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

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

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.