VH1 are idiots! Options

[SJN1279]

Live came in at only #62 of the top 100 songs of the 90's by VH1. The reason being, instead of nominating Lightning Crashes for the list, I Alone got the nod. Total idiocy!

Here is the complete list:

1 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. U2 One
3. Backstreet Boys I Want It That Way
4. Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You
5. Madonna Vogue
6. Sir Mix-A-Lot Baby Got Back
7. Britney Spears ... Baby One More Time
8. TLC Waterfalls
9. R.E.M. Losing My Religion
10. Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
11. Pearl Jam Jeremy
12. Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know
13. Dr. Dre (featuring Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
Snoop Doggy Dogg)
14. Mariah Carey Vision of Love
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers Under the Bridge
16. MC Hammer U Can't Touch This
17. Destiny's Child Say My Name
18. Metallica Enter Sandman
19. Beastie Boys Sabotage
20. Hanson MMMBop
21. Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On
22. Beck Loser
23. Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue Whatta Man
24. House of Pain Jump Around
25. Soundgarden Black Hole Sun
26. Eminem My Name Is
27. Counting Crows Mr. Jones
28. Ricky Martin Livin' la Vida Loca
29. Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby
30. *NSYNC Tearin' Up My Heart
31. Radiohead Creep
32. BLACKstreet No Diggity
33. Spice Girls Wannabe
34. Third Eye Blind Semi-Charmed Life
35. Oasis Wonderwall
36. C+C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat
(Everybody Dance Now)
37. Green Day Good Riddance (Time of
Your Life)
38. Christina Aguilera Genie In A Bottle
39. Goo Goo Dolls Iris
40. Color Me Badd I Wanna Sex You Up
41. Spin Doctors Two Princes
42. Collective Soul Shine
43. En Vogue My Lovin' (You're Never
Gonna Get It)
44. The Fugees Killing Me Softly With His Song
45. Hootie & the Blowfish Only Wanna Be With You
46. Shania Twain You're Still the One
47. Marky Mark and The Good Vibrations
Funky Bunch
48. Matchbox Twenty 3 AM
49. Jewel Who Will Save Your Soul
50. Alice in Chains Man in the Box
51. Tupac (featuring Dr. California Love
Dre and Roger Troutman)
52. Sugar Ray Fly
53. Naughty by Nature O.P.P.
54. Joan Osborne One of Us
55. Fiona Apple Criminal
56. L.L. Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out
57. Jay-Z featuring Amil Can I Get A
and Ja Rule
58. Sophie B. Hawkins Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
59. Weezer Buddy Holly
60. Bell Biv DeVoe Poison
61. Sheryl Crow All I Wanna Do
62. Live I Alone
63. The Notorious B.I.G. Mo Money Mo Problems
featuring Mase & Puff Daddy
64. The Presidents of the Peaches
United States of America
65. Digital Underground The Humpty Dance
66. Edwin McCain I'll Be
67. Deee-Lite Groove Is In The Heart
68. Will Smith Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
69. Korn Freak on a Leash
70. Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity
71. Arrested Development Tennessee
72. Barenaked Ladies One Week
73. Marcy Playground Sex and Candy
74. Cher Believe
75. Kris Kross Jump
76. Blues Traveler Run-Around
77. Ice Cube It Was a Good Day
78. Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way
79. Meredith Brooks Bitch
80. Right Said Fred I'm Too Sexy
81. Paula Cole I Don't Want to Wait
82. Geto Boys Mind Playing Tricks on Me
83. The Breeders Cannonball
84. Snow Informer
85. Cypress Hill Insane In The Brain
86 The Cranberries Linger
87. Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart
88. Duncan Sheik Barely Breathing
89. Liz Phair Never Said
90. New Radicals You Get What You Give
91. Sarah McLachlan Building a Mystery
92. Public Enemy 911 Is A Joke
93. Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories Stay
94. Fastball The Way
95. Montell Jordan This is How We Do It
96. Nelson (Can't Live Without Your)
Love and Affection
97. Prince & The New Power Gett Off
Generation
98. EMF Unbelievable
99. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
100. Gerardo Rico Suave

