NME Top Singles of 1993

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The Breeders - Cannonball
8
18%
Credit To The Nation - Call It What You Wan
0
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Leftfield/Lydon - Open Up
5
11%
Suede - Animal Nitrate
8
18%
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of
4
9%
Bjork - Human Behaviour
6
14%
Tindersticks - Marbles
4
9%
Elastica - Stutter
4
9%
Belly - Feed The Tree
4
9%
Huggy Bear - Her jazz
1
2%
 
Total votes: 44

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NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby Darkness_Fish » 21 Sep 2018, 15:13

1. The Breeders - Cannonball


2. Credit To The Nation - Call It What You Want


3. Leftfield/Lydon - Open Up


4. Suede - Animal Nitrate


5. Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of


6. Bjork - Human Behaviour


7. Tindersticks - Marbles


8. Elastica - Stutter


9. Belly - Feed The Tree


10. Huggy Bear - Her jazz


This might be the best NME top 10 I've put up on here, certainly the only one I can think of where I need more than the arbitrary three vote restriction. Suede actually employing the use of a tune, John Lydon not being a twat, Tindersticks being wonderful, Bjork being Bjork at her Bjorkiest, and I still love that Rage Against the Machine track, whatever the taste police think.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby Darkness_Fish » 21 Sep 2018, 15:14

Longlist:

1. Cannonball - The Breeders
2. Call It What You Want - Credit To The Nation
3. Open Up - Leftfield/Lydon
4. Animal Nitrate - Suede
5. Killing In The Name Of - Rage Against The Machine
6. Human Behaviour - Bjork
7. Marbles - Tindersticks
8. Stutter - Elastica
9. Feed The Tree - Belly
10. Herjazz - Huggy Bear
11. From Despair To Where - Manic Street Preachers
12. Go West - Pet Shop Boys
13. Electric Mainline Ep - Spiritualized
14. For Tomorrow - Blur
15. Regret - New Order
16. Creep - Radiohead
17. Down That Road - Shara Nelson
18. Sunflower - Paul Weller
19. Eject - Senser
20. Venus As A Boy - Bjork
21. I Hang Suspended - Boo Radleys
22. Roy - Animals That Swim
23. Ain't No Love - Sub Sub
24. De Nero - The Disco Evangelists
25. Smokeeblch Ii - Sabres Of Paradise
26. Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads
27. My Sister - The Juliana Hatfield Three
28. What's My Name - Snoop Doggy Dogg
29. The Key/No Comply - Senser
30. Thundersley Invacar - Collapsed Lung
31. Kingdom - Ultramarine
32. Today - Smashing Pumpkins
33. White Love - One Dove
34. Oh Carolina - Shaggy
35. It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
36. Tease Me - Chaka Demus & Pliers
37. Compulsion Ep - Compulsion
38. Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
39. Heart Of Dirt Ep - Done Lying Down
40. Hip-Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature
41. Deep - East 17
42. City Sickness - Tindersticks
43. You’re In A Bad Way - St Etienne
44. One Goodbye In Ten - Shara Nelson
45. Water Under The Bridge - Dodgy
46. Moving On Up - M People
47. One Night In Heaven - M People
48. In The Days Of Ford Cortina EP - Cornershop
49. Sugar Daddy - Secret Knowledge
50. Lenny Valentino - The Auteurs
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby clive gash » 21 Sep 2018, 15:56

Bleh.

Elastica only from the top 10, though I liked Huggy Bear at the time.

I’m horrified to announce that I dig the eleventh placed item, definitely their best.

They also served - New Order, Blur, Venus As A Boy, SOP.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby naughty boy » 21 Sep 2018, 16:03

Breeders, Suede, Tindersticks from the 10

and these from the 50 (but the two Tindersticks' songs should be swapped ('City Sickness' is stunning, 'Marbles' merely attractively indie))

11. From Despair To Where - Manic Street Preachers
14. For Tomorrow - Blur
18. Sunflower - Paul Weller
20. Venus As A Boy - Bjork
27. My Sister - The Juliana Hatfield Three
28. What's My Name - Snoop Doggy Dogg
32. Today - Smashing Pumpkins
34. Oh Carolina - Shaggy
35. It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
42. City Sickness - Tindersticks
50. Lenny Valentino - The Auteurs
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby clive gash » 21 Sep 2018, 16:08

Suede were ok but I still can’t get on with Butler’s obnoxious baroque plank spanking. Gin and Juice is Snoop’s best (until Drop It..) and, once you’ve heard Footsteps In The Dark the Ice Cube won’t do.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby Darkness_Fish » 21 Sep 2018, 16:11

Senser's "Eject" at number 19, that was feckin' everywhere when I was a student, couldn't avoid the bastard. Don't think I've heard it in the last 25 years. Haven't missed it, mind you.

I think only Sheep on Drugs' "Fifteen Minutes of Fame" makes me think more of my lost youth in Nottingham.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby Deebank » 21 Sep 2018, 16:21

Poised for the horrors of Britpop.

Yes, that's not a bad list and a deserving winner.

The one track it made me think I should seek out again is the Juliana Hatfield one... She doesn't have a sister apparently.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby Bent Fabric » 21 Sep 2018, 18:35

Eddie Shah environment wrote:My Sister - The Juliana Hatfield Three


Such a special record.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby The Modernist » 21 Sep 2018, 19:34

Darkness_Fish wrote:1

This might be the best NME top 10 I've put up on here.


It's actually the worst, music for clueless students.
'Cannonball' and 'Open Up' pass muster, but that's a really sorry top ten.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby Georgios » 21 Sep 2018, 19:45

Yeah, this top 10 is largely awful. The only one I could bring myself to vote for was Suede, for whatever their sins Animal Nitrate was one of their better efforts.

Elastica were so derivative it's insulting. A case of right time, right place and moved in the right circles. Absolutely fucking dreadful.

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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby naughty boy » 21 Sep 2018, 20:24

Bent Fabric wrote:
Eddie Shah environment wrote:My Sister - The Juliana Hatfield Three


Such a special record.


Seriously. She really had something for a while.
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Re: NME Top Singles of 1993

Postby Dayodead » 22 Sep 2018, 01:07

Decent Stuff off Long List:
Cannonball - The Breeders*
Human Behaviour - Bjork*
Herjazz - Huggy Bear*
Animal Nitrate - Suede
Marbles - Tindersticks
Stutter - Elastica
Regret - New Order
Creep - Radiohead
Venus As A Boy - Bjork
What's My Name - Snoop Doggy Dogg
Today - Smashing Pumpkins
Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
City Sickness - Tindersticks
You’re In A Bad Way - St Etienne
It was a Good Day - Ice Cube


My Top 1993 singles:
1.  REM- Nightswimming
2.  Bjork- Human Behavior
3.  New Order- Regret
4.  Ice Cube-  It was a Good Day 
5.  Bikini kill- New Radio
6.  The Breeders- Cannonball
7.  Sonic Youth- Sugar Kane
8.  Pulp- Lipgloss
9.  Frank Black- Los Angeles 
10. Cypress Hill- Insane in the brain
11. Yo la Tengo- Big Day Coming
12. Stereolab- French disko
13. Huggy Bear- Her Jazz
14. Alice Donut- Medication 
15. Underworld- Spikee
16. Tindersticks- Marbles
17. Elastica- Stutter
18. Mercury Rev- Bronx cheer
19. Bad Religion- American Jesus
20. Snoop Doggy Dogg- What's my name


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