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“If 60's Was 90's” by The Beautiful People
“If 60's Was 90's” by The Beautiful People appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2002. Its best result is #1663 on the CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,821 alternative song of all time.
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Beautiful People's "If 60's Was 90's" is a downtempo reworking of Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 Was 9", built from the man's own tapes: it samples vocals and drums from the original, pulls in bits of The Dick Cavett Show, and piles on blues guitar from "Voodoo Chile", including its whole closing solo. Group leader Du Kane put it together in 1991, with Luke Baldry on programming at Kane's mother's house in Sussex.
The groove took surgery. The sampled Hendrix drums were looser than the track needed, so they took a six-track sample of them on an Akai S1000, the standard sampler of the day, laid it across the whole drum track and had band members play live drums on top. It first appeared on the album If 60's Were 90's in 1992, and only became a single in 1994, once "Rilly Groovy" had done well.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1671 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1671 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1671 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1663 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
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