Boardsies greatest song of the 90s - Live Thread

#29 - Novocaine for the Soul
#30 - No Scrubs
#31 - Bitter Sweet Symphony
#32 - Wicked Game (wasn't this in the '80's round too? Re-issue, I'm guessing?)

Eels
Goo Goo Dolls
The Verve
Chris Isaak

Necro

Voting B*Witched to bump the numbers, Verve is gonna piss it home anyways

Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

Collie D

29. Two good songs. Probably bought both albums in same transaction but vote goes to Song 2...Woohooooo!!

30. Iris - Good song.

31. No contest here - Bittersweet Symphony - the lead single from one of the best albums of the decade. No musical snobbery but the other one was just ****e.

32. Alright - Nice catchy piece of pop/rock. Good live band too.

EDIT: After a quick check, none of my votes here actually counted. You guys are quick.

angel eyes 2012

Necro wrote: »

Oh yeah and Supergrass. Cos Chris Isaak put out one of my nominations so revenge!!

Sorry Necro, Wicked Game was one of my nominations!

Sheridan81

Eels
TLC
Bewitched

Blur - Song 2

TLC - No Scrubs

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

Supergrass - Alright


A good mixture of cool, sassy and daft

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Spot on, Mackeral.

Too many pretentious nonsense songs getting through.

Too many rubbish pop songs you mean

quickbeam

R1/Match 24 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreets Back)
R1/Match 25 Spice Girls - Wannabe
R1/Match 26 Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
R1/Match 27 The Sundays - Summertime
R1/Match 28 Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train
R1/Match 29 Blur - Song 2
R1/Match 30 Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
R1/Match 31 The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
R1/Match 32 Supergrass - Alright

bubblypop

bubblypop wrote: »

Too many rubbish pop songs you mean

The only place in the universe that 'You Oughta Know' is a better song than 'Wannabe' is on Boards.


Alanis Morissette's best song is about a word she doesn't even know the meaning of.

Kolido

[Deleted User] wrote: »

#29 - Novocaine for the Soul
#30 - No Scrubs
#31 - Bitter Sweet Symphony
#32 - Wicked Game (wasn't this in the '80's round too? Re-issue, I'm guessing?)

Had a quick look at my google docs, it was in the one hit wonder comp.

Kolido

Eels - Novocaine for the Soul 2 6 Blur - Song 2
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris 4 6 TLC - No Scrubs
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 6 1 B*Witched - C'est la Vie
Supergrass - Alright 4 6 Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

Declan A Walsh

Kolido wrote: »

Had a quick look at my google docs, it was in the one hit wonder comp.

And that’s debatable too!

rainbowtrout

Deleted User wrote: »

The only place in the universe that 'You Oughta Know' is a better song than 'Wannabe' is on Boards.


Alanis Morissette's best song is about a word she doesn't even know the meaning of.

You Oughta Know is fantastic. You can feel the anger and bitterness radiating off it....

Enjoy your weekend, kolido.

Thanks for running the show

rainbowtrout

rainbowtrout wrote: »

You Oughta Know is fantastic. You can feel the anger and bitterness radiating off it....

Brilliant songwriter

I want you to know, that I am happy for you
I wish nothing but the best for you both
An older version of me
Is she perverted like me?
Would she go down on you in a theater?
Does she speak eloquently
And would she have your baby?
I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother
'Cause the love that you gave that we made
Wasn't able to make it enough for you
To be open wide, no
And every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me
You'd hold me until you died
'Til you died, but you're still alive
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know
You seem very well, things look peaceful
I'm not quite as well, I thought you should know
Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity?
I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner
It was a slap in the face
How quickly I was replaced
And are you thinking of me when you **** her?
'Cause the love that you gave that we made
Wasn't able to make it enough for you
To be open wide, no
And every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me
You'd hold me until you died
'Til you died, but you're still alive
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know
'Cause the joke that you laid in the bed
That was me and I'm not gonna fade
As soon as you close your eyes, and you know it
And every time I scratch my nails
Down someone else's back I hope you feel it
Well, can you feel it?
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know

Tauriel

I think I'm lucky if I have 4 or 5 songs left.

