Wow. Zow. Um, that would be ZERO Shamefully Belated Discoveries in 1996. Except one, Underworld - Born Slippy which wins by default.
No head smacks really. This was a year where I can't say I learned much more about pop music than any other (the banner year is still '94), but it's the year where I knew EVERYTHING on this chart, and have very specific recollections of the music in the actual context of my life at the time. Dancing to Quad City DJs (holy crap, Britain, wise up here, can't blame some of this on a culture gap), dancing to the Macarena, dancing to "No Diggity," dancing to the Fugees, singing to the Fugees, dancing to
"California Love," singing along to almost everything else...a lot of these held over into middle school, i.e. elem and middle school dances comprising many of these hott traxx.
Evidence that '96/'97 kinda blurred is that it did on the P&J polls, too. Songs I associate with 7th grade ("Wannabe," "Mmmbop") I think of historically as '96 songs (the former hitting bigger in the states in '97, the latter being RELEASED in '97, dunno why I associate it with '96, except that I like to think of 2006 as the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of teenpop-as-genre, coinciding with the Radio Disney anniversary I spose), and was concerned about their omission until I calmed down and checked out the HANSON TRIUMPH and SPICE GIRLS OK SHOWING in '97.
Actually missing from the polls: THA CROSSROADS (come on, people), IRONIC (isn't that...! No, it isn't), SITTIN' UP IN MY ROOM, NO DOUBT. All of which probably had more of an impact on me at the time than anything on that list (which also had a pretty big impact, right down to Ye Primitive Radio Gods).
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