Ranking #24 singles, U.S. edition: 1994-2000 (opens in new tab)

No thinking twice: just as it did in the summer of 1996, “Stupid Girl” grabbed me. The Folk Implosion’s percussion-heavy “Natural One” had prepared me several months earlier. This Traveling Wilburys of nobodies whose producer approximated a star cobbled a post-goth single out of a Clash drum track, several yards of easy guitar licks, and […]