The 10 best songs from the 90's

1. Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
2. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphaty
4. My Bloody Valentine - Soon
5. Tricky - Poems
6. Air - Le soleil est pres de moi
7. The Stone Roses - I wanna be adored
8. Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the bottom.
9. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
10. Mr President - Coco Jamboo

Wrong.

:-)

Ok then...: "My 10 Favourite songs from the 90's"

I agree on some of them though. So, well done, in fact.

Ok Coco Jamboo is the disposable one in there I guess. Substitute by um...:

Smashing Pumpkins - Set the ray to Jerry

Let's get some Geraldine Fibbers and Sepultura in the house, please.

well this should get good soon.

8. Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the bottom
gorgeous

(not in order)

B.A.D. II -- Rush
Pavement -- Silence Kit
The Mountain Goats -- Sinaloan Milk Snake Song
Alanis Morissette -- You Oughta Know
Sone -- High Frame Audio
Magnetic Fields -- 100,000 Fireflies
Spare Snare -- Thorns
Belle & Sebastian -- Judy and the Dream of Horses
Kleenex Girl Wonder -- Tendency Right Foot Forward
The Divine Comedy -- Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Just off:

The Breeders -- Do You Love Me Now?
The Dentists -- Charms and the Girl
The Sundays -- Here's Where the Story Ends

This is a weird-looking list, I think. Of the top 10, most are from records I love with such fervency that I'm not sure they're the best songs on their own album.

Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Kitchens of Distinction - Gone World Gone
Divine Comedy - Your Daddy's Car
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Goldie - Timeless
808 State - Lopez
Underworld - Pearls Girl
Radiohead - Let Down
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane
Flaming Lips - Waitin for a Superman

10 greats off the top of my head. it would scare me to come up with a definitive list.

pavement - gold soundz
pavement - in the mouth a desert
stereolab - metronomic underground
yo la tengo - sugarcube
red house painters - medicine bottle
my bloody valentine - when you sleep
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the see
radiohead - the tourist
ride - vapour trail
refused - new noise

1. my bloody valentine - honey power
2. soundgarden - the day i tried to live
3. nirvana - in bloom
4. pixies - alec eiffel
5. smashing pumpkins - cherub rock
6. weezer - say it ain't so
7. soundgarden - my wave
8. radiohead - paranoid android
9. soundgarden - rusty cage
10. soundgarden - face pollution

whoops, put windowlicker in there at 10

No hip hop for anyone so far???

No order (Also these are ten OF my favorite, not the top ten) :

The Swirlies - Wrong Tube
The Lilys - Claire Hates Me
Bedhead - Living Well
Pavement - Gold Soundz
The Olivia Tremor Control - Hideaway
12 Rods - Make-Out Music
Duster - The Twins / Romantica
Guided By Voices - Tractor Rape Chain
Further - Quiet Riot Grrrl
The Dismemberment Plan - The City

My list is really close to the one I have in fifteen perfect songs thread. The 90s were my favorite so no surprise there.

um

Swans - YRP
The Ex/Tom Cora - A Door
Legendary Pink Dots - Grain Kings
Nurse With Wound - Rock And Roll Station
Coil - Red Birds...
The Fall - Sing Harpy
Fugazi - Blueprint
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
Beck - Fukkin With My Head
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea

0 .Archers of Loaf - "Freezing Point" [from the Peel session]
As a lurker reading this thread I can't help weighing in at this point. I know you people have better taste than me in music but these lists seem sorely lacking.

1. Mazzy Star - "Into Dust"
2. Air - "Ce Matin La"
3. Orbital - "Belfast"
4, DJ Shadow - "Stem/Long Stem"
5. The Pixies - "Dig for Fire"
6. Aphex Twin - "Rhubarb" (from SAW II)
7. Goldie - "Inner City Life"
8. Black Star - "Respiration Remix" feat Black Thought
9. Nightmares on Wax - "Les Nuits"
10. Pavement - "Frontwards"

Wasn't there an epic ILM Best of the 90s poll at some point?

Doh. Where's my edit button?

11. Notorious BIG - "Juicy"

Needs some Sonic Youth as well, surely.

Sonic Youth is more of an album band, I think.

^^ that's a massive call.

okay i did 2 of these, cos you can take the question 2 different ways..

most definitive... (this rarely changes for me)

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"
Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"
Aphex Twin "Windowlicker"
Blur "Coffee + TV"
Christina Aguilera "Genie In A Bottle"
Pulp "Common People"
Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
Nirvana "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
Dr. Dre "Nuthin But A G Thing"
Deee Lite "Groove Is In The Heart"

personal favorites... (this changes very often)

Nirvana "Scentless Apprentice"
Bel Biv Devoe "Poison"
A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity"
Dr. Octagon "Blue Flowers"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Gimme The Loot"
The Posies "Dream All Day"
Sloan "Pen Pals"
Ween "Baby Bitch"
Stone Temple Pilots "Lady Picture Show"

Bel Biv Devoe "Poison" - Yes.

A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity" - Yesss.

Ween "Baby Bitch" Jackpot!

I realize that I also neglected to mention Future Sound of London. I would really have to go with "Q" (as Mental Cube). Ah, screw it, "Papau New Guniea" is their best song but the other one's really good too.

Cathy Dennis - Too Many Walls

The only good song of the nineies.

Top 10 (in order):
Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II
Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb
XTC - Harvest Festival
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Basic Channel - Phylyps trak II_II
Portishead - Glory Box
Wu-Tang Clan - Tearz

Honorable Mentions (no particular order):
Kelis - Caught Out There
Pulp - Common People
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Earth - Seven Angels
OutKast - Elevators (Me & You)
Pearl Jam - Corduroy
Elliott Smith - Say Yes
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Nellee Hooper 12" Mix)
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy

Off the top of my head....

Pavement - Summer Babe
Nirvana - All Apologies (In Utero version)
Pulp - Common People
The Silos - Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around
Pearl Jam - Corduroy
Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
Sleater-Kinney - Turn It On
Radiohead - Let Down
Bob Dylan - Blood In My Eyes
Wilco - California Stars

it's kinda funny how everyone is choosing what seem to be the exact same artists for their lists - i'd imagine that wouldnt be nearly as true for this decade

Nobody has pointed out yet that The Stone Roses' song in my list is actually from 1989.

when did ilx turn into magnet magazine

barkmarket - static
braniac - I am a cracked machine
built to spill - I would hurt a fly
cop shoot cop - if tomorrow ever comes
firewater - bourbon and division
idiot flesh - black sand
jawbox - savory
John zorn - a shot in the dark
karp - we ate sand
magnetic fields - strange powers
moloko - party weirdo
mr. Bungle - goodbye sober day
pj Harvey - oh my lover
sepultura - refuse/resist
wu-tang clan - method man

ok fuck it you get slightly more than 10, im bored w editing this down.

'savory' is a great call even though i can only ever listen to jawbox in small doses these days

10 more peaches:

unwound - corpse pose
lush - kiss chase
nas - the world is yours
tindersticks - her
swans - killing for company
tom waits - dirt in the ground
the jesus lizard - monkey trick
kent - bianca
blur - tracy jacks
elliott smith - ballad of big nothing

this is endless, i haven't even mentioned some of my very favourite artists in either of my lists.
plus i'm keeping this metal-free, because... well, i've been writing a lot of metal lists lately.

and some songs from 'perfect from now on', jesus. that's like my favourite album.

when did ilx turn into magnet magazine

― bau hau haus (electricsound)

I've never heard of this magnet magazine you speak of but in any case I think the real question you're trying to ask here is:

Since when did magnet magazine stopped caring about awesome music? And also at which point did I became such a jaded and pedantic person that feels the need to oppose idealisticaly the almost perfect homogeneity and righteousness of the hivemind.

birth

Pfft that's impossible. Noone is born jaded.

nirvana - negative creep
pavement - conduit for sale
pj harvey - sheela na gig
beck - forcefield
palace - more brother rides
flaming lips - unconsciously screamin
ween - awesome sound
neutral milk hotel - king of carrot flowers, pt. 1
cat power - nude as the news
built to spill - car
le tigre - deceptacon
white stripes - cannon

Here's one for each year:

“Any Other Way,” Posies (1990)
“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)
“Chainsaw the Horse,” Dentists (1992)
“Divorce Song,” Liz Phair (1993)
“Anti-Pleasure Dissertation,” Bikini Kill (1994)
“Motor Away,” Guided By Voices (1995)
“You’re One,” Imperial Teen (1996)
“Ru Tenone,” Turn On (1997)
“Positively Jeff Oliphant,” Dump (1998)
“Beautiful Stranger,” Madonna (1999)

"Coldest Day of the Year" by Cop Shoot Cop
"Visible Cow" by Barkmarket
"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your neck" by Prong
"Suckerpunch" by The Wildhearts
"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." by Motorhead
"Ditch" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"Wandering Star" by Portishead
"Repeater" by Fugazi
"Leave Them All Behind" by Ride
"Protection" by Massive Attack
"Money is Not Our God" by Killing Joke

Strictly off the top of my head. yeah, that's 11. Too bad.

