The 10 best songs from the 90's

I agree on some of them though. So, well done, in fact.

Ok Coco Jamboo is the disposable one in there I guess. Substitute by um...:

Smashing Pumpkins - Set the ray to Jerry

Let's get some Geraldine Fibbers and Sepultura in the house, please.

well this should get good soon.

8. Low, Transient Waves & Piano Magic - Sleep at the bottom
gorgeous

(not in order)

B.A.D. II -- Rush
Pavement -- Silence Kit
The Mountain Goats -- Sinaloan Milk Snake Song
Alanis Morissette -- You Oughta Know
Sone -- High Frame Audio
Magnetic Fields -- 100,000 Fireflies
Spare Snare -- Thorns
Belle & Sebastian -- Judy and the Dream of Horses
Kleenex Girl Wonder -- Tendency Right Foot Forward
The Divine Comedy -- Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Just off:

The Breeders -- Do You Love Me Now?
The Dentists -- Charms and the Girl
The Sundays -- Here's Where the Story Ends

This is a weird-looking list, I think. Of the top 10, most are from records I love with such fervency that I'm not sure they're the best songs on their own album.

Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Kitchens of Distinction - Gone World Gone
Divine Comedy - Your Daddy's Car
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Goldie - Timeless
808 State - Lopez
Underworld - Pearls Girl
Radiohead - Let Down
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane
Flaming Lips - Waitin for a Superman

10 greats off the top of my head. it would scare me to come up with a definitive list.

pavement - gold soundz
pavement - in the mouth a desert
stereolab - metronomic underground
yo la tengo - sugarcube
red house painters - medicine bottle
my bloody valentine - when you sleep
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the see
radiohead - the tourist
ride - vapour trail
refused - new noise

1. my bloody valentine - honey power
2. soundgarden - the day i tried to live
3. nirvana - in bloom
4. pixies - alec eiffel
5. smashing pumpkins - cherub rock
6. weezer - say it ain't so
7. soundgarden - my wave
8. radiohead - paranoid android
9. soundgarden - rusty cage
10. soundgarden - face pollution

whoops, put windowlicker in there at 10

No hip hop for anyone so far???

No order (Also these are ten OF my favorite, not the top ten) :

The Swirlies - Wrong Tube
The Lilys - Claire Hates Me
Bedhead - Living Well
Pavement - Gold Soundz
The Olivia Tremor Control - Hideaway
12 Rods - Make-Out Music
Duster - The Twins / Romantica
Guided By Voices - Tractor Rape Chain
Further - Quiet Riot Grrrl
The Dismemberment Plan - The City

My list is really close to the one I have in fifteen perfect songs thread. The 90s were my favorite so no surprise there.

um

Swans - YRP
The Ex/Tom Cora - A Door
Legendary Pink Dots - Grain Kings
Nurse With Wound - Rock And Roll Station
Coil - Red Birds...
The Fall - Sing Harpy
Fugazi - Blueprint
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
Beck - Fukkin With My Head
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea

0 .Archers of Loaf - "Freezing Point" [from the Peel session]
As a lurker reading this thread I can't help weighing in at this point. I know you people have better taste than me in music but these lists seem sorely lacking.

1. Mazzy Star - "Into Dust"
2. Air - "Ce Matin La"
3. Orbital - "Belfast"
4, DJ Shadow - "Stem/Long Stem"
5. The Pixies - "Dig for Fire"
6. Aphex Twin - "Rhubarb" (from SAW II)
7. Goldie - "Inner City Life"
8. Black Star - "Respiration Remix" feat Black Thought
9. Nightmares on Wax - "Les Nuits"
10. Pavement - "Frontwards"

Wasn't there an epic ILM Best of the 90s poll at some point?

Doh. Where's my edit button?

11. Notorious BIG - "Juicy"

Needs some Sonic Youth as well, surely.

Sonic Youth is more of an album band, I think.

