Friday, July 28, 2023





I made a list of Sinéad O’Connor's ten greatest songs for Spin. 

8:29 AM

Deep Album Cuts Vol. 317: Robert Palmer

Thursday, July 27, 2023

 






Robert Palmer has been on my to-do list of artists I'd really like to cover in this series for a long, long time, but it wasn't until someone requested him on Twitter that I finally went ahead and made it a priority. 

Robert Palmer deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):

1. Blackmail
2. Sailin' Shoes
3. Trouble
4. River Boat
5. Spanish Moon
6. Some People Can Do What They Like
7. Night People
8. Where Can It Go?
9. Mean Ol' World
10. Under Suspicion
11. Sulky Girl
12. Found You Now
13. Maybe It's You
14. Want You More
15. Murduress (with The Power Station)
16. Flesh Wound
17. Trick Bag
18. Disturbing Behavior
19. More Than Ever
20. Your Mother Should Have Told You
21. Chance
22. Honeymoon

Tracks 1 and 2 from Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (1974)
Tracks 3 and 4 from Pressure Drop (1975)
Tracks 5 and 6 from Some People Can Do What They Like (1976)
Tracks 7 and 8 from Double Fun (1978)
Tracks 9 and 10 from Secrets (1979)
Tracks 11 and 12 from Clues (1980)
Track 13 from Maybe It's Live (1982)
Track 14 from Pride (1983)
Track 15 from The Power Station by The Power Station (1985)
Tracks 16 and 17 from Riptide (1985)
Tracks 18 and 19 from Heavy Nova (1988)
Track 20 from Don't Explain (1990)
Track 21 from Ridin' High (1992)
Track 22 from Honey (1994)

I was a kid in the '80s when Robert Palmer reached the height of his fame with those iconic videos for "Addicted To Love," "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On," and "Simply Irresistible" featuring Palmer singing in front of a backing band of glamorous models. It surprised me later to learn that he'd had a long career full of different sounds before that, and I suppose it's kind of a shame that this chameleonic journeyman is now remembered as kind of a one trick pony. 

Robert Palmer was born in Yorkshire, England and started out his recording career singing blues and soul with the bands The Alan Brown Set and Vinegar Joe before launching a solo career. And Palmer became the kind of British musician with heavily American influences who often lived and recorded here and tended to sell more records in the U.S. and the UK. In the '70s Palmer worked with Little Feat, The Meters, and Bernard Purdie, and recorded several Allen Toussaint songs. In the '80s, he wrote songs with Gary Numan and recorded with Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and Adrian Belew. Palmer also regularly covered Husker Du's "New Day Rising" in concert at the height of his fame in 1986-87, which is pretty cool. 

Little Feat are one of my all time favorite bands, and I always love finding the many '70s albums by other artists that feature members of the band and covers of their songs, including Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Bonnie Raitt, and Nicolette Larson. And there's probably no solo artist who made quite as much music with Little Feat as Robert Palmer -- members of the band are all over his first four albums, which contain covers of the Little Feat songs "Sailin' Shoes," "Trouble," and "Spanish Moon" (there's also a demo of Palmer singing "Willin'" on a later reissue). Pressure Drop was recorded at Blue Seas Studios in Maryland, the place where my dad met Little Feat when they were recording Feats Don't Fail Me Now. I believe Ben Fong-Torres's Little Feat book mentions that Palmer was one of the singers the band talked about as bringing in as their new frontman when they reunited in the late '80s. Palmer also co-wrote "Blackmail" with Lowell George, and on one of Palmer's final albums, he covered the Lowell George solo track "Twenty Million Things." 

Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley's title track, penned by Allen Toussaint, was the album's only single. But the first three tracks on the album ("Sailin' Shoes," "Hey Julia," and "Sneakin' Sally") run together as a continuous suite, and many AOR radio stations have played all three tracks like it's one long song. "River Boat" and "Night People" are a couple of my other favorite Palmer recordings of Toussaint songs. 

Robert Palmer had recorded 8 albums for Island Records with only moderate commercial success when he suddenly became a bona fide pop star at the age of 36. In 1985, Palmer joined the supergroup The Power Station with members of Duran Duran and Chic, and The Power Station's debut was quickly followed by Palmer's biggest solo album Riptide. In a little over a year, Palmer sang on four top 10 hits. Palmer made a few albums after Heavy Nova, and not all of them are on streaming services today, but he seemed to live a pretty good life as an established star before dying of a heart attack in 2003. It's sad that he didn't live to see an older age, I think he would've continued sounding great and making some interesting records. 

Robert Palmer wrote "Addicted To Love," "Simply Irresistible," and "Jack and Mary," but the majority of his best known songs were written by other people, and he definitely gets far more praise for his vocals than his writing. But Palmer was a really talented all-around musician and writer who played guitar, bass, percussion, keyboards, and marimba on some of his records and wrote excellent songs including "Some People Can Do What They Like," "Sulky Girl," "Want You More," "Flesh Wound," "Disturbing Behavior," "More Than Ever," Your Mother Should Have Told You," "Chance," "Honeymoon," and "Where Can It Go?" 

8:28 AM

My Top 100 Singles of 1979

Wednesday, July 26, 2023








Here's the Spotify playlist: 

1. Chic - "Good Times"
2. The Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight"
3. Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
4. The Clash - "London Calling"
5. Earth, Wind & Fire - "September"
6. The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"
7. Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me (Live)"
8. Funkadelic - "(Not Just) Knee Deep"
9. Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - "Bustin' Loose"
10. Gary Numan – “Cars”
11. The Cars - "Good Times Roll"
12. AC/DC - "Highway To Hell"
13. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Don't Do Me Like That"
14. Jefferson Starship - "Jane"
15. Talking Heads - "Life During Wartime"
16. John Mellencamp - "I Need A Lover"
17. The Police - "Walking On The Moon"
18. Cheryl Lynn - "Got To be Real"
19. Led Zeppelin - "Fool In The Rain"
20. The Doobie Brothers - "What A Fool Believes"
21. Queen - "Don't Stop Me Now"
22. The Specials – “A Message To You Rudy”
23. Blondie - "Dreaming"
24. Mass Production - "Firecracker"
25. The Cure - "Boys Don't Cry"
26. Bauhaus – “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
27. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" 
28. Donna Summer - "Hot Stuff"
29. XTC - "Making Plans For Nigel"
30. Switch - "I Call Your Name"
31. Diana Ross - "The Boss"
32. Bobby Caldwell - "What You Won't Do For Love"
33. Prince - "I Wanna Be Your Lover"
34. Electric Light Orchestra - "Don't Bring Me Down"
35. The Police - "Message In A Bottle"
36. Van Halen - "Dance The Night Away"
37. Joe Jackson - "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"
38. Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
39. Rickie Lee Jones - "Chuck E's In Love"
40. Supertramp - "Take The Long Way Home"
41. Kenny Rogers - "The Gambler"
42. Kenny Loggins - "This Is It"
43. ZZ Top - "Cheap Sunglasses"
44. Styx - "Renegade"
45. Neil Young - "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)"
46. Dire Straits -"Sultans Of Swing"
47. The Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
48. Blondie - "Heart Of Glass"
49. Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
50. Kiss - "I Was Made For Lovin' You"
51. Sister Sledge - "We Are Family"
52. Rufus & Chaka Khan – “Do You Love What You Feel”
53. Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
54. Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk"
55. Chic - "I Want Your Love"
56. Van Halen - "Beautiful Girls"
57. The Specials – “Gangsters”
58. Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"
59. The Eagles - "Heartache Tonight"
60. Supertramp - "The Logical Song"
61. Journey - "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"
62. Billy Joel - "Big Shot"
63. Paul McCartney – “Wonderful Christmastime”
64. Bob Seger - "Old Time Rock And Roll"
65. Bad Company - "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy"
66. The Knack - "My Sharona"
67. Patrick Hernandez - "Born To Be Alive"
68. Led Zeppelin - "In The Evening"
69. McFadden & Whitehead - "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"
70. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "Accidents Will Happen"
71. M - "Pop Musik"
72. Foreigner - "Double Vision"
73. Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions – “Boogie Wonderland”
74. Bee Gees - "Tragedy"
75. Robert Palmer - "Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)"
76. ZZ Top - "I Thank You"
77. The Cars - "Let's Go"
78. Village People - "In The Navy"
79. The Pointer Sisters - "Fire"
80. The Flying Lizards - "Money"
81. Supertramp - "Breakfast In America"
82. Bob Seger - "We've Got Tonight"
83. Foreigner - "Head Games"
84. Cheap Trick - "Dream Police"
85. Earth, Wind & Fire – “After The Love Has Gone”
86. Fleetwood Mac - "Sara"
87. The Jacksons - "Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)"
88. Donna Summer - "Bad Girls"
89. Styx - "Babe"
90. Toto - "Georgy Porgy"
91. The Cars - "It's All I Can Do"
92. Instant Funk - "I Got My Mind Up (You Can Get It Girl)" 
93. Sister Sledge - "He's The Greatest Dancer"
94. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "Oliver's Army"
95. Rupert Holmes - "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
96. Amii Stewart - "Knock On Wood"
97. Roger Voudouris – “Get Used To It”
98. The Eagles - "The Long Run"
99. Supertramp - "Goodbye Stranger"
100. Led Zeppelin - "All My Love"

The pinnacle of disco and the birth of hip hop as a commercial force (intertwined with the same bassline in the top 2, naturally), the song that really launched Go-Go, punk becoming too diverse to pigeonhole, Gary Numan leading the UK's charge towards synths, Prince and Michael clearing their throats before a decade of battling for the throne. Now we're really getting into years where I feel a little jealous of anybody who was alive, sentient, and listening to the radio at the time. 

