Paula Cole song from the first time I heard it. Godawful annoying.

Billy Ray Cyrus, has to be.

That Edwin McCain song is pretty dire AND completely unmemorable. At least some of the other dire songs were catchy.

i havent heard most of these songs but the ones i have i like so i voted for matchbox 20

Are you new, Mr. The Galena Free Practitioner? If so, you should introduce yourself.

this was the only one i couldn't instantly hear in my head so i figured it was the most forgettable:

66. Edwin McCain - I'll Be

is there a introduce my self thread?

Introduce Yourselves!

I watched an annoying amount of this, because I saw a high-school friend pop up as a talking head, and kept flipping back to see if I'd catch him again.

Why don't I remember this Edwin McCain song?

That's totally infuriating to me.

I certainly remember the shit out of "Solitude" by Edwin McCain

Yeah, it's one of those songs that I've barely heard ever but millions of people seem to know by heart.

Which talking head was your friend, nabisco?

edwin mccain, color me badd, whitney, meredith brooks, spin doctors, mb20, pj

There is so much shit on this list

Yeah, no doubt. Trying to pick out the worst one is nigh impossible, since every time I've chosen one I think can't possibly be topped, I scroll down and there's something even worse.

"MMMBop" is probably the most useless one on this list.

LIES

This, for a start.

64. The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches

"What is Melody" by Hongroway.

"Mr. Jones", people. Actually, Counting Crows pretty much sums up everything shitty about that decade.

i fucking love "a long december" and especially "angel of the silences"

Way better if you replace the word "peaches" with "puppies", as my friend used to sing it way back.

xp to JGO

Haha, I can see how that might work, but I still voted for the song because it scarred my childhood.

Puppies come in a can...they were put there by a man...

This, for a start.

64. The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches

-- Just got offed, Thursday, January 3, 2008 8:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Presidents were pretty funny/catchy.

FACT: They are friends with Sir Mix-a-lot
FACT: U R NOT

WTF this is obviously "Achy Breaky Heart"!!!!!!!

BEST song on this list, meanwhile, is probably Black Hole Sun.

Times are gone for honest men, and sometimes far too long for snakes.

BEST song on this list, meanwhile, is probably Black Hole Sun.

wau crackhead

Black Hole Sun isn't bad but I never need to hear it again.

^^^^^^^ exactly

Oooh, yeah. Achy Breaky Heart is fucking bad.

What is up with Liz Phair on this list?

curtis have you ever been to a bar mitzvah?

haha

Yeah, I guess I should qualify my "I Don't Wanna Wait" vote by saying that I haven't heard (or don't recognize by name) any of the following, so they might be worse than that one:

10. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
14. Mariah Carey - Vision of Love
21. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
30. *NSYNC - Tearin' Up My Heart
40 . Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
46. Shania Twain - You're Still the One
58. Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
66. Edwin McCain - I'll Be
71. Arrested Development - Tennessee
77. Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
82. Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
96. Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
97. Prince & The New Power Generation - Gett Off

Meanwhile, I would totally dig this mixtape:

7. Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
16. MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
20. Hanson - MMMBop
23. Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue - Whatta Man
24. House of Pain - Jump Around
32. BLACKstreet - No Diggity
41. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
44. The Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song
45. Hootie & the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You
51. Tupac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) - California Love
52. Sugar Ray - Fly
56. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
63. The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy - Mo Money Mo Problems
64. The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches
65. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
67. Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
68. Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
75. Kris Kross - Jump
83. The Breeders - Cannonball
84. Snow - Informer
90. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
99. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)

Of course, the mix CD I actually would have made while in the 90s would be very different...

What is up with Liz Phair on this list?

She was on the panel; therefore she was on the list.

(Which talking head was your friend, nabisco? = St3v3 Hu3y of AMG)

I haven't heard (or don't recognize by name) any of the following:

21. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

Did you take a Sabbatical from planet Earth at some point?

Which talking head was your friend, nabisco? = St3v3 Hu3y of AMG)

I had no idea he was an AMG guy! I thought he was just The Dude from Yacht Rock.

