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It boggles my mind that "Smells like Teen Spirit" is missing here.

by trimbo 6y ago

amanaplanacanal 6y ago
I think I lived through a different 90’s than the article talks about. No nirvana, no soundgarden, no STP, no alice in chains. I did see a single Pearl Jam song listed though.
- oriolid 6y ago
  I checked the first part linked at bottom, and apparently their version of 60s doesn't have The Beatles. They had The Doors, though, so it's not like they ignore all alternative-ish rock. Just almost all of it.
  - caf 6y ago
    On one of their other pages they have a note that The Beatles is a notable artist that isn't in Spotify (or wasn't, at the time), so that is probably why.
- chrisseaton 6y ago
  Have you checked how popular these artists really were at the time outside your group of friends? None of them have ever had a top-five single in the US. Several of them have very barely had a top-hundred single!
  - wink 6y ago
    I don't know "STP" but Nirvana and Soundgarden got airplay in Germany on MTV, Viva (the other music TV channel) and most mainstream radio stations. I suppose the whole thing is US-centric, but at least those 2 I'd have missed as well.
    - alberto_ol 6y ago
      Stone Temple Pilots?
      - wil421 6y ago
        Yes.
        wink 6y ago
        Oh, I only discovered them like 10-15 years ago, definitely not the 90s for me :)
  - uxp100 6y ago
    Nirvana was not just popular among the posters friends. Pop radio play is a narrow way to measure popularity.
secabeen 6y ago
It's just short of their qualifying requirement, which is top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Smells like Teen Spirit" reached a high of #6: https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana
- ardy42 6y ago
  > It's just short of their qualifying requirement, which is top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Smells like Teen Spirit" reached a high of #6: https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana That seems like a pretty bad criteria for a list like this, because it's heavily biased towards "flashes in the pan" and exudes "steady fires." They should have probably used a "total" metric or at least augmented the list based on it. I think something like total airplay or total sales in the 5 years after release would have caught many of the songs people thing they should have included.
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It boggles my mind that "Smells like Teen Spirit" is missing here.

by trimbo 6y ago

It boggles my mind that "Smells like Teen Spirit" is missing here.

I think I lived through a different 90’s than the article talks about. No nirvana, no soundgarden, no STP, no alice in chains. I did see a single Pearl Jam song listed though.

oriolid 6y ago
I checked the first part linked at bottom, and apparently their version of 60s doesn't have The Beatles. They had The Doors, though, so it's not like they ignore all alternative-ish rock. Just almost all of it.
- caf 6y ago
  On one of their other pages they have a note that The Beatles is a notable artist that isn't in Spotify (or wasn't, at the time), so that is probably why.
chrisseaton 6y ago
Have you checked how popular these artists really were at the time outside your group of friends? None of them have ever had a top-five single in the US. Several of them have very barely had a top-hundred single!
- wink 6y ago
  I don't know "STP" but Nirvana and Soundgarden got airplay in Germany on MTV, Viva (the other music TV channel) and most mainstream radio stations. I suppose the whole thing is US-centric, but at least those 2 I'd have missed as well.
  - alberto_ol 6y ago
    Stone Temple Pilots?
    - wil421 6y ago
      Yes.
      - wink 6y ago
        Oh, I only discovered them like 10-15 years ago, definitely not the 90s for me :)
- uxp100 6y ago
  Nirvana was not just popular among the posters friends. Pop radio play is a narrow way to measure popularity.

secabeen 6y ago

It's just short of their qualifying requirement, which is top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Smells like Teen Spirit" reached a high of #6: https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana

ardy42 6y ago
> It's just short of their qualifying requirement, which is top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Smells like Teen Spirit" reached a high of #6: https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana https://www.billboard.com/music/nirvana That seems like a pretty bad criteria for a list like this, because it's heavily biased towards "flashes in the pan" and exudes "steady fires." They should have probably used a "total" metric or at least augmented the list based on it. I think something like total airplay or total sales in the 5 years after release would have caught many of the songs people thing they should have included.

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