Best songs of the 90's

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So, it's 2007, which means "90's Music" is kinda like oldies for my generation (I'm 22). I've been watching the 90's channel of my digital cables music channels, and every once in a while, they'll play a song I haven't heard since, well, the 90's. So, this is a list of all those great 90's songs, regardless if they were 1 hit wonders or not. I'll start with 1

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand
 
Nine Inch Nails, "Closer"

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC0IAyUnCfA[/media]
Once NIN hit with "Closer" the record labels scrambled to sign as many "industrial-lite" bands they could dig up...here's four of my faves:

Stabbing Westward, "Save Yourself"
Gravity Kills, "Guilty"
God Lives Underwater, "From Your Mouth"
Prick, "Animal"

That Primitive Radio Gods track is excellent, btw...too bad the rest of their CD was a fucking trainwreck.
 
Here are some of my favorites from the 90's. Ok they might not be one hit wonders but who the fuck care, they are all great songs.

Pride and Glory- Horse Called War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpqrei1dwrg

Days of the New- Touch Peel and Stand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY57T9kbLBo

Temple of the Dog- Hungerstrike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lln5i1N3J8g

Jonny Lang- Lie to Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctoL9t50Kxo

Blind Melon- No Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcuevRZqgkM

Stone Temple Pilots- Interstate Love Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BDQ6mQzOKQ
 
Awesome! This has turned into a Blind Melon appreciation thread!

Change:

[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=mFqvIUcfBcw[/MEDIA]

Deserted:

[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=gplLq43OIGs[/MEDIA]
 
Here is just a list off the top of my head (I need to sit down and really think about this to make it extensive)

Kurious - I'm Curious
Da King And I - Tears
Boogiemonsters - Mark Of The Beast
Invisbl Skratch Piklz - Invisbl Skratch Piklz VS. Da Klams Ov Deth
Jungle Brothers - My Jimmy Weights A Ton, I'm In Love With Indica, Because I Got It Like That (Freestylers Indett Mix)
DJ Vadim - Headz Aint Ready, Viagra (with EL-P, Primecuts and BMS)
DJ Krush - Only The Strong Survive (with CL Smooth), Duality, Shinjiro (with Mos Def), Final Home (Vocal Version)
Styles Of Beyond - Dangerous Minds, 2000 Fold
Freestlye Fellowship - Anything off To Whom It May Concern or Innercity Griots
Swollen Members - Counterparts (with Iriscience), Left Field (with Del), S&M On The Rocks, Consumption (with Aceyalone)
The Roots - Mellow My Man, Essaywhuman, Respond/React, Panic!!!, One Shine
Common - A Penny For My Thoughts, Take It Easy, Heidi Hoe
Pharcyde - Oh Shit, I'm That Type Of Nigga, Soul Flower, Otha Fish
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - If It Aint Rough, It Aint Life, Lots Of Loving, The Reminise About You,
Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty, New World Water, Hip Hop, Umi Says
The High & Mighty - Dick Starbuck, B-Boy Document, In-Outs, Hands On Experiance Pt. 2, Weed
Black Sheep - Anything off Wolf In Sheep's Clothing or Non-Fiction
Yall So Stupid - Bowl Of Soul, The Plant, Bootleg Beatdown, Family Tree, Dirt Road White Girl, Monkey Off My Back, Super Nigga, On And On, 85 South (remix)
Group Home - Suspended In Time, A Tear For The Ghetto, 4 Give My Sins, 2 Thousand,
Das EFX - Mic Checka, They Want SERIOUS, If Only, Straight From The Sewer, Gimmie Dat Micraphone, Undaground Rapper, Check It Out, Kaught In Da Act
Grand Puba - 360 Degrees, Big Kids Don't Play, Honey Don't Front, Ya Know How It Goes, Real To Reel, Proper Education, Little Drummer Boy, I Like It,
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina, Pissin On Your Steps, Dark Skin Girls, Money For Sex, Dr. Bombay, Ya Lil Crunbsnatchas, No Need For Alarm, Boo Booheads, Check It Ooout,
Save Ferris - Come On Eileen

Like I said, I really have to sit down and write a list as I know I am foregtting a shitload of great songs
 
Early and mid-90s music was so much better than 95-99% of the shit going on today. How did that happen?

Blind Melon - Soul One:

[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-yw3OzsLw[/MEDIA]
 
[quote name='Zenithian Legend']Early and mid-90s music was so much better than 95-99% of the shit going on today. How did that happen?[/quote]
Because everything was allowed it's fair space on the radio and wasn't dominated by one particular genre like it is now. There was way too much good music then that I liked, but here's some.

