Songs from the 90s.

[Cokies]

90's nostalgia is already relevant. I mean, look at how people get upset at the state of MTV and Nicklelodeon today, and hope it was just like five years ago.
Anyway, what songs do you think defined the 90s, and will be on all those inevitable 90s compilations in ten years?
And please, Mossopp, enlighten us with a Scot's point of view. :)
My list:
Basically, it's all the songs I remember having an impact being on the radio and MTV all the time...

"Everything I do, I Do It For You" Bryan Adams
"Ice Ice Baby" Vanilla Ice
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana
"Buddy Holly" Weezer
"What If God Was One of Us" Joan Osbourn
"Losing My Religion" REM
"Sabotage" Beastie Boys
"Mo Money, Mo Problems" Puff Daddy
"Ordinary World" Duran Duran
"I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston
"Gangsta's Paradise" Coolio
"Wonderwall" Oasis
"Song #2" Blur
"Tonight, Tonight" Smashing Pumpkins
"You Oughta Know" or "Ironic" Alanis Morrisette
"Counting Blue Cars" Dishwalla

Done for now...

[DJM77]

Rain - Blind Melon
Brick - Ben Folds Five
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Loser - Beck
Zombie - Cranberries
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
You Outta Know - Alanis Morissette
Criminal - Fiona Apple
Basket Case - Green Day
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Fly - Sugar Ray
End Of The Road - Boyz II Men
Shoop - Salt N Pepa
Self Esteam - Offspring
Waterfalls - TLC
Gangsters Paradise - Coolio
Wonderwall - Oasis
Jump Around - House Of Pain
One Of Us - Joan Osborne
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

[~Tropical Punch 19~]

"I Saw the Sign" I loved that song!!

[InspectorExstead]

"my heart will go on" celine dion

"wanna" spice girls, it was big

[JoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoJo]

anything by Alaynis Morris (sp) or the Spice Girls... theywere my fav. band in middle school!!

[ISmellFine]

Anything by the Spice Girls...I obsessed over them. LOL Especially Geri...she was my fave. I threw all my SG stuff away tho... Cept 4 my CD.

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by DJM77
Rain - Blind Melon
Brick - Ben Folds Five
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
You Outta Know - Alanis Morissette
Criminal - Fiona Apple
Basket Case - Green Day
Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Fly - Sugar Ray
End Of The Road - Boyz II Men
Waterfalls - TLC
Gangsters Paradise - Coolio
Wonderwall - Oasis
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers


Ooo, good songs!

I remember when I was a high school senior, "Lovefool" by the Cardigans was big. Anyone remember that??

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by dawsongirl


Ooo, good songs!

I remember when I was a high school senior, "Lovefool" by the Cardigans was big. Anyone remember that??

I remember that song. It was a cool song. Did the Cardigans break up or something? You never hear much out of them now. One of my personal favorite 90's songs, that could go on the list is 'Tonight, Tonight' by the Smashing Pumpkins. That was a pretty far out video too.

[Cokies]

Originally posted by dawsongirl


Ooo, good songs!

I remember when I was a high school senior, "Lovefool" by the Cardigans was big. Anyone remember that??

I was in sixth grade when that song came out, and it seemed that EVERYONE had the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack because of it. I did.

Oh, and I forgot about "No Rain". Love it! "Black Hole Sun". How could anyone forget about that video? The people's smiles still come back to haunt me. ;)

Other songs:
"All Mixed Up" 311
"Don't Speak" No Doubt
"Flagpole Sitta" Harvey Danger
"Jump, Jive, and Wail" Bryan Setzer Orchestra
"Fly" Sugar Ray
That one "standing in a phone booth"song.
"Praise You" Fatboy Slim
"Groove Is In the Heart" Dee-Lite
"November Rain" Guns n Roses

and yes, "Wannabe" by The Spice Girls.

