50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

did Geggy Tah have any lesser, follow-up singles?

oh man that patti rothberg song

That song was pretty big for awhile.

I haven't thought of this song in 17 years. It was number one on modern rock charts for 6 weeks(!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39ckUBOrO0

er, mainstream rock

I sorta remember that one..

a co-worker of mine was OBSESSED with Brother Cane.

One of the most amazing (if you wanna call it that) things about Brother Cane was that this was their previous hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ggbuQtcYY

HARMONICA!!! COWBELL!!!

...and on that tip, let's go back a couple years to hang with CRY OF LOVE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INxliT-NrxA&ob=av2n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vEONnGdPo&ob=av2e

All I remember about Cry Of Love is seeing their posters in Sam Goody/Musicland/Strawberries/etc but having no idea what they sounded like... until this moment actually.

it's pretty pathetic that i can't see youtubes at work and am actively trying to guess what songs people are posting. afaict Whiney's is probably Toad The Wet Sprocket?

Sarina Paris - Look At Us Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQt11Mfb4w

I'm not saying it's memorable or worth saving but I remember it was constantly on the radio for a while and it suddenly dissapeared. I only remembered it had a rollercoaster in the video.

Abra Moore - "Four Leaf Clover"

my friend wrote a weird-al style parody of "mungo city" about his ex-girlfriend, but I'm really struggling to remember any of the lyrics

I did a keyboard-based, vaguely "bluesy" cover of it one time, only getting through the first verse and a half or so...

not only do I remember Patti Rothberg, I remember that her album title comes from the train that she busked in front of

I first saw her video at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron, NM. I was on a Boy Scout trip. One of the older guys told me about his thing for girls that play guitar and offered me some dip. I declined.

Abra Moore - "Four Leaf Clover"

― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:43 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES! Part of the short-lived Arista Austin imprint, this was huge on Houston Alt. Rock radio in '97 (the fact Moore played the summer "Buzzfest" radio concert helped too) and iirc the song never to be heard again on the air after '98.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFfHaC_jnu4

Fluorescein - Cathy's On Crank

(note, not actually good)

I wish this thread had a spotify playlist

hmmm, gimme a few, though i bet a lot of these aren't on there

I know "shawty swing my way" isn't

http://open.spotify.com/user/doctorcasino/playlist/2taIeJ0IhYbdEJWgGXJBsK

not on spotify:
Billy Lawrence - Come On
LL Cool J, "Deepest Bluest"
Warren G's "Smokin' Me Out"
"Shaniqua don't live here no mo'"
Space Monkeys - "Sugar Cane"
* B-Real, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J and Method Man - "Hit Em High (Monstar's Anthem)
Salt-n-Pepa - "Champagne"
112, "Anywhere"
* 98 Degrees, "Invisible Man"
Tracy Lee - "The Theme (It's Party Time)"
Imperial Teen's "You're One"
Jamie Blake's "Runaway"
* Tatyana Ali - "Daydreamin'"
Forest For The Trees, "Dream"
David Garza, "Disco Ball World
sun 60 c'mon kiss me
"consolation prize" by amateur lovers
* Public Announcement - Body Bumpin' (Yippie-Yi-Yo)
* 702 - steelo
* merril bainbridge - mouth
qkumba zoo - the child inside
loreena mckennitt - the mummer's dance
Tin Star - "Head"
Something For The People, "My Love Is the Shhh"
Sylk E Fyne, "Romeo & Juliet"
College Boyz - HOllywood Paradox
Liquido - Narcotic
Liqudio - Play Some Rock
Chopper One - Punk Named Josh
Carnival Art
* Precious - Say It Again
* Moxy Fruvous - King of Spain
Yvette Michele - I'm Not Feelin You
Jennifer Trynin, "Better Than Nothing"
* INXS - Elegantly Wasted
Bif Naked - Daddy's Getting Married
Patti Rothberg - Inside
Sylk E Fyne - Keep It Real
Asante "Look at What You've Done (Refugee Camp Remix)"
Dayna Manning - My Addiction
Eve's Plum - I Want It All
Fluorescein - Cathy's On Crank

* = live version or terrible karaoke/cover/sound-alike version only

but that still makes 99 memorable songs, etc!

whoa, i didnt know this actually ended up happening. thank you!!! i'm gonna pump this during my commute later.

haha thats not the real "shawty swing my way" but good effort :)

haha yeah, the karaoke/cover versions are so disappointing, i should probably take 'em back out...

and you're welcome! I've been enjoying it as well, especially for the R&B stuff which was really off my radar at the time.

xp it's funny though

This song was a #2 hit in 1999 and I haven't even seen it referenced since it disappeared off the radio. Also, early T-Pain effect spotting? I know they used it greater effect on their later hit "Crazy". Obviously this one just rode the "All My Life" wave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41GHAV-HG4U

Huh - don't remember that one at all! Not bad at all.

The vocal effect is closer to like a Zapp synth talkbox thing, right? Seems like it was in circulation a lot in that era, most obviously with Roger Troutman coming back to sing the "California Love" hook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dY4KjMdMVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Obkkxng-0g

SR-71 is 2000, but not a bad song. The Marvelous 3 one never really hit home with me, okay hook but seemed kinda by-the-numbers.

idk they both seem pretty damn by-the-numbers!

71 and 3, to be precise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0NILJQN-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0yYCqkt0VE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIANBamMgas

Nine Days and "Is Anybody Home" are also 2000! Although feel-wise, they're there. Stroke 9 pretty much qualifies I think.

Once again, I plug: Defend The Indefensible: "Absolutely (Story of A Girl)" by Nine Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKtUrS6QTOo

Dude EVERYONE knows the late 90's lasted til like 2002

hahaha, yeah, yeah, I know. There was a strong case made on the "song that represents the end of the 90s" thread (I think?) that there should be a "transitional period" covering like 98 or 99 to 02 as kind of its own thing, sonically and aesthetically. I pretty much buy that, it's an era without its name in both pop and rock and as I think I said before it has some weird parallels to the post-Cannibals, Positive Vibes era.

here is how it breaks down in my mind:

The 90's - 1988-1997
The Late 90's - 1998-2002
The 2000's - 2002-2010, etc.

I think I've assembled this list of threads before, recently, but it bears repeating, as I believe one of ILX's signature projects in 2012 is hashing out a new discourse of Late 90s Radio Rock Studies:

The song that represents the END of the 90s

^^^ transitional period gets put forth, discussed

Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2000
Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1999

^^^ similar topics get worked over, particularly with regard to what pop-rock records sounded like in this era - it's a certain, very distinctive production aesthetic that kind of creeped in somewhere between 96 and 99 and made everything almost totally unlistenable, simultaneously polished and crunchy with lots of goofy crap going on in the background. see also the languishing:

top 100 production tricks of the 90s

btw, I totally dig "It's Saturday," but I'm a Marcy Playground stan: Marcy Playground: Classic or dud?

Also why do ALL MODERN ROCK VIDEOS from this era have the band playing in a really crowded room w/ everyone else *totally rawking out*?

meanwhile, just now realizing how many damned singles Collective Soul put out between '95 and '00...pretty sure at least 2/3 of them qualify for this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQ2TIul8pI

THEY SAY MISERY LOVES COMPANY
WE CAN START A COMPANY AND MAKE MISERY

Dude EVERYONE knows the late 90's lasted til like 2002

mid-98 until 2001 was def its own separate era of pop culture.. however that doesn't mean you can simply lump all of this together as "part of the 90's"