Urtar Reviews

  10. Slide - The Goo Goo Dolls I've recently realized how many childhood classics the Goo Goo Dolls have that I didn't know by name. Iris, Slide, Broadway, Name, Here Is Gone and more. I think my parents played this band a lot when I was young. Either that or I heard them a lot in public, or someone who I spent a lot of time with did. But anyway, once again a song I have a lot of nostalgia for. That guitar line is just absolutely killer, John Rzeznik just absolutely kills it on the vocals. This song is also often misinterpreted because of how upbeat it is, it's about a couple wondering what they should do because the woman is pregnant and they don't know whether they should let it get born and have to deal with supporting a child financially, or whether they abort it, and make people around them think they are killers. And her mom disown her for killing her baby Which is a topic that has certainly taken on a new light in 2024. Despite all this, it is somehow the weakes

  Hey everyone, Drake known online as Urtar Reviews here. I know I haven't posted in months, I have just not had the motivation to do anything here lately, until now of course. Anyway, I'm gonna be stepping back in time even further with a look at the end of the 90s, and the first Billboard chart year where the Hot 100 was considered an all-genre chart, and that airplay-only singles were allowed to chart. Because of this, even though for the other 90s years I am planning on allowing any song that made the top 20 of the Billboard Pop Radio for the lists to make up for the fact that they didn't allow airplay-only singles to chart, I will be sticking only to the Billboard Year End list for 1999 for this list. And any song that made the top 20 of the airplay chart in 1998 will not be eligible for 1999. Now, I was going to do a worst list for this year, but, this year gave me so few songs I dislike, and most of the ones I do I have basically nothing to say about, so I will not b

  10. Savin' Me - Nickelback Nickelback are a good band. I said what I said. I do not care about any judgements people make against me for thinking this. Rockstar made my 2007 best list and I stand by that. But this is frankly even better. Not quite their best song cause How You Remind Me exists. But this song rules. Chad Kroeger sounds absolutely haunted singing about how depressed he is and how he needs someone to show him that life is worth living. And the guitar line fits the depressing tone so well. And that is just one hell of a hook. The way he sings "show me what it's like to be the last one standing" is just so beautiful to me. Oh and also the strings are beautiful.  9. Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy are a band I have let's just say... conflicting thoughts on. A lot of their big hits from the 2000s are classics, but then This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race sucks. Or like Uma Thurman rules but Young And Menace is godawful. But yeah this

  10. Gimme That - Chris Brown  Yay. My favorite artist. Chris brown unfortunately had a big year in 2006, and I don't like all but one of those hits at all. This isn't even the worst one (we'll get to that later). It's just Chris Brown creeping on women. My favorite. And doing it over a really stiff and annoying beat, and sounding awful doing it. His autotune has aged so poorly. Don't have more to say.  9. Ms. New Booty - Bubba Sparxxx, Ying Yang Twins, Mr. Colipark This is on the list entirely for that fucking atrocious beat that sounds like a siren and the annoying vocal effects that sound horrible. Other than that the song is fine, but those two elements completely ruin it.  8. Beep - Pussycat Dolls, Will.i.am/ Buttons - Pussycat Dolls  The Pussycat Dolls fucking suck, or at least that's the impression I have gotten from their hits. The best of them is probably Stickwitchu which is like, okay at best. And while these two songs are not as bad as When I Grow U

  10. Low Life - Future, The Weeknd  I listened to Future's album EVOL a while back in an album trade with my friend Kalameet and I really liked it.  And I loved this song even before that. This song feels kinda hypnotic with how the beat and artist's voices sound together. The production here is just stunning. Both artists sound incredible. And they manage to make the song never feel boring at all despite being downbeat and over 5 minutes. I don't have much more to say really.  9. Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande To be honest, in my opinion, even if I do like her, recently Ariana has been underwhelming me. She has so much potential and such a beautiful voice, and yet she hasn't been using it enough lately. I've heard Yes And? and it's incredibly disappointing. And there's the really bad Die For You remix. Sure there have been moments of greatness like Pov, Positions and Bad Idea, but overall her catalogue from the last few years has not won me over all that

  15. Sorry - Beyonce (Peak #11, Billboard Year End: #71, Pulse Jan-Dec: #70, Crownnote: #76) It still feels very weird and unrepresentative that Lemonade, one of the most acclaimed and biggest albums of 2016, only had one year end hit, and a modest one at that (Formation not having a better run being the best example of this). But anyway, the one we did get is a fantastic song. Beyonce just performs this song so well, because the song starts with her being confident and just conveying the image of her shaking this breakup off easily because she's Beyonce, later on in the song the image breaks and we see that it really does affect her. Also she just sounds amazing and the beat slaps.  14. 24k Magic - Bruno Mars (Peak #4, Billboard Year End: N/A, Pulse Jan-Dec: #54,  Crownnote: #56) This might be my favorite Bruno Mars hit where he's the lead artist. And I also consider this a better version of Uptown Funk (a song I never really liked that much to be honest). It's definitely