# Your "I Love the 90's" soundtrack **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785 "2004-07-19T07:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/1 "2004-07-19T07:03:11Z")
Like every other red-blooded, iPod-listening, VW-driving, IKEA-buying, American yuppie, I spent most of the weekend like a lump on the couch watching “I Love the 90’s” on VH-1. And like everybody else, I thought it was way too early to be nostalgic for the early 90’s. But after seeing some of the stuff they mentioned, I got to remembering: finishing up college, working my first job in Atlanta and listening to the radio at least 2 hours a day during the commute, and then moving out to the Left Coast. And remembering all the music I listened to through all of that. And it’s not on the “official” soundtrack that VH-1 is selling. So everybody make up your own. Up to 15 tracks, of the stuff you were really listening to in the 90’s. Only rule is it has to have been released from late 1989-1999. Ideally, it got some airplay on MTV or the radio, or it’s from the same album as a Big Hit. Just so it’s not some obscure thing that nobody else has ever heard of (but I’ve broken that rule a couple of times). 1. **Collective Soul** - Gel 2. **Dave Matthews Band** - Ants Marching 3. **Soundgarden** - Spoonman 4. **Weezer** - Dope Nose 5. **Matthew Sweet** - Ultrasuede 6. **Luscious Jackson** - Naked Eye 7. **The Prodigy** - Breathe 8. **Us3** - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) 9. **Squirrel Nut Zippers** - Hell 10. **Arrested Development** - Tennessee 11. **The Breeders** - Cannonball 12. **The Beastie Boys** - Sabotage 13. **Chickasaw Mudd Puppies** - Lon Chaney 14. **Donkey** - Two on the Moon 15. **The The** - Dogs of Lust Even more fun, try to guess which songs the poster still likes, and which ones he’s embarrassed to have liked back then! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/2 "2004-07-19T07:38:10Z")
You could run out and by The Buzz on [www.musicspace.com](http://www.musicspace.com) or the soundtrack to Singles or Reality Bites or you can get my mix tape from junior year in college Pearl Jam - Jeremy Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way Dave Mathews Band - Crash Dr Dre - Dre Day Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Naughty By nature - OPP Alice in Chains - Would Beastie Boys - Sabotage Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike U2 - One Snoop Dogg - Aint Nothin But A Gee Thang Green Day - She REM - What’s the Frequency Keneth Blind Melon - No Rain Janes Addiction - Jane Says Smashing Pumpkins - Today House of Pain - Jump Around Weezer - Buddy Holly ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/3 "2004-07-19T08:07:37Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > House of Pain - Jump Around I’m ashamed, _ashamed_ that I forgot that one. As well as _The New Pollution_ by Beck. And I guess it needs to have _Tubthumping_ by Chumbawumba on it as well, but I dunno. _Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin, I came to win, battle me, that’s a sin! Get up, stand up, come on throw your hands up, if you got the feeling, jump across the ceiling…_ ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/4 "2004-07-19T11:37:00Z")
Geez…It has to be pop culture related? Hmmmm… In no particular order: 1. Mudhoney-“Suck You Dry” 2. Pixies- “Head On” 3. Iggy Pop- “Wild America” 4-King Missle-“Detachable Penis” 5-Urge Overkill-“Sister Havana” 6-Butthole Surfers-“Who Was In My Room Last Night” 7-Mighty Mighty Bosstones-“Where’d You Go” 8-Rancid-“Nihlism” 9-KMFDM-"Drug Against War 10-Killing Joke-“Money Is Not Our God” 11-Prong-“Prove You Wrong” 12-Social Distortion-“I Was Wrong” 13-"They Might Be Giants-“Istanbul Not Constantinople” 14-Siouxsie and the Banshees-“Peek A Boo” 15-Public Image Ltd.-“Lucks Up” I hardly ever watched much MTV, so making this list was sort of hard. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/5 "2004-07-19T12:12:56Z")
