my 10 fave songs of the 90s!
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naushika
Part VI. This is it.. are you readyyyyyyy?
Numbers 10 through 1 of my favorite songs of the 90s!
So the last section had a lot of songs that meant a lot to me. This section I have reserved for those songs of the 90s that when I hear them, INSTANTLY transport me back to some time and place in the 90s. There are a lot of bands that were big in the 90s that didn't make my list at all, and it's not cause I don't think those are great songs, but it's that they are from bands/albums I still listen to regularly TODAY, and they just don't make me think of the 90s very much. I tried to make this a list of songs that to mean, just scream 90s, and aren't things I usually listen to.
SO! Without further ado. These are my ultimate fave songs of the 90s!
10. Blues Traveler - Run-Around
HARMONICAAAAAAA. This song is sooooo goooood! I have mixed feelings about the video. On the one hand it is clearly trying to highlight how the music industry wants to cater to a certain image and tries to hide people that don't fit in. On the other, it's really just a way to never show the lead singer, aside from a couple close-ups, cause he's fat. BUT THE SONG IS GOOD.
09. Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters defined 90s rock for me. SO MUCH GOOD GUITAR, and you all must know how I feel about guitar by this point ahaha. Sacrilege to say maybe, and I'm certainly not glad that Kurt Cobain is dead or anything, but I'm kinda glad Nirvana ended so Dave Grohl could go on to form the Foo Fighters. So easy to rock out to. Also their videos are all mind trips, lol. Everlong is just so good and my fave Foo Fighters song of all time, too. IF ANYTHING COULD EVER BE THIS GOOD AAAAAAAAGAINNNNNNNN
08. Green Day - Basket Case
Dookie came out while I was in middle school, and I was like.. wha.. what is this.. strange sound? P-punk? What's that..?? AND THEN I FELL IN LOVEEEEEE. Basket Case is such a good song, and it's what made me get their album. I went on a punk rock bender for a while. I had this album on CASSETTE which means halfway through I had to take the tape out and flip it over to listen to the rest of it. TECHNOLOGY. lol. *pets her streaming music service now*
Man, Billie Joe Armstrong was so cute in this video. MIDDLE SCHOOL FEELINGS FLOODING BACK
07. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression that I Get
If you thought we were done with ska, YOU WERE WRONG. This is the ultimate 90s ska rock song. Sort of the pinnacle of this style back then. Such a solid, fun song. The lyrics are really great too, if you read them. Honestly I'm really hoping ska will make the rounds again in music sometime soon! I love it.
06. Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars (Tell Me Your Thoughts On God)
This is one of those songs that I always forget about until I hear it, then I'm like HOLY SHIT this song is so good.
Someone really needed to step back from the guassian blur filter on this video tho, lol.
05. Boyz II Men - Motownphilly
I SAID WAY BACK AT THE BEGINNING THERE WAS ONE MORE BOY BAND. Sort of. They didn't really fit the traditional model of a boy band, but we'll call them that anyway.
Boyz II Men were another one of those middle school groups for me. I had like 8 posters of them in my bedroom. I couldn't get enough of their harmonies. The album Cooleyhighharmony had some amazinggggg songs, as well as II, from a few years later. They're like a barbershop quartet, but set to that fabulous early 90s sound, lol. Some of the songs on their albums are acappella and just ah-may-zing.
Oh god this video is amazing. Those outfits! That dancing! Fresh to death, man.
04. Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
I CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THIS SONG. Those instruments are so amazinggggggg. So many strings! Orchestra + rock is always a delightful combo. It feels like Billy Corgan's style of singing SHOULD be annoying but it's really not. His vocals make all of the Smashing Pumpkins' songs unique, but especially this one. And the music video is fantastic, a play off that old silent film A Trip to the Moon.
03. Gin Blossoms - Til I Hear it From You
I think Gin Blossoms is one of those bands that nobody knows who you're talking about unless you start playing one of their songs. This song is my favorite of theirs, and it's super catchy, but my favorite part of the whole song is the opening strains in that first 10 seconds or so.
This video is completely unfamiliar to me. I think I wasn't watching MTV yet when this song was out, I mostly just heard it on the radio. The video is another one of those delightful time capsules to mid-90s hair and clothes trends though, lol.
02. Tonic - If You Could Only See
This song basically encapsulates my favorite things of 90s music. ROCK, GUITARS, CATCHY CHORUSES, GRAVELLY VOCALS, 90s AS FUCK VIDEO. This song IS the 90s to me. And it's wonderful. I really love the crap out of this song.
AND.. FINALLY... NUMBER ONE........!!!!
01. Counting Crows - Round Here
One of those songs that I just have to stop what I'm doing and listen to it all the way through. You can always tell when a vocalist has real emotion behind the words they're singing, and that is clear as hell in this song. Adam Duritz is just amazing when singing this song. I STILL GET CHILLS EVERY TIME I LISTEN TO IT. My absolute fave song to come out of the 90s.
Well, that's it! Thanks for coming along with me on this trip down nostalgia lane. :D I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!
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Date: 2013-08-05 12:52 pm (UTC)Dookie was the first album I owned that I stumbled upon on my own... because I liked it and not because my family or friends did. I owned three cassettes of it from the time I bought it through the time I graduated from high school because I listened to it so much that I kept wearing the tapes out. It's still one of my favorite albums of all time, and it's very important in terms of how I feel about music now.
I was also obsessed with Tonic - both that song and just the entire Lemon Parade album. Tonight Tonight is one of my favorite songs of all time. And ROUND HERE! *sighs* Beautiful.
That Gin Blossoms song will always be the film Empire Records for me.
And Everlong is my all time favorite Foo Fighters song.
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Date: 2013-08-05 02:51 pm (UTC)And I was terribly obsessed with Dookie. Like... wore the fucking cassette tape OUT.
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Date: 2013-08-05 08:39 pm (UTC)www.youtube.com/embed/YFK6H_CcuX8
this has been so much fun though!! more LISTS
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