Scrolling down the list of top 100 songs of the 1990s — according to VH1, where they're asking us to vote on our favorite 10 songs — was pretty funny. I was forced to recall exactly what life was like when I was a young'un with my Fiona Apple, En Vogue, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana and Garbage CDs on repeat in my very first CD player. Picking just 10 was tough, and I'm not convinced the songs I chose were really reflective of the decade's best.
Also, as Popwatch points out, the 100 songs we have to choose from don't really include every single stand-out tune from that bygone era. I especially agree with their suggestion of The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony," and I would add to their missing songs "Wicked Games" by Chris Isaak and "Constant Craving" by k.d. lang, among others. What are your top 10 songs from the '90s? You can vote for your top 10 from VH1's preselected 100 here.
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My List was:
Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"
Blind Melon "No Rain"
Britney "Baby One More Time"
Counting Crows "Mr. Jones"
Weezer "Buddy Holly"
Montell Jordan "This is How We Do it"
New Radicals "You Get What You Give"
Oasis "Wonderwall"
The Fugees "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
Radiohead "Creep"
I'm not sure it's my definitive list, but it'll do.
1Memories...This list makes me feel old.
2Wow...picking just 10 was HARD! I have so many memories to most of these songs. Here are the 10 I chose, really not in order by importance:
1. Barenaked Ladies "One Week"
32. Celine Dion "My Heart Will Go On"
3. R.E.M. "Losing My Religion"
4. Counting Crows "Mr. Jones"
5. The Cranberries "Linger"
6. Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"
7. Pearl Jam "Jeremy"
8. Hootie & the Blowfish "Only Wanna Be With You (vers. 1)"
9. Live "I alone"
10. Jewel "Who Will Save Your Soul"
My list was:
The Cardigans "Lovefool"
Beck "Loser"
Oasis "Wonderwall"
Marilyn Manson "The Beautiful People"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge"
Nine Inch Nails "Closer"
Hole "Doll Parts"
Jamiroquai "Virtual Insanity"
Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Man, I really do feel old.
4Aw, I was so pumped to see Hanson's MON album on here. Mmmbop was definitely my favorite song.
5My list was:
1. Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge"
3. R.E.M. "Losing My Religion"
4. No Doubt "Just A Girl"
5. Oasis "Wonderwall"
6. Hole "Doll Parts"
7. Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"
8. Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"
9. Beck "Loser"
10. The Cranberries "Linger"
6My top ten from the 90's (in no particular order) are:
Morrissey - Suedehead
Primal Scream - Movin' On Up
Liz Phair - Divorce Song
Blur - Advert
Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over
Oasis - Supersonic
Radiohead - Just
Pulp - Common People
The Afghan Whigs - Faded
Spiritualized - I Think I'm In Love
I came up with them off the top of my head. Five minutes from now, I'll probably have changed my mind twice.
7My Flash isnt working so I cant go on the the site SO i made up my own Top 10 songs of the 90's, i tried to keep it as "mainstream" as i could because really most of the bands i like arent going to be on the VH1 site. Let me know if you had the same tastes!
#10 Groove is in the heart- Deee-Lite
8#9 Nothing Compares 2U- Sinead O'Conner
#8 Disarm -Smashing Pumpkins
#7 Gin and Juice- Snoop Dog
#6 Head Like a Hole- NIN
#5- Give it away- Red hot chili peppers
#4 Jane Says-Janes Addicition
#3 Jeremy- Pearl Jam
#2 Love Song- The Cure
#1 Personal Jesus- Depeche Mode.
Oh, I didn't realize you had to pick from a list on the site.
The ones I picked were:
1. Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
92. Fatboy Slim - Rockefeller Skank
3. George Michael - Freedom (total guilty pleasure song)
4. Weezer - Buddy Holly
5. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
6. Oasis - Wonderwall
7. Radiohead - Creep
8. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
10. The Breeders - Cannonball
I would pick ...
Radiohead - Creep
EMF - Unbelievable
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
Oasis - Wonderwall
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Lenny Kravitz- Are You Gonna Go My Way
U2 - One
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
would have been easier to choose 20 and I would maybe have picked other ones than the ones in the list.
10Is there any doubt that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" will be the number one song?