[80skid]

I loved "The Sign"! It came out when I was in like, first or second grade, and I always thought the lyrics went, "I saw the sun, and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sun." Yeah, I was a little crazy...:crazy: but my favorite was definitely "Fly", that Sugar Ray song... I used to sing it all the time at summer camp and drive the counselors crazy with it... now I can hardly stand it! Oh, and "All that She Wants", that other Ace of Base song... that was from my 1995 summer, I think, going into second grade... or sometime... whenever....

[Mossopp]

Ok Cokies - here's a Scot's point of veiw! ;)

'Design for Life' - Manic Street Preachers
'Parklife' - Blur
'Lovefool' - The Cardigans
'Common People' - Pulp
'Girl From Mars' - Ash
'Fools Gold' - Stone Roses
'Roll With It' - Oasis
'The Sign' - Ace of Base'
'You Outta Know' - Alanis Morrisette
'Born Slippy' - Underworld
'Female of the Species' - Space
'I Am, I Feel' - Alisha's Attic
'Joyride' - Roxette
'Trash' - Suede'
'Inbetweener' - Sleeper
'Street Spirit' - Radiohead
'There She Goes' - The La's
'She's On the Phone' - St. Etienne
'Finetime' - Cast
'Word Up' - Gun
'The Day We Caught The Train' - Ocean Colour Scene
'Staying Out For The Summer' - Dodgy
'Queer' - Garbage
'Local Boy In The Photograph' - Stereophonics
'Mulder & Scully' - Catatonia

As you can see, there are a lot of Britpop bands in my list. I guess that's cos the whole Britpop scene was really kicking in just as I was entering my second year in high school and all those songs just bring back memories of that time.
If I think of any more I'll post 'em later.

[Cokies]

Originally posted by Mossopp
Ok Cokies - here's a Scot's point of veiw! ;)

'Design for Life' - Manic Street Preachers
'Parklife' - Blur
'Lovefool' - The Cardigans
'Common People' - Pulp
'Girl From Mars' - Ash
'Fools Gold' - Stone Roses
'Roll With It' - Oasis
'The Sign' - Ace of Base'
'You Outta Know' - Alanis Morrisette
'Born Slippy' - Underworld
'Female of the Species' - Space
'I Am, I Feel' - Alisha's Attic
'Joyride' - Roxette
'Trash' - Suede'
'Inbetweener' - Sleeper
'Street Spirit' - Radiohead
'There She Goes' - The La's
'She's On the Phone' - St. Etienne
'Finetime' - Cast
'Word Up' - Gun
'The Day We Caught The Train' - Ocean Colour Scene
'Staying Out For The Summer' - Dodgy
'Queer' - Garbage
'Local Boy In The Photograph' - Stereophonics
'Mulder & Scully' - Catatonia

As you can see, there are a lot of Britpop bands in my list. I guess that's cos the whole Britpop scene was really kicking in just as I was entering my second year in high school and all those songs just bring back memories of that time.
If I think of any more I'll post 'em later.

Some of those are exactly what I thought you were going to put down. ("Design for Life" ;) )

But out of those, only a few were popular in America.(Of course, Britpop in the US was only limited to the infamous Oasis/Blur feud)
"Female of the Species"! I remember that song!

[Krystal Lake]

I'm not gonna go through and read all those songs, so if I repeat any I appologize in advance. :)

Here are some of my '90s favorites (I can't believe the '90s is now "nostalgic" :eek: )

"Mother Mother"- Tracy Bonham
"Glorified G" - Pearl Jam
"Backwater" -Meat Puppets
"What's going on" - 4 Non Blondes
"Bull in the Heather"- Sonic Youth
"Galaxie"- Blind Melon
"Good" -Better than Ezra
"Tubthumping" - Chumbawamba
"Shine" - Collective Soul
"All Over You" - Live
"Low" - Cracker
"Paranoid Android" - Radiohead
"Pets" - Jane's Addiction
"Tahitian Moon" - Porno for Pyros
"Popular" -Nada Surf
"Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
"Vasoline" - Stone Temple Pilots
"Tomorrow" - Silverchair
"Slow Ride"- Sublime
"Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve
"Possum Kingdom" - Toadies
"Lump" - The Presidents of the United States

[SoftballPlayer198]

Cardigins-lovefool
En Vogue-Don`t let go
Divinyls- I touch myself
Deep blue something- breakfast at tiffany`s
Kris kross- jump
Artist unknown-the humpty dance
Anything from the spice girls, they were my idols.