Soul Asylum - Misery
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8gJ3igY2Lk[/media]
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=087pjPX3z_8[/media]
Eels - Novocaine For the Soul
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHj6V1lfek[/media]
Collective Soul - Shine
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP3yeqkkYBE[/media]
Beck - Loser
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg[/media]
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3dYYNUqOkU[/media]
Matchbox 20 - Real World
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXZZYeXs5a8[/media]
Semisonic - Semi-Charmed Life
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmLmIArqWM[/media]
Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yP0dQEUBaM[/media]
Len - Steal My Sunshine
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtTOxouD5Q[/media]
Hum - Stars
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=legOdkkUzP0[/media]
Brian Vander Ark (of the Verve Pipe) - The Freshmen
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOV02gtXN7Q[/media]
Better Than Ezra - Good
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEvMJ3lkHV0[/media]
Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLOZsVKFCpc[/media]
Buckcherry - Lit Up (One of the main songs I hold responsible for my shift in musical taste.)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJNPdc9s2Y[/media]

The 90's were a pretty mellow time for me, but the music was pretty great and holds up well I think. :) Sorry for the number of videos, couldn't help it.
 
Sunny Day Real Estate

Seven
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMkH6xi6-Og[/media]

In Circles
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDSsh7Ocv8o&mode=related&search=[/media]

Guitar and Video Games
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D_5hnK5JEI&mode=related&search=[/media]

Pillars
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9jOGznmv4&mode=related&search=[/media]


Texas is the Reason

Back and to the Left
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02h3Zd-g8mk[/media]

Last Note
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Zl9sGcO84&mode=related&search=[/media]



The Impossibles

Eightball
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rteydukF5Ps&mode=related&search=[/media]

Widowmaker
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDOF5hhDk34[/media]



The Promise Ring

Why Did We Ever Meet
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=srU0xhkfIFw&mode=related&search=[/media]

Emergency Emergency
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPySU-OdmRY&mode=related&search=[/media]







Cap'n Jazz

Take On Me
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_xUlC3f_k&mode=related&search=[/media]

Yes, I am Talking to You
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF0ol14SETM&mode=related&search=[/media]




Refused

New Noise
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MkVIe9xGc[/media]
 
Some personal favorites:

Guitar Wolf - Jet Generation
H2O - Guilty By Association
Mindless Self Indulgence - Tornado
Anything off Where You Been? by Dinosaur Jr
Anything off No Gods, No Managers by Choking Victim
Swans - Failure
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
 
Amazing how I hated a lot of 90s music during the 90s, but I actually enjoy listening to it now.

Must be because I can't stand the shit on the radio.
 
For me personally, The Pixies pwned the 90's. ANYTHING by them is in the running for best song of the 90's. (Edit: Unless it was released in the late 80's, like the video I originally had in this spot, "Here Comes Your Man", which I just realized is from 1989. I'll replace it with "Dig for Fire", from 1990 #-o )
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KizhSRp85W4[/MEDIA]

Archers of Loaf- Web in Front (one of the worst videos ever made, but a great song)
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ20HHxpaFk[/MEDIA]

They Might Be Giants- Birdhouse in your Soul
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJD2N2gvqw[/MEDIA]

Violent Femmes- American Music (unfortunately, this clip has a sort of video watermark on it)
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRYT-S70R0E[/MEDIA]

Garbage- I think I'm paranoid
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpRiSb_Ir-s[/MEDIA]

The Cure- Pictures of You (the album was released in 1989, but I believe this song wasn't released as a single until 1990, so it sneaks under the wire)
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_6KPet8Zo8[/MEDIA]
 
[quote name='Milkyman']
How do you guys embed youtube videos here?[/QUOTE]
Click the M button on the reply toolbar for [MEDIA] tags, and just paste the Youtube video address between the tags.
 
Nice pick with Poe above.Britpop ruled the 90s.Pulp's "Common People" was probably the most accessible, and most universal.[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=F39RS3I0D0Y[/media]
 
[quote name='getmeoutofjoliet']Chumbawumba - "Tubthumping"

*video*[/quote]
My first exact thought. I think it was the first ever album I bought when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It was on cassete.
 
[quote name='rodeojones903']Thread over.[/quote]

Weak; try again

Tonight, Tonight - The Smashing Pumpkins
 
Nada Surf - Popular
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8g_wavcFR4[/media]
Candlebox - Far Behind
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOchgZrMqA[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbxNybJ1k0o[/media]
 
Pharcyde - Can't Keep Runnin' Away
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y.
2 Pac - Hit 'Em Up, Hail Mary, No More Tears
Biggie - Juicy, Big Poppa, Hypnotize

There are a lot of other hip hop songs that I could name, because the 90s were the peak, so far of hip hop, IMO.

But a song somewhat out of my box, that I actually didn't really listen to until the 2000's is Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit.
 
Third Eye Blind - How's it gonna be:

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4aS__2yjN8[/MEDIA]
 
[quote name='getmeoutofjoliet']Rob Zombie - "Living Dead Girl"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezcoy-Lz8p4[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
White Zombie - More Human Than Human

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=LXpbrGBIGxw[/media]

Weezer - Buddy Holly

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=FiIC5qcXeNU[/media]

Faith No More - Evidence

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=PFYU0m3617E[/media]
 
Needs more Live.

I Alone
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHnGWX0kYgc[/media]

Lightning Crashes
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiXjZrwyjms[/media]
 
Presidents Of The United States of America - Peaches
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGlfayMNSnE[/media]
 
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