11whiplash....I used to sing to Freedom in my car, like i was one of the darn models in the video. That and when i was a camp counselor , for lipsync night, I MADE my cabin do that song.
We had every bigshot goodtime band on the run boy, we were living in a fantasy
12WhiplashGirlchild - I like your original list better!
My list (in no order) -
Tupac - California Love
Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit
No Doubt - Just a Girl
Dee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart >> you can't understand how much I love this song
Dr. Dre - Nothin' but a G Thang
Eminem - My Name is
Missy Elliot - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing (although I like Jane Says much much better)
Oasis - Wonderwall
And can I just say that "MMM MMM MMM MMM" by the Crash Test Dummies is the WORST WORST WORST song ever. Thank you!
13No No worst 90's song list coming up.
MMM Bop- Hanson: Best line ever on family guy, a tour bus with Hanson drives up , they get out , and Peter yells "its the children of the corn!" and shoots them
I get knocked Down-Chumbawumba: Do i even have to say why?
What is Love-Haddaway: I originally thought this song was snappy, fun, untill the SNL skit ruined me for life, i dont so much hate this song but i feel like i have been frikkin brainwashed to twitch my head to the side and smile like an idiot every time i hear it. One day when i have children, and this song comes on...I will make them cry from embarassement
14OMG OMG OMG GOO GOO DOLLS
love them love jewel too
15how ironic is it that these are the two artists/groups ive been bloggin` bout lately .. hmm ..
dear world
;)
goo goo dolls - iris
best 90's song ever
end of the story
johnny rzeznik -
16HANSON isnt even in the same caliber those r teeny boppers. i mean "MMBOPP" CMON!? those arent even words!
17These were my picks from the limited selection on that site:
Mary J. Blige, Real Love
TLC, Waterfalls
Oasis, Wonderwall
Lauryn Hill, Doo Wop (That Thing)
Blackstreet, No Diggity
Dr. Dre, Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang
Dee-Lite, Groove is in the Heart
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Under the Bridge
Notorious B.I.G., Mo Money, Mo Problems
Jane's Addiction, Been Caught Stealing
For me, Biggie, Mary J. Blige, Snoop, Tupac, Dr. Dre, Erykah Badu, and Lauren Hill really were the soundtrack for the 90s.
18notorious big - JUICY!!!!
love that song 
19Add Black Star and OutKast to that list and it's pretty accurate of what was in my Discman in the 90s. It makes me feel really old to think of those huge CD players we used to lug around (and even before that the gigantic sh*tty walkman). Does anyone still use those things? Seriously!
20They didnt have Depeche mode, The Flir, My life with the thrill kill kult, RevCo, PIL, Bowie, dead can dance, bjork, nitzer ebb, die warzau, ministry, bauhaus, christian death, The Cure,Skinny Puppy, Cocteau twins, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Siouxsie, Sinatra, Peter Gabriel, KMFDM, Front 242, X marks the pedwalk, BiGod 20, Sisters of Mercy, Nina Simone, Prince, Barry Manilow, Oingo Boingo, Dead Milkmen, Dean Martin, Alison Krause, Placebo, Velvet Underground,The The, Erasure, Peter Murphy,REM, Stevie Nicks, Danny Elfman, Pixies, Clan of Xymox,Godspeed! you black emperor, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, John Williams(his music is my lifes soundtrack)They might be giants, The Beloved, Tears for Fears, Johnny Cash, The cranes, Einsturzneden neubauten, Sugar cubes, Front line assembly, Queen, Boy George, The Impotent Sea snakes, Duran Duran, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Cinderella,Showtunes, Machines of loving grace, Mission UK,Adam Ant, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Apoptygma Berzerk,Cabaret Voltaire,L’Ame Inmortelle, God Module, VNV nation, Hanzel und Gretyl.
21To pick from for me.
That's a pretty impressive list CaterpillarGirl! I've love to see whats on your iPod. Remember when you'd just flip through someone's Case Logic to check out their music? It was a great way to weed out friends. Now you can just look at their iPod playlists...
22i don't know if this song is on the list but what about "killing me softly" remix by the fugees.
i think anything alanis gets my vote.....oh how about unbreak my heart by Toni Braxton. i love that song and in spite of her lack of success now, she won a grammy for that song.