Left out soooo much stuff, now realizing. Alas...

well this should get good soon.

still waiting

You forgot Summerhead, Alex in NYC.

Too true. Easily my fave Cocteau Twins song from the 90s.

10 more of my favorites..
Screaming Trees "Nearly Lost You"
Spacehog "In The Meantime"
Raekwon "Ice Cream"
Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"
Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"
Elastica "Connection"
Digital Underground "The Humpty Dance"
Weezer "I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams"
Sloan "Underwhelmed"
Beastie Boys "Get It Together"

10 more that are also really good..
The Breeders "Divine Hammer"
Supergrass "Caught By The Fuzz"
Hum "I'd Like Your Hair Long"
Dinosaur Jr "Out There"
Ash "Girl From Mars"
Folk Implosion "Natural One"
Summercamp "Drawer"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Everyday Struggle"
Smashing Pumpkins "Love"
Helmet "Unsung"
Weezer "El Scorcho"

“Any Other Way,” Posies (1990)
“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)

I'd never heard these before but just checked them out and they're kinda awesome.

Also "Savory" is a really good choice.

Fuck it, ten more...

"Goldfinger" by Ash
"De-Luxxe" by Lush
"Like a Daydream" by Ride
"Fait Accompli" by Curve
"Smiling" by Kitchens of Distinction
"Double Vegetation" by Julian Cope
"Caruso" by Gavin Friday
"Blue Eyes" by The Wedding Present
"Some Strange Reaction" by Firewater
"Wide Open" by Skeleton Key

I see nothing wrong with a "10 more" list. (clearly)

Sebadoh - Willing to Wait
Liz Phair - Never Said
Silkworm - Couldn't You Wait
White Town - Your Woman
Dinosaur Jr - Feel the Pain
Black Star - Definition
Boot Camp Clik - Headz Are Reddee (Part II)
2pac - To Live and Die in LA
Notorious BIG - Juicy
KMD - Peach Fuzz
Luniz - I Got Five On It

That was off the top of the head... and I got 11 also... I'm probably missing a million songs.

peach fuzz lol .. that song has girl lols in it

Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
and 9 others.

^^^

Saint Etienne - Avenue
Moose - Last Night I fell Again
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Lush - For Love
Portishead - Sour Times
Tricky - Hell Is Around The Corner
Slowdive - Alison
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
Tindersticks - Bathtime

My top ten songs of the '90s from those posted above:

Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphaty
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Orbital - "Belfast"
Portishead - Glory Box
pj Harvey - oh my lover
tom waits - dirt in the ground
Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"
Saint Etienne - Avenue

(There's many more I would choose had I elected to give this some thought on my own.)

Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
and 9 others.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:45 PM (2 days ago)

^^^

― deej, Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:01 PM (2 days ago)

No doubt it's a classic, but surely it's not even the best song on that album...

Teenage Fanclub - "God Knows It's True"
They Might Be Goants - "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
The Future Sound of London - "Papua New Guinea"
Blur - "There's No Other Way"
Blur - "Chemical World"
Underworld - "Cowgirl"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Hummer"
Stereo MCs - "Connected"
Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Badly Drawn Boy - "The Treeclimber"

Today's top 10 (in no particular order)

69 - Desire
TLC - No Scrubs
Smif-N-Wessun - Sound Bwoy Bureill (Re-Edit)
Björk - Hyper-Ballad
Myalansky & Joe Mafia - Where Was Heaven
Low - Weight of Water
Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow
D'Angelo - Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
UGK - One Day
Wilco - Via Chicago

Argh. Just remembered that I'd meant to put in:

R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind (Old School Mix)

This really should be a "ROLLING 10 Best Songs from the 90's" thread.

1. "Show Me Love" - Robin S
2. "Sexy MF" - Prince
3. "The Great Nations of Europe" - Randy Newman
4. "Waltz Across Texas Tonight" - Emmylou Harris
5. "No Diggity" - Blackstreet
6. "Motownphilly" - Boys II Men
7. "Champagne Supernova" - Oasis
8. "Je T'Aimais, Je T'Aime, Je T'Aimerai" - Francis Cabrel
9. "California Love" - 2Pac/Dr. Dre
10. "Warning" - The Notorious B.I.G.

Consolation prize:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1FTLFajUo

"No Diggity" - Blackstreet

Yes!

The Wedding List - Kate Bush
Schindler's List - John Williams
The List of Dorms - Pavement
Next on the List - Napalm Death
Wish List - Pearl Jam
Shit List - L7
Guest List - Eels
See What I Did There - the Rofflecopters

rofflecopters is 00's n00b

Damn.

"Smiling" by Kitchens of Distinction

This song needs it own thread already.

So does "The Humpty Dance".

KLF - 3AM Eternal
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
Blur - This Is A Low
Boards Of Canada - ROYGBIV
Beastie Boys - The Move
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Nirvana - Aneurysm
Pavement - Range Life
Radiohead - Karma Police

(those were off the top of my head)

My favorites that haven't been mentioned (in no order off the top of my head)

Sonic Youth - Unwind
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
Cub - Magic 8-ball
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
Aphex Twin - Flim
Shallow - King of the Wide Eyed Girls
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
R.E.M. - Why Not Smile
Rainer Maria - Planetary/Broken Radio
Pain - Umbrella

Songs that have been mentioned that might have made the list and I would like to give a hearty FUCK YEAH!! to:

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Cardigans - Lovefool
Bikini Kill - Anti-Pleasure Dissertatation
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Air - Ce Matin La
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Tendency Right Foot Forward

I like about three-quarters of everything on this thread so far, so I am getting a warm nostalgic buzz here but also the feeling that I could never, ever narrow it down

I've no idea why I'm doing this because it's impossible but here's ten I typed out without thinking.

Pulp - This is Hardcore (Swedish Erotica Mix)
Fantastic Plastic Machine - You Must Learn All Night Long
Local Rabbits - Stomp Those BKs Down
Cardiacs - Sleep All Eyes Open
Bachelor Pad - Country Pancake
KLF - America: What Time is Love
Air - Kelly Watch The Stars (Moog Cookbook Mix)
Saint Etienne - Cool Kids of Death (Underworld mix)
Redd Kross - Jimmy's Fantasy
Denim - Council Houses

No doubt it's a classic, but surely it's not even the best song on that album...

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:15 (19 hours ago) Bookmark

I don't want to make some go on about BEST v. FAVOURITE again, so yeah, Shook Ones and all that. Noyd's verse is just my favourtist guest verse in rap history though, OB4CL excluded.

Can only do this if i restrict to somewhat rock-derived stuff (i.e. blocking out film scores, hip-hop and classical compositions) otherwise I would need a much longer list. Also sort of fakely resticting to 1 song per artist. These are in order:

1. Scott Walker- The Cockfighter
2. Talk Talk- Taphead
3. Sun City Girls- Space Prophet Dogon
4. Current 93- The Frolic
5. Boredoms- JB Dick & Tina Turner Pussy Badsmell
6. Television- 1880 Or So
7. Built To Spill- Randy Described Eternity
8. Dog Faced Hermans- Jan 9
9. The Fall- Free Range
10. I Am Not Me- Robyn Hitchcock

Leaving My Bloody Valentine off my list or the list would be nothing but all the tracks from Loveless.