Previously:

8:27 AM

Deep Album Cuts Vol. 316: Tony Bennett

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

 






Tony Bennett passed away on Friday at the age of 96, so here's a look back at his remarkable career. 

Tony Bennett deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):

1. While The Music Plays On
2. Lost In The Stars
3. The Beat Of My Heart
4. We Mustn't Say Goodbye
5. (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings
6. Rules Of The Road
7. If I Love Again
8. I Walk A Little Faster
9. The Right To Love
10. A Lonely Place
11. Here, There And Everywhere
12. Some Other Time (with Bill Evans)
13. A Child Is Born (with Bill Evans)
14. When Love Was All We Had
15. You Go To My Head
16. It Amazes Me (live)
17. Azure
18. All For You
19. How Do You Keep The Music Playing? (with George Michael)
20. I Won't Dance (with Lady Gaga)
21. I Concentrate On You (with Lady Gaga)

Track 1 from Cloud 7 (1955)
Track 2 from Tony (1957)
Track 3 from The Beat Of My Heart (1957)
Track 4 from To My Wonderful One (1960)
Track 5 from My Heart Sings (1961)
Track 6 from I Left My Heart In San Francisco (1962)
Track 7 from I Wanna Be Around (1963)
Track 8 from Who Can I Turn To (1964)
Track 9 from If I Ruled The World: Songs For The Jet Set (1965)
Track 10 from I've Gotta Be Me (1969)
Track 11 from Tony Sings The Great Hits Of Today! (1970)
Track 12 from The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album with Bill Evans (1975)
Track 13 from Together Again with Bill Evans (1977)
Track 14 from The Art Of Excellence (1986)
Track 15 from Perfectly Frank (1992)
Track 16 from MTV Unplugged (1994)
Track 17 from Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (1999)
Track 18 from The Art Of Romance (2004)
Track 19 from Duets: An American Classic (2006)
Track 20 from Cheek To Cheek with Lady Gaga (2014)
Track 21 from Love For Sale with Lady Gaga (2021)

Tony Bennett began recording in 1951, and released his final album less than two years before his death (his first album, 1952's Because Of You, isn't on streaming services, so I started off the playlist with his second album). So Tony Bennett now holds a number of records for longevity in popular music (longest run of top 10 albums for a living artist, oldest person to release an album of new material, longest span between first and last Grammy nominations). Fittingly, this playlist spans 67 years, with albums from 8 different decades, easily the longest period of time I've covered in a deep album cuts post (the previous record was 57 years for Willie Nelson). 

Bennett recorded over 70 albums, so this obviously doesn't touch everything, but I tried to cover the most artistically and commercially significant albums from each period. The only significant gap in his recording career was when he didn't release any albums between 1977 and 1986, a time, a low point when Bennett had no record deal and nearly died from a cocaine overdose. But in 1986, Bennett began his comeback with The Art Of Excellence and an Oscar-nominated song for the film That's Life! and kept building his momentum up through his unlikely return to platinum records and Grammy awards in the 1990s. 

I've often rolled my eyes at the fact that two artists won Album of the Year for MTV Unplugged albums in the '90s (Bennett and Eric Clapton), it really epitomizes the classic Grammys tendency to cling to comforting reminders of the past. But MTV Live has been playing Bennett's Unplugged heavily the last few days, and it really is a great performance, Bennett deserves a lot of credit for sticking to simple piano trio backing bands and becoming the guy who brought standards into a new era as many of his contemporaries were dying or retiring. I played drums in high school jazz band and also worked as soundman for a friend of mine who gigged around as an old fashioned pop crooner, so I learned a lot about the Great American Songbook at the time when Bennett was the person who was really carrying the torch and managing to seem cool and timeless in the age of grunge and gangsta rap. And his voice really held up amazingly well over the years, gaining some character with age without losing the essence of what made him a star in his twenties. 

At the age of 78, Tony Bennett received the first and only songwriting credit of his entire career when he wrote lyrics to the Django Reinhardt instrumental "Nuages" for the song "All For You." This playlist includes songs written by Duke Ellington ("Azure"), Leonard Bernstein ("Some Other Time"), Oscar Hammerstein ("I Won't Dance"), Cole Porter ("I Concentrate On You"), Kurt Weill ("Lost In The Stars"), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh ("Rules of the Road," "I Walk A Little Faster," "It Amazes Me").

1970's Tony Sings The Great Hits Of Today! is considered a low point of Bennett's career for a rare attempt to move away from his usual repertoire of jazz standards and Broadway and Tin Pan Alley into contemporary hits. But I have to say, I don't mind hearing Bennett sing some Beatles, Stevie Wonder, and Bacharach & David songs, I like his swinging take on "Here, There And Everywhere." Of course, in more recent decades, Bennett recorded duets with many, many younger stars, most notably on two albums with Lady Gaga, but still largely stuck to classic Bennett material. And the Bennett/Gaga friendship was a really beautiful and touching final chapter of his career. 

8:26 AM

Saturday, July 22, 2023

 





I ranked every Blur album and every Cypress Hill album for Spin. 

5:04 PM

TV Diary

Wednesday, July 19, 2023









a) "Full Circle"
This Max miniseries is directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Ed Solomon (who wrote Soderbergh's excellent crime caper No Sudden Move as well as a lot of comedy like Bill & Ted and Men In Black). It reminds me a bit of "Your Honor" in that it's a big sprawling ensemble story about people who live in the same city and are tied together when tragedy befalls one family and they decided to take revenge on another family. "Your Honor" was kind of clumsy in aligning its chess pieces for 'poetic' plot twists, though, I hope "Full Circle" doesn't try to bring its story uh full circle in that kind of contrived way. In any event, it's got a great ensemble including Timothy Olyphant, Claire Danes, Zazie Beetz, and weirdly Jim Gaffigan with a little dramatic gravitas.

In addition to "Full Circle," less than a week later, Timothy Olyphant also returned to his greatest role. When people talk about great TV finales, I'm fond of saying that "Justified" stuck the landing with a perfect final episode in 2015. So this new sequel miniseries spoils that a little bit, but I'm fine with it, because I'm happy see Olyphant as Raylan Givens again, in one of the Elmore Leonard stories that was never used for the original series where he winds up in Detroit (when Raylan shows up in Detroit, one of the people that sees him immediately makes a "Yellowstone" comment, which come to think of it might be a hint as to why bringing "Justified" back in 2023 was seen as a smart business move). The first two episodes are really promising, with Boyd Holbrook well cast as the skeevy villain and Keith David as a judge, and finally they have an excuse to ditch that lousy "Justified" theme song.

A pretty unusual and intriguing show, about a woman starting her life over after a 16-year prison sentence. I'm not surprised that it's based on a one-woman play and was also a successful podcast, though, it kinda feels like it might have worked better in those formats and the seams are showing a little in the translation to a TV series. 

The CW tends to pick up a lot of shows from Canada and Australia and other countries to fill up their schedule in the summer. And I've enjoyed the U.S. premiere of this show that's been on in Canada since 2021, about a squabbling family that owns a coastal resort in Nova Scotia. 

"Survival Of The Thickest" is the first real starring vehicle for comedian Michelle Bateau, who's steadily risen from VH1 talking head to ubiquitous supporting player over the past 10-15 years. And it's a pretty funny, charming show with a strong cast, it gets a little heavyhanded and clumsy with trying to make points towards the end of the season, but mostly it's a rare Netflix sitcom that hits the mark. Tone Bell is likable in this show, I'm happy for him that he's actually in a decent show after starring in some of the worst sitcoms of the past decade ("Truth Be Told," "Disjointed," "Fam," etc.). 

The episodes of "The Witcher" that Netflix is rolling out this summer will be Henry Cavill's final performances as Geralt before he hands the role over to Liam Hemsworth. Recasting the title role in a series is pretty unheard of, so who knows how the show will fare from here, but Cavill's really made the show work, so I'm skeptical that things will proceed as before. That said, it felt like the show was always trying very hard to emphasize the ensemble and the worldbuilding and not make it a show where Geralt is in every scene, but I'd be fine if it was a broader show about Geralt and his sidekick Jaskier, I kind of get bored easily when the show tries to make me care about the plot. 

