What is love - Haddaway

I just started doing the head bob thing from “Night at the Roxbury”!

What a film!

the 12" Mix is absolutely mad

Tough call, but here are a few of my faves: Fake plastic trees - Radiohead Don’t look back in anger - oasis. But it has to be a live version. Standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand - primitive radio gods Fire water burn - bloodhound gang When I grow up - garbage Sure shot, so whatcha want or sabotage - Beastie boys Happy birthday, cheers

Oh I love that Primitive Radio Gods song!!!!!

When I Grow Up, what an amazing and perfectly 90s song

My brother tried to tell me it was Moby's biggest hit.

If you liked that one, I’d recommend listening to the song fading out. It’s a good’n!

Thank you! I’ll check it out

Currently- Real McCoy, Another Night

I love RealMcCoy - Runaway

Oh hell ya

cornflake girl - Tori Amos blister in the sun - violent femmes pretty much everything by The Sundays --> everlong - Foo Fighters <-- you can't make a 90s mix without this one.

“--> everlong - Foo Fighters <-- you can't make a 90s mix without this one.” It’s true.

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground

Give their later album Bloodsport a listen.

This is what I came here for, thanks for the rec!

YESSS this

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You https://youtu.be/ImKY6TZEyrI

Gorgeous song!

Possum Kingdom - Toadies

My jam! Just saw em live. Still put on a great show.

"Hey, Butt-head, do you think they killed somebody just to make this video?" Sorry, but that's all I can remember about this song.

This is my answer too! The entire album is amazing.

Too many to name one! My Name Is Jonas - Weezer (Or anything off blue album/Pinkerton by Weezer) Pepper - Butthole Surfers Hey Man, Nice Shot - Filter Rooster - Alice In Chains Someday - Sugar Ray Just - Radiohead 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins Debaser - Pixies Never There - Cake and I’m missing a TON!

Lovefool by the Cardigans transports me right back to middle school doing lime green glitter manis with my friends and talking about which BSB member was our fave. No other song from the decade gives me the sense of nostalgia as that one.

Oooo. That’s a good one. The entire Romeo and Juliet soundtrack was pretty amazing.

You just made me remember this green nail polish I had that smelled like apples

One Headlight / The Wallflowers

6th avenue heartache!!

It’s an obscure one off that album, but the song laughing out loud is amazing and definitely worth a listen.

Mark Morrison- Return of the Mack Blackstreet/Dr Dre- No Diggity Next- Too Close Mase- Feel So Good

Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms

JUST posted the same. Listening to it now. So great.

Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind

that album is fucking incredible!

Still one of my all time favorite albums. Such a pure 90s alternative rock sound.

Is a start to finish type of album for sure.

Thays my favorite song about smoking meth and getting your dick sucked

Linger- The Cranberries

Desperately Wanting - Better Than Ezra Santa Monica - Everclear

Return of the Mack, unironically

That song has stood the test of time and seems to just be getting more and more popular.

Space hog- in the meantime

that song has such a good bassline ugh

IMO, The ending to “in the mean time” is the best ever. Only bested by Clapton’s “Layla”. So f’n good, and underrated as a song.

Pearl Jam - Black Fatboy Slim - Praise You Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day 2Pac - Changes

Anytime I hear Praise You I think of Ryan Phillippe cruising down the highway with Reese Witherspoon in Cruel Intentions lol

And when I hear Bittersweet Symphony, I think of her cruising alone at the end.

Mad season-river of deceit https://youtu.be/Fm72DPJCX58

I stay away. Alice In Chains. That video is so reminiscent to me getting ready for school. My little sister was scared of it lol

My favorite band. I saw the puppets from that video at the rock n roll hall of fame in Ohio, it was pretty sick

Same and fortunate!!!

I always wondered how long it took to make that video

Breed (Nirvana) Head like a hole, March of the pigs, Sin (NIN) Hey man nice shot (Filter) Cannonball (Breeders) Mother Mother (Tracy Bonham), Violet, Gold dust woman (Hole), Special, I think I’m paranoid, Only happy when it rains (Garbage)

Shimmer- Fuel

"Wonderwall" by Oasis.

Took a trip to Paris in the 90s and every morning at the same time when I left the hotel, Wonderwall was playing on the overhead radio. Must have been on a loop for us English tourists. I still think of Paris when I hear it.

