Favorite songs of the 90s
 

What songs were your favorite back in the 90s? Also what songs were the most overplayed in the 90s in Kansas City?

Peaches - The Presidents of the United States of America

A lot of Garth Brooks and then one or two songs from a bunch of artists/bands.

The 90s are such a polarizing decade of music for me. Lots of really, really good shit (Pavement, Oasis, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Primal Scream, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sublime, Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Biggie/Tupac/Nas etc) but also some of the most overrated bands (Nirvana, Pearl Jam [barf], Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, sellout REM) and overall terrible pop music.

My favorite song is probably Gold Soundz by Pavement, though.

All things Verve and Radiohead. And some Korn.

I ignored 90s music at the time, in the last 5-10 years have discovered some that I think is fantastic. STP and Soundgarden; Cat Power and some of the other female acts of that time I really like.

I get nostalgic for the 90s now, was a much less tense era.

Add Verve and Radiohead to my list of great 90s shit.

Also My Bloody Valentine.

Much less tense in the alternative/grunge/rock genres. Hip-Hop/rap on the other hand...

CeCe Peniston - Finally
Seven Mary Three - Water's Edge

A lot of stuff in between :)

Mad Cobra-Flex
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Sean Paul-Deport Them
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Buju Banton-Til Shiloh (whole cd)
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Shaggy-Bombastic
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Terror Fabulous-Action
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Inner Circle-Sweat
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Also anything by Sublime, and 311.
Snow-Informer, Lady with a red dress on
Are all good places to start!

You guys have any radio stations that do a flashback hour to the 90s like the 90s at noon or anything like that?

96.5 The Buzz does a 90's at Noon type thing. Usually a nice, eclectic mix of 90's stuff. I often hear TOOL on there, even - MUCH to my delight, of course.

"Never Be Your Woman" by White Town is an all timer.

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Cake's "The Distance" was also an ace tune.

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"Dr. Worm" by They Might Be Giants.

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"Flim" by Aphex Twin was probably the best electronic song of all time, if you like complex rhythms.

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"Sugar" by System of a Down was just a shitkicker of a tune.

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Blur's "Coffee And TV" was the groove of the decade.

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So many great songs. I've got more if anybody likes these recommendations. The 90s were great for off-kilter musical stylings.

Jesus, someone actually put Snow-Informer as one of the greats. Not naming names

Clapton's "Unplugged" Album was fantastic
Not really in line with alot of my tastes but 10,000 Maniacs always made good tunes
Rage
Cypress Hill

ROFL - Happened across this while ****ing off just last night.

Check the thread subject, then search for peaches.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/c...dont_like_the/

Anything by Spin Doctors

Is this my favorite songs from the 90s as I sit now or when I was in the 90's?

They aren't the same.

Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
Return of the Mack - mark morrison
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
U Make Me Wanna - Usher
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn

Ice Cube - My Summer Vacation
Failure - Stuck On You
Dangerous Dame - The Bomb
Stabbing Westward - Waking Up Beside You
Stabbing Westward - Sometimes It Hurts
E-40 Feat Tupac, Spice 1 and Mac Mall - Dusted 'N Disgusted

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I really used to dig 7 Mary 3

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That's a good song to me! I liked Snow! Not a lot of bands doing that type of music back then. Even if it's a Canadian singing with a Jamaican accent.

The guy actually had street cred too. Hes no vanilla ice, the guy was just getting out of jail for stabbing someone.

The song sucks though. For real.

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Holy hell. I haven’t heard that in awhile. That is a good one.

Would is a great one. Always gets me going.

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Now after listening to this horrible song, I can fully understand why you don't like Informer... your taste in music sucks.... errr I mean is much different than mine. You can hate all you want, but Informer is a jam!!

Now let's get this thread back on track.
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So much good stuff, impossible to list them all but I would go with Alice In Chains. Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul (purple CD), Metallica Black, etc.

Rap would be Warren G, Coolio, 2 PAC, Dre and Snoop, Notorious BIG.


Keith Sweat Twisted is my all time smooth song. Mazzy Star. Pixies Where is my Mind kicks ass. I am a softy for Ben Folds Five Brick.

Excellent choice!

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A few winners here. The 90s for me were all about R&B with some hip hop sprinkled on the side.

Jodeci, R.Kelly, Keith Sweat, Usher, Soul 4 Real, Tevin Campbell, Bobby Brown (basically everyone from New Edition), etc.

Hip hop I was heavily into the funky West Coast stuff. NWA, Ice Cube, Dre, Snoop, The DOC. Of course you can't forget Notorious BIG, 2Pac, Wutang, Bone Thugs. Scarface was pretty dope. I always loved LL Cool J. I really didn't discover Nas and Outkast until the 2000s when I was older. Mase had a nice run, as did the Fugees.

wow, that was bad...