I hardly need remind everyone that Tears For Fears released _two_ wonderful CDs in the 90’s, Elemental and Raoul and the Kings of Spain. I’m sure that entries from both albums will be appearing on people’s lists forthwith. But seriously, people, didn’t anyone at least listen to “Break It Down Again”? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/6 "2004-07-19T14:40:15Z")
Janet Jackson “Rhythm Nation” Duran Duran “Come Undone” The Cure “Friday I’m in Love” Deelite “Groove is in the Heart” Arrested Development “Tennessee” En Vogue “Free Your Mind” Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” Prince “Diamonds and Pearls” Alice in Chains “Rooster” REM “Losing My Religion” Biggie Smalls “Get Money” Tupac “Dear Momma” Porno for Pyros “Pets” Lenny Kravitz “Believe” Dionne Faris “Hopeless” Black Crowes “Conspiracy” Lauryn Hill “Everything is Everything” Fatboy Slim “Praise You” These aren’t necessarily my favorite songs of the 1990s, but all of them capture a certain set of memories for me from middle school to college. ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/7 "2004-07-19T15:31:49Z")
1. _Groove is in the Heart_ - Deee-Lite 2. _Cosmic Girl_ - Jamiroquai 3. _Unbelieveable_ - EMF 4. _Smells Like Teen Spirit_ - Nirvana 5. _Jump Around_ - House of Pain 6. _Don’t Look Back in Anger_ - Oasis 7. _Coffee and TV_ - Blur 8. _The Bends_ - Radiohead 9. _Fool’s Gold_ - Stone Roses 10. _Once_ - Pearl Jam 11. _Birdhouse in your soul_ - They Might be Giants (that one’s for sentimental reasons - ah memories of youth…) 12. _No Diggity_ - Blackstreet (also for sentimental reasons) 13. _Friday I’m in Love_ - The Cure 14. _Scar Tissue_ - Red Hot Chili Peppers 15. _You Learn_ - Alanis Morrissette :o ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/8 "2004-07-19T19:00:57Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > 1. **Weezer** - Dope Nose Isn’t this from Weezer’s msot recent album (released in 2002)? I didn’t even start high school till the end of the decade, but these are the songs that I remember the most from elementary and middle school. Keep in mind that these aren’t all necessarily songs I liked then or now: 1. Ace of Base - The Sign 2. Counting Crows - Mr Jones (see also “A Long December,” “Round Here”) 3. The Spice Girls - Wannabe 4. C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat 5. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know (see also “Ironic,” “One Hand in My Pocket,” “You Learn”) 6. Spin Doctors - Two Princes 7. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion 8. Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories - Stay 9. Los Del Rio - Macarena 10. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life 11. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 12. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta 13. Blind Melon - No Rain 14. Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy 15. Aqua - Barbie Girl Wow, it’s really hard to narrow it down to 15! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/9 "2004-07-19T20:13:49Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > Geez…It has to be pop culture related? > > Hmmmm… > > In no particular order: > > 13-"They Might Be Giants-“Istanbul Not Constantinople” > 14-Siouxsie and the Banshees-“Peek A Boo” > > I hardly ever watched much MTV, so making this list was sort of hard. Both of those are from the 1980s. For Siouxsie I’d choose: Kiss Them For Me, Face to Face, and Fear of the Unknown Extra Savoir Faire from TMBG Then: Whispering Your Name - Alison Moyet Love To Hate You - Erasure Walking In My Shoes - Depeche Mode Gypsy Woman(She’s Homeless) - Crystal Waters Control - Traci Lords You Suck - (I forgot the name of the two girl band that did this even though they once toured with TMBG) Peace In The Valley - Sabrina Johnston It’s A Fine Day - Opus III Crucified - Army of Lovers Fastlove - George Michael Closer - Nine Inch Nails Frozen - Madonna Come Undone - Duran Duran Maria - Blondie Morrissey - Sing Your Life Love Is The Bomb - Radioactive Goldfish Life(Everyone Needs Somebody to Love) - Haddaway Save Your Love - Bad Boys Blue Strong Enough - Cher Missing - everything but the girl Constant Craving - k.d. lang I Saved The World Today - Eurythmics Good Enough and Elsewhere - Sarah McLachlan Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos Tomorrow Never Dies - Sheryl Crow I’m Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage Enough Is Enough(No More Tears) - k.d. lang & Andy Bell Beautiful Life - Ace of Base You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk, Before, and Absolutely Fabulous - The Pet Shop Boys Love, Sex, Intelligence - The Shamen Baby Got Back - Sir Mix a Lot Shoop - Salt ‘n’ Pepa You Lied To Me - Cathy Dennis I Will Survive - Cake Well, that’s what comes to mind off the top of my head… ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/10 "2004-07-19T22:52:31Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > Both of those are from the 1980s. Well, Istanbul is on Flood and that came out in 1990. Peek a Boo was maybe '89 or '88 at the earliest. I’m to lazy to check for sure…all my records are in hiding untill the baby gets older and I really _really_ hate going to [allmusic.com](http://allmusic.com) these days. ---
**Author:** ![peritrochoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peritrochoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peritrochoid)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/11 "2004-07-20T02:39:27Z")
Okay, the '90s were one of the best decades for music, in my opinion … and one of the best decades for me, since I graduated high school in 1990. Some of my favorites have already been named, and I may re-name a few, but the following are just a few in the collection immediately at-hand. This barely scratches the surface of my '90s “soundtrack”. **2Nu** : “This Is Ponderous” **Lisa Loeb** : “Stay” **Vanilla Ice** : “Ice, Ice, Baby” **Everything but the Girl** : “Missing” **Howard Jones** : “The Prisoner” **Cathy Dennis** : “Just Another Dream” **Tara Kemp** : “Piece of My Heart” **Roxette** : “Joyride” **Crystal Waters** : “Gypsy Woman” **Des’ree** : “You Gotta Be” **Dee-Lite** : “Groove is in the Heart” **Gabrielle** : “Dreams” **Haddaway** : “What is Love” **Seal** : “Crazy” **Jade** : “Don’t Walk Away” **Jill Sobule** : “I Kissed a Girl” **Nine Inch Nails** : “Closer” **Jody Watley** : “Looking For a New Love” **Letters to Cleo** : “Awake” **Lisa Stansfield** : “All Around the World” **Luscious Jackson** : “Naked Eye” **Merideth Brooks** : “Bitch” **Sarah McLachlan** : “Possession” **Southern Culture on the Skids** : “Camel Walk” **Soul 2 Soul** : “Back to Life” **Sixpence None the Richer** : “Kiss Me” **10,000 Maniacs** : “These Are Days” **Robin S** : “Show Me Love” **TLC** : “Red Light Special” **The Rembrandts** : “Just the Way It Is, Baby” **Veruca Salt** : “Seether” **Fluke** : “Atom Bomb” **Chemical Brothers** : “Setting Sun” **Republica** : “Ready to Go” **Soho** : “Hippy Chick” **Happy Mondays** : “Step On” **Eleanor McEvoy** : “Precious Little” ---
**Author:** ![peritrochoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peritrochoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peritrochoid)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/12 "2004-07-20T02:41:33Z")
:smack: :smack: :smack: **up to** 15!!! Can you tell I’m a typical guy? Never reads instructions! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/13 "2004-07-20T03:48:08Z")
As per OP rules: None obscure - All got FM airplay First Half[ol] [li] **The Cure** Never Enough (Big Mix) 1990[/li][li]**Was (Not Was)** I Feel Better Than James Brown 1990[/li][li] **Queen** Innuendo 1991[/li][li] **Ministry** N W O 1992[/li][li] **Dada** Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 1992[/li][li] **King Kong** Old Man on the Bridge 1992[/li][li] **Rage Against The Machine** Killing in the Name 1992[/li][li] **Whale** Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe 1993[/li][li] **Lightning Seeds** Lucky You 1994[/li][li] **Dink** Green Mind 1994[/li][li] **Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart** The Sun Does Rise 1994[/li][li] **Soul Coughing** Screenwriter’s Blues 1994[/li][li] **Mike Watt** Against the ‘70s 1995[/li][li] **Southern Culture on the Skids** Soul City 1995[/li][li] **Son