POLL: Favorite Songs 1996

1996 Seems to have been a particularly great year in music history! With that, please make your selections for your favorite tracks. This is a broad sampling, across genre's. Vote for up to 4. If you have additional choices, post, but please limit to no more than 4 at a time. Feel free to include additional remarks (why you've chosen, favorite memories, etc.) Please be courteous to all posters. Let's have a nice time & keep the thread open. Thank you for participating! I hope you enjoy!

 

bittersweet symphony.

'96 lasted 24 months for me ha.

 

I vote for STP BBB, SPICE GIRLS AND BECK

 

If It Makes You Happy
Everyday Is A Winding Road
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone

 

Tracy Chapman, Give Me One Reason
Jann Arden, Insensitive
Goo Goo Dolls, Name
Jewel, Who Will Save Your Soul
Collective Soul, The World I Know

 

You can vote for Big Bang Baby twice.

 

Voted for George Michael's Jesus to a child and Spice Girls Wannabe.

 

Everybody = Nice choices!!

RE: Above -
Give Me One Reason...Forgot to type it in! (Had it on list)
Have never heard that Jann Arden song. Went to youtube; figured I'd recognize it...nope - pretty melody & vocals.
Fan of Goo Goo's - Name: Nice Pick!
Jewel - That's '95. Had it on list; looked it up. (Did my due diligence!!)
Wow... Devil's Haircut is in 2nd Place, right now!

 

crappy year but here goes

 

Jewel is '94, Goo Goo Dolls '95

 

I wonder what i was up to in 1996? I don't even know 1 of those song titles!

 

I'm wondering what I was listening to as other than Devils haircut and the Paula Cole song it was none of those. I'm guessing UK was very different at that time ?

 

Sorry about that, folks.


[Re: Jewel, Who Will Save Your Soul, according to Wikipedia: A commercial single of Who Will Save Your Soul was released in the United States in 1996. It became her first hit single, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.]


But let's throw in this to offset my prior errors

John Mellencamp, Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)

 

Because You Loved me was the #1 song the week I was born.

 

Ah looked up UK top 100 from 96 and I would have been listening to Oasis, Prodigy, Bluetones, Ocean Colour Scene with the top pop bit for me being Fugees

 

A design for life, manic street preachers

 

Bittersweet Symphony: Urban Hymns/The Verve was actually released September 30, 1997.
Maybe (UK) you were listening to Suede Coming Up...that lp/cd was released in '96 & there are excellent songs off that release which could've been included & maybe others' will add. Spice Girls' are listed! Didn't realize while composing list that it was US-tilted. (I listen to music both sides of the pond; sometimes, depending on year, or decade, it will just lean more heavily one over the other.) My main goal was to include various genre's. This is how good '96 was; that there are still other choices out there!!

List is songs which were released in '96....songs that were released in '95 could've still been charting. Had to define somehow, or list would be endless (or, maybe not; I think poll's may be limited to 25 choices). Anyhow, that's why Oasis is missing from list.

 

FROM THE LIST

If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow
One Headlight - The Wallflowers

BETTER STILL

Ready Or Not - Fugees
Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
Born Slippy - Underworld
Ironic - Alanis Morissette

IN DA BIN

You're Gorgeous - Babybird

 

Paula Cole only for me.

 

You’ve got Celine in twice. It wasn’t that good.

To be honest, 1996 is a bit late for me and I admit not recalling a few of the songs here. The ones I picked were Celine and the 2 Sheryl Crow songs. I really liked the latter’s album the singles came from.

 

Whew...tough critics!! No editor overlooking what I submitted. Oh, well, Celine was typed twice.
Thanks ~ Good idea to be including those video's for songs not listed; that's great!

 

Whenever I do these things I use EveryHit...

RetroCharts - everyHit.com

Then I command a top 100 citing Early January through late December.

I'm glad Bittersweet Symphony wasn't in it - can't bear it!