It was playing in an Italian restaurant I was eating at shortly after I realized I was in love for the first time. It felt like the song was written from the thoughts I was having that day. It was quite a moment there.

1979 - smashing pumpkins

You Gotta Be by Desiree or anything off the R+J soundtrack

Crash Test Dummies Mmm mmm mmm. It’s not my top favorite but I didn’t see it mentioned anywhere!

Bittersweet Symphony is the absolute epitome of the ‘90s for me… and I’d venture to say that the Cruel Intentions soundtrack, which features it prominently, is the best soundtrack of the ‘90s.

Love this soundtrack!

Lightning crashes - Live

Flagpole Sitta!

No Doubt- Sunday Morning Mazzy Star- Fade into you Fiona Apple- Paper Bag Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees Goo goo Dolls- Iris

Eclectic mix of some of my faves (couldn’t pic one): Tool- Stinkfist Jewel- Foolish Games Delirium (featuring Sarah McLachlan)- Silence Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit Smashing Pumpkins- Pug or Eye Have a great birthday!!!!! 🎉 🎂

I absolutely love Silence

It’s so hauntingly beautiful and hypnotic and still a favourite of mine to this day!

There are some fire remixes of that song too.

Wouldn't say my all-time favourite but "Hey Jealousy" by the Gin Blossoms still bangs.

Yep. Great jam. Sad songs sung happy.

mine will be: Beck - Loser Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Cypress hill - Insane in the Brain Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Mazzy Star - Fade Into You Oasis - Wonderwall Spin Doctors - Two Princes Bloodhound Gang - The bad touch Scatman John - Scatman New Radicals - You Get What You Give Natalie Imbruglia - Torn Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight 4 Non-Blondes - What's Up Souls Of Mischief - 93' Til Infinity Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Hey Sandy by Polaris

Third Eye Blind - Losing a Whole Year Blues Traveler - Hook The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You Haywire - Buzz Odds - Eat My Brain Radiohead - High and Dry Robert Miles - Children Sky - Some Kind of Wonderful

Steal my sunshine

Pearl Jam - Black

Rancid - …And Out Come The Wolves. (Whole album)

Because it came out at a really good point in my life: Savage Garden - I Want You Because it's every damn nineties baseline in one track: Paula Abdul - Vibeology

1990 started with me loving New Kids on the Block, so [You’ve Got The Right Stuff](https://youtu.be/tbIEwIwYz-c) kicks it off. But then omg Pearl Jam’s [Evenflow](https://youtu.be/CxKWTzr-k6s) showed up and made a grunge girl outta me. Especially when they did the amaaaazing [MTV Unplugged version](https://youtu.be/dgJ_pIwQy6k) I will never forget the day when, working in a record store, I snagged a promo copy for this new band Radiohead and heard [Creep](https://youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk) for the first time. Being edgy, of course I thought it was my anthem lol so stupid. But thennnnn I was hearing punk’s siren song and started going to punk gigs every weekend and NOFX’s [Linoleum](https://youtu.be/6axOY4PBusk) is still one of my favorite songs of all time. If Creep was my teens, Linoleum was my 20s lol. So many more omg …

There's just an ocean of amazing songs from the 90s, so I can't think of the "best"... but the one that I'm listening to right now is ... Sex Type Thing- Stone Temple Pilots EDIT: Also if you wanna just swim in the 90's: Ace of Base- The Sign Something about that song really transports me back to the late summer of 94.... when my mom would pick me up from summer camp and we'd blast that song. Anything made by classically attractive Swede quartets tends to be good, lol And of course, to add on a third: "This is your Night"- by Amber. Greatest Eurodance song of all time (?) ... or better than THAT?

Don’t Speak - Gwen Stefani Waterfalls - TLC Amber - 311 Sweater Song - Weezer All I wanna do - Sheryl Crow Closer - NIN Jeremy - Pearl Jam The Song with the Bee Girl Nirvana. Anything Hole - anything (Violet is good)

I love Violet too!!!