Gang Starr "The Meaning of the Name"
Sonic Youth "Swimsuit Issue"
Posies "Solar Sister"
Bailter Space "Orbit"
Swervedriver "Duel"
Black Sheep "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)"
Underworld "Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love"
A Tribe Called Quest "Sucka Nigga"
Radiohead "The Bends"
Grant Lee Buffalo "Lone Star Song"

Radiohead / Paranoid Android
Björk / Isobel
Slowdive / Ballad of Sister Sue
Piano Magic / Wrong French
Autechre / arch carrier
PJ Harvey / The Dancer
Talk Talk / Taphead
Scott Walker / Farmer in the City
Fiona Apple / Sleep to Dream
Lauryn Hill / Ex-Factor
Portishead / Roads
Tori Amos / Leather
Britney Spears / Hit Me Baby One More Time
Paradise Motel / Watch Illuminum
UNKLE / Rabbit in Your Headlights
Sinead O' Connor / Nothing Compares 2 U
Missy Elliott / The Rain
Low, Piano Magic, & Transient Waves / Sleep at the Bottom
Destiny’s Child / Jumpin’ Jumpin’
Stereolab / Cybele’s Reverie
Jim O’Rourke / Halfway to a Threeway
Cibo Matto / Sugar Water
A Tribe Called Quest / Electric Relaxation
Pixies – Alec Eiffel
The Breeders / Cannonball
Sonic Youth / Tunic (Song For Karen)
Aaliyah / Are You That Somebody?
Throwing Muses / Counting Backwards
Pulp / Common People
Cocteau Twins / Cherry-Coloured Funk
Cardigans / Lovefool
Kristin Hersh / Your Ghost
Broadcast / According to No Plan
Tindersticks / Don’t Look Down
Diamanda Galás / Supplica a mia madre
Jeff Buckley / Lover, You should’ve Come Over
Des’ree / Kissin’ You
REM / Drive
Tricky / Black Steel
Godspeed You Black Emperor! / Moya
Wu-Tang Clan / Reunited
Disco Inferno / Second Language
Orbital / Halcyon + On + On
Ride / Vapour Trail
Bark Psychosis / Absent Friend
Blackstreet / No Diggity
Ride / Vapour Trail
Dr. Octagon / Blue Flowers
Belly / Feed the Tree
Mazzy Star / Halah
My Bloody Valentine / Sometimes .
White Town / Your Woman
Squirrel Nut Zippers / Hell
Mike Ladd / Feb. 4 '99 (For All Those Killed by the Cops)
Ninjaman, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man & Ninja Ford / Bad Boy Lick a New Shot
Opus III / It's a Fine Day
Dinosaur Jr. / Start Choppin'
Massive Attack / Teardrop

etc.

oh and fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7BVp2qyVBU&feature=fvst

KLF - 3AM Eternal
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
The Boo Radleys - Lazarus

picked this as dog latin before scrolling any further

Forgot this one. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpBCHE1Pbss

Superchunk- Slack Motherfucker
Digital Underground- Humpty Dance
DJ Shadow- Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
Tortoise- Djed
Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Dead Flag Blues
Autechre- Garbage
The Grifters- Black Fuel Incinerator
Nirvana- Aneurysm
Pavement- Here
Uncle Tupelo- Moonshiner
Plastikman- Consumed

nice to see the sleep at the bottom votes, since one of my closest friends played the guitar on that.

some of these songs seem so remote now, although if you'd told me they came out ten years ago I'd kind of blink...djed, for instance. wow that was quite a long time, adn I haven't listened to it in ages either, but it somehow doesn't seem that long. age and time flies.

Impossible task, but these are the first to come to my mind:

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Touch & Go - Would You...?
Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Meshell Ndegeocello - Leviticus: Faggot
Ahlam - Mskin
Eve feat. Drag-On - Let's Talk About
Nonplace Urban Field - Whimp
TLC - Waterfalls
Hardfloor - Once Again Back
Corona - Rhythm of the Night

10 great tracks off the top of my head -- mostly stuff I've been listening to lately:

Digable Planets - Black Ego
that dog. - Retreat from the Sun
Kelis - Caught Out There
Roddy Frame - Hymn to the Grace
Pram - The Mermaid Hotel
Oval - Mediaton
Tricky - Ponderosa
Cornelius - New Music Machine
Sam Phillips - I Need Love
Six Finger Satellite - Parlour Games

hmm, that Pram track is from the 00's, so it seems. I'll change that to "Pram - 'Chrysalis'" then.

currently my ten most listened to 90s tracks on last.fm

boards of canada - roygbiv
underground resistance - amazon
peshay - robotics
infiniti - game one
underworld - dark and long
808 state - reaper repo
carl craig - science fiction
dj shadow - changeling
shut up and dance - the green man
saint etienne - spring

curiously all but 2 of these are instrumentals

This is very, very difficult.

OK, deliberately limiting myself to one track per 'artist':

1) Ride - Close My Eyes (Ride EP, 1990)
2) My Bloody Valentine - Off Your Face (Glider EP, 1990)
3) Slowdive - Slowdive (Slowdive EP, 1990)
4) Boo Radleys - Foster's Van (Boo Up! EP, 1991)
5) Telescopes - Ocean's Drive (untitled album, 1992)
6) Aphex Twin - Ageispolis (Selected Ambient Works 85-92, 1992)
7) PJ Harvey - Plants and Rags (Dry, 1992)
8) Hardfloor - Acperience 5 (1993? - I got it in 94)
9) Stereolab - French Disko (1993? - heard it on the radio then, but got it in 96)
10) Blur - Badhead (Parklife, 1994)

I seem to have used up my ten in half the decade...

Still need to add these, though:

11) Tricky - Ponderosa
12) Motorbass - Flying Fingers / Les Ondes
13) Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun

it must have made it a little easier to have everyone on your list be from the same general geographical region.

What - Europe?

Should really include Dee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart as well.

they all make me think of england. though they are not all from there. i actually have no idea where hardfloor is from. and boards of canada are from canada, right?. same queen anyway.

Hardfloor were German. Motorbass were French, I think. I might be wrong, but I think Boards of Canada are/were Scottish.

Re: selections - Ride could easily have been Seagull or Chelsea Girl instead. My Bloody Valentine should probably have been Soon, but that's just too obvious. Boo Radleys could easily have chose something off of Giant Steps, but I really like that earlier EP. Telescopes could have been You Set My Soul instead. Aphex Twin could easily have been any of about 20 tracks from SAW I, SAW II and I Care Because You Do. Blur could have been Beetlebum. Motorbass is kind of cheating choosing two tracks, but they run straight from one to the other and I think of them as one thing.

or they make me think of english music magazines anyway. not criticizing! just saying, it would be easier to make a list of music if you excluded, like, 80% of the world from it.

I had a whole load of Sri Lankan jazz and Nigerian skiffle bubbling under my top 13.

Air - New Star in the Sky
Bjork - Come to Me
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Digable Planets - Blowing Down
Lush - Lovelife
Nas - One Love
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Saint Etienne - London Belongs to Me
Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

many xposts oh man I would have included "chrysalis" if I'd thought of it. What a song!

1. Pavement-Here
2. Kitchens of Distinction-Drive Fast
3. Future Sound of London-Papua New Gunea
4. Massive Attack-Man Next Door
5. Daft Punk-Alive
6. My Bloody Valentine-Soon
7. Depeche Mode-Personal Jesus
8. Basement Jaxx-Rendevous
9. Air-Kelly Watch the Stars
10.Portishead-Sour Times

Air - New Star in the Sky
Bjork - Come to Me
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Digable Planets - Blowing Down
Lush - Lovelife
Nas - One Love
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Saint Etienne - London Belongs to Me
Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

replacing "Come to Me" with "Possibly Maybe", and "Humpty Dance" with "93 til Infinity".

'Everlong' is killing me right now and it wasn't even my favorite song off of that album. Might be getting nostalgic because everyone I known is in the process of parting ways... moving to different cities, different circles of friends, getting married, working all day long, etc... and the lyrics and the memories they evoke are aching very hard today.

I hate when music makes me feel nostalgic. Sod 'everlong', then. You will never be one of my favorite songs of the 90s, 'everlong'. Never!

Play Filter's 'Take a Picture' to go along with the feel of 'Everlong'

Beck "Beercan"
Bjork "Unravel"
Bobby Conn "Axis '67"
Boredoms "Super Are"
Cornelius "Mic Check"
Nirvana "On a Plane"
Pavement "Range Life"
Pixies "The Happening"
Smashing Pumpkins "Zero"
Weezer "Say It Ain't So"

Damn, forgot about Elephant 3, Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized...

Flaming Lips' "Riding to Work in the Year 2025" definitely deserves a place in the top 5 of the decade.

“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)

- clemenza

Wow! Someone else here knows Fudge. My favorite song by them is "Drive"

Kung Fu - Ash
Old Man Sam - Spiderbait
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
Purple Sneakers - You Am I
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - Nirvana
Opiate - Tool
Papa Won't Leave You Henry - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sheela Na Gig - PJ Harvey
Red Mosquito - Pearl Jam
Blue - Jayhawks
Mockingbirds - Grant Lee Buffalo

Ack. There's bound to be at least 5 revisions. I'm already arguing with myself.