[LovinLIVE]

Crap I can't believe it! I went to the site over and over voting only for "I Alone" day after day, was I the only one voting? I think you are absolutely right about VH1 choosing the wrong song. I thought it was weird from the start, but I just wanted to get +LIVE+ a little bit of the recognition I think they deserve. No one out there, (besides us of course), seems to remember they were Rolling Stone magazine's band of the decade. How could they possibly be so low on the list? grrrr

~Sue~

[Badman]

List of bands/ artists that do not deserve to have beaten live in anything:

3. Backstreet Boys I Want It That Way
4. Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You
6. Sir Mix-A-Lot Baby Got Back
8. TLC Waterfalls
10. Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
13. Dr. Dre (featuring Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
Snoop Doggy Dogg)
14. Mariah Carey Vision of Love
17. Destiny's Child Say My Name
20. Hanson MMMBop
24. House of Pain Jump Around
26. Eminem My Name Is
29. Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby
30. *NSYNC Tearin' Up My Heart
32. BLACKstreet No Diggity
33. Spice Girls Wannabe
38. Christina Aguilera Genie In A Bottle
40. Color Me Badd I Wanna Sex You Up
41. Spin Doctors Two Princes
43. En Vogue My Lovin' (You're Never
Gonna Get It)
44. The Fugees Killing Me Softly With His Song
46. Shania Twain You're Still the One
47. Marky Mark and The Good Vibrations
Funky Bunch
51. Tupac (featuring Dr. California Love
Dre and Roger Troutman)
52. Sugar Ray Fly
53. Naughty by Nature O.P.P.
54. Joan Osborne One of Us
55. Fiona Apple Criminal
56. L.L. Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out
57. Jay-Z featuring Amil Can I Get A
and Ja Rule
58. Sophie B. Hawkins Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
59. Weezer Buddy Holly
60. Bell Biv DeVoe Poison
61. Sheryl Crow All I Wanna Do

Any song on SFBM could've beaten most of these songs... yes, even Hansen.

[+Ed+]

Completely disagreed on No1 in the list.

[Distance to Me]

Am I the only person who thinks Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the most overrated songs ever (along with stuff like Free Bird)? And Live was the band of the decade?!!!!

[SJN1279]

Am I the only person who thinks Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the most overrated songs ever (along with stuff like Free Bird)? And Live was the band of the decade?!!!!

I thought they were band of the year in 1995. I don't know about the decade...

[Hoodstock]

I was all about 90's music as it happened and this list has some valid points, but overall is crap!

I saw this on fansoflive.com and couldn't believe it. First of all, Lightning Crashes should be on this list. In the 90's it was a huge song. It was nominated for Video of the Year (losing to Waterfalls, which is at the top of the list) and on the radio nonstop.

Second of all, why are bands limited to only one song, that doesn't make sense because it eliminates tons of great songs from the list, therefore, rendering it irrelevant and pointless because some bands should have multiple songs on here.

Third, Nirvana is so overrated in the 90's it's not even funny. Smells Like Teen Spirit was huge and should be on the list, I give them that. The fact is, however, that they really became huge and influential after Kirt killed himself. For the grunge crowd that was the huge draw. If it hadn't have happened they would not have been perceived the way they were.

Finally, regardless of what people think today if this is a true reflection of the 90's as it happend "U Can't Touch This" should be towards the top of the list and it isn't even on it.

The whole thing is retarded ass bullshit!

This post has been edited by Hoodstock: Dec 14 2007, 8:53 pm

[LiveRoCkS77]

I was all about 90's music as it happened and this list has some valid points, but overall is crap!