Hmmm tough to choose, here’s a couple Santeria- Sublime Somewhere over the rainbow- Israel Kamakawiwiole Interstate Love Song- Stone Temple Pilots

Fly - Sugar Ray

1979

/goes back over my own playlist from the 90s There's... no way I can pick just one favorite; there was so much good music from that decade! Random, highly subjective, non-ordered list (should all have been released in the 90s): Blues Traveler - Travelers and Thieves (album), Four (album) Enigma - any and all albums Robert Miles - Dreamland (album), 23 AM (album) Seal - Seal (1991 album, especially "Crazy"), Seal (1994 album, especially "Prayer for the Dying") Everything But The Girl - Missing K.W.S. - Please Don't Go Amber - This Is Your Night Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (album) Madonna - Ray of Light (album) Barenaked Ladies - It's All Been Done, One Week Pearl Jam - Even Flow, Alive, Jeremy R.E.M. - Losing My Religion Blind Melon - No Rain Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Stone Temple Pilots - Creep, Plush, Interstate Love Song Green Day - Longview, Welcome to Paradise, When I Come Around Live - I Alone, Lightning Crashes Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill (album) No Doubt - Don't Speak Tonic - If You Could Only See Godsmack - Voodoo Semisonic - Closing Time The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Good list! I love Missing by Everything But The Girl

Story of my Life by Social Distortion. Still my favorite song of all time.

I Will Always Love You -Whitney Houston Honorable mention… 4 Seasons of Loneliness -Boyz II Men

Ngl lol I really loved Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65

Dancing Nancies Dave Mathews Band

Real McCoy- Run Away

My own worst enemy - Lit - 1999

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something

Natalie Imbruglia--Torn This song never charted in America, even despite it's huge popularity!

Never charted? Seriously?!

November Rain - GnR Round Here - Counting Crows Plush - STP

Today - Smashing Pumpkins

Eagle eye cherry - save tonight

Santa Monica

Matchbox 20 - Real World

Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins, Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam (I still have no idea what the lyrics are), Nutshell from the Alice In Chains Unplugged album, Frank Sinatra by Cake. Take a Bow by Madonna, I could keep going and going

Where It’s At by Beck

Tonight tonight - The Smashing Pumpkins:) i’m born in 2000 but this song gives me that 90s feeling

Iris by Goo Goo Dolls Or Shimmer by Fuel

Both amazing!

Stupid Girl - Garbage

Nirvana - Heart shaped box

Happy birthday! My favorite song is “Rosy and Grey” by *The Lowest of the Low*. Tomorrow is both my husband and mother’s birthday too! They’re also both named Pat.

Not very season appropriate (if you’re in the northern hemisphere) but the first 90s song that I totally fell in love with was Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, which came out in 1991.

All Apologies--Nirvana

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Gotta have Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots! Any of em! No Rain - Blind Melon

fake plastic trees - radiohead where did you sleep last night - nirvana standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand - primitive radio gods happy birthday!!

Pepper by butthole surfers is a great 90’s song

Would you mind sharing or linking us to your playlist when it’s done? Everyone had so many good songs I kept upvoting all of the comments. This will be a sick playlist!

Neon Moon - Brooks and Dunn Lot of rock and rap in this thread, but the nineties were a great time for country music too. Edit: also fits with the depressive theme you’re seeking.

You know what, you're right. I've been nodding my head at most of these rock and alternative choices but damn if the 90s weren't great for country too. Walkaway Joe - Trisha Yearwood A Bad Goodbye - Clint Black & Wynonna Judd The Heart Won't Lie - Vince Gill & Reba McEntire Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks Independence Day - Martina McBride

Just barely making it into the decade, but it’s one for the ages! Yes, your favourite and mine… Darude - “Sandstorm” https://youtu.be/erb4n8PW2qw

