Poptime
Herein, I collect and count down my favorite pop, rock, r&b and hip hop singles released between the time I was born (1/74) and right this minute. Ordering is pretty loose and arbitrary until I reach the top 10 or so, when rankings will really mean something.I'm limiting myself to things that have actually charted in the Billboard Hot 100 (or Billboard subcharts or foreign equivalents when applicable). Otherwise, trying to narrow a list down to 101 songs would be border on impossible.
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Artist: Weezer
Song: Undone—The Sweater Song
Year: 1994
Highest Chart Position: #6 (Billboard Modern Rock)Even in 1994, after I’d started paying attention to the US indie rock scene with a greater amount of detail and recognized a lot of the bands that were being snapped up by major labels in the post-Nirvana boom, Weezer just kind of fell from the sky. As far as I know, there were approximately 12 people in California that knew about them before “Undone—The Sweater Song” debuted on MTV. But finding out about them the same time as everyone else didn’t lessen the impact. It might have actually amplified it.
It was a totally refreshing sound after surviving three or four years of nothing but bad Sabbath-riffery and growling vocals from Seattle. It didn’t just affect the indie scene, either. The whole of mainstream rock got a little bit sunnier, a little bit more fun…all because we pulled a thread as Rivers Cuomo walked away.
