You dance to disco and you don’t like rock: Ranking Pazz & Jop’s 1993 singles

At least this chart had diversity; no list can rule governed by consensus, right? So I expect resistance to what I did with Tag Team. I expect Fort Sumter without end for what I did with Radiohead’s whinge. Overall an unimpressive list considering this was PBI’s late Cretaceous Period. Many singles we consider classics are missing — where New Order’s “Regret”?

The Hague

Tag Team – Whoomp! (There It Is)

Meh

Snow – Informer
Radiohead – Creep
Porno For Pyros – Pets
Soul Asylum – Runaway Train

Sound, Solid

Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
Shaggy – Oh Carolina
RuPaul – Supermodel (You Better Work)
Us 3 – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Cypress Hill – Insane In The Brain
Juliana Hatfield Three – My Sister

Good to Great

The Breeders – Cannonball
Janet Jackson – If
Digable Planets – Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
Robin S. – Show Me Love
Tony! Toni! Toné! – If I Had No Loot
Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy
Janet Jackson – That’s The Way Love Goes
Pet Shop Boys – Go West
Dr. Dre – Nuthin But A ‘G’ Thang
R.E.M. – Man On The Moon
Salt-N-Pepa – Shoop
Belly – Feed The Tree
R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day/Check Yo Self
Urge Overkill – Sister Havana

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