Best Songs from the late 90s/early 2000s

Tweet "Oops (Oh My)" 2002

Most of The Killers Hot Fuss album was good although I'm loathe to admit it.

Anything by the White Stripes

Fatboy Slim "Weapon Of Choice"

Back when the videos were as important as the tracks

Scott Weiland's body may have influenced my liking this song. I only heard it on cable in 1999.

GORILLAZ "Feel Good Inc"

I've never committed to being a fan of Brian Warner cuz he's too dark and problematic...but this song is great

Dido's "White Flag" is a perfect song

I’m not a huge Eminem fan but Lose Yourself is great

What ever happened to Nelly Furtado?

I agree, R9. I also was sort of obsessed with "Without Me" when it came out. It's so fun! It's got bounce.

Didn't ever become a fan per se, but this early Foo Fighters song is great

The Sound by Swans

From 1998, on Beck's Mutations album, "Canceled Check."

Mutations does not get the love it deserves, R14

I also was really into Sea Change when it came out. Beck's masterpiece break-up album.

"Paper Tiger" is stunning.

Thank you R13!!! I've heart of the band Swans, but I never checked them out. Loving it!

Not a great time for music but there were a few gold nuggets.

Alternately I'd have chosen Melissa Etheridge's version of Born to Run from the 2001 Concert for New York but they keep that off youtube.

Zero 7 - Destiny

Esther’s - That Girl

Hole - Malibu

R.E.M. - The Great Beyond

I miss coherent songs with hummable tunes.

Zero 7's "Destiny" is the best sex soundtrack, R19.

(Sia before anyone knew who Sia was!)

Y2K-era perfection from Jamiroquai

Luscious Jackson "Naked Eye"

I know this is a weird ass choice, but I genuinely love this creepy. dark song:

And here's another offbeat choice, albeit better known. Great for cardio.

Be My Lover.

You're an Ocean by Fastball with Billy Preston on piano.

That was fun, R27! Glad you turned me onto that band/song. I like it a lot

I loved it when Gwen and Eve collaborated.

And who could forget this gem

Desert Rose- Sting

Brand New Day from the same album is also good

Fallen Souls-Ours

The album is Distorted Lullabies and it is fantastic. This guy has a great voice.

I’m glad you started this thread OP. I’ve been on a late 90s/early 2000s marathon lately.

RIP to Enrique’s mole.

Voodoo- Godsmack

I thought these guys would be bigger

I Need to Know by Marc Anthony. This was on the rollerblading mix cd playlist I made in ‘99.

Oooh, I've never heard of the band Fallen Souls, or the song, but I like it!! Thank you R35!

The band is called Ours, my bad that was not clear. The song is Fallen Souls. :)

Here’s there song, Bleed

This is a top ten album for me.

Mixed Bizness by Beck. Midnite Vultures is a silly but fun album.

Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse by Minus the Bear. Really gets going at 1:13

Windowlicker

Starfuckers Inc- Nine Inch Nails

Uninvited by Alanis. Fantastic song.

Family Affair- Mary J. Blige

The English band The Music was very underrated. I don’t think their generic name helped any, but the lead singer, Rob, had a unique voice. This song is Getaway from 2002.

Yes!!! David Gray. Wow.

My favorite single of his is "Knowhere"

Country Grammar by Nelly.

Probably my favorite song off of Pablo Honey

^ that goes in the late 80’s/early 90’s thread ;)

Good song!

It's my pleasure, R36!

Teardrop

Ooops damn I meant to post that one there and then a later Radiohead tune here. Thank you, R53.

Here's my pick for Y2K Radiohead

Teardrop is EPIC, R55

Great Hosannah by Kula Shaker

Fun fact: lead singer Crispian Mills is the son of a tree Hayley Mills

^ that should say, son of actress Hayley Mills

Foo Fighters- Learn to Fly

LOL R59.

I was willing to go with it

I listen to this one about once a year. There’s some good advice here. I can’t believe I’m one of the 40 year olds now, I was 17 when this came out 😬

[quote]Most of The Killers Hot Fuss album was good although I'm loathe to admit it.

Oh, dear.

Slightly out of bounds (2009), but it's got that early 2000s vibe. Such a great song.

Metric - Help I'm Alive

Growing up at that time I felt like all new music was shit. It’s funny looking back now there was a lot of great stuff

Maybe skirting the line of early 2000s, but high school nostalgia cmon

Here’s my out of bounds song:

Devil by Stereophonics. From 2005

Here's one.

I liked this Enrique song. He was so hot.

POD Youth of the Nation

Newborn by Muse

Simple Kind of Life by No Doubt. I always thought Tom (blue shirt) was adorable.

Parabola- Tool

I even love her Geico commercial...

Girl All The Bad Guys Want- Bowling for Soup

A Perfect Circle - Weak & Powerless

Cracker - Low

Whoops - sorry guys - I guess Cracker was early 90s. Good song though!

Murder on the Dance Floor- Sophie Ellis-Bextor

In Demand by Texas. Video starring the late, great Alan Rickman

It’s from 2003, but it’s fantastic.