Nas - NY state of mind
Breeders - Cannonball
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty
Pulp - Dishes
Belle and Sebastian - The State That I am in
Big L - Put It On
Notorious BIG - Machine Gun Funk
Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg - Deep Cover
Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean

"I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" - A Tribe Called Quest
"Regret" - New Order
"Scattered" - The Kinks
"Bring Da Ruckus" - Wu Tang Clan
"Speedy Marie" - Frank Black
"Everyday Struggle" - Notorious BIG
"Gold Soundz" - Pavement
"Waterfalls" - TLC
"Common People" - Pulp
"Together Again" - Janet Jackson

1.McAlmont & Butler-Yes
2.Stereolab-French Disko
3.Bjork-Hyperballad
4.Pet Shop Boys-Being Boring
5.The Divine Comedy-Tonight We Fly
6.St Etienne-Nothing Can Stop Us
7.Morrissey-Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself
8.Earl Brutus-On Me, Not In Me
9.Spiritualized-Broken Heart
10.Plush-Found a Little Baby

These all deserve a place too..
The Boo Radleys-Lazarus
Suede-Killing Of a Flash boy
Disco Inferno-Sleight Of Hand
Underworld-Jumbo
David Sylvian-Darkest Dreaming

Impossible to do this without some tokenism, but this is fairly representative of my decade.

Corona - Rhythm of the Night
Curve - Coast is Clear
Goran Bregovic - Kalasnjikov
Insides - Darling Effect
Lamb - Cotton Wool
Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (VIP mix)
Shy FX & UK Apache - Original Nuttah
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Tricky - Overcome

Hon mention: The Power, Give it Away, Jump Around, I'm Gonna be (500 Miles), Lovefool, Common People, Missing, He's on the Phone

Pale Saints - You Tear the World in Two
Elliot Smith - Between the Bars
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
Tindersticks - Drunk Tank
Praga Khan - Injected With a Poison
Lush - De-Luxe
Sheep on Drugs - 15 Minutes of Fame
The Field Mice - So Said Kay
Beth Orton - Sweetest Decline
Saint Etienne - Spring

Cheating, they also served, extra tracks:
Warren G - Regulate, Portishead - It Could Be Sweet, Gallon Drunk - Arlington Road, Morrissey - Boxers, Pulp - Acrylic Afternoons, Shanice - I Love Your Smile, 808 State - In Yer Face, 2 Unlimited - No Limit, The Wedding Present - Niagra, Slowdive - Avalyn II, Moonshake - Two Tracks, Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money, A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? etc

10 more...

Shampoo - Trouble
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Moose - Jack
Pale Saints - Half-Life, Remembered
Electronic - Disappointed
Dubstar - Stars (Motiv8 remix)
Pulp - This is Hardcore
The Magnetic Fields - Smoke and Mirrors
Air - Sexy Boy
The Field Mice - Sensitive

Airbag
Paranoid Android
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Exit Music
Letdown
Karama Police
Climbing Up the Walls
No Suprises
Lucky
The Tourist

Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger
Sonic Youth - Disappearer
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
Nirvana - All Apologies
Guided by Voices - Tractor Rape Chain
Sonic Youth - JC
Beck - Jackass
Liz Phair - Explain It to Me
MF Doom - Dead Bent
Clinic - Porno

honorable mentions:
Butthole Surfers - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Melvins - Night Goat
The Breeders - Divine Hammer
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World
The Amps - Breaking the Split Screen Barrier
The Vaselines - Slushy
Sonic Youth - Sweet Shine
Polara - Taupe
Remy Zero - Shadowcasting
Phish - Bouncing Around the Room
My Bloody Valentine - What You want

a couple more deserving mention:

Sunny Day Real Estate - Guitar and Video Games
Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinocerous
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze

As of this moment:
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Common People - Pulp
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Date with Ikea - Pavement
Ginger - Lilys
Breaking the Split-Screen Barrier - The Amps
Undone-The Sweater Song - Weezer
Midget Love (7" version) - Hula Hoop
Tomorrow Is Already Here - Stereolab
Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne

Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne

Oh yes.

Great song. It's sad that the actual store Fountains Of Wayne in New Jersey closed down about a year ago.

Here's my current 10 that I haven't already posted...

Aaliyah "One In A Million"
Mobb Deep "Shook Ones Part 2"
Weezer "Falling For You"
Ginuwine "Pony"
Eric B & Rakim "Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em"
Radiohead "Black Star"
Underworld "Dirty Epic"
The Cure "End"
Smashing Pumpkins "Cupid De Locke"
Teenage Fanclub "Alcoholiday"

kornrulez6969 are you from around there?!

Bonus #11 song:
Drive Somewhere - Vulgar Boatmen

Karama Police
No Suprises

Haven't heard these Radiohead songs, are they rare!?

ysi?

karama lama barack obama

Ok Dyslexia

Skee-Lo - I Wish

1. Lali Puna - 603
2. Magnetic Fields - The Dreaming Moon
3. Oval - Hallodraußen
4. Land of the Loops - Multi-Family Garage Sale
5. Clinic - Porno
6. Len - Steal my Sunshine
7. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
8. Pinback - Loro
9. Mano Negra - Out of Time Man
10. Kid Loco - Love Me Sweet

NO ORDER-nobody's but my own-Beck
Gold soundz-Pavement
Motorway to Roswell-Pixies
Fight the power-Public Enemy(a bit 89ish but..)
On a plain-Nirvana
Poison-The Prodigy
The Rockafeller skank-Fatboy slim
Defective trip(tripin')-Gravediggaz
Long before-The palace brothers
Breadcrumb trail-Slint

Lali Puna existed in the 90's?

Fountains of Wayne store....kornrulez6969 are you from around there?!

Yes.

Bonus #11 song:
Drive Somewhere - Vulgar Boatmen

Your bonus song is denied. Drive Somewhere is from the You and Your Sister album, released in 1989. Y'all got to wake up pretty early in the morning to get something Vulgar Boatmen-related past me, people.

Lali Puna existed in the 90's?

― billstevejim.

Tridecoder was released early 1999.

Beck - Where It's At
Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
R.E.M. - Find the River
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
Radiohead - Lucky
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
Counting Crows - A Murder of One
Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day
Daft Punk - Around the World

1. Pavement - Gold Soundz

lol

looooooool

Gold Sounds pffft

I think I'm burnt out on "Paranoid Android." new list...
01 Aaliyah "One in a Million"
02 Nirvana "Heart Shaped Box"
03 Notorious B.I.G. "Party and Bullshit"
04 Ghost Town DJ's "My Boo"
05 Raekwon "Ice Cream"
06 Deluxx Folk Implosion "Daddy Never Understood"
07 LL Cool J "Mama Said Knock You Out"
08 Souls of Mischief "93 Til Infinity"
09 Dinosaur Jr "Out There"
10 Jeff Buckley "Last Goodbye"

Feeling like changing Windowlicker for Flim in my original top 10.

mmm according to this poll:

http://www.inthe90s.com/generated/toptensongs.shtml

Smells Like Teen Spirit 1384
Under The Bridge 603
Jeremy 431
November Rain 381
Wonderwall 375
Creep 345
Black Hole Sun 327
Losing My Religion 306
No Rain 283
Enter Sandman 277

:(

all I can say is that that list is pretty plain

Oddly enough No Rain is the only song in that top 10 which I still don't hate.

We haven't mentioned Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy in here. Do we hate it?

1. Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe

I think that's all that's really needed.

free as a bird
real love

1. Pavement - Gold Soundz

lol

― Moka

personal favorites... (this changes very often)

Nirvana "Scentless Apprentice"
Bel Biv Devoe "Poison"
A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity"
Dr. Octagon "Blue Flowers"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Gimme The Loot"
The Posies "Dream All Day"
Sloan "Pen Pals"
Ween "Baby Bitch"
Stone Temple Pilots "Lady Picture Show"

― billstevejim

I was listening to this one earlier. It's great.

The nineties are still weird for me. I frequently reacquaint myself with songs from then that I like, but at the same time I barely give a fuck.

I always forget when records are from, especially when they are new (to me)

Mine would probably be 6 old skool hardcore/jungle tunes, 2 Carcass tunes and Don't Let Go by En Vogue.

chap otm

Realised I left myself one choice, which would obviously be Regulate.