^^ that's a massive call.

okay i did 2 of these, cos you can take the question 2 different ways..

most definitive... (this rarely changes for me)

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"
Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"
Aphex Twin "Windowlicker"
Blur "Coffee + TV"
Christina Aguilera "Genie In A Bottle"
Pulp "Common People"
Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
Nirvana "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
Dr. Dre "Nuthin But A G Thing"
Deee Lite "Groove Is In The Heart"

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"

Bel Biv Devoe "Poison" - Yes.

A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity" - Yesss.

Ween "Baby Bitch" Jackpot!

I realize that I also neglected to mention Future Sound of London. I would really have to go with "Q" (as Mental Cube). Ah, screw it, "Papau New Guniea" is their best song but the other one's really good too.

Cathy Dennis - Too Many Walls

The only good song of the nineies.

Top 10 (in order):
Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II
Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb
XTC - Harvest Festival
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Basic Channel - Phylyps trak II_II
Portishead - Glory Box
Wu-Tang Clan - Tearz

Honorable Mentions (no particular order):
Kelis - Caught Out There
Pulp - Common People
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Earth - Seven Angels
OutKast - Elevators (Me & You)
Pearl Jam - Corduroy
Elliott Smith - Say Yes
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Nellee Hooper 12" Mix)
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy

Off the top of my head....

Pavement - Summer Babe
Nirvana - All Apologies (In Utero version)
Pulp - Common People
The Silos - Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around
Pearl Jam - Corduroy
Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
Sleater-Kinney - Turn It On
Radiohead - Let Down
Bob Dylan - Blood In My Eyes
Wilco - California Stars

it's kinda funny how everyone is choosing what seem to be the exact same artists for their lists - i'd imagine that wouldnt be nearly as true for this decade

Nobody has pointed out yet that The Stone Roses' song in my list is actually from 1989.

when did ilx turn into magnet magazine

barkmarket - static
braniac - I am a cracked machine
built to spill - I would hurt a fly
cop shoot cop - if tomorrow ever comes
firewater - bourbon and division
idiot flesh - black sand
jawbox - savory
John zorn - a shot in the dark
karp - we ate sand
magnetic fields - strange powers
moloko - party weirdo
mr. Bungle - goodbye sober day
pj Harvey - oh my lover
sepultura - refuse/resist
wu-tang clan - method man

ok fuck it you get slightly more than 10, im bored w editing this down.

'savory' is a great call even though i can only ever listen to jawbox in small doses these days

10 more peaches:

unwound - corpse pose
lush - kiss chase
nas - the world is yours
tindersticks - her
swans - killing for company
tom waits - dirt in the ground
the jesus lizard - monkey trick
kent - bianca
blur - tracy jacks
elliott smith - ballad of big nothing

this is endless, i haven't even mentioned some of my very favourite artists in either of my lists.
plus i'm keeping this metal-free, because... well, i've been writing a lot of metal lists lately.

and some songs from 'perfect from now on', jesus. that's like my favourite album.

when did ilx turn into magnet magazine

― bau hau haus (electricsound)

I've never heard of this magnet magazine you speak of but in any case I think the real question you're trying to ask here is:

Since when did magnet magazine stopped caring about awesome music? And also at which point did I became such a jaded and pedantic person that feels the need to oppose idealisticaly the almost perfect homogeneity and righteousness of the hivemind.

birth

Pfft that's impossible. Noone is born jaded.

nirvana - negative creep
pavement - conduit for sale
pj harvey - sheela na gig
beck - forcefield
palace - more brother rides
flaming lips - unconsciously screamin
ween - awesome sound
neutral milk hotel - king of carrot flowers, pt. 1
cat power - nude as the news
built to spill - car
le tigre - deceptacon
white stripes - cannon

Here's one for each year:

“Any Other Way,” Posies (1990)
“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)
“Chainsaw the Horse,” Dentists (1992)
“Divorce Song,” Liz Phair (1993)
“Anti-Pleasure Dissertation,” Bikini Kill (1994)
“Motor Away,” Guided By Voices (1995)
“You’re One,” Imperial Teen (1996)
“Ru Tenone,” Turn On (1997)
“Positively Jeff Oliphant,” Dump (1998)
“Beautiful Stranger,” Madonna (1999)

"Coldest Day of the Year" by Cop Shoot Cop
"Visible Cow" by Barkmarket
"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your neck" by Prong
"Suckerpunch" by The Wildhearts
"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." by Motorhead
"Ditch" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"Wandering Star" by Portishead
"Repeater" by Fugazi
"Leave Them All Behind" by Ride
"Protection" by Massive Attack
"Money is Not Our God" by Killing Joke

Strictly off the top of my head. yeah, that's 11. Too bad.

