# What are the worst songs from the 90s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305 "2010-04-25T16:18:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/101 "2010-04-28T03:39:11Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > And as a hard rock & heavy metal fan I will give you no argument that there was a lot of crappy music in those genres as well. Who can forget that great Albino Trio of Great White, White Lion and Whitesnake? > > No. > > No thank you. > > Absolutely not. > > Definitely not. > > Most assuredly no. > > Hell no. > > Holy Smokey Robinson, no. > > I suppose it could have been the fact that it was played over and over and over and OVER OH MY GOD IT’S SUCKING MY WILL TO LIVE! > > Hm, well let me reconsider that one for a second… > > [insert “Jeopardy” theme music here] > > Nope. That song still sucks more ass than a donkey vacuum. > > I like both bands (although they too produced some crap in the 90s; Motley Crue sure peaked with “Dr. Feelgood” in 1989) but have never been to their shows or had one of their shirts (or any other merchandise). I am Spiritually Pure 😃 > > Grunge may have started as some kind of outgrowth of punk by people who hated the whole hair metal thing but it took about 15 minutes for everybody and his grandpa to dig out their old flannel and slap together yet another whiny album about how dark and miserable life is and sing it in an annoying monotone. > > Same bandwagon as LA metal saw in the 80s, sans S/M outfits, hair products and songs about things that are at least theoretically fun (partying and girls). So now I’m curious…what DO you like from that era? ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/102 "2010-04-28T03:52:33Z")
Was Informer by Snow from the 90’s? If so, that’s the one. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/103 "2010-04-28T04:38:53Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Was Informer by Snow from the 90’s? If so, that’s the one. Ugh, talk about a stinkbomb. Was Color Me Badd 90’s? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/104 "2010-04-28T04:58:08Z")
I liked “All-Star” by Smash Mouth, but I can see it not being a high quality song… Ummm, I nominate… umm… I’ll just have to repeat Mambo No. 5. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/105 "2010-04-28T05:40:04Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > So now I’m curious…what DO you like from that era? For pity’s sake, did you have to quote that ENTIRE POST for your single line response??? ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/106 "2010-04-28T05:42:50Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > So now I’m curious…what DO you like from that era? There was a ton of other music going on in the 90s aside from grunge. I think grunge sucked and I didn’t care for any of those bands. I spent my money on all kinds of other music. Punk. Pop. Hard rock. Heavy metal. Taiko drumming. Rap. There’s plenty more stuff that I enjoyed listening to that I just didn’t purchase; various dance and electronica, some country & western, a capella, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/107 "2010-04-28T13:23:46Z")
I’d have thought “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls would have been mentioned by now, although I do confess that I actually like that song. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/108 "2010-04-28T14:49:18Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I didn’t want to have to do this, but… [No Way No Way by Vanilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m9n5Uv0bp0) > > [Even the producers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_(band)) thought it was terrible. I think this was invented so[Las Ketchup](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzyYYZsxGc)could have somebody to look down upon. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/109 "2010-04-28T14:52:24Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I’d have thought “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls would have been mentioned by now, although I do confess that I actually like that song. It was in Post 27. You probably blocked it out subconsciously. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/110 "2010-04-28T15:06:16Z")
Meanwhile in Europe… Two Unlimited’s [No Limit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFd5Cci_pE4) rode high in the charts of 1992. Definetely in the category of “funny-bad” rather than the “depressing bad” of worthy MOR/Grunge lite. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/111 "2010-04-28T15:07:28Z")
My favorite kinds of music from the 90’s were country, grunge, and europop/dance. There was bad stuff in every genre though. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/112 "2010-04-28T15:26:00Z")
You say that we’ve got nothing in common No common ground to start from and we’re falling apart You’ll say the world has come between us Our lives have come between us still I know you just don’t care And I said, What about breakfast at Tiffany’s?? She said, "I think I remember the film? And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it And I said, “Well, that’s the one thing we’ve got” (shoots self in head) ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/113 "2010-04-28T15:30:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I didn’t want to have to do this, but… [No Way No Way by Vanilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m9n5Uv0bp0) > > [Even the producers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_(band)) thought it was terrible: \*Damn. \*That’s frightening, even. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/114 "2010-04-28T15:45:26Z")
