A local radio station is having a "Smells like the '90s Weekend" which, while moronically named, has made me feel weirdly nostalgic. The music I grew up with is now retro. I expect my minivan to be arriving in the mail any day now.
But ever the optimist (no, really) I've decided to take this opportunity to pay tribute to what I am hereby officially declaring to be the top ten pop songs of the nineties. Seattle bands need not apply.
1. "No Rain" - Blind Melon
2. "Popular" - Nada Surf
3. "Undone - The Sweater Song" - Weezer
4. "Song 2" - Blur
5. "Sister Havana" - Urge Overkill
6. "Seether" - Veruca Salt
7. "Low" - Cracker
8. "Plowed" - Sponge
9. "Pretend We're Dead" - L7
10. "Cannonball" - Breeders
Honorable mentions go to "Walk on the Ocean" by Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Laid" by James and "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" by the Spin Doctors. And "Glycerine" by Bush. I clearly have no soul.
Now, fellow children of the '90s, tell me what I'm missing... mostly so I can go find it on Rhapsody.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
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4 comments:
1) Popular and Nada Surf sucked.
2) Undone the Sweater song should definitely be replaced on your list by either My name is Jonas or Only in Dreams
3) I am not familiar with Blur (oh god, unless that's the fuck 'woo hoo' song...vomit), Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Sponge, or the Breeders.
4) Where's the fucking rancid?
5) Where's the fucking sound garden?
W0RD.
1) No. Fail.
2) "My Name is Jonas" was in the running, but I wanted to go more cheesy mainstream.
3) You might like the Breeders.
4) This wasn't that kind of list, although that would have been a good list too.
5) Ahem. And I quote (myself), "Seattle bands need not apply."
MCW0RD.
Even though it was cheesy and overplayed, by the end of the decade, I think either "Wonderwall" or "Champagne Supernova" deserve that list. Maybe "Don't Look Back in Anger" if you want something a little less poppy.
I might replace "Song 2" with "Boys and Girls" (oh damn MTV and Spring Break for making me love that song.)
But now I ask, where is the Chilli Peppers (even if the stuff in the 90s isn't as good as some of the 80s stuff) or Beck's "New Pollution"?
Duran Duran's "Come Undone"?
I'll stop there, but I'm sure you get the drift.
Oh, those are some good ones. Especially "Girls and Boys" and "Come Undone". I can't believe how nostalgic this makes me.
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