Schadenfreude from Avenue Q

It Wasn’t Me- Shaggy

Wasn't there already a thread about 90s music?

No One Knows- Queens of the Stone Age

Whenever, Wherever- Shakira

Includes one of the silliest lyrics I’ve heard

R83 yup, but this one is late 90’s early 00’s only. So 1998-2002 ish

Such nostalgia with this one.

Save Me- Remy Zero

Drive

Take it Off by The Donnas

This song brings back great memories of the summer I spent in London 1998. Love you Jon and Deen!

Coldplay

Ms Jackson- OutKast

In the 90s I was still in high-school, anf every day before class my sister and I used to blast music so loud and dance around in the house before we left for class. Fun times. This one was one of our faves:

Hey R91, did you know that Eagle-Eye is Neneh Cherry's half-brother? I just found that out recently and was stunned! Stunned, I say!

I also was living in London in 1998, btw. He was on all the chat shows and the radio that year with this tune

This was the age of Coldplay

Never Let You Go by Third Eye Blind from their second album, Blue.

I’ll stir fry you in my wok!

New Radicals

This song was all over Portland when I moved here and to me typifies the very last gasp of the 90s leaking into the 21st century.

Who could forget Butterfly? A definite one hit wonder.

Rearranged is not bad for a Limp song

Stan- Eminem

This song created a brand new verb- to Stan. And noun (a Stan, an obsessive fan). It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017. That’s pretty cool.

South Side- Moby

[quote]This was on the rollerblading mix cd playlist I made in ‘99.

Sweet. Fancy. Moses.

#29, "Be My Lover" was released in March of 1995, therefore disqualifying it from the 'late'90s' category. We're sorry.

Lifehouse

Moloko - The Time Is Now

"Let's make this moment.... last"

Ricky Martin The Cup of Life!

Here’s the Grammy performance that launched his American singing career.

And here it is regular. More sexy Ricky.

LCD sound system some shit

Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better

Fiona Apple - Criminal

Let's try that again...

1998

I was obsessed with this song and all things Bright Eyes in the early 00s.

It's a truly stunning song.

Mezzanine

Massive Attack

Song: Angel

Yes, R95, knew that.

They may not be known outside of Canada but I loved Rusty in the late 90s. They even made a video with scenes from Hustler White in it

Paula Cole

Just came on here to post Fiona Apple, R114 - you beat me to it!

Tidal came out in 1996 so it's not quite Y2K. But whatever - I was for sure still listening to her in the 2000s

I mean.....c'mon

The one-two punch of Ray of Light and Music saw Madonna enjoying a massive career resurgence at the end of the millenium

Nelly - Ride Wit Me

Hot in Herre is also good.

r124 See, Nelly spells Nelly right.

It’s crude by I love Tip Drill. Nelly is great

Rob!

3AM

Real World

Push

Back2Good

B2K- Bump Bump Bump

I liked Maria Maria from the Supernatural album.

Rob again

Dragula- Rob Zombie

This beat never gets old

Can I Get A....

The female rapper on the track is great

This was popular during mcollege clubbing days

And this one

She Bangs!

Baement Jaxx - Good Luck

For the pussy hounds of DL

Nelly and Kelly- Dilemma

Bring Me To Life

Brandy - What About Us?

Ludacris- What’s Your Fantasy

DMX.

Ice Cube, Mack 10, Ms. Toi - You Can Do It

"Don't stop n*gga get it. Don't stop n*gga hit*

I took a sabbatical in 2003 to do a round-the world trip. This track takes me back to a glorious sunset over the Pacific on a beach on the island of Rarotonga.

Glorious...

R143 I love "Up In Here." It's on my workout playlist

I like this song so much more now than when it was dominating the airwaves. That happens a lot - I will HATE a song when it's popular and then discover it years or decades later on my own.

Avril Lavigne - Complicated

I do have a great memory of this song, though. I was in NYC in 2002 on a research trip for my art history masters thesis, and didn't realize it was the weekend of the MTV Awards. I was strolling through Times Square to get to my hotel after dinner. Crowds were gathering. As I got close to Radio City I couldn't move any farther - the sidewalk was packed and the streets were blocked off. I didn't know what the hell was going on. Suddenly Avril Lavigne appeared above the Radio City Marquee with her band and sang "Complicated." Then Ludacris drove through the crowd in a big crazy bus rapping whatever his hit was at that time. I felt really lucky that I had inadvertently stumbled into a televised cultural moment.

The Ludacris situation from the above anecdote. "Move" is the track. I hated what he was doing but I loved just stumbling into it.

MOBY - BODYROCK

His album PLAY was a revelation when it came out. 'Member?

R147 me too. Didn’t like it then, like it now on the rare occasion I hear it on the radio.

That happened to me with Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris, too. Couldn’t shut it off fast enough in 1998 because it was so overplayed , now I like it.

Just barely slides in under the parameters (late '97), but....

Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

I thought he was so cute back then

Badly Drawn Boy - 'Once Around The Block'

Exactly how I feel about that era:

"Let's get the feeling again..."

