The 10 best songs from the 90's

And yeah that Joey Lawrence song rules.

LMAO at the rap, there was a part I never could make out and I find out after all these years

Cuz our love has got to shine through
And baby you got to see it too
That we were meant girl me and you
But lately you been acting
Like I smell like a zoo

Worst song of the 90s list would be the Aerosmith list above except maybe swap one of them with “Bugs” by Pearl Jam.

Bugs is aight as far as novelty songs go.

Christiansands is a killer track.

Eleven more I did not choose in 2009

Shellac- Doris
Beastie Boys- Sabotage
Afghan Whigs- My Curse
Fugazi- Stacks
Boards of Canada- Aquarius
Soundgarden- Fell on Black Days
Underworld- Dark and Long
Fu Manchu- King of the Road
Counting Crows- Perfect Blue Buildings
Bjork- All is Full of Love
Guided by Voices- Goldstar for Robot Boy

1990 - 1994:

The Sundays - Hideous Towns
Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Madonna - Deeper & Deeper
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Orbital - Impact USA (The Earth Is Burning: Diversion)
Disco Inferno - The Long Dance
Omni Trio - Thru The Vibe
TLC - Creep

1995 - 1999:

Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone
Aaliyah - One In A Million
New Horizons - Find The Path
Jay-Z - Where I'm From
Roni Size / Reprazent - Share The Fall
Busta Rhymes - Dangerous
The Martian - Firekeeper
Janet Jackson - Empty
Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Remix)
Underworld - Jumbo

Carl Craig - Home Entertainment
Don Carlos- Alone
Everything But The Girl - Driving
Jam & Spoon - Stella
Mr Fingers - What About This Love
Nu Yorican Soul - I Am the Black Gold of the Sun (4 Hero Mix)
Souls of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity
Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)
Underground Resistance - Illuminator
Underworld - Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love

Anybody got time to put together a Spotify playlist of what’s been mentioned?

Janet Jackson’s empty is a great choice.

my disco inferno pick would be "second language"

“Second Language” is prettier, but “The Last Dance”/“The Long Dance” feature some of my favourite lyrics of any song ever.

Roughly one per year, and off the top of my head:

Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Neneh Cherry - Move with Me
Rickie Lee Jones - Stewart's Coat
Liz Phair - Nashville
Emmylou Harris - Blackhawk
Toni Braxton - There's No Me Without You
Kenickie - People We Want
Patty Griffin - Tony
Aimee Mann - Deathly

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, September 21, 2021 8:55 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Nice

This is impossible

A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
Pulp - Common People
Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
The Dixie Chicks - There's Your Trouble
Iris DeMent - Let the Mystery Be
Wilco - A Shot in the Arm
Radiohead - Let Down
Daft Punk - Around the World
Bjork - Hyperballad
Weezer - My Name is Jonas

Catherine Wheel — Strange Fruit
Sinead O’Connor — Three Babies
Janet Jackson — Together Again
Pet Shop Boys — So Hard
Suede — The Wild Ones
Mobb Deep — Shook Ones Pt. II
Mary J. Blige — Mary Jane (All Night Long)
The Amps — Bragging Party
Built To Spill — Carry The Zero
Goldie — Timeless

Some amazing choices overall, we should have one of these for each decade as a frame of reference for our own top 50 ballot of the greatest songs of all time. ;)

ugh forgot "New Grass"

if i had made the list on jan 1 2000 it woulda looked like this i think:

snoop – doggy dogg world
kurupt – we can freak it
tony tone toni – lets get down (ft dj quik)
too short – gettin it
naughty by nature – feel me flow
rbl posse – dont give me no bammer
wu – triumph
outkast – ATLiens
master p – burbons and lacs
3 6 mafia – late nite tip
e-40 – sprinkle me
2pac – how do you want it

think it would look a little different now but these would all easily be in my top 30 or so.

amazing list spottie

in high school for me it was mostly about what made the trunk rattle lol

kurupt – we can freak it

fuck yeah

e-40 – sprinkle me

fuuuuck yeahhh

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There does seem to be a certain lack of hip hop among selections here overall. I think of the mid-90s as a bit of a slump for hip hop and I wonder if we polled the noughties if more hip hop would be represented.

(Voodoo chili I was gonna ask if the inclusion of Luniz means you’re from the Bay — it seems like a local fave. Personally I have to rep the remix, especially now since Shock G is on it. But anyway you scratched it from your list so disregard.)

But I bet that guy who picked Tumthumping regrets it by now. The guy who picked Porno For Pyros too. <wink>

i'm a big hip hop head but i like so many genres I didn't even notice I had left hip hop out until after i submitted.

need to make a hip hop specific one

Right understandable.

I think when I made my list I was very consciously picking representatives of major genres. It looks all wrong now though and I’m not really sure exactly how. 11 years ago wow.

12 years. I can math!