1. dirty dream number 2 - belle and sebastian

Rolling Stone’s top 500 songs of all time (2021 ed.) says it’s:

1. Public Enemy - Fight the Power
2. Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit
3. Dr. Dre + Snoop Dogg - Nuthin’ but a G thang
4. Notorious BIG - Juicy
5. Ms. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop
6. U2 - One
7. Pulp - Common People
8. Oasis - Wonderwall
9. Jay Z - 99 problema
10. Alanis Morissette - oughta know

Let’s do this again:

Aphex Twin - Flim (or Windowlicker can’t pick one…)
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
Björk - Possibly Maybe (or Hyperballad…)
Cardigans - Lovefool
Dee-lite - groove is in the heart
Len - Steal my sunshine
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
MF DOOM - Doomsday
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You

Might exchange Moodymann - I can’t kick this feeling when it hits for dee-lite or cardigans…

Fuck it this too complicated…

Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Breeders - Cannonball
Talk Talk - New Grass
Massive Attack - Protection
Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Ultramagnetic MCs - Poppa Large (East Coast Remix)
Oblivians - Bad Man

Oops, that was only 9.
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You

Freshly laminated this morning

Underworld - Dark & Long
Saint Etienne - Avenue
Carl Craig - Science Fiction
Outkast - Rosa Parks
Portishead - Roads
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk
Foul Play - Being With You
Model 500 - The Flow

^^^^ that is a superlative selection

Agreed, love that one. Not a single song in there which I don’t love.

1990-1994:

1. Madonna – Vogue
2. Utah Saints – Something Good
3. Suede – The Drowners
4. Sade – No Ordinary Love
5. New Order – Regret
6. Nas – The World is Yours
7. The B-52’s – Roam
8. Dwight Yoakam – A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
9. Sinead O’Connor – The Emperor’s New Clothes
10. My Bloody Valentine – Soon

1995-1999:

1. The Notorious B.I.G – Juicy
2. Pulp – Common People
3. Garbage – Happy When It Rains
4. Ginuwine – Pony
5. Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott ft 702 and Magoo – Beep Me 911
6. Tricky – Black Steel
7. Jennifer Paige – Crush
8. Elastica – Stutter
9. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
10. Jay Z – Dead Presidents II

off the top of my head, trying to avoid songs others have mentioned so far

the pharcyde - passin me by
björk - army of me
archers of loaf - web in front
tlc - creep
the notorious b.i.g. - warning
luniz - i got 5 on it
prefab sprout - scarlet nights
modest mouse - trailer trash
dj quik - tonite
ghostface killah - daytona 500

90s songs in my pretend RS songs ballot (we're all working on one, right?):

My Bloody Valentine – Honey Power
A Tribe Called Quest – Electric Relaxation
Souls of Mischief – 93 'Til Infinity
Death – Crystal Mountain
Depeche Mode – Waiting for the Night

Imma steal Alfred's split so I can get more songs in:

1990-1994:
1. A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
2. Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
3. Portishead - Roads
4. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
5. Pavement - Here
6. Souls of Mischief -93’ til infinity
7. Mazzy Star - Fade into you
8. Warren G - Regulate
9. Deee-Lite – Groove is the Heart
10. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring

1995-1999:
1. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
2. Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You
3. Björk - Possibly Maybe
4. Aphex Twin - IZ-US
5. Nearly God - Poems
6. Moodymann - I can’t kick this feelin when it hits
7. Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the bottom
8. Outkast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious
9. Len - Steal my sunshine
10. MF DOOM - Doomsday

Off the top:

"Little Fluffy Clouds" - The Orb
"The Humpty Dance" - Digital Underground
"How I Could Just Kill a Man" - Cypress Hill
"I Play It Off Legit" - Ween
"Trigger Cut" - Pavement
"Divorce Song" - Liz Phair
"Socket" - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
"Linger" - The Cranberries
"Diamonds and Wood" - UGK
"How Bizarre" - OMC

Fuck I'm going through a list and I want to change mine again.

It's like killing your own children but I'd love to scratch some of those and put these instead:

Saint Etienne - Avenue
Madonna - Drowned World / Substitute for Love
Donna Lewis - I Love you Always Forever
Slowdive - Blue Skied An' Clear

maybe on a good day:

Porno for Pyros - Pets
Camp Lo - Luchini

it's hard enough to pick only one song from artists like bjork, stereolab or afx...

switch out luniz and put in ugk's "pinky ring"

for mine

Bel Biv Devoe - Poison
Deee-Lite - Groove is…
Saint Etienne - Spring (did eeny meeny moe to pick one of theirs)
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Björk - Hyperballad. Or Possibly Maybe. Possibly.
Snoop - Ain't No Fun
2Pac - So Many Tears
Wu Tang - Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin to Fuck With
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsam
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

How different would yall's list be if you made it Jan 1 2000?

How different would yall's list be if you made it Jan 1 2000?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger)

Mine would honestly be close. Maybe exchanging the songs but Aphex Twin, Portishead, Massive Attack, Bjork, BOC, Pavement, Stereolab were all in heavy rotation in my early teens… hip hop would probably be missing… I got into it until the mid 00s and I realized I had been missing on some amazing albums.

I’d very probably have some Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, Garbage and maybe a track from OKC in my top 10 if you had asked me in 2000.

I actually still have a cd that I used to burn for friends circa 1999/2000 with the following songs:

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Bonobo - The Plug
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Bjork - Unravel
Everything but the girl - wrong
Cardigans - erase / rewind
Depeche Mode - Useless
Boards of Canada - In a beautiful place out in the country
Stereolab - Miss Modular
Amon Tobin - Slowly
Hooverphonic - 2wicky
Groove Armada - superstylin
Geggy Tah - whoever you are
Lightning Seeds - you showed me
Air - sexy boy
Cat Power - Cross bones style

I remember loving those and I still haven’t grown tired of most of them.

That wasn’t the actual sequencing btw I have to listen to it to post the correct one. I can even provide proof with the cd info on my computer.

In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country is my favorite Boards of Canada track but was released in 2000

my favorite 1990s, from what comes to mind

Tricky - Christiansands
Björk - Big Time Sensuality
Liz Phair - Fuck and Run
Yo La Tengo - Barnaby, Hardly Working
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
Portishead - Glory Box
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Air - La Femme d'Argent

I have a more “alt rock” oriented one too but I don’t have a copy of that one nearby… it had fountains of wayne, smashing pumpkins, offspring, throwing muses, garbage, nine inch nails, radiohead, luscious jackson, pixies and mano negra top of my head.

In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country is my favorite Boards of Canada track but was released in 2000

― Dan S,

I know! It’s mine too. Was recollecting from a burnt cd from my early teens with mostly music from the 90’s… there were 2000 maybe even 2001 songs in there.

this is the Tricky Christiansands you all should hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmcOFp5__jQ

Love love love Christiansands btw, I’d probably pick that one after Poems as my favorite song of his.

Fuck and Run also my favorite Liz Phair song, everyone goes with Divorce Song usually in these sort of lists but it’s a lesser song.

fuck and run was astonishing to hear at the time

Some great music on this thread! I could definitely see myself popping back on here to revise a few of these. Some of them were impulsive decisions; others would be on any top ten list.

A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
Common & Sadat X feat. Talib Kweli - 1-9-9-9
Death in Vegas - Rocco (Dub)
Godflesh - Spite
Meat Beat Manifesto - Edge of No Control, Pt. 2
Orbital - Attached
Photek - KJZ
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Skinny Puppy - Mirror Saw (Dub version)
Techno Animal - Anthrazite

Aerosmith - Eat the rich
Aerosmith - Cryin’
Aerosmith - Living on the edge
Aerosmith - Pink
Aerosmith - fallin In love is hard on the knees
Aerosmith - Crazy
Aerosmith - I don’t want to miss a thing
Aerosmith - deuces are wild
Aerosmith - lizard love
Aerosmith - Amazing

Big Time Sensuality video, a love letter to NY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Q9XaCmYno

Boyz II Men - End of the Road
Suffocation - Infecting the Crypts
Cannibal Corpse - I Cum Blood
New Radicals - I Don't Wanna Die Anymore
Slayer - Dead Skin Mask
Bone Thugs 'n Harmony - Crossroads
N'Sync - Tearing Up My Heart
Cryptopsy - Graves of the Fathers
Radiohead - Let Down
Immolation - No Jesus, No Beast

Roughly one per year, and off the top of my head:

Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Neneh Cherry - Move with Me
Rickie Lee Jones - Stewart's Coat
Liz Phair - Nashville
Emmylou Harris - Blackhawk
Toni Braxton - There's No Me Without You
Kenickie - People We Want
Patty Griffin - Tony
Aimee Mann - Deathly

with Kool Thing it's always the guitar riff starting at 2:37 and the subsequent blowout that gets to me

Ten at the moment

Massive Attack - Protection
Mazzy Star - Halah
Low - Starfire
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen ...
Slowdive - Alison
Uncle Tupelo - Chickamauga
Everything But the Girl - Five Fathoms
Stereolab - Metronomic Underground
Portishead - Wandering Star
Belle & Sebastian - Seeing Other People

How different would yall's list be if you made it Jan 1 2000?

