Forgotten hits of the 90s

I loved that song.

They should all be forgotten.

What if God was one of us?

We filled up a thread on this topic last year.

Damn I wish I was your lover

Save Tonight

[quote]They should all be forgotten.

The 90s was the last era of great music before it all went south and the most exciting period in pop since the 1960s. Sorry you missed it.

[quote]What if God was one of us?

That is not a forgotten hit.

Wrapped in plastic, it’s fantastic!

Sunny came home with a box of tools. She didn’t believe in transcendance...”it’s time for a few small repairs,” she said. Sunny came home with a vengeance.

You’re a beautiful—a beautiful fucked-up man.

Boys on my left side, boys on my right side, boys in the middle and you’re not here. I need a big loan from the girl zone.

Have you all forgotten about me?

R12 Yes

Since this is turning into a Lilith Fair thread, I'll give you this jam...

^ Madonna's longtime back up singer Niki Haris does the female part

Mmm mmm mmm mmm!

Prejudice! Wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it goes.

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a sinner I'm a saint ...

Let’s take this to the clubs...

Anyone remember this, when trance was trance and not EDM?

Primitive Radio Gods.

YOU KNOW YOU LOVED IT.

I just cannot hide it

Say that you need me!

In what world is "Finally" forgotten?

OMC - "How Bizarre"

Donna Lewis.

R25 Is this better?

White Town - "Your Woman"

This was a hit, though I’d rather forget.

This was a hit (by Bjork standards).

Semisonic - Closing Time

Does this count as forgotten? I haven’t heard it forever.

Hyperballad is one of my favourite tunes on Spotify. Post was a brilliant album but that alone stood out for me.

This, however, gives me the cold spicy shits...

The Guy with the Eyebrows Song

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Before redheads were hot.

Did someone call for a Madonna backing singer?

This lasted forever on the radio

Sister Hazel. A friend dragged me to see them live and man, did they suck.

This is the story of a girl...

This wouldn’t die in high school.

Most of them are not forgotten. The problem is they are from artist who were successful for a short time.

And Torn is a song that gets constant airplay here in Spain

I was remind Sister Hazel today (they never released any of his songs on my country but i used to hear American top 40), I always preferred Happy over All for you

Kylie goes "WTF?"

R43 I’d forgotten about most of these songs.

Come my baby

Never heard of this guy, but the song was a big hit

Torn was one of those songs that was played to death. Really fucking hated that song after the 140th play...

However, Imbruglia did have some other songs on the parent album - "Left of the Middle" - that were quite good. This was my personal favourite.

Dreams can come true...doo doo doo da da doo doo doo!

Don't Wanna Fall in Love

This was everywhere back in 99. Fun fact: this guy's face was used to advertise a rentboy website for a while at the turn of the century...

I haven’t “forgotten” any of these, but I sure haven’t heard most of them in a while. Maybe if I listened to an actual radio station... but which station in NYC plays modern rock/Top 40 hits from 20 years ago?

As awful as many of these songs were, I would still take them over any of the heinous shit that passes for music on Hot 100 stations today. Cannot believe what it’s evolved into.

R48: Smoke is my fave Imbruglia song too, but Shiver was great too

This is fun. The 90s were my worst and best times.

Was so in love with the lead singer. Thankfully, that dream didn't come true. He looks pretty raspy now.

"Another day, I call and never speak. And you would say, 'nothing's changed at all.' And, I can't feel much hope for anything if I won't be there to catch you when you fall."

[quote] What if God was one of us?

[quote] Damn I wish I was your lover

Oh, dear. '90s singers seemed to have a hard time with the subjunctive mood.

DYKES ON THE MOON!!!!

How bizarre that this was a hit

I always loved that Jane Child song, as well as Sophie Hawkins’ "Damn!”, Shawn Colvin’s “Sunny”.

Anyone remember Jann Arden’s “Insensitive”? A girl I was friends with, who had a crush on me (gross), mentioned to a mutual friend of ours that this song reminded her of me. Blah!

R57: Maybe Stay is forgotten in the USA, but i can assure you that those 8 weeks at number one on the UK chart had a lasting impression on UK.

I remember the controversy of the video. They were accused of necrophilia (with it's a bit too harsh, the guy is obviously in comma, not dead)

Twist in My Sobriety

R59, NO ONE has forgotten “Kiss Me”. I hear it in CVS constantly.

“This bed is on fire with passionate love / The neighbors complain about the noises above...”

R53 - mine is Wrong Impression. I know it sounds depressing, but it came out about the time I was just between higher education and working and travelling around New Zealand. Utterly lovely little tune. (And Shiver is brilliant)

I don’t think it’s weird that “How Bizarre” was a hit. It has massive hooks in it. What’s bizarre is that any of today’s top hits are hits, because they don’t have hooks.

Gird your loins, lads! It's the Herpes Girls!

From the Go soundtrack.

The lead singer from James was gorgeous.

R60: I remember that song. It was in the soundtrack of a romantic comedy full of saccarine

R62: Tanita is from the 80's. She was 15 years old when she released that song, and she didn't deal well with the success

Jon Secada’s and Toni Braxton’s albums were always advertised during the Sally Jesse Raphael and Jenny Jones shows.

I love Natalie Imbruglia's first two albums.

R3, that song always makes me think of Dr Evil and Mini Me (RIP).

R60, you beat me to posting “Insensitive”. Good song.

My mom loved Jan Arden.

I smell Sex and Candy here.

The video for Len's "Steal My Sunshine" at R69 is a little creepy. You would assume that the lead singers are a couple, but they're actually brother and sister.

R69 Natalie Imbruglia had a great song on that soundtrack too - Troubled By the Way We Came Together.” Shame that “Torn” is what she’s known for.

