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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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"

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

haha otm

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.

oh damn - must be a misprint on my memory

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

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.

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!!!

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.

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

does anyone else remember "Got You (Where I Want You)" by The Flys?

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

yeah that song is dope

love that one. chorus is probably the best fake Cornell to ever hit the radio.

video is fake "velouria" also, and iirc disturbing behavior was fake stepford wives, oh well

Classic 'One & Done' band. The song had its run, which concluded with both it and the band disappearing.

Thought about this song the other the day for the first time in forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIriSoch9rE

The video and song are both 'so 1996' that of course they came out in early '97.

From the comments:

Carlos Roots 2 years ago
Man, I used to wait up until all hours to watch this music video back in the 90's. Now, the only time I am up at all hours is if I have to go pee. Oh, and the lead singer looks strangely like my next door neighbor.
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Mike M
Mike M 8 months ago
the lead singer probably is your neighbor

^^Orbit: "Medicine", for those w/images/vids off and still keeping score.

watching that Flys video, I'm reminded of a little bit of useless trivia: There were two versions of the song serviced to radio--one was the version heard in the video, with the other singer doing his rapping/toasting thing, and the other identical but with his track removed/muted.

Huh - a rare case of that being done to a white act - and one loud and grating enough that a top 40 crossover surely couldn't be in the cards. (Obviously things like the massive Semi-Charmed Life edit are sort of related, but specifically cutting out the 'rapper' is normally reserved for Supercat, Snoop Dogg, et al.)

That Orbit song isn't ringing any bells besides the really loud and clear debt to the Pixies' arrangements. The rest is a kind of mishmash of 1996, indeed - bit of Better than Ezra, bit of Gavin Rossdale, maybe even a bit of Trent Reznor. Not bad though!

Gilby Clarke (Izzy's replacement in GnR) brings the buttrock in '94. Both of these were MASSIVE on Houston radio at the time. For some reason I still vividly remember riding around all day on a Saturday in the summer and hearing one or the other every hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qg1APJTk14

"Tijuana Jail"

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

"Cure Me or Kill Me"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsQZvsR_QI

Is it true that Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA wasn't a hit i. The US? I know it was big in Canada and in Mexico.

I found out it wasn't that popular in the US after a couple of friends and me were drunk singing the chorus in LA (felt apropos and we very surely sounded like idiots) and some people were asking us what song it was. I went to the wiki article the next day and apparently it didn't chart at all in the US but did good on UK and Canada and still gets some airplay now and then.

It was an alternative sort of "hit" the video for which got played a lot in NZ too, dunno if it sold at all. I get it in my head a lot still.

Same. Was a huge hit w/ MTV Europe, they played the shit out of that video (regardless of how it charted I suppose).

It got short-term alt-rock radio play in the US. It didn't really "take," but people like me (aka teenagers obsessively listening to such stations in the late 90s) know it and can sing along if you bring it up.

(Also, thinking about that, if someone else wants to start an Early 90s version of this thread for things like those Gilby Clarke tracks, they should go for it! I didn't start digging into radio and MTV until right around '95 so it wouldn't really be my turf.)

damn, sugar should've sued orbit

Is it true that Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA wasn't a hit i. The US?

I worked at Sam Goody when it came out and we received one copy that never sold during the year-and-a-half that I worked there. I only just listened to it now for the first time.

It got enough play on MTV for me to buy the album; I don't remember ever hearing it on the radio.

I didn't have MTV at the time and also never heard it on the radio.

It got enough play on MTV for me to buy the album; I don't remember ever hearing it on the radio.

― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Wednesday, May 24, 2017 6:06 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same, and I even hung around for their second album, which I still think is really actually pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUNWhKq80_s