23musical tastes are the true litmus tests for me
24i add film to the mix. someone can have a fabulous record collection, then ruin it all by having "a walk in the clouds" in their dvd collection (or titanic, sweet home alabama, monster in law, along came polly, rumor has it, picture perfect, and anything staring elisha cuthbert or david schwimmer).
25Mine is (in random order):
1. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
262. Hanson - MMMbop
3. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
4. Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
5. Tupac - California Love
6. Spice Girls - Wannabe
7. Santana w/ Rob Thomas - Smooth
8. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
9. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
10. Mary J. Blige - Real Love
1. Green Day "Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)"
2. R.E.M. "Losing My Religion"
3. Third Eye Blind "Semi-Charmed Life"
4. No Doubt "Just A Girl"
5. Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"
6. Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"
7. The Cranberries "Linger"
8. Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U"
9. TLC "Waterfalls"
10. Garbage "Only Happy When It Rains"
Crappy list to pick from though, imo.
27oh man im gonna go look and pick. MEMories goodness i miss the 90s and being 11-21
28no order here and from the list they had......and it is VH1 so it's gonna be mainstream type stuff anyway but i am surprised at some of the omissions - tori? no tori
!
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Tupac - California Love
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg - Nuthin but a G thing
Hole - Doll parts
Live - I alone
Nine IN ch Nails - Closer
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit (though not my favorite Nirvana song)
Pearl Jam - Jeremy (though Black is my all time fav)
RHCP - Under the Bridge
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
STP - Interstate love song (not my favorite STP song but eh)
Fugees - Killing me Softly
ok now i gotta go to itunes and get some of these back in rotation
29i lovvvvvvvvveeeeeee 90s music. i gonna come up with a sweet list
30I loved alot of the bands but not the songs they chose.They went with the most popular they had and the best one.Like Nirvana.They had so many great songs.There's Come as you,In Bloom,Heart Shaped Box,etc.I don't even know how could pick 10 songs.As dorky as it sounds,the 90's were my decade and there are so many songs that have meanings to me from the 90's.
31it wont let me copy and paste (from the sight) so here's my list lol
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/2353/90soz0.png
32There were too many songs that brought back too many memories so I just chose randomly:
1. Missy Elliott "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
332. The Fugees "Killing Me softly with his song"
3. Tupac "California Love"
4. M.C. Hammer "U Can't Touch This"
5. Will Smith "Getting' Jiggy Wit it"
6. Spice Girls "Wannabe"
7. No Doubt "Just A Girl"
8. Notorious B.I.G. "Mo Money, Mo Problems"
9. TLC "Waterfalls"
10. Santana f/ Rob Thomas "Smooth"
Lol marcella and CaterpillarGirl--someone being a music snob is the litmus test of whether I want to know someone or not. Somewhat ironic considering that I love music in all its forms, but I find the type of people who huddle together based on mutual tastes in music and dismiss everyone else as "philistines" tedious.
34: b o s s y :
i worked on my high school yearbook for 3 years and made top 10 lists of the biggest songs of the year - the last year (1998, grade 12) i put in bjork and other stuff that only "certain" people liked. ha! it was the coolest list though - i mean, i didn't want to be known as the students from the year of celine dion!gah!
35i agree, SoftRockStar - i listened to Gn'r, aerosmith, hole, jewel, alanis, bjork...and lots of country music when i was in high school, so how does one judge me?! one of my best friends really liked celine dion and other stuff which i generally consider "crap" but i just made fun of him a lot - not dismissed his friendship.
Although there were some great songs on the list, my favorites were missing!
Here are my main problems with the list:
1. I was sad that they chose "creep" by Radiohead. The Bends and OK Computer were amazing albums!
2. NO Morrissey
3. A total lack of good Brit-pop - No Charlatans, No Pulp, No Happy Mondays, No My Bloody Valentine, No Ride, No Lush, No Supergrass, No Portishead, etc....
4. No Jeff Buckley!
5. Only the common grunge music! "Smells Like Teen Spirit" isn't Nirvana's best song - and I didn't see any Dinosaur Jr.
36ok it wont let me copy n paste so ill just paste my list lol here
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37that was fun!
38Garbage still rocks. They are amazing!
39EN Vogue
40I miss the 90's. The music was so great then!
41The verve - bittersweet symphony!!
42Third Eye Blind!
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