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

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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.

a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 July 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link

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?

a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 5 July 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link

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?

bentelec, Sunday, 5 July 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link

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

a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link

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.

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 July 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link

I kept thinking of that video during "Fury Road"

los blue jeans, Monday, 6 July 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link

hahaha, oh man, video mashup waiting to happen.

a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Monday, 6 July 2015 00:49 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

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

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

Guy Patterson, Monday, 24 August 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link

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

Guy Patterson, Monday, 24 August 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link

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.

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:48 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

MarkoP, Sunday, 13 September 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link

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

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link

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)

flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link

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.

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 14 September 2015 03:14 (eight years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

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

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link

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

frogbs, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link

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

Gangsta Boo - Don't Stand So Close

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 October 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link

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

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

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 October 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link

four weeks pass...

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.

Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 22 November 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

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

never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link

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never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

if you count 2002 as late 90s

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

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 04:12 (seven years ago) link

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.

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 March 2017 04:30 (seven years ago) link

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

flappy bird, Thursday, 30 March 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link

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

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 04:46 (seven years ago) link

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

flappy bird, Thursday, 30 March 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link

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

MarkoP, Thursday, 30 March 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link

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

frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link

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

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 30 March 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link

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

tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link

"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.

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link

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.

frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link

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

Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link

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

frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link

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

jmm, Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link

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.

tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link

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

some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link

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

the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link

the only OLP song I like is "Naveed"

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link

I don't know that Authority Zero song but it sounds like something the Sims would listen to at one of their rockin' parties

kinder, Thursday, 30 March 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link

haha otm

Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link

Bad Ronald one of the very first acts posted to the early 2000s sequel to this thread. Now as then, I attempted listening to it and was caught in a void of vague familiarity, as if I had indeed heard it once upon a time.

tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 31 March 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link

oh damn - must be a misprint on my memory

frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link

Some random songs I have on an alt-rock "follow up singles that weren't as popular" playlist:

Elastica - Car Song
Tripping Daisy - Piranha
Better than Ezra - Rosealia
Cranberries - Ridiculous Thoughts

LimbsKing, Friday, 31 March 2017 11:52 (seven years ago) link

Also, how about Blind Melon "Galaxie"??

I love the hook and the dark vibe. Creepy video too. Went to #8 modern rock. RIP Shannon Hoon.

LimbsKing, Friday, 31 March 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link

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

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 30 March 2017 04:46 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry for formatting I'm on my mobile. I was doing my normal YouTube research for the truth and i stumbled upon this song by Limp Bizkit - Rollin' (air raid vehicle) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E).

All of a sudden, it hit me. This is blatant conspiracy at work.

Right at the beginning you see a car and its license plate (http://i.imgur.com/dLrHU.png). I did some simple math and realized that 9 and then 9+5-6-6-9-5 = negative 12. Put together, that is 9-12. This is all on a Bentley which is symbolism that after 9-11 on 9-12 the rich will be the ones who have all of the power (symbolized from the car and the fact that it has a lot of horsepower). Ben Stiller is the driver of the car which shows that both the JEWs and HOLLYWOOD are intertwined and involved heavily in the events of 9/11.

Seconds later you can see the Bentley superimposed over the twin towers (http://i.imgur.com/tLUXo.png) obvious foreshadowing of Jewish power and their taking the lead in 9/11.

Then it cuts to them performing ON the WTC building roof and on the helicopter landing pad (http://i.imgur.com/5dGvK.png). OBVIOUSLY mocking everyone because on 9/11 there would be no LANDINGS.

The lyrics “keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin“ are obviously a foretelling of America’s foreign policy after 9/11 – keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ into foreign countries and taking them over. Predictive programming I would say.

As you can see (http://i.imgur.com/rDDjt.png) everyone is wearing the same outfit. Obviously, painfully shoving it in our face that FEMA would be setting up camps in the near future and we will all be stuck in them WEARING THE SAME OUTFIT. MORE PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING.

Also this video proves without a doubt that if Limp Bizkit was able to perform a concert full with lighting equipment and backup dancers on the WTC buildings without getting stopped then it would be painfully easy to lace the building with bombs to demolish it on 9/11.

Then there are the lyrics “You cant mess with Limp Bizkit” By proxy, you cant mess with the government and they are rubbing it right in your face.

Many would point to the dress and makeup of the guitarist as symbolism or some shit but they are stupid. He is obviously a false flag to distract you from the real shit Limp Bizkit is pulling.

There is so much more imbedded in this video (didn't touch on the obvious Illuminati references) but I can't spoon feed you guys everything. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 March 2017 12:05 (seven years ago) link

Scrolling down I was sure ^^ this was a Karl Malone post, but halfway I was like 'no wait, it's bizarro'. Kudos. The Bentley is a dead giveaway tbh.

On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 March 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link

all credit must go to a redditor whose account is now deleted, presumably because they were getting dangerously close to the truth

tony orlandoni, cheese engineer (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 March 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link


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