I was not blown away by the first season of "Foundation," but then I haven't read the books, so I don't have a frame of reference. and I at least respect that Apple TV+ is trying to make something that's true to a sort of old-fashioned pre-Star Wars sci-fi epic tradition. But, as with "The Witcher," I like the cast more than the story so if Lee Pace or Lou Llobell is in the scene I'm paying attention, but if they're not, my mind might wander. 

"The Afterparty" is a creative little murder mystery comedy where each episode is an interview with one witness/suspect, with their flashbacks all in different genres. It was fun but kind of inconsistent in the first season, but it feels a little more dialed in now in the second season, which brings back three characters trying to solve a different case (I kinda wish one of the people in both seasons wasn't Tiffany Haddish, who doesn't seem to understand the tone of the comedy). This week's episode, with Paul Walter Hauser as a reddit-y dork whose memories are all film noir, was hilariously good, by far the best thing I've seen from Hauser to date. 

A couple months ago I said that "What We Do In The Shadows" is my favorite show of the decade so far, so the pressure is on, guys, don't fuck this up! Season 5 seems to be up their usual standard, though, I'm glad Kristen Schaal has been upgraded to a full cast member. And as much as I enjoyed the gag of Guillermo waiting forever to be turned, I'm glad they're finally moving that story forward a little. 

I was surprised to see that Adult Swim had a new Superman series because most Adult Swim shows are, well, pretty adult or otherwise absurdist and irreverent. But DC has never really allowed any kind of dark or satirical take on Superman and "My Adventures With Superman" is no exception, it's just a charming, straightforward take on Superman's early days in Metropolis with an emphasis on Clark, Lois, and Jimmy working at The Daily Planet. Not sure why Cartoon Network didn't just air this in the daytime. 

A Japanese series on Netflix, about a woman who takes a job under an assumed name to plot revenge over her mother being wrongfully blamed for burning a house down many years ago. Some nice moody, cinematic direction in this. 

Another Netflix import, this one from India, with some impressive cinematography, opens with a chilling scene of a guy being found dead in a field a few days before his wedding, but I haven't gotten far enough in the series to find out what's really going on yet. 

Fatal Attraction was the name of an iconic 1987 erotic thriller, and Fatal Instinct was the name of a 1993 comedy parodying the genre. So the title "Fatal Seduction" had me primed for a bunch of erotic thriller cliches, and that's pretty much what this South African series delivers. 

Seems like a bad idea to make a show about a lawyer called "Devil's Advocate" that has nothing to do with the Pacino movie, but this Kuwaiti thriller seems decent. 

I'm not too into home renovation shows, but this Netflix show is geared a little more toward tech innovation and creative solutions to old issues of maximizing storage space or given rooms a new use, it's interesting. 

A lot of reality competition shows suffer from the fact that the prize everyone is vying for is some vague opportunity and/or chunk of money that may or may not have any real impact on their career. So the stakes feel a little more real on "Five Star Chef" because the winner actually becomes the head chef of a prestigious London restaurant. And the co-host Ravneet Gill is so gorgeous. 

Not a football fan at all, but this Netflix docuseries where each episode profiles a different NFL quarterback is pretty well made and shows the daily reality of the job from an angle I haaven't seen before. 

This docuseries looks at the impact of human society and industry on different parts of the Earth, very interesting stuff, but also some of the cheesiest pop music needledrops I've ever heard on a PBS show. 

This Max miniseries, about early '90s serial killer Richard Rodgers, hits the right balance of good storytelling and journalistic credibility, more true crime docs should follow its example. 

The whole Ashley Madison fracas was a media circus at the time, but it feels even more insane looking back in this Hulu series 10-20 years later. I didn't even realize that there suicides linked to the hack that exposed the data of everyone that had an account. 

Apparently a member of the Italian royal family was involved in the murder of a German teenager in 1978, wild story but I didn't get that into the Netflix doc, kinda hope someone does a scripted dramatization of this story at some point. 

This miniseries on The CW starts from the premise that the year of my birth is the nexus of 'geek' culture...it feels a little like an arbitrary year to me, but I enjoy any opportunity to sort through '80s pop culture detritus. 

I watched a little of the first season of "Is It Cake?" when it came out and was like, okay, I get it, I don't need to see every episode. But when the second season came out, my 8-year-old son took an interest in it, and this is definitely more fun to watch with a child. 

"Project Greenlight" has always been an interesting but frustrating show to watch, just watching how the sausage gets made in the creation of a director's debut feature. In the first season, the contest winner was picked by the screenplay they submitted, and I kinda wish they kept looking for writer/directors, but they've mostly separated those roles in the next four seasons (season four they picked a guy to direct a particular screenplay, but then they switched up and made a feature version of his short film submission). The new season, sort of a reboot with Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani as the celeb producers instead of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, starts with the premise that they need to pick a woman to direct a "Project Greenlight" film for the first time. And the director, Meko Winbush, seems really smart, but it's always so hard to tell whether she cares about the screenplay she was given to work on at all and I just feel like it'd be a much better show, and probably a better film, if they picked a writer/director's passion project that they've been waiting their whole life to make. 

Some of the animated shows on Netflix are really kind of out there and psychedelic and absurdist, and I'm a little impressed sometimes when my 8-year-old is into them, like "Centaurworld" or this weird Brazilian show "Wake Up, Carlo!" about a kid who sleeps for 22 years and wakes up in a completely different world. 

"Ask The StoryBots" is one of the best educational kid's shows I've seen since I became a parent, my 8-year-old has genuinely picked up some useful knowledge of the world from the show. There haven't been any new episodes of "Ask The StoryBoys" since 2019, but there was recently a new season of the spinoff "Answer Time," which is like a lower budget version with less fancy animation. Some fun celebrity cameos, though. 

10:13 AM

Monthly Report: July 2023 Singles

Monday, July 17, 2023

 






1. NLE Choppa f/ Lil Wayne - "Ain't Gonna Answer"
I like Cottonwood 2 and "Ain't Gonna Answer" is easily one of the best tracks, I'm glad it's doing well at radio. I'm a sucker for "Triggerman"-sampling NOLA bounce throwbacks, especially ones with a good Lil Wayne verse, and I enjoy the nod to one of my favorite Wayne songs, "Stuntin' Like My Daddy." And "Back That Azz Up" came out in '98, Wayne has been killing features for 25 goddamn years. Here's the 2023 singles Spotify playlist I update every month. 

2. Latto f/ Cardi B - "Put It On Da Floor Again"
As I said in my last Remix Report Card, I still give Latto side eye over her old name and "Big Energy," and Cardi had better verses on her other recent remixes with Glorilla and FendiDa Rappa. But "Put It On Da Floor" is a strong candidate for song of the summer and Cardi definitely took it to another level, that beat is hard as hell. 

3. Doja Cat - "Attention"
Last year I wrote about how Doja Cat has had several hit rap songs that get played exclusively on pop radio, but she gets more respect as an MC than, say, Flo Rida. So I wondered if there was gonna be a point where she crossed back over to R&B radio with her rap tracks. In the months since then, Doja has announced that her next album is all hip-hop, spent a ton of time on Twitter berating her fans and calling her last two huge albums mediocre "cash grabs" (I have to admit I felt a little vindicated by that, because I've been saying that her low-selling debut Amala is her best album and that she doesn't even seem to fuck with a lot of her own music). So "Attention" has a lot riding on it, especially with Doja's first arena tour coming up, and it's already doing pretty badly, debuting at #31 and sinking down the Hot 100 while her last lead single debuted in the top 10 and stayed there for months. But I really like it, she puts a lot of her grievances with fans and Twitter trolls into a more appealing song form in two 20 bar verses with a really memorable melodic hook, it's kind of a shame that this is considered too much of a curveball for pop radio. 

4. Pink - "Trustfall"
I recently wrote about how I only just started to hear the name of British producer Fred Again.. everywhere but apparently he's been making pretty major moves for years and years. And here I see him again, co-producing Pink's biggest song on pop radio since "What About Us" 6 years ago. Love the vocal melody on this one, kind of wish Pink went for it with big dance tracks like this more often. 

5. Des Rocs - "Never Ending Moment"
I'd never heard of Des Rocs before I heard this on the radio last week, but apparently he's about to release his second major label album, has opened for a lot of big acts, and was in a band called Secret Weapons that had some success. But man, this song really kicked my ass from the first listen, looking forward to the 

6. Fall Out Boy - "Hold Me Like A Grudge"
I'm used to Fall Out Boy being a slightly embarrassing band to like, but I found it pretty frustrating that they just released their best album in about 14 years, and then quickly followed it up with a big publicity blitz for a cover of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" with (badly) updated lyrics. They grazed the lower reaches of the Hot 100 with their gimmick cover, but hopefully that won't stop one of my favorite songs from So Much (for) Stardust from continuing to get airplay on alternative radio. 

