PSA

[matchbook_jane]

Ok people. This is serious business.

I'm making an ultimate 90s mix, and I'm calling for your help. What were you listening to? What, to you, were staples of 90s music? I'm looking for bands and songs other than the standards (Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, etc).
Oh yes, it will be shiny.

Comments

[coolami69]

if you don't put Shoop, we will no longer be friends.

you can put Boyz II Men, No Doubt, *good* Green Day, Oasis, SPICE GIRLS!
or are those still "standard"?

[july_fifteen]

seconded about shoop. oh, and i was listening to a lot of mariah carey circa music box and gloria estafan circa miami sound machine.

this is quite a project!

[adorerdollylux]

ohmygosh, cait, i made an ultimate 90s mix that ended up being 13 cds. i am the lost songs master. what genre are you looking for? pop, r&b, alternative, anything?

[nenaslug13]

Blind Melon-No Rain
RHCP-Under the Bridge
Smashing Pumpkins-Disarm or 1979 or some such song
No Doubt--anything off Tragic Kingdom (like I'm Just a Girl)
Weezer-Buddy Holly
Oasis, Beck, Offspring, Dave Matthews, Radiohead, Tool
Save Ferris-Come on Eileen (because remaking 80's songs was cool in the 90's. and I was really into Save Ferris)

I could go on, but I need to get back to studying. I love 90's rock/alternative...

[lenorea]

Oooh, seconding "No Rain"! I adore that song. Also:

"Mary Jane's Last Dance," Tom Petty
"Sabotage," The Beastie Boys
"Kool Thing," Sonic Youth
"Tomorrow", Silverchair
"Israel's Son", Silverchair
"Down Rodeo," Rage Against the Machine
"Pink", Aerosmith
"Sugar Cane", The Space Monkeys (lord, that song basically WAS 1997 for me)
"Pure Morning", Placebo
"Every You, Every Me", Placebo
"I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)", Marilyn Manson
"The Beautiful People," Marilyn Manson

also, as far as cheeseball music goes, I still harbor a great fondness for

"Flagpole Sitta", Harvey Danger
"Mmmbop," Hanson
"Semi-Charmed Kinda Life," 3rd Eye Blind
"Got the Life," Korn

:X shhh, don't tell...

[lenorea]

ugh, how could I forget my bbs!

the KGB, best band out of Oakland to never (really) blow up. "I'm a Player" & "Lover Undercover", with their sugary sweet vocals & completely ridiculous lyrics are so. much. love.

[quiteparadise]

I spent the majority of the nineties listening to Bush. And so Bush is my only contribution to his already hefty list.