Also, the song Lucky Man by The Verve. I always remember it from my early days…heh…
if no one mentioned it yet, All I Want by Toad the Wet Sprocket…
Something else (it’s not pop-ish, but kind of alternative rock) is Stars by Hum. I don’t know that they were big, but I remember them from 5th grade!
Brendon
Wow. Looks like I get to provide the counterpoint. It seems that I get to come into every thread and mention NWA, but not so much this time. These were the ways of Tupac and Biggie, of the East and West coast feud. The formative years of Jay-Z and Nas. Let’s not forget that Ginuwine was really big around these times and Missy Elliot got their feet in the doors as well!
If I were to make the playlist for this portion of our trip back down memory lane,
Baby Got Back
Whoomp There It Is
Love Shack
What is Love
U Can’t Touch This
Ice, Ice Baby
Humpty Dance
Poison
Total Eclipse of the Heart
This is How We Do It
The entire “The Chronic” cd
Doo Wop (That Thing)
All of the “Doggystyle” cd
Ice Cube got big in these years
Outkast started in this decade
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony had one of the best cds EVAR!
Wu Tang Clan was getting some respect
Eminem started in the late 90s
Ma$e got huge and then flamed out
Master P turned into the ghetto Bill Gates
Cypress Hill
Busta Rhymes
I mean…shit! I could do 200 songs here…easy!
I’ll help narrow down my list a little bit for you and try to make it 1993-1998:
Nas, Tupac, Biggie, Jay-Z, Outkast, Ma$e, Master P, Bone Thugs-n’-Harmony, Snoop, and the Wu Tang Clan.
I get to bring up R Kelly, too. Yay me.
don’t know the name or the artist, but you might go with the graduation monologue from the sales convention movie with kevin spacey and danny devito, more late 90’s I know
trust me, on the sunscreen
Do you mean “Everyone’s Free to Wear Sunscreen” by Baz Luhrman? Yeah. That was addressed to the class of 1997. I was the class of 1998, so I didn’t hear it, and now I’m having dysplastic nevi carved off me on a quarterly basis.
Dammit.
It’s all Baz’s fault.
now now, part of growing up is learning to accept responsibilty for our own actions and omissions, suck eh?
Going to bed, but one off the top of my head would be Ants Marching or Satalite from Dave Matthews.
A couple that haven’t been mentioned yet all from 1994-95.
Tripping Daisy - I Got A Girl
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Better Than Ezra - Good
Everclear - Santa Monica
A few more I forgot from 1996:
Nada Surf - Popular
Superdrag - Sucked Out
Ahh the 90s. I’ll focus on the period from 1994-1997. Basically consisting of my transition from slacker frat guy college senior to unemployed 20-something living with his parents and partying down on the shore every weekend to 20-seomething dot com worker in Bostons rt128 loop. You don’t get more 90s than that.
Bush - Machinehead
311 - Down
Presidents of the USA - Peaches
Better than Ezra - Good
Beck - Loser
Dave Mathews Band - So Much to Say
Robert Miles - Children
2Pac - California Love
White Zombie - More Human than Human
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (like it or not, Titanic was huge then. Does putting it in my list make me gay?)
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
Busta Rhymes - Dangerous
Green Day - Having a Blast
Cherry Poppin Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot (how can you forget the bried resurgence of swing in 1997)
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
Filter/The Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
Republica - Ready to Go
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Tag Team - Whoomp There it is
Foo Fighers - Everlong
Real McCoy - Another Night
and of course
Los del Río - Macarena
actually, for the dance portion of your mix, you can just take every song of this two CD set:
as well as Jock Jams volumes 1-3
forgot a couple more:
Rage Against the Machine - People of the Sun
and of course…callin all y’all it’s a Sabotage!!!
I LOVE mid to late 90’s music!!
I have a great 90’s Mix cd that I titled “Zed’s Dead, Baby. Zed’s Dead.” I don’t have a copy with me at work, but I remember a few of the tracks off the top of my head:
Artificial Joy Club - Sick and Beautiful (This was a one-hit-wonder in 96/97)
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Silverchair - Tomorrow
Better than Ezra - Good
Tracy Bonham - Mother, Mother
Third Eye Blind - Semi-charmed Life
Dogs Eye View - Everything Falls Apart
K’s Choice - Not an Addict
Fiona Apple - (Anything from Tidal)
I’ll take a look at the track listing for that CD tonight and post some more.
Underworld - Born Slippy
I’m a little sad no one has mentioned the Spice Girls. I love the Spice Girls.
No, I’m not kidding. I do.
Most of these were radio hits in the mid to late 90’s, but there might be a few from the early 90’s that I just discovered a few years late:
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Blind Melon - No Rain
Blink182 - Damnit
Bloodhound Gang - LiftYourHeadUpHigh(AndBlowYourBrainsOuT)
Blues Traveler - Runaround
Blur - Song 2
Breeders - Cannonball
Bush - The Chemicals Between Us
Cake - Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
Collective Soul - The World I Know
Cracker - Low
Cranberries - Linger
Dandy Warhols - Not if you were the Last Junkie on Earth
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffanys
Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
Elastica - Connection
Everclear - Everything to Everyone
Everclear - Heroin Girl
Flys - Got You Where I Want You
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Fuel - Shimmer
Fun Lovin Criminals - Scooby Snacks
Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Goldfinger - Counting the Days
Gravity Kills - Guilty
Green Day - Longview
Green Day - Sassafras Roots
Hootie & the Blowfish - Let Her Cry
James - Laid
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
Live - I Alone
Lords of Acid - Pussy
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Mighty Mighty Bosstones- The Impression That I Get
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
Phunk Junkeez - Me n yer Girl
Poe - Angry Johnny
Poe - Hello
Powerman 5000 - When Worlds Collide
Rentals - Friends with P
Semisonic - Closing Time
Sister Hazel - All For You (Acoustic Version)
Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
Space - Female Of The Species
Sponge - Sixteen Candles
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack.m4a
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
US3 - Cantaloop
Ugly Kid Joe - I Hate Everything About You
Veruca Salt - Seether
Weezer - Sweater Song
Enjoy!
Because I’m totally lame and have nothing better to do, I made an Excel spreadsheet of the songs mentioned here – at least, the songs listed with artists, but not artists themselves or entire albums. If anybody would like a copy, my e-mail is in my profile. Drop me a line, and I’ll send you a .xls document of over 200 songs, neatly alphabetized.
A few more that might fit the style of the OP :
Geggy Tah - “Whoever You Are”
The Refreshments - “Banditos”
Matthew Sweet - (“Girlfriend” or “We’re the Same”)
I think for Ben Folds, “Battle of Who Could Care Less” is more of that era, as it seemed a bigger hit.
This thread triggered a memory of a song from that time that I can’t remember much about - what I do remember is that it sampled a car alarm (in the background), and sort of sounded like Depeche Mode. I think the band may have been from Sacramento as well.
A little research suggests the band may be Cause & Effect, but I don’t recognize the song. Does anyone know if they’re the ones who used a car alarm, or am I mixing things up in my memory?
Man, I’m only a few years older than the OP and I’m feeling like maybe I need to check into that Geritol stuff and start figuring out that newfangled Medicare thing.
Man, did I ever love that Counting Crows CD.
Is it just me or was every Everclear song…the same?
Different lyrics, of course…but…the same!