7. Jackson Dean - "Fearless (Echo)" 
When I interviewed Jackson Dean for the Baltimore Banner recently, one of the things I was curious about was why he re-recorded "Fearless" from his 2022 album Greenbroke for the radio single version. And it turns out it was because he'd grown as a singer in the year or two in between those versions, and listening back I realized he was right, the vocal on this version is way better. I've only heard this one on Maryland's big country station WPOC once, I really think they should support a homegrown major label artist more. 

8. Brothers Osborne - "Nobody's Nobody"
Another moment I enjoyed in my Jackson Dean interview was finding out that he's pretty good friends with Maryland's other current country stars, Brothers Osborne. I really love their music so I'm glad to hear those guys are nice. 

9. Avenged Sevenfold - "Nobody"
I enjoyed their 2005 breakthrough single "Bat Country," but Avenged Sevenfold always seemed like kind of a one trick pony and I've mostly ignored their dozen hard rock radio hits since then, other than the one that I made fun of for sounding exactly like Metallica's "Sad But True." But I heard "Nobody" on the radio recently and that big noisy grinding riff kinda rules. 

10. Luke Combs - "Fast Car"
Luke Combs's 15th #1 on country radio is also his biggest Hot 100 hit to date, a cover of Tracy Chapman's 1988 classic "Fast Car." I tend to roll my eyes when country artists get crossover success with a cover of a non-country song, but Combs seemed to arrive at it pretty organically -- when he released his 14th country radio #1, "Going, Going, Gone," he talked about how "Fast Car" was one of his favorite songs and he was trying to write something with a similar memorable acoustic guitar part. A lot of people hearing Luke Combs for the first time right now are pissed off that his "Fast Car" is charting higher than the original and isn't good as Tracy Chapman's version -- of course it isn't, how could it be? But I think he did it justice, and maybe reminded a lot of people how great it is. 

The Worst Single of the Month: Thirty Seconds To Mars - "Stuck"
Kind of shooting fish in a barrel to say that Jared Leto did something crappy, but I did like some of Thirty Seconds To Mars songs from when they were an actual rock band, and I'm kind of disappointed that they're continuing in the Imagine Dragons-y vein of America. 

9:11 AM

Movie Diary

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

 






a) Elemental
My 8-year-old wanted to see this and my 13-year-old came long with us, and I'd say we all liked it but didn't love it. Elemental is definitely too pleasant and competent to really deserve some of the Pixar obituaries it's inspired. It's better than, say, The Good Dinosaur, but it's probably a bad sign that Pixar let the director of The Good Dinosaur make another movie and lost money again. I liked that it was basically a romcom (my 8-year-old shielded his eyes when they kissed at the end), although the 'culture clash' plot about people from two different cultures falling in love felt very cliche and superficial, nothing profound or even relatable there. The voice acting, dialogue, and visual aesthetic mostly worked, though. 

b) Run Rabbit Run
Sarah Snook has only had a few supporting film roles since "Succession" began so I was excited to see her in the lead role in this Netflix movie. And while I would agree with a lot of the criticisms about the plot and the overall execution, I think I liked it more than most people, great performances from Snook and the child actress Lily LaTorre, a few creepy moments and reveals that worked really well amongst others that didn't quite land. 

c) Men
Another horror flick that got unenthusiastic reviews that I still wanted to see, and probably had a slightly above average opinion of. Jessie Buckley is great as ever, but the movie really hinges on Rory Kinnear's very strange role(s) and the whole thing really wound up very far from what I expected, even having seen Alex Garland's previous work. At least one bit of FX just kind of looked crappy, but mostly I appreciated how audacious it was and not in the ways people seemed to want a horror movie called Men to be, at worst I think it's a noble failure, or maybe something that will be evaluated more positively in the future. 

A decent period piece with Florence Pugh as an English nurse who's summoned to an Irish village to examine a girl who supposedly hasn't eaten for months but isn't starving to death. It's based on a novel and feels like one of those movies that probably worked better as a novel, like maybe something about the interior of the characters was lost in translating it to a visual medium, but Pugh was excellent as usual. 

e) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The first Ant-Man managed to survive a great director, Edgar Wright, leaving in pre-production, and his replacement, and his replacement, Peyton Reed (director of Bring It On and several other less distinguished studio comedies), did a pretty good job with a couple Ant-Man movies. The third movie in the series, however, actually made me think, for the first time in years, "oh yeah, Edgar Wright was supposed to do these, he might have been able to actually pull this one off." Quantumania just tried to be a way bigger sci-fi thing than either of the earlier movies, and Peyton Reed just seems totally lost, throwing the characters into some of the ugliest CGI landscapes I've seen since the Star Wars prequels. And yet it was still intermittently a pretty watchable movie whenever they just let Paul Rudd be Paul Rudd. 

My kids put this on the other day and it was a pretty silly little movie, didn't really deserve to have Samuel L. Jackson and Mel Brooks in the voice cast but it was still fun to hear them. 

I watched this as part of my research while writing about Alice Cooper recently, and it was an entertaining little career overview. Some of the director's creative decisions really irritated me, though, there was a lot of repurposed stock footage or scenes from movies manipulated to sort of seem like a depiction of a story someone told that wasn't caught on camera, even when it's pretty obvious that's what's happening it feels like kind of a gross thing for a documentary to do. 

8:59 AM

Monthly Report: June 2023 Albums

Monday, July 10, 2023






















1. Kiana Lede - Grudges
I really dug Kiana Lede's 2020 debut Kiki and it feels like she and Mike Woods of the Rice N Peas production team built on what worked on that album for an even better follow up. It's a shame she hasn't really done well on the charts because I think she excels at that moody midtempo sound that's made major stars out of SZA and Summer Walker. I don't really like the first track at all but there's loads of good songs on here, particularly "Promise Me," "Gone" and "LMK." Here's the 2023 albums Spotify playlist that has most of the records I've listened to this year. 

2. Christine And The Queens - Paranoia, Angels, True Love
Last year Christine And The Queens released Redcar les adorables etoiles (Prologue), which seemed to be pitched as a purposefully arty and experimental French language precursor to a more accessible English language album to follow. But the 96-minute Paranoia, Angels, True Love is, if anything, eve more dense and challenging. Chris was my favorite album of 2018, and Heloise Letissier hasn't made anything quite as good in the five years since, but barely anybody else has either, and I won't fault Letissier for abandoning the crisp synth pop and R&B grooves of Chris for slower, weirder territory. I don't know if legendary hip hop producer Mike Dean was the right collaborator for some of this material, though, some of his reverb-heavy drums and butt rock guitar solos kind of spoil the mood. And three songs feature Madonna, but they're all pretty much spoken word cameos that sound like they were knocked out in a 10-minute recording session, which is disappointing, one real duet would've been nice. I don't know if anything here will resonate on a wider level like 2020's "People, I've Been Sad," but there are some gorgeous songs worth combing through Paranoia to find, including "Tears Can Be So Soft" and "Flowery Days," as well as some I kind of cringe through, particularly "Let Me Touch You Once." 

3. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
Foo Fighters debuted just a year after Kurt Cobain's death and the end of Nirvana, and Dave Grohl navigated that PR minefield gracefully, even as people incessantly analyzed his lyrics and speculated on which songs may or may not be about Kurt (as far as I can tell, none of them ever were, except "Friend of a Friend," written in 1990 when Kurt was still alive and not yet enormously famous). Longtime Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and Grohl's mother Virginia both died last year, though, and it feels like a very different situation, one where it's more natural for Grohl to come out with a solemn, elegiac album that doesn't shy away from expressing grief. Hawkins being a tremendous drummer in his own right means that there's not even much of a substantial musical difference to Grohl playing all the drums on a Foo Fighters album for the first time in 25 years, but it's pretty enjoyable to hear him rip into that 7/8 groove on "But Here We Are" or the flashy fills on "Beyond Me." And his daughter Violet Grohl, who sounded incredible singing a couple Jeff Buckley songs at the Hawkins tribute concert last year, adds harmonies to "Show Me How" that help it sound a bit different from any previous melodic midtempo Foo Fighters song. 

4. Young Thug - Business Is Business (Metro's Version)
The past year since Young Thug and a couple dozen associates were arrested on RICO charges have been surreal and depressing, and it's not really clear how it's gonna shake out for him, but it doesn't look good. Last year one of the other arrested YSL rappers, Gunna, plead guilty to one charge and was released on time served, and a narrative started to emerge that he snitched. So it was interesting when a year of relative silence was broken with a new album by Gunna, with no guests, and a new Young Thug album with many guests (but no Gunna). Thug's always been one of those frustrating rappers with a massive vault of unreleased music, so he was at least in a good position for someone to go through his archives and put together an album, and Business Is Business, exec produced by Metro Boomin, is really solid. Four days after the album's initial release, Business Is Business (Metro's Version) came out, I suppose in a nod to Taylor Swift's (Taylor's Version) albums, with a different running order and two additional songs. And I think it's way better, "Jonesboro" and "Sake of My Kids" are much better bookends than "Parade On Cleveland" and "Global Access." Gunna's album A Gift & A Curse is pretty good too, I'm not really taking any position on these snitching allegations, but I've never been as big a fan of Gunna as Thug. 