I think I have mine saved somewhere.

1. Bjork - Hyperballad
2. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
3. Stereolab - French Disko
4. Lauryn Hill - Ex Factor
5. Broadcast - The Book Lovers
6. Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us
7. Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk
8. Underworld - Jumbo
9. George Michael - Fastlove
10. Binary Finary - 1998

I’ve decided the 90’s is a fucking weird decade for me. I’ll never be able to make a top 10 I’m satisfied with this decade. Gimme any other decade and I can easily enlist a top 20 that I feel satisfied with… not this decade though.

I have trouble separating what I actually listened to in the 90’s from the good stuff I found about later as an adult. There’s also stuff which keeps being pushed as “best of the 90’s” which I just can’t hear anymore no matter how good they might be (eg: Nirvana’s Nevermind and to a certain degree OK Computer), stuff which I loved as a child in the 90’s and I still think it’s funny but I find too immature nowadays to truly enjoy (eg: cafe tacvba, blink 182, hombres g), and cheesy dance tracks like say Scatman, Another Night, Believe, Better Off Alone, Rhythm of the Night…which immediatly make me smile if I overhear them somewhere but would probably never consider seriously in a top 10.

I went from being 5 to 15 years old in that decade. There’s too much going on in those years, it feels like 3 or even 4 different eras in time for me. Idk.

I agree. There was just so much going on. Even coming up with the ten I did, I left out some of my favorite genres let alone albums. The 90s sucked in a lot of ways looking back, but sometimes I feel like the 00's and even early 10s were a continuation of a 90s explosion (that started in the late 80s). I'm biased, though, being as I turned 17 in '90, and I guess everybody overvalues the music they listened to in those years.

That said, it'd be just as difficult coming up with the ten worst songs of the 90s.

Ya totally relate to that too, Moka

a lot of songs I love from the 90s the most are one hit wonder songs

i gotta new age girl
TELL US WHAT SHE'S LIIIIIKE

Lol just to prove it further, I was wondering what a worst songs of the 90’s list might look like and I got this:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/whats-the-worst-song-from-the-90s

I actually like several of these! Actually with the exception of that Creed song which I do find terrible I think most of these are fun and some are even great. No way is Snow - Informer one of the worst songs of the decade, that song is awesome.

If I were to make such a list I guess something like Creed and Puddle of Mudd would make the cut.

that Joey Lawrence song actually legit rules

But yeah my point is I can’t honestly hear what’s so goddamn awful about most of those because I listened to them when I was way too young to care.

And yeah that Joey Lawrence song rules.

LMAO at the rap, there was a part I never could make out and I find out after all these years

Cuz our love has got to shine through
And baby you got to see it too
That we were meant girl me and you
But lately you been acting
Like I smell like a zoo

Worst song of the 90s list would be the Aerosmith list above except maybe swap one of them with “Bugs” by Pearl Jam.

Bugs is aight as far as novelty songs go.

Christiansands is a killer track.

Eleven more I did not choose in 2009

Shellac- Doris
Beastie Boys- Sabotage
Afghan Whigs- My Curse
Fugazi- Stacks
Boards of Canada- Aquarius
Soundgarden- Fell on Black Days
Underworld- Dark and Long
Fu Manchu- King of the Road
Counting Crows- Perfect Blue Buildings
Bjork- All is Full of Love
Guided by Voices- Goldstar for Robot Boy

1990 - 1994:

The Sundays - Hideous Towns
Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Madonna - Deeper & Deeper
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Orbital - Impact USA (The Earth Is Burning: Diversion)
Disco Inferno - The Long Dance
Omni Trio - Thru The Vibe
TLC - Creep

1995 - 1999:

Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone
Aaliyah - One In A Million
New Horizons - Find The Path
Jay-Z - Where I'm From
Roni Size / Reprazent - Share The Fall
Busta Rhymes - Dangerous
The Martian - Firekeeper
Janet Jackson - Empty
Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Remix)
Underworld - Jumbo

Carl Craig - Home Entertainment
Don Carlos- Alone
Everything But The Girl - Driving
Jam & Spoon - Stella
Mr Fingers - What About This Love
Nu Yorican Soul - I Am the Black Gold of the Sun (4 Hero Mix)
Souls of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity
Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)
Underground Resistance - Illuminator
Underworld - Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love

Anybody got time to put together a Spotify playlist of what’s been mentioned?

Janet Jackson’s empty is a great choice.

my disco inferno pick would be "second language"

“Second Language” is prettier, but “The Last Dance”/“The Long Dance” feature some of my favourite lyrics of any song ever.

Roughly one per year, and off the top of my head:

Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Neneh Cherry - Move with Me
Rickie Lee Jones - Stewart's Coat
Liz Phair - Nashville
Emmylou Harris - Blackhawk
Toni Braxton - There's No Me Without You
Kenickie - People We Want
Patty Griffin - Tony
Aimee Mann - Deathly

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, September 21, 2021 8:55 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Nice

This is impossible

A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
Pulp - Common People
Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
The Dixie Chicks - There's Your Trouble
Iris DeMent - Let the Mystery Be
Wilco - A Shot in the Arm
Radiohead - Let Down
Daft Punk - Around the World
Bjork - Hyperballad
Weezer - My Name is Jonas

Catherine Wheel — Strange Fruit
Sinead O’Connor — Three Babies
Janet Jackson — Together Again
Pet Shop Boys — So Hard
Suede — The Wild Ones
Mobb Deep — Shook Ones Pt. II
Mary J. Blige — Mary Jane (All Night Long)
The Amps — Bragging Party
Built To Spill — Carry The Zero
Goldie — Timeless

Some amazing choices overall, we should have one of these for each decade as a frame of reference for our own top 50 ballot of the greatest songs of all time. ;)

ugh forgot "New Grass"

if i had made the list on jan 1 2000 it woulda looked like this i think:

snoop – doggy dogg world
kurupt – we can freak it
tony tone toni – lets get down (ft dj quik)
too short – gettin it
naughty by nature – feel me flow
rbl posse – dont give me no bammer
wu – triumph
outkast – ATLiens
master p – burbons and lacs
3 6 mafia – late nite tip
e-40 – sprinkle me
2pac – how do you want it

think it would look a little different now but these would all easily be in my top 30 or so.

amazing list spottie

in high school for me it was mostly about what made the trunk rattle lol

kurupt – we can freak it

fuck yeah

e-40 – sprinkle me

fuuuuck yeahhh

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There does seem to be a certain lack of hip hop among selections here overall. I think of the mid-90s as a bit of a slump for hip hop and I wonder if we polled the noughties if more hip hop would be represented.

(Voodoo chili I was gonna ask if the inclusion of Luniz means you’re from the Bay — it seems like a local fave. Personally I have to rep the remix, especially now since Shock G is on it. But anyway you scratched it from your list so disregard.)

But I bet that guy who picked Tumthumping regrets it by now. The guy who picked Porno For Pyros too. <wink>

i'm a big hip hop head but i like so many genres I didn't even notice I had left hip hop out until after i submitted.

need to make a hip hop specific one

Right understandable.

I think when I made my list I was very consciously picking representatives of major genres. It looks all wrong now though and I’m not really sure exactly how. 11 years ago wow.

12 years. I can math!

" I think of the mid-90s as a bit of a slump for hip hop"

I think of 92-96 to be the pinnacle of hip hop

I think of the mid-90s as a bit of a slump for hip hop and I wonder if we polled the noughties if more hip hop would be represented.

yah granny otm. 93-98 is my personal golden age. i listened to a lot of other stuff but hip hop dominated my listening for the most part. a top 100 would include some grunge, punk, alt rock and lots of r&b.

I'm surprised how little 'Pac has been listed here. Hugely iconic 90s artist. Is it that his persona and celebrity overshadows his actual music??

