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

I've never heard that song before, but I am aware of Stroke 9 through their song "Kick Some Ass", which I've often thought of it as one of the last songs of the "90s" since I only saw the video for it once and that was on like September 9, 2001.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0Ds0sYARY

Pushmonkey - "Handslide." Also known as "the 'break that water' song."

I remember that Stroke 9 song but prob less from the radio and more from my dad playing the CD in the car all the time

God, Pushmonkey were fucking HUGE on Houston Rock radio in '96.

I remember that Stroke 9 song but prob less from the radio and more from my dad playing the CD in the car all the time

― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, June 28, 2015 7:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm having trouble imagining a dad playing this CD a lot in the car, was your dad a member of stroke 9?

Playlist updated btw! Found a bunch of things not previously available, and purged some karaoke versions. Threw in K's Choice - Everything For Free, which somehow hasn't come up here already.

Still missing, for future checkup reference:

Billy Lawrence - Come On
LL Cool J, "Deepest Bluest"
Warren G's "Smokin' Me Out"
Little T and One-Trick mike - Shaniqua Don't Live Here No More
B-Real, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J and Method Man - "Hit Em High (Monstar's Anthem)
Salt-n-Pepa - "Champagne"
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"
sun 60 c'mon kiss me
Amateur Lovers - consolation prize
702 - steelo
qkumba zoo - the child inside
Liquido - Narcotic
Liquido - Play Some Rock
Chopper One - Punk Named Josh
Carnival Art
Moxy Fruvous - King of Spain
Patti Rothberg - Inside
Sylk E Fyne, Romeo & Juliet
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
Sprung Monkey - Get 'Em Outta Here
Huffamoose - Wait
Filter - Jurassitol
Memory Dean - So Complicated
Cardigans - My Favorite Game
Jerry Cantrell - And the Fools Shine On
Jerry Cantrell - Leave Me Alone

that's https://open.spotify.com/user/doctorcasino/playlist/2taIeJ0IhYbdEJWgGXJBsK

Billy Crawford - Urgently in Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1oAy5lwZQ

I remember that Stroke 9 song but prob less from the radio and more from my dad playing the CD in the car all the time

― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, June 28, 2015 7:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm having trouble imagining a dad playing this CD a lot in the car, was your dad a member of stroke 9?

We just listened to a lot of modern rock radio!

haha, fair, fair!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAt4qWvz_8

Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Put A Lid On It," the followup to the unlikely success of "Hell." I also feel like I heard "The Suits Are Picking Up The Bill" (the go-nowhere lead single from the next album) but listening to it, it seems like there's no way this ever got on the radio -- maybe on a station promo compilation or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8IPLgAIueo

The Urge - Jump Right In (1998). Featuring Nick Hexum of 311, who clearly shot all his scenes separately and is thus spared from having to perform fifteen feet in the air on a wobbling pole. So many questions about this video - why the bleak, washed-out color for this mood-boosting ska song? Why Chinatown? Why the Hare Krishnas?

I had totally missed these guys the first time around but they still have some kind of beloved institution status here in St. Louis; singer is some kind of local sausage magnate now?

I hope they have local TV ads urging people to jump right in... to a double-dog combo!

Oh man, "Jump Right In"...I saw The Urge on my first Warped Tour in '98. They were on the main stage in a mid-size arena with a shitty PA. But half the floor was a mosh pit (easily the biggest I'd seen at that point), and when "Jump Right In" started it was like getting permission to tear shit up.

I always liked how they worked the band name into the lyrics ("Fought the urge to do it..."). Imagine there was a lot of high-fiving in the studio that day.

I kept thinking of that video during "Fury Road"

hahaha, oh man, video mashup waiting to happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRQMB0tkBY

The Nixons - "Baton Rouge." This was a top 10 rock hit in 1997.

And I bet hasn't been played on the radio since mid-1998.

Wow. Really struggling to say whether I've ever heard this before. Even more grating than I remember most of this era of post-grunge being. Guy's vocal delivery should have been saved in a time capsule, along with basically everything about the video.

This is from 2000, so I'm not sure if quite counts:
Elwood - Sundown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu-fH2b7Pro

Maybe about time for the early 2000s version of this thread tbh.

Ooh I dunno like, we'll need to carry out a detailed cost-analysis. In the meantime:

top 10 hits that no one remembers

(I'm sure they accept genre chart top 10s, they're nice people)

ha sorry, that came out weird but basically i've been thinking about launching the 'sequel' but wondering if the time was ripe in terms of enough 'distance' from the early 2000s. but i just checked and i started this thread barely seven years out from the late 90s. so...yeah.

Now That Was Totally On The Radio and Stuff! Vol. 2: Forgotten Singles of the Early 2000s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibawg0lW7Kw

Presidents of the United States of America - Video Killed the Radio Star

Used to love this band, thought this cover and "Cleveland Rocks" both outdid the originals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Myp1plDUGA

Gangsta Boo - Don't Stand So Close

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

Goodie Mob feat. Big Boi and Backbone, "Get Rich to This"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QfYcMRN9E

Vertical Horizon - We Are (1999). First single off the album that subsequently yielded the lousy mega-hit "Everything You Want" and the less-remembered "You're A God." The video somewhat implausibly features a live crowd being super-hyped about seeing Vertical Horizon, but YMMV. Popped into my head just now for reasons I cannot explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OPUY_otr-Q

Master P - Kenny's Dead (1998). Mayfield-derived tribute to the South Park character. I don't think I've posted this one before - a real artifact of the early South Park popularity phenomenon

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if you count 2002 as late 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL-py5G1j4Q

if you count 2002 as late 90s

2002 possibly the last year of the "long 90s" in terms of the viability of certain musical genres.

90s started with Nirvana
90s ended with Limp Bizkit or 9/11, take your pick

did....Limp Bizkit do 9/11?

Now That Was Totally On The Radio and Stuff! Vol. 2: Forgotten Singles of the Early 2000s

some good 'long 90s' vs. 'interzone' discussion here i think: The song that represents the END of the 90s

as someone pointed out in that thread, the video for "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit has them playing on top of the World Trade Center.

Summercamp - Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy_k-6U8HOc

guessing this was more popular in the UK but "Millenium" by Robbie Williams is like the best forgotten 90's jam

^^ I wish it were forgotten o'er here, still hear it a lot in stores, stations I don't listen to etc.

In the US it basically didn't exist except for mysteriously honorific placement in a Now! advertisement iirc.

"Millennium," and some other Williams tracks, got quite a bit of play here in Canada, both on radio and on Much Music, but it always felt like an attempt to make Robbie Williams happen in North America far more than actual demand. His albums pretty much collected dust at the record store I worked at during that time.

yea I definitely remember MTV fawning over him, "he's a big star in the UK, he's gonna be like the Spice Girls!" but that lasted about three weeks. love that tune though.

to this day in my mind I still think of this as being a huge hit but BradNelson and I seem to be the only 2 ppl on the planet who know this song

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXzphHiHD8

Bad Ronald - "Shoot the ****" (lol)

"I've been waitin all day for that Bad Ronald" is probably my favorite opening line in a debut single

Our Lady Peace are huge in Canada. I heard that song all the time.

hahah for some inexplicable reason i once owned the CD single of "Is Anybody Home?" i didn't even like it very much! certainly not compared to "Clumsy" and "Superman's Dead" which were JAMS to me and my tenth-grade buddies. feels like something from the dollar bin, or maybe the free bin.

That OLP guy's voice was a major public nuisance here in Canada for about a decade.

imo the our lady peace album that contains "is anybody home" is their best record and an alt-rock classic but

the only OLP song I like is "Naveed"