Action - Saint Etienne

This is thread is depressing me. I turned 20 in 2000 and SOOO wish I was young again. Haha.

Janet Jackson - Someone to Call My Lover

R104 beat me to it. I recently heard that song for the first time in many years and had kind of forgotten about…but it is so great. I didn’t appreciate it at the time.

And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie

You thirty-six-year-old bald-headed fag, blow me

You don't know me, you're too old, let go

It's over, nobody listens to techno

Teenage Dirtbag. This came out my freshman year of college and it was everywhere. Then the band came and played a show on campus

Sparks - The Rhythm Thief

Soarks and Beethoven take down clubland.

The Story of 'Get Busy' by Sean Paul

This thread really emphasizes how generally poor music was in this timeframe. And we still haven't recovered.

World Of Love - kd lang

From '96

Joe - C-berries

Some Commies

A great cover =

Eddie remade several of his old hits for a more country feel before he passed away

From '96

Take the key...

Creep - Karen Souza

A great cover

Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

I Don't Want You Back - Jody Watley

Cardigans - Erase / Rewind

Her best song =

The biggest earworm of the 90s

Rest In Power

Round 2

Interpol - Obstacle 1

Wallflowers' "One Headlight"

Jamiroquai - Little L (Bob Sinclar Mix)

Ashanti- Foolish

U Got It Bad by Usher

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head- Kylie

I was obsessed with this for a few months in 2002. I was living in Orlando and going to Pleasure Island (Disney nightclubs and such) every other weekend and this was played a lot.

Back That Azz Up - Juvenile, ft. Mannie Fresh & Lil' Wayne

"My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" is a song by American rapper Khia, released in April 2002 as the lead single from her debut studio album, Thug Misses. Owing to its sexually explicit lyrics, an edited version of the song was released to mainstream radio. Lyrically, “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)” is about a woman searching for and pursuing a man at a club, demanding that he perform sexual acts on her, including licking her clitoris and anus, and encouraging other women to do the same.

Khia later stated in a 2002 interview for MTV News concerning the song's big success: "I guess the world is just nasty and freaky like that […] It's not even my favorite song, and I was kind of surprised that's the song that everybody jumped on. … That song is just nothing compared to my other music. It's like, 'That's what the world is about today,' so hey, it works for me."

Mindless Self Indulgence - Faggot

Love this song

2004

Good Boys - Blondie

2001

Who Wants To Live Forever? - Joseph Clark

Wrong - Boy George

2004

Fallen - kd lang

Some Concrete Blonde...

2004

Some Griffin House...

Darren's dirty

Haven't heard from these guys in ages =

I can't stand her but I love her voice

This thread needs more duets...

EARLY FUCKING 2000'S

R.I.P.

2002

Some ATC...

2002

Alison's "Stars"

2003

2004

2 from 2003

Some country from our own...

The other black Ru

2003

Airborne Toxic Event-Sometime after Midnight

Some Queen...

Some dance fun from '03...

Do It Over - The Go-Go's

Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue: Where the Wild Roses Grow

2002

The really great songs from this era never made it to #1

2000

India Arie is wonderful.

Some country from 2000...

^ Maybe it'll show up now...

I wonder if the tv show of the same name ever used this tune -

Should've been a bigger star

I thought this was their best single but it didn't seem to set the charts on fire =

Radiohead- High and Dry

Linkin Park - Crawling

Hole- Celebrity Skin

2004

2003

2000

r127 r130 can't forget this one

Santana - The Game of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)

Here's some more 2002 R251

2003

I don't know what she is saying but it sure does sound nice

Stuck In My Car - The Go-Go's

Ryan Adams, pretty much the entire Heartbreaker album.. Gold is amazing, too.

Culture Beat - Take Me Away

Inside Out - Culture Beat

Golden

'99-00

DM 2003

So Nice - Emma Bunton

femme scientist

Some Switchfoot fun...

This Love - Natasha B.

05

A great duet =

R.I.P.

Just So You Know - Jesse McCartney

Primitive

Cosy In The Rocket - Psapp

My favorite of his =

Some Duffy...

Photograph - Shiny Toy Guns

I always thought this group would've hit it big =

Lots of great vocals on her French album -

RIP Irish

bump

The video is mean spirited but I love the song.

Bill + Lil 4Ever...

"Don't Falter" - Mint Royale Ft Lauren Laverne

"Chanson D'Ami" - Zazie

"Ouverture" - Etienne Daho

For you Usher superbowl haters:

Into My Arms - Nick Cave

Pulp - This is Hardcore

Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater

Cry Cry - Mazzy Star

Our Mutual Friend - The Divine Comedy

kd recorded this tune back in '95 =

Goldfrapp - Pilots

Best cover of this tune so far...

I'm kinda embarrassed BUT I've been listening to two Creed songs lately since I heard them on SiriusXm 2000s channel

The older I get the more I realize that videos are so dumb.

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

Sophie!

^^ oops nevermind wrong thread

Tahiti 80 - 1000 Times