The Best 100 Songs From the 1990s

Iliveabout.com ^ | 9/17/19 | Bill Lamb

[DallasBiff]

#1. Nirvana: 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (1991)

[stanne]

“Anything by SRV.”
Yep. Anything.

[Signalman]

“Best”?

A strictly subjective term.

[woweeitsme]

If I want to hear a “grunge” song, please give me some Alice in Chains. They came around during the “grunge” era, but I always thought of them as just a heavy band.

[Blueflag]

I’m with you.

[plain talk]

“best song of the the 90’s, was”You Get what you get”,, by The New Radicals.”

That was a good well crafted song. There are a few decent songs from the 90s.

[silent_jonny]

Metallica -- Enter Sandman

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Or bad pop with a fiddle...” and “singers” who couldn’t carry a tune if their lives depended on it.

[Alberta's Child]

Bump for later. This list seems silly. Many of the songs listed here aren’t even the best 1990s songs for those artists.

[dfwgator]

To me, the best song of the the 90's, was"You Get what you get",, by The New Radicals.

I swore the first time I heard it, I thought it was Todd Rundgren.

[HandyDandy]

Morphine - Cure for Pain
Phish - Bouncing around the Room (from “A Live One’)

[yuleeyahoo]

I have 11 of these on my playlist. The rest are utterly forgettable for me.

[dfwgator]

XTC’s Nonsuch, for 1992, is a fanstastic album. Some of Andy’s best songwriting. Too bad Mr. Branson didn’t want to promote it.

[pepsi_junkie]

I was in my 20s in the 90s so it was the soundrtrack of my bar hopping days. But over the past decade or so I kind of ignored it, my interest in grunge waning.

However I've recently been re-immersing myself in the music and grunge was gigantic but really only for a few years, strictly speaking. Nirvana collapsed, Pearl Jam changed their sound, etc. After that we had brit-pop (Oasis) and trip-hop (Bjork, Portishead) and the rise of hip-hop and a lot of unusual mixes of genres (Pat Boone singing metal? Us3 putting out music that blended jazz and hop hop, etc). And you had stuff that stood on their own like Dave Matthews and Beck and NIN and others.

I Think the 90s was actually a really interesting era for music, now that I have some distance to re-evaluate it properly. Nothing like today, lots of new bands with totally unique sounds and experimentation with cross-genre work, pretty creative instead of the same song autotuned and overproduced over and over with every artist to the point of genericity.

[HombreSecreto]

+1

[week 71]

One Week - Bare Naked ladies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_q9KPczAg

[Vahan1987]

I remember the singer saying that he actually was a fan of all those artists he mentioned (that he called “you’re all fakes, run to your mansions”) that he wanted to make sure they had as much exposure as possible.

[Toddsterpatriot]

You Get What You Give

[Captainpaintball]

Freepers, apparently have pretty crappy taste in music.

90s music was the last good decade of music, and that decade went downhill around 1994-95 or so.

the change in demographics, (both population and "talent") the rise (promoting by the record exec gonifs) of hip hop and other lower IQ music, insistence on "harder" rock music, and lesser talented producers/engineers (music made LOUDER! for no good reason done with fake instruments on computers) all contributed to the decline of quality of popular music.

[Roadrunner383]

I guess country music didn’t exist in the 90s.

Pick about any song from ‘Car Wheels On A Gravel Road’ by Lucinda Williams, and it would better than the majority of songs on the list.

Dwight Yoakam - ‘A Thousand Miles From Nowhere’
Travis Tritt - ‘Here’s A Quarter’
Vince Gill - ‘Go Rest High Up On The Mountain’
Alan Jackson - ‘Here In The Real World’

Did I miss Soundgarden, Hole, Pearl Jam on the list? I had some of their music cranked pretty loud back in the 90s.

[PROCON]

There was no good music in the ‘90’s or later, mid 1980’s back to the ‘60’s was Rock & Roll’s Golden Age.