All of these except STP and Old 97's were on Hits 106's playlist.
1999 was the first year of my weekly/yearly charts!
Here's how this set's songs did on my year end top 100:
"Maria" #11
"Steal My Sunshine" #27 (#21 for 2000)
"All Star" #30
"David Duchovny" #65
"Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" N/a (but #6 for 2000)
& now, the Radical Ratings:
Good:
A: Counting Crows, Blondie, Len, Stone Temple Pilots
B: Smash Mouth, Bree Sharp, Blur
C: Old 97's
D: Red Hot Chili Peppers
F: Sarah McLesbian
Necessary:
A: Blondie, Bree Sharp, Stone Temple Pilots
B: Counting Crows (The Counting Crows by definition cannot get an A for necessary. But it's the next highest, because this is my favorite song from them, by far, and KFOG doesn't play it too much anymore.)
C: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sarah McLesbian (Its appearance wasn't as unnecessary so much as the
releaseexistence of this version, in my opinion, but considering how many times the other songs in this set have been repeated, it's hard to give it lower than those), Smash Mouth, Len (I'm giving these two C's because even though they have too many 10@10 spins, they brighten up things up), Blur
D: Old 97's (I'm even going a little lenient on this one because it did tie for BOS. That and generic AAA songs from that era weren't overrepresented in the set. But next time I probably won't be so nice.)
Here's a rundown of the seven (including the repeat, marked with *) '99 sets so far:
5 (
)
*Old 97's - Murder (or a Heart Attack)
4
*Len- Steal My Sunshine
*Filter- Take A Picture
3
Ben Harper- Burn To Shine
Moby & Gwen Stefani - Southside
Blur - Coffee & TV
*Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
*Fatboy Slim- Praise You
*Smash Mouth - All Star
2
Sting- Brand New Day
Guster- Barrel Of A Gun
Sinead Lohan- Whatever It Takes
Travis- Why Does It Always Rain On Me
*Euphoria- Delirium
*Ben Harper - Steal My Kisses (+1 in 2000)
*Eagle Eye Cherry- Save Tonight
*Sixpence None The Richer- Kiss Me
1
Santana - Maria, Maria
Santana feat Dave Matthews- Love Of My Life
Santana - (Da Le) Yaleo
G. Love & Special Sauce/Jack Johnson - Rodeo Clowns
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss (also heard in Dave's remakes from hell set :X)
Lou Bega - Mambo # 5 (A Little Bit...)
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman
Collective Soul- Run
Pretenders- Pop Star
Pretenders - Human
Moby- Porcelain
Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers- Beautiful Day
Widespread Panic- Bears Gone Fishin'
Macy Gray- I Try
Loudon Wainwright III - Y2K
Bruce Cockburn - The Last Night of the World
Tom Waits - Hold On
Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl
Blondie - Maria
Bree Sharp - David Duchovny
Sarah McLesbian - Ice Cream (Live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Counting Crows - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
So aside from the three offenders and Blur, the remaining six were bustouts, Blondie and BS being highly above average ones. I can live with that.