Like I probably would've forgotten to list a song of his if not for noticing his absence in others' lists.

he seems to have fallen out of favor a bit over the years

Maybe y’all are right. Mostly it’s that I wasn’t listening to much hip hop from ‘95-‘00 other than Pac and J5 tbh. I was out of the loop on Nas, Outkast, Biggie, E-40…the list could go on. (I was going to a lot of great drum and bass parties all over the US tho.)

Anyway that leads to me figuring out what’s wrong with my list — no Outkast. For now I’ll with Two Dope Boyz (In A Cadillac), seems like their proper anthem. And a deep fucking groove with massive flows riding on top of course. Dungeon Family surely one of the top production teams of the 90s in terms of influence.

yah you could make an organized noize top ten list from the 90s that would rival any list here.

top ten of a decade is just a cruel exercise really.

Right I meant Organized Noise thanks.

And I see I left Tupac out too, I only listed that Black Star remix. Pete Rock is another top 90s producer, except his influence was maybe more limited. But that remix also has one of Black Thought’s greatest guest verses too, it’s A+

1. Tricky - Hell Is Round the Corner
2. Slowdive - Waves
3. Fugazi - Reclamation
4. The Sundays - Goodbye
5. Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know the Ledge) Main Mix
6. Wu Tang Clan - Wu Banga 101
7. Underworld - Dark And Long - Dark Train
8. The Afghan Whigs - Summer's Kiss
9. Kyuss - 50 Million Year Trip
10. Cat Power - Colors and the Kids

Impossible. No room for Mama Said Knock You Out or Exit Music?

(Voodoo chili I was gonna ask if the inclusion of Luniz means you’re from the Bay — it seems like a local fave. Personally I have to rep the remix, especially now since Shock G is on it. But anyway you scratched it from your list so disregard.)

haha i am not from the bay but it's always been one of my fav rap regions

Think it's a local favorite while also being pretty well-known elsewhere

yeah it was a top ten pop hit, iirc

im a cali native, it would prob make my top ten too, there was a recent top 3 of all time thread i chose it for

it never gets old. another one (was my last cut) was playaz club by rappin 4tay. that song was inescapable up and down the bay for a long time

I had to do it, sorry:

The 10 best songs from the 80’s

Anybody got time to put together a Spotify playlist of what’s been mentioned?

― calstars, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 bookmarkflaglink

This is everything since the revive - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27Dtkdq366h6rd8g3q6GSm?si=6471d11d80544b11

It was done with an app so there's probably mistakes and some things couldn't be found

I tried to:
- include a broad range of genres that feel "1990s" to me (although lacking latin, african and asian music so let's call it "western")
- hit singles or at least somewhat canonical genre classics
- worldwide range but no songs that were just local hits (i.e. no finnish rap, american country, german schlager, dutch gabber etc)

Stardust Music Sounds Better With You (1998)
Warren G & Nate Dogg Regulate (1994)
Alice In Chains Would? (1992)
Solar Quest Acid Air Raid (George's All Nighter) (1994)
Entombed Left Hand Path (1990)
Jaydee Plastic Dreams (Original Long Version) (1992)
dEUS Suds & Soda (1994)
Biosphere Baby Interphase (1994)
Janet Jackson Got 'Till It's Gone (1997)
LTJ Bukem Horizons(1995)
Portishead Sour Times (1994)

Biosphere, interesting! That’s one I wasn’t familiar with — I’m just listening on headphones but it sounds like the sub bass is almost heavy enough for garage?

Overall that’s half songs I would pick, but I haven’t even heard of much of the rest. (For those similarly in the dark, it seems Deus is some kind of Belgian indie metal [?], Entombed is Swedish death metal, and the Solar Quest sounds like some pretty basic acid techno. Respect.)

But I can definitely remember my indie friends at the time making fun of me for liking Warren G.

dEUS were a Belgian indie rock band, pretty high profile I thought?

Regulate is a bit of a boring choice but most of the other rap songs I'd pick were already mentioned a lot in this thread.

I don’t know, most of my knowledge of indie rock is pretty regional. I wasn’t closely following European indie at the time that’s for sure.

I think Regulate is pretty great really, maybe not the greatest but definitely an excellent production. The lyrics are ok.

dEUS was a great band, on the arty end of the indie/alt rock spectrum but still with enough hooks to be staples of alt-rock radio playlists.

_Anybody got time to put together a Spotify playlist of what’s been mentioned?

― calstars, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 bookmarkflaglink_


This is everything since the revive - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27Dtkdq366h6rd8g3q6GSm?si=6471d11d80544b11🕸🕸

It was done with an app so there's probably mistakes and some things couldn't be found

Those solo Wu-Tang joins came out in the mid '90s iirc, and, well does 1994 count as mid '90s? A couple of classics that year....

This is favorites, not "best" right?

Cake - Jolene
Justin Warfield - Thoughts In The Buttermilk
Third Eye Blind - Losing a Whole Year
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Positive K - I Got A Man
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhime
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Smashing Pumpkins - Crush
Tripmaster Monkey - Spinning to Unwind

I had to do it, sorry:

The 10 best songs from the 80’s

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

Ha, I was thinking about doing one for the 00's, which for me is an overlooked decade sandwiched between the 90s and 10s which I consider almost equally amazing decades for music.

Anybody got time to put together a Spotify playlist of what’s been mentioned?
― calstars, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 bookmarkflaglink

This is everything since the revive - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27Dtkdq366h6rd8g3q6GSm?si=6471d11d80544b11

It was done with an app so there's probably mistakes and some things couldn't be found

― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 September 2021 04:25 (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just made a couple of changes to this, hope that's cool

xp The Buzzfeed list does not include "The Rhythm Of My Heart" or "All For One All For Love" so yea, nice try but no.

Madonna, "Vogue"
The Orb, "Little Fluffy Clouds"
Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Nine Inch Nails, "Closer"
Bjork, "Unravel"
Daft Punk, "Revolution 909"
Missy Elliott, "Beep Me 911"
OutKast, "Rosa Parks"
Kerri Chandler, "Rain"
Jordan Knight, "Give It To You"

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Wasn’t there like a poll of the top 11 songs from 2000-2013 or something? I could well be deeply in error.

yo "Bugs" is sick, gtfo

This feels about right:
1. Ghost Town DJs "My Boo"
2. SWV "Right Here (Human Nature)"
3. Aaliyah "One In A Million"
4. Notorious BIG "Juicy"
5. The Pharcyde "Passin' Me By"
6. Radiohead "Let Down"
7. Pavement "Grounded"
8. Adina Howard "Freak Like Me"
9. Blur "Coffee + TV"
10. Teenage Fanclub "Everything Flows"

"Electric Relaxation" or Dino Jr's "Out There" should probably be in there but idk what to cut.

Looks not very well aligned with my top 90s scrobbles since 2014:
1. Heatmiser "You Gotta Move"
2. Hum "Comin' Home"
3. Failure "Undone"
4. Floor "Chelsea/Pigs"
5. Tony Toni Tone "Feels Good"
6. Shudder To Think "Earthquakes Come Home"
7. The Pharcyde "Passin' Me By"
8. Ween "Baby Bitch"
9. A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
10. Cannibal Corpse "Sentenced To Burn"

Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Fuck this is also one of mine. Fuck.

Just off the top of my head and very subjective:

1. The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
2. KLF - 3AM Eternal
3. Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me
4. Autechre - Arch Carrier
5. Blur - This Is A Low
6. dEUS - Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)
7. Kyuss - Super Scoopa And Mighty Scoop
8. Green Day - Welcome To Paradise
9. The Prodigy - Break & Enter
10. R.E.M. - Country Feedback

Tortoise - night air
Rachel’s - Wally, egon, and models in the studio
Pavement - Loretta’s scars

Lilys- nanny in Manhattan

Supa Scooper rules.

Pavement - Loretta’s scars

This is on my Top 50 of All Time list! We’re kindred spirits…

“Let us…”

See I was a tutor for a girl named Loretta in high school

Bjork's Unravel is an amazing track

I have serious trouble picking the best track from Homogenic, there’s so many classics in there. I think the only track that I tend to skip is “all neon like”, but I’ve been obssesed about every other track in there. There was a time where I’d have picked Pluto or Alarm Call. Then 5 Years was the one… I haven’t listened to it in years but I’d say from a diatance that Joga and Unravel are the two that seem to me like the safer choices for best songs. I’d probably change my mind if I hear the album again.

