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At number two, a heterosexual rejection letter, which doubles as an introduction to queer studies.

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At number three, a song about the crazy, devilish things a boy does when he falls for the new girl in town.

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4. Fiona Apple, Criminal (1997, #21)
My favorite female vocalist of the nineties, Fiona Apple hit the Billboard Hot 100 for the only time with the third single from her debut album Tidal. Torchy and heartbroken, Apple won an MTV award for Best New Artist, beating out competition like Meredith Brooks and the Wallflowers. At the […]

At number 5 on my countdown of the 101 Greatest Pop Hits of the Nineties, the first single off the highest-selling debut album in history.

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Thanks to my diarrhea of the typing fingers, I’ve broken down the the top 10 into sections, and then I swear after we get to number one I’m not going to do any countdowns for a long time. Anyway, in this round we’ve got someone happy to be in love, someone sad about being in […]

Thanks to my diarrhea of the typing fingers, I’ve broken down the the top 10 into sections, and then I swear after we get to number one I’m not going to do any countdowns for a long time. Anyway, in this round we’ve got someone happy to be in love, someone sad about being in […]

Okay, we’re up to the top 20. In my typical way I’ve gotten more and more verbose about each song as I’ve gone along, so I’m breaking the top 20 up into segments. That’ll just make it more exciting, right? Right? (more…)
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Okay, we’re up to the top 20. In my typical way I’ve gotten more and more verbose about each song as I’ve gone along, so I’m breaking the top 20 up into segments. That’ll just make it more exciting, right? Right? (more…)
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The first half of my top 40 pop hits of the 90’s.  Watching all these videos by alternative bands from the 90’s is sort of depressing today–they seem so fake, and it’s really morbid how the imagery seems so specifically designed to appeal to angsty teenagers and get them to buy records.  I mean, obviously […]

This is the third installment of my list of the 101 greatest pop hits of the 90’s. It’s 3 AM and I can’t sleep and I’m drinking beer with a label that has a skiing elephant on it. It’s delicious, but I might start rambling. On with the countdown!
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Last week VH-1, the Revisionist History Network, decided to point its Magic Cultural Erasers at the prosperous nineties, presenting its (viewer-voted) list of the 100 Greatest Songs of that decade. Well, I’m a total dork for that sort of thing, and the nineties were sort of a big decade for me, being that it’s […]