5. Maeta - When I Hear Your Name
I hadn't heard of Maeta before she released her debut album on Roc Nation a few weeks ago, but she's got a great voice, I hope she doesn't fall between the cracks like so many Roc Nation R&B starlets have over the years (Justin Skye, Bridget Kelly, Nicole Bus, etc.). There's a real all-star cast of producers,, guests and co-writers on here, including James Fauntleroy, The-Dream, Ty Dolla Sign, SZA, etc., and I'm also entertained that track 2 is a cover of the Queen deep cut "Cool Cat" and she actually pulls it off. There have been some pretty talented white R&B singers over the years, but these days they tend to have that racially ambiguous Kardashian/IG model makeup/tanner aesthetic, which is a little weird and off-putting, but so far I like Maeta, she's talented. 

6. Kelly Clarkson - Chemistry
A pop singer hosting a daytime talk show feels like the kind of thing that signals that they've kind of fading from musical relevance and chart success, but "The Kelly Clarkson Show"'s daily 'Kellyoke' segments have really reaffirmed that Kelly Clarkson is still one of the greatest, most versatile vocalists American pop has and can sing practically anything as ably as in the "American Idol" days. I was still pleasantly surprised that Chemistry is one of the best albums Clarkson has ever made, definitely top 5 and possibly top 3. It's her first album since her divorce and has the most Clarkson writing credits since 2007's My December (the one where she battled Clive Davis for creative control). And the concept of tracing the arc of a relationship from beginning to end works pretty well and she sings the hell out of some pretty strong songs. 

7. Niall Horan - The Show
As someone who loved a lot of One Direction's music, I appreciate that Niall Horan's albums are more of a continuation of 1D's catalog than any other member of the group's solo career. Part of that's because he still works regularly with One Direction writer/producers like John Ryan, Julian Bunetta, Mike Needle and Jamie Scott, all of whom contribute to The Show. It's also pretty funny that the most doe-eyed acoustic love song on the album is called "You Could Start A Cult." And I like "Save My Life," it's very The 1975. 

8. Moneybagg Yo - Hard To Love
For a few years Moneybagg Yo was really dropping music consistently and became one of my favorite rappers in Memphis or in the south in general. And it felt like he really just kept building momentum up to 2021's A Gangsta's Pain, his first platinum album. Then, that momentum seemed to stall, and he didn't release a project for over two years, and none of his new singles really connected. Hard To Love was framed as a 'mixtape' (although there's really no difference between mixtapes and albums these days, it's all semantics), but it still feels notable that it debuted lower on Billboard than his last few project. Usher's Hard To Love did lousy numbers, too, maybe you're just tempting fate with that title. On the closing track "More Sick" he kind of opens up about what's been going on with him that has slowed down his musical output, though, deaths of loved ones and addiction issues, it's a really vulnerable moment. Moneybagg mostly sticks to his strengths on this tape, though, the flow he attempts on "No Show" doesn't really work but otherwise it's a solid project, "Still" and "They Say" are killer. 

9. John Mellencamp - Orpheus Descending
I really enjoyed interviewing John Mellencamp last year about his album Strictly A One-Eyed Jack. It's kind of a cliche when aging artists say their new album is their best, but Mellencamp has always been unsentimental about his past and I could believe how proud he was of this grim, minimal folk album. Orpheus Descending has a similar stark sound and he sings it in the same craggy three-packs-a-day voice, but there's more of an oomph in the arrangements that I like, I knew from the opening snare drum whipcrack and apocalyptic slide guitar riff of "Hey God" that I was gonna dig this album. 

10. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
The Australian band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has been so absurdly prolific, with over 20 albums in the space of a decade, that some of those records invariably start to blur together. So I'm kind of glad that some of the albums have a very particular sound that makes it stand out, and none stood out more than their 2019 metal album Infest The Rats' Nest, which was good enough that I don't mind them returning to that sound with a lesser sequel. 

The Worst Album of the Month: Jason Mraz - Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride
I try not to be so negative that I'm actively hunting for albums to feature in this space, but I was drawn in by the repulsive spectacle of Jason Mraz's recent single "I Feel Like Dancing" and the album title Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride (words that he actually sings on "Disco Sun," a song that manages to make lyrics about psychedelics and cunnilingus sound dorky). Mraz has always been the kind of harmless VH1 cornball that I tend to go easy on, and he can genuinely sing, but he doesn't have anything as undeniable as "Drops of Jupiter" in his catalog to really ingratiate him to me. And his pivot to funk and dance music on this album is just deeply embarrassing, even before he builds a song, "Irony of Loneliness," around a Rupi Kaur poem. Of all the people doing disco nostalgia these days, he's the only one that evokes Leo Sayer.  

9:03 AM

Friday, July 07, 2023

 





I interviewed Odenton-born country star Jackson Dean and his drummer Sean Mercer for a piece for The Baltimore Banner about Dean's career thus far as he returns to Maryland tonight to open for Luke Bryan at Merriweather Post Pavilion. 

7:25 AM

The Top 522 Singles of the 1990s

Wednesday, July 05, 2023







I have previously made lists of my 522 favorite singles of the 2000s and the 2010s, with my reasoning being that there are roughly 522 weeks in a decade, and it feels like I have turned on the radio or looked at the Billboard charts and found a great new song about once a week for most of my life. I wrote about many of these songs in my lists of the best pop, rock, rap, R&B and country songs of the '90s. Here's the 37-hour Spotify playlist: 

1. Mary J. Blige - "Real Love" (1992)
2. The Breeders - "Cannonball" (1993)
3. Madonna - "Vogue" (1990)
4. Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy" (1994)
5. Aaliyah - "One In A Million" (1997)
6. Geto Boys - "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" (1991)
7. Bell Biv DeVoe - "Poison" (1990)
8. Seal - "Kiss From A Rose" (1996)
9. Deee-Lite f/ Q-Tip and Bootsy Collins - "Groove Is In The Heart" (1990)
10. Soundgarden - "Outshined" (1991)
11. A Tribe Called Quest f/ Leaders Of The New School - "Scenario" (1992)
12 Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Gin And Juice" (1994)
13. TLC - "Creep" (1994)
14. Depeche Mode - "Enjoy The Silence" (1990)
15. Warren G and Nate Dogg - "Regulate" (1994)
16. Erykah Badu - "Tyrone" (1997)
17. Wu-Tang Clan - "C.R.E.A.M." (1994)
18. Alan Jackson - "Chattahoochee" (1993)
19. Ghost Town DJ's - "My Boo" (1996)
20. Nirvana - "In Bloom" (1992)
21. Janet Jackson - "Any Time, Any Place" (1994)
22. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" (1992)
23. Jodeci - "Cry For You" (1993)
24. Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y." (1994)
25. Rage Against The Machine - "Guerrilla Radio" (1999)
26. 2Pac - "Keep Ya Head Up" (1993)
27. Mariah Carey f/ Ol’ Dirty Bastard - "Fantasy (Remix)" (1995)
28. Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn" (1998)
29. Green Day - "Basket Case" (1994)
30. DMX - "Ruff Ryders Anthem" (1998)
31. George Michael - "Freedom! '90" (1990)
32. LL Cool J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (1991)
33. Matthew Sweet - "Girlfriend" (1991)
34. Outkast - "ATLiens" (1996)
35. Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" (1993)
36. Juvenile - "Ha" (1998)
37. Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" (1994)
38. Puff Daddy f/ The LOX, Lil Kim and the Notorious B.I.G. - "It's All About The Benjamins (Remix)" (1997)
39. Mariah Carey - "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (1994)
40. Brooks & Dunn - "Neon Moon" (1992)
41. Sinéad O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1990)
42. Lauryn Hill - "Ex-Factor" (1998)
43. Cher - "Believe" (1999)
44. Craig Mack - "Flava In Ya Ear" (1994)
45. D'Angelo - "Lady" (1996)
46. Mobb Deep - "Shook Ones Part II" (1995)
47. Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game" (1991)
48. Souls Of Mischief - "'93 Til Infinity" (1993)
49. Sade - "No Ordinary Love" (1993)
50. DNA featuring Suzanne Vega - "Tom's Diner (DNA Remix)" (1990)
51. Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?" (1998)
52. Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life" (1997)
53. Method Man f/ Mary J. Blige - "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" (1995)
54. Pearl Jam - "Corduroy" (1995)
55. Ace of Base - "The Sign" (1994)
56. Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like A Hole" (1990)
57. Busta Rhymes - "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" (1997)
58. Metallica - "Sad But True" (1992)
59. Shania Twain - "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" (1999)
60. AC/DC - "Thunderstruck" (1990)
61. Jay-Z f/ Jaz-O and Amil - "Jigga What, Jigga Who (Originator '99)" (1999)





 

























