The MOST 90s song? - updated

@frodobaggins: @whatshisface: @linkster7: Live Forever is the better Oasis song.

Also...

• Red Hot Chili Peppers, Under the Bridge. Or... The All Saints version.
• Beastie Boys, Sabotage.
• Smashing Pumpkins, Tonight Tonight.
• Radiohead, Street Spirit (Fade Out).

And much, much more.

The Cranberries: Zombie

The most overplayed song of the nineties. I swear it was stuck in my head from 1994 until 1999 when it got replaced by Eifel 65 with I'm blue.

@gaff: I don't really have a opinion on which one is best, I only care that we correctly correlate the song to the Lynyrd Skynyrd discography. And I think we all can agree that Champagne Supernova is the Free Bird of Oasis songs.

This is still the most 90s sounding thing to me, by faaaaaaaaaar. Everything about the production is oppressively of-the-time.

Indeed love the Marcarena there!

Eiffel 65 - Blue

Yeah, everyone was on coke.

Man...this thread has reminded how incredible awkward I was as a teenager. I'm glad I am now a slightly less awkward adult.

Anyways, here are some that haven't been mentioned:

I am not a Marilyn Manson fan at all, but I heard this song far too often to not mention here. I was in my jr. high school student government so went to all the sporting events, and every jr. high ever played this song during the "pre-game" stuff when people showed up to watch the game. Very. Single. School. Undoubtedly we all thought we were the coolest, edgiest kids on the block for playing it.

Speaking of songs all the edgy kids liked:

...Looking back at all the songs that were popular in jr. high makes me remember how insufferable jr. high aged kids are.

Moving on:

I haven't heard this song in probably a decade and I can still sing along with it. Holy cow was this song over played. Also this music video seems to be the secret origins of Deus Ex's color palette.

Next up...

That's right, kids. Smash Mouth had a song before "All-Star"...and it was this.

And to close things out:

Scraping in at just barely in the 90s (the album was released Dec 1, 1999), we got this little gem. Truth be told I still kind of like this song. I'm still trying to figure out what that says about me.

This thread is a CRINGEFEST. Mostly because I recall actually loving alot of this music growing up.

The fact that none of you philistines mention Garbage saddens me deeply... or this one

I'm surprised we got this far in the thread before Sex and Candy was mentioned.

The true answer...

Before I clicked into this thread, I was thinking Semi Charmed Life. I see that mentioned a few times here, and you are all correct. The best song every written about meth.

To me the most 90s movie soundtracks were Batman Forever and Space Jam. Since Seal's Kiss from a Rose has been represented here's this:

and back to Seal:

Also, this was the first song I thought of when I read the title of this thread:

If they aren't on the list yet:

Pulp - Common People

Suede - Trash

Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

Bonus:

• Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
• Metallica - One
• Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Waterfalls - TLC

One from Metallica was an '80s song.

I came here to post many of these and you've all beaten me to it, HOWEVER, how about some Goo Goo Dolls or Matchbox 20?

This thread needs more Lilith Fair style 90s greatness. I'm pretty sure she's still the only artist to ever have a number 1 radio single before she was signed to a record deal.

When I think of the 90s, this fucking song comes into my head because it was the one I remember hearing the most just randomly. In stores, waiting rooms, school functions, random events, weddings, etc. that I went to when I was a kid during the mid 90s (the most 90s of 90s). Late 90s not so much, but by then, the 2000s/90s blur was going on much like the late 80s/90s blur happened. I feel like I never hear this song again even on like 90s hits stations or anything. The song is doomed to live on in that era forever.

The greatest music video of the 90s, presented without comment:

Any song that has that "DET! WOO!" Sample from "It takes two"

I literally just remembered Groove Is In The Heart & came to post it. A great wee number

Everyone knows the actual most 90's song is Wannabe, but in my heart it's Waterfalls.

Mmm bop was the first song to come to mind when I thought 90's.

Huh, surprised nobody has posted Prodigy's Out of Space yet. A lot of the other songs I'd think of as incredibly 90's would probably be pretty specific to Northern Europe and Sweden in particular, but man, I think I heard Out of Space almost every day from 1993 to 2000.

