The 10 best songs from the 90's

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

My top ten songs of the '90s from those posted above:

Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphaty
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
Orbital - "Belfast"
Portishead - Glory Box
pj Harvey - oh my lover
tom waits - dirt in the ground
Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"
Saint Etienne - Avenue

(There's many more I would choose had I elected to give this some thought on my own.)

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

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:45 PM (2 days ago)

^^^

― deej, Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:01 PM (2 days ago)

No doubt it's a classic, but surely it's not even the best song on that album...

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"

Today's top 10 (in no particular order)

69 - Desire
TLC - No Scrubs
Smif-N-Wessun - Sound Bwoy Bureill (Re-Edit)
Björk - Hyper-Ballad
Myalansky & Joe Mafia - Where Was Heaven
Low - Weight of Water
Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow
D'Angelo - Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
UGK - One Day
Wilco - Via Chicago

Argh. Just remembered that I'd meant to put in:

R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind (Old School Mix)

This really should be a "ROLLING 10 Best Songs from the 90's" thread.

1. "Show Me Love" - Robin S
2. "Sexy MF" - Prince
3. "The Great Nations of Europe" - Randy Newman
4. "Waltz Across Texas Tonight" - Emmylou Harris
5. "No Diggity" - Blackstreet
6. "Motownphilly" - Boys II Men
7. "Champagne Supernova" - Oasis
8. "Je T'Aimais, Je T'Aime, Je T'Aimerai" - Francis Cabrel
9. "California Love" - 2Pac/Dr. Dre
10. "Warning" - The Notorious B.I.G.

Consolation prize:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP1FTLFajUo

"No Diggity" - Blackstreet

Yes!

The Wedding List - Kate Bush
Schindler's List - John Williams
The List of Dorms - Pavement
Next on the List - Napalm Death
Wish List - Pearl Jam
Shit List - L7
Guest List - Eels
See What I Did There - the Rofflecopters

rofflecopters is 00's n00b

Damn.

"Smiling" by Kitchens of Distinction

This song needs it own thread already.

So does "The Humpty Dance".

KLF - 3AM Eternal
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
Blur - This Is A Low
Boards Of Canada - ROYGBIV
Beastie Boys - The Move
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Nirvana - Aneurysm
Pavement - Range Life
Radiohead - Karma Police

(those were off the top of my head)

My favorites that haven't been mentioned (in no order off the top of my head)

Sonic Youth - Unwind
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
Cub - Magic 8-ball
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
Aphex Twin - Flim
Shallow - King of the Wide Eyed Girls
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
R.E.M. - Why Not Smile
Rainer Maria - Planetary/Broken Radio
Pain - Umbrella

Songs that have been mentioned that might have made the list and I would like to give a hearty FUCK YEAH!! to:

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Cardigans - Lovefool
Bikini Kill - Anti-Pleasure Dissertatation
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Air - Ce Matin La
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Kleenex Girl Wonder - Tendency Right Foot Forward

I like about three-quarters of everything on this thread so far, so I am getting a warm nostalgic buzz here but also the feeling that I could never, ever narrow it down

I've no idea why I'm doing this because it's impossible but here's ten I typed out without thinking.

Pulp - This is Hardcore (Swedish Erotica Mix)
Fantastic Plastic Machine - You Must Learn All Night Long
Local Rabbits - Stomp Those BKs Down
Cardiacs - Sleep All Eyes Open
Bachelor Pad - Country Pancake
KLF - America: What Time is Love
Air - Kelly Watch The Stars (Moog Cookbook Mix)
Saint Etienne - Cool Kids of Death (Underworld mix)
Redd Kross - Jimmy's Fantasy
Denim - Council Houses

No doubt it's a classic, but surely it's not even the best song on that album...

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 04:15 (19 hours ago) Bookmark

I don't want to make some go on about BEST v. FAVOURITE again, so yeah, Shook Ones and all that. Noyd's verse is just my favourtist guest verse in rap history though, OB4CL excluded.

Can only do this if i restrict to somewhat rock-derived stuff (i.e. blocking out film scores, hip-hop and classical compositions) otherwise I would need a much longer list. Also sort of fakely resticting to 1 song per artist. These are in order:

1. Scott Walker- The Cockfighter
2. Talk Talk- Taphead
3. Sun City Girls- Space Prophet Dogon
4. Current 93- The Frolic
5. Boredoms- JB Dick & Tina Turner Pussy Badsmell
6. Television- 1880 Or So
7. Built To Spill- Randy Described Eternity
8. Dog Faced Hermans- Jan 9
9. The Fall- Free Range
10. I Am Not Me- Robyn Hitchcock

Leaving My Bloody Valentine off my list or the list would be nothing but all the tracks from Loveless.