I saw this on fansoflive.com and couldn't believe it. First of all, Lightning Crashes should be on this list. In the 90's it was a huge song. It was nominated for Video of the Year (losing to Waterfalls, which is at the top of the list) and on the radio nonstop.

Second of all, why are bands limited to only one song, that doesn't make sense because it eliminates tons of great songs from the list, therefore, rendering it irrelevant and pointless because some bands should have multiple songs on here.

Third, Nirvana is so overrated in the 90's it's not even funny. Smells Like Teen Spirit was huge and should be on the list, I give them that. The fact is, however, that they really became huge and influential after Kirt killed himself. For the grunge crowd that was the huge draw. If it hadn't have happened they would not have been perceived the way they were.

Finally, regardless of what people think today if this is a true reflection of the 90's as it happend "U Can't Touch This" should be towards the top of the list and it isn't even on it.

The whole thing is retarded ass bullshit!

Read the list again you fucking ass mongering retard. U Can't touch this is listed at number 16. Blind ass turd collector.

[+Ed+]

I was all about 90's music as it happened and this list has some valid points, but overall is crap!

I saw this on fansoflive.com and couldn't believe it. First of all, Lightning Crashes should be on this list. In the 90's it was a huge song. It was nominated for Video of the Year (losing to Waterfalls, which is at the top of the list) and on the radio nonstop.

Second of all, why are bands limited to only one song, that doesn't make sense because it eliminates tons of great songs from the list, therefore, rendering it irrelevant and pointless because some bands should have multiple songs on here.

Third, Nirvana is so overrated in the 90's it's not even funny. Smells Like Teen Spirit was huge and should be on the list, I give them that. The fact is, however, that they really became huge and influential after Kirt killed himself. For the grunge crowd that was the huge draw. If it hadn't have happened they would not have been perceived the way they were.

Finally, regardless of what people think today if this is a true reflection of the 90's as it happend "U Can't Touch This" should be towards the top of the list and it isn't even on it.

The whole thing is retarded ass bullshit!

And try writing his name again, please.

[+Ed+]

Am I the only person who thinks Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the most overrated songs ever (along with stuff like Free Bird)? And Live was the band of the decade?!!!!

+200

Have you read the previous post?

[Pokey]

Why the hell are people still surprised when Live doesn't poll that well in polls created 10+yrs after they peaked commerically?

Live only really had one REALLY strong year in the 90s which leaves 9 other years for so many other arists and songs to over take them in these polls, not that I'm saying I agree with Live's placing, sure there are a ton of songs above them that I'd rather much worse then I Alone ... but do we need to post a thread every time a poll comes out where Live doesn't place as highly as we like? Also a lot of those songs above I Alone would have slaughtered it in a popularity contenst .... again not saying they're better songs, but still .. stop being so surprised/disgusted ... the poll means nothing anyways

[SJN1279]

Why the hell are people still surprised when Live doesn't poll that well in polls created 10+yrs after they peaked commerically?

Live only really had one REALLY strong year in the 90s which leaves 9 other years for so many other arists and songs to over take them in these polls, not that I'm saying I agree with Live's placing, sure there are a ton of songs above them that I'd rather much worse then I Alone ... but do we need to post a thread every time a poll comes out where Live doesn't place as highly as we like? Also a lot of those songs above I Alone would have slaughtered it in a popularity contenst .... again not saying they're better songs, but still .. stop being so surprised/disgusted ... the poll means nothing anyways

Our problem with the poll is the song that was nominated for Live. If VH1 had picked Lightning Crashes the band would have finished higher, because it was by far the biggest hit of the 90's.

[Pokey]

Lightning Crashes was the biggest song ever between 1990 and 1999?

[+Ed+]

Lightning Crashes was the biggest song ever between 1990 and 1999?

"Wonderwall" was. In terms of Rock'n'roll.

[Hoodstock]

"Wonderwall" was. In terms of Rock'n'roll.

What, Wonderwall sucked. Those wanna be Beatles were their own biggest fans!