I really should have done this before I published any of the Top 100 list, but I'm an idiot and I forgot. This may or may not come as a shock to anyone, but...
... I decided before I even picked the top 100 songs of the 90's that I would ban what would otherwise be a shoe-in for #1: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. That's right, the most ubiquitous song of the 1990's wasn't eligible for this lousy blogger's list.
We all know it's a great song. I am not denying that. I know the impact it had on the music world and on popular culture. My intent here was not to be one of those hipsters that shits all over a beloved band simply because of its massive popularity. Nirvana is one of my favorite bands, but quite honestly 'Teen Spirit' is the obvious choice and has been the obvious choice for #1 song for quite some time now. So much has been written about it (and the band at large) that there's nothing left to say about it. I knew when I first tuned into VH1's special that it would be the #1 song, and it made the top 20 quite anticlimactic. I didn't want that for my list, so I purposely left it out.
So call it the "real" #1 if you want. I cannot dispute its greatness (6 million views on YouTube, are you kidding me?), but I thought that it was time for some other song to shine as the best song of the 90's.
Friday, January 25, 2008
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