These also come to mind:

MMMbop is the only right answer.

I can't believe I forgot Garbage. Their early albums were VERY much of their era.

I thought of more time-period defining 90s tracks while trying to fall asleep last night, if I might indulge my mini-obsession once more, haha:

Robbie Williams - Millenium (Tongue-in-cheek irony mixed with earnestness and talk of the imminent Millenium? Baby, you got yourself a 90s stew goin')

The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (The chorus perfectly sums up the direction hard rock had gone in by that point in time. Also, it was the lead single for one of the most influential albums of the decade)

Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It (Not only does it have a sound you don't really hear much of in the 00s and beyond, but it was so wildly popular that I feel like it needs to be mentioned by default, like Macarena or Barbie Girl)

Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy Wit It (Again, insanely popular, sounds strongly of its decade, and it's The Fresh Goddamn Prince. May be switched out for "Summertime", "Miami", or "Men In Black")

The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You (*clapclapclapclap*)

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta (I mean, just listen to it, haha. Imagine that song being nearly as popular if it came out today... ain't happening unless it featured Drake)

Vitamin C - Smile (Again, very self-explanatory)

OMC - How Bizarre (... Yeah.)

The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jump Jive an' Wail (I almost forgot about the swing revival period! Again, if you're younger and reading this, swing music came back in a huge way near the end of the 90s, and I'm still not sure how or why. It was really fucking weird)

I despise this song with a burning passion but... yeah.

THIS, though... is a perfect song.

I didn't develop my own taste in music until the early 2000's so it's tough for me, i had an older sister growing up so the only music i knew was boy bands, i developed a searing hatred for the music i was exposed to and while there is a lot of music i like from the 90's they don't remind me of the decade.
I will however submit a song i listened to yesterday, as the music video is 90's as f***.
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How has this not been posted yet?

Are we talking Ironically or unironically. My answer changes quite a bit depending on which one it is.

Ironically -

Unironically -

Honorable Mention -

It's not that I enjoy this song or anything. *cough* Yeah, whew... what a terrible song.

@xanadu: oh man that's a good one!

Another couple ideas -

Britney Spears- Hit me baby

Backstreet Boys- I want it that way

@cashbasket: I'm with ya there. Certainly would neeeever listen to that song by choice. Nopenopenope.

Seriously though, I hated that song in its day, but it was actually a really good cover of it (in bluegrass style, believe it or not) that made me appreciate the original.

No ones gonna say greenday huh?

You Know How We Do It by Ice Cube

Ambitionz az a Ryder by 2Pac

Blackhole Sun by Soundgarden

Rappers Ball by E40 & Too Short

I Love The Dough by Biggie & JayZ

Mother by Danzig

That song with the bee girl in the video

Loser by Beck

Sabotage by Beastie Boys

Allstar by Smashmouth

WINNER!

@dave_tacitus: I came here to post Chumbawamba but I'm glad someone beat me to it!

It's gotta be that or:

Including this for completionist purposes. You're all doing God's work for my nostalgia right now.

And.. Sorry/Not sorry for Cotton Eye Joe

Even Flow by Pearl Jam if it hasn't been mentioned yet

Oh and Vengaboys reformed in 2010 with this new hot beat. yea.

*reads answers*

And I say........ what about........ Breakfast At Tiffany's?

No really.

Oh, and if we stretch the 90s to mean the very early 2000s, which were basically all the worst part of the 90s mashed together into one hellish mess, we get gems like this:

I will make you come tonight... over to my house.

Though to be fair, I think a "most" early 00's competition would be a much weirder competion since it would be a bunch of clone boy bands with fake tans and frosted tips against Ja Rule and Eminem and them battling pop punk and nu-metal. Oh and then there would be Prozzak, who blew up in 2000 for a bit, and had what had to be one of the earliest songs about online, and the internet in general.

Also, they are attempting a comeback and made a new video in the same style but about Tinder. It's quite the thing.