62. Destiny's Child - "Bills, Bills, Bills" (1999)
63. N.O.R.E. - "Superthug" (1998)
64. Babyface - "Whip Appeal" (1990)
65. Foo Fighters - "Everlong" (1997)
66. En Vogue - "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" (1992)
67. Smashing Pumpkins - "Cherub Rock" (1993)
68. Boyz II Men - "Motownphilly" (1991)
69. Luniz - "I Got 5 On It" (1995)
70. Janet Jackson - "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" (1991)
71. Belly - "Feed The Tree" (1993)
72. Dru Hill - "Tell Me" (1996)
73. EPMD - "Crossover" (1992)
74. Adina Howard - "Freak Like Me" (1995)
75. Gang Starr - "Mass Appeal" (1994)
76. Monica - "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" (1995)
77. 3rd Bass - "Pop Goes The Weasel" (1991)
78. Tony! Toni! Toné! – “Feels Good” (1990)
79. Naughty By Nature - "O.P.P." (1991)
80. Michael Jackson - "Remember the Time" (1992)
81. Digital Underground - "The Humpty Dance" (1990)
82. 'N Sync - "Tearin' Up My Heart" (1998)
83. Biz Markie - "Just A Friend" (1990)
84. Haddaway - "What Is Love" (1993)
85. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "The Impression That I Get" (1997)
86. Annie Lennox - "Walking On Broken Glass" (1992)
87. School of Fish - "3 Strange Days" (1991)
88. OMC - "How Bizarre" (1997)
89. En Vogue - "Free Your Mind" (1992)
90. R.E.M. - "Man On The Moon" (1992)
91. Janet Jackson - "Black Cat" (1990)
92. Spacehog - "In The Meantime" (1996)
93. Dwight Yoakam - "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" (1993)
94. Tori Amos - "Cornflake Girl" (1994)
95. Right Said Fred - "I'm Too Sexy" (1992)
96. John Michael Montgomery - "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" (1995)
97. Faith Evans – “Love Like This” (1998)
98. Garth Brooks - "Friends In Low Places" (1990)
99. Ginuwine - "So Anxious" (1999)
100. Jeff Buckley - "Last Goodbye" (1995)
101. Spice Girls - "Wannabe" (1997)
102. Reba McEntire - "Is There Life Out There" (1992)
103. James - "Laid" (1994)
104. Bruce Springsteen - "Secret Garden" (1997)
105. Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Empty" (1994)
106. Eric Clapton and Babyface - "Change The World" (1996)
107. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - "Blue On Black" (1998)
108. Bonnie Raitt - "I Can't Make You Love Me" (1991)
109. Prince and the New Power Generation - "7" (1993)
110. Britney Spears - "(You Drive Me) Crazy" (1999)
111. Amy Grant - "Baby Baby" (1991)
112. 112 f/ Lil' Zane - "Anywhere" (1999)
113. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "Summertime" (1991)
114. Aaliyah - "At Your Best (You Are Love)" (1994)
115. Positive K - "I Got A Man" (1993)
116. Alice In Chains - "Rooster" (1992)
117. Enrique Iglesias - "Bailamos" (1999)
118. Next - "Too Close" (1998)
119. Boy Krazy - "That's What Love Can Do" (1993)
120. Sir Mix-A-Lot - "Baby Got Back" (1992)
121. Nirvana - "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993)
122. Sounds of Blackness – “Optimistic” (1991)
123. Lost Boyz - "Renee" (1996)






 


























124. Ice Cube - "It Was A Good Day" (1993)
125. Brandy – “Sittin’ Up In My Room” (1996)
126. Sonic Youth - "Bull In The Heather" (1994)
127. Montell Jordan - "This Is How We Do It" (1995)
128. Nas - "It Ain't Hard To Tell" (1994)
129. Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway - "Good Vibrations" (1991)
130. Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel The Pain" (1994)
131. Mark Morrison - "Return Of The Mack" (1997)
132. SWV - "Right Here (Human Nature)" (1992)
133. Martina McBride - "Independence Day" (1994)
134. Boyz II Men - "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" (1991)
135. Jeru The Damaja - "Come Clean" (1994)
136. Mary J. Blige f/ Smif-n-Wessun - "I Love You (Remix)" (1995)
137. C+C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" (1991)
138. Missy Elliott - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (1997)
139. LL Cool J f/ LeShaun - "Doin' It" (1995)
140. Prince and the New Power Generation - "Diamonds and Pearls" (1992)
141. George Strait - "Blue Clear Sky" (1996)
142. Rednex - "Cotton Eye Joe" (1995)
143. Joe Diffie - "Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die)" (1993)
144. Stardust - "Music Sounds Better with You" (1998)
145. The Chicks - "There's Your Trouble" (1998)
146. Big Punisher f/ Joe - "Still Not a Player" (1998)
147. Alabama - "I'm In A Hurry (And Don't Know Why)" (1992)
148. Phil Collins - "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven" (1990)
149. Trisha Yearwood - "She's In Love With The Boy" (1991)
150. Meat Loaf - "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" (1993)
151. Salt-n-Pepa f/ En Vogue - "Whatta Man" (1993)
152. The Backstreet Boys - "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" (1998)
153. Black Sheep - "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)" (1992)
154. Wynonna - "No One Else On Earth" (1992)
155. UGK f/ Smoke D - "Front, Back & Side To Side" (1994)
156. Toby Keith - "Should've Been A Cowboy" (1993)
157. Goodie Mob - "Cell Therapy" (1995)
158. Dolly Parton - "Silver And Gold" (1990)
159. The Roots f/ Erykah Badu and Eve - "You Got Me" (1999)
160. Vince Gill - "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away" (1992)
161. Pavement - "Cut Your Hair" (1994)
162. LFO - "Summer Girls" (1999)
163. Travis Tritt - "Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" (1991)
164. Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You" (1992)
165. Black Star f/ Common - "Respiration" (1999)
166. The Cure - "Pictures of You" (1990)
167. Jordan Knight - "Give It To You" (1999)
168. Cypress Hill - "Insane In The Brain" (1993)
169. Robbie Williams - "Angels" (1999)
170. Weezer - "Say It Ain't So" (1995)
171. Sagat - "Why Is It? (Funk Dat)" (1994)
172. Pearl Jam - "Yellow Ledbetter" (1994)
173. Madonna - "Deeper And Deeper" (1992)
174. Arrested Development - "Tennessee" (1992)
175. Whitney Houston - "It's Not Right But It's Okay" (1999)
176. Beastie Boys - "Sabotage" (1994)
177. Maxwell – “Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)” (1996)
178. Jane's Addiction - "Stop!" (1990)
179. Usher - "My Way" (1998)
180. Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991)
181. Janet Jackson - "If" (1993)
182. Missy Elliott f/ 702 and Magoo – “Beep Me 911” (1998)
183. The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (1993)
184. Toni Braxton - "You're Makin' Me High" (1996)
185. The Sugarcubes - "Hit" (1992)
186. Raphael Saadiq f/ Q-Tip - "Get Involved" (1999)
187. U2 - "Even Better Than The Real Thing" (1992)
188. Kelis - "Get Along With You" (1999)
189. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Learning To Fly" (1991)
190. The Black Crowes - "Jealous Again" (1990)
 