ARGH.

And I Miss You...

Teen Angst, Cracker.

So many of these songs were pervasive and yet they were only of their time with no recent circulation.

Fucking Mimi...

Martine McCutcheon's cover of "Perfect Moment". Number one in the UK in 1999. I had forgotten this song existed until relatively recently.

This remix was actually a club hit. Does it count?

Loved this song. Thought this band would have gone further than they did.

Also

White Town - Your Woman

Mr Wendal

Jesus Jones, we hardly knew ye.

"Tell me all your thoughts on God 'Cause I'd really like to meet her.“

This is an interesting compilation.

No Mercy - "Where Do You Go"

Tasmin Archer's Sleeping satellite. It was a big hit for her, unfortunately it was her only hit

Drive

"Ma Teresa's joined the mob, and happy with her full-time job."

Robert Miles - "Children"

Tom’s Diner

And I won’t tell anyone your name.

My name is Luca. I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you. Yes, I think you’ve seen me before, you fucking asshole.

Couldn’t get this out of my head for a while.

No More I Love Yous

[quote] My name is Luca. I live on the second floor.

Luka was from 1987.

Most expensive music video ever made at the time...for a mostly forgotten song.

Ugh, Dishwalla and Candlebox are awful. The latter is a perfect example of the major labels (in this case, MADONNA’s Maverick via Warner Bros) signing “grunge” bands that were just awful corporate schlock marketed as “alternative” to the mainstream, in the wake of Nirvana.

Goo Goo Dolls’ “Name” and “Iris”, along with Duncan Shiek’s song, were all played INCESSANTLY. I hate them now as much as I hated them then. Adult contemporary snoozers.

This actually went to #1 in 1990 (and has never been heard since).

The video for R104’s song is weird as fuck.

Strike It Up!

Hahaha R109 how old are you? Do you not know the song?!

I think it’s worth posting some slightly “not totally forgotten” songs if it exposes younger Millennials to some good music. ;)

Jellyhead, you’ve really blown it!

Here come da hotsteppa! I’m the lyrical gangsta!

Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Released on May 27, 1997, by LeeAnn Rymes.

Released on May 27, 1997, by Trisha Yearwood!

Same song, same day! You may remember the song, but do you remember the battle for radio play?

“Say a prayer for me”

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

I still find it hard to believe that such a strange song by a band with "Butthole" in their name actually got lots of Top 40 airplay.

R115 and R116, Team Trisha here!

Somehow this chart-topping, super-annoying country song’s even-more-annoying dance mix made it to DC gay clubs.

My sucotash wish!

This is 2000 and was a “hit” at a club I went to, and so it doesn’t really belong here. But listen anyway because it’s so bad you should love it forever.

I loved this song in 1999.

The one with the guy singing about a girlfriend whose parents used to go to parties with people like Sonny and Cher.

Someone help me!

When pink’s hair was her name and she was a glossy punky pop princess instead of a rock star.

The Goos, Dishwalla, Gin Blossoms, etc. kind of music made for great radio songs. Nice stuff to listen to in the car and much better than Ariana Grande's self-serious garbage written for her by middle-aged men.

Here's one of my favorites, Inside Out from Eve 6.

I would swallow my pride I would choke on the rinds, but the lack thereof would leave me empty inside Swallow my doubt, turn it inside out Find nothing but faith in nothing Want to put my tender Heart in a blender...

[quote] The one with the guy singing about a girlfriend whose parents used to go to parties with people like Sonny and Cher.

Here you go.

R124: Shawn Mullins' Lullaby

R126 That singer would have been a much better Archie Andrews than KJ Apa is!

R125, I'm not sure what category Pink was supposed to fit into. Another sort of hit from her from that same album was Most Girls with the lyrics "If a girlfriend's got some game, Couldn't be more fly" and "shorty's got a job, shorty's got a car, shorty can pay her own rent." It always makes me laugh that people seem to forget this phase of Pink's career.

Quad City DJ's - "C'Mon 'N Ride It"

R126, I agree with you about the style of music vs Ariana Grande’s wretchedness, but all those corporate-alternative bands were so awful compared to actual alternative music that was played on college radio and MTV’s 120 Minutes.

R130 It us pretty funny. I remember when that Australian rapper Iggy Azalea’s early pop career was “outed,” destroying her hardcore image and all I thought was, “wow, rockstar Pink sure is lucky no one remembers pink-haired ghetto princess Pink!”

5ive When the lights go out. It's curious that a british boyband had success in the USA first but that was the case. Something similar happened with BBMack's Back here, Sonique's Feels so good and Billie Mayers' Kiss the rain

Or girl bands like Eternal's Stay and Boy Krazy's That's what love can do

You Make Me Sick—Pink Version 1.0 again

R132: There are way worse things on radio than Ariana Grande. At least she can sing.

I can't stand pop songs with a rap verse. There are some exceptions but in most cases there's only a pop singer wanting to look cool and a rapper wanting the money. A good collaboration is wellcome but that's not what happens 99% of the time.

I liked Pink's rebel pop star beginnings, specially There you go and Most girls

Pink was a cute twink.

When in Rome The promise was quite a hit at the beginning of the 90's. And Walking in memphis by Marc Cohn (but i dout Walking in Memphis is forgotten at all)

I'm sure I've heard that P!nk's record company pressured her into starting out with an R&B album. I don't think she ever performs her earliest singles live anymore.

We're so lucky in the UK, we have Absolute Radio. They have channels for 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's (and a classic rock too).

R139 Yes, she warred with [Clive Davis?] over her image and the type of music she had to sing, according to her, and eventually she got her way and was allowed to make the pop-rock she wanted to make, beginning with “Get the Party Started.”