I always loved Truly, Madly, Deeply by Savage Garden.

To preface a mildly amusing story- I didn't know a ****ing thing about rock music prior to about a year or so ago. I remembered hearing Truly, Madly, Deeply when I was younger but never knew the artist. I only remember Garden and knew the first word started with an S. So I'm searching YouTube several years ago furiously trying to find this song that randomly popped in my head one day. I come across two bands- Sound Garden and Savage Garden. In my head I'm thinking Truly, Madly is such a soft, sweet song. It HAS to be a Sound Garden right? No lol no, no, no. Apparently Sound Garden is like some heavy metal shit.

Well, that's it. I told you it was only mildly amusing but I laugh every time I remember that search.

Oh hell. Fugees was some good shit.

The Score was an all-time great.

Lauryn Hill had so much talent.

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It's really hard for me to narrow down my favorite songs of the 90's. Bunch of really good contributions I can dig thus far. Almost all of my faves are 90's band and there was a ton of good Alternative/Grunge/Hip-Hop to be found any and everywhere. Seems like a golden era in my mind, but that's just because it's my childhood.

I was always kind of ashamed but I liked To The Moon and Back by that band. If that's the name of the song. I was also kind of ashamed that I liked Barely Breathing by Duncan Sheik. There's a ton of 90s crap that I like that doesn't really fit my tastes.

You're good. Frankly I don't expect most people to like it, it's not a first listen type band/song, and def not for everyone. It took me a while to like it tbh.

As for informer, it's whatever. I don't hate it or hate on anyone for liking it. Its way better than anything vanilla ice did so theres that. Its a fun little song.

There were some good southern jam bands in the 90's too.

Had the pleasure of seeing this band in Nashville one night. Didn't even know they were plying we just happened to be there. Damn they put on a good show!
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Another jammy band
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Brother Cane
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Prob the best southern rock album to come out of the 90's

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I probably listened to that acoustic version over 2,000 times since it came out.

I was very meh on Radiohead when they were big but I seem to like them more and more as I get older...

Favorite or overplayed?

Personally I love that song. Just heard it a couple of times last week and was loving it.

I'll spare everyone the death metal vids even though that's where it was at in the 90s along with rap. Some of the other stuff that defined my 90's would be:

The entire Life of Agony - River Runs Red album was/still is crucial af.

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The entire Queens of the Stone Age s/t album (1998) when they were still a stoner band.

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COC - Albatross is timeless.

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Boo.... hisss

Down NOLA blew me away.

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Since it has been mentioned a few times
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The Urge - Open All Night

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Mazzy Star, now there is a name I havent heard for a while... still have the album with Fade Into You on it

Used to get wasted, put that on, and zone out

Them Swedes in Refused.

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There isnt a bad song on that entire album, great call

Would- Alice In Chains

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The definitive sound of hard rock in the 1990's, only to be followed by THE definitive sound of hard rock of all time in 2001.

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Did you see Josh kick that female photographer in the face that other night? Dick, dick, dick, dick move.

I'm not necessarily a fan of his, just that album from '98.

I really liked Like Clockwork.

I'll have to check that one out.

Impossible to leave this one out. God damn, it's still haunting and soul stirring all these years later.

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Wow never new Maynard from Tool was involved in Green Jello...

Prob not the best song from the era, but was in my rotation a lot.

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And Chevelle's first cd Point number 1 was released in 99. That was an epic cd to me!

They're on tour right now. Not sure of the lineup. If I can get this halo off by January, I plan to see them in Chicago.

Last one, for now....


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Imagine me trying to get laid with Mad Season, Temple of The Dog, and old Floyd.

Not hard to imagine why I ended up with a metric **** ton of crazy women between 93 and 2000...

I am a child of the 90's and love tons of music from this era.

Many of the bands I really like were also the popular ones. I realize that's not cool so I won't mention them here.

Coma Guns N Roses

Radiohead, Tool, Alice n chains were the best and still hold up.

oK computer up there with Dark Side of the Moon as best stuff

I'll never forget first time I heard Rooster I was driving my AMC Eagle back from Colorado between two semi trucks hauling balls not slowing down for any Podunk towns. I kept up by drafting from the one in front of me but I didn't want to be a bump in the road for the truck inches behind me. The Rooster came on and that was a ****ing A moment.

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I haven't read through the thread but snow is in there somewhere. twelve inches of it.

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Music of the 90's
 

Clapton of course, Add in some Foo Fighter, Goo Goo Dolls and Pearl Jam.

The 90's were a blurr, so young and foolish .