The MOST PLAYED Song of the DECADE Now Has 3 BILLION Plays BUT It Was NEVER a HIT!—Professor of Rock

I can’t believe I initially stopped doing these yearly countdowns at 1994 because today’s yearly top 10 is truly great. These 10 songs were certainly surrounded by some of the worst songs ever, but they shined like the song that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan wrote about an important landmark date in his life, 1979 but he had to use a different year than the actual one because it had better rhymes. But his hardcore producer deleted the song from the final album track list because it wasn’t good enough. This frontman was livid. He argued for it so passionately that the Producer gave him 24 hours to go back and rework it, or it was going in the trash bin. So he stayed up all night and perfected it. The next morning, it was undeniable.. It would make the album, but not only that it became the Smashing Pumpkins’ biggest hit and one of the best songs of its time. Plus, No Doubt's Don't Speak the song that was the most played song of the year, but due to a crazy technicality, the Billboard charts wouldn’t let it be included in the charts. So it was never a hit, but 30 years on, it has over 3 billion streams, plus the most Haunting Instrumental of the rock era, Children by Robert Miles. Plus Champagne Supernova by Oasis and Missing by Everything but The Girl as well as Journey Singer Steve Perry and his final song with the band When You Love a Woman. It’s all coming up on a star-studded year-end countdown.

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David Roche, Bob Bell, Holly, W.T.F, James Dorsey, Bruce Suit

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Hey, Music Junkies were counting down the 10 best songs of 1996, and they are phenomenal. Seriously, I can’t believe I was going to stop these countdowns at 1994 because 1996 has a lot of legendary songs…Granted, they are lodged between some really crappy ones, but the light shines through. This time I’m going to do something a little different… I’ll count down the top 10 best songs of the year, and then after each one, I’ll tell you what the actual top 10 songs were for the year, so you get the contrast of best vs the actual hits and a feel for the year: Let’s do it.

#10 on our countdown of the Top 10 Songs of ’96 is “In the Meantime,” which was bottled lightning for the British/ American band, Spacehog, a four-piece that described their music as “futuristic rock with a down-home barnyard feel.” They were known for their on-stage spectacles, including drummer Jonny Crag lighting his gong on fire: Lead vocalist, Royston Langdon, described “In the Meantime” as a map for climbing out of isolation and learning to live with yourself, even when anxiety and the fear of death are nagging in the corners. He sees it as a private dialogue with his own head—a way to tell himself, in effect, that whatever you need to do to get through this, you’re allowed to do it. I can definitely relate to that concept. I talk to myself all the time. The ringing tone in the beginning of “In the Meantime” is more than an interesting sound effect; it’s a memory pressed into the mix: a British landline’s ring tangled with a busy signal, something he heard as a kid. Decades later, he nursed that memory into a pitch-shifted ripple using early software, turning it into the song’s hook. He compares the move to how artists like Billie Eilish stitch found sounds into something new and personal:

“In the Meantime” rose to #1 on the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock chart, and made it to #32 on the Billboard Hot 100. In spite of the success of “In the Meantime, Spacehog returned home from their first U.S. tour with no money, and never found the magic for a followup, even after their enlisted the help of R.E.M.s Michael Stipe on of the tracks on their sophomore, the Chinese Album, and recording a track. Plus the stories behind Don't Speak by No Doubt, Hook by Blues Traveler, Ironic and You Learn from Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something and Free as a Bird by the Beatles including recoding it with a ghost, John Lennon and Electric Light Orchestra master Jeff Lynne behind the production.