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

32. The Offspring - "All I Want" (the last alt-rock semi-hit to clock less than 2:00?)

up until "United States Of Whatever" & "Fell In Love with A Girl"

"she's all i ever had" ricky martin

literally i think i am the only person on earth who remembers this song (including ricky martin) and i'm probably the only one who enjoys it too

I was just talking w/my friend on the phone and had to remind him Marcy Playground had a hit after "Sex and Candy" (albeit a smaller one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPWZZ4QaSQ0

Wasn't 'Coming up from behind' also sort of popular after appearing on the Cruel Intentions OST?

Aqua - "Doctor Jones". Yes, they DID have another single! If I recall correctly this was a #1 in their home country and generally very big in Europe. In fact, Aquarium technically had 7 singles! "Doctor Jones" is easily their best, one of the few perfect pop songs in existance (really!)

― frogbs

Also big in Latin America. Song got played almost as much as 'Barbie Girl' over here. Most people only remember the latter tho.

What about:

Janet Jackson - Got Till It's Gone

J Dilla on production credits, Joni Mitchell sample, charted ok on international charts and yet few people from my generation and downward seem to remember it at all.

Maybe I am totally wrong about this; they played "Doctor Jones" at my cousin's bat mitzvah and a lot of the teenage girls loved it!! They were even singing along to the "wake up now!" part!! When did this happen??

"Saint Joe" is a great one. I once started Marcy Playground: Classic or dud? in an attempt to raise awareness of his non-"Sex and Candy" material, but it...didn't really take.

Listening to "Doctor Jones" now - have DEFINITELY never heard this before but it ain't bad. Would love to hear a cover that liberates the chorus from the dinky club beat, which was never my favorite sound of the decade.

"St. Joe" had a video?! Sweet!!!

Wasn't 'Coming up from behind' also sort of popular after appearing on the Cruel Intentions OST?

Not sure. "St. Joe..." was a top ten Modern Rock Hit but didn't cross over like "Sex & Candy" did. I seem to recal "Poppies" & the lead single from the second lp "It's Saturday" getting airplay in my neck of the woods as well.

Lately I've been thinking alot about things pertaining to this thread subject because for the last 6 months, we've had a "Classic Alternative" station on the dial down here and I've been mentally noting huge songs that have escaped their net. For example, in the case of a group like Marcy Playground, we get stuck with their one big song.

yeah otm "St. Joe" won't ever get radio airplay again, unless ppl sign a petition or something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoT7nTT8kLc

Still pissed off to be reminded of "Mungo City" every time this thread is revived

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SRrUGW5Gw

INXS - Elegantly Wasted (not good, but I remember this getting tons of airplay for a short time and then totally vanishing from the record)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=053b3GKPzYU

Bif Naked - Daddy's Getting Married

Convinced Semisonic owe her a check for "Closing Time," or maybe it's just a really generic chord progression. But it don't get much grungier than this. Drowning dreams like puppies in ACIIIIID!

Anyone up in this bitch remember Patti Rothberg?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJSt3ZPGJPg

Nope! Not a bad tune although sort of...generic maybe? Or that might just be the video doing that.

(She's cute though!)

came to put Sylk E Fyne but The Reverend beat me to it by three years.

"hot sex on a platter just to get you wet, youse about to get somethin you will never regret, and it's gonna be the bomb this is what i bet...yep"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzX8OMgkjQ

Leah Andreone, "It's Alright It's OK."

Has "also-ran" written all over it, but almost as 90s post-grunge as you could get in one song - note punchy drums, gratuitous sitar, "adult" themes, and those absurd melismatic ululations. I only ever remembered the chorus, not sure how many times I actually heard this on the radio.

Two things I didn't know about "Romeo & Juliet"/Sylk E. Fyne:

• The dude on that song is Chill from Compton's Most Wanted
• She had a second single with Too Short that was pretty good

Ill Al Skratch "I'll Take Her/Where My Homiez"

Asante "Look at What You've Done (Refugee Camp Remix)"

Veruca Salt "Volcano Girls"

I guess this is good place to ask this. I'm trying to identify a music video I saw in late 97. The song was a by a female singer and the video featured her on a motorbike chasing down a truck driver and then eventually hijacking the truck. It might be Canadian. I think I recall a lot of reds and browns in the color pallette. It might not even be that obscure of a song, and it's just that I only ever saw the video of it once.

Did some researching and found it myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCbQls7JLo

And yeah, I don't think anyone remembers this.

Veruca Salt "Volcano Girls"

I remember that well! I really liked Veruca Salt.

Feel like this is one not many people remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGhYqAgwh4

Oh that's Vitamin C iirc

For years I've often confused Eve's Plumb, Plumtree and Plumb with each other.

oh man that patti rothberg song, remember tha fuckin 90s

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