The 90s were not a great time for pop music - Much of it forgettable club.dance music with their melodies sampled from other tracks.Eg: [Stretch & Vern I’m Alive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PuQp8Rjnqw) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/115 "2010-04-28T16:59:05Z")
Am I going to be eaten alive if I say I really like Celine Dion and that I memorized “My Heart Will Go On” in fourth grade? ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/116 "2010-04-28T17:09:20Z")
Celine Dion is really, really good at what she does. No reason to be embarrassed for being a fan. She has sold millions of records and made untold amounts of money for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/117 "2010-04-28T17:17:32Z")
> [@Rrose\_Selavy](#): > > The 90s were not a great time for pop music - Much of it forgettable club.dance music with their melodies sampled from other tracks.Eg: > > [Stretch & Vern I’m Alive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PuQp8Rjnqw) Everyone forgets that there was more to 90s music than Nirvana and Pearl Jam and the emergance of gangsta rap: New Jack R&B (Bel Biv Devoe, Color Me Bad) Jangly alt-rock (Deep Blue Something, Mathew Sweet) Jammy jam bands (Spin Doctors) Eurodance and house music (Ace of Base, C+C Music Factory) Techno (whoever) Nu-Metal (Limp Bizkit) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/118 "2010-04-28T20:15:18Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Was Informer by Snow from the 90’s? If so, that’s the one. I forgot all about that song…ugh, thanks for reminding me! 🙂 > [@GuanoLad](#): > > For pity’s sake, did you have to quote that ENTIRE POST for your single line response??? tldr > [@Valgard](#): > > There was a ton of other music going on in the 90s aside from grunge. I think grunge sucked and I didn’t care for any of those bands. I spent my money on all kinds of other music. > > Punk. Pop. Hard rock. Heavy metal. Taiko drumming. Rap. There’s plenty more stuff that I enjoyed listening to that I just didn’t purchase; various dance and electronica, some country & western, a capella, etc. I agree, and we all have different tastes, but I tend to reflect on the '90’s as the heydey of the re-emergence of heavy pop/grunge songs (along with the goofy rap/funk of the likes of Beck) that emphasized the song over the guitar solo and big hair. Stone Temple Pilots, Spacehog, Red Hot Chili Peppers (man, _Blood Sugar_ is awesome!), Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Oasis, Sublime, Bush, Lenny Kravitz, etc all were at the height of their powers in the 1990’s. It was indeed a bad decade for bubblegum pop music…but aren’t they all? ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/119 "2010-04-28T21:09:49Z")
> [@](#): > > It was indeed a bad decade for bubblegum pop music…but aren’t they all? Not unless you just don’t like that genre, in which case it’s sort of pointless to talk about it at all. And I’m not on-board with the notion that the 90’s was a bad decade for pop without some sort of definition of the term. What exactly are we talking about? Sure, there was lots of same-y sounding dance music in the early and mid-90’s, but that seems like a pretty narrow definition of “pop.” Michael Jackson, Madonna, No Doubt, the Spice Girls, Cher, Mariah Carey, Boyz 2 Men, the Gin Blossoms, Matchbox 20, Alanis Morrisette, the Goo Goo Dolls, and Blink 182 all released multiple singles that I would classify as “pop” during the decade, and most of them were at least good. Then you have one-hit wonders like Jill Sobule, Fastball, and Lisa Loeb. I contrast that with things I would consider “rock,” like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains or “rap,” like B.I.G. and Tupac. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305/120 "2010-04-28T22:46:31Z")
> [@shy\_guy](#): > > Not unless you just don’t like that genre, in which case it’s sort of pointless to talk about it at all. > > And I’m not on-board with the notion that the 90’s was a bad decade for pop without some sort of definition of the term. What exactly are we talking about? Sure, there was lots of same-y sounding dance music in the early and mid-90’s, but that seems like a pretty narrow definition of “pop.” > > Michael Jackson, Madonna, No Doubt, the Spice Girls, Cher, Mariah Carey, Boyz 2 Men, the Gin Blossoms, Matchbox 20, Alanis Morrisette, the Goo Goo Dolls, and Blink 182 all released multiple singles that I would classify as “pop” during the decade, and most of them were at least good. Then you have one-hit wonders like Jill Sobule, Fastball, and Lisa Loeb. > > I contrast that with things I would consider “rock,” like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains or “rap,” like B.I.G. and Tupac. You’re right, and that’s why I attached “bubblegum” to the term “pop” to differentiate between crap like Britney Spears, the Macarena, etc from decent pop bands like Matchbox 20, Goo-Goo Dolls, etc. This can be a difficult exercise in some ways because genres can blend and cross over, and obviously everyone’s definition might vary some. **Guanolad** , was it okay for me to quote this entire post, or was it too long? I don’t want to offend you again by making a simple mistake! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-worst-songs-from-the-90s/537305.md?page=7)