Thursday, September 09, 2004

Don't ask.

1) Len - Steal My Sunshine
2) Haddaway - What is Love
3) Sunscreem - Love U More
4) Apotheosis - O Fortuna
5) Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
6) LaTour- People Are Still Having Sex
7) Space and Cerys Matthews - The Ballad of Tom Jones
8) Yo La Tengo/Daniel Johnston -- Speeding Motorcycle
9) Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly
10) Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
11) Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
12) C & C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat(Everybody Dance Now)
13) Primitive Radio Gods - standing outside a broken phonebooth...
14) Blondie - Maria
15) Snow - Informer

Comments:
1) No OMG on this one. It's just a brilliant summer tune from a bunch of Missisauga slacker kids who fluked into making one hell of a funtastic pop song.
2) The video is the cheesiest thing ever. A Meatloaf ripoff that used 1/100th of the budget. The "A Night At the Roxbury" dudes ruined any chance that this song will ever be taken seriously anymore. And yet, it is beyond brilliant.
3) Hearing this played on a college episode of 90210, some two years after it was originally released (and before it became a proper hit), blew my mind. In retrospect, who the fuck knows why. I think I was in denial that Sunscreem were anything other than the perfect band to be played at a pool party for rich California college kids who wanted to think they were listening to actual techno. Definitely one of my top 10 all-time OMGWTFLOL TV moments. Nothing could possibly match hearing Mogwai on Sex and the City, though (twice!). That one's gonna be tough to top.
4) Not just an OMGWTFLOL slice of 90's music, but an OMGWTFLOL slice of rave. When you're too cheesy for the cheesiest of EARLY 90's RAVE MUSIC ... geez, that practically DEFINES "OMGWTFLOL".
5) I have no idea why I like this song. Absolutely none.
6) "Allen's Got a New Hi-Fi" is a better song, but it doesn't carry the OMGWTFLOL factor. What is that song about anyway? A guy who can't get his stereo to work? What a dumb idea for a song.
7) Space and Catatonia -- two bands that went from stardom to burnout in a spectacularly short amount of time. 1998 was the OMGWTFLOL *year* of the 1990's. Except for maybe 1992.
8) The YLT version is gorgeous. DJ's version is strangely affecting. This version is neither. It's just bizarre.
9) Might have been higher if Drugstore's version wasn't 1000% better.
10) Damn, how many of the artists on my list appeared on 90210? This is frightening.
11) I just realized, how many songs on my list rely heavily on samples? The ultimate OMGWTFLOL 90's mix tape would probably be chock full of songs based on samples. We really needed more 90's rave in that vein, like "Sesame's Treet" and "I'm Raving I'm Raving".
12) Bonus points for Borat's fine re-working.
13) I can't even remember much about this. But it was different.
14) If this poll were done in another five or ten years, it would likely finish much higher because more people would say "OMGWTFLOL!!! Blondie had a hit in the 90's???".
15) The real OMGWTFLOL moment was when Snow had another hit .... ten years later!!

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