Best songs from the 90s?
 

I have a great collection of 60's, 70's and 80's music, but my collection of 90's music is seriously lacking. What are your favorites? PLEASE GIVE BOTH THE TITLE AND ARTIST. Anything from Vanilla Ice to Green Day, etc..

Thanks

Here are the top 100 charts for each year, if that helps. http://top40.about.com/cs/90shits/

They are heavily balanced toward pop, but the other genres are represented.

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime

One - U2
November Rain - Guns N' Roses

The Sundays - Summertime

90 shits eh? rotfl

smells like teen spirit (gets attacked by nirvana haters.)

Smashing Pumpkins - Today

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden - Also my fav video ever!!

Eat the Music -Kate Bush

Baby Got Back - Sir MixALot

Epic - Faith No More
Man On The Moon - R.E.M.
One - U2
Nuthin But A G Thang - Dr. Dre and Snoop (not the biggest fan of rap but the Chronic is brilliant!)
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
I Got $hit - Pearl Jam
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
All Apologies - Nirvana

Everybody Hurts-R.E.M.
1979-Smashing Pumpkins
Would?-Alice In Chains
Black Hole Sun-Soundgarden
Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
Alive-Pearl Jam
Don't Look Back In Anger-Oasis
Freak-TLC
Just-Radiohead
Smack My Bitch Up-Prodigy
Wannabe-Spice Girls
Rockafeller Skank-Fatboy Slim
She Talks To Angels-Black Crowes
One-U2
Natural Blues-Moby
Shimmer-Fuel
When I Come Around-Green Day
Loser-Beck

That's a good retrospective of "hits only." With credible, and not-so-credible artists together.

For a more rock / alternative slant, check out this website:

http://www.bradboard.com/90s.htm

edit: Includes the Top 525 songs of the 90s (in this person's opinion). You can also see the top 150 (# sometime's varies) for each year during the 90s (or 70s, 80s or 00s).

To Be With You by Mr. Big (1992)
Wind of Change by Scorpions (1991)
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum (1993)
Ordinary World by Duran Duran *blushes* (1993)
When I Come Around by Green Day (1994)
I'll Be Your Everything by Tommy Page *blushes* (1990)
All Star by Smash Mouth (1999)
I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys "shut up!" (1999)
Little Black Backpack by Stroke 9 (1999)
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) by The Offspring
Inside Out by Eve 6

...to name just a few. The 90's pop scene was fantastic!

(and if you're looking to start a compilation of 21st century songs, start with Promise by Eve 6.)

I'm a Britpop girl, so here are my 90's faves:

Any single by Blur
"Disco 2000" and "Common People" by Pulp
The Definitely Maybe album by Oasis
Big Calm (album) - Morcheeba
OK Computer (album) and The Bends (album) - Radiohead

I'm having a brain fade, but there are so many great singles out of the UK in the 90's that it would take forever to post them. But if you are interested in that sort of thing I will give it a shot. ;)

How could I forget Duran Duran! They were incredible in the 80's, had a great (and successful) comback in the 90's and in 2004 they are going to rock the world on tour!

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

Sums up the feel and mood of the 90's quite well.

Wow, this is hard. About 450 of my 1100 albums are from the 90s. So many great genres emerged and/or evolved--Britpop, trip-hop, alt. country, rave, grunge. This was the decade of Nirvana, Tricky, Liz Phair, Uncle Tupelo, etc. I can't pick one song or one album or one mood. It'll be a shame if the 90s are remembered as the decade of grunge and gloom, because there's so much more to it than that.

Jesus, where to begin...

Dreampop:
"Soon" by My Bloody Valentine
"Polar Bear" by Ride
"Allison" by Slowdive
"Catch the Breeze" by Swervedriver
"Ice that Melts the Tip" by Curve
"Heaven or Las Vegas" by Cocteau Twins

American "Alternative"
"Summer Babe" by Pavement
"The Wagon" by Dinosaur Jr.
"Three Days" by Jane's Addiction
"Everyday Sunshine" by Fishbone
"Radiation Vibe" by Fountains of Wayne
"Race foir the Prize" by Flaming Lips
"The Good Life" by Weezer
"Jackass" by Beck
"Tractor Rape Chain" by Guided by Voices
"Ghost" by Neutral Milk Hotel

Britpop:
"Common People" by Pulp
"Country House" by Blur
"Lucky Man" by Verve
"Demons" by Super Furry Animals
"Sun Splits the Sky" by Supergrass
"Further Away" by Manic Street Preachers
"Some Might Say" by Oasis

Metal:
"Jesus Built My Hotrod" by Ministry (sort of metal, but essential)
"Nomad" by Sepultura
"Slaughter of the Soul" by At the Gates
"The Moor" by Opeth
"Soul Burn" by Meshuggah

Hip hop:
"Award Tour" by Tribe Called Quest
"I'm the Type of *****" by Pharcyde
"Tennesee" by Arrested Development
"Fugee-La" by the Fugees
"Blue Flowers" by Dr. Octagon
"Method Man" by Wu-Tang Clan

Electronic:
"Tha" by Aphex Twin
"Towers of Dub" by Orb
"What time is Love" by the KLF
"Mindstream" by Meat Beat Manifesto
"Private Psychedelic Reel" by Chemical Brothers
"Smack my Bitch Up" by Prodigy
"Hobart Paving" by Saint Ettienne
"Around the World" by Daft Punk
"Kelly, Watch the Stars" by Air
"Born Slippy" by Underworld
"Halcyon +on +on" by Orbital

..and so on...

STP - PLUSH

"Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode

Blame it on the rain - Milli Vanilli
Take a Bow - madonna
Under the Bridge - RHCP

This may be on the 80s/90s border, I'm not sure, but i think Nothing Compares To You by Sinead O'Connor is one of the most moving songs of the decade.

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