(See, I had no idea he was involved in that, either! He was a bit ahead of me at the second high school I went to, which was in the town where the AMG started; I think he started writing for them pretty early on and has done incredibly well at it.)

BEST song on this list, meanwhile, is probably Black Hole Sun.

wau crackhead

-- HI DERE, Thursday, January 3, 2008 9:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^^^

Sheryl Crow...but not by a longshot.

This list is absolutely horrible!

also discovered from watching this that Sinead was seriously hot in the Nothing Compares 2 U days.

No one hating that Goo Goo Dolls song yet so let me be the first. I would give this one up forever, no problem.

Meredith Brooks had my vote until Usual Channels pointed out the Joan Osbourne song, which is one of the worst written songs I've ever experienced.

um, cher, people? by a street. haven't heard of at least twenty of these, so crossover isn't total.

it's a pretty crappy list, though. nothing like a real top 100 of the nineties, which would be 1 tasmin archer, 2 blur and the rest oasis.

1. Tasmin Archer 2. Blur and the rest Oasis would be closer to my taste than this, but this is obviously an American list or Hootie & The Blowfish and Counting Crows would never have been in there.

Plus it's the VH1 viewers, and in a way I am surprised there are that many hip-hop songs here. I thought VH1 was mainly meant for 30 somethings who aren't into hip-hop at all.

yeah, but maybe they were all indie twenty somethings in 1995. when i'm voting in a decade i'll be all like yeah maroon 5 had a smokin run there for a coupla years smooth

Worst:

Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

Matchbox Twenty - 3 AM

Liz Phair - Never Said

Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait

Fastball - The Way

Meredith Brooks - Bitch

Cher - Believe

Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Korn - Freak on a Leash

U2 - One

Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

Destiny's Child - Say My Name

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Eminem - My Name Is

Radiohead - Creep

Hootie & the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You

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Good songs that are repeat (forever) victims of serial overplay, diminishing their value.

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

Collective Soul - Shine

Weezer - Buddy Holly

Alice in Chains - Man in the Box

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Flat out great songs. F the haters.

Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

Madonna - Vogue

Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back

TLC - Waterfalls

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) - Nuthin' but a "G" Thang

MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

Hanson - MMMBop

Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue - Whatta Man

House of Pain - Jump Around

Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

Ricky Martin - Livin' la Vida Loca

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

BLACKstreet - No Diggity

Spice Girls - Wannabe

Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Spin Doctors - Two Princes

En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)

The Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song

Shania Twain - You're Still the One

Tupac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) - California Love

L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover

Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison

The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy - Mo Money Mo Problems

The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches

Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance

Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart

Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It

Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity

Arrested Development - Tennessee

Kris Kross - Jump

Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day

Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me

The Breeders - Cannonball

Snow - Informer

Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain

Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Stay

Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It

EMF - Unbelievable

Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)

oh yeah the limit of one song per group is a problem too. ou est le backstreet's back d'autrefois, indeed?

Mr fucking Jones

these are the only ones I really hate:

4. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
11. Pearl Jam - Jeremy (used to love it tho)
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge (ditto)
27. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
28. Ricky Martin - Livin' la Vida Loca
35. Oasis - Wonderwall
37. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
39. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
42. Collective Soul - Shine
62. Live - I Alone
74. Cher - Believe

'achy breaky heart' much?

it's vaguely amusing and benefits from the fact that i haven't actually heard it for 14 years

sad that 'The Sign' and 'How Bizarre' didn't make the cut

haha. 'how bizarre' is better than most of those songs.

the sign certianly isn't. i wonder how many of a worst 100 i'd actually like.

A vote for "I Alone" is a vote for the entire corpus of overwrought bellowers who were the worst thing about the '90s, so bad that in their ghastly retrospective light it's hard to enjoy listening to their forbears, e.g. the perfectly respectable "Jeremy."

While songs which are intrinsically equally terrible, like "Mr. Jones," and "Only Wanna Be With You," stand only for themselves.