Gang Starr "The Meaning of the Name"
Sonic Youth "Swimsuit Issue"
Posies "Solar Sister"
Bailter Space "Orbit"
Swervedriver "Duel"
Black Sheep "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)"
Underworld "Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love"
A Tribe Called Quest "Sucka Nigga"
Radiohead "The Bends"
Grant Lee Buffalo "Lone Star Song"

Radiohead / Paranoid Android
Björk / Isobel
Slowdive / Ballad of Sister Sue
Piano Magic / Wrong French
Autechre / arch carrier
PJ Harvey / The Dancer
Talk Talk / Taphead
Scott Walker / Farmer in the City
Fiona Apple / Sleep to Dream
Lauryn Hill / Ex-Factor
Portishead / Roads
Tori Amos / Leather
Britney Spears / Hit Me Baby One More Time
Paradise Motel / Watch Illuminum
UNKLE / Rabbit in Your Headlights
Sinead O' Connor / Nothing Compares 2 U
Missy Elliott / The Rain
Low, Piano Magic, & Transient Waves / Sleep at the Bottom
Destiny’s Child / Jumpin’ Jumpin’
Stereolab / Cybele’s Reverie
Jim O’Rourke / Halfway to a Threeway
Cibo Matto / Sugar Water
A Tribe Called Quest / Electric Relaxation
Pixies – Alec Eiffel
The Breeders / Cannonball
Sonic Youth / Tunic (Song For Karen)
Aaliyah / Are You That Somebody?
Throwing Muses / Counting Backwards
Pulp / Common People
Cocteau Twins / Cherry-Coloured Funk
Cardigans / Lovefool
Kristin Hersh / Your Ghost
Broadcast / According to No Plan
Tindersticks / Don’t Look Down
Diamanda Galás / Supplica a mia madre
Jeff Buckley / Lover, You should’ve Come Over
Des’ree / Kissin’ You
REM / Drive
Tricky / Black Steel
Godspeed You Black Emperor! / Moya
Wu-Tang Clan / Reunited
Disco Inferno / Second Language
Orbital / Halcyon + On + On
Ride / Vapour Trail
Bark Psychosis / Absent Friend
Blackstreet / No Diggity
Ride / Vapour Trail
Dr. Octagon / Blue Flowers
Belly / Feed the Tree
Mazzy Star / Halah
My Bloody Valentine / Sometimes .
White Town / Your Woman
Squirrel Nut Zippers / Hell
Mike Ladd / Feb. 4 '99 (For All Those Killed by the Cops)
Ninjaman, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man & Ninja Ford / Bad Boy Lick a New Shot
Opus III / It's a Fine Day
Dinosaur Jr. / Start Choppin'
Massive Attack / Teardrop

etc.

oh and fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7BVp2qyVBU&feature=fvst

KLF - 3AM Eternal
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
The Boo Radleys - Lazarus

picked this as dog latin before scrolling any further

Forgot this one. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpBCHE1Pbss

Superchunk- Slack Motherfucker
Digital Underground- Humpty Dance
DJ Shadow- Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
Tortoise- Djed
Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Dead Flag Blues
Autechre- Garbage
The Grifters- Black Fuel Incinerator
Nirvana- Aneurysm
Pavement- Here
Uncle Tupelo- Moonshiner
Plastikman- Consumed

nice to see the sleep at the bottom votes, since one of my closest friends played the guitar on that.

some of these songs seem so remote now, although if you'd told me they came out ten years ago I'd kind of blink...djed, for instance. wow that was quite a long time, adn I haven't listened to it in ages either, but it somehow doesn't seem that long. age and time flies.

Impossible task, but these are the first to come to my mind:

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Touch & Go - Would You...?
Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Meshell Ndegeocello - Leviticus: Faggot
Ahlam - Mskin
Eve feat. Drag-On - Let's Talk About
Nonplace Urban Field - Whimp
TLC - Waterfalls
Hardfloor - Once Again Back
Corona - Rhythm of the Night

10 great tracks off the top of my head -- mostly stuff I've been listening to lately:

Digable Planets - Black Ego
that dog. - Retreat from the Sun
Kelis - Caught Out There
Roddy Frame - Hymn to the Grace
Pram - The Mermaid Hotel
Oval - Mediaton
Tricky - Ponderosa
Cornelius - New Music Machine
Sam Phillips - I Need Love
Six Finger Satellite - Parlour Games

hmm, that Pram track is from the 00's, so it seems. I'll change that to "Pram - 'Chrysalis'" then.

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)