" I think of the mid-90s as a bit of a slump for hip hop"

I think of 92-96 to be the pinnacle of hip hop

I think of the mid-90s as a bit of a slump for hip hop and I wonder if we polled the noughties if more hip hop would be represented.

yah granny otm. 93-98 is my personal golden age. i listened to a lot of other stuff but hip hop dominated my listening for the most part. a top 100 would include some grunge, punk, alt rock and lots of r&b.

I'm surprised how little 'Pac has been listed here. Hugely iconic 90s artist. Is it that his persona and celebrity overshadows his actual music??

Like I probably would've forgotten to list a song of his if not for noticing his absence in others' lists.

he seems to have fallen out of favor a bit over the years

Maybe y’all are right. Mostly it’s that I wasn’t listening to much hip hop from ‘95-‘00 other than Pac and J5 tbh. I was out of the loop on Nas, Outkast, Biggie, E-40…the list could go on. (I was going to a lot of great drum and bass parties all over the US tho.)

Anyway that leads to me figuring out what’s wrong with my list — no Outkast. For now I’ll with Two Dope Boyz (In A Cadillac), seems like their proper anthem. And a deep fucking groove with massive flows riding on top of course. Dungeon Family surely one of the top production teams of the 90s in terms of influence.

yah you could make an organized noize top ten list from the 90s that would rival any list here.

top ten of a decade is just a cruel exercise really.

Right I meant Organized Noise thanks.

And I see I left Tupac out too, I only listed that Black Star remix. Pete Rock is another top 90s producer, except his influence was maybe more limited. But that remix also has one of Black Thought’s greatest guest verses too, it’s A+

1. Tricky - Hell Is Round the Corner
2. Slowdive - Waves
3. Fugazi - Reclamation
4. The Sundays - Goodbye
5. Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know the Ledge) Main Mix
6. Wu Tang Clan - Wu Banga 101
7. Underworld - Dark And Long - Dark Train
8. The Afghan Whigs - Summer's Kiss
9. Kyuss - 50 Million Year Trip
10. Cat Power - Colors and the Kids

Impossible. No room for Mama Said Knock You Out or Exit Music?

(Voodoo chili I was gonna ask if the inclusion of Luniz means you’re from the Bay — it seems like a local fave. Personally I have to rep the remix, especially now since Shock G is on it. But anyway you scratched it from your list so disregard.)

haha i am not from the bay but it's always been one of my fav rap regions

Think it's a local favorite while also being pretty well-known elsewhere

yeah it was a top ten pop hit, iirc

im a cali native, it would prob make my top ten too, there was a recent top 3 of all time thread i chose it for

it never gets old. another one (was my last cut) was playaz club by rappin 4tay. that song was inescapable up and down the bay for a long time

I had to do it, sorry:

The 10 best songs from the 80’s

Anybody got time to put together a Spotify playlist of what’s been mentioned?

― calstars, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 bookmarkflaglink

This is everything since the revive - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27Dtkdq366h6rd8g3q6GSm?si=6471d11d80544b11

It was done with an app so there's probably mistakes and some things couldn't be found

I tried to:
- include a broad range of genres that feel "1990s" to me (although lacking latin, african and asian music so let's call it "western")
- hit singles or at least somewhat canonical genre classics
- worldwide range but no songs that were just local hits (i.e. no finnish rap, american country, german schlager, dutch gabber etc)

Stardust Music Sounds Better With You (1998)
Warren G & Nate Dogg Regulate (1994)
Alice In Chains Would? (1992)
Solar Quest Acid Air Raid (George's All Nighter) (1994)
Entombed Left Hand Path (1990)
Jaydee Plastic Dreams (Original Long Version) (1992)
dEUS Suds & Soda (1994)
Biosphere Baby Interphase (1994)
Janet Jackson Got 'Till It's Gone (1997)
LTJ Bukem Horizons(1995)
Portishead Sour Times (1994)

Biosphere, interesting! That’s one I wasn’t familiar with — I’m just listening on headphones but it sounds like the sub bass is almost heavy enough for garage?

Overall that’s half songs I would pick, but I haven’t even heard of much of the rest. (For those similarly in the dark, it seems Deus is some kind of Belgian indie metal [?], Entombed is Swedish death metal, and the Solar Quest sounds like some pretty basic acid techno. Respect.)

But I can definitely remember my indie friends at the time making fun of me for liking Warren G.

dEUS were a Belgian indie rock band, pretty high profile I thought?

Regulate is a bit of a boring choice but most of the other rap songs I'd pick were already mentioned a lot in this thread.

I don’t know, most of my knowledge of indie rock is pretty regional. I wasn’t closely following European indie at the time that’s for sure.

I think Regulate is pretty great really, maybe not the greatest but definitely an excellent production. The lyrics are ok.

dEUS was a great band, on the arty end of the indie/alt rock spectrum but still with enough hooks to be staples of alt-rock radio playlists.

_Anybody got time to put together a Spotify playlist of what’s been mentioned?

― calstars, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 bookmarkflaglink_


This is everything since the revive - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27Dtkdq366h6rd8g3q6GSm?si=6471d11d80544b11🕸🕸

It was done with an app so there's probably mistakes and some things couldn't be found