The 10 best songs from the 90's

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

Those solo Wu-Tang joins came out in the mid '90s iirc, and, well does 1994 count as mid '90s? A couple of classics that year....

This is favorites, not "best" right?

Cake - Jolene
Justin Warfield - Thoughts In The Buttermilk
Third Eye Blind - Losing a Whole Year
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Positive K - I Got A Man
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhime
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Smashing Pumpkins - Crush
Tripmaster Monkey - Spinning to Unwind

I had to do it, sorry:

The 10 best songs from the 80’s

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

Ha, I was thinking about doing one for the 00's, which for me is an overlooked decade sandwiched between the 90s and 10s which I consider almost equally amazing decades for music.

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

― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 September 2021 04:25 (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just made a couple of changes to this, hope that's cool

xp The Buzzfeed list does not include "The Rhythm Of My Heart" or "All For One All For Love" so yea, nice try but no.

Madonna, "Vogue"
The Orb, "Little Fluffy Clouds"
Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Nine Inch Nails, "Closer"
Bjork, "Unravel"
Daft Punk, "Revolution 909"
Missy Elliott, "Beep Me 911"
OutKast, "Rosa Parks"
Kerri Chandler, "Rain"
Jordan Knight, "Give It To You"

xpost

Wasn’t there like a poll of the top 11 songs from 2000-2013 or something? I could well be deeply in error.

yo "Bugs" is sick, gtfo

This feels about right:
1. Ghost Town DJs "My Boo"
2. SWV "Right Here (Human Nature)"
3. Aaliyah "One In A Million"
4. Notorious BIG "Juicy"
5. The Pharcyde "Passin' Me By"
6. Radiohead "Let Down"
7. Pavement "Grounded"
8. Adina Howard "Freak Like Me"
9. Blur "Coffee + TV"
10. Teenage Fanclub "Everything Flows"

"Electric Relaxation" or Dino Jr's "Out There" should probably be in there but idk what to cut.

Looks not very well aligned with my top 90s scrobbles since 2014:
1. Heatmiser "You Gotta Move"
2. Hum "Comin' Home"
3. Failure "Undone"
4. Floor "Chelsea/Pigs"
5. Tony Toni Tone "Feels Good"
6. Shudder To Think "Earthquakes Come Home"
7. The Pharcyde "Passin' Me By"
8. Ween "Baby Bitch"
9. A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
10. Cannibal Corpse "Sentenced To Burn"

Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Fuck this is also one of mine. Fuck.

Just off the top of my head and very subjective:

1. The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
2. KLF - 3AM Eternal
3. Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me
4. Autechre - Arch Carrier
5. Blur - This Is A Low
6. dEUS - Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)
7. Kyuss - Super Scoopa And Mighty Scoop
8. Green Day - Welcome To Paradise
9. The Prodigy - Break & Enter
10. R.E.M. - Country Feedback

Tortoise - night air
Rachel’s - Wally, egon, and models in the studio
Pavement - Loretta’s scars

Lilys- nanny in Manhattan

Supa Scooper rules.

Pavement - Loretta’s scars

This is on my Top 50 of All Time list! We’re kindred spirits…

“Let us…”

See I was a tutor for a girl named Loretta in high school

Bjork's Unravel is an amazing track

I have serious trouble picking the best track from Homogenic, there’s so many classics in there. I think the only track that I tend to skip is “all neon like”, but I’ve been obssesed about every other track in there. There was a time where I’d have picked Pluto or Alarm Call. Then 5 Years was the one… I haven’t listened to it in years but I’d say from a diatance that Joga and Unravel are the two that seem to me like the safer choices for best songs. I’d probably change my mind if I hear the album again.

Oh and Hunter! Such a weird choice for a single, love it. Love the video, love the sort of martial beat. “How Scandinavian of me.” Yeah it’s a brilliant album.

I was supposed to work on a top 200 some months back and I've left it in the works, so I'll pretend I still need to pare it down and allow myself double the space.

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
The Notorious B.I.G. - The What
Brandy - I wanna be down
Faith Evans - Love like this
Björk - All Neon Like
Talk Talk - After the Flood
Sonny Sharrock - Many Mansions
The Underground Solution - Luv Dancin'
Digable Planets - Where I'm From
Black Moon - Ack Like U Want It
David Sylvian - I surrender
The Coup - Takin' These
Belle and Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies
Outkast - Git Up, Git Out
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Death - Lack of Comprehension
Romanthony - Hold On
Ginuwine - Pony
A tribe called quest - Bonita Applebum
Souls of Mischief - 93 'til infinity

Shit, I'm still missing Depeche Mode, Autechre, Cocteau Twins, Emperor, Ulver, Boubacar Traoré, Jeru, Penny Penny, Wu-Tang, EPMD, Sizzla and Los Fresones Rebeldes, what happened, oh yes it was a whole decade.

Hearing the Vulnicura live version of All Neon Like on YT made me return to it. It's the most Vespertine-like song on the album. My usual choice from Homogenic was Immature - which is this moment of solipsism, of crying and shouting and tearing the cocoon and loving it, power in vulnerability. Jóga, Unravel and Bachelorette are gorgeous but slightly demonstrative. I've never considered 5 years top Björk material - it's the beat... But that's redoing the poll all over again.