Oh and Hunter! Such a weird choice for a single, love it. Love the video, love the sort of martial beat. “How Scandinavian of me.” Yeah it’s a brilliant album.

I was supposed to work on a top 200 some months back and I've left it in the works, so I'll pretend I still need to pare it down and allow myself double the space.

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
The Notorious B.I.G. - The What
Brandy - I wanna be down
Faith Evans - Love like this
Björk - All Neon Like
Talk Talk - After the Flood
Sonny Sharrock - Many Mansions
The Underground Solution - Luv Dancin'
Digable Planets - Where I'm From
Black Moon - Ack Like U Want It
David Sylvian - I surrender
The Coup - Takin' These
Belle and Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies
Outkast - Git Up, Git Out
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Death - Lack of Comprehension
Romanthony - Hold On
Ginuwine - Pony
A tribe called quest - Bonita Applebum
Souls of Mischief - 93 'til infinity

Shit, I'm still missing Depeche Mode, Autechre, Cocteau Twins, Emperor, Ulver, Boubacar Traoré, Jeru, Penny Penny, Wu-Tang, EPMD, Sizzla and Los Fresones Rebeldes, what happened, oh yes it was a whole decade.

Hearing the Vulnicura live version of All Neon Like on YT made me return to it. It's the most Vespertine-like song on the album. My usual choice from Homogenic was Immature - which is this moment of solipsism, of crying and shouting and tearing the cocoon and loving it, power in vulnerability. Jóga, Unravel and Bachelorette are gorgeous but slightly demonstrative. I've never considered 5 years top Björk material - it's the beat... But that's redoing the poll all over again.

Mind Playing Tricks

Yessss

Supa Scooper rules.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, September 25, 2021 6:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

otm never heard it before!

Not dissing on “all neon like” at all, it’s still a brilliant song.

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U; Dee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart; The Breeders - Cannonball
(Counted as one since they're popular picks here)
Cynthia & Johnny "O" - Dreamboy/Dreamgirl
Lush - De-Luxe
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck
Lisette Melendez - Together Forever
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
Belly - Sweet Ride
Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love

1. David Wise, "Stickerbrush Symphony" (Donkey Kong Country 2, SNES)
2. Soyo Oka, "Megalopolis" (Sim City, SNES)
3. Ryu Umemoto, "Reminiscence" (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world, NEC PC-98)
4. Akira Yamaoka, "Not Tomorrow" (Silent Hill, PSX)
5. Tim Follin, "Title Theme" (Solstice, NES)
6. Konami Kukeiha Club. "Theme of IRIS" (Lagrange Point, FC)
7. Masashi Kageyama, "Sophia" (Gimmick!, FC)
8. Masanori Adachi / Taro Kudo, "The Submerged City" (Super Castlevania IV, SFC)
9. Masaharu Iwata / Hitoshi Sakimoto, "Ovelia's Worries" (Final Fantasy Tactics, PSX)
10. Yuzo Koshiro, "The Shinobi" (Revenge of Shinobi, MD)

1. David Wise, "Stickerbrush Symphony" (Donkey Kong Country 2, SNES)

Yessss

3. Ryu Umemoto, "Reminiscence" (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world, NEC PC-98)

This is also beautiful

1. inoj "love you down"
2. mazzy star "fade into you"
3. massive attack "unfinished sympathy"
4. britney spears "...baby one more time"
5. filter "take a picture"
6. sinéad o'connor "nothing compares 2 u"
7. brian mcknight "anytime"
8. primitive radio gods "standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand"
9. tamia "so into you"
10. pj harvey "down by the water"

Ten favorites not listed yet in rough preferential order. Clearly I was listening to a lot of punk/alternative then. These still hold up for me.
1. The Queers - "Love Love Love"
2. New Bomb Turks - "Tattooed Apathetic Boys"
3. Bis - "Everybody Thinks That They're Going To Get Theirs"
4. Heretix - "Egghead"
5. Nation of Ulysses - "Ulythium"
6. Belly - "Slow Dog"
7. Green Day - "Longview" (is this too obvious/played out for everyone)
8. Faith No More - "Midlife Crisis"
9. Sugar - "A Good Idea" (though if David Barbe could sing I would replace it with "Where Diamonds Are Haloes")
10. Jawbreaker - "Sea Foam Green"

1. Brian Conley - Resurrection Shuffle
2. Brian Conley - Ain't Too Proud to Beg
3. Brian Conley - Pink Cadillac
4. Brian Conley - Shake a Tail Feather
5. Brian Conley - Every Little Heartbeat
6. Shane Richie - Just When I Needed You Most
7. Brian Conley - Rescue Me
8. Brian Conley - Love Really Hurts Without You
9. Brian Conley - Misty Blue
10. Ninjaman - Bwoy Go Sit Down

if i had made the list on jan 1 2000 it woulda looked like this i think:

snoop – doggy dogg world
kurupt – we can freak it
tony tone toni – lets get down (ft dj quik)
too short – gettin it
naughty by nature – feel me flow
rbl posse – dont give me no bammer
wu – triumph
outkast – ATLiens
master p – burbons and lacs
3 6 mafia – late nite tip
e-40 – sprinkle me
2pac – how do you want it

think it would look a little different now but these would all easily be in my top 30 or so.

― a talented ‘Rebel’ with Balls (Spottie)

Just realized this list by Spottie does not have “spottieottiedopaliscious” in it. Username neglected.

i know i was gonna put it in over ATLiens but had to be honest with myself... ATLiens had a bigger impact on me in the 90s

Balil - 3/4 Heart
LTJ Bukem - Demon's Theme
Levitation - Smile (EP version)

....

Dunno. Lemme get back to you.

Basically replicating what I did on the '70s thread, but I'm bored, so why not -- not a top ten list per se, but one song from my favorite album of each year of the decade:
1990: Jane's Addiction - "Ritual de lo Habitual": "Three Days"
1991: Nirvana - "Nevermind": "Drain You"
1992: Alice in Chains - "Dirt": "Down in a Hole"
1993: Nirvana - "In Utero": "Scentless Apprentice"
1994: Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral": "Closer"
1995: Smashing Pumpkins - "Mellon Collie...": "1979"
1996: Stone Temple Pilots - "Tiny Music...": "Big Bang Baby"
1997: Radiohead - "OK Computer": "Climbing up the Walls"
1998: Outkast - "Aquemini": "SpottieOttieDopaliscious"
1999: Eminem - "The Slim Shady LP": "'97 Bonnie and Clyde"

Honorary mention to that live performance of LONG SEASON by Fishmans that has become popular through social media. Believe the hype, it’s worth the runtime.

More discussion on the phenomenon here

Decades-old stuff that was fairly unknown in the West but suddenly got very famous online (aka: the Fishmans thread)

the best fishmans track is "yurameki in the air" fwiw

Show Me Love - Robin S
Freedom '90 - George Michael
I Must Be Getting Over You - Nick Lowe
The Lakes of Canada - The Innocence Mission
Born At The Right Time - Paul Simon
Where Will I Be - Emmylou Harris
New Year's Day - Chuck Prophet
Round Midnight - James Carter
Closing Time - Leonard Cohen
Past The Mission - Tori Amos

Should've fit "Flagpole Sitta" in there somewhere.

For years I woke up every morning with Flagpole Sitta stuck in my head and I could never figure out why.

I'm sorry I posted 7 different lists in this thread.

10+2:

01 Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (DNA remix)
02 Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry remix)
03 Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Supa Fly)
04 The Wrens - I've Made Enough Friends
05 Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy
06 my bloody valentine - Don't Ask Why
07 of Montreal - Don't Ask Me to Explain
08 Jeff Buckley - Grace
09 The Cranberries - Dreams
10 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

+1 Nas feat. AZ - Life's a Bitch
+2 Stan Ridgway - Picasso's Tear

Teenage Fanclub - "God Knows It's True"
They Might Be Goants - "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
The Future Sound of London - "Papua New Guinea"
Blur - "There's No Other Way"
Blur - "Chemical World"
Underworld - "Cowgirl"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Hummer"
Stereo MCs - "Connected"
Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Badly Drawn Boy - "The Treeclimber"

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:30 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fuck this shit. “The Treeclimber”? Two Blur songs? There was way too much great music released in the ‘90s for me to seriously consider narrowing down all my favorite songs to only ten.

Isn't seeing how well/how poorly they age half the fun of listmaking exercises like this?

(Stereo MCs "Connected" made my shortlist, fwiw)