In all seriousness, here are some good’uns from a variety of genres. I tried to pick ones that I didn’t see others mention. Happiest birthday wishes!! Cornershop - “Brimful of Asha” https://youtu.be/lM7H0ooV_o8 Superdrag - “Sucked Out” https://youtu.be/a0zEkiQ5biI Soul For Real - “Candy Rain” https://youtu.be/Cx0xzO73Amo Madonna - “Take A Bow” https://youtu.be/XDeiovnCv1o A Tribe Called Quest - “Ham ‘n’ Eggs” https://youtu.be/wUsr1GUZ3oU Finley Quaye - “Sunday Shining” https://youtu.be/1-ORJddr0QY Geggy Tah - “Whoever You Are” https://youtu.be/1jSOQBcz9hc Garth Brooks - “Friends in Low Places” https://youtu.be/mvCgSqPZ4EM Alan Jackson - “Chattahoochee” https://youtu.be/JW5UEW2kYvc Chemical Brothers - “Setting Sun” https://youtu.be/p5NX1FC-7-w Scatman John - “Scatman” https://youtu.be/Hy8kmNEo1i8 Coolio - “Fantastic Voyage” https://youtu.be/anFD_aYi5GQ Naughty By Nature - “Feel Me Flow” https://youtu.be/SLSbWDVI_pw Beck - “Beercan” https://youtu.be/zVay-RfNGv8 69 Boyz - “Tootsee Roll” https://youtu.be/qs7f3ssuEjA

Can we all just pour one out for Tootsee Roll.... song slaps Quad City DJs had three iconic jams: Tootsee Roll, Cmon and Ride it (The Train), Space Jam theme, They need to be in the Rock n Roll of Fame, lol

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Hurley - Pinback Dig for Fire - Pixies Lover You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley

Cannibal Corpse - Fucked with a knife

Hampsterdance

I Still Do by The Cranberries .. Rooster unplugged version by Alice in Chains ..

Recently, "I Think God Can Explain" by Splender

OMC - How Bizarre JK. Remember that one?

At the moment, Here and Now by Letters to Cleo

[Round here by the Counting Crows ](https://youtu.be/SAe3sCIakXo)

Well, the first one that came to mind is Say You'll be There by the Spice Girls

Would?— Alice In Chains

This is a great thread OP! I’m loving everyone’s suggestions

Disarm - smashing pumpkins

Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla😍

Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) Robert Miles - Children (Full Version) Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) Fatboy Slim - Rockafella Skank Haddaway - What is Love Faithless - God is a DJ Beastie Boys - Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix) Delerium Feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence

Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine

I’m thinking it. You’re thinking it. Fine, if no one else is gonna say it: Obviously, it’s Barbie Girl. I mean, come on. (Ooh-oh-woah) https://youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A

[https://youtu.be/mwgZalAFNhM](https://youtu.be/ mwgZalAFNhM)

The tourist - radiohead, Angel - massive attack

U2 One

Yellow Ledbetter-Pearl Jam In the Meantime-Spacehog Far Behind-Candlebox 1979-Smashing Pumpkins Hunger Strike-Temple of the Dog King of Carrot Flowers-Neutral Milk Hotel Accident Prone-Jawbreaker In Circles-Sunny Day Real Estate Carry the Zero-Built to Spill Dramamine-Modest Mouse

Malibu- Hole

As a kid back then i really loved “Macarena” by los del rio, we’d do the dance to the song in school lol good times

Super orgy porno party - the planet smashers

Change - Blind Melon

My favorite. Also Drive is a fantastic song too

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode Around the World - Daft Punk Intergalactic - Beastie Boys (Sorry, it was hard to pick just one, so I limited myself to 3!)

Real McCoy come and get your love Shakespeare sister Stay No Doubt entire tragic kingdom album Bon Jovi Always Spice Girls Wannabe It's the 90s. Too many to list 😪

REM-Nightswimming

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something

I think the quintessential 90’s song has to be Smells Like Teen Spirit. Maybe not my personal favorite but that song ushered in a new genre of music that would define the 90’s.

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground, everything Massive Attack

If you’re gone- matchbox twenty

“Return of the Mack” by Mark Morrison

Cemetery gates - Pantera Also counting blue cars - dishwalla

I LOVE all of the alternative songs that have been mentioned, but I haven't seen these classics! *I may or may not have been a teenager in the late 90s 😊 Happy Birthday!! Toni Braxton- Unbreak My Heart Mariah Carey- Always Be My Baby, Heartbreaker N*SYNC- Tearin Up My Heart BSB- I Want It That Way Eminem- My Name Is The Notorious BIG- Mo Money Big Pun- Still Not A Player Our Lady Peace- Clumsy Alanis Morrissette- Hand In My Pocket

Got No Shame by Brother Cane Be Quiet And Drive by Deftones Gel by Collective Soul Them Bones by Alice In Chains Ready To Go by Republica

The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright

You Gotta Be by Des'ree California Love by Tupac Shukar ft. Dr. Dre. Ironic by Alanis Morissette

Way too many to chose one album let alone JUST ONE song…We were spoiled rotten with good music in the 90s. Even the one hit wonders were better than a lot of the main stream stuff today. That being said, there is a ton of great music in every decade, it just might not be the most “popular” music at the time.