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by Cokies
"Jump, Jive, and Wail" Bryan Setzer Orchestra


Ah, swing rock. Loved it! Zoot Suit Riot..Cherry Poppin Daddies.

[Titania]

Originally posted by JoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoJo
anything by Alaynis Morris (sp) or the Spice Girls... theywere my fav. band in middle school!!

lol, mine too for awhile. Me and my friends had "spice girl names" o gosh- i found some CDs the other day.
And I remember my friend Lindsey singing "Ironic" alllllllll the time.



~cara~

[TibbyTibby2]

I was REALLY young in the early 90's ( I was 2 in 1990) But i remember those songs from the good 'ol Elementry days!!

HIGH SCHOOL HERE I COME EKK ( Techniqually i already started cuz of summa school but owell)

[JoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoJo]

Originally posted by Titania


lol, mine too for awhile. Me and my friends had "spice girl names" o gosh- i found some CDs the other day.
And I remember my friend Lindsey singing "Ironic" alllllllll the time.



~cara~

FInally, another spice girl! lol, i was sport spice... my friend was baby spice... and we turn on their CDs and make music videos and record them on her mom's video recorder, lol... then, like 4 years later, we had some guys go w/ us tot he beach... and her mom dragged out those tapes and showed it to them! lol, very embarrassing at the time... funny now!

[InspectorExstead]

Originally posted by JoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoJo


FInally, another spice girl! lol, i was sport spice... my friend was baby spice... and we turn on their CDs and make music videos and record them on her mom's video recorder, lol... then, like 4 years later, we had some guys go w/ us tot he beach... and her mom dragged out those tapes and showed it to them! lol, very embarrassing at the time... funny now!

omg i loved mel c!

[JoPol_wannabe]

The songs that I liked during the 90's were
Getting Jiggy wit it- Will Smith
C'est La Vie- B*witched
I'll be there for you (Friends Theme)
How do I live- LeAnn Rimes
Tubthunpin- Chumbawanba
Ice Ice Baby- Vanilla Ice
This is how we do it- Montell Jordan
All Star- Smash Mouth
Every Moning- Sugar Ray
Jump- Kris Cross
Together Again- Janet Jackson
Waterfalls- TLC
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
I Believe- Blessed Union of Souls
Shine" - Collective Soul
Amish Paradise- Weird Al Yankovic
Pink- Aerosmith
Where have all the cowboys gone- Paula Cole
You gotta be- Desere
The River- Garth Brooks
Wide Open Spaces- Dixie Chicks
Don't take the girl- Tim Mcgraw
From this moment- Shania Twain

[°Bubbly Blonde°]

Straight Up~Paula Abdul
What A Man~Sant N Peppa and En Vogue
No Scrubs~TLC
More Money, More Problems~Notorius BIG, feat. P. Diddy and Mase
Killing Me Softly~Fugees
Don't Speak~No Doubt
Ghangster's Paradice~Coolio
Ghetto Superstar~Wycleaf Jean feat Old Dirty Bastard and Mya
Gone Till It's Gone~Janet Jackson
The Boy Is Mine~ Brandy and Monica
Waterfalls~TLC
Say My Name~Destiny's Child
Too Close~Next
Vogue~Madonna

[DJM77]

Yeah, If I was going to list the songs from the 90's that were my favortites then the list would be completely different than the one I gave earlier.

[Titania]

Originally posted by JoJoJoJoJoJoJoJoJo


FInally, another spice girl! lol, i was sport spice... my friend was baby spice... and we turn on their CDs and make music videos and record them on her mom's video recorder, lol... then, like 4 years later, we had some guys go w/ us tot he beach... and her mom dragged out those tapes and showed it to them! lol, very embarrassing at the time... funny now!


LOL! If my parents did that I think I'd be hitch-hiking home from the beach!

I was Posh and my friends were all the others- we used to turn on the CDs and dance (and dress up like them...its hilarious to watch the home videos of this...I was a little 6th grader in a short skirt and shoes that made up half my height!)

ahh memories...

~cara~

[Ewan's My Man]

THE SPICE GIRLS!! They were the best group! I obsessed with em!!! My fav was Mel B...Scary.
My friends and I were da Spice Girls for Halloween once, I was scary.


:guitar: So here's the story from A to Z you wanna get with me, u gotta listen carefully. We got EM in the place who likes it in your face. We got G like MC who likes it on an easy V doesn't come for free [she's a real lady] and as for me, ahh, you'll see, slam your body down and wind it all around. SLAM YOUR BODY DOWN AND WIND IT ALL AROUND!! :guitar:

I think those are da words...

[Mossopp]

Originally posted by Ewan's My Man

:guitar: So here's the story from A to Z you wanna get with me, u gotta listen carefully. We got EM in the place who likes it in your face. We got G like MC who likes it on an easy V doesn't come for free [she's a real lady] and as for me, ahh, you'll see, slam your body down and wind it all around. SLAM YOUR BODY DOWN AND WIND IT ALL AROUND!! :guitar:

I think those are da words...

Yes, those are the correct words (I'm sooo embarrassed that I know the words to Spice Girls songs!! :blush: )
I was a bit of a closet Spice Girls fan in the beginning. They sucked later on though.
Sporty's solo stuff was ok. I dressed up as her at school one time. Did you ever see the video she did for 'Goin' Down'? Maybe the song had a different video in America but over here she was wearing a wee kilt and a black top and she had her hair all crazy and spikey and she was dancing around in an old abandoned car park. Well, someone told me that I looked like Sporty in that video (this was before she put on loads of weight) and that I should dress up as her for a laugh! I suppose I did look a wee bit like her.....but I got made fun of by everyone at school for weeks afterwards!

Oh God, this is sooooooooo off-topic!! Sorry guys!! :D

[80sTrivia]

Return to Innocence by Enigma
Take a Picture by Filter
Stay by Shakespeare's Sister
Rain by Madonna
Love U More by Sunscreen
Deliver Me by Sarah Brightman
Snow On the Sahara by Anggun (http://www.wop-entertainment.de/musik/anggun.html)

[Jordan]

Originally posted by Mossopp
'Queer' - GarbageGood Song!

And some other popluar 90's songs....."Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia, "3 A.M." by Matchbox 20, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith are a couple.

:guitar: :guitar: :guitar:

[Cokies]

Garbage was one of the "IT" bands in middle school. Nobody didn't have at least one of their albums. Either the first or Version 2.0.
But their defining song for me that'll always bring back memories is indeed "Stupid Girl".

[Carmen_Epstein]

Live and Learn by Joe Public is my favorite.

[Jordan]

Originally posted by Cokies
Garbage was one of the "IT" bands in middle school. Nobody didn't have at least one of their albums. Either the first or Version 2.0. But their defining song for me that'll always bring back memories is indeed "Stupid Girl". That's really kinda wierd -- as I was reading this post, I was listening to "Stupid Girl!" :) I luv Garbage (obviously!)

[Swimfan85]

"I believe" by Blessed Union of Souls


"Breakfast at Tiffanys"


any new kids

[Swimfan85]

and ice ice baby


cant touch this

[Bootsy Whoosh]

I did read everyone's lists but my memory is bad so forgive me if I repeat.

