Favorite '90s stuff?

[rhubarbodendron]

LOL, Garth, there's not a single song on your list that I liked I had no idea I'm that old-fashioned, music-wise. But as John Lennon said: which music you like depends on whom you kissed in the backrow of the cinema at 17. Since in my case that was just at the end of the 70s/beginning of the 80s, I consequently developed a weakness for both flower power music and heavy metal. I much prefer a Hammond organ or a drum solo by Cozy Powell over the noise they nowadays call music.

 

[Herbert]

I typed this up elsewhere a few years ago. These are my personal Top 40 favorite songs of the '90s. In the order that I thought of them:

EDIT: Screw it. I'm updating it to 50. I've thought of a bunch of other stuff since I typed that list that I can't believe I didn't have.

1. "Free Your Mind" -- En Vogue (1992)
2. "God Lives Underwater" -- All Wrong (1995)
3. "December" -- Collective Soul (1995)
4. "You Oughta Know" -- Alanis Morrisette (1995)
5. "Pump Up the Jam" -- Technotronic (1990)
6. "Funk Soul Brother" -- Fatboy Slim (1998)
7. "I've Got the Power" -- Snap (1990)
8. "Machine Head" -- Bush (1996)
9. "Save Yourself" -- Stabbing Westward (1998)
10. "Vogue" -- Madonna (1990)
11. "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" -- U2 (1995)
12. "Living Dead Girl" -- Rob Zombie (1998)
13. "Paranoid Android" -- Radiohead (1997)
14. "Whatta Man" -- Salt N Pepa (1994)
15. "Move This" -- Technotronic (1990)
16. "I'm Too Sexy" -- Right Fred Said (1991)
17. "6 Underground" -- Sneaker Pimps (1996)
18. "More Human Than Human" -- White Zombie (1995)
19. "The One" -- White Zombie (1996)
20. "Closer" -- Nine Inch Nails (1994)
21. "Monsta Mack" -- Sir Mix a Lot (1993)
22. "Callin' In Sick" -- Weird Al (1995)
23. "Shoop" -- Salt N Pepa (1993)
24. "U Can't Touch This" -- MC Hammer (1990)
25. "Teotihuacan" -- Noel Gallagher (1998)
26. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" -- The Verve (1997)
27. "1979" -- Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
28. "Joyride" -- Roxette (1991)
29. "Roam" -- B-52s (1990)
30. "Tattooed Millionaire" -- Bruce Dickinson (1990)
31. "Livin' on the Edge" -- Aearosmith (1993)
32. "Right Now" -- Van Halen (1991)
33. "Down In a Hole" -- Alice in Chains (1992)
34. "Walking After You" -- Foo Fighters (1997)
35. "Black" -- Sarah McLachen (1991)
36. "One" -- Filter (1998)
37. "Paisley" -- Ministry (1996)
38. "Hurt" -- Nine Inch Nails (1994)
39. "All the Small Things" -- Blink-182 (1999)
40. "Intergalactic" -- Beastie Boys (1998)
41. "Sour Girl" -- Stone Temple Pilots (1999)
42. "Keep Ya Head Up" -- 2Pac (1993)
43. "California Love" -- 2Pac (1995)
44. "Man in the Box" -- Alice in Chains (1991)
45. "Killing in the Name" -- Rage Against the Machine (1992)
46. "Mysterious Ways" -- U2 (1991)
47. "I'm Free" -- The Soup Dragons (1990)
48. "Du Hast" -- Ramstein (1997)
49. "Dragula" -- Rob Zombie (1998)
50. "Cannonball" -- The Breeders (1993)

Well, that's quite an eclectic mix. Get rid of the rap, hip hop, and pop crap and replace it with more alternative/grunge and I'm right there with ya! On second thought, I guess I'm not with you much at all. Forget I said anything

 

[Herbert]

LOL, Garth, there's not a single song on your list that I liked I had no idea I'm that old-fashioned, music-wise. But as John Lennon said: which music you like depends on whom you kissed in the backrow of the cinema at 17.

Probably true in a lot of cases but not all. Some of my favorite music has come well after my 17th birthday.

 

[Lord Garth]

I would've had "Terrible Lie", "Head Like a Hole", and "Sanctified" on there by Nine Inch Nails... but then I found out those were all 1989 songs. Same with "Janie's Got a Gun", "Another Night In Paradise", "What I Am", and a few other songs. It sucks to leave things out on a technicality.