She performed There You Go live a couple of years ago.

[quote] When in Rome The promise was quite a hit at the beginning of the 90's.

It was a hit in 1988.

Pink arrived on the scene in 2000 so I don't know she's even being discussed in this thread.

R142: You are totally right, it was in 1988

Rico Suave

That song by Neneh Cherry's brother.

[quote]Or girl bands like Eternal's Stay and Boy Krazy's That's what love can do

Those definitely aren’t bands.

When was the last time you heard this on the radio?

R148: If Backstreet boys are a boyband, Eternal was a girlband

Pride 'n Politix, "Hold On"

So many great songs on this thread, thanks for the memories. There's still good music being made, you just have to ask the young people who know to get to the good stuff.

This (I think) went to #1 in the UK and then everybody got embarrassed and erased it from the memory shortly afterwards.

Jade - Don't Walk Away [1992]

Remember when they try to push this guy on the unsuspecting masses?

^^tried.

S & P.

R152:. Of course there are, every time has it's own great songs (movies, and books). Sometimes it's needed some time to get perspective.

Spaceman was very very big on Europe for a short period of time

Let's talk about sex is not forgotten at all

And Jimmy Ray worked for a short period of time. That song was a top 10 pop hit on the USA, peaked at 8 and then drop like a stone

Another Level were one of those flash-in-the-pan boybands from the Nineties in the UK that had one or two good hits and then just imploded. I had the biggest crush on Mark (tall white guy with the dorky hair and face) for some reason...

In fact, the whole UK Garage scene of the mid-to-late 90s is fucking rife with forgotten hits. This one was released in 2000, but it was recorded two years earlier in 98. I have some seriously good memories of playing tonsil hockey with my ex-boyfriend at The Arches in Glasgow with this playing in the background, heh.

I didn’t forget her hairy armpits, OP.

Spin the Bottle - Juliana Hatfield Three

Anyone know who the hot dude with the black hair is?

Another wee gem from the UK Garage scene.

Do covers count? This did pretty well.

Bitch!

Don’t make this one dimensional. The way I feel is sexual.

I forgot Sophie B. Hawkins had contributed such a definitive sound to the colorful landscape music of the 90s. She offered some strong music in her debut .... right along with "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" and "As I Lay Me Down", this was one of my personal favorites:

I will survive without you.

Anybody else remembers this?

Another single from an ex-Eastenders star. A bit weird that these keep coming into my head, considering that I don't actually watch EastEnders.

One of Belinda's last great catchiest offerings:

I think there are artists today who claim to have been influenced by Ace of Base.

Yes, I loved this song. It was a high-quality anomaly mixed in with some really annoying radio hits. She sounds like a happy singing bumblebee on a sunny springtime day.

Voice of the Beehive - Monsters and Angels

Probably her most mainstream song.

You were meant for me...

I tell you how I feel but you don’t care!

90’s pop Rock/alternative rock was soo great

This is summer of 1997 to me

There was a great distinctive male voice in the songs throughout the 90s .... real men's voices:

TOP 30 ONE HIT WONDERS OF THE 1990S, determined by ... someone.

I thought Bitch was such a stupid song.

R183 you need to get bitch slapped

Another great male voice:

This took us from the 80s and into the 90s:

R184 I’m sorry, Meredith. I know it put you on the map but the lyrics were lame compared to lesser-charting songs of the 90s.

Another great AQUA offering:

Martika the original cuban pop princess, camila who?

Video directed by Ethan Hawke:

R190 I loved the style era of the 90s Lisa Loeb has going on in the Stay video, from her “Rachel” hair to the dress to the makeup. All she is missing is a choker. I wish that style would come back.

Barely Breathing ....

R192 Summer 1997 had great music!! This one too

What I need is somebody who really cares.

I’m missin you like canday-yay-yay-ay

Dream Warriors helped to usher in the 90s:

Waiting for Tonight! Except not Jennifer Lopez’s 1999 version, but the original 1997 version. Yes, she covered a two-year-old song.

1993

R197 how am I just hearing about that now,that jlo bitch really had zero originality. That’s her signature song too lol

R199 JLo is pure ready-for-market product.

Nothing compares to the beauty found in this song:

R199 Notice how the vocals are processed almost identically, too? Hahaha

R201 This one compares! And it takes me back to eating a Roy Rogers roast beef sandwich and cold french fries in a dirty little backroom in Blockbuster video, fipping through a coverless issue of Entertainment Weekly.

As a kid had no idea what this song was about but I knew the beat was the shit!

CLOSE ENOUGH! Released 11/20/1989.

Push

Remember Hootie?

This is a nice song

I love this song.

Thought this was a good solution.

Released in late 99 i wanted to move to england and marry these hot blokes

I know I'm being "thread police" here, but the 90s feels too broad a topic to capture. I mean, the early 90s have more in common with the late 80s than they do with the late 90s.

Only a cunt could forget Macy, you cunts.

A lot of these are not "forgotten" unless you lost your hearing on the eve of the new millennium. "Groove Is In The Heart"? A stone cold club classic. Cranberries? Yes, they were an awful one trick pony with laughably bad lyrics and they crashed and burned after the 90s, but hardly forgotten.

R212 That’s what makes it a great music decade. It changed from 80s pop and hip hop to R&B and dance-pop to a female singer-songwriter oasis and breathy, down-to-earth male pop-rock to grunge and house and trance all in one decade.

R215 and ended with teen sugar pop britney/nsync/backstreet

Ahead of its time.

Don't remember Bachman Turner Overdrive, R47? That was his son. Revived a bit on a later episode of "Girls".

Those garage band songs were the rage in the '90s and early 2000s. Remember that dreary rock anthem that was number one song for the year 2001? By a church band? I can't even hum it. Then the lead singer's brother had ANOTHER dreary pop anthem soonafter. Also forgotten.

R215, the Nineties really did have it all in terms of musical styles.

Just thought of the perfect song for this thread loved this but never remember it

Just think about Madonna through the decade. She evolved with many of the pop trends. She came in doing dance-pop, switched to Babyface-produced ballads and the one Bjork-authored triphop/trance track, and then wrapped it up with techno. That’s a taste of how diverse the era was. Madonna didn’t lead that evolution; she rode it.

Sorry to be so pedantic, but the 80s house is what spawned all those late 80s/early 90s dance hits. What we got post-grunge was something that at the time was labelled "electronica" and was briefly embraced in North America since it was sort of the rockist take on dance music, and performed by these straight, white English blokes such as Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, or The Prodigy.

R222 Not entirely true. I was a big fan throughout the 90s of trance and house, and in particular BT (Brian Transeau), who is a real musician and who made a lot of very interesting compositions in addition to a lot of mainstream mixes and the soundtrack to the movie Go. His music wasn’t on the radio, but he was part of a cohort of electronic musicians who laid groundwork for later, more commercial types like Tiesto. His music eventually became so avant garde it was too difficult to appreciate, like Bjork’s.

R222 One more of BT, from 1999. Wikipedia calls him “a pioneer of trance and intelligent dance music that paved the way for EDM.” He wasn’t a mainstream “hit,” but he made interesting music that influenced a lot of other producers.

Poe, Angry Johnny.

And thank you to whomever posted the Sneaker Pimps!!

Poe, Trigger Happy Jack.

R226 - wrong link!

I remember this one being played on MTV2 in the late 90s. Thought they would've been bigger.

Does anyone else get deja vu when these similar-themed music threads are started every 6 months or so, and the same records fill them up?

Yet I play right along, although I try to come up with something different than was posted the last time around.

Cowboy Junkies, "Angel Mine"

Is that Molly Ringwald, R228?

R230 That is what I was thinking. She looks like a Molly Ringwald/Annie Lennox hybrid.

Actress Danielle Brisbois, best known for her role on Archie Bunker's Place and Greg Sumner's daughter on Knots Landing, was the percussionist for this 90's alternative band:

Best summer song evah ....

Hated this song ... it seemed they played it on the radio for the entire decade ...

Duran Duran's 90's comeback

R234 that song and this one were the ultimate “ jams” for lame frau fishsticks

R236 I really disliked that song, and it was played incessantly along with “Bitch.” They were among the most annoying of the era’s songs.

Sarah Brightman - Deliver Me

Semisonic's Closing Time

Please stop posting that LEN song. They were total douche bags who hated playing that song and treated the audience like shit. They thought they were rap artists or something.

Never knew what they were saying, but it was deadly ear-worm:

4 Non Blonde's Linda Perry is now married to Sara Gilbert:

Pink Martini "Amado Mio"

Spin Doctors' Two Princes:

I had forgotten about this: Primal Scream, "Loaded"

Elton John's Simple Life:

Soho, "Hippychick"

School of Fish, "Three Strange Days"

As far as Canadian one-hit wonders go, this was much better than LEN:

John Bottomley died in 2011:

R204 - thank you for that song. Problem is I am trying to think of another song that has a similar feel, and Sneaker Pimps is stuck in my head.

R247 - I love you as well.

Lez synthpop, y'all.

Comin’ atcha!

Love when a blokes comin’ atcha

So are you Jimmy Ray?

Boy George (and Pet Shop Boys) - "The Crying Game"

If you could only see the way she loves me - Tonic.

I think the “she” must be a 12-year-old girl.

256 posts and no Tubthumping yet?

R257, see R28.

My bad, R258. Thanks.

My sister gave me her copy of their tape.

If anyone needs a list to refresh their memory...

M-O-N-I-C-A she tryna take my man away from me

Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (1990)

Never cared for the record, but thought the singer looked good in the video.

Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

I might be wrong but I have a vague memory of this somehow being related to 90210:

They might be better remembered in the UK, where they were immensely popular. This was their only minor hit in the US.

Lord of Acid - I sit on Acid

Speaking of 90210...

And its UK equivalent...

Portishead - Sour Times

Well.

Liking this still...

Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You"

Bic Runga - Sway

Thong diggity

This was HUGE in 1995 and then quickly forgotten (as was Adina Howard)

Trump is living in a gangsta’s paradise now.

L7 - Pretend we're dead

Anyone?

I’d bang it all day, Carpenter goes bang. bang bang....

Livin Joy - Dont stop movin

I am the son and the heir...

Bee girl

Loved this one

Hilarious!

Jump

Light My Fire by Clubhouse. One of the last big Italo Disco hits in 1994 (and for ever). A style that faded after having one of each of each feet planted firmly in the 70s and 80s.

R275, Adina Howard was being hyped HARD by radio and her record company as the next big thing. Then she just disappeared.

Potential DL anthem?

check it out now the fuck soul brother

Andy Prieboy, "Tomorrow Wendy"

R288 - this is a better version

20 Fingers also gave us this:

Archie Bunker's niece or something. Can't remember. Was featured on an episode of Models Inc.

The beginning of the end...

You can read my diary you're in every line.

That Adina Howard album Do You Wanna Ride? always bugged me because a friend of mine who had the CD claimed she was offering someone *a* ride, as in “Do you want a ride?” but “wanna” is “want to”, not “want a”. That always bugged me.

Un foto

Brought to you in part by Boyz II Men

Justifiablyforgotten

Some of you need to look up the word "forgotten" in the dictionary.

Uh, not quite, R299. That song still sends a lot of tacky Eurogays of a certain age into a frenzy.

Mantronix "Don't Go Messin' With My Heart"

Heh, I really liked this song way back when

She kissed a girl.

That “Take A Picture” song by Filter was thought to be terrible. I remember Entertainment Weekly or some such magazine giving them a really bad review. Didn’t they also do “Hey Man Nice Shot”?

Bananarama (a twosome by this point) "More More More"

Republica - Ready to Go

Song partly makes me think of Vegas Vacation

When Fergie wasn't a tranny-faced methhead who'd peed in her pants

This was actually quite good but I've never heard of them again.

Driving...driving in my car...

Sheryl at her best.

Chapman's Fast Car debuted in 1988.

A lot of these haven't been "forgotten" really....though this thread sounds like my car radio in high school.

Here is Gin Blossoms

Wonderwall.

Mazzy Star. Fade Into You.

Sweet, you rock and sweet you roll...

Mae Moore's "Bohemia" was one of those "Desperado" songs for me - it would send me in a trance-like state:

Forgotten ones only jesus!!!! Some of these songs can be heard in recent commercials and movies....

Movin' to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches

B4-4's Get Down: this is what passed for a pop hit here in Canada. Such weird looking orange dudes.

More of our rich Canadian musical culture. This was a number 1 hit in Canada when I was kid and apparently charted in the U.S. as well.

R321 yes i wanted that lead singer inside me as gayling

Porno For Pyros

My #1 hit of the 1990s: Bernstein's Mahler 6.

"The death of Kurt Cobain struck Neil Young extremely hard. Not only did the Nirvana frontman quote from "Hey Hey, My My" in his suicide note, but Young had been trying to reach the singer at the time of his death. He got the sense he was going through a very hard time and he wanted to give him advice. "Change Your Mind" was written before Cobain passed away, but it's still basically the conversation that Young hoped to have with him."

"The death of Kurt Cobain struck Neil Young extremely hard. Not only did the Nirvana frontman quote from "Hey Hey, My My" in his suicide note, but Young had been trying to reach the singer at the time of his death. He got the sense he was going through a very hard time and he wanted to give him advice. "Change Your Mind" was written before Cobain passed away, but it's still basically the conversation that Young hoped to have with him."

This will always be Ibiza, Summer 97 for me. Utterly stone cold killer. The music today...it just doesn't fucking compare.

Just went thru most of this thread. Maybe I'm too old, but I think most of these songs sucked. I'm going back to the 70s thread!

The Dance scenes in Europe during the nineties was so much more than what a lot of young Americans would believe. We had *everything*. Note I said "scenes" - there was more than just one type of dance music, more than one type of musician. It's hard to explain to Americans or even kids nowadays, but the music from 1981-2010 was optimistic, passionate and it was inclusive as fuck. That sounds mockable - but it's true. I used to go to clubs with my mates in a huge pack and we were pretty much a cross-section of society: rich, poor, black, Asian, white, gay, lesbian, trans, biblefuckers, the good little Muslim boy having the cheeky bacon roll or the good little Catholic girl slutting it up on the dance floor with a man with skin as dark as coal (and possibly enough to give her grandmother a heart attack). Hell, we even had a couple of drag queens. We didn't give a fuck, we didn't care about division because we all loved the same types of music, we all loved wearing our club gear, we loved to get off our tits having fun and we all looked out for each other. It sounds cliche, but fuck you. We weren't unusual, not by a long shot. We've lost something along the way, I think. Society is more stratified these days, there's constant monitoring of your behaviour and appearance through shit like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. It's harder to get away with the sort of shit I got up to and away with in Ibiza, or Rome, or Paris, or even London. The 1990s were the last gasp of a truly independent generation. Anyhow. This, for me, is one of the most gorgeous songs of the 1990s.

That Paula, ephemeral beauty..Genetic jackpot!!

R329 that’s why they are forgotten Mary.

This is actually kind of catchy

This video is still amusing

R299: Her Eurovision dress was unforgettable though

R321: It was a top 10 on the pop chart. I remember the song pretty well, it was catchy as hell

R314: Maybe Champange supernova, but Wonderwall is not forgotten at all. In fact is one of the songs that every european think when they think in the 90's (i don't know in the USA, even it was a top 10 hit maybe it didn't have that lasting impression)

Guys, can we drop the “technically your song is not forgotten because I remember it” thing? We get it: some of you only want songs no one has ever heard of. For me, this is an opportunity to revisit music from the era that brings me back there, which I would never think of. When I think 90s, it’s Alanis, Nirvana, Tori, Sarah M, et al. This has been a diverse list or songs that were the soundtrack to my middle school, high school, and early college years, and I appreciate it. Have Dishwalla and 311 and Green Day and Meredith Brooks and Sophie B Hawkins been “forgotten”? I remember that they existed. So technically, I guess not. Do they and the Gin Blossoms pop into my mind when I think 1990s? They should but they don’t. I like all the contributions to this thread.

[quote]Do they and the Gin Blossoms pop into my mind when I think 1990s? They should but they don’t.

The Gin Blossoms don't? Then something is wrong.

R339 They were always playing in the background, free, not by my choice. They were like sitcoms—just available all the time without my having to do anything. The 90s-era music I love and think of is mostly singer-songwriter stuff and trance-type composers that I took seriously and paid for, the way I paid for HBO for The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, etc., and consider them more than filler TV. But with the passing of time, filler TV and music brings back a flood of memories. I never bought a Gin Blossoms album or Deep Blue Something etc. because why bother? They were on the radio. Tori was rarely on the radio and worth my money. In my mind, I classify one group as legit artists and the other as era-specific candy. And yes, I had “forgotten” about the majority of songs listed here in that I would never seek them out on my own, even if most of them have not been completely erased from my consciousness. Oy. Can we enjoy the memories instead of obsessing over memory lapses or what’s most obscure?

The gin blossons had a lot of hits in the 90's. I doubt all of them are forgotten

r340 I wonder if you are the guy who schooled me on Tori Amos a few months back, recommending a couple of albums for me to listen to.

The Gin Blossoms are one of the few 90s groups I remember by name.

Bingo Boys feat. Princessa yay!

R342 Of course I am! I’ve evidently been dubbed DataLounge’s Tori Amos Troll, and I wear the title as a badge of honor.

When was the last time anybody remembered let alone mentioned this former No.1?

Or Scatman John?

[quote][R342] Of course I am! I’ve evidently been dubbed DataLounge’s Tori Amos Troll, and I wear the title as a badge of honor.

Thanks for trying with me. It didn't take. I guess I'm just never going to take to the sound of her voice.

R348 No worries. I couldn’t tolerate the sound of her voice or the ways she uses it (she doesn’t try to sound “pretty” or pleasant most of the time; the sounds of many of her songs are unfamiliar and counterintuitive pop music fans) for years, until I was hooked by the radio remix of her 1996 song “Hey Jupiter.” The loss in her voice during the chorus, the way Kevyn Aucoin emphasized her big nose and lips and made her eyes look gigantic, and the lyric “for a girl who couldn’t choose between the shower or the bath” (a “problem” I’ve had all my life!) finally hooked me.

Because I love her music so much, countless people told me to love Kate Bush, and after listening to Wuthering Heights, I determined those people were all trolling me. But after about 20 years, Kate’s lyrics and her most ear-friendly songs Cloudbusting and Running Up That Hill finally ensnared me and I came to appreciate her, sometimes in spite of her bansheelike voice. We don’t all have to share a palette. “There’s no accounting for taste” really means that there’s no way to standardize a measure of it or assign value to it, and that certainly applies with music and all other art. Popularity is not a valid measure.

I have forgotten all of these songs, so the whiners can fuck off. I declare all of the replies as valid. Carry on my loves.

Matthew Sweet -- Girlfriend

More Canadian one hit wonders:

Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train"

She leads a lonely life

This was the perfect song when you were lost in a k-hole: Stereo MC, "Connected"

PM Dawn. They were so smooth.

The original TORN, by Ednaswap just a couple years before Natalie Imbruglia

I was still a kid in the 90s. My grandmother used to sing this song to me each night as a lullaby.

I liked more Common People

And Tori Amos is a goddess

On and on and on...

Beautiful song from the days in which Radiohead were OPENING for Alanis Morisette. Times have changed...

How about this VH1 staple?

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned anything by Texas.

I wouldn't exactly call Texas forgotten, not here anyway.

Max-A-Million - Fat Boy

They play a lot of these songs on the Pop Rocks station on Sirius.

366 posts and no TLC yet? Damn, apparently they were forgotten.

R367 needs to be thrown off a waterfall

I was trying to think of a good TLC song to post, and couldn’t remember any.

So yeah, I guess they fit this thread.

Why so hostile, R368?

[quote] I was trying to think of a good TLC song to post, and couldn’t remember any.

No scrubs

Turn the lights down...

Having to hum (not sing!) this on the sly as a gayling at the 6th grade dance...

Grace - Not Over Yet

To please r312, I googled it and it was released in January of 1990.

I doub't this is "forgotten" - but so far forgotten in the thread.

Everybody Dance Now!

I loved the 90s and the 80s, but there has not been much in this century that I am interested in.

Paula looked great in this video.

Not sure if this has been posted yet.....Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

One of the true gems of the 90s.

People, you made this a hit. Time to go away and be one with your shame.

[quote] 366 posts and no TLC yet? Damn, apparently they were forgotten.

Maybe the reason they weren't posted earlier in this thread is because they WEREN'T forgotten and thus don't fit the title of the thread. Songs like "Waterfalls" and "No Scrubs" are still pretty widely known.

Yeaaahhh.....Go

My fav INXS song.

r382 see r338

[quote] Paula looked great in this video.

It helped that they stretched the video to make Paula appear taller and thinner, which led to this "In Living Color" parody.

R274 - I like this cover.

Anyone remember this weird piano ballad?

Late 90s.

A Chris Cornell solo song, post-Soundgarden. One of his best.

No Counting Crows yet? I like this song better than “Mr. Jones”.

I won’t do that...

Oh, snap, R388. Ben Folds (Five) is definitely a name I haven't thought about since the 90s. Or, at least early 2000s. This one was also big.

R266, I didn't start paying attention to pop music until the late 90s. I remember my mind being blown when I found out that Louise used to be in Eternal. She seemed like the whitest of white girls. It was a bit like discovering Britney Spears was one of the original members of Destiny's Child or something.

Shaggy - Oh Carolina

Every wedding and bar mitzvah in the 90s...

Jeremy Jordan "Right Kind of Love"

Not much to say about this except - nice chest.

Tommy (Guess He's Never Going To Come Out) Page - "I'll Be Your Everything"

Whoa. Did not mean to be insensitive at r398. Just looked up Tommy Page and read that he killed himself last year leaving behind a husband and 3 kids. So maybe he did come out and I missed the news.

Silk - Freak Me

Hey fat girl, come here, are you ticklish ?

If this is forgotten, then there's no justice in this world.

All-4-One, "I Swear"

A classic

Forgotten

Paula cole so elegant. Can't take my eyes off of her. Perfection

That gorgeous thing Paula cole at 50! Yow.

Eagle-Eye Cherry was fuckably cute and not much of a singer. Flat.

"What Comes Naturally' by Sheena Easton

"Mouth" by Merril Bainbridge

"I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis

This was a huge hit in 1997-98. Remember it?

It s been one week since the 90s!

Mustabin Lurve

"Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck" by Catherine Wheel.

.......

Dr. Alban - It's My Life

Goldfrapp was so great. Did they/she ever have any chart hits? Amazing that they weren't huge.

And all the girlies say I'm pretty fly for a white guy

I tried to post a video (and failed miserably).

Ten Sharp had a big hit at the beginning of the 90's (1992) with You. And a watch comercial ad made Breath by Midge Ure a hit in 1996

Video links go in the WEB SITE LINK box below. Just copy and paste. But NOT in the body of text as I am writing here, a mistake I made more than once. Hope that helps.

Ok, i'm going to try again

Céline Dion - Misled

Not forgotten at all, but sounds as good as the first day

Midge Ure - Breathe

This was all over Europe in 1994

Everything about this is very american, but the song was a hit on Europe

Spent most of the '90s working in Europe and that Connells song made me weep for some reason. Or the video did anyway.

Seen this?

I don't think this has been posted yet. Crazy lady Kristen Hersh.

This was out around the time I was coming out and into angsty alternative music.

The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray

i bet everyones forgotten this one

Dishwalla

Joey Lawrence - Nothing My Love Can't Fix

Crowded House Weather With You

NOt as big as Weather with you, but from Crowded house hits of the 90's Instinct always was my fave

Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite. Great one hit wonder

Heavy D and the Boyz - Now That We Found Love

25 whores in the room next door...

R437! Good one, not sure I ever knew who sang that song, but remember hearing it all over the place as a kid.

New Kids on the Block - This One's for the Children

Luscious Jackson // Naked Eye

Fastball // The Way

Another Canadian hit:

And another Canadian hit:

Lisa Stansfield never got the material she deserved, after that.

Filter - Take a Picture

Dead Eye Dick - New Age Girl

"Sunchyme" Dario G

This was the best Sisters of Mercy 90s single. It was, apparently, a big hit on the alternative rock charts, but I haven't heard it in ages:

Sexy boyyyyyy

R448: I hated that song with passion, it was hate at first listen, fortunately never was released in my country

Jamie Walter had other hit (apart of what he had with the Heights), i think it was released when he was on 90210

Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex

Tripping Daisy - I Got a Girl

Another Canadian hit that went global:

Edwyn Collins - Girl Like You

Lemon - U2

Fading Like A Flower - Roxette

Toad The Wet Sprocket - All I Want

Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want

Aaliyah - Back and Forth

Mariah Carey's Fantasy? Some of you need to learn the definition of what "forgotten" means.

I am going to get BLASTED for posting this ...

Primitive Radio Gods

The Verve Pipe - The Freshman

Sorry, that is not the official video of The Freshman. My bad.

Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei

Boy Krazy - That's what love can do

Better than ezra - Good

Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)

EMF - Unbelievable

I loved this when it was released. Black Lab - Time ago

I've never found the video on youtube. And even the audio was missing for a long time. It was a small hit but there a lot of smaller hits on youtube that are way easier to find.

Rebekah - Sin so well

KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal

Other small hit. A version of New Order's Bizarre love triangle

Top 5 UK single from one of the last really good Britpop albums.

Top 10 UK single from another of the last really good Britpop albums...

Just, please, don't post Kula Shaker or Gay Dad...

SWV - Weak

I feel like every girl in my jr. high school had the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack

Another Canadian "badass"

Del Amitri, "Roll To Me" (1995)

The song itself may not be forgotten, but is the band still around and performing? "What's My Age Again?" came out in April 1999 so it barely squeaks by as being in the 1990s. Like many of the band's songs and videos, it was juvenile and prurient but it was also damn catchy (and it didn't hurt that the band was faux-nude in video, having worn flesh-colored Speedos for the street scenes).

Anyone else remember the British group The Shamen? They seemed to have a string of acid-trancey club hits in the 1990s - "Pro-Gen", "Make It Mine", "Hyperreal, "Move Any Mountain", "LSI (Love Sex Intelligence)", "Ebeneezer Goode" ("E's are good, E's are good!"), "Boss Drum", "Phorever People", "Destination Eschaton" - and then nothing.

Remember this one?

Dream on Dreamer was a much bigger hit, but I preferred the title song to this 93 album...

Let’s not forget the harder alternative rockers.

Or this one...

But let’s forget these poseurs.

The Late, great Vic Chesnutt

You did not just refer to Korn and Limp Bizkit as "alternative" bands, did you? They're the personification of Monster Energy drinks and Slim Jims.

How would you “classify” them, R491?

They were an “alternative” to the Lilith-Fair types that were dominating the charts in 1997.

I Know Where It's At

[quote]I Know Where It's At

No you don’t. Imitating Cunts at R493.

If u cum to my room I'll make u cum thru da niiiight

Spin Doctors.. "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong". This might have already been mentioned, but I didn't feel like reading almost 500 comments..

I love that Paula Cole tops this thread. Say what you want about her hairy armpits in 1997, or her gray hair in 2018. She’s the first artist that people think of when you mention the 90s.

Michael Jackson's nephews

D:Ream (a/k/a D Ream), "Things Can Only Get Better" (released January 1993)

From 1994

Jesus Jones never had another hit, did he?

Sade - No Ordinary Love

R501 Breaking the UK top 20 (one, just barely) - "Real Real Real" (19), "International Bright Young Thing" (7), "Who? Where? Why?" (21), "The Devil You Know" (10). I think most of Jesus Jones' other singles made the Top 40.

Mike Edwards (Jesus Jones’ lead singer) was smoking hot back then.

Jon Secada - If You Go

Surprised I didn't see more comments for Eve 6.

Dig - Believe

This one still sounds so good. I just tried listening to the rest of this album and it was no where nearly as good as their big hit song. Guess they put all their creative energy into this one track.

C+C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm....

Glass Tiger (with some help from Rod Stewart):

Speaking of Rod Stewart ...

Queensryche - Silent Lucidity

One of the best James Bond themes, thanks to Bono:

Speaking of Bono, U2's contribution to the Batman Forever soundtrack:

Motownphilly - Boyz II Men

The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

UB40 - Can't Help Falling in Love

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

Ugh ....

Prince - Cream

Arrested Development - Everyday People

Arrested Development - Mr Wendall

Jordy - Dur Dur D'être Bébé

The British electronic group Blue Pearl had two somewhat major hits in the early 1990s - "Naked In The Rain" and "(Can You) Feel the Passion" - neither of which are seldom played today and very few people seem to have heard of the group themselves.

Big Me - Foo Fighters

How's it gonna be?

SEX CYMBAL

Everlast - What it's like

Zhane - Hey Mr. DJ

1994

Ya gotta be stronga-urr-urr!

Speaking of Des'ree...

Don't forget about the string of Natalie Merchant songs, all sounding the same, with a melody that spanned only about 4 notes or so. The radio stations played them every hour, but you never hear them anymore.

You gotta keep 'em separated

R500 is in my head now... for the first time in 20+ years. That song was on the radio all the time & I completely forgot it existed.

For R532

K7 - Come Baby Come

From 1994....

Elastica - Connection

R540 -- GOOD one. Forgot all about Elastica. Wasn't the lead singer once in Suede or is that another Britpop band I'm thinking of? Or was it that she dated Damon Allbran? It's all a blur.

I bet Elastica were popular with our sapphic sisters.

Justine Frischmann, the lead singer of Elastica, did date Damon Albarn of Blur, during the height of both bands' popularity.

John Mellencamp was all over the 90s ....

Crystal Water's "Gypsy Woman" was an iconic 90s hit, but few may remember her other recognizable radio tune:

R544 - I think a few of us do. I was such a ridiculous gayling. I was in 7th grade when 100% Pure Love came out and I gathered my whole family together for a listening party and vogue fest as I just felt they HAD to hear this amazing song.

Yeah, my parents weren't surprised when we had THAT conversation a few years later.

Springsteen's Human Touch

This was quite a big hit yet I haven't heard it in what seems like forever.

House of Pain - Jump Around

Paula Cole looks like an old grandma now.

Beck - Devils Haircut

Tony! Toni! Tone! says it "Feels Good" ...

PM Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss

Cyndi Lauper "I Drove All Night"

Staring At The Sun

Coolio - Fantastic Voyage

R553: I drove all night was a hit in 1989 (her last USA hit).

She had a hit in the 90's in France with World is stone

The Tony Rich Project - Nobody Knows

Divina - Lately, or how to start your career with a number one to dissapear from the map after that

R483 adorable little Travis Barker. He hardly had any tats yet and some baby fat in that video.

RUN-DMC vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That

She always rights the wrongs, for me, baby

Karen Ramirez - Looking for love

Ace of Base - The Sign

No Mercy - Where Do You Go

Is this one forgotten?

La bouche - Be my lover

Dance Club hit in spring/summer of 1990

D Mob (with vocals by Cathy Dennis), "That's The Way Of The World"

She moves - Breaking all the rules (the chorus is surprisingly similar to Boy Krazy's That's what love can do)

Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper

This thread is officially done. Nearly all the recent entries have already been mentioned upthread

Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain

I still like this one.

Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars

"Constant Craving" has never been forgotten, but K.D. Lang's other single from her 1992 Ingenue album might have been (but gained some popularity in radio play during the time):

Just curious: will the music of this decade hold the same nostalgic sentiment down the road? Most of the 90's offerings on this thread hold a dear sentimental value to me now only because they were part of a background soundtrack to my life at the time, mostly because they were playing on the radio. Do people listen to the radio anymore? Now, everyone is locked into their own preferences with their iphones and listen to what they want. I wasn't a fan of Dishwalla in the 90s, but "Counting Blue Cars" was a song that played in the background without my having a say in it; now, it has a value to it simply because it was a part of that background. Will teenagers and 20somethings of today be able to share in that same collective coming-together that we are now 30 years down the line?

Spacehog - In the Meantime ...

This was a great song, but no more from Concrete Blonde that stuck on the radio like this:

The 90s are arguably the very last decade in which there was a true variety in the mainstream charts. Looking back at a number of these songs, I'm struck at how many different genres are covered and that there was something for everyone with many things coming straight out of left field (and from all over the world) to become hits.

With my naked eye I saw the falling rain

'90s to me: "Groove Is in the Heart," (Deee-Lite) mentioned upthread. C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat" (mentioned upthread) and the entire "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" album by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

This may not qualify as a hit...it’s a good song from the 90s perhaps many people haven’t heard.

The Breeders - Cannonball

Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long)

It's all been done woo hoo hoo.

Skee-Lo - I Wish

Paul Westerberg "Knockin' on Mine" gets me boppin'.

There's no one left to finger...

N-Trance - Stayin' Alive

Joe Public - Live and Learn

R574 - KD looked good in drag.

This wasn't a hit, but I remember seeing the video on VH1 all the time when I was a kid.

Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98

Collective Soul - The world i know

Take that - Back for good (not forgotten in Europe but i post it anyway)

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Denis Leary - Asshole

Wow, Collective Soul - I totally forgot about them. Their single "Gel" was one of my personal faves - great driving music.

Garbage's "Push It" was another "great driving music":

More great 90's driving music:

... and more great 90's driving music:

This was fun.