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Butthole Surfers - Pepper

Nada Surf - Popular

Sponge - Molly (16 Candles)

 

 

Yes.

 

Also, Halftime? Might be the fourth best track on the Illmatic. A rare treat, never sounds dated, belongs in any hip hop lover's top 10 albums.

 

May be even top 5.

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Starside and Zeroes are also excellent songs by them.

 

Here are some gems (I'll skip the most popular ones that everyone knows and remembers)

 

Rock / Alternative

 

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

Nada Surf - Popular

Beck - Loser

Alice in Chains - Don't Follow

Hum - Stars

Blind Melon - Change

Bush - Glycerine

Corrosion of Conformity - Albatrose

Cranberries - Zombie

Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon

Flys - Got You (Where I Want You)

Guns N Roses - Breakdown

Helmet - Unsung

Lemonheads - The Outdoor Type

Nirvana - Plateau

Oasis - Champaign Supernova

Our Lady Peace - Naveed

Radiohead - Thinking About You

Seven Mary Three - Roderigo

Silverchair - Tomorrow

Sponge - Molly (16 Candles)

Sublime - 40oz to Freedom

Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike

311 - Come Original

 

Rap / Hip Hop

 

Fugees - Fu-Gee-La

Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow

Nas - Halftime

Big L - Put it On

Big Pun - I'm Not a Player

Geto Boyz - Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangster

Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy

Snoop - The Shiznit

 

Many, many, many more. But that's a long list of some great tunes.

 

That's awesome that you listed Breakdown as the best GNR song of the 90s. It's one of a half-dozen or so I pondered before going with Santaria (which I admit is played out, but a great song none the less.)

 

I'm surprised you listed Nada Surf. The whole bit about 30 year old guys doing spoken verse about high school popularity over mediocre music seemed like a corporate rock exploitation of disaffected teen angst to me, but to each his own.

 

Blind Melon's "Change" was a great one too.

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Yes.

 

Also, Halftime? Might be the fourth best track on the Illmatic. A rare treat, never sounds dated, belongs in any hip hop lover's top 10 albums.

 

May be even top 5.

 

Definitely top 5. It's fantastic. NY State of Mind is probably my favorite on it, but that's everyone's favorite so I changed it up a bit.

 

That's awesome that you listed Breakdown as the best GNR song of the 90s. It's one of a half-dozen or so I pondered before going with Santaria (which I admit is played out, but a great song none the less.)

 

I'm surprised you listed Nada Surf. The whole bit about 30 year old guys doing spoken verse about high school popularity over mediocre music seemed like a corporate rock exploitation of disaffected teen angst to me, but to each his own.

 

Blind Melon's "Change" was a great one too.

 

Yeah, don't know why Breakdown never gets any love. It has some great verses in it.

 

That Nada Surf song is just funny to me and I was in the middle of HS at the time so it has nostalgia value. Certainly not a Zeppelin level of talent in the group though, that's for sure.

 

"Change" is one of my top 5 all time favorites especially in retrospect with what he was dealing with when he wrote it and his subsequent years of battling substance abuse. Unfortunately, in the end, he could not.

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Great decade of music IMO and the whole industry lost its way right around the explosion of the internet and cell phones just after the turn of the millennium.

 

So many obvious choices, dont want to list. One I dont see listed here, which was a great 1-hit-wonder is:

 

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

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i love that song...i think i read that Harvey Danger was supposed to be a Nirvana-ish band, and admittedly Flagpole Sitta is the extent of my Harvey Danger experience, but I don't get any Nirvana at all from that song

 

Great decade of music IMO and the whole industry lost its way right around the explosion of the internet and cell phones just after the turn of the millennium.

 

So many obvious choices, dont want to list. One I dont see listed here, which was a great 1-hit-wonder is:

 

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

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I am gonna hear it for this one... But come on! Who can't help belting out the lyrics when it comes on the radio (even if it is Sirius present/90's... Or whatver it is called now).

 

 

 

 

 

Worst song and band ever.

 

Really... Wow... Taste is so subjective. To each their own.

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Any list of 90s tunes must include some

Pumpkins - Zero, Cherub Rock, Today, Hummer, Mayonnaise

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun Rusty Cage, Mind Riot

Pearl Jam - Even Flow Elderly Woman, Porch, Release, Alive

 

Like yours, but personally these are my choices from those great bands.

 

Pixies - Debaser

 

Hated seeing that commercial butchering Gigantic recently. And it was one of those commercials that was on over and over and over. Which reminds me, how about The Breeders - Cannonball?

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No love for Banditos by the Refreshments?

 

Last weekend at karaoke my buddy and I sang

 

Lit--My Own Worst Enemy

Sister Hazel--All for You

 

Left waiting to sing

 

Del Amitri (sic?)--Roll to Me

 

Good call. I loved that song when it came out.

 

I also liked Santa Monica by Everclear before subsequent releases ruined it for me.

 

My karaoke go to from the 90s is Gin and Juice by Snoop Dogg. It's a real crowd pleaser.

 

Any list of 90s tunes must include some

Pumpkins - Zero, Cherub Rock, Today

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

 

Speaking of Pearl Jam, I'll throw Yellow Ledbetter out there.

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Nobody has the guts to mention Third Eye Blind?

 

 

 

Good call. I loved that song when it came out.

 

I also liked Santa Monica by Everclear before subsequent releases ruined it for me.

 

My karaoke go to from the 90s is Gin and Juice by Snoop Dogg. It's a real crowd pleaser.

 

 

 

Speaking of Pearl Jam, I'll throw Yellow Ledbetter out there.

 

Loved Santa Monica when it was new. (Still kinda do)

 

No mentions of Weezer yet either.

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