Mind Playing Tricks

Yessss

Supa Scooper rules.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, September 25, 2021 6:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

otm never heard it before!

Not dissing on “all neon like” at all, it’s still a brilliant song.

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U; Dee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart; The Breeders - Cannonball
(Counted as one since they're popular picks here)
Cynthia & Johnny "O" - Dreamboy/Dreamgirl
Lush - De-Luxe
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck
Lisette Melendez - Together Forever
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
Belly - Sweet Ride
Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love

1. David Wise, "Stickerbrush Symphony" (Donkey Kong Country 2, SNES)
2. Soyo Oka, "Megalopolis" (Sim City, SNES)
3. Ryu Umemoto, "Reminiscence" (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world, NEC PC-98)
4. Akira Yamaoka, "Not Tomorrow" (Silent Hill, PSX)
5. Tim Follin, "Title Theme" (Solstice, NES)
6. Konami Kukeiha Club. "Theme of IRIS" (Lagrange Point, FC)
7. Masashi Kageyama, "Sophia" (Gimmick!, FC)
8. Masanori Adachi / Taro Kudo, "The Submerged City" (Super Castlevania IV, SFC)
9. Masaharu Iwata / Hitoshi Sakimoto, "Ovelia's Worries" (Final Fantasy Tactics, PSX)
10. Yuzo Koshiro, "The Shinobi" (Revenge of Shinobi, MD)

1. David Wise, "Stickerbrush Symphony" (Donkey Kong Country 2, SNES)

Yessss

3. Ryu Umemoto, "Reminiscence" (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world, NEC PC-98)

This is also beautiful

1. inoj "love you down"
2. mazzy star "fade into you"
3. massive attack "unfinished sympathy"
4. britney spears "...baby one more time"
5. filter "take a picture"
6. sinéad o'connor "nothing compares 2 u"
7. brian mcknight "anytime"
8. primitive radio gods "standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand"
9. tamia "so into you"
10. pj harvey "down by the water"

Ten favorites not listed yet in rough preferential order. Clearly I was listening to a lot of punk/alternative then. These still hold up for me.
1. The Queers - "Love Love Love"
2. New Bomb Turks - "Tattooed Apathetic Boys"
3. Bis - "Everybody Thinks That They're Going To Get Theirs"
4. Heretix - "Egghead"
5. Nation of Ulysses - "Ulythium"
6. Belly - "Slow Dog"
7. Green Day - "Longview" (is this too obvious/played out for everyone)
8. Faith No More - "Midlife Crisis"
9. Sugar - "A Good Idea" (though if David Barbe could sing I would replace it with "Where Diamonds Are Haloes")
10. Jawbreaker - "Sea Foam Green"

1. Brian Conley - Resurrection Shuffle
2. Brian Conley - Ain't Too Proud to Beg
3. Brian Conley - Pink Cadillac
4. Brian Conley - Shake a Tail Feather
5. Brian Conley - Every Little Heartbeat
6. Shane Richie - Just When I Needed You Most
7. Brian Conley - Rescue Me
8. Brian Conley - Love Really Hurts Without You
9. Brian Conley - Misty Blue
10. Ninjaman - Bwoy Go Sit Down

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.

― a talented ‘Rebel’ with Balls (Spottie)

Just realized this list by Spottie does not have “spottieottiedopaliscious” in it. Username neglected.

i know i was gonna put it in over ATLiens but had to be honest with myself... ATLiens had a bigger impact on me in the 90s

Balil - 3/4 Heart
LTJ Bukem - Demon's Theme
Levitation - Smile (EP version)

....

Dunno. Lemme get back to you.

Basically replicating what I did on the '70s thread, but I'm bored, so why not -- not a top ten list per se, but one song from my favorite album of each year of the decade:
1990: Jane's Addiction - "Ritual de lo Habitual": "Three Days"
1991: Nirvana - "Nevermind": "Drain You"
1992: Alice in Chains - "Dirt": "Down in a Hole"
1993: Nirvana - "In Utero": "Scentless Apprentice"
1994: Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral": "Closer"
1995: Smashing Pumpkins - "Mellon Collie...": "1979"
1996: Stone Temple Pilots - "Tiny Music...": "Big Bang Baby"
1997: Radiohead - "OK Computer": "Climbing up the Walls"
1998: Outkast - "Aquemini": "SpottieOttieDopaliscious"
1999: Eminem - "The Slim Shady LP": "'97 Bonnie and Clyde"

Honorary mention to that live performance of LONG SEASON by Fishmans that has become popular through social media. Believe the hype, it’s worth the runtime.

More discussion on the phenomenon here

Decades-old stuff that was fairly unknown in the West but suddenly got very famous online (aka: the Fishmans thread)

the best fishmans track is "yurameki in the air" fwiw

Show Me Love - Robin S
Freedom '90 - George Michael
I Must Be Getting Over You - Nick Lowe
The Lakes of Canada - The Innocence Mission
Born At The Right Time - Paul Simon
Where Will I Be - Emmylou Harris
New Year's Day - Chuck Prophet
Round Midnight - James Carter
Closing Time - Leonard Cohen
Past The Mission - Tori Amos

Should've fit "Flagpole Sitta" in there somewhere.

For years I woke up every morning with Flagpole Sitta stuck in my head and I could never figure out why.