MoFo Music League II

OK, we are halfway of this tournament. After the first five rounds, @Torgo is the leader in the general standings, followed by @Thief. There are five more rounds to see who'll be the master of the 90's.

Link to All Rounds Results

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ROUND 6

The most popular songs of 1995 within the MoFo Music League are:

1. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
2. Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
__Michael Jackson - Earth Song
4. Hum - Stars
__Natalie Merchant - Wonder
6. Björk - Hyperballad
__Alanis Morissette - Wake Up
__Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason
9. Chris Isaak - Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
10. Rancid - Roots Radical
__Empire - Out of Our Hands
12. GZA - Shadowboxin'
__Warrant - Sum of One
14. Jars Of Clay - Flood
15. Insane Clown Posse - Chicken Huntin'
__Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
__Daryle Singletary - I Let Her Lie
18. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Pt. II
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Let's see what 1996 going to bring to us.

Wow, Mr. Blond got all of that round! That Michael Jackson song is amazing. Surprised I've never heard it before.

In other news, Dream Theater will have to wait for another day. The tour is postponed due to James being sick. It happens.

Never heard the Earth Song? Where have you been during the 90's? There's been a lavish video too.

I was only listening to alternative rock stations and stopped watching MTV regularly around that time. Good to know that there's a lavish video since his were the best. I watched Thriller for the first time in a long time and it holds up very well.

I don't know who nominated this, but I LOVE this song.

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OPEN FLOOR.

R7 is open for listening and voting.
In case some of the participants couldn't submit songs on time, I change points from 20 to 15 (6 to 5 upvotes).

I already listened. Will vote soon.

ROUND 7

The most popular songs of 1996 within the MoFo Music League are:

1. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
2. 16 Horsepower - Black Soul Choir
__Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
__Neneh Cherry - Woman
5. Deep Purple - Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
6. Sting - The Hounds Of Winter
__The Prodigy - Firestarter
8. CAKE - The Distance
9. Type O Negative - Love You to Death
10. Fiel A La Vega - Mil Canciones
__Third Day - Thief
__Fiona Apple - Criminal
13. In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain
__Screaming Trees - Halo of Ashes
15. Swans - Volcano
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Congrats to @Holden Pike who is the R7 winner.

1997 is waiting for us.

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OK, we'll wait couple more hours for Justin to appear. If not, we start the round with five of us again.

R8 is now open for listening and voting. Enjoy!

Last couple of rounds have killed me. Let's see how I do with this one.

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Whoever nominated "Sparkle & Shine" has my undying love. Big fan of that band and that song, even if they didn't really come to mind when submitting.

Same to whoever nominated "Bitch". That was actually the first song I tried to submit, but someone beat me to it.

It's @ueno_station54 turn and then we move on.

listening now

That was me. I'm starting to think we have similar tastes! The Devil You Know got a lot of play in my car back then thanks to my trusty Discman with cassette adapter.

Looking at some of your past picks, I might agree! [high five]

As for Econoline Crush, I think it was an online friend that recommended the band to me back in the late 90s. I actually think that "Sparkle & Shine" was the first song I heard from them, and I got hooked. I went back and listened to Affliction and then checked out Brand New History once it came out.

It was totally serendipitous that I discovered them. Even though my local alternative station never played their music before, they interviewed the band and played "Home" from that album, and I was hooked. They never played them again, and neither did MTV, so if I hadn't turned on the radio at that moment, I would have never known about them.

That O.C. Supertones song from that round is really good. Late '90s music has a bad rep, probably due to nu-metal and all the boy bands, but it's way better than I remember. It was a great time for ska, industrial and electronic music in particular.

I'm a big fan of The Supertones. Even saw them live back in the early 2000s. They gave a great live show, very energetic.