... but, hey. At least I didn't have the Macarena on there.

 

[TheSeeker]

Windows 95. I had the right computer for it, so I didn't have the nightmare some other people had.

You can't beat this sound... (well, maybe Windows 98 can)

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Wow. That sound immediately brought on a wave of nostalgia for me. I like to occasionally change my startup sounds to the old Windows sounds but I don't think I've ever used that one. I may have to do some tweaking to my systems sounds when I get home!

 

[Pondwater]

The music
Daisy print dresses
Slick Willy as POTUS
The Simpsons

 

[Jayson1]

Sports were almost better across the board except MLB baseball which is still as good as it was then and maybe even better. No basketball player will ever be better than Micheal Jordan, no NFL player will be as much fun as Barry Sanders except maybe Brett Favre and he even comes from the 90's. College Basketball was at it's best before all the players started skipping college. Teenagers knew to stay off my lawn and everyone listened to their elders and music was wholesome.

Jason

 

[Ethros]

Not gonna lie, girls wearing chokers.
Glad they've come back in recent years

 

[Leviathan]

I miss Sears, but I guess that's hardly a 90s thing.

To be fair the OP did not specify which 90's. The 1890's were pretty classic.

 

[Gul Sengosts]

Music. The 90s were the all-time golden age of music in the history of mankind. Fuck Mozart and Beethoven, no need for that shit if you've got Haddaway, Dr. Alban, Culture Beat, Nirvana etc.

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[Amaris]

Optimism. I miss the unbridled optimism of the 1990s.
I also miss all of the colors. Here in the U.S., after 9/11/01, we started veering towards this staid, downcast, dreary atmosphere, an atmosphere of distrust and fear. As a result, our color palette shifted to darker grays, and subdued hues.

 

[Gul Sengosts]

Optimism. I miss the unbridled optimism of the 1990s.
I also miss all of the colors. Here in the U.S., after 9/11/01, we started veering towards this staid, downcast, dreary atmosphere, an atmosphere of distrust and fear. As a result, our color palette shifted to darker grays, and subdued hues.

I definitely noticed the shift over here too. The 90s were an era of optimism, maybe sometimes too naive optimism, but the gritty cynicism that arose after 9/11 and has grown only stronger since pisses me off to no end.

 

[Amaris]

I definitely noticed the shift over here too. The 90s were an era of optimism, maybe sometimes too naive optimism, but the gritty cynicism that arised on 9/11 and has grown only stronger since pisses me off to no end.

Some of my favorite shows out of the late 1980s and early 1990s are Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Quantum Leap, and SeaQuest DSV, but also Blossom, Full House, Family Matters, and Perfect Strangers. They were brightly colored, optimistic shows, where people actually smiled out of a sense of joy and happiness. I think the theme to Perfect Strangers sums it up nicely:

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[Gul Sengosts]

Binging my way through VOY while watching DSC, I can't help but notice that the line "ever thought of playing nice?" would seem very out of place in DSC. It's a dog eat dog world now.

 

[Pondwater]

Some of my favorite shows out of the late 1980s and early 1990s are Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Quantum Leap, and SeaQuest DSV, but also Blossom, Full House, Family Matters, and Perfect Strangers. They were brightly colored, optimistic shows, where people actually smiled out of a sense of joy and happiness. I think the theme to Perfect Strangers sums it up nicely:

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Standing tall.....

 

[rhubarbodendron]

ooooh wait! I just recalled an wesome invention of the 90s that I really appreciate a lot: durable white fillings for cavities. Before that, we had the black/silvery amalgamate fillings. Mechanically an excellent material but optically only little pleasing and poisonous due to its mercury contents. In the 80s they invented a sort of plastic that worked nice on front teeth but wasn't durable enough for molars. In the 90s they finally invented the semi-ceramic material they still use today.

 

[Spot261]

Music, be it Alice in Chains or KD Lang, Tori Amos or Metallica, Skunk Anansie or Crowded House, somehow the 90's just got the balance right before excessively manufactured music started saturating the market completely

 

[Amaris]

Standing tall.....

♫♪ On the wings of my dreams... ♪♫

 

[CorporalClegg]

No love for Zubaz?

 

[Refuge]

Moved to Australia in the Nineties. SO wanted an Imac - sigh. Green.