I agree with alot of what has already been said, but here's a few songs that I don't remember seeing on anyone's lists:

Freshmen- The Verve Pipe
Truely, Madly, Deeply- Savage Garden
One Headlight- The Wallflowers
Fire Water Burn- The Bloodhound Gang
#1 Crush- Garbage (though since only one song by an artist would be likely to make it onto a compilation album, I think Stupid Girl is a better choice)
I'm Just a Girl- No Doubt
Closer- Nine Inch Nails
Mr. Jones- Counting Crows
One Week- Barenaked Ladies
Mr. Wendel- Arrested Development

And how could all of you overlook Marilyn Manson? Love them or hate them, you cannot deny their impact in the 90s. I would chose "Beautiful People" as the song that would likely make it onto a 90s compilation album.

One more BIG oversight (unless I just missed it when I read y'all's lists): Green Day. I would pick "Welcome to Paradise" or "Longview" (that's the "masturbation's lost its fun" one.....we all remember that one now don't we?)

And Cokies....that "phonebooth" song was called "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods

[Faith]

Kris Kross: Jump
Sir Mix-Alot: Baby got back
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Guns N Roses: November Rain
Pearl Jam: Jeremy
ALanis Morissette: Ironic
Spice Girls: Wannabe
Artist Unknown: Macerana
POTUSA ( I am lazy): Lump
Green Day: Basket Case
Snoop Doggy Dog: Gin and Juice
Boyz II Men: On bended Knee
All 4 One/ John Michael Montgomery: I Swear
Ace of Base: Sign
Lisa Loeb and the 9 stories: Stay
Tupac( and everyone else): California Love
Right Said Fred: I'm Too Sexy
Madonna: Justify My Love
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR no more room

[Faith]

Marilyn Manson: The Beautiful People
The Rembrandts: I'll Be there for you
The Verve: Bittersweet symphony
No Doubt: Don't Speak
ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Barenaked Ladies: One Week


WHEWWWWWWWWW... Finally finished

[Lynn]

Here are some more that haven't been mentioned yet.
Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
Alive – Pearl Jam
Runaround – Blues Traveler
Two Princes – Spin Doctors
Comedown – Bush

Oh yeah, I don't think anyone said....
Blame it on the Rain – Milli Vanilli
:lol:

[Faith]

Baby got back- Sir mix alot
Pepper- Butthole Surfers
The thunder rolls- Garth Brooks



Thats all I can think of right now

[Jordan]

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
#1 Crush- Garbage (though since only one song by an artist would be likely to make it onto a compilation album, I think Stupid Girl is a better choice)I feel so dumb with probably being one of the biggest Garbage fans in the world, but I have never heard "#1 Crush." I've heard of it, but never got to listen to it -- if anyone here has heard it, what's it like? I need to know!!!!!!!!!

:happyface :happyface :happyface

[ABlairican Pie]

Gosh, Seattle was crazy 10 years ago. At least it seemed like it when the "grunge" thing hit. I worked up there and the buzz was strong. I even had friends in bands.

My choices for 90's songs:

1. "We Die Young" Alice in Chains
2. "Walk" Pantera
3. "Even Flow" Pearl Jam

(more later)

[Mossopp]

Originally posted by Jordan
I feel so dumb with probably being one of the biggest Garbage fans in the world, but I have never heard "#1 Crush." I've heard of it, but never got to listen to it -- if anyone here has heard it, what's it like? I need to know!!!!!!!!!


The reason you haven't heard '#1 Crush' is cos it isn't available on any of Garbage's albums. If you wanna hear it you'll need to pick up a copy of the 'Romeo & Juliet' soundtrack.

[Jordan]

Originally posted by Mossopp
The reason you haven't heard '#1 Crush' is cos it isn't available on any of Garbage's albums. If you wanna hear it you'll need to pick up a copy of the 'Romeo & Juliet' soundtrack. OMG, I definitely am gonna buy it! Thank you so much for telling me!!!!

:happyface :happyface :happyface