191. Lisa Stansfield - "All Around The World" (1990)
192. The Fugees - "Fu-Gee-La" (1996)
193. Soul Coughing - "Super Bon Bon" (1996)
194. Camp Lo - "Luchini (This Is It)" (1997)
195. Color Me Badd - "I Wanna Sex You Up" (1991)
196. Jennifer Paige - "Crush" (1998)
197. Domino - "Getto Jam" (1994)
198. Tal Bachman - "She's So High" (1999)
199. Public Enemy - "911 Is A Joke" (1990)
200. Lenny Kravitz - "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" (1991)
201. Chubb Rock - "Treat Em Right" (1992)
202. 2Pac f/ Digital Underground - "I Get Around" (1993)
203. Counting Crows - "Angels Of The Silences" (1996)
204. Sarah McLachlan - "Possession" (1993)
205. DJ Kool - "Let Me Clear My Throat" (1997)
206. Sophie B. Hawkins - "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" (1992)
207. The Lemonheads - "It's A Shame About Ray" (1992)
208. Radiohead - "Just" (1995)
209. Hole - "Violet" (1995)
210. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" (1994)
211. Guns N’ Roses - "Civil War" (1991)
212. Dr. Dre f/ Snoop Dogg - "Nothin' But A 'G' Thang" (1993)
213. The Toadies - "Possum Kingdom" (1995)
214. Jo Dee Messina - "Heads Carolina, Tails California" (1996)
215. System Of A Down - "Sugar" (1999)
216. George Strait - "I Just Want To Dance With You" (1998)
217. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Breaking The Girl" (1992)
218. Montgomery Gentry - "Lonely And Gone" (1999)
219. Alison Krauss & Union Station - "When You Say Nothing At All" (1995)
220. They Might Be Giants - "Birdhouse In Your Soul" (1990)
221. The Jayhawks - "Blue" (1995)
222. Tracy Chapman - "Give Me One Reason" (1995)
223. Blackstreet f/ Queen Penn and Dr. Dre - "No Diggity" (1996)
224. Dave Matthews Band - "Ants Marching" (1995)
225. Erykah Badu - "Next Lifetime" (1997)
226. Soundgarden - "Fell On Black Days" (1994)
227. Brownstone – “If You Love Me” (1995)
228. Silkk The Shocker f/ Mystikal - "It Ain't My Fault" (1998)
229. Ol Dirty Bastard - "Brooklyn Zoo" (1995)
230. Soul For Real – “Candy Rain” (1995)
231. Juvenile f/ Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne - "Back That Azz Up" (1999)
232. TLC - "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" (1992)
233. Celine Dion - "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" (1990)
234. Mista - "Blackberry Molasses" (1996)
235. Billy Ray Cyrus - "Could've Been Me" (1992)
236. Mariah Carey - "Emotions" (1991)
237. Tevin Campbell – “Can We Talk” (1993)
238. Akinyele f/ Kia Jeffries - "Put It In Your Mouth" (1996)
239. Tamia – “So Into You” (1998)
240. SWV - "I'm So Into You" (1993)
241. Tony! Tone! Toni! - "It Never Rains (In Southern California)" (1990)
242. Ginuwine - "Pony" (1996)
243. Monica - "The First Night" (1998)
244. R. Kelly - "It Seems Like You're Ready" (1994)
245. Mary J. Blige f/ Lil Kim – “I Can Love You” (1997)
246. Paula Abdul - "Opposites Attract" (1990)
247. Aqua - "Barbie Girl" (1997)
248. Robin S. - "Show Me Love" (1990)
249. Xzibit - "What U See Is What U Get" (1998)
250. Brooks & Dunn - "Boot Scootin' Boogie" (1992)
251. George Jones - "Honky Tonky Song" (1996)
252. A Tribe Called Quest - "Award Tour" (1993)
253. DMX - "What's My Name?" (1999)
254. White Zombie - "More Human Than Human" (1995)
255. The Meat Puppets - "Backwater" (1994)
256. Pearl Jam - "Alive" (1991)
257. Lil Kim f/ Lil Cease and Notorious B.I.G. - "Crush On You" (1996)
 




































258. Jermaine Dupri f/ Jay-Z - "Money Ain't A Thang" (1998)
259. Mobb Deep - "Quiet Storm" (1999)
260. The Offspring - "All I Want" (1997)
261. Robyn - "Show Me Love" (1998)
262. Shudder To Think - "X-French Tee Shirt" (1994)
263. Bjork - "Human Behaviour" (1993)
264. Cracker - "Low" (1993)
265. Blur - "Song 2" (1997)
266. Michael Jackson f/ Janet Jackson - "Scream" (1995)
267. Santana f/ Rob Thomas - "Smooth" (1999)
268. Hanson - "MMMBop" (1997)
269. Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing" (1990)
270. En Vogue - "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" (1992)
271. Vanessa Williams - "Work To Do" (1992)
272. Donell Jones f/ Left Eye – “U Know What’s Up” (1999)
273. Gang Starr f/ Nice & Smooth - "DWYCK" (1994)
274. Makaveli f/ Outlawz - "Hail Mary" (1997)
275. Busta Rhymes - "Gimme Some More" (1998)
276. Dru Hill - "How Deep Is Your Love" (1998)
277. Whitney Houston - "I'm Your Baby Tonight" (1990)
278. Toni Braxton - "Un-Break My Heart" (1996)
279. Joe Diffie - "New Way (To Light Up An Old Flame)" (1991)
280. Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Passionate Kisses" (1993)
281. Garth Brooks - "Two Of A Kind, Workin' On A Full House" (1991)
282. Brandy - "I Wanna Be Down" (1994)
283. Jodeci – “Feenin’” (1994)
284. Janet Jackson f/ Q-Tip - "Got Til It's Gone" (1997)
285. Nirvana - "Sliver" (1993)
286. MC Lyte - "Ruffneck" (1993)
287. Outkast - "Player's Ball" (1994)
288. Queen Latifah f/ Monie Love - "Ladies First" (1990)
289. Dr. Dre f/ Snoop Dogg - "Deep Cover" (1992)
290. Alice In Chains - "Man In the Box" (1991)
291. Smashing Pumpkins - "Muzzle" (1996)
292. R.E.M. - "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" (1994)
293. Snap! - "The Power" (1990)
294. The Divinyls - "I Touch Myself" (1991)
295. Sarah McLachlan - "Angel" (1998)
296. Natalie Merchant - "Wonder" (1995)
297. Seal - "Crazy" (1991)
298. H-Town - "Knockin' Da Boots" (1993)
299. Kenny Chesney - "How Forever Feels" (1998)
300. Mariah Carey - "Always Be My Baby" (1996)
301. Beck - "Where It's At" (1996)
302. Reba McEntire and Linda Davis - "Does He Love You" (1993)
303. Tony! Toni! Toné! – “Anniversary” (1993)
304. En Vogue - "Don't Let Go (Love)" (1997)
305. Shania Twain - "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" (1995)
306. Temple Of The Dog - "Hunger Strike" (1992)
307. Big Punisher f/ Fat Joe - "Twinz (Deep Cover '98)" (1998)
308. DMX - "Get At Me Dog" (1998)
309. Cake - "The Distance" (1996)
310. Madonna - "Secret" (1994)
311. Jimmy Ray - "Are You Jimmy Ray?" (1998)
312. Gerardo - "Rico Suave" (1991)
313. Backstreet Boys - "I Want It That Way" (1999)
314. Prince and the New Power Generation - "Cream" (1991)
315. Blink 182 - "Dammit" (1997)
316. The Cranberries – “Dreams” (1993)
317. Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz - "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" (1998)
 



































318. Notorious B.I.G. f/ Mase and Puff Daddy - "Mo Money Mo Problems" (1997)
319. The B-52s - "Roam" (1990)
320. Trick Daddy f/ Trina - "Nann" (1998)
321. Naughty By Nature - "Hip Hop Hooray" (1993)
322. Wu-Tang Clan - "Triumph" (1997)
323. Jay-Z - "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" (1998)
324. Foo Fighters - "This Is A Call" (1995)
325. Social Distortion - "Ball And Chain" (1990)
326. Metallica - "Enter Sandman" (1991)
327. Semisonic - "Closing Time" (1998)
328. Maxwell – “Sumthin’ Sumthin’” (1996)
329. Rod Stewart - "Downtown Train" (1990)
330. Heavy D & The Boyz -"Black Coffee" (1994)
331. Tear Da Club Up Thugs f/ Project Pat - "Slob On My Knob" (1999)
332. Pretenders - "I'll Stand By You" (1994)
333. Technotronic f/ Ya Kid K- "Move This" (1992)
334. Ginuwine - "What's So Different?" (1999)
335. Eric B. & Rakim - "Juice (Know The Ledge)" (1992)
336. Nonchalant - "5 O'Clock" (1996)
337. Willie Nelson - "Ain't Necessarily So" (1990)
338. Lauryn Hill - "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (1998)
339. Destiny's Child f/ Wyclef Jean - "No, No, No (Part 2)" (1998)
340. K.D. Lang - "Constant Craving" (1992)
341. Train - "Meet Virginia" (1999)
342. Eiffel 65 - "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" (1999)
343. Scarface - "I Seen A Man Die" (1994)
344. A Tribe Called Quest - "Check The Rhime" (1991)
345. Notorious B.I.G. - "Big Poppa" (1995)
346. George Michael - "Too Funky" (1992)
347. Da Brat - "Funkdafied" (1994)
348. Mindy McCready - "Guys Do It All The Time" (1995)
349. Our Lady Peace - "Starseed" (1995)
350. Nine Inch Nails - "March Of The Pigs" (1994)
351. L7 - "Pretend We're Dead" (1992)
352. 2 Unlimited - "Get Ready For This" (1992)
353. Everything But The Girl - "Missing (Todd Terry Remix)" (1995)
354. 'N Sync - "I Want You Back" (1998)
355. Pearl Jam - "Better Man" (1995)
356. KoRn - "Falling Away From Me" (1999)
357. Elastica - "Stutter" (1995)
358. D'Angelo - "Brown Sugar" (1995)
359. Mya f/ Sisqo – “It’s All About Me” (1998)
360. Erykah Badu - "On and On" (1997)
361. Brooks & Dunn - "My Maria" (1996)
362. Real 2 Real - "I Like To Move It" (1994)
363. Des'ree - "You Gotta Be" (1994)
364. R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (1991)
365. Eagle-Eye Cherry - "Save Tonight" (1998)
366. Onyx - "Slam" (1993)
367. Lil Wayne f/ Juvenile & B.G. - "The Block is Hot" (1999)
368. Jay-Z f/ Foxy Brown - "Ain't No" (1996)
369. Michael Jackson - "Stranger In Moscow" (1996)
370. Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There" (1997)
371. Marc Cohn - "Walking In Memphis" (1991)
372. Tina Turner - "I Don't Wanna Fight" (1993)
373. Mary J. Blige - "I'm Goin' Down" (1995)
374. Prince and the New Power Generation - "Gett Off" (1991)
375. 112 - "Cupid" (1997)
376. Nirvana - "Lithium" (1992)
377. The Dambuilders - "Shrine" (1994)
378. Better Than Ezra - "Desperately Wanting" (1997)
379. Jo Dee Messina - "Bye, Bye" (1998)
380. The Pharcyde - "Passin' Me By" (1993)
381. Do Or Die f/ Twista and Johnny P - "Po Pimp" (1996)
382. Tracy Byrd - "Watermelon Crawl" (1994)
383. Paula Cole - "I Don't Want To Wait" (1998)
384. Madonna - "Frozen" (1998)
385. Busta Rhymes - "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check" (1996)
386. Dr. Dre f/ Snoop Dogg - "Let Me Ride" (1993)
 







