Songs on the list which are widely hated by those in the know, yet are actually truly great: "You Oughtta Know" (The War Against Silence has written tens of thousands of words making the case for AM, well worth reading). "Vision of Love" is breathtaking though Mariah never approached it again. And "Peaches." Which, OK, is kind of no more than a goof on the overwrought bellowers above, but what a goof! The couplet "Peaches come in can / They were put there by a man" when the guitars kick in more or less annihilates the entire recorded work of Live. Of course, "Lump" is better still.

It's unfair to pick just one, there are at least ten songs on that list just as awful. And even though it's probably social suicide on ILM to say so, Semi-Charmed Life IS one of them.

^^^fuck this guy

best song on here = Sinead

Agreed.

it's not even the best prince song.

"Vision of Love" is breathtaking though Mariah never approached it again.

so so so so true

I like at least a third of these. Voted Cher but regretted it when I saw that Green Day song on there.

The are the only GREAT songs on the list:

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. U2 - One
9. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
22. Beck - Loser
31. Radiohead - Creep
35. Oasis - Wonderwall
41. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
51. Tupac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) - California Love *
58. Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
59. Weezer - Buddy Holly
61. Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
90. New Radicals - You Get What You Give

* Only in its G-funk styled album version, but I believe that is the version used in the video too.

Out of those, "Wonderwall" would be the one and only obvious pick if I was to pick the best track. That song may be one of the ten best songs of the 90s, and few hitlist items were.

I don't think I'll ever read another Geir post without imagining him furtively dancing to Sophie B. Hawkins.

looooooool

That old dog has chained you up alright
Give you everything you need to live inside a twisted cage
Sleep beside an empty rage
I had a dream I was your HONGRO

Out on bail fresh outta jail, California dreamin
Soon as I stepped on the scene, I'm hearin Hongro screamin

Forgot how much the 90's sucked.

In any case, it's a toss up between Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Paula Cole's "I Don't Want To Wait."

Fuck all that shit.

I don't want to wait
For our geirs to be hongro
I want to know right know
What will it be
I don't want to wait
For our geirs to be hongro
Will it be yes or will it be
Melody

just think of 'Sweet Harmony' xp

Sogn og Fjordane / knows how to party
Lillehammer / knows how to party
In the city / the city of Tromso
Drammen, Skien / know how to party

Sandefjord always up to no good

Even Flekkefjord trying to get a piece, baby.

"furtively dancing"

Which talking head was your friend, nabisco? = St3v3 Hu3y of AMG)

I had no idea he was an AMG guy! I thought he was just The Dude from Yacht Rock.

A good friend of mine was friends with him in college (the big one in the town where AMG started) and he used to hang out the house where she and my wife lived. He was known as "Skinny St3v3" to distinguish him from a more rotund guy with the same name.

My wife and I ended up seeing most of the top 100 over the past month on VH1 and it seriously freaked both of us out to see him popping up on our TV every so often, particularly because he looks pretty much exactly the same.

Anyway, I hated lots of these songs when they were around and have since come around to liking them. However, I seriously hated the New Radicals song back in 98 or whatever and hearing it again only made me hate it more.

Most surprising omissions?

Can't believe there were more people willing to vote for Edwin McCain than any Bush or No Doubt single (or Liz), or that Wu Tang couldn't do better than 105.

Huey and the guy from Rolling Stone were the worst.

and hey, no Sublime, how'd that happen

The crap pile:

4. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
9. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
12. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
20. Hanson - MMMBop
21. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
27. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
33. Spice Girls - Wannabe
40. Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
41. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
45. Hootie & the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You
46. Shania Twain - You're Still the One
49. Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul
54. Joan Osborne - One of Us
61. Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
79. Meredith Brooks - Bitch
81. Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait [though "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" infinitely worse]
84. Snow - Informer
86. The Cranberries - Linger

Decent/respectable/good (though in most cases, I'd say mildly so; I think for most of these, there were better songs or singles on the same albums)/tolerable:

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. U2 - One
10. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
60. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison
65. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
83. The Breeders - Cannonball

Great:
56. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
67. Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
97. Prince & The New Power Generation - Gett Off [Extended version best]

Lots to choose from, but I'm going with Hootie. If Alanis Morissette's That's Ironic, or whatever it was called, was on there, that would have been a contender.

oh no no this is billy ray all the way

this list seems difficult at first to choose from and then you just spot THAT ONE

I'm still waiting for Clay Aiken to make an album named Breakin' Hearts.

some great shit on here, fuck u guys

xxxps to people who keep saying this list 'sucks'

I am totally blanking on at least 20 of these songs. "Building a Mystery"? "Criminal"? "I Alone"? And who the hell is Duncan Sheik?

