The 10 best songs from the 90's

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