Left out soooo much stuff, now realizing. Alas...

well this should get good soon.

still waiting

You forgot Summerhead, Alex in NYC.

Too true. Easily my fave Cocteau Twins song from the 90s.

10 more of my favorites..
Screaming Trees "Nearly Lost You"
Spacehog "In The Meantime"
Raekwon "Ice Cream"
Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"
Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"
Elastica "Connection"
Digital Underground "The Humpty Dance"
Weezer "I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams"
Sloan "Underwhelmed"
Beastie Boys "Get It Together"

10 more that are also really good..
The Breeders "Divine Hammer"
Supergrass "Caught By The Fuzz"
Hum "I'd Like Your Hair Long"
Dinosaur Jr "Out There"
Ash "Girl From Mars"
Folk Implosion "Natural One"
Summercamp "Drawer"
The Notorious B.I.G. "Everyday Struggle"
Smashing Pumpkins "Love"
Helmet "Unsung"
Weezer "El Scorcho"

“Any Other Way,” Posies (1990)
“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)

I'd never heard these before but just checked them out and they're kinda awesome.

Also "Savory" is a really good choice.

Fuck it, ten more...

"Goldfinger" by Ash
"De-Luxxe" by Lush
"Like a Daydream" by Ride
"Fait Accompli" by Curve
"Smiling" by Kitchens of Distinction
"Double Vegetation" by Julian Cope
"Caruso" by Gavin Friday
"Blue Eyes" by The Wedding Present
"Some Strange Reaction" by Firewater
"Wide Open" by Skeleton Key

I see nothing wrong with a "10 more" list. (clearly)

Sebadoh - Willing to Wait
Liz Phair - Never Said
Silkworm - Couldn't You Wait
White Town - Your Woman
Dinosaur Jr - Feel the Pain
Black Star - Definition
Boot Camp Clik - Headz Are Reddee (Part II)
2pac - To Live and Die in LA
Notorious BIG - Juicy
KMD - Peach Fuzz
Luniz - I Got Five On It

That was off the top of the head... and I got 11 also... I'm probably missing a million songs.

peach fuzz lol .. that song has girl lols in it

Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
and 9 others.

^^^

Saint Etienne - Avenue
Moose - Last Night I fell Again
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Lush - For Love
Portishead - Sour Times
Tricky - Hell Is Around The Corner
Slowdive - Alison
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
Tindersticks - Bathtime

_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.

I'm sorry I posted 7 different lists in this thread.

10+2:

01 Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (DNA remix)
02 Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry remix)
03 Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Supa Fly)
04 The Wrens - I've Made Enough Friends
05 Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy
06 my bloody valentine - Don't Ask Why
07 of Montreal - Don't Ask Me to Explain
08 Jeff Buckley - Grace
09 The Cranberries - Dreams
10 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

+1 Nas feat. AZ - Life's a Bitch
+2 Stan Ridgway - Picasso's Tear

Teenage Fanclub - "God Knows It's True"
They Might Be Goants - "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
The Future Sound of London - "Papua New Guinea"
Blur - "There's No Other Way"
Blur - "Chemical World"
Underworld - "Cowgirl"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Hummer"
Stereo MCs - "Connected"
Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Badly Drawn Boy - "The Treeclimber"

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:30 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fuck this shit. “The Treeclimber”? Two Blur songs? There was way too much great music released in the ‘90s for me to seriously consider narrowing down all my favorite songs to only ten.

Isn't seeing how well/how poorly they age half the fun of listmaking exercises like this?

(Stereo MCs "Connected" made my shortlist, fwiw)