The 10 best songs from the 90's

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.

currently my ten most listened to 90s tracks on last.fm

boards of canada - roygbiv
underground resistance - amazon
peshay - robotics
infiniti - game one
underworld - dark and long
808 state - reaper repo
carl craig - science fiction
dj shadow - changeling
shut up and dance - the green man
saint etienne - spring

curiously all but 2 of these are instrumentals

This is very, very difficult.

OK, deliberately limiting myself to one track per 'artist':

1) Ride - Close My Eyes (Ride EP, 1990)
2) My Bloody Valentine - Off Your Face (Glider EP, 1990)
3) Slowdive - Slowdive (Slowdive EP, 1990)
4) Boo Radleys - Foster's Van (Boo Up! EP, 1991)
5) Telescopes - Ocean's Drive (untitled album, 1992)
6) Aphex Twin - Ageispolis (Selected Ambient Works 85-92, 1992)
7) PJ Harvey - Plants and Rags (Dry, 1992)
8) Hardfloor - Acperience 5 (1993? - I got it in 94)
9) Stereolab - French Disko (1993? - heard it on the radio then, but got it in 96)
10) Blur - Badhead (Parklife, 1994)

I seem to have used up my ten in half the decade...

Still need to add these, though:

11) Tricky - Ponderosa
12) Motorbass - Flying Fingers / Les Ondes
13) Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun

it must have made it a little easier to have everyone on your list be from the same general geographical region.

What - Europe?

Should really include Dee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart as well.

they all make me think of england. though they are not all from there. i actually have no idea where hardfloor is from. and boards of canada are from canada, right?. same queen anyway.

Hardfloor were German. Motorbass were French, I think. I might be wrong, but I think Boards of Canada are/were Scottish.

Re: selections - Ride could easily have been Seagull or Chelsea Girl instead. My Bloody Valentine should probably have been Soon, but that's just too obvious. Boo Radleys could easily have chose something off of Giant Steps, but I really like that earlier EP. Telescopes could have been You Set My Soul instead. Aphex Twin could easily have been any of about 20 tracks from SAW I, SAW II and I Care Because You Do. Blur could have been Beetlebum. Motorbass is kind of cheating choosing two tracks, but they run straight from one to the other and I think of them as one thing.

or they make me think of english music magazines anyway. not criticizing! just saying, it would be easier to make a list of music if you excluded, like, 80% of the world from it.

I had a whole load of Sri Lankan jazz and Nigerian skiffle bubbling under my top 13.

Air - New Star in the Sky
Bjork - Come to Me
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Digable Planets - Blowing Down
Lush - Lovelife
Nas - One Love
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Saint Etienne - London Belongs to Me
Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

many xposts oh man I would have included "chrysalis" if I'd thought of it. What a song!

1. Pavement-Here
2. Kitchens of Distinction-Drive Fast
3. Future Sound of London-Papua New Gunea
4. Massive Attack-Man Next Door
5. Daft Punk-Alive
6. My Bloody Valentine-Soon
7. Depeche Mode-Personal Jesus
8. Basement Jaxx-Rendevous
9. Air-Kelly Watch the Stars
10.Portishead-Sour Times

Air - New Star in the Sky
Bjork - Come to Me
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Digable Planets - Blowing Down
Lush - Lovelife
Nas - One Love
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Saint Etienne - London Belongs to Me
Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

replacing "Come to Me" with "Possibly Maybe", and "Humpty Dance" with "93 til Infinity".

'Everlong' is killing me right now and it wasn't even my favorite song off of that album. Might be getting nostalgic because everyone I known is in the process of parting ways... moving to different cities, different circles of friends, getting married, working all day long, etc... and the lyrics and the memories they evoke are aching very hard today.

I hate when music makes me feel nostalgic. Sod 'everlong', then. You will never be one of my favorite songs of the 90s, 'everlong'. Never!

Play Filter's 'Take a Picture' to go along with the feel of 'Everlong'

Beck "Beercan"
Bjork "Unravel"
Bobby Conn "Axis '67"
Boredoms "Super Are"
Cornelius "Mic Check"
Nirvana "On a Plane"
Pavement "Range Life"
Pixies "The Happening"
Smashing Pumpkins "Zero"
Weezer "Say It Ain't So"

Damn, forgot about Elephant 3, Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized...

Flaming Lips' "Riding to Work in the Year 2025" definitely deserves a place in the top 5 of the decade.

“Girlwish,” Fudge (1991)

- clemenza

Wow! Someone else here knows Fudge. My favorite song by them is "Drive"

Kung Fu - Ash
Old Man Sam - Spiderbait
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
Purple Sneakers - You Am I
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - Nirvana
Opiate - Tool
Papa Won't Leave You Henry - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sheela Na Gig - PJ Harvey
Red Mosquito - Pearl Jam
Blue - Jayhawks
Mockingbirds - Grant Lee Buffalo

Ack. There's bound to be at least 5 revisions. I'm already arguing with myself.

Nas - NY state of mind
Breeders - Cannonball
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty
Pulp - Dishes
Belle and Sebastian - The State That I am in
Big L - Put It On
Notorious BIG - Machine Gun Funk
Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg - Deep Cover
Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean

"I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" - A Tribe Called Quest
"Regret" - New Order
"Scattered" - The Kinks
"Bring Da Ruckus" - Wu Tang Clan
"Speedy Marie" - Frank Black
"Everyday Struggle" - Notorious BIG
"Gold Soundz" - Pavement
"Waterfalls" - TLC
"Common People" - Pulp
"Together Again" - Janet Jackson

1.McAlmont & Butler-Yes
2.Stereolab-French Disko
3.Bjork-Hyperballad
4.Pet Shop Boys-Being Boring
5.The Divine Comedy-Tonight We Fly
6.St Etienne-Nothing Can Stop Us
7.Morrissey-Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself
8.Earl Brutus-On Me, Not In Me
9.Spiritualized-Broken Heart
10.Plush-Found a Little Baby

These all deserve a place too..
The Boo Radleys-Lazarus
Suede-Killing Of a Flash boy
Disco Inferno-Sleight Of Hand
Underworld-Jumbo
David Sylvian-Darkest Dreaming