387. The Lost Boyz - "Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz" (1995)
388. Garbage - "When I Grow Up" (1999)
389. K.P. & Envyi – “Swing My Way” (1998)
390. The Black Crowes - "She Talks To Angels" (1991)
391. The Pretenders - "Night In My Veins" (1994)
392. Liz Phair - "Supernova" (1994)
393. Monica – “Why I Love You So Much” (1996)
394. Janet Jackson - "I Get Lonely" (1998)
395. Usher - "You Make Me Wanna…" (1997)
396. TLC - "Red Light Special" (1995)
397. Duncan Sheik - "Barely Breathing" (1997)
398. Bonnie Raitt - "Something To Talk About" (1991)
399. Aaliyah - "If Your Girl Only Knew" (1996)
400. Soundgarden - "Burden In My Hand" (1996)
401. DMX - "How's It Goin' Down" (1998)
402. Sarah McLachlan - "Sweet Surrender" (1997)
403. Expose - "I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)" (1993)
404. Lorena McKennitt - "The Mummers' Dance" (1998)
405. Edwin McCain - "I'll Be" (1998)
406. Sixpence None The Richer - "Kiss Me" (1999)
407. 98 Degrees - "The Hardest Thing" (1999)
408. Snap! - "Rhythm Is A Dancer" (1992)
409. Christina Aguilera - "Genie In A Bottle" (1999)
410. Raphael Saadiq – “Ask Of You” (1995)
411. Bell Biv DeVoe - "Do Me!" (1990)
412. Freddie Jackson - "Do Me Again" (1991)
413. Sheryl Crow - "Strong Enough" (1994)
414. Technotronic - "Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over)" (1990)
415. Los Del Rio - "The Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix)" (1996)
416. Mariah Carey f/ Krayzie Bone & Wish Bone – “Breakdown" (1998)
417. Mya f/ Silkk The Shocker – “Movin’ On” (1998)
418. Zhane - "Hey Mr. DJ" (1993)
419. Harvey Danger - "Flagpole Sitta" (1998)
420. La Bouche - "Be My Lover" (1996)
421. LeAnn Rimes - "How Do I Live" (1997)
422. Donna Lewis - "I Love You Always Forever" (1996)
423. LL Cool J - "Jingling Baby" (1990)
424. Melissa Etheridge - "Come To My Window" (1993)
425. George Michael - "Praying For Time" (1990)
426. Brandy & Monica - "The Boy Is Mine" (1998)
427. Tool - "Sober" (1993)
428. Foo Fighters - "My Hero" (1998)
429. Keith Sweat - "I'll Give All My Love To You" (1991)
430. Elton John - "Club At The End Of The Street" (1990)
431. Madonna - "Take A Bow" (1995)
432. Tears For Fears - "Break It Down Again" (1993)
433. Veruca Salt - "Seether" (1994)
434. Jodeci - "Come And Talk To Me" (1992)
435. Mary J. Blige - "Be Happy" (1994)
436. 702 - "Where My Girls At?" (1999)
437. The Beastie Boys – “So What’Cha Want” (1992)
438. Darude – “Sandstorm” (1999)
439. Radiohead – “Paranoid Android” (1997)
440. Metallica – “Fuel” (1998)
441. Smashing Pumpkins – “Tonight, Tonight” (1996)
442. Nine Inch Nails – “The Perfect Drug” (1997)
443. Jay-Z – “Who You Wit” (1997)
444. Third Eye Blind – “Graduate” (1997)
445. Jesus Jones – “Right Here, Right Now” (1991)
446. EMF – “Unbelievable” (1991)
447. INXS – “Suicide Blonde” (1990)
448. Alice In Chains – “Them Bones” (1992)
449. Stone Temple Pilots – “Vasoline” (1994)

































450. Bjork – “Big Time Sensuality” (1993)
451. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Give It Away” (1991)
452. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” (1993)
453. U2 – “One” (1992)
454. A Tribe Called Quest – “Can I Kick It?” (1990)
455. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “Someday I Suppose” (1993)
456. Cypress Hill – “How I Could Just Kill A Man” (1991)
457. Rollins Band – “Liar” (1994)
458. Nirvana – “Come As You Are” (1991)
459. “Weird Al” Yankovic – “Smells Like Nirvana” (1992)
460. Ozzy Osbourne – “Mama I’m Coming Home” (1992)
461. Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name” (1993)
462. Soul Asylum – “Somebody To Shove” (1992)
463. Metallica – “The Unforgiven” (1991)
464. Helmet – “Unsung” (1992)
465. Sparklehorse – “Someday I Will Treat You Good” (1995)
466. Live – “Lakini’s Juice” (1997)
467. Q-Tip – “Breathe & Stop” (1999)
468. Peter Gabriel – “Digging In The Dirt” (1992)
469. Limp Bizkit – “Re-Arranged” (1999)
470. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Aeroplane” (1996)
471. Primus – “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver” (1995)
472. Kid Rock – “Bawitdaba” (1999)
473. Incubus – “Pardon Me” (1999)
474. LL Cool J – “Around The Way Girl” (1990)
475. Danzig – “Mother ’93” (1993)
476. Aphex Twin – “Come To Daddy” (1997)
477. Tevin Campbell – “Round And Round” (1990)
478. Sting – “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You” (1993)
479. Shaggy – “Boombastic” (1995)
480. Mystikal and Outkast – “Neck Uv Da Woods” (1999)
481. R.E.M. – “Strange Currencies” (1995)
482. Violent Femmes – “American Music” (1991)
483. Metallica – “Hero Of The Day” (1996)
484. Raekwon f/ Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Cappadonna – “Ice Cream” (1995)
485. Wyclef Jean – “Gone Till November” (1998)
486. K7 – “Come Baby Come” (1993)
487. Guns N’ Roses – “November Rain” (1992)
488. Brandy – “Baby” (1995)
489. Faith No More – “Epic” (1990)
490. Pearl Jam – “Given To Fly” (1998)
491. Green Day – “She” (1994)
492. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – “1st of tha Month” (1995)
493. Heavy D & The Boyz – “Now That We Found Love” (1991)
494. White Zombie – “Thunder Kiss ‘65” (1993)
495. Metallica – “Nothing Else Matters” (1992)
496. Foo Fighters – “Monkey Wrench” (1997)
497. Puff Daddy f/ Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes – “Victory” (1998)
498. Jesus And Mary Chain – “Head On” (1990)
499. Counting Crows – “Round Here” (1994)
500. Jay-Z f/ DMX  “Money, Cash, Hoes” (1999)
501. Social Distortion – “I Was Wrong” (1996)
502. The Cowboy Junkies – “Sweet Jane” (1994)
503. Marilyn Manson – “The Beautiful People” (1996)
504. R. Kelly f/ Ronald Isley – “Down Low” (1996)
505. The Beastie Boys – “Sure Shot” (1994)
506. Ozzy Osbourne – “No More Tears” (1991)
507. Pavement – “Stereo” (1997)
508. Matthew Sweet – “Sick Of Myself” (1995)
509. Aerosmith – “Livin’ On The Edge” (1993)
510. Soul Dragons – “I’m Free” (1990)
511. Hole – “Miss World” (1994)
512. Stone Temple Pilots – “Big Bang Baby” (1996)
513. The Beatnuts f/ Big Punisher and Cuban Link – “Off The Books” (1997)
514. Queensryche – “Silent Lucidity” (1990)
515. Van Halen – “Poundcake” (1991)
516. JT Money – “Who Dat” (1999)
517. Pras f/ Mya and Ol’ Dirty Bastard – “Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)” (1998)
518. U2 – “The Fly” (1991)
519. Everclear – “Everything To Everyone” (1997)
520. Oasis – “Don’t Look Back In Anger” (1996)
521. Low Fidelity Allstars f/ Pigeonhed – “Battle Flag” (1998)
522. Guns N’ Roses – “You Could Be Mine” (1991)

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