You people have absolutely shocking taste in music:p

quickbeam

Kolido wrote: »

Supergrass - Alright 4 6 Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

Ach, I nominated Alright so felt duty bound to vote for it, but Wicked Game is a cracker. Can't possibly be upset over that.

rainbowtrout

rainbowtrout wrote: »

You Oughta Know is fantastic. You can feel the anger and bitterness radiating off it....

I can feel the anger and bitterness radiating off a lot of things.

It doesn't make them the greatest song of the 90s.

Collie D

rainbowtrout wrote: »

You Oughta Know is fantastic. You can feel the anger and bitterness radiating off it....

Indeed....

“Does she know how you told me
You'd hold me until you died
'Til you died, but you're still alive”

Necro

bubblypop wrote: »

Too many rubbish pop songs you mean

Ah, that's more opinion than fact tbf. I mean, it's called pop music for a reason. I do think there is an alt/indie lean in the competition so far, but sure we'll see what happens as the tourney progresses.

A quarter final line up of 3 Radiohead, 3 Blur and 2 Oasis as an eg. won't be very entertaining if it happens though, diversity is the spice of life

Necro

Necro wrote: »

Ah, that's more opinion than fact tbf. I mean, it's called pop music for a reason. I do think there is an alt/indie lean in the competition so far, but sure we'll see what happens as the tourney progresses.

A quarter final line up of 3 Radiohead, 3 Blur and 2 Oasis as an eg. won't be very entertaining if it happens though, diversity is the spice of life

Oasis I don't mind.

Blur are awful.

Radiohead's best songs has been far better covered. Jaysus yar wan busking in Dublin blows their 'Creep' outta the water.

Meh boring. Especially given the first-past-the post.


Best songs of the 90s?

rainbowtrout

Deleted User wrote: »

I can feel the anger and bitterness radiating off a lot of things.

It doesn't make them the greatest song of the 90s.

Neither does lyrics such as zig -a- zig- ah:pac:

Kolido

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Oasis I don't mind.

Blur are awful.

Radiohead's best songs has been far better covered. Jaysus yar wan busking in Dublin blows their 'Creep' outta the water.


Meh boring. Especially given the first-past-the post.

Out of interest, how would you run the voting?

Kolido

Kolido wrote: »

Out of interest, how would you run the voting?

Nooooooooooo, Kolido, I'm not criticising you. You're running the voting perfectly fine. I'd make no changes.

The format is best suited to a forum.

But if this was a national referendum, a lot of these results would be different.

rainbowtrout

Necro wrote: »

Ah, that's more opinion than fact tbf. I mean, it's called pop music for a reason. I do think there is an alt/indie lean in the competition so far, but sure we'll see what happens as the tourney progresses.

A quarter final line up of 3 Radiohead, 3 Blur and 2 Oasis as an eg. won't be very entertaining if it happens though, diversity is the spice of life

Probably won't be as much of that as you might expect as I suspect that a lot of people avoided nominating popular songs as they thought someone else would. Hence the one nomination for Wonderwall.

Kolido said there were 214 songs in the competition and there were something like 85 matches from the songs with one nomination so the vast majority of songs were only nominated once. And plenty more were in the competition today. There can't be many songs left that haven't been voted upon yet. Unless I missed it earlier today, only one of my ten songs hasn't come up so far.

Irish Aris

kolido, thank you very much for all the time and effort you put into this!!

I won't be able to vote a lot next week due to work commitments but I will follow the results in the evenings with great interest.

Have a great weekend!!

Rikand

Barenaked ladies - one week. Just realised I forgot to nom it

Rikand

Dont think Virtual Insanity made it so here's Jamiroquai doing a live performance of Love Foolosophy. Love the opening minute of just the crowd singing along to the melody being played by the band