YOU LUCKY MAN

at the risk of rong, I gotta say I've never ever ever gotten what the big fuckin deal about "Waterfalls" is

Of the ones I've heard, I'd have to go with "Can I Get a..." I really REALLY hate that song.

Man, if "Can I Get A..." was the worst song on this list it would be a better one than Schindler's.

MEREDITH BROOKS OWNS THIS POLL

at the risk of rong, I gotta say I've never ever ever gotten what the big fuckin deal about "Waterfalls" is

Yeah, I'm kind of on the same page there. It's pleasant I guess - can anyone articulate why it was such a huge hit? (I have nothing against TLC mind you - "No Scrubs" is classic and I had a high school crush on Left Eye.)

"Waterfalls" was 'important'. It had a verse about AIDS in an era when that was like doing a song about 9/11. Go fig, I never liked it either.

+ http://www.amplified-online.co.uk/images/artists/cee-lo.jpg!!!

I never understood the love for "Waterfalls" either. TLC sitting pretty in the top ten while En Vogue languish in the 40's is RONG.

The answer to this thread lies in a Joan Osborne vs Marcy Playground vs Meredith Brooks deathmatch. At least with "One of Us" I can be entertained by laughing at the gawdawful lyrics, whereas "Sex and Candy" basically just makes me cringe and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Plenty to hate on this list, but Collective Soul take it for me!

achy breaky heart

Nirvana

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

meredith brooks. my god. mix one part mellencamp, one part morrisette, one part sheer fucking atrocious faux-feminist bullshit, feed into wood chipper, use for large farm animal to poop on.

Like one part Coug, one part Alanis is a bad thing!

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy is the worst of these songs, though it's not thaaat bad.

On "Waterfalls": I don't know why it was a big single, but what I love about it is the really dry production, esp. on the drum sound. Listen to how the song starts: the drums crackle and pop (it's an Organized Noise production) and then the keyboards just slink around. It's a really spare sound, and even without a "sensitive" lyric it sounds terrific.

it's pretty obvious why it was a big single!!!

not so obvious why it's such a Big Deal maybe.

cool CGI video
prince lyrics
pleasant production altho no better than many other tlc songs

did a mix of '95 stuff and 'I Got 5 On It' chorus sounded really cool over 'Waterfalls' intro

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

that whitney song is graet

glad to see so many songs getting at least one vote

that barenaked ladies song is great

there i said it

THANK GOD SANITY PREVAILS

34. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life 2

^^^two dudes need banning

34. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life 2
48. Matchbox Twenty - 3 AM 2
39. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

I can't recall any of these but I bet they all sound identical

13. Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) - Nuthin' but a "G" Thang 1

"Ice Ice Baby".

-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, January 3, 2008 5:40 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

??????

achy breaky heart is better than at least 20 of these songs

ban gabbneb

gabbneb, you aren't getting another RONG thread nomination that easily. Leave some for the rest of us.

"Achy Breaky Heart" is unforgivable but "Mr. Jones" is better than at least 20 Counting Crows songs.

also "Freak On A Leash" is Korn's best song! That Tasmanian Devil break!

da hoOOOoooOOng DOCK DOCK da hooOOOONNNG DOCK DOCK

a lot of these songs were obviously selected because of their videos (by VH1 viewers i mean)

EMF - Unbelievable 1

Okay, who was it?

Rarely have I been more baffled by vintage posts from myself than in this thread. I mean, sure, I guess I did discover "Nothing Compares 2 U" kinda late in life but it is really hard to remember the times before that.