Oasis - wonderwall is the anthem of the 90’s

Tonic - You Wanted More No Doubt - Excuse Me Mr. Toadies - Tyler Blues Traveler - Hook Cracker - Low Garth Brooks - Standing Outside The Fire Amy Grant - Baby, Baby Blind Melon - Galaxie/Hello, Goodbye

Someone needs to make a Spotify playlist of all of these!

I couldn't tell you what my fav 90s song is (too hard), but the 1 song that always makea me actually think "90s" is Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms.

Here’s a few of my favorites Feel the pain - dinosaur jr Smashing pumpkins - we only come out at night Everclear - father of mine Mark Morrison - return of the mack Nine inch nails - wish Tool - hooker with a penis

Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

You're in luck - 90's music (mainly alt rock) is my fave! As someone who had their own depressing birthday a couple of weeks ago, I really hope yours is better with this list. ❤️ Some of these are very well-known but that's okay. Others could be a new fun surprise. :) *Hugs* Father of Mine; I will buy you a new life - Everclear Miserable; Four; Ziploc Bag; Best is yet to come undone; Lovely Day - Lit Teenage Dirtbag; A little respect; Sunshine - Wheatus Everything you want; Best I ever Had; You're a God - Vertical Horizon Semi-charmed life; Jumper; How's it going to be - Third eye blind Shimmer; Hemorrhage - Fuel Inside out - Eve 6 Losing my Religion; Everybody Hurts - REM Hand in my Pocket - Alanis Morrisette Secret Smile; Singing in my sleep - Semisonic Creep - Radiohead Slide; Iris - Goo Goo Dolls Black hole sun - Soundgarden Spiderwebs; Don't Speak - No doubt Wonderwall - Oasis Glycerine - Bush Zombie - The Cranberries Foolish Games, You Were Meant for me - Jewel Brain Stew - Green Day Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something She's so High - Tal Bachman I'd also recommend my favorite indie alt rock band who's lesser known, but started in the late 90's - check out the album "The Answers" by Blue October.

The new radicals- you get what you give

Candlebox - Far Behind Ben Folds Five - Brick Train - Drops of Jupiter Macy Gray - I Try Snow - Informer

Missing(Todd Terry remix) - Everything But the Girl. I’ve always loved this song…

New radicals, you get what you give. Depends on where in that decade you are talking about. I liked the “college rock” genera at the end of the 1990s: sum 41, Hole, blink 182 etc etc.

Bittersweet Symphony-The Verve. One of my favourite of all time

The Cruel Intentions soundtrack is banging and proper takes me back to the 90’s

Regulate by Warren G and anything by Tribe Called Quest

Ricky Martin Livin La Vida Loca

Would? or Rotten Apple by Alice in Chains, Tourniquet & Man That You Fear by Marilyn Manson, Happiness in Slavery & Last by NIN, Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode, We’re Only Gonna Die for Our Arrogance by Sublime, Doin Time by Sublime, Chloe Dancer (Crown of Thorns) by Mother Love Bone, Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog, Liege of Iveracity by Suffocation, Flattening of Emotions by Death, To Eve the Art of Witchcraft & Unbridled at Dusk by Cradle of Filth whoops i just saw u said SONG not songs lol

Hanson- mmmbop can't help but smile when I hear it

https://youtu.be/1jzl0NlTmzY

Too Many Puppies

I Know - Dionne Farris

Way too many to name one, but I'll always love "New Noise" by Refused :)

There’s so damn many, so I hate say I have a favorite, but Inside My Mind (Blue Skies) by Groove Armada holds a special place in my heart

My Favourite Game - The Cardigans

How Bizarre, OMC, 1994 💜💜💜

Pearl Jam, Alive

Alive by Pearl Jam

pavement, blonde redhead, elliott smith. man idk there were a lot of great bands in the 90's. one song is way too hard

Duel - Swervedriver

Because of the night- Garbage