Volt** Drown 1995[/ol][/li]Second Half[ol] [li] **Belly** Now They’ll Sleep 1995[/li][li] **Blink** It’s Not My Fault 1995[/li][li] **Collective** Soul Gel 1995[/li][li] **Stone Temple Pilots** Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart 1996[/li][li] **Tool** Ænema 1996[/li][li] **Filter & The Crystal Method** (Can’t You) Trip Like I Do 1997[/li][li] **Ocean Colour Scene** Hundred Mile High City 1997[/li][li] **Opus** Live Is Life (Stadium Mix) 1997[/li][li] **Prodigy** Smack My Bitch Up 1997[/li][li] **Third Eye Blind** Graduate 1997[/li][li] **Touch And Go** Would You? 1998[/li][li] **Goo Goo Dolls** Slide 1998[/li][li] **E-Z Rollers** Walk This Land 1998[/li][li] **Marcy Playground** Comin’ Up From Behind 1999[/li] **Moby** Porcelain 1999[/ol] ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/14 "2004-07-20T03:50:42Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > As per OP rules: None obscure - All got FM airplay > > First Half[list=1] > [li] **Soul Coughing** Screenwriter’s Blues 1994[/li] Soul Coughing got FM radio airplay? A local deal, or one of the big-market same-programming-but-different-hosts-in-every-city-in-the-US channels? I’d never even heard of them before I got Cartoon Network and saw that they’d used a couple of their songs for videos. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/15 "2004-07-20T03:57:00Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Soul Coughing got FM radio airplay? A local deal, or one of the big-market same-programming-but-different-hosts-in-every-city-in-the-US channels?.. 3 NYC stations: Now defunct WLIR/WDRE, WXRK and WFUV (both in regular rotation and of course, the Idiot’s Delight Show w/Vin Scelsa) ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/16 "2004-07-20T05:24:45Z")
A lot of good songs have been mentioned - I Touch Myself - Divinyls Little Miss Can’t be wrong - Spin Doctors To Be With You - Mr. Big Unskinny Bop - Poison Silent Lucidity - Queensryche ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/17 "2004-07-23T00:39:45Z")
> [@peritrochoid](#): > > :smack: :smack: :smack: > **up to** 15!!! > Can you tell I’m a typical guy? Never reads instructions! :rolleyes: dude…you listen to a lot of CHICK music for a guy!! Why don’t you toss a little Jewel and Tori Amos in there while your at it! 😃 Ahhhh… the 90s were a great time. Nothing to do but lounge around in the same LL Bean [Vintage Plaid Chambray Shirt, Long-Sleeve](http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=23017&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&parentCategory=4432&cat4=6266&shop_method=pp&feat=ssdpb6266), jeans and a dirty white baseball cap that my entire college wore, listening to the same Dave Mathews Band, Pearl Jam, STP, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Bob Marley, Phish, Rusted Root and Blues Traveler CDs that were issued along with the J Crew catelogues that appeared in our mailboxes each month. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![peritrochoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peritrochoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peritrochoid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/18 "2004-07-23T01:55:16Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > dude…you listen to a lot of CHICK music for a guy!! Why don’t you toss a little Jewel and Tori Amos in there while your at it! 😃 Gee, thanks! 😛😃 I’ll have you know that 2Nu is definitely not chick music! ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-i-love-the-90s-soundtrack/255785/19 "2004-07-23T02:52:02Z")
1. Weezer - Buddy Holly 2. Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You 3. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You 4. Pearl Jam - Evenflow 5. Radiohead - Creep 6. King Missile - Detachable Penis 7. Alice In Chains - Would? 8. Dada - Dizz Knee Land 9. Nine Inch Nails - Closer 10. Liz Phair - Supernova 11. Beck - Devil’s Haircut 12. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend 13. Helmet - Unsung 14. Soundgarden - Outshined 15. Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock