Random 90s Songs People Have Forgotten About

Something to Believe In

by Poison.

Pretty much the entire Bush catalog. Ditto Creed. and The Bloodhound Gang. Thankfully

Oh god I remember when I was in total teenage lust with the lead singer of Creed. What the fuck happened to them? They were really good. Awesome cover of Riders on the Storm.

R2 Bush was basically a boy-band version of Soundgarden.

BTW, I would add "Stay Awhile" (1996) by the late Colombian-American singer Soraya.

Nelson - More Than Ever

Salvation by The Cranberries

Positive K - I Got a Man

Plowed by Sponge

This is one I definitely turn all the way up.

I Hate Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe

Angry Johnny - Poe

Bad Bad Boys - Midi, Maxi, and Efti

Three Little Pigs - Green Jelly

Shock shock horror..

Shock shock horror

Louie Louie - Sittin' in the Lap of Luxury

I could never be your woman

Loved this one and never understood why others did not.

Jimmy Ray references Fay Wray.

Croak driven techno ditty I’d dance to in my room at night. Love the tribal dance break.

"I Know" by Dionne Farris.

ALL over the radio in '95, then pretty much disappeared forever.

Also a favorite of mine that qualifies is "As I Lay Me Down" by Sophie B Hawkins.

R17, I like that one, too

Remy Zero, Prophecy.

Len, Steal My Sunshine.

Fastball, The Way.

Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand

Reminds me of my freshman year in high school. Such fun times!

Coffee and TV

By Blur.

Mr. Big To be With You

One of my favs:

Something’s Always Wrong. From Toad the Wet Sproket

311 — "Down"

My friends and I were around 10 singing this sweet jam:

Angry Johnny

Seven Mary Three: Cumbersome

Detachable Penis.

Beavis and Butthead introduced me to this song.

🎶Only stupid people are breeding🎶

Another Bad Creation’s Iesha. Ahh, elementary school love

If That’s Your Boyfriend…He Wasn’t Last Night

Detachable Penis reminds me of Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver for some reason. I guess they’re companion pieces to me.

Weird but catchy song. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by the Crash Test Dummies

New Age Girl

Possum Kingdom

Toadies

#1 Crush.

Of the Romeo and Juliet 1996 soundtrack.

Sneaker Pimps!

Everything About You- Ugly Kid Joe

Live and Learn- Joe Public

R25 Love, love, love Edwyn Collins (& Orange Juice). Still can't believe he had a hit in the 90s.

Rump Shaker

"Dizz Knee Land" by Dada

Natural One by The Folk Implosion.

I actually forgot about this song until I heard a cover of it on the Netflix show Beef a few months ago. It’s a good one. The snare and bass are great.

Concrete Blonde has two good ones from 1990 that are probably forgotten by most. The first is Bloodletting:

And the second is Joey:

Diana King - "L-L-Lies"

Silverchair - Abuse Me

And Tomorrow. Not as forgotten, but it still amazes me that they were only 15 here. Lead singer Daniel Johns has such a heavy voice for a 15 year old. It’s awesome.

Space hog- in the meantime

The Freshmen by The Verve Pipe

Popular- Nada Surf

The Flys- Got You Where I Want You

Low

By Cracker

Super Bon Bon

Glenn Medeiros (and Bobby Brown) - She Ain't Worth It

School of Fish - Three Strange Days

Inside Out. Eve 6

Luscious Jackson- Naked Eye

Insensitive- Jan Arden

Garbage - "Stupid Girl" (1995)

Live performance on TFI Friday (UK Channel 4) March 29, 1996.

My favorite from Leeds band, Shed Seven ... "Dolphin" (1994).

Rick Witter, such a dynamic lead singer ....

Tonic- If You Could Only See

Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home

Duncan Sheik-Barely Breathing

One of my favorites from the 90s. Matthew Sweet was cute as hell back then...

Kiss Me by Sixence None the Richer (from New Braunfels, TX of all places)

I put this in the same category as Kiss Me by Len: dreamy 90s pop.

Sorry, I flubbed my comment. I meant the same category as Steal My Sunshine by Len.

Also, Here’s Where the Story Ends by The Sundays

One more: The World I Know by Collective Soul

Andreas Johnson - Glorious

As usual a DL music thread mostly lists songs no one has ever heard of.

Many of these songs are in regular rotation on Siriux Lithium channel.

The Lemonheads

R74 Yet here you are, in spite of the title of the thread

R71 Wow, I really had forgotten about Here’s Where the Story Ends - what a great song.

Paula Cole- Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

Informer by Snow. Perhaps Canada’s only white rapper.

Connected by Stereo MCs

Self- Kiddies.

Quite the earworm

Jamie Walters was pretty hot.

One brings me right back to 1996: Donna Lewis, I Love You Now And Forever

Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.

Bound For the Floor- Local H

R78

Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so ethereal. And Harriet’s English accent is so thick that it’s almost jarring but in a charming, alluring way.

The Wallflowers with The Difference. One Headlight was their big hit, this one kind of fell off.

Hey Man Nice Shot

Just Another Day

Jade - Don’t Walk Away

Dubstar - Stars

John Mellencamp- Key West Intermezzo

Matthew McConaughey is in the video. Still sexy in 1996.

Heard this on the radio driving home from a football game. My best friend and I wound up going to three different record stores to find the cassingle. No idea who the artist o what the title was (duh) so we wound up singing it for just about every employee until someone got it.

She should have had a bigger career...

[quote]I could never be your woman

That got sampled on a song on Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia album, so it felt like a nice comfortable throwback to the 90s.

R34, I got to hang out with the guys from King Missile after one of their shows in a really tiny bar, which was weird, because it was packed but as soon as it was over the entire crowd split and it was just them and me and some fiends so we sat and talked to them. Very friendly, but I was drunk enough to not remember anything we talked about. Nobody that went had any interest in sticking around to meet them. We didn’t even plan to stick around to meet them, we just wanted to keep drinking!

Groove Theory - "Tell Me"

When I first saw this video I thought someone was Martha Wash-ing these girls. A month or so later I saw them perform at Virgin Megastore, and as my friend said, "they sang their faces off." The blond is Fergie.

"At Night I Pray" Wild Orchid

Kiss The Rain-Billie Myers

Were most of these “remembered” back in the 90s? I only recognize maybe a third of them and I was a pop music/MTV junkie at the time. But there have been a few genuine “holy shit I had forgotten all about that song” moments on the thread so thanks for all the contributions.

R17, I love that song too and didn’t realize it wasn’t well-liked. I still find my self singing the chorus on the regular

I think we’re just trying to avoid the obvious hit songs. Some may be a little obscure, but like you said, there’s a few great gems here that I personally had forgotten.

This was such a huge slice of Velveeta but it always sucked me in. I always imagined he was actually singing to a guy, maybe the same Jesse as Carly Simon. Similar song themes

I attended university in Canada and the indie music scene was vibrant in the 90s. Lots of bands performing in local college bars.

Canadian Band The Philosopher Kings had a really great tune which just sprang to mind - Baby It Hurts To Love You

R89, love that tune

Lucas With the Lid Off

Crush - Jennifer Paige . It was a semi hit back then

This one takes me back back back

All 4 Love-Color Me Badd

Tracie Spencer - This House

Big hit at the time (top 10 pop, R&B & dance), but I don't think I've heard it since.

I got into a debate recently with a friend who insisted The Rembrandts were a one-hit wonder for the Friends theme song. I argued they couldn’t be a one-hit wonder as I knew them first for Just The Way It Is Baby, a top 15 hit from 1990. But I concede that one doesn’t seem very well remembered today

Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox is one of my favorite 90’s tunes.

Lovin' Arms- Darden Smith

Enigma- Return to Innocence. One of the best songs on the Pure Moods cd. Who can forget that opening chant?

Stereophonics - "The Bartender and the Thief" (1998)

Smashing Pumpkins- Disarm. Decently known at the time, perhaps forgotten a bit now

Kris Kross’ other song- I Missed the Bus

Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches…

Lump

Gump

WEHT Shanice?

Gina G - "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" (1996)

[quote][R89], love that tune

Ugh. I did until I found out what it’s about, then I was just too nauseated to listen to it again. It’s not the song. I loved the song. It’s the backstory.

If I Had No Loot- Tony! Toni! Tone!

R121 okay, how about this Filter song? It’s about the lead singer getting drunk and stripping on an airplane. No suicides here.

Feels Good.

Early 90’s were the shit. I remember this being played in the roller skating rink.

Love Tony Toni Tone

R123, I lost count of the number of times I blasted this song from my dorm room nack in the 90s

Simply Red - "Something Got Me Started" (1991)

R123, yes I liked that one but always liked Nice Shot Man more because I do like music that’s a little dark and heavy. Just not based on a true story that makes me wanna puke. Like I said, definitely not their song that I didn’t like. It was what it conjures up in my brain. And I’ve never seen the Budd Dwyer video even though I’ve seen it linked to many times online.

Will. Not. Watch.

Right Here Right Now-Jesus Jones

I think these people were in a cult or circus performers or something

You Gotta Be by Des'ree

R112 I forgot about Return to Innocence. I remember Enigma more for Sadeness, which is probably better remembered since it was featured in Basic Instinct. I never had Pure Moods, but Deep Forest was probably on it.

Knockin’ Da Boots

R131

Thank you! That’s the one I was trying to grab from the far reaches of my mind.

Boom! Shake the Room

SWV- Weak

Squirrel Nut Zippers- Hell

Cherry Poppin Daddies- Zoot Suit Riot

Butthole Surfers- Pepper

Three terrible band names in a row!

I think Jane’s Addiction is still well known, but his follow up band Porno for Pyros is less so. Amazingly Perry Farrell is still alive at 64 years of age now.

Everyone forgets that classic hit from 1897, "Break the News to Mother." But not me!

I thought Pets was a great song of theirs

Soul For Real- Candy Rain

I loved "Candy Rain" and "Knockin' Da Boots"

Hanson- Where’s the Love.

As a young teen when this came out, I didn’t want anyone to know I like it a lot. Hanson wasn’t a ‘cool’ band. It’s a guilty pleasure song.

Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart. Stone Temple Pilots

Shine-Collective Soul

And Big Bang Baby. Scott Weiland was very pretty. RIP Scott.

"Baby" by Brandy

Dishwalla- Counting Blue Cars. Sorry if it’s been posted.

Soundgarden- Pretty Noose. Great opening.

Ready to Go by Republica

"Follow You Down" - Gin Blossoms. So '90s, I could watch my tape of Monday's Party of Five ep next.

Magnapop- Open the Door

Sister

No Rain-Blind Melon

Banditos by the Refreshments

Instant dance party!

Hook

Blues Traveller

Nobody Knows-The Tony Rich Project

OMG, I LOVE so many of these songs — this is a great thread!

R49 - Beef reminded of that song too. I couldn’t find the original on Spotify, but the cover isn’t bad.

New Radicals - You Get What You Give, featuring Danielle Brisebois (who should be a DL darling).

Skee-Lo- I Wish

I always liked this one

"Found Out About You" is my favorite Gin Blossoms song

I also liked this one (from the Empire Records soundtrack)

Anyone remember Jordy? The French kid who sang Its Tough to be a Baby.

KWS- Please Don’t Go

If You Asked Me To by Celine Dion.

She had a lot of 90’s hits: All By Myself, My Heart Will Go On, Because You Loved Me, Beauty and the Beast, It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, Misled, etc. but I always liked this one.

We need some Meat Loaf

Staring at the Sun- u2. A good song of theirs.

Walking on the Sun- Smashmouth. Lead singer is an ass I think, but catchy song.

When Paula Abdul decided to ditch her "Forever Your Girl" producers in favor of the guys from The Family Stand for the follow-up, some of the songs previously slated for her instead went to the unknown up-and-comer Stacy Earl.

She managed to take a couple of them into the top 30 on the pop charts, which wasn't bad for a newcomer, but far below Paula Abdul numbers. The album tanked, and both she and her music disappeared from the scene soon after.

Adam Ant- Wonderful

R162, one of the best one-hit wonders of the 90S if not ever. Don’t know if folks will get the references to Beck and Hanson one day (I suspect Courtney Love’s legacy will be immortal and hope Marilyn Manson’s is lost to history soon).

Fast Love. I thought George looked so hot in this video.

Thank you R162, I have been searching my memory for this song

Six Underground by the Sneaker Pimps.

Everybody, Everybody

Balimos! Sexy Enrique

Shania- No One Needs To Know

Motownphilly

I Do- Lisa Loeb

Robin S.- Show Me Love

Another Sad Love Song- Toni Braxton

Ok. Now you're just posting 90s tracks. No one has forgotten George's "Fastlove" or Robin S "Show Me Love."

R167 Gosh, I've always wondered if Jordy could be gay now that he's in his 30s.

Every Heartbeat

Jeff Buckley- Grace. Gone too soon!

Bryan Adams- The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You

Gotta Get Away by The Offspring

Mr. Wendal

My Love is For Real - Paula Abdul

The Perfect Drug-NIN

Love the look of this video.

Roll to Me- Del Amitri

Father of Mine- Everclear

Cibo Matto- Sugar Water

R162, I wish the New Radicals hadn't fallen by the wayside so quickly. As good as "You Get What You Give" is, their not as successful "Someday We'll Know" has stuck with me more over time, but that may be because it reminds me of a close friend who died of cancer in our 20s. At least Gregg Alexander had some success as a songwriter later. His rendition of "Lost Stars" is far better than Adam Levine's.

[quote]"Someday We'll Know" has stuck with me more over time, but that may be because it reminds me of a close friend who died of cancer in our 20s

❤️💔❤️‍🩹

Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters

She's just like you and be, but she's homeless! She's homeless!

I remember this song having a frenzy of airtime in the late 90s before dropping completely out of history.

R201 as featured on Real World:Seattle!

The 90s? I love “The Mockingbird.”

I'm not sure if this was a true hit but it got a ton of play on our local top 40 station at the time. 30 years later I wish I had heeded more of the advice in the song.

^ I remember that one because Baz Luhrmann was involved

One of my favs

Holy shit the guy actor playing Gump in that Weird Al Yankovic video is the woodchuck Debbie Reynolds tries to set Will up with on Will and Grace.

It's Elton John so probably not truly forgotten but I haven't heard this since it was a hit in the early 90s

Never gets old

R203, "After the Ball" is my jam

Vanessa. What a talent.

Brian and Vanessa- chef’s kiss!

Here Comes the Hotstepper

Diana King- Shy Guy

Timmy T- One More Try

Paperboy - Ditty

I Wanna Sex You Up

I'm like a Bird was everywhere, not we've forgotten.

Fading Like a Flower

As R10 illustrates, that debut Poe album was fucking terrific.

I played the shit out of it in 1995-96.

The trip-hop era was just wonderful.

Eric Matthews - Fanfare

This may be a really obscure one, but it did get airplay as I remember hearing it in 95, in particular one rainy night driving on the DC Beltway. I’d totally forgotten it, but within the last year I heard it somewhere randomly. So many of these songs evoke memories of hearing them at a particular time and place.

Stuck on You by Failure. Fun video.

I thought all of these guys were cute, especially the long-haired CK-model-looking guitarist.

Fade Into You -- Mazzy Star

Silent Lucidity

Dazzey Duks. My brother listened to this nonstop for like three months back in the early 90’s. I think I blocked it out until now.

Hazard- Richard Marx

Fastball- Out of My Head

4 P.M.- Sukiyaki

Mouth

Das EFX- They Want EFX

One of my favorites.

MC Lyte and Missy- Cold Rock a Party

R226 - Hazard is a song I play all the time. I remember it was billed as Hazard, Part One. I’ve been waiting all these years for Part Two.

More and More

Maybe not forgotten, but worth a mention:

Cantaloop by US3

Can’t get enough of you baby- smashmouth

Hey, Pretty is the Poe song I could never get enough of, but maybe it doesn’t make the cut off as a 1990s song.

Great sample of Green Onions- That Girl by Maxi Priest and Shaggy

Loved Fiona. She was such a badass.

What about this banger-

Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle

Eels, "Novocaine for the Soul"

My College radio played this single non stop in the 90s

A Canadian Gem

Fastball- The Way

Breakfast At Tiffany's: A song you break out rarely because this wistful tune seems to be the last pop song with any innocence.

The Prodigy, "Firestarter"

I like Breakfast At Tiffany’s unironically.

Someone above posted Timmy T. That made me think of the beautiful Tommy Page.

RIP Tommy Page

Save Tonight

The Corrs - Breathless

Uninvited by Alanis Morissette. From the soundtrack of City of Angels.

One Week

Barenaked Ladies

1. George J. Gaskin, “After the Ball” (1893)

2. Arthur Collins, “Hello Ma Baby” (1899)

3. John Philip Sousa, “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)

Wrong Way by Sublime

Another Sublime. Kind of ironic Ron Jeremy plays the judge in a sexual assault case in the video, don’t ya think?

Can't believe no one has mentioned Stay by Shakespears Sister. Was all over the place for a hot ghetto minute then nothing because the pair hated each other.

"Dick of Death" by Pansy Division

Pumped up Kicks.....Foster the People.

r258 there is a brand new cover of that song sung by Patrick Wilson of all people that plays over the end credits of the last Insidious movie

The Pretenders, I’ll Stand by You

Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother

It got a lot of airplay and attention back when it came out, but it's understandable why it hasn't really endured. It's not a particularly pleasant listen.

[quote] Pumped up Kicks.....Foster the People.

Was released in 2010 and peaked on the charts in 2011. You're only off by two decades.

Expose- I’ll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me

Cathy Dennis- Too Many Walls

Mr. Vain

I’m going to make a dance party mix from some of these songs, they make me want to move it move it!

Buckcherry- Lit Up

The other ‘there it is’ song from 1993.

Mummer’s Dance

Tic Tac Toe

Justified and Ancient

Butterfly

Linear - Sending All My Love

Xscape-Just Kickin It

P.A.S.S.I.O.N.

Slam

When She Cries

Ah Butterfly, the “come, come milady” song. That line always intrigued me. If you Google it you find that it appears in a few 19th century novels, leading me to wonder if someone in Crazy Town had a background in English literature.

"Stay" by Eternal

C U When U Get There-Coolio

Tatyana Ali - Daydreamin'

Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing- Chris Isaak

Old Man & Me- Hootie and the Blowfish

Tevin Campbell- Round and Round

Freak Like Me

OMC - How Bizarre

We bet you still don't know what "random" means, OP.

Duh.

No Mercy - Where Do You Go

k.d. lang and Take 6 - Ridin’ the Rails. From the Dick Tracy soundtrack.

Great collaboration

Dog’e Eye View- Umbrella.

Everything falls apart is another one, but that has probably already been mentioned

Luscious Jackson- Here

J Love

Not An Addict- K’s Choice

Moby- South Side

Screaming Trees- Nearly Lost You

The Dandy Warhols

Suck My Dog’s Dick- Wesley Willis

Cornershop, "Brimful of Asha"

But you always came fast..

But you always came fast..

Over 300 posts and nothing other than the huge hit everyone remembers.

Amateurs.

Over 300 posts and nothing other than the huge hit everyone remembers.

Amateurs.

Over 300 posts and nothing other than the huge hit everyone remembers.

Amateurs.

Over 300 posts and nothing other than the huge hit everyone remembers.

Amateurs.

Over 300 posts and nothing other than the huge hit everyone remembers.

Amateurs.

Sorry for the inconveniences of Chrome on an Android. Mea culpa.

Spin Spin Sugar!

Let's hear it for third singles - just as fab as both Connection and Stutter are.

Fuck my technology today

Also this.

Possibly my favorite '90s song of all. What does it take to turn you on?

In the mid 90s, Jane Wieldin formed a band called FroSTed with a modern "pop-punk" sound. The best song on the album was Amerinoid,

It also contained a song called My Boyfriend, with the refrain: My boyfriend was a teenage hustler.

The capital ST stands for Star Trek

R23, I still hear this one on the radio (occasionally).

Funny that many of the songs posted here have hundreds of millions of streams on youtube and/or spotify. That's not really "forgotten".

R313, a special edition of Suede was released recently, on blu-ray audio and CD.

No, but personally, I have forgotten about some of these songs and it’s been nice to be reminded of them. They’ve left my mind but came right back when I listened to them.

Thanks all!

Yeah, the mainstream music scene in the 90s was definitely WAY more diverse than the one today

Sunny came Home by Sahwn Colvi was a favorite summer tune of mine back in the 90s

This song brings me back to Sept 1999, "frosh week" I had just over into my dorm and jammed to this song while unpacking my bags. What a relief it was after having said a long goodbye to my tearful mother who was worried for leaving her son in a foreign city/ country

R321, your mother didn't insist on helping you unpack your bags??

Mom wasn't there, R322. She couldn't get a visa due to her numerous drunk driving and public indecency convictions.

That wasn't me @ r323

^^^ meant to sign as R321

A friend and I used to call this the Happy Penis Song whenever we would hear it at the clubs, due to mishearing the lyrics

She Ain’t Worth It - Glenn Medeiros (featuring Bobby Brown)

Funny to think Glenn was the draw and Bobby the parenthetical but 1990 was a very different time

This was only a minor hit which surprises me. Maybe she couldn't compete with the international Merril Bainbridge - Donna Lewis baby-voiced pop market.

Makin' Happy (Hurley’s Happy House Mix)

BTW, it STILL bangs.

I'd forgotten about this one until Lucozade recently started using it in their TV commercials in the UK.

Ini Kamoze - "Here Comes The Hotstepper" (1994)

At the time, I thought these girls would eventually be a lot bigger, but they never really broke out in any meaningful way.

I suppose their association with MC Hammer cost them. When his career hit the iceberg and sank, so did theirs.

Oaktown's 3.5.7 - "Juicy Gotcha Krazy"

Pre Spice Girls / UK pop Group Eternal

^I haven’t forgotten about Stay. I was just listening to it recently. An “eternal” jam, pun intended.

That’s What Love Can Do by Boy Krazy is pop perfection. One of SAW’s best.

This song brings me back, way way back

Short Dick Man

[quote] Sorry for the inconveniences of Chrome on an Android. Mea culpa.

Amateur

Long forgotten lower tier girl group - Breaking all the Rules by She Moves.